Re: [newbie-it] Utilizzo della RAM
Il sab, 2003-06-21 alle 16:16, Pollo ha scritto: Ho un pc con pentium III 500MHz e 450MB di RAM. Appena avvio linux (mandrake 9.1) l'uso della RAM è già di 300MB circa. E' vero che ho qualche server attivo in ascolto (ssh, cups) ma come si spiega l'utilizzo di tutta questa RAM. Mi hanno detto che linux usa la RAM al massimo e che è normale avere la RAM sempre quasi piena. E' vero? Inoltre esiste un modo per sapere quanta ram viene utilizzata da ogni processo? Il comando top mi dice la percentuale di memoria usata da ogni processo ma mi sembra sbagliato. Quando ho il 70% di ram utilizzata se vado a guardare i processi totali e faccio una somma delle percentuali indicate da top arrivo a ma la pena al 15%. Mi sono accorto che top fornisce le informazioni non per tutti i processi ma solo per quelli che stanno della finestra (nel mio caso circa 35 sui 94 totali). Degli altri come faccio a trovare le informazioni? In sostanza mi piacerebbe avere un elenco completo di tutti i processi con relativi dati (%cpu, %ram, pid, ecc.). Grazie, Pollo. Scusate per la domanda banale. Bastava il comando: ps -A -eo pid,%mem Ciao, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp
* Arwan wrote: Funzia tutto, filtri, scaricamento, lettura, invio, pero' per l'invio posta devo essere connessa, dunque chiedo lumi per il come si fa offline. Lo potrai fare con un MTA non ridotto come ssmtp. Ti diro', non ora perche' sto facendo ancora alcune altre prove, come farlo con sendmail. Sistemato questo ,direi che il prossimo passo e' aggiustare il send-hook in modo che le ML abbiano ciascuna il from e il reply-to corretto. Ho provato a modificare .muttrc, ma senza risultato. Qualcuno mi puo' mandare la parte incriminata del proprio .muttrc che scopiazzo? Ci sono altri file da aggiustare? Risolvi tutto dentro dentro ~/.muttrc $ cat ~/.muttrc .. . send-hook .* 'my_hdr From: syd [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook maja 'my_hdr From: syd [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook .* 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook arwan 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. .. La prima coppia e' dedicata al campo from. Quando crei un hook devi prima stabilire il _comportamento_ generale e poi l'eccezioni alla regola. Nella prima stringa stabilisco che il mio campo From deve essere sempre (.*) impostato su [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nella seconda stabilisco che quando scrivo a majalinux (mi e' sufficiente scrivere maja che e' l'alias per l'indirizzo di majalinux contenuto nel file degli alias.. ma puoi scrivere direttamente majalinux) la regola generale deve cedere all'eccezione che prevede l'uso di [EMAIL PROTECTED] e cosi' via per eventuali altre eccezioni (la regola generale la scrivi solo una volta). Per il Reply-to.. idem con patate. Fai delle prove spippolando un pochino sulla parola che deve individuare l'eccezione (maja..arwan..). Ricorda anche che devi cancellare/commentare le eventuali impostazioni che usavi prima di creare gli hook; quelle quindi relative al campo from e al campo Reply-to (e questo vale per qualsiasi hook che deciderai in futuro di creare) $ grep my_hdr ~/.muttrc send-hook .* 'my_hdr From: syd [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook maja 'my_hdr From: syd [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook .* 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook arwan 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #my_hdr From: syd [EMAIL PROTECTED] #my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_hdr X-Operating-System: Slackware GNU/Linux my_hdr X-Disclaimer: .. nel bel mezzo del progresso my_hdr X-Mailer: Mutt-1.5.3i my_hdr X-Editor: Vim-6.1 my_hdr X-GPG-Keyserver: http://www.keyserver.linux.it my_hdr X-GPG-Keynumber: 0xAEF9D59F my_hdr X-GPG-Fingerprint: F822 6E69 D401 546C 533B 7EC7 3748 AFB6 AEF9 D59F A proposito del DUMMY che Syd ha in .procmailrc, l'uso dovrebbe essere (se non ho capito male dalle mail del thread) per non cancellare cartelle gia' esistenti al momento dello smistamento della posta con procmail; ma proc non aggiunge gia' di default la posta in piu' in una data mailbox senza toccare cosa c'era prima? A me pare che, con le mie impostazioni, funzioni cosi', pero' non posso giurarci. Oppure l'esigenza di Syd nasce da altre impostazioni precedenti che a me sono sfuggite? No, era proprio questa la mia esigenza. Funziona anche senza la verifica del DUMMY? Buono a sapersi Arwan ;)) Quando costrui' (piu' di due anni fa) il mio .procmailrc forse era necessaria quella impostazione magari adesso con le nuove versioni di procmail non lo e' piu'. Sono un forte sostenitore del motto: se funge.. va benissimo!! Altra cosa: il file pm.log: da cosa e' creato? Da me non ho trovato file log riguardanti fetch/proc/mutt che crescano a dismisura, ho solo un file from che contiene le operazioni di procmail, e che quindi ho zittito con mailstat. Ce ne sono altri? $ cat ~/.procmailrc #log VERBOSE = no # puoi anche usare yes per una maggiore verbosita' LOGABSTRACT = no # se usi all la verbosita' e' massima LOGFILE = $PMDIR/pm.log # file di log Queste impostazioni mi creano il pm.log in cui vengono registrate le manovre di procmail e anche io allegerisco il file con mailstat. Tu hai un file from? Dipende dalla tua configurazione.. spulcia meglio a meno che non ti vada bene cosi' come e'. Probabilmente ho ancora in background sendmail che lavora (anche se non e' coinvolto nelle operazioni di invio) come lo zittisco? Ho scoperto d'avere una barca di eseguibili sendmail abbandonati in giro per tutto il PC durante i vari esperimenti... $ whereis sendmail sendmail: /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/share/sendmail /usr/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz e considera che $ ls -l /usr/bin/sendmail lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 18 giu 20 17:36 /usr/bin/sendmail - /usr/sbin/sendmail All'elenco del whereis devi aggiungere solo /usr/doc/sendmail-numeroversione Non dovresti avere altro di sendmail. Per _azzittire_ il demone di sendmail commenta queste stringhe $ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.M # Start the sendmail daemon: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail ]; then . /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail start fi .. .. Tutto quello che ho
[newbie-it] 2 harddisk 2 linux 2 orari
cari tutti devo segnalarvi una situazione bizzarra che si verifica sul mio sistema. ho 2 hard disk e per provare la nuova mdk 9.1 ho deciso di usare il vecchio hard disk (secondary master) . una volta installato linux con lilo su floppy ho notato che ogni volta che cambio da mdk 9 a mdk 9.1 l'orario dell'orologio cambia di 2 ore. ovvero se regolo l'orario in mdk 9 alle 20:00 in mdk 9.1 è 22:00 e viceversa. come si può sincronizzare l'orario? ciao a tutti mirko Linux mdk 9.0 / 9.1 on P!!! @600mhz ( e ben 2 fusi orari!)
[newbie-it] Ma perche' la domenica mi fanno inca22are?
Alle Sunday 22 June 2003 08:30, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), syd ha scritto: * Arwan wrote: Funzia tutto, filtri, scaricamento, lettura, invio, pero' per l'invio posta devo essere connessa, dunque chiedo lumi per il come si fa offline. Lo potrai fare con un MTA non ridotto come ssmtp. Ti diro', non ora perche' sto facendo ancora alcune altre prove, come farlo con sendmail. Allora... ho installato postfix e sono riuscita a farlo partire dopo mezzo pomeriggio di poecheggiamenti con i settaggi... mutt mi da' errore, e non ne vuole sapere di usarlo. Sono ritornata al vecchio sendmail, e adesso quando faccio y la mail non mi va piu' nella coda predefinita da sendmail. Ma cosa devo fare? (domanda di disperazione) Risolvi tutto dentro dentro ~/.muttrc La prima coppia e' dedicata al campo from. Quando crei un hook devi prima stabilire il _comportamento_ generale e poi l'eccezioni alla regola. E no, non ci siamo. L'altro mezzo pomeriggio m'e' partito con send-hook. Ho seguito le tue indicazioni, e di tutte le ml ne funzionava solo una, poi ho cambiato i nomi degli alias, e continuava a funzionarne solo una... alla fine ho giocato ai bussolotti finche' non sono andata quasi tutte. Adesso se scrivo una mail a tolkien la manda a newbie... perche'? e non mi comoda per nulla utilizzare quei nomi con gli alias... pero' se do quelli che voglio io le cobinate destinatario-reply/from non corrispondono... ecco il pezzo di alias e quello di muttrc: send-hook .* 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook new 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook oltre 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook open 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook fantascienza 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook academy 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook magazine 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook maja 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook slack 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook tolkienlistari 'my_hdr From: Arwan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook .* 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook new 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook oltre 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook open 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook fantascienza 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook academy 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook magazine 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook maja 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook slack 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook tolkienlistari 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias tolkienlistari lista Tolkien [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias academy lista sf-academy [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias magazine lista fantasymagazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias fantascienza lista fantascienza [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias maja lista majalinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias cena lista cenacolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias open lista openoffice [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias new lista MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias slack lista slack [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias oltre lista LinuxC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ho provato a cambiare nome, aggiungere virgolette, metterlo in una posizione diversa... niente, non c'e' nulla da fare. vorrei quantomeno capire... Ricorda anche che devi cancellare/commentare le eventuali impostazioni che usavi prima di creare gli hook; quelle quindi relative al campo from e al campo Reply-to (e questo vale per qualsiasi hook che deciderai in futuro di creare) Fatto! Altra cosa: il file pm.log: da cosa e' creato? Da me non ho trovato file log riguardanti fetch/proc/mutt che crescano a dismisura, ho solo un file from che contiene le operazioni di procmail, e che quindi ho zittito con mailstat. Ce ne sono altri? $ cat ~/.procmailrc #log VERBOSE = no # puoi anche usare yes per una maggiore verbosita' LOGABSTRACT = no # se usi all la verbosita' e' massima LOGFILE = $PMDIR/pm.log # file di log Queste impostazioni mi creano il pm.log in cui vengono registrate le manovre di procmail e anche io allegerisco il file con mailstat. Tu hai un file from? Dipende dalla tua configurazione.. spulcia meglio a meno che non ti vada bene cosi' come e'. Non ho controllato oggi (sono gia' incazzata per conto mio) ma dai miei ricordi dovrei avere il from al posto del tuo pm.log $ whereis sendmail whereis e' come find? OK per il resto. -- Burp! Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] tuxrace e driver nvidia
Alle 14:19, giovedì 19 giugno 2003, Andrea Celli ha scritto: Ho un piccolo problema con tuxrace. Nulla di grave, ma i nipotini vogliono giocarci :-) Io ho una scheda geforge2-mmx che con i driver Nvidia non ha mai dato alcun problema. Da quando ho installato la 9.1 e, contemporaneamente, la nuova versione dei driver, si impalla il sistema se cerco di fare alcune discese di tuxrace. :-( La discesa che dà maggiori problemi è quella con tutti gli spunzoni di ghiaccio. Ho cercato un po' su google, ma non ho trovato nulla. Qualcuno ha avuto problemi analoghi o ha indicazioni da darmi? ciao, Andrea Rispondo in ultra-ritardo senza sapere se ci sono stati interventi più succosi del mio. Come già scrivevo a Chiara giorni fa io ho dei problemi analoghi causati da un cattivo supporto della mia scheda video (ATI rage 128) da parte dell'XFree 4.3, che nelle versioni precedenti non si verificava. Da me dopo un po' di minuti si pianta il sistema in ogni caso (purché sia in funzione un ambiente grafico). La mia soluzione parziale è consistita nel disattivare l'accelerazione 3D, solo che così tuxracer funziona a rilento; quando voglio giocarci (proprio io, lo ammetto, nessun nipotino...) attivo l'accelerazione, faccio partire tuxracer da un ambiente più snello di kde, come wmaker, e sto attento a non usarlo troppo. Intanto spero che esca qualche nuova versione di xfree. Ciao Giorgio _ www.liceofoscarini.it/conchiglieveneziane
[newbie-it] Disinstallare dai sorgenti o aggiornare
Salve. Nella mia breve esperienza su linux ho già avuto modo di installare parecchi programmi dai sorgenti. Mi chiedo però come fare a disinstallarli in modo completo. Ho letto che se il makefile lo prevede basta fare un 'make uninstall', ma credo che la casistica sia più vasta (in un caso ho provato e non funzionava). D'altra parte volendo aggiornare un programma alla versione più recente qual è la procedura più corretta e pulita? Grazie a tutti per le indicazioni. Ant
Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp
* Arwan ha scritto: Funzia tutto, filtri, scaricamento, lettura, invio, pero' per l'invio posta devo essere connessa, dunque chiedo lumi per il come si fa offline. Quale è la ragione per cui necessiti di una queue ? Sistemato questo ,direi che il prossimo passo e' aggiustare il send-hook in modo che le ML abbiano ciascuna il from e il reply-to corretto. A proposito del reply-to, perchè ancora ci trovo il tuo indirizzo di posta ? Ho provato a modificare .muttrc, ma senza risultato. Qualcuno mi puo' mandare la parte incriminata del proprio .muttrc che scopiazzo? Ci sono altri file da aggiustare? Chiedere ancora di file .muttrc dopo quelli che ti ha mandato syd e che hai prelevato pure dalle rete e che trovi nei tuoi man mi sembra superfluo. Comunque questi sono alcuni esempi di hook: Se vuoi far finire la posta in uscita in una particolare mailbox: con il seguente hook: fcc-save-hook newbie-it =out_newbie-it _aggancio_ un messaggio in uscita inviato alla lista newbie-it (la chiave è appunto To: newbie-it@linux-mandrake.com) quella tra virgolette, per farlo finire nella mailbox out_newbie-it Se vuoi cambiare l'header From: e Reply-to quando invii a un particolare indirizzo: con il seguente hook: send-hook .picopallino.it my_hdr From: arwan2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; \ my_hdr Reply-To: arwan3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _aggancio_ un particolare indirizzo mail agli headers specificati, nota che il punto . dato all'inizio di picopallino.it ha un significato simile a quello usato nei filtri di procmailrc, ossia un qualunque carattere prima di picopallino.it. Ogni volta che si _aggancia_ un'header questo tende a rimanere, così ti troveresti questo al posto di quello di default nei tuoi headers, allora devi impostare un hook generico che verrà posizionato all'inizio dei send-hook che ripristina ogni volta il valore di default ossia: send-hook . set signature=~/.signature ; \ my_hdr From: arwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_hdr Reply-To: Non ti ho messo niente in reply-to perchè tu hai il vizio di metterci il tuo indirizzo di posta, non serve specificarlo con newbie.it e lo sai il perchè ;) . In questo hook trovi anche il sistema di come utilizzare una firma che già vedo che utilizzi con kmail. Già con questi puoi fare molte cose. Mi raccomando le virgolette all'inizio e alla fine dei comandi, sono importanti, il ; serve a immettere un comando nuovo e \ per andare a capo. A proposito del DUMMY che Syd ha in .procmailrc, l'uso dovrebbe essere (se non ho capito male dalle mail del thread) per non cancellare cartelle gia' esistenti al momento dello smistamento della posta con procmail; Secondo me dummy come impostato da syd serve a creare la base delle mailbox nella fase di installazione iniziale che altrimenti dovresti inserirle a mano una per una. Dopodichè una volta create automaticamente, tramite dummy questo processo viene bloccato. Personalmente ancora non ho inserito quelle righe da adattare alla mia situazione, ma lo farò presto perchè sono molto utile specialmente se vuoi inserire nuovi utenti nel tuo sistema e creare le mailbox in automatico nella rispettiva home, oppure sposti intere mailbox preesistenti per qualsiasi motivo, allora vengono rimpiazzate automaticamente di nuove vuote. Non è male... ma proc non aggiunge gia' di default la posta in piu' in una data mailbox senza toccare cosa c'era prima? A me pare che, con le mie impostazioni, funzioni cosi', pero' non posso giurarci. si è così Altra cosa: il file pm.log: da cosa e' creato? Da me non ho trovato file log riguardanti fetch/proc/mutt che crescano a dismisura, ho solo un file from che contiene le operazioni di procmail, e che quindi ho zittito con mailstat. Ce ne sono altri? Anche io lo chiamo from ed è molto utile specialmente all'inizio, nella fase di configurazione, ma anche dopo perchè ti lascia il tracciato di dove la posta andrà a finire. Se da Mutt apri from come se fosse una mailbox, ed è una mailbox, comprenderai che ti renderà facile la ricerca della posta scaricata e particolarmente potrai verificare se procmail è stato impostato bene. Probabilmente ho ancora in background sendmail che lavora (anche se non e' coinvolto nelle operazioni di invio) come lo zittisco? Ho scoperto d'avere una barca di eseguibili sendmail abbandonati in giro per tutto il PC durante i vari esperimenti... Se usi sSMTP, sendmail non disturba se è attivo. Mentre stavo scrivendo questa risposta, mi è arrivata altra tua mail che ce ne fosse una che ti va bene, ti stai creando un vespaio di confusione intorno a te. Personalmente non riesco a seguirti in questo modo. Ti consiglio di fare una cosa per volta e di seguire una logica tipo passo-passo, invece non fo intempo a dirti questo che già hai modificato tutto e combinato altri pasticci. Se cerchi aiuto devi poter accettare anche il tempo degli altri. Se invece vuoi fare come ti pare
Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp
Alle Monday 23 June 2003 00:20, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: * Arwan ha scritto: Funzia tutto, filtri, scaricamento, lettura, invio, pero' per l'invio posta devo essere connessa, dunque chiedo lumi per il come si fa offline. Quale è la ragione per cui necessiti di una queue ? Ho una connessine a tempo, non forfettaria, insomma, se rimango collegata ci lascio lo stipendio. Cosi', invece, per quelle che che sono le mie abitudini internettiane spendo circa 2.5 euro al mese. Sistemato questo ,direi che il prossimo passo e' aggiustare il send-hook in modo che le ML abbiano ciascuna il from e il reply-to corretto. A proposito del reply-to, perchè ancora ci trovo il tuo indirizzo di posta ? Perche' sono ancora con kmail, alcuni li ho sistemati, altri no... dicendomi che il lavoro non valeva la pena visto che il passaggio a mutt era imminiente... pero' quello di questa ml dovrebbe essere a posto... ... Chiedere ancora di file .muttrc dopo quelli che ti ha mandato syd e che hai prelevato pure dalle rete e che trovi nei tuoi man mi sembra superfluo. Be', se non funzia... e continua a non funziare... Comunque questi sono alcuni esempi di hook: Se vuoi far finire la posta in uscita in una particolare mailbox: con il seguente hook: Ecco, questa mi mancava... non mi serve (grazie lo stesso) ma puo' essere utile! Se vuoi cambiare l'header From: e Reply-to quando invii a un particolare indirizzo: con il seguente hook: send-hook .picopallino.it my_hdr From: arwan2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; \ my_hdr Reply-To: arwan3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ho provato anche in questo modo qui, e non vanno. E' per quello che ho ripostato al domanda. Vedi l'altra mail. _aggancio_ un particolare indirizzo mail agli headers specificati, nota che il punto . dato all'inizio di picopallino.it ha un significato simile a quello usato nei filtri di procmailrc, ossia un qualunque carattere prima di picopallino.it. Provero' a risitemare con queste nuove indicazioni, giuro che ieri sono impazzita tentando di farli andare. Non ti ho messo niente in reply-to perchè tu hai il vizio di metterci il tuo indirizzo di posta, non serve specificarlo con newbie.it e lo sai il perchè ;) Non io... kmail ;-) In questo hook trovi anche il sistema di come utilizzare una firma che già vedo che utilizzi con kmail. A quella ci pensero' dopo, ma non credo sia un problema. (Le ultime parole famose) Già con questi puoi fare molte cose. Mi raccomando le virgolette all'inizio e alla fine dei comandi, sono importanti, il ; serve a immettere un comando nuovo e \ per andare a capo. Avevo provato, e non andando ho ripetuto il comando ;-) Per quanto riguarda le virgolette... io sul file di esempio ne avevo una singola; e poi in parte funzionano e in parte no... Anche io lo chiamo from ed è molto utile specialmente all'inizio, nella fase di configurazione, ma anche dopo perchè ti lascia il tracciato di dove la posta andrà a finire. Se da Mutt apri from come se fosse una mailbox, ed è una mailbox, comprenderai che ti renderà facile la ricerca della posta scaricata e particolarmente potrai verificare se procmail è stato impostato bene. A questo non avevo pensato... Ottimo! Probabilmente ho ancora in background sendmail che lavora (anche se non e' coinvolto nelle operazioni di invio) come lo zittisco? Ho scoperto d'avere una barca di eseguibili sendmail abbandonati in giro per tutto il PC durante i vari esperimenti... Se usi sSMTP, sendmail non disturba se è attivo. Mentre stavo scrivendo questa risposta, mi è arrivata altra tua mail che ce ne fosse una che ti va bene, ti stai creando un vespaio di confusione intorno a te. :-( Ho solo provato a venirne fuori... Personalmente non riesco a seguirti in questo modo. Ti consiglio di fare una cosa per volta e di seguire una logica tipo passo-passo, invece non fo intempo a dirti questo che già hai modificato tutto e combinato altri pasticci. Se cerchi aiuto devi poter accettare anche il tempo degli altri. E' un problema di testardaggine. A questo punto credo che forse mutt abbia evidenziato i suoi limiti con l'astrusa arwan. Ma dai... ;-) -- Burp! Arwan
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:55, RichardA wrote: On 21 Jun 2003 10:21:39 +0100, Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:13, RichardA wrote: snip Sounds very useful, but I don't see how to do this in 1.3.3. Could you give me an idiot's guide? TIA DougB It was from the bookmark manager, bookmarks - 'add bookmark to', or right-clicking in the bookmarks tree, but I'm still on 1.2.5. See my reply to eric- if they really have taken these useful options out, it might be worth installing the older one. Richard Now seen your reply to Eric and his response - it's the same for me. A shame :( DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Posting to TWiki
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 12:22 pm, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi Anne, Reference Muti-boot posting to TWiki. I am still new in webpages - have not done it . Please feel free to make suggestions. This will be a learning curve for me. I did have a look at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome it is good to know that it exist. I repeat the site address here so that more new members may see and visit it. I did register. Hi, Johan. First, spend a little time browsing the Using TWiki section, which is accessed from the main WebHome page (right-hand panel). Print out the page called TWiki Shorthand Basics - you will find it very useful for formatting. 1. Please suggest application to use on (Mandrake 9.x) to write the page for upload. Prepare your text in any text editor, or indeed almost any program you are comfortable with. 2. This page - must it be send to some-one for checking -etc? No. When you are happy with it, you will post it up, and you could ask for comments. Those of us who have done a bit more will advise and help if any revision is necessary, but no-one owns the site, we each take our own basic responsibilities for what we post but encourage others to add their own experience to it. 3. Suggest application to use for uploading. I would suggest that when you are ready, the easiest way to create the new page would be to edit the http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SlightlyOffTopic page with a one-line link to it - perhaps calling it MultiBoot. This will create the beginning of the link, but put a question mark against it, indicating that it does not yet exist. You will see that in the preview mode. Accept that. When you click on that link that you have created it will open a new page, and you can copy and paste your prepared text to it. 4. Please suggest anything you think will be required. I am sure there is a lot that I not even think about. 5. Some Howto's. I don't think there's much more I need to say, but do ask if you get stuck. While you are in the SlightlyOffTopic page, just have a look at the formatting for different heading levels, and compare them with your Shorthand printout. You should be fine. .Thanks Johan May this be a good day for learning I love your tag-line. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] chinese fonts
Hi! I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. I have chosen the support for some languages that I need, particulary chinese. My problem is the I can't input chinese character. There is a program xcin but it does't work because the font zh_CN.UTF-8 are unsupported by this program. When I try to run the program Iget this error: locale section zh_CN.UTF-8: DEFAULT_IM : value not specified Do you know other programs to input chinese characters? Can I set Mandrake 9.1 to support zh_CN.GB2312? Thank you. Giulio F. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Compilation of kdelibs-3.1-58mdk.src.rpm
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 05:12, Huw Blackwell wrote: Okay guys, A bit stumped by this one, I am new to linux and learning quickly (hence jumping in @ the deep end by optimizing mandrake for my computer...) Not Sure if this should go on another mailing list (please advise if you have one to suggest) but here goes. Compiling kdelibs-3.1-58mdk.src.rpm on an AMD Duron 750, 128Mb Ram Via kt133 chipset. Opt flags are standard Mandake issue, as found in /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc the rebuild just targeting athlon architecture. WHACK I Can't find any reference to this anywhere on the web. @ wits end Any pointers would be apprieciated. I have the full comiliation text which I can mail to you as an attachment if this is not sufficient. Thanks Huw Stephen, Thanks for the tip, here are the answers to your, queries, Hope They Help. Do you have a reference to the QT libs in your /etc/ld.so.conf Yes. /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt3/lib These are the only entries in this file. - and if so, have you run ldconfig to rebuild the lib path cache? Thought this ran automatically at bootup, but re run it as root anyway, recompiled package, and have the same error. So stuck again. :-( Huw - also (trying) to run a Microsoft free computer... -- Sun Jun 22 10:40:00 EST 2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 08:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 21:42, ed tharp wrote: I have a story about that. As a teenager, (having spent most my life in the Fla.Keys) I, and most all my friends were excellent swimmers, and water polo was the game most often played. We also liked to play tag on a bridge with a catwalk (a walkway for fishing) that had a strong current running under, that got stronger as you got closer to the middle of the channel. We would run out the cat walk and jump in when it got close, and swim back to shore fighting the current. one day when I was about 14, we had spent the afternoon playing tag, and after we left, some tourist had tried to swim back in from where we were jumping in and swimming. needless to say, he got his name in the paper, and his wife was quoted as saying he just jumped in where these kids had been jumping in, but the current must have gotten worse since it carried him right out to sea. I decided that night, that just because _I_ like to swim upstream, does not mean I should let others see me swim upstream and think that they can do it too, so we never played tag during the daylight hours like that again, at least at that bridge. I'd reckon south of Jewfish creek, then ya? yep, channel #2 bridge, right near Holiday Isle. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT] Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 17:04, Michael Scottaline wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:28:50 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:38:06 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Joes makes me thinks Gun nut. you misunderstand, I have a certain sympathy with the individualist who resists authority, and I recognize that *sometimes* it is necessary to take up arms against the imposition of an immoral authority. For example, I see nothing wrong with what the Zapatistas did in Mexico, or what Che and Fidel did to Batista and his band of criminal thugs in Cuba. In retrospect though, tough to consider Fidel an individiualist, no??? I often think that Che was partially motivated to leave by the way in which he saw Fidel moving. My guess is that there are many individualists in Cuba today in hiding, or rotting in prisons :( As some one who's family was in what is now Miami, before it was an army fort, and having a close retrospect on current Cuban Socity, I can say that I do not think Castro was all that wrong. he did manage to rid (with out the mass murder his opponents would claim, and would have pursued) his island of an entire bourgeois class, and while the bourgeois took a great deal of wealth with them (that they all claim to a person did not come with them , but suddenly showed up) he did also manage to surpass the USA in literacy rates, from a populace that had one of the lowest rates of literacy when he took power. not an easy feat to eliminate the bourgeois, educate the masses and redistribute the wealth in such a manner that the bourgeoisie are the only ones upset. Especially if you consider that the bourgeoisie were not killed, but exiled to a better place with more wealth. Even more amazing when you consider that 99% of the class that is now exiled claim to have been (the children of) great war heroes. with that many great war heroes, it must have been a very tough war to have anyone left to exile. I might be tempted to argue that the Exile-Cubanismo society allows and encourages and/or tolerates some things that are so very wrong as to justify almost all of Castro's actions. how do you end corruption in a society that accepts bribery as greasing the wheels? even in Police matters? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hard drive partition sizes
On Saturday June 21 2003 06:16 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I've used a separate /boot since civileme recommended doin so quite a while ago if your other partitions are journalized fs's. He said to use ext2 or ext3 for /boot, specially with XFS or ReisersFS / and other partitions. So I do, particularly since civileme's specialty was HDD, fs's and partition QA. Hmmm...funny - I'm even using ReiserFS on my /boot partition... Well, you can try seaching the newbie archive, it was about two years ago. I also use ReiserFS for all partitions, and I didn't have a separate /boot. When I mentioned a few minor gremlins (sorry, don't remember what they were), that's when civileme advised to use a separate /boot and make it ext2 or 3, when using journaling FS's. You might consider doin the same next time you install. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
hi, I run XP and Mandrake 9 on same drive - LILO my bootloader. On installing Mandrake it picked up XP and configured it LILO was written to MBR. What I found was that Mandrake and LILO do a better job on discovering and config of additional OS's than Redhat. Now when I boot GUI come up - pick windows and then XP loader comes up - there you go. My system works fine. ** Here is something I did on the PC of my wife(MS win 95 only)drive - I installed a second drive as slave - installed Mandrake on 2nd drive - Mand/LILO picked up all - BUT wrote the configuration to the 1st (primary MBR) drvie. Now if you remove slave( permanent) the LILO boot up still works for Winlinux. To get rid of this - in dos fdisk /MBR and you are back to MS - on XP you will probably need the repair function to correct this. Refer to my letter on list - to multi boot - you can boot more than 2 OS'S on 1 drive. Refer to position of drive on cable - can NOT cunfuse win or linux - (unless your PC is ancient - when you had you set links on drive correct position on cable and some dip switches) it will be your BIOS that may get confused. BUT CAREFULL if you move your drive hda to hdb or hdc and make it your boot by removing all in front boot up- linux WILL get confused (windows in this case do not care everything just become C again.Sorry for linux but this is true) Set the hardware BIOS detection all of it on auto - it will work fine. I chop and change drives(7 HD's) at will (only drive link importend) and it works every time.I have these mobile rack and trays. To make this easy set your cdrom/s to slave and all harddrives to master. If you have 2 cdroms then each as slave one on a cable with a harddrive. Trust this may help you to decide. Johan *** - Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 5:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how? On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:58 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: which drive would i make the primary drive? my thought is that i'd make the 100GB drive the primary drive, as the computer would have to access linux before windows to give me the dual boot option, correct? Actually, Windows needs to be first, or at least it used to. I don't know about XP. I recall that Windows ignores all partitions above the first one it doesn't recognize, so I always put windows on first, create my shared partition and then put linux on the end of the drive. Secondly...does the drive's position on the ribbon matter? i'm running 2 things on that ribbon currently, the 20GB drive and my CDRW drive. this is only the first computer i've owned that i've actually torn apart and put back together hardware wise, once while trouble shooting for a defective sound card, the other time doing a case swap. so i'm not all that familiar with hooking up new hardware. You're best bet, as long as you don't need to do a lot of disk to disk copying, is to put your optical drives on a seperate channel from your hard drives. This is especially true of CDRW drives, where you want to maximize the data throughput from your hard drives to the burner. Putting them on the same channel could create bottlenecks when you burn a cd. So I would make the disk drives hda and hdb and let the cdrw be hdc. i know if i make the 100GB drive the primary, i have to switch the jumper on the 20GB drive to make it the secondary. and a final question.i'm running an ASUS KV7-RM motherboard that has all the bios updates done to it, so that's a plus, but will i have to enter the bios settings once i plug the new drive in? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on what your bios settings are now. Some people indicate none in the unused channels to speed up their boots. As long as everything in the bios is set to autodetect, then you shouldn't have to do anything, but if it is not, you may have to go in there and change some settigngs. as far as how i'm going to work with linuxi havn't decided if i'm giong to do a fresh install and wipe out the old install or if i'm going to try to move the current install to the new drive (someone already gave me a link that explains how to do that). that's something i'll decide for myself once i get to that point. You could always try to move it for the learning experience and if you screw up you can still reinstall. As far as partition sizes go, 80 gig is way too much for Linux. You are better off setting up your linux partitions in 10-15GB, and then creating a fat32 partition with the rest to share your data between windows and linux. -- Greg 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] re re mnt/winc
Hi, OK lets usume you use mandrake 9.1 (older versions differ in some respects) When booting it goes to the user selected on install. On KDE. Right click on mouse - select logout. On GNOME select start logout. Now it goes to where different user may logon This if you installed more than one user otherwise you will be there only. Now here is 3 options 1..select other user (NO option for ROOT) 2.. REBOOT - if selected it MAY have a dropdown list to select way of rebooting. Why I say may - sometimes the dropdown list is empty - if empty then select HALT. 3 .HALT If above is all hash - then use* alt - cntrl -del * this will - if it works reboot. OR Open console - su - password - shutdown -r (or -h) now. If nothing of the above works - sorry beyond my scope Now this not recommended - switch off. Johan - Original Message - From: Mike Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 2:41 AM Subject: [newbie] re re mnt/winc From a terminal, cd to /mnt/win_d. Now type mkdir test. Post any errors. Also, I can boot to linux, I cannot reboot, shutdown the computer or change user from linux. Here I am not sure what you mean. How are you trying to reboot/shutdown? How are you trying to change users? Logout and log back in from the Login Manager? -- No errors when I made the test file. I use kde as my gui, and logout etcetera is done through the kde menu. I have upgraded my installation daily so I have the latest updates running. Any ideas anyone? cheers, Mike 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] No response on questions
Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue. Now should every one who see a question/s should reply sorry no help - This system will COMPLETELY be overloaded. As it is if I skip a day or two I found up 785 messages waiting on server. I suggest - join more user groups and post again. Regards Johan May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 3:21 pm, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue. Now should every one who see a question/s should reply sorry no help - This system will COMPLETELY be overloaded. As it is if I skip a day or two I found up 785 messages waiting on server. I suggest - join more user groups and post again. Regards Johan May this be a good day for learning Sometimes, too, it is a problem that few know about, and maybe the one person who can help is away or on holiday. I understand the frustration too, but it is always worth trying the question again a few days later. It sometimes helps, too, to think whether re-wording the subject line might better get the attention of the right person. HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue. Now should every one who see a question/s should reply sorry no help - This system will COMPLETELY be overloaded. As it is if I skip a day or two I found up 785 messages waiting on server. I suggest - join more user groups and post again. Regards Johan May this be a good day for learning or just post again, adding note; no help in three days to the subject line. it may well be that in with the other mail, your question was just missed, or no-one knew the answer. Asking again, and adding something like can anyone hear or help me might at least get an answer of no, i are 'tupid. __ 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] chinese fonts
Giulio F. wrote: Hi! I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. I have chosen the support for some languages that I need, particulary chinese. My problem is the I can't input chinese character. There is a program xcin but it does't work because the font zh_CN.UTF-8 are unsupported by this program. When I try to run the program Iget this error: locale section zh_CN.UTF-8: DEFAULT_IM : value not specified Do you know other programs to input chinese characters? Can I set Mandrake 9.1 to support zh_CN.GB2312? You could try chinput - there are a few others in the contrib sources, IIRC. Sir Robin -- Some guy breaking into a government computer system and wreaking havoc makes for a more interesting movie plot than some guy writing device drivers. It's hard to work in a good 10-minutes car chase scene with some guy who writes device drivers... - tjc, post to LWN 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] Powerfan connection?
This isn't strictly a Mandrake question, but I hope someone here can help me. I'm building a computer for my mother using an Abit NF7-M motherboard. In the manual it says, Attach the connector from the power fan to PWRFAN1 header... The PWRFAN1 header has three prongs. Two of the connectors coming out of the power housing have four holes, none have three. Which (if any) is supposed to connect to PWRFAN1? Do I need an adapter so it can fit the three-prong header? My own computer has an Abit KR7A-133 board. The equivalent passage in it is attach the connector from the power fan to FAN3 header. I just looked and nothing is attached to that header, and the only four-hole connector I see is plugged into the floppy drive. Some friends online suggested that the power fan (ie. I assume the one in the power box housing) is run _by_ the power box, that it doesn't need to connect to the motherboard. Is that true? I notice that it isn't turning now, but that might be because it doesn't need to. Looking at the fan through the grill I can see the wires running from it but can't see where they're going or if they're one of the bundles exiting the unit at the rear. How _do_ I connect that fan, or do I need to do anything at all. Puzzled in Evansville, Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
server. I suggest - join more user groups and post again. If you don't get a response in one place by all means go to another and post your question. How ever you should avoid cross posting (i.e. posting the same question on several forums all at once). Regards Johan Regards John -- Lead me not into tepmtation - I can find my own way thanks! MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde runs slow while offline ?
hi after several installs of mdk9.1 all because of kde going all slow eg open /home with konq with kfmclient openProfile filemanagement command konqueror can take over a minute to open and sometimes not open at all. some other apps are the same but not all; however ive noticed while i am online everything runs at full speed ... does anyone know why this could be?? LtCdData Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi
Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to spread it out amoung 3 or four servers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tux pics...
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:07, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:20 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have these. One is from Penguin Computing (my fav!) One is Tux with a joystick One is Tux with a keyboard Just a thought... :-) Ron, I would like to have them, part of a collection. I have a small collection of stuffed toy penguins also. Each has a name, since Tux is taken I named the first one Throckmorton P. Custerbuddy the P. stands for penguin. : ) I would love to have them as well. What I really want to find is Nigril Tux laying in a hammock, with a big yellow spleef. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chinese fonts
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 3:38 pm, Giulio F. wrote: Hi! I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. I have chosen the support for some languages that I need, particulary chinese. My problem is the I can't input chinese character. There is a program xcin but it does't work because the font zh_CN.UTF-8 are unsupported by this program. When I try to run the program Iget this error: locale section zh_CN.UTF-8: DEFAULT_IM : value not specified Do you know other programs to input chinese characters? Hi Guilio, I tried a work around this but it didn't succeed. I use NJ Star under W2K and output usually to PDF. Thought I might be able to load the njcwp435.exe with wine [am using wine20030508]. No luck. Others may have succeeded, but I am running wine unconnected to any Windoze partition. Good luck on the zhongwen front. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tux pics...
On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:37 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:07, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:20 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have these. One is from Penguin Computing (my fav!) One is Tux with a joystick One is Tux with a keyboard Just a thought... :-) Ron, I would like to have them, part of a collection. I have a small collection of stuffed toy penguins also. Each has a name, since Tux is taken I named the first one Throckmorton P. Custerbuddy the P. stands for penguin. : ) I would love to have them as well. What I really want to find is Nigril Tux laying in a hammock, with a big yellow spleef. Or the Ninja Tux I saw in a bar a couple of months ago (no they wouldn't sell it) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Am I doing this right yet?
Still trying to get K-mail configured right Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi
Aron Smith wrote: Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there what do you need from urpmi that rpmdrake doesn't provide? also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to spread it out amoung 3 or four servers? urpmi will just download from one server, so multiple servers don't speed things up. Try downloading directly from a mirror and see which one is fastest for you, and then use that for urpmi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gimp fonts
I have a whole bunch of fonts installed that other programs see but that the Gimp does not. when I use the text tool in the gimp, the fonts are listed, but when they're selected it sez they're not available. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again
Hi John.
When I logged on this morning after checking my email I checked the status of my CDRW drive. To my dismay I discovered that I no longer have a working CDRW, either as supermount or as SCSI. It no longer appears on my hardware list at all and is completely unavailable.
You asked for my fstab and lilo files which I'm including below.
My fstab currently (following reboot this AM) reads:
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/hdb supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
My lilo.conf reads:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
nowarn
timeout=150
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=failsafe devfs=nomount
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
I don't understand why my CDRW keeps disappearing!?! When I rebooted last night with the new fstab file the CDRW was recognized by the system and was usable by the xcdroast program. I did not intentionally change anything after that reboot and yet when I rebooted this AM my CDRW was gone?!?!
LTR }}:{(
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 02:07, John Richard Smith wrote:
Langsley T Russell wrote:
BINGO John!!
I once again have my CDRW in my hardware list. Once again it appears
twice, once as hdb and once as scd1. I opened xcdroast and it too sees
the Samsung CDRW drive.
Now I must ask if I should leave both entries for the CDRW in my
hardware list? I checked mount points and the CDRW is mounted as scd1.
Is that as it should be?
Thank you so much, John! I am forever in your debt.
LTR }}:{(
Langsley,
If I understand you correcty you have a working writer, both
supermounted and scsi-emulated.
Can yopu kindly post both your relevent lilo.conf and fstab entries ,
for the device, so that we can see what does what.
thanks,
John
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On 22 Jun 2003 10:58:18 -0400 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue. Now should every one who see a question/s should reply sorry no help - This system will COMPLETELY be overloaded. As it is if I skip a day or two I found up 785 messages waiting on server. I suggest - join more user groups and post again. Regards Johan May this be a good day for learning or just post again, adding note; no help in three days to the subject line. it may well be that in with the other mail, your question was just missed, or no-one knew the answer. Asking again, and adding something like can anyone hear or help me might at least get an answer of no, i are 'tupid. Hi A few days ago I posted a question about running Enemy Territory as a regular user, but I haven't got any answer thus far. No offence taken, of course; some questions get answered and others don't. And would you really like me (and others) to post the same questions over and over? I take it that if no one answers, it is because no one knows. Besides, for some months now I have been lurking in the shadows of this list (one of the few things I'm actually good at :-) ), inhaling the wisdom of the non newbies, but without lifting a finger myself to help anyone. So I am hardly in a position to complain. But beware, I may be back! Until then, see you in the shadows Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPM: How to register a compiled prog (rox)
I installed a newer version of roxfiler that was not an rpm. How do i make the rpm utils see that as my most current version? When i try to install some other rm from rox, it keeps wanting to install rox-filer 1.3.7, since according to it i have none installed... thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM: How to register a compiled prog (rox)
i suspect checkinstall may be what you're looking for although having not used it personally, i can only point you to it and hope it helps http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ also, if you've added your contrib sources properly, # urpmi checkinstall should get your the rpm for your version of mandrake. - Original Message - From: eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 00:58 Subject: [newbie] RPM: How to register a compiled prog (rox) I installed a newer version of roxfiler that was not an rpm. How do i make the rpm utils see that as my most current version? When i try to install some other rm from rox, it keeps wanting to install rox-filer 1.3.7, since according to it i have none installed... thanks, eric 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] urpmi
There's a twiki on it at: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi#Using_urpmi On Sunday 22 June 2003 03:25 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to spread it out amoung 3 or four servers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again
On 22 Jun 2003 11:41:04 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John. When I logged on this morning after checking my email I checked the status of my CDRW drive. To my dismay I discovered that I no longer have a working CDRW, either as supermount or as SCSI. It no longer appears on my hardware list at all and is completely unavailable. You asked for my fstab and lilo files which I'm including below. My fstab currently (following reboot this AM) reads: /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/hdb supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 May I ask what hardware list you are talking about? Is it harddrake? Or dmesg? I am beginning to think that you may need to reinstall linux. What version are you running? Try typing mount -a as root in a terminal. Then check /mnt/hdb when you have a cd in the drive. If it's empty or not accessible, then there is something wrong. Oh ya, what is your /dev/scd0? Do you have another scsi device that isn't a cd? If you do, change your fstab so that the dev=/dev/scd0 becomes /dev/scd1. John Drouhard -- Sun Jun 22 12:52:01 UTC 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
One of the things I often do is try to get in on discussions where no one has responded, or no solution has been found. That is, if I can shed light on the problem. I have had my questions forgotten on this list, and many others, and I try not to let that happen to anyone else. A question asked in any forum is worthy of some sort of answer. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM: How to register a compiled prog (rox)
i suspect checkinstall may be what you're looking for Yep! Derek has a great explanation: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=10 I had downloaded a precompiled version of rox-filer, and checkinstall correctly understood the install script, etc. Now i have 2.0.0 installed *and* my urpmi knows it's 2.0.0! thanks! eric also, if you've added your contrib sources properly, # urpmi checkinstall should get your the rpm for your version of mandrake. I installed a newer version of roxfiler that was not an rpm. How do i make the rpm utils see that as my most current version? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again
Hi John,
The hardware list I was referring to is the one in the Mandrake Control Center. I'm running 8.2. Part of the reason for wanting to get my CDRW working is so that I can backup many files before upgrading to 9.1. Mount -a at this point simply takes me back to a command line cursor. I have a very old 1X SCSI CD ROM drive, but not a CDRW). At this point it is listed in MCC hardware list as scd0. The mount point for it at this time is hdb. Opening /mnt/hdb reads from my stone-age 1X CD ROM drive!
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On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 07:54, John Drouhard wrote:
May I ask what hardware list you are talking about? Is it harddrake?
Or dmesg? I am beginning to think that you may need to reinstall linux.
What version are you running? Try typing mount -a as root in a terminal.
Then check /mnt/hdb when you have a cd in the drive. If it's empty or
not accessible, then there is something wrong. Oh ya, what is your
/dev/scd0? Do you have another scsi device that isn't a cd? If you do,
change your fstab so that the dev=/dev/scd0 becomes /dev/scd1.
John Drouhard
[newbie] System Still Hangs
I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solve my login problems. I am booting from a floppy. When I boot, it gives me options of whether to load linux-secure, linux, failsafe, or windows. I have tried selecting both secure and just linux. The system loads and takes me to a text based login. Here I login and I am taken to the shell (Bash). I type KDE to try to boot the windowing system. A blue background comes up with an X shaped cursor. It then comes up with an initialization screen. This last for a few moments. The initialization screen disappears and the blue background remains. The hard drive continues to hum like it is working, but nothing ever happens. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I have considered trying to run Gnome instead, but because I am new to linux I do not know the command to start a Gnome session. Wade
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:21:09 +0200 Johan Scheepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: As it is if I skip a day or two I found up 785 messages waiting on server. This is why sometimes, to be frank, they just get missed in the sheer number of posts. I have many times said oh, I know the answer to that or could find one... then get distracted, then it's marked as read so next time I don't notice it. I will try to do much better with this in the future, I've been on this SCO stuff too much lately. I see nothing wrong, BTW, with re-posting after a reasonable amount of time, someone mentioned 3 days, I think that's a little bit too much to ask. There's nothing wrong with making a second request within say 48 hours, esp if it's a bigger system prob. One thing with web forums, they always had that link, view unanswered posts...that would be very usefull... doin my best! well, someone's best... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the + whole of the law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Still Hangs
On Sunday 22 June 2003 02:27 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solve my login problems. I am booting from a floppy. When I boot, it gives me options of whether to load linux-secure, linux, failsafe, or windows. I have tried selecting both secure and just linux. The system loads and takes me to a text based login. Here I login and I am taken to the shell (Bash). I type KDE to try to boot the windowing system. A blue background comes up with an X shaped cursor. It then comes up with an initialization screen. This last for a few moments. The initialization screen disappears and the blue background remains. The hard drive continues to hum like it is working, but nothing ever happens. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I have considered trying to run Gnome instead, but because I am new to linux I do not know the command to start a Gnome session. Wade when you get to the login and it gives you the text based login and the shell, at the shell prompt type startx without the quotes. This should give you the default you chose during install, normally KDE desktop. If no desk top then the video config is not right for your comp setup. If no desktop come back to the list with hardware info, like: video card, monitor brand etc. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD still not working (Mandrake 9.1)
Hi, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 11:00 pm, Pradeep Sethi wrote: Hi, I am still not able to play DVDs. I can play audio CDs / VCDs in that drive, work fine. but get error, while playing DVD. when I try to play DVD through mplayer GUI, click on open Disc, it shows reading the DVD for 5-6 seconds (light blinking), then gives error 'Can't play /dev/dvd'. Pradep, I've not been following this thread so if I repeat something already asked I apologize. Did you do (as root) a ln -s /dev/devicename /dev/dvd? In my case, since I use SCSI it would be: ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd on an IDE system, it would look something like: ln -s /dev/hdb (or hdc or hdd) /dev/dvd Also, did you add your user to the cdrom or cdwriter group(s)? One more thing, what about permissions? Here I had to do a: chmod a+r /mnt/cdrom chmod a+rx /dev/scd0 (that would be hdb, hdc, or hdd on IDE). when I do ln -l /dev/dvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# ls -l /dev/dvd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Jun 17 07:36 /dev/dvd - ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd I would guess, this config is correct, as I can play audio CDs and VCDs in this drive, works fine. Done : [EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# chmod a+r /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# chmod a+rx /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd Then I try gmplayer, still getting the same error :( Output : - Playing /dev/dvd libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd - pls help. Thanks in Advance Pradeep __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag
On Saturday 21 June 2003 06:49 pm, JoeHill graced me with: http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1018669.html It's official, Sun is right in there with MS and SCO. SCO and M$ want Linux to die. Sun just wants to take advantage of the FUD to steal some business from IBM. There's a significant difference. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:17:46 -0400 MWafkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we all do..this is quickly becoming less than an amusement and more creepy. Oh, I dunno--nothing has really changed in the last week. Since the suit was announced, we've had minor leaks about the validity of the accusations that are divided at best, and a mountain of reasons why SCO will lose. Until the whole case is settled, I bet this pattern will not change one bit. This case will take forever to settle, and the wait in and of itself will tempt Linux users into falling for the FUD. But I really believe IBM and Linux will prevail. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
I see nothing wrong, BTW, with re-posting after a reasonable amount of time, someone mentioned 3 days, I think that's a little bit too much to ask. There's nothing wrong with making a second request within say 48 hours, esp if it's a bigger system prob. One thing with web forums, they always had that link, view unanswered posts...that would be very usefull... There are always the newbie archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 3:19pm up 21:29, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.32, 0.37 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again
On 22 Jun 2003 14:03:26 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, The hardware list I was referring to is the one in the Mandrake Control Center. I'm running 8.2. Part of the reason for wanting to get my CDRW working is so that I can backup many files before upgrading to 9.1. Mount -a at this point simply takes me back to a command line cursor. I have a very old 1X SCSI CD ROM drive, but not a CDRW). At this point it is listed in MCC hardware list as scd0. The mount point for it at this time is hdb. Opening /mnt/hdb reads from my stone-age 1X CD ROM drive! Aha! make this your fstab: /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 Save it, reboot, and then open /mnt/cdrw for your cdrw drive, and /mnt/cdrom will be your scsi drive. This will work. If it doesn't, then I don't know what the heck is going wrong. I seriously hope this helps. John Drouhard -- Sun Jun 22 15:16:21 UTC 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install problems
At 11:07 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 01:44 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip I'll send the pics to you offlist and everything will become clear as mud. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ sendy pls to me too! ? :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install problems, OT Speaking of cable select on HDDs
At 10:17 PM 6/21/2003 -0700, you wrote: CableSelect is a function of the controller, not the hd. Very few controllers use the CS function (I've never owned one, nor even seen one, so I can only take it on face value that they exist). e so wtf.. my manual says you can use it..but it didn't work?... i give up. Thx E! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Another Help site
Hey Gang Don't Know if you know this link it's interesting http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/howtos.html#network Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 11:10 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:58 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: which drive would i make the primary drive? my thought is that i'd make the 100GB drive the primary drive, as the computer would have to access linux before windows to give me the dual boot option, correct? Actually, Windows needs to be first, or at least it used to. I don't know about XP. I recall that Windows ignores all partitions above the first one it doesn't recognize, so I always put windows on first, create my shared partition and then put linux on the end of the drive. Snip Others have answered the rest..but YES XP still needs to be first...sadly... Goddamn U M$! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 11:10 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: You're best bet, as long as you don't need to do a lot of disk to disk copying, is to put your optical drives on a seperate channel from your hard drives. This is especially true of CDRW drives, where you want to maximize the data throughput from your hard drives to the burner. Putting them on the same channel could create bottlenecks when you burn a cd. So I would make the disk drives hda and hdb and let the cdrw be hdc. snip I just swapped drives around... should of answered this in my other post...oh well. If you do alot of copying from hard drive to HDD or cd to cd or cd to hdd: put your 100 gigger separate on the primary IDE channel. Put your cd burner on the 2nd IDE channel for faster computer speeds copying from HDD to CDRom. Also stick your other HDD on this channel as its likely you will do more copying from the primary to CDRom than from the 2nd HDD to CDRom...thus preserving read/write speeds allowing better transfers speeds. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Powerfan connection?
At 10:02 AM 6/22/2003 -0500, you wrote: This isn't strictly a Mandrake question, but I hope someone here can help me. I'm building a computer for my mother using an Abit NF7-M motherboard. In the manual it says, Attach the connector from the power fan to PWRFAN1 header... The PWRFAN1 header has three prongs. Two of the connectors coming out of the power housing have four holes, none have three. Which (if any) is supposed to connect to PWRFAN1? Do I need an adapter so it can fit the three-prong header? My own computer has an Abit KR7A-133 board. The equivalent passage in it is attach the connector from the power fan to FAN3 header. I just looked and nothing is attached to that header, and the only four-hole connector I see is plugged into the floppy drive. Some friends online suggested that the power fan (ie. I assume the one in the power box housing) is run _by_ the power box, that it doesn't need to connect to the motherboard. Is that true? I notice that it isn't turning now, but that might be because it doesn't need to. Looking at the fan through the grill I can see the wires running from it but can't see where they're going or if they're one of the bundles exiting the unit at the rear. How _do_ I connect that fan, or do I need to do anything at all. Puzzled in Evansville, Dale Huckeby That connector is for an extra fan mounted directly to your computer case...usually 40-120mm in size. They use special 3 wire or 4 wire little connectors. I have an old one that is 2 connectors but I jerry rigged the sucker so it works. Just ignored one pin (which is an pin that gives an extra few volts IIRC that this fan doesn't need being its only 60mm in size...). So in short: if you have a case fan, thats where you connect it to on the mobo. Otherwise ignore it. Some newer powersupplys have a little heat sensor you connect to the mobo ... looks like a 3 pronged connector too. Thats not the same thing. :) HTH? If you need more info email me off list I'll send you pix of what i'm talking about. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tux pics...
At 11:20 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have these. One is from Penguin Computing (my fav!) One is Tux with a joystick One is Tux with a keyboard Just a thought... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ sendy! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
At 10:58 AM 6/22/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, Johan Scheepers wrote: snip or just post again, adding note; no help in three days to the subject line. it may well be that in with the other mail, your question was just missed, or no-one knew the answer. Asking again, and adding something like can anyone hear or help me might at least get an answer of no, i are 'tupid. *giggles* I can volunteer to post the no, i r tupid responses. :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
At 06:48 PM 6/22/2003 +, you wrote: snips yanks Bjorn outta his closet! NO CLOSSETING ALLOWED! Once you're OUT you're OUT! Hi A few days ago I posted a question about running Enemy Territory as a regular user, but I haven't got any answer thus far. No offence taken, of course; some questions get answered and others don't. And would you really like me (and others) to post the same questions over and over? I take it that if no one answers, it is because no one knows. Besides, for some months now I have been lurking in the shadows of this list (one of the few things I'm actually good at :-) ), inhaling the wisdom of the non newbies, but without lifting a finger myself to help anyone. So I am hardly in a position to complain. But beware, I may be back! Until then, see you in the shadows Björn Olsson Check its permissions make sure they are set for USER that you now own it using chown as a user. Thats my best answer... :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:41:52 +0100 Drew Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: test sorry, it didn't work :) -jmd -- Sun Jun 22 16:53:09 UTC 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
If you do alot of copying from hard drive to HDD or cd to cd or cd to hdd: put your 100 gigger separate on the primary IDE channel. Put your cd burner on the 2nd IDE channel for faster computer speeds copying from HDD to CDRom. Also stick your other HDD on this channel as its likely you will do more copying from the primary to CDRom than from the 2nd HDD to CDRom...thus preserving read/write speeds allowing better transfers speeds. I'm a little confused here with all the hdd's, HDD's, other HDD's and hard drives. :) Are you saying that copying is faster if both devices are on the same ide buss or different? I just want to make sure i get this right... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin
I've just about got my system backup again so thought I'd enjoy some cd's. Loaded up xmms and here are the problems. 1. Looking back at the archives I found Ann's message about loading the cdread plugin. Found it at rpmfind although it was the cooker version, I downloaded and installed. Bringing up the preferences in xmms the cdread plugin is nowhere to be found in the input plugin list although I've confirmed its in the correct directory under xmms. 2. I can't even bring up a list of the .wav files on my cd with xmms although .mp3s show up fine after I mount the drive. WAV files play fine with KsCD player though. Any ideas where I need to go from here? Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:12pm up 23:23, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.08, 0.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Still Hangs
Okay, when my system hangs I am able to press Alt Ctrl F1 to go back to the shell. From here if I push the Windows key on my keyboard I get a screen which seems to be logging current activity (does this make sense). It lists a series of errors. Unfortunately the errors go by so quickly that I am unable to see them. Is it possible to halt this screen, or to print it to a file? This might help me diagnose the problem. It appears that the error is probably the same one over and over. I am thinking that something is not configured correctly and the system is going into an infinite loop of trying and failing to perform some operation. Also, when I am back in the shell I have tried pressing Ctrl C to stop KDE from loading. This gives me a message saying something like "Unexpected signal 15". Nothing happens after that unless I press Ctrl C again at which point I am given a prompt again. However, the hard drive still hums as though the system is still hanging. If I then press the Windows key I am again given the error messages rapidly scrolling off the screen. I have tried to do a ps to see the process which is causing the hard drive to continue to work, but I don't see any process running which would account for that. Wade - Original Message - From: Wade Waldron To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: [newbie] System Still Hangs I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solve my login problems. I am booting from a floppy. When I boot, it gives me options of whether to load linux-secure, linux, failsafe, or windows. I have tried selecting both secure and just linux. The system loads and takes me to a text based login. Here I login and I am taken to the shell (Bash). I type KDE to try to boot the windowing system. A blue background comes up with an X shaped cursor. It then comes up with an initialization screen. This last for a few moments. The initialization screen disappears and the blue background remains. The hard drive continues to hum like it is working, but nothing ever happens. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I have considered trying to run Gnome instead, but because I am new to linux I do not know the command to start a Gnome session. Wade
Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again
OK John, I copied the new fstab file you provided to the etc directory.
On boot up I now get two FAILED lines.
The first one reads:
Supermount error (device 0/12) supermount_read_sup er:no dev: file
system option
The second reads:
Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or none, or too many
mounted file systems
However the two drives appear to be working as expected.
My CD ROM drive now appears as device scd0 in the hardware list.
Mount point: /mnt/cdrom
Device: scd0
Type: auto
Options: supermount,ro,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,mask=0
My CDRW drive once again appears on my mandrake command center twice,
once as /dev/hdb and once as /dev/scd1.
For mount point it says /mnt/cdrw.
Device is scd1
Type auto
Options supermount,ro,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,unmask=0
Again thanks for the unbelievable amount of assistance. Believe me it is
truly appreciated!!
LTR }}:{(
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On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, John Drouhard wrote:
Aha! make this your fstab:
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrw supermount
dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
Save it, reboot, and then open /mnt/cdrw for your cdrw drive, and /mnt/cdrom
will be your scsi drive. This will work. If it doesn't, then I don't
know what the heck is going wrong.
I seriously hope this helps.
John Drouhard
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Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag
On Sunday 22 June 2003 04:03 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:17:46 -0400 MWafkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we all do..this is quickly becoming less than an amusement and more creepy. Oh, I dunno--nothing has really changed in the last week. Since the suit was announced, we've had minor leaks about the validity of the accusations that are divided at best, and a mountain of reasons why SCO will lose. Until the whole case is settled, I bet this pattern will not change one bit. This case will take forever to settle, and the wait in and of itself will tempt Linux users into falling for the FUD. But I really believe IBM and Linux will prevail. Miark One thing not mentioned much and that is the way the US judicial system works. It is not a system based on justice, but a system based on precedence. The interpretation of a legislated law by a court sets precedence and once accepted after all appeals are used up, the courts decision defines the law. (Until of course, new legislation is passed). So do not expect an outcome based on what is fair or just, the outcome will be based on law (see U. S. Govmnt vs. Microsoft, was that fair or just??) just my $0.02 pessimistic as it is. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:44, ed tharp wrote: yep, channel #2 bridge, right near Holiday Isle. Funny it's been literally 20 years since being down that way and I still remember it so clearly. I was recently attempting to describe snorkeling around Turkey Point to some people - strange, that. -- Mon Jun 23 08:55:00 EST 2003 08:55:00 up 1 day, 18:05, 3 users, load average: 0.49, 0.27, 0.17 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ... The new style, gradually gaining a lodgement, quitely insinuates itself into manners and customs, and from it ... goes on to attack laws and constitutions, displaying the utmost impudence, until it ends by overturning everything. -- Plato, Republic, 370 B.C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boot error message
I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am puzzled about what drive is in error. Any one seen this before? Advice? Guesses for grabs. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tux pics...
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:20:54 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have these. I'd like to have 'em too. Should anyone be interested I have a great little clip of two penguins... real ones, that I'd be glad to email. Very funny! Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin
On Sunday 22 June 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: I've just about got my system backup again so thought I'd enjoy some cd's. Loaded up xmms and here are the problems. 1. Looking back at the archives I found Ann's message about loading the cdread plugin. Found it at rpmfind although it was the cooker version, I downloaded and installed. Bringing up the preferences in xmms the cdread plugin is nowhere to be found in the input plugin list although I've confirmed its in the correct directory under xmms. 2. I can't even bring up a list of the .wav files on my cd with xmms although .mp3s show up fine after I mount the drive. WAV files play fine with KsCD player though. Any ideas where I need to go from here? Thanks Chris Chris, it should show up in xmmspreferences as Audio CD reader - libcdread.so HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am puzzled about what drive is in error. Any one seen this before? Advice? Guesses for grabs. I had that error come up last week after installing a new CDRW on my A7N8X mobo, turned out I had dislodged the floppy drive cable and when I reconnected it the boot up message disappeared. HTH Graham -- Proudly powered by GNU/Linux Mandrake-9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.18 Registered Linux User #309089 Machine #195076 A7N8X XP2700+ 512RAM Gf4Ti4600 80Gb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
On Sunday 22 June 2003 07:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am puzzled about what drive is in error. Any one seen this before? Advice? Guesses for grabs. Dennis: A shot in the dark: Based on the reference to A:, it looks like a BIOS message. Is your BIOS is set to boot from floppy? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin
On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: 2. I can't even bring up a list of the .wav files on my cd with xmms although .mp3s show up fine after I mount the drive. WAV files play fine with KsCD player though. Any ideas where I need to go from here? Thanks Chris Chris, it should show up in xmmspreferences as Audio CD reader - libcdread.so HTH libcdread.so and libcdread.la are both in the /usr/lib/xmms/Input directory however it just doesn't show up on the list of plugin's. It doesn't take a reboot to get this thing to show up does it? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:35pm up 1 day, 45 min, 5 users, load average: 0.13, 0.08, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:04, Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am puzzled about what drive is in error. Any one seen this before? Advice? Guesses for grabs. Is it safe to assume that you didn't change anything in BIOS or that the jumpers on the drive are set properly? -- Mon Jun 23 09:30:00 EST 2003 09:30:00 up 1 day, 18:40, 4 users, load average: 0.82, 0.37, 0.23 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail settings.
Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address book is okay. So - can someone tell me where kmails' user settings are stored so I can back them up? I looked in /home/darklord/mail and .kde but didn't find anything. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with rpmdrake not able to read source cds
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 06:42, Derek Jennings wrote: Have you been doing your security updates? There is an updated urpmi available which I think addresses this sort if issue. Assuming you have an update source defined then urpmi urpmi (in a root terminal) did that got the update.. If you do not have an update source then go here yeah I did setup an update, contrib and plf source right after my fresh install on my new 80gb 7200rpm maxtor. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Select an 'update' source as well as 'contrib' and 'plf' sources. You will then gain access to hundreds of online applications. There are a *lot* of security updates for 9.1 so unless you have a broadband connection you might like to do them a few at a time. I don't think got the security updates yet. To reset your CD sources again. Delete all the existing CD sources. Put CD1 in the drive and in a root terminal enter urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom I'm going to do that tomorrow. To get around the problem I disabled all my source cds in the Software Sources Manager. The install went w/o a hitch. If you have broadband you might like to delete all the CDs and just declare a 'main' source using the link above. That way you will never be prompted for a CD at all, and all installs will be over the net. I just may keep them disabled.. Thanks, Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Still Hangs
I would first look at /var/log/messages You might see the same messages in there. If you use less /var/log/messages (instead of more) you can hit the end key to get to the end of them. eric On Sunday 22 June 2003 03:31 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: Okay, when my system hangs I am able to press Alt Ctrl F1 to go back to the shell. From here if I push the Windows key on my keyboard I get a screen which seems to be logging current activity (does this make sense). It lists a series of errors. Unfortunately the errors go by so quickly that I am unable to see them. Is it possible to halt this screen, or to print it to a file? This might help me diagnose the problem. It appears that the error is probably the same one over and over. I am thinking that something is not configured correctly and the system is going into an infinite loop of trying and failing to perform some operation. Also, when I am back in the shell I have tried pressing Ctrl C to stop KDE from loading. This gives me a message saying something like Unexpected signal 15. Nothing happens after that unless I press Ctrl C again at which point I am given a prompt again. However, the hard drive still hums as though the system is still hanging. If I then press the Windows key I am again given the error messages rapidly scrolling off the screen. I have tried to do a ps to see the process which is causing the hard drive to continue to work, but I don't see any process running which would account for that. Wade - Original Message - From: Wade Waldron To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: [newbie] System Still Hangs I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solve my login problems. I am booting from a floppy. When I boot, it gives me options of whether to load linux-secure, linux, failsafe, or windows. I have tried selecting both secure and just linux. The system loads and takes me to a text based login. Here I login and I am taken to the shell (Bash). I type KDE to try to boot the windowing system. A blue background comes up with an X shaped cursor. It then comes up with an initialization screen. This last for a few moments. The initialization screen disappears and the blue background remains. The hard drive continues to hum like it is working, but nothing ever happens. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I have considered trying to run Gnome instead, but because I am new to linux I do not know the command to start a Gnome session. Wade Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] slypheed install: where to get it?
I have to apologize: i swear i saved this info, but can''t find it here or in the archves: I remember a little while ago, there was a sylpheed flurry about doing something special to install it (ie not just using the standard mandrake rpm). Am i just smokin it? eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.
Le Lundi 23 Juin 2003 01:56, Ronald J. Hall a écrit : Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address book is okay. So - can someone tell me where kmails' user settings are stored so I can back them up? I looked in /home/darklord/mail and .kde but didn't find anything. Thanks! have a look at the FAQ at the web site of Kmail (try 'Help') Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.
it's buried in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc On Sunday 22 June 2003 04:56 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address book is okay. So - can someone tell me where kmails' user settings are stored so I can back them up? I looked in /home/darklord/mail and .kde but didn't find anything. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin
On Sunday 22 June 2003 07:40 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: 2. I can't even bring up a list of the .wav files on my cd with xmms although .mp3s show up fine after I mount the drive. WAV files play fine with KsCD player though. Any ideas where I need to go from here? Thanks Chris Chris, it should show up in xmmspreferences as Audio CD reader - libcdread.so HTH libcdread.so and libcdread.la are both in the /usr/lib/xmms/Input directory however it just doesn't show up on the list of plugin's. It doesn't take a reboot to get this thing to show up does it? I feel your pain. This is an area that ML is very weak in. I don't know about other distros. Sound in general is very problematic. I am having trouble now with a computer that worked perfectly in all aspects but MP3s and in trying to get that working I now can not play anything on xmms. Not .wav or .ogg nothing. So I do not know what file I failed to include or delete or really wwhere to look now, but I will keep looking. It worked once, it will work again. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again
On 22 Jun 2003 17:54:27 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK John, I copied the new fstab file you provided to the etc directory. On boot up I now get two FAILED lines. The first one reads: Supermount error (device 0/12) supermount_read_sup er:no dev: file system option The second reads: Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or none, or too many mounted file systems However the two drives appear to be working as expected. My CD ROM drive now appears as device scd0 in the hardware list. Mount point: /mnt/cdrom Device: scd0 Type: auto Options: supermount,ro,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,mask=0 My CDRW drive once again appears on my mandrake command center twice, once as /dev/hdb and once as /dev/scd1. For mount point it says /mnt/cdrw. Device is scd1 Type auto Options supermount,ro,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,unmask=0 Again thanks for the unbelievable amount of assistance. Believe me it is truly appreciated!! Since your cd drives are working, I suggest you backup all your data, then upgrade to 9.1 doing a fresh install. Then everything will be fixed (Also, 9.1 automatically sets up SCSI emulation for detected burners). Hope you get it working! John Drouhard -- Sun Jun 22 20:27:56 UTC 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.
On Sunday 22 June 2003 20:56, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address book is okay. So - can someone tell me where kmails' user settings are stored so I can back them up? I looked in /home/darklord/mail and .kde but didn't find anything. Thanks! ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
FemmeFatale wrote: snip Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. so for me: Primary HDD DVD ROM are on IDE1 ( i don't copy back forth tween those... so no need to split them up) Secondary CD R/W HDD are on IDE2 (I DO Copy from HDD 1 (Primary) to my CD Writer...alot. Splitting them up allows faster transfer of data because they are not waiting for one another on teh same IDE Port/bus. This way they can transfer don't need to wait for one another to finish unloading off the same Bus.) snip Something to consider - and I may be wrong (I often am!) but I was having trouble with the transfer speed on my shiny new ata133 hard drive a while back when it was connected as master, and the dvd as slave, on the primary IDE cable. I can't remember exactly where I read it - as it was some time ago - that if you connect two drives to the same cable then both drives will be limited by the transfer capabilities of the slower drive, eg master=udma5 - slave=udma2 then both drives will behave as though they were udma2. When I put my dvd drive as slave to my cdrw drive master on the second ide channel I got an incredible improvement in transfer rates for my hard disk. This may or may not be relevant but I just thought to comment on this for consideration and/or comment from the more learned folks on the list. I like to learn and appreciate info from others. Graham -- Proudly powered by GNU/Linux Mandrake-9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.18 Registered Linux User #309089 Machine #195076 A7N8X XP2700+ 512RAM Gf4Ti4600 80Gb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.
On Sunday 22 June 2003 09:08 pm, eric huff wrote: it's buried in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc Thats it, thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.
On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:58 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail HTH Damian Thanks Damian! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Argh! Apologies... :-(
I think I accidentally sent some attachments to the list again. I'm sorry. (I know, someday I'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes!!!) :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] slypheed installed
Ok, installed. I like the speed, etc, but it seems a little klunky for reading mail. I figured out that hitting enter scrolls the mail down so you can read lower, but if you need to go back up, the only way i can see to do it is to use the mouse. Is this right? Is there any way to make page down, or the arrows keys always work in the mail window w/o first clicking in it? time passes Well, i just went and used it a little more (reprogrammed a couple keys) and i guess if i use right hand for switching mails, and the scroll wheel for up/down in the mail, that works pretty well... Yeah, i think i can get used to this... Thanks for the rpms locations. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 08:00 PM 6/22/2003 -0700, you wrote: Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. THis make more sense? Sorry about last post...it was sorta muddled. - Yeah, thanks. So, this would seem that cd copying would be better done with cdroms on diff busses, too, right? This makes it seem silly that the standard setup is to group hard drives together and cdrs/cdrws together... eric yes it is silly but its b/c that was teh way it was done until P3's came on the scene...till then if you separated them you saturated the busses as i understand it. Now its de riguer to do it this way to avoid that because the bus is so much faster as are the cpu's the cache's are big. Back then a 512 cache on your cdrom was big...and no buffer underrun technology existed..so this also prevented that from happening. ya separate cdroms are good...that way on teh fly read/writing is done more efficiently. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 01:57 PM 6/23/2003 +1000, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: snip Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. so for me: Primary HDD DVD ROM are on IDE1 ( i don't copy back forth tween those... so no need to split them up) Secondary CD R/W HDD are on IDE2 (I DO Copy from HDD 1 (Primary) to my CD Writer...alot. Splitting them up allows faster transfer of data because they are not waiting for one another on teh same IDE Port/bus. This way they can transfer don't need to wait for one another to finish unloading off the same Bus.) snip Something to consider - and I may be wrong (I often am!) but I was having trouble with the transfer speed on my shiny new ata133 hard drive a while back when it was connected as master, and the dvd as slave, on the primary IDE cable. I can't remember exactly where I read it - as it was some time ago - that if you connect two drives to the same cable then both drives will be limited by the transfer capabilities of the slower drive, eg master=udma5 - slave=udma2 then both drives will behave as though they were udma2. When I put my dvd drive as slave to my cdrw drive master on the second ide channel I got an incredible improvement in transfer rates for my hard disk. This may or may not be relevant but I just thought to comment on this for consideration and/or comment from the more learned folks on the list. I like to learn and appreciate info from others. Graham Up to a PIII Processor this is relevant. This is no longer the case with improved drives the technology that goes into them these days. Very few mobos these days will suffer like that anymore. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 16:01, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:44, ed tharp wrote: yep, channel #2 bridge, right near Holiday Isle. Funny it's been literally 20 years since being down that way and I still remember it so clearly. I was recently attempting to describe snorkeling around Turkey Point to some people - strange, that. Got a T-shirt down that way says ..Everyone Needs A Little Nukie (Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install problems
If the master and slave jumpers are set correctly, position on the cable is immaterial. For cable select setting, end connector is master, middle connector is slave. Maxtor drives (and all Dell computers) now come set as cable select by default. Ian On June 21, 2003 11:19 am, Andy Davidson wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:12:22AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: Also, it's correct practice to have master on the cable's end connector, not the middle one. That I didn't know. Why? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD still not working (Mandrake 9.1)
The problem maybe in your DVD drive , the error message complain about DVD encription libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. What is the DVD region code you want to play, for Mplayer I think should play all kind of region with no problem. Check your DVD drive, because if you use it in Windowz , it will lock the region code after 4 times change playing 4 different kind of region code of DVD Movie. Maybe I,m wrong too... CMIIW regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 11:00 pm, Pradeep Sethi wrote: Hi, I am still not able to play DVDs. I can play audio CDs / VCDs in that drive, work fine. but get error, while playing DVD. when I try to play DVD through mplayer GUI, click on open Disc, it shows reading the DVD for 5-6 seconds (light blinking), then gives error 'Can't play /dev/dvd'. Pradep, I've not been following this thread so if I repeat something already asked I apologize. Did you do (as root) a ln -s /dev/devicename /dev/dvd? In my case, since I use SCSI it would be: ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd on an IDE system, it would look something like: ln -s /dev/hdb (or hdc or hdd) /dev/dvd Also, did you add your user to the cdrom or cdwriter group(s)? One more thing, what about permissions? Here I had to do a: chmod a+r /mnt/cdrom chmod a+rx /dev/scd0 (that would be hdb, hdc, or hdd on IDE). when I do ln -l /dev/dvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# ls -l /dev/dvd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Jun 17 07:36 /dev/dvd - ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd I would guess, this config is correct, as I can play audio CDs and VCDs in this drive, works fine. Done : [EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# chmod a+r /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# chmod a+rx /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd Then I try gmplayer, still getting the same error :( Output : - Playing /dev/dvd libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd - pls help. Thanks in Advance Pradeep __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 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] Told ya, don't trust IBM
I very much doubt it http://www.browning.co.uk/ Ian On June 21, 2003 07:14 am, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:22:43 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but I get concerned that any time the government gets involved One of my favourite quotes, I still have no idea where it came from: When I hear the word 'government', I reach for my gun. Herman Goering said When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my Browning. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
On Monday 23 June 2003 12:55 am, FemmeFatale wrote: Up to a PIII Processor this is relevant. This is no longer the case with improved drives the technology that goes into them these days. Very few mobos these days will suffer like that anymore. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Well, I've had odd luck with IDE stuff. I had this first: hda: maxtor 80 gig hdb: zip drive hdc: Plextor CDRW hdd: Toshiba DVD and all I got when I tried to dupe from CD to CD was coasters. last time: hda: maxtor 80 gig hdb: Toshiba DVD hdc: Plextor CDRW hdd: zip drive Even like this I could not dupe from CD to CD without adjusting fifo cache (IIRC) to the maxium recommended amount, and even then, cpu use was about 100 percent, and the mouse was even jerky, but it did work. DMA was turned on on all drives. So I switched back to my former setup, SCSI. With an Adaptec SCSI card and both my DVD and CDRW drives in the SCSI format, I can dupe with ease and cpu usage is very, very, low. Just my mileage :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD still not working (Mandrake 9.1)
On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Output : - Playing /dev/dvd libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd - I use Xine for watching DVDs, but I have been scratching my head about your DVD read troubles. Do you have installed: libdvdcss2? libdvdnav1? libdvdread2? win32-codecs? divx4linux? All of these are necessary depending on the type of DVD it is, and there are likely to be more. This is also a bad time for me, as the house is in boxes as we are moving soon. So I can't find a DVD to play and test mplayer on my machine. Your problem is now cleary the library or driver needed to read the DVD you want. If you can tell us more about it, maybe we can help more. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slypheed installed
Not a big deal, but i found that when i haven't configured the receiving pop3 settings properly, claws crashes. Oddly, it crashed on one of my account and not the other (both had the wrong user name typed in. This mostly just means i should go to bed before i goof and do something worse...) eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
