[newbie-it] Variabili d'ambiente
Ciao a tutti, una domanda veloce veloce e facile facile, Dove e come si settano delle varibili di sistema (devo imostarne una con il nome di una directory) in linux? Grazie e buona settimana a tutti Enrico --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003
[newbie-it] cancellazione ML
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Re: [newbie-it] Utilizzo della RAM
Alle 16:16, sabato 21 giugno 2003, 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. . 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%. il fatto è che Linux usa la RAM libera come cache, quindi tutti i processi che hai avviato e chiuso restano in ram finché non c'è bisogno di liberare lo spazio che occupano. Ovviamente, non essendo più attivi, non sono rilevati da top o ps. Però, se ne hai di nuovo bisogno, sono già in RAM e non devi ricaricarli. Fai la prova con un processo grosso, che ci mette una vita a spostarsi da HD a RAM: openoffice. Lo apri (spostando 20MB da hd a ram), lo chiudi e dopo un po' lo riapri. La seconda volta dovrebbe essere molto più rapido. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Word processor
Alle 22:16, domenica 22 giugno 2003, Junkie ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, nessuno conosce un Word processor japponese che giri su linux e che abbia i supporti hiragana/katakana/kanji e dizionario(come ad esempio l'NJ star per windows)? Mi rendo conto che come domanda è un po'astrusa, in ogni caso ringrazio chiunque sapesse dirmi qualcosa al riguardo :) Credo che quasi tutti i wp (OpenOffice, StarOffice, abiword, maxwell, kwrite, SIAG, ...) abbiano le localizzazioni giapponesi. Altrimenti, prova con Hangcom (http://en.hancom.com/index.html) che nasce in estremo oriente e quindi ... ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Variabili d'ambiente
Alle 08:48, luned 23 giugno 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, una domanda veloce veloce e facile facile, Dove e come si settano delle varibili di sistema (devo imostarne una con il nome di una directory) in linux? come: set VARIABILE=valore-variabile export VARIABILE oppure export VARIABILE=valore-variabile dove: - direttamente da bash, ma muoiono quando chiudi la shell - in $HOME/.bash_profile per il singolo utente - in /etc/profile per tutti gli utenti Vedi man bash o man tcsh (a seconda della shell che usi) per ulteriori dettagli. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] cancellazione ML
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Re: [newbie-it] Ma perche' la domenica mi fanno inca22are?
* Arwan wrote: E no, non ci siamo. L'altro mezzo pomeriggio m'e' partito con send-hook Aggiungi nella parte iniziale del tuo .muttrc (comunque prima dei vari hook da te specificati) set default_hook = ~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s) Non so se questa stringa puo' risolvere i tuoi problemi.. prova. Prova anche le indicazioni che Giuseppe ti ha dato sulla sintassi da dare agli hook. A scanso di equivoci.. ogni volta che fai una modifica a .muttrc devi chiudere e riaprire mutt affinche' possa essere rilevata. OK per il resto. Che culo ;) -- syd - LU 285930 * LM 167646 -
Re: [newbie-it] cancellazione ML
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:23:06 +0200 (ora legale Europa occ.), francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vorrei cancellarmi dalla ML. Grazie Per cancellarti dalla ML devi andare a questa pagina: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/it/flists.php3 Liste di supporto, inserire l'email con cui ti sei iscritto alla ML, selezionare la lingua della ML (italiano), categoria utenti: principianti, selezionare annulla iscrizione e infine cliccare su submit. Ciao ^_^ -- Artasersec Se vi ritrovate con un cadavere tra le braccia, mettiamo vostro marito che giace al primo piano, e non sapete proprio come uscirvene, la prima cosa da fare prepararvi una tazza di t ben forte. Anthony Burgess, One hand clapping
Re:[newbie-it] redirezionamento output
Ciao a tutti volevo sapere se fosse possibile il redirezionamento di tutto l'output di un programma verso un file di testo. Mi spiego meglio: se da console lancio un programma con la sintassi nomeprog log.txt, nel file log.txt non mette tutto il testo ottenuto in output, infatti soprattutto i messaggi di errore vengono visualizzati solo in console. Se qualcuno ha qualche idea... nomeprog log.txt 21 In questa maniera sia lo standard output che lo standard error vengono scirtti sul file log.txt Saluti Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.libero.it/mlodirizzini http://space.virgilio.it/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_...Membro.del.FoLUG //\...Forlì.Linux.Users.Group V_/_...http://folug.linux.it Linux.Mandrake.9.0.su.Celeron.733
[newbie-it] redirezionamento output
Ciao a tutti volevo sapere se fosse possibile il redirezionamento di tutto l'output di un programma verso un file di testo. Mi spiego meglio: se da console lancio un programma con la sintassi nomeprog log.txt, nel file log.txt non mette tutto il testo ottenuto in output, infatti soprattutto i messaggi di errore vengono visualizzati solo in console. Se qualcuno ha qualche idea...
Re: [newbie-it] cancellazione ML
On Monday 23 June 2003 10:23, francesco wrote: Vorrei cancellarmi dalla ML. non ti preoccupare...gia glielo dico io,tanto sono amici miei :) Grazie http://www.mandrakelinux.com/it/flists.php3 -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Amo' me pare de senti' come un eco. Chiudi la bocca! Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
Re: [newbie-it] Variabili d'ambiente
On Monday 23 June 2003 08:48, Enrico Piccinini wrote: Ciao a tutti, una domanda veloce veloce e facile facile, Dove e come si settano delle varibili di sistema (devo imostarne una con il nome di una directory) in linux? Grazie e buona settimana a tutti Enrico in /etc/profile per tutti gli utenti in /home/tuo_utente/.bash_profile per il singolo utente (se non c' il file crealo tu) per maggiori info: http://a2.swlibero.org/a286.html#title930 -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Dio e' un gas. (Dalla Majalista) Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
Re: [newbie-it] 2 harddisk 2 linux 2 orari
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 13:12, sabato 21 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] 2 harddisk 2 linux 2 orari, Mirko ha scritto: come si può sincronizzare l'orario? lancia nelle due distribuzioni date -u, così vedi la data in formato Greenwich Mean Time (dovrebbe essere uguale) quindi date per vedere la zona oraria se le zone sono diverse devi accordarle ciao a tutti mirko - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.21 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+91nCF/9fksDJ4y0RApiiAJ45aRVQNtH1vXLA8NrcLQKLmI5wUgCgm0W0 CFPFdoHEAsZwYCq2WxphNyI= =EaA1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] testing
ignore me :o/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 2:53 am, Chris wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:31 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: 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. : ) Yea and whats really a pain is that I had the plugin installed before my other drive crashed and it worked. The only thing I can figure is that maybe its because I installed a 'cooker' plugin and its incompatable with the version of XMMS I have, but I don't see why that won't let it show up on the list. Oh well, guess it KsCD for .wav's and XMMS for MP3's Then why not install the version of CDread on your CDs? urpme xmms-cdread to get rid of the Cooker version urpmi xmms-cdread to install the one on your CD rpmfind.net is not going to find anything not available to urpmi except Cooker. As for seeing your playlist :- To start playing a CD with xmms select PlayDirectory and select /mnt/cdrom Then you can press the 'PL' button on the xmms GUI to see the playlist. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin
If I can correct myself - xmms-cdread is not on your CDs it is on the mirrors in Contrib. I believe I may have mentioned once or twice on this list how to set up a Contrib urpmi source :-) derek On Monday 23 Jun 2003 7:27 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 2:53 am, Chris wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:31 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: 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. : ) Yea and whats really a pain is that I had the plugin installed before my other drive crashed and it worked. The only thing I can figure is that maybe its because I installed a 'cooker' plugin and its incompatable with the version of XMMS I have, but I don't see why that won't let it show up on the list. Oh well, guess it KsCD for .wav's and XMMS for MP3's Then why not install the version of CDread on your CDs? urpme xmms-cdread to get rid of the Cooker version urpmi xmms-cdread to install the one on your CD rpmfind.net is not going to find anything not available to urpmi except Cooker. As for seeing your playlist :- To start playing a CD with xmms select PlayDirectory and select /mnt/cdrom Then you can press the 'PL' button on the xmms GUI to see the playlist. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] my computer loves Mandrake, doesn't like WinXP and really hates Slackware
Hello :) Some time ago I passed to Slackware, which on my old computer used to work perfectly (the version is 9). Then one week ago I changed computer and something strange happened: when I try to install Slack I get error messages saying that LILO cannot install itself on the MBR or on the root partition (I tried both). Mandrake is able to install LILO without any problem, while WinXP can write on the MBR only if I install it on a NTFS partition (trying on a fat32 I just got strange symbols everytime I tried to reboot) The filesystem I use is Reiser FS which is the same that used to perfectly work on the old computer. I tried also Ext3 and Ext2 and nothing changed. The Hard disk is a normal Ultra ATA, nothing uncommon... so does anybody know what may the problem be? Thanks for the help, Giuseppe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alsa tools RPM for Mdk 9.1
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 09:39, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 01:12, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 3:38 pm, Brian Parish wrote: 9.1 includes alsa, but not the tools. Does anyone know of a compatible rpm for this? The source tarball from the alsa site complains about wrong versions - the usual issues. I've fought the alsa battle too many times in the past - don't want to do it no more. TIA Brian Do you mean alsa-utils? It is in the distro Nope. Utils are OK. There's another set called tools which includes stuff like the multi-channel mixer for the envy24 chipset. Required for full use of the features of some professional cards. A friend tells me that the packages within alsa tools have been individually packaged as rpms. This makes sense as you really only need the mixer app specific to your card. The one I need is envy24control, or maybe just envy24. Haven't found it yet, but I'll have a search for it tomorrow. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
06/23/03 Hello All, from The Other Last week was very frustrating. The slave Maxtor drive went back to PC Peripherals (this was an OEM drive), so I decided to continue the dual-boot Win95B and Mandrake 9.1 system on the remaining master Western Digital drive. Total disaster. Linux wouldn't install from the Boxed CDs. Bash, kernel, and up to 30 different packages wouldn't install. Never would boot up. I think the problem was I had HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability turned on in my BIOS. The Maxtor was a 30GB drive made this year. The Western Digital drive was probably made in 1998 when I did the last hardware upgrades. I don't think the Western Digital drive is HDD S.M.A.R.T Capable. Eventually (after 5 days I finally went back to Ontrack's Disk Manager and MS-Dos 5.0 to get the Western Digital to format in FAT16) I was able to install Win95B and Windows NT 4.0. I then reformatted and got NT 4.0 running and am using it now. My guess is that Win95B and NT 4.0 have never heard about HDD S.M.A.R.T Capability, and didn't try to write to the Western Digital using it. Whereas Mandrake 9.1 is new and sophisticated enough to know about HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability and was using it to write to a drive that didn't support it. Hence all the problems with Linux files on the Western Digital. Anyone know different? The Other (Who now has to learn the Windows Messaging system to communicate with you. Your sympathies please. On a brighter note, NT 4.0 does recognize the SB Live! Value card in all its capabilities. Now I can use my Roland MIDI modules without going through the Winman 4x4/s card, for which I never found Linux drivers.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing
did you say something? 8-{ - Original Message - From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:09 AM Subject: [newbie] testing ignore me :o/ -- -- 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] Another Help site
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:18 am, Aron Smith wrote: Hey Gang Don't Know if you know this link it's interesting http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/howtos.html#network mandrake.tips.4.free.fr is among the many useful sites you will find at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeReferences Anne 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 19 Jun 2003 20:44:41 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Ok, Femme, Mr. Ron (I don't live in a trailer up a holler) Hall, and all the other gamerz; THIS IS BLOODY BRILLIANT. http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/enemyterritory/guide.shtml been getting into it much online? -- + 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] Told ya, don't trust IBM
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 06:25, Ian Trickett wrote: I very much doubt it http://www.browning.co.uk/ Ian Herman Goering said When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my Browning. Richard __ Me, too. Schmeissner ? or would that be an anachronism? DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] changing GNOME themes
Anyone had success changing downloading and installing new themes in GNOME (Metacity themes that is) in Mandrake 9.1? I've spent an hour or so on it and can't seem to get it to work using the Theme configurator... TIA -Russ- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
06/23/03 Hello All, from The Other Last week was very frustrating. The slave Maxtor drive went back to PC Peripherals (this was an OEM drive), so I decided to continue the dual-boot Win95B and Mandrake 9.1 system on the remaining master Western Digital drive. Total disaster. Linux wouldn't install from the Boxed CDs. Bash, kernel, and up to 30 different packages wouldn't install. Never would boot up. I think the problem was I had HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability turned on in my BIOS. The Maxtor was a 30GB drive made this year. The Western Digital drive was probably made in 1998 when I did the last hardware upgrades. I don't think the Western Digital drive is HDD S.M.A.R.T Capable. Eventually (after 5 days I finally went back to Ontrack's Disk Manager and MS-Dos 5.0 to get the Western Digital to format in FAT16) I was able to install Win95B and Windows NT 4.0. I then reformatted and got NT 4.0 running and am using it now. My guess is that Win95B and NT 4.0 have never heard about HDD S.M.A.R.T Capability, and didn't try to write to the Western Digital using it. Whereas Mandrake 9.1 is new and sophisticated enough to know about HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability and was using it to write to a drive that didn't support it. Hence all the problems with Linux files on the Western Digital. Anyone know different? The Other (Who now has to learn the Windows Messaging system to communicate with you. Your sympathies please. On a brighter note, NT 4.0 does recognize the SB Live! Value card in all its capabilities. Now I can use my Roland MIDI modules without going through the Winman 4x4/s card, for which I never found Linux drivers.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is certainly going to complicate trouble shooting a standalone home PC. -- cmg So a useful tool for your box would be a usb superfloppy. I think they are still available? Most modern bioses will boot from LS120 and zip, I think Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] my computer loves Mandrake, doesn't like WinXP andreally hates Slackware
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:57, Beppe wrote: Hello :) Some time ago I passed to Slackware, which on my old computer used to work perfectly (the version is 9). Then one week ago I changed computer and something strange happened: when I try to install Slack I get error messages saying that LILO cannot install itself on the MBR or on the root partition (I tried both). Mandrake is able to install LILO without any problem, while WinXP can write on the MBR only if I install it on a NTFS partition (trying on a fat32 I just got strange symbols everytime I tried to reboot) The filesystem I use is Reiser FS which is the same that used to perfectly work on the old computer. I tried also Ext3 and Ext2 and nothing changed. The Hard disk is a normal Ultra ATA, nothing uncommon... so does anybody know what may the problem be? Thanks for the help, Giuseppe I think your computer is smart. It KNOWS what it wants to run, ya? -- Mon Jun 23 20:20:01 EST 2003 20:20:01 up 2 days, 5:30, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.18, 0.10 - |____ |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 * Women who want to be equal to men lack imagination. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again
On 23 Jun 2003 10:39:36 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello yet again John. This morning when I booted I discovered that I no longer have access to my CDRW drive!! I still get the two FAILED entries on boot up but now they both end with mount 0 does not exist. I checked my /dev directory and found no listing for either /hdb or/scd1. However in my /mnt directory I find cdrw, cdrom, scd1, and scd0. That is beyond me. Since I have 2 CD's which are both scsi emulated and working properly, Here is your fstab with MY fstab's two cdrom entries. Try this fstab, if that still doesn't work, delete the supermount word from both lines and try again. If you do delete the supoermount word from fstab, you have to type mount -a as root to get them to mount (There will be an error if you don't have a cd in both drives. You DON'T need to mount a blank cdr for burning. Anyway, here it is: /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,--,unhide,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,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 I suggest that when it is working properly, immediately back up your stuff before you shut your computer down. Then, you can do a full install of Mandrake 9.1. John Drouhard -- Mon Jun 23 10:53:45 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] SCSI Em- Again
Hello yet again John. This morning when I booted I discovered that I no longer have access to my CDRW drive!! I still get the two FAILED entries on boot up but now they both end with mount 0 does not exist. I checked my /dev directory and found no listing for either /hdb or/scd1. However in my /mnt directory I find cdrw, cdrom, scd1, and scd0. Here'a my lilo.conf as it currently appears. 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 and my 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 I still do not understand why my CDRW is there once or twice then disappears. Yesterday I did a cold boot to make sure the CDRW was still there and it was!! Then I logged off and shut down my computer for the night. When I booted this morning my CDRW was inaccessible and has disappeared from my Mandrake control center hardware list. Can anybody tell me precisely why this keeps happening? And how I can prevent it in the future?!?! LTR }}:{( On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 15:31, John Drouhard wrote: 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 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 Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:05, Aron Smith wrote: 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) Somewhere, buried amongst my crap somewhere, is a Conch Republic t-shirt...now, if anyone has any questions concerning my originality as a yank, that's one way to verify I've been there done that... Just wish I could find it...(it's varnish/teak oil stained, heaps of burn holes and the likes). -- Mon Jun 23 20:20:01 EST 2003 20:20:01 up 2 days, 5:30, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.18, 0.10 - |____ |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 * Women who want to be equal to men lack imagination. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to 768MB), i decided it was time to install the ram and the hard drive. opened up the computer to check where everything was on the ribbons and see where i'm going to plug in the hard drive. the current hard drive and CDRW are on the same ribbon (havn't checked to see which is slave and which is master yet). from the posts others have left about data transferring from one drive to the next and bottlenecking, i figure the best way to set this up is to put the new hard drive as a slave to the floppy drive. well, the connector on the ribbon for the floppy drive isn't the right size for the new hard drive, and the ribbon the CDRW and other hard drive are on only has 2 connections. so i have to go out and buy a new ribbon. figures! my only other possibility is to use the 3rd IDE connection on the motherboard, BUT, the motherboard wasn't new when i got it. bought it from a friend who assembled the computer for me. he tried to put the floppy, hard drive, and cdrw drive each on their own ribbon, but said the 3rd ribbon port on the motherboard wouldn't work. he couldn't figure out why. i can try to use it, but he took his time putting the computer together and couldn't get it to work no matter what he tried. i'll have to wait 3 more weeks til he gets back from his honeymoon to get into detail with him on everything he tried. i've decided the best way to set everything up is to leave linux where it is on the 20GB drive. the drive was partitioned for me into 5 and 15gb sections. i partitioned out 5gb for mandrake 9.1, there's still 10GB left on that partition. when i put the 100gb drive in, i'm going to leave it all open for sharing between win and linux, and i'm still able to expand to give linux 15GB to run on the other drive, and in the future if for some reason i was doing things exclusively in linux that i needed to keep separate from windows (video editing most likely) i can partition off more spaec on the 100gb drive for that. any comments? guess it's a good thing i started this thread, as there've been multiple questions asked on the same subject. thanks for all the input from everyone so far! 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 Mon, 2003-06-23 at 08:05, Aron Smith wrote: 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) I used to do all of Turkey Point's Forklift repair, when I worked for Caterpillar, until (after they had shut down the reactor due to a radioactive steam leak that went on for 8 month inside the containment building) they brought a truck out to me, and after I watched the contract guards sweep it with a Gieger counter, and then resweep the forks area. when they brought it to where I was, they said it's clean, but try and stay away from the forks. I had already decided that the type of person working in the nuclear power industry was the kind of person much more worried about covering their butt than getting the job done right, so I decided right then that they could bring that forklift up to the shop in Miami before _I_ worked on it. WHen my Supervisor told me I _HAD_ to do turkey point's work, I quit working for the Caterpillar Dealer (well, gave 2 weeks notice) ET __ 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] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 06:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:05, Aron Smith wrote: 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) Somewhere, buried amongst my crap somewhere, is a Conch Republic t-shirt...now, if anyone has any questions concerning my originality as a yank, that's one way to verify I've been there done that... Just wish I could find it...(it's varnish/teak oil stained, heaps of burn holes and the likes). sounds like the one on the floor in my room,,, sorry,,,I used it to wipe up a gas spill last weekend. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
On Sunday June 22 2003 09:19 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. They're still all on one bus no matter how many ide connections you have, the one and only PCI bus. Generally the only 'rule' is to not to put a CD drive (or CD-RW), on the same cable as a HDD. So if you have 2 HDD's, and one or more CD drives, the HDD's go on ide0, and the CD drive(s) on ide1. Some report adding another controller (not onboard), and separating all the drives, one to a ide channel, improves performance. Still, they're all on the one PCI bus. The PCI bus is ancient in computer terms, over 10 years since it replaced the VL-bus. There's improvement on the horizon. Several competing scenarios, but the one that seems to be gaining the most favor is PCI-X, or sometimes called PCI Express. Still the gain is only from PCI's theoretical 133mb/sec, to 200mb/sec. Real world sustained transfers are at best half the theoretical rate, usually much less than half. The PCI bus has other duties besides handling all ide connections. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This ROCKS
El sáb, 21-06-2003 a las 10:09, Derek Jennings escribió: Question for you Warren Why choose LEAF Dachstein as opposed to LEAF Bering ? Simply because Dachstein was the first I looked at, I liked it, and jumped right in. I have since heard good things about Bering so I can't recommend one over the other. -- Warren Post Your opinion counts! Direct your complaints to /dev/null today. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] my computer loves Mandrake, doesn't like WinXP and really hates Slackware
Alle 12:20, lunedì 23 giugno 2003, Stephen Kuhn ha scritto: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:57, Beppe wrote: Hello :) Some time ago I passed to Slackware, which on my old computer used to work perfectly (the version is 9). Then one week ago I changed computer and something strange happened: when I try to install Slack I get error messages saying that LILO cannot install itself on the MBR or on the root partition (I tried both). Mandrake is able to install LILO without any problem, while WinXP can write on the MBR only if I install it on a NTFS partition (trying on a fat32 I just got strange symbols everytime I tried to reboot) The filesystem I use is Reiser FS which is the same that used to perfectly work on the old computer. I tried also Ext3 and Ext2 and nothing changed. The Hard disk is a normal Ultra ATA, nothing uncommon... so does anybody know what may the problem be? Thanks for the help, Giuseppe I think your computer is smart. It KNOWS what it wants to run, ya? I can understand he does not like XP but what about poor slackware? :) It's not such a bad distro after all (even if packages are managed in such a way that calling awful would still be a compliment) Giuseppe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slypheed installed
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:36:36PM -0700, eric huff wrote: 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? The space bar will page down in the message view. If you reach the end of the message and hit space again, it goes to the next message. IIRC that is the next message whether it's read or unread--to get to the next unread you can do shift + n. To page back up in a message, use the backspace key. I always want to use page up and down keys for that, it just take a little while to get used to. But it's pretty common if you're familiar with mutt and slrn. Also, I think you can easily customize your keybindings a la rox: mouse over the menu entry and hit keys on keyboard. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to config the lilo?
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:56:28 +0800 Xuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system is mdk 9.1. Today my friend brought his harddisk here , with a winxp in it. After it connected , the xp system is in /dev/hdd2 . Now I think maybe I can modify my lilo.conf so I can start xp from the lilo menu? What should I do? Thanks in advance. :) Add these lines to lilo.conf: other=/dev/hdd2 label=windows table=/dev/hdd unsafe HTH, John Drouhard -- Mon Jun 23 11:17:55 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?
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:27 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to 768MB), i decided it was time to install the ram and the hard drive. opened up the computer to check where everything was on the ribbons and see where i'm going to plug in the hard drive. the current hard drive and CDRW are on the same ribbon (havn't checked to see which is slave and which is master yet). from the posts others have left about data transferring from one drive to the next and bottlenecking, i figure the best way to set this up is to put the new hard drive as a slave to the floppy drive. well, the connector on the ribbon for the floppy drive isn't the right size for the new hard drive, and the ribbon the CDRW and other hard drive are on only has 2 connections. so i have to go out and buy a new ribbon. figures! Hold it - you can't put a hdd on a floppy connector - that's why the cable is a different size - it has fewer wires. my only other possibility is to use the 3rd IDE connection on the motherboard, BUT, the motherboard wasn't new when i got it. bought it from a friend who assembled the computer for me. he tried to put the floppy, hard drive, and cdrw drive each on their own ribbon, but said the 3rd ribbon port on the motherboard wouldn't work. he couldn't figure out why. i can try to use it, but he took his time putting the computer together and couldn't get it to work no matter what he tried. i'll have to wait 3 more weeks til he gets back from his honeymoon to get into detail with him on everything he tried. You could try the other connector again - Make sure that you have the jumper set to 'master' and the bios set to auto-detect for each drive. Check whether the bios is seeing the drive. Another ribbon will not help you - 2 devices per ribbon is your max. What might help is an add-on pci card that will give you additional drive connectors. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to config the lilo?
My system is mdk 9.1. Today my friend brought his harddisk here , with a winxp in it. After it connected , the xp system is in /dev/hdd2 . Now I think maybe I can modify my lilo.conf so I can start xp from the lilo menu? What should I do? Thanks in advance. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag
Actually, SCO just wants to jack up it's stock price and/or get bought out. They've succeede (temporarally) on the first part, I don't think the second is going to happen anytime soon. I think I am going to file a suit against SCO for infringing my IP on a device called a 'Wheel' which is used by SCO in the distribution of their products, and a process called 'breathing' in which oxygen is introduced into the body and carbon dioxide is released. Hell, I bet that Mr. McBride breathes and even has a few wheels on his desk chair! I bet he's been breathing for his entire life but I have yet to receive a single royalty check! (This makes only slightly less sense than claiming Linux is infringing on SCOs IP for SMP, JFS, and NUMA...) -Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:54:39 -0400 Subject: 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] Boot error message
On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is certainly going to complicate trouble shooting a standalone home PC. -- cmg So a useful tool for your box would be a usb superfloppy. I think they are still available? Most modern bioses will boot from LS120 and zip, I think Anne Anne: Good point, and something that the laptop folks have learned to do. However, I still like the idea of a $10 floppy drive and a small stack of disks with various recovery tools on them. Floppies may be slow, and their limited capacity is a real pain, but they are simple, robust and nearly universal -- at least in the home/SOHO desktop realm. Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that they want to help Grampa. Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and #1 Son. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is certainly going to complicate trouble shooting a standalone home PC. -- cmg So a useful tool for your box would be a usb superfloppy. I think they are still available? Most modern bioses will boot from LS120 and zip, I think Anne Anne: Good point, and something that the laptop folks have learned to do. However, I still like the idea of a $10 floppy drive and a small stack of disks with various recovery tools on them. Floppies may be slow, and their limited capacity is a real pain, but they are simple, robust and nearly universal -- at least in the home/SOHO desktop realm. Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that they want to help Grampa. Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and #1 Son. -- cmg Know the feeling g I know they're not fashionable, but I wouldn't be without my LS120. It reads standard floppies as well as the 120MB disks, so it would still do what you want. Oops - I sound as though I work for Imation g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] webmin
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:30 pm, Warren Post wrote: El sáb, 21-06-2003 a las 10:54, Tsyko escribió: How do I launch webmin?? Launch your favorite web browser and enter the URL: https://localhost:1/ I can never remember this, so I have it bookmarked. the 's' in https is important - it's a secure connection Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] UDF formatting?
Hi everyone, I am trying to format a CDRW to UDF. I installed the UDFtools, and run [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]# mkudffs /dev/scd0 Which tells me: trying to change type of multiple extents What does this mean? I have commented out the CDRW device from /etc/fstab but that does not help... Paul -- Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:56, Björn Olsson wrote: Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter as quoted printable because of that letter. Does it matter? Should I spell my name Bjoern? Björn No Problem. You are known as Björn, dear Bjoern. ;-) Paul -- Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 01:46 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: snip Just my mileage :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ you just like bucking the system! :D glad it works for ya though. - 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] Alsa tools RPM for Mdk 9.1
At 12:56 AM 6/21/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 09:39, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 01:12, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 3:38 pm, Brian Parish wrote: 9.1 includes alsa, but not the tools. Does anyone know of a compatible rpm for this? The source tarball from the alsa site complains about wrong versions - the usual issues. I've fought the alsa battle too many times in the past - don't want to do it no more. TIA Brian Do you mean alsa-utils? It is in the distro Nope. Utils are OK. There's another set called tools which includes stuff like the multi-channel mixer for the envy24 chipset. Required for full use of the features of some professional cards. A friend tells me that the packages within alsa tools have been individually packaged as rpms. This makes sense as you really only need the mixer app specific to your card. The one I need is envy24control, or maybe just envy24. Haven't found it yet, but I'll have a search for it tomorrow. cheers Brian 5 mins on google: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/Sound.html how to google for this: http://www.google.com/linux?hl=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=%22Envy24%22btnG=Google+Search - 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
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:56, Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:50:23 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snips yanks Bjorn outta his closet! NO CLOSSETING ALLOWED! Once you're OUT you're OUT! snip 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 snip But I LIKE my closet! sulking But you're right, It's probably more rewarding to participate in the discussion than to quietly wait for the interesting bits to trickle in. My main problem is that it's a pain in the a** to use this queer language :) Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter as quoted printable because of that letter. Does it matter? Should I spell my name Bjoern? Also, thanks a lot for the tip on ET. I'll have a look into it. -- Björn Looks good here in evolution, Bear. That's one of the few words of baby-talk Swedish my grandparents taught me that I can remember from 50 years ago. This queer language is really a pidgin: Germanic structure and vocabulary with Frenchified fancy words. Nobody could agree on grammar or what gender nouns should have, so we just gave all that up. Must be hard to learn -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing
At 03:09 AM 6/23/2003 -0300, you wrote: ignore me :o/ aw must we!? But you're so cute! - 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] sensors
I have lm_sensors-2.7.0-2mdk installed Every time I shut down I get error message, /etc/rc0.d/k971_ ?line 73 error, too few arguments. here is the section. modules=`grep \^MODULE_ $CONFIG | wc -l` i=`expr$Pmodules` while [ $i -ge 0 ] ; doline 73 module=`eval echo '$'MODULE_$i` /sbin/modprobe -r $module /dev/null i=`expr $i - 1` done Can anyone help here ? I cannot understand it let alone do something with it John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slypheed installed
The space bar will page down in the message view. If you reach the end of the message and hit space again, it goes to the next message. IIRC that is the next message whether it's read or unread--to get to the next unread you can do shift + n. On mine, it goes to the next unread message.. To page back up in a message, use the backspace key. Ok, that's cool. I even read the docs for the area of reading mail, but didn't see that. Porbably just missed it. Also, I think you can easily customize your keybindings a la rox: mouse over the menu entry and hit keys on keyboard. Yeah, that is cool. It works mostly, but sometimes instead of setting the value of the item, it just runs the item. But the menu rc file is easy enough to edit... The backspace key is the big gem, though. :) I'll try that when i get home. Thanks for the help, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: snips a rattlesnakes rattler! OHH! Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that they want to help Grampa. Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and #1 Son. -- cmg Know the feeling g I know they're not fashionable, but I wouldn't be without my LS120. It reads standard floppies as well as the 120MB disks, so it would still do what you want. Oops - I sound as though I work for Imation g Anne Wake up OLD PEOPLE! Its called DISK ON KEY! HELLO?! USB keys? you know?? recognized as a floppy device by bioses now? ;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] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
At 07:49 AM 6/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: SNIPs some hummingbirds ... you finish the thought... My guess is that Win95B and NT 4.0 have never heard about HDD S.M.A.R.T Capability, and didn't try to write to the Western Digital using it. Whereas Mandrake 9.1 is new and sophisticated enough to know about HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability and was using it to write to a drive that didn't support it. Hence all the problems with Linux files on the Western Digital. Anyone know different? The Other I know nothing about MIDI So i won't address that. But your presumption is correct about the HDD. - 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 08:56 PM 6/23/2003 +, you wrote: snip But I LIKE my closet! sulking But you're right, It's probably more rewarding to participate in the discussion than to quietly wait for the interesting bits to trickle in. My main problem is that it's a pain in the a** to use this queer language :) Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter as quoted printable because of that letter. Does it matter? Should I spell my name Bjoern? Also, thanks a lot for the tip on ET. I'll have a look into it. -- Björn Shows up as an o with a line over it for me... but i'm in XP. - 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?
Title: RE: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how? Sorry if this shows up as HTML. But have to ask if you have checked the bios and made sure that ide2 is active. One or the other of the ide connections can be turned off in bios. The ide buss is what your hard drive ribbons connect to on the motherboard. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how? On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:27 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to 768MB), i decided it was time to install the ram and the hard drive. opened up the computer to check where everything was on the ribbons and see where i'm going to plug in the hard drive. the current hard drive and CDRW are on the same ribbon (havn't checked to see which is slave and which is master yet). from the posts others have left about data transferring from one drive to the next and bottlenecking, i figure the best way to set this up is to put the new hard drive as a slave to the floppy drive. well, the connector on the ribbon for the floppy drive isn't the right size for the new hard drive, and the ribbon the CDRW and other hard drive are on only has 2 connections. so i have to go out and buy a new ribbon. figures! Hold it - you can't put a hdd on a floppy connector - that's why the cable is a different size - it has fewer wires. my only other possibility is to use the 3rd IDE connection on the motherboard, BUT, the motherboard wasn't new when i got it. bought it from a friend who assembled the computer for me. he tried to put the floppy, hard drive, and cdrw drive each on their own ribbon, but said the 3rd ribbon port on the motherboard wouldn't work. he couldn't figure out why. i can try to use it, but he took his time putting the computer together and couldn't get it to work no matter what he tried. i'll have to wait 3 more weeks til he gets back from his honeymoon to get into detail with him on everything he tried. You could try the other connector again - Make sure that you have the jumper set to 'master' and the bios set to auto-detect for each drive. Check whether the bios is seeing the drive. Another ribbon will not help you - 2 devices per ribbon is your max. What might help is an add-on pci card that will give you additional drive connectors. Anne
Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]
At 11:44 AM 6/23/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello Technoslick, SNIPs some puppy dog tails I've been snooping, as time permits. There are SI firewalls available, but I have yet to find an app-aware linux fw. It seems as though the fw's are based on iptables (a kernel function, as I understand it), and iptables does not include the capability of being app-aware. If this is not correct, or if any of you experts have a better picture of this, please let me know. Still learnin... -- Thank you, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK there are no SI FW's available for doing app aware targeting... a proxy MAY be able to be configured to do so...but it is beyond my humble knowledge as to how this would be accomplished. - 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] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
At 02:19 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 08:34 am, sstubbs wrote: Anyone know different? Don't know if it has anything to do with your problems at all, but Civileme used to say to avoid WD drives like the plague... claimed they did not do CRC stuff right, especially at higher DMA/UDMA levels :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Someone on the OT list was saying that isn't the case anymore... SOmeone care to post a URL to dis/prove this? I have a WD here in my comp now... it was cheap, i'm poor... i'm using the maxtor for linux though. I may experiment after all... on a side note, one partition got toasted by windows jsut this last week... don't know why. Guess which drive it was on? - 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
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 8:28 pm, N. B. Day wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:56, Björn Olsson wrote: Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter as quoted printable because of that letter. Does it matter? Should I spell my name Bjoern? Looks good here in evolution, Bear. No problem here in kmail with English GB set. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sensors
On Monday June 23 2003 02:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have lm_sensors-2.7.0-2mdk installed Every time I shut down I get error message, /etc/rc0.d/k971_ ?line 73 error, too few arguments. here is the section. modules=`grep \^MODULE_ $CONFIG | wc -l` i=`expr$Pmodules` while [ $i -ge 0 ] ; doline 73 module=`eval echo '$'MODULE_$i` /sbin/modprobe -r $module /dev/null i=`expr $i - 1` done Can anyone help here ? I cannot understand it let alone do something with it John It's NBFD, just ignore it. Or you can search the cooker archive an find out which char (typo) to remove from line 73 to quiet the error mesg. I don't bother, I just ignore it. BTW, it's an lm-sensors bug, not Mandrake's. I believe, IIRC, it as simple as removing the 'P' in i=`expr$Pmodules` an maybe add'n a space, ie, i=`expr $modules` -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mplayer
Hello All, I tried to install Mplayer from the mplayer website,but ended up going round in circles(using the RPM's for Redhat),i.e. one would not install without the other,but could not install the other one first. Went to the Mandrake site the only RPM's where on the club site,which I can not afford to join at this moment in time.I don't want to try using Tarball's quite yet,because my base Linux skills are not that good yet. Can any one help me to find a version of Mplayer that will work with MDK 9.1,but does not take loads of knowledge to install. Cheers, Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
DrewMartin wrote: Hello All, I tried to install Mplayer from the mplayer website,but ended up going round in circles(using the RPM's for Redhat),i.e. one would not install without the other,but could not install the other one first. Went to the Mandrake site the only RPM's where on the club site,which I can not afford to join at this moment in time.I don't want to try using Tarball's quite yet,because my base Linux skills are not that good yet. Can any one help me to find a version of Mplayer that will work with MDK 9.1,but does not take loads of knowledge to install. You oculd try the alternative RPM sites like Texstar. However, if you have circular dependency problems, one thing that might work is to put all the RPMs in a directory, cd to that directory, then do urpmi ./* 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
Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
On Monday 23 June 2003 11:10 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Me, too. Schmeissner ? or would that be an anachronism? /snip *When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.* The full quotation is: Wenn ich Kultur hre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning. It comes from Hanns Johst's most famous play, Schlageter (first performed in April 1933, for Hitler's birthday) and occurs in Act 1, Scene 1. The character who says the line is called Thiemann. This is usually translated as Whenever I hear the word culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning! From the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations entry for Johst, Hanns (1890 - 1978) German playwright. HTH Kaj Haulrich (who happens to trust IBM). -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 - kernel 2.4.21 Brought to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:06:49 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You oculd try the alternative RPM sites like Texstar. However, if you have circular dependency problems, one thing that might work is to put all the RPMs in a directory, cd to that directory, then do or 1. Go here and configure all your souces: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php 2. then as root, urpmi gmplayer this should install everything you need automagically. -- + 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. + Quote of the day from Slashdot: + God forbid the FBI go after dangerous criminals ... + I feel much safer with pot smokers and warez + kiddies behind bars. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
On Monday June 23 2003 02:57 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Don't know if it has anything to do with your problems at all, but Civileme used to say to avoid WD drives like the plague... claimed they did not do CRC stuff right, especially at higher DMA/UDMA levels :-( /\ DarkLord \/ Someone on the OT list was saying that isn't the case anymore... SOmeone care to post a URL to dis/prove this? I have a WD here in my comp now... it was cheap, i'm poor... i'm using the maxtor for linux though. I may experiment after all... on a side note, one partition got toasted by windows jsut this last week... don't know why. Guess which drive it was on? No idea, Winsux handles drives very sloppily (pci/ide/buffer, etc.) Most of the time without complaint when it should, sometimes utter disaster when there shouldn't be one. A lot of M$ users think they got infected by a virus, when all that's happened is Billy fsck'd their HDD (among other things ;) by corruption. Time to re-install ;) As to WD drives and CRC checking, Yes, from reading current lkml this is still the case. YMMV, search 'wd drive' (and such) on lkml http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelr=1w=2 for your own take. I believe civileme's advice is still very valid, avoid win-drives that WD markets. He was more adamant on this than me tho. Only WD's since August 1998 are very suspect IMO. WD CRC checks continue to be invalid. They're win-drives (since 8/98). BUT, while only WD is accused of non-standard CRC, all drives made by anybody, are sort'a at risk. IMO, they've all gone down hill dependability wise. Maxtor's are probly currently the most attractive alternative. As an ol'time overclocker I never would a thought I'd say that. Maxtor is known to be one of the worst for handlin off spec PCI bus speeds. 'Course hardly anything will anymore, SCSI never would ;) As to the subject, SMART, I believe y'all would be better off disabling this useless marketing gimick. When it does manage to work, it's already too late most all the time, and it will constantly impose an overhead on IDE transfers while it's enabled. Periodic checks with Linux tools when you suspect HDD problems are much better. You can use all of 'em with SMART disabled in bios. One is hddtemp, hddtemp-0.3-0.beta4.2mdk (that's cooker, but I believe it's available for older Mandrake versions). Reads HDD temp from SMART capable drives, without SMART bios B$ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 8:59 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Wake up OLD PEOPLE! Its called DISK ON KEY! HELLO?! USB keys? you know?? recognized as a floppy device by bioses now? ;D They're not old people unless they've compiled a *nix kernel to 8 inch floppy. (yes, I have, and for those who assume I mean 5 1/4: I don't) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
Drew, 1) Configure a Texstar source for urpmi: urpmi.addmedia texstar http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz 2) Use urpmi to install mplayer: urpmi mplayer 3) Enjoy! Miark On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:12:32 +0100 DrewMartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I tried to install Mplayer from the mplayer website,but ended up going round in circles(using the RPM's for Redhat),i.e. one would not install without the other,but could not install the other one first. Went to the Mandrake site the only RPM's where on the club site,which I can not afford to join at this moment in time.I don't want to try using Tarball's quite yet,because my base Linux skills are not that good yet. Can any one help me to find a version of Mplayer that will work with MDK 9.1,but does not take loads of knowledge to install. Cheers, Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sensors
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 9:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's NBFD, just ignore it. One I haven't seen before. Google thought it was the New Boston Fire Department, but http://www.kelseypub.com/irc/abbrev.shtml put me straight. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring Ethenet LAN card
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 10:33 pm, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, how can I control a LAN card? This is automatically starts in 100Mbpw/fulldup mode, but I have to switch it back to half dup and/or 10Mbps because of the high error rate. Thanks.. Bela Depends on the driver. Some drivers accept options which you can put in your /etc/modules.conf Look here http://www.scyld.com/network/ To force a card into a particular mode other than through driver options install the net-tools RPM The command you need is 'mii-tool' (See 'man mii-tool') You can always put an mii-tool command in your /etc/rc.local if you want to force it to a particular mode on boot. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
On Monday June 23 2003 03:12 pm, DrewMartin wrote: Hello All, I tried to install Mplayer from the mplayer website,but ended up going round in circles(using the RPM's for Redhat),i.e. one would not install without the other,but could not install the other one first. That was your first mistake. Always look for Mandrake rpms first. They're always the best fit for your system. Avoid, generic, other distro rpms, and (any) tarballs ... for anything. Went to the Mandrake site the only RPM's where on the club site,which I can not afford to join at this moment in time. mplayer, tho not full featured (questionable legal issues) is on your CD's. The full featured Mandrake, an probly illegal, ones you can get from http://plf.zarb.org/ I don't want to try using Tarball's quite yet,because my base Linux skills are not that good yet. Can any one help me to find a version of Mplayer that will work with MDK 9.1,but does not take loads of knowledge to install. Cheers, Use http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to make a PLF source, disable your CD's as source (Software Sources Manager), and then use rpmdrake or 'urpmi' from the CL to get mplayer and it's supporting Mandrake rpms. You didn't say what you wanna play, but it won't hurt to get everything. Then you can play anything ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.1/Speedtouch problems
Hi, I re-installed Mandrake 9.1 am having trouble getting Alcatel Speedtouch working (managed to get it working prior to re-install). mgmt.o is installed. Speedtouch rpm is installed. Set up for connection to internet at boot. Both lights are green. I followed Michel's intructions on the Mandrake users board pages for configeration of pap-secrets, etc. but still unable to connect. I'm waiting for provider to supply me with the ethernet card I requested when I took subscription but need to connect now. Any help/advice would be appreciated. Paul M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuring Ethenet LAN card
Hi, how can I control a LAN card? This is automatically starts in 100Mbpw/fulldup mode, but I have to switch it back to half dup and/or 10Mbps because of the high error rate. Thanks.. Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring Ethenet LAN card
On Monday June 23 2003 04:33 pm, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, how can I control a LAN card? This is automatically starts in 100Mbpw/fulldup mode, but I have to switch it back to half dup and/or 10Mbps because of the high error rate. Thanks.. Bela You're hijacking this 'mplayer' thread by replying but just changing the subject. Not very well tolerated, akin to usin html, an most won't help you. Also you need to say what Mandrake version and what hardware (card an system), any other pertinent info. So try again ;) Next time with your own post -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On 23 Jun 2003 21:28:46 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Problem. You are known as Björn, dear Bjoern. ;-) Paul Good, just had to check. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
On 23 Jun 2003 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: SNIP mplayer, tho not full featured (questionable legal issues) is on your CD's. The full featured Mandrake, an probly illegal, ones you can get from http://plf.zarb.org/ SNIP Surely it's only illegal in 'the land of the free'? (and maybe one or two other places where the Prime Minister has a brownish tongue) Paul M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On 23 Jun 2003 14:28:04 -0500 N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good here in evolution, Bear. That's one of the few words of baby-talk Swedish my grandparents taught me that I can remember from 50 years ago. Wow, I'm impressed! I suppose you haven't used that word for some time :). Trevligt att träffas. This queer language is really a pidgin: Germanic structure and vocabulary with Frenchified fancy words. Nobody could agree on grammar or what gender nouns should have, so we just gave all that up. Must be hard to learn You bet! But no, it isn't that hard, really. After all you hear and read english every day. There's simply no way you could avoid it, even if you wanted to. Anyway, this kind of forum gives you some time to think, and to correct at least the worst misstakes before you hit Send. -- N. B. Day I'll keep to my habit of ending my letters with a question. (It's amazing how they keep popping up when you have started asking one.) This one is definitely a newbie question of the highest degree. It concerns the use of mailing lists at large, namely: How do you end a thread that you started? It would be kind of rude to just cease answering the replies, but I have seen far too many threads get out of hand, as well as out of topic, on this list already. Time for bed See you all -- Björn 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 13:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is certainly going to complicate trouble shooting a standalone home PC. -- cmg So a useful tool for your box would be a usb superfloppy. I think they are still available? Most modern bioses will boot from LS120 and zip, I think Anne Anne: Good point, and something that the laptop folks have learned to do. However, I still like the idea of a $10 floppy drive and a small stack of disks with various recovery tools on them. Floppies may be slow, and their limited capacity is a real pain, but they are simple, robust and nearly universal -- at least in the home/SOHO desktop realm. Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that they want to help Grampa. Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and #1 Son. -- cmg only thing, even with no floppy, they can boot from CDrom, so in a word, Knopptix __ 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] Boot error message
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:32:56 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: They're not old people unless they've compiled a *nix kernel to 8 inch floppy. God, I haven't seen one of those since my mom took a computer course for work when I was 10. She used a Wang computer... I always thought that was very very funny. -- + 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. + Quote of the day from Slashdot: + God forbid the FBI go after dangerous criminals ... + I feel much safer with pot smokers and warez + kiddies behind bars. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2
In an earlier version 0.8.* - that I used in mdk 9.0, I was easily able to set links in email to open with Opera - In 9.1, with this new version, I can't seem to find how to set this up, or maybe I just forgot.. Can someone tell me where to make this change? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing GNOME themes
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:23, Russ Rollins wrote: Anyone had success changing downloading and installing new themes in GNOME (Metacity themes that is) in Mandrake 9.1? I've spent an hour or so on it and can't seem to get it to work using the Theme configurator... TIA -Russ- I gave up trying. If you do get it right, let us know how. When I THOUGHT I had it right, a restart of Gnome2 broke it again...ah well...XFCE4 is so much better... -- Tue Jun 24 08:54:59 EST 2003 08:54:59 up 2 days, 18:05, 3 users, load average: 1.15, 0.79, 0.37 - |____ |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 * All extremists should be taken out and shot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] my computer loves Mandrake, doesn't like WinXP andreally hates Slackware
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 02:05, Beppe wrote: I can understand he does not like XP but what about poor slackware? :) It's not such a bad distro after all (even if packages are managed in such a way that calling awful would still be a compliment) Giuseppe Have you tried a newer version of lilo for the Slackware side of life? I would tend to reckon that since MDK uses a relatively newer version of lilo that THAT may be the issue. -- Tue Jun 24 08:54:59 EST 2003 08:54:59 up 2 days, 18:05, 3 users, load average: 1.15, 0.79, 0.37 - |____ |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 * All extremists should be taken out and shot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
If you don't have the Mandrake rpms, and you're not using urpmi, you can use the --force option on the rpm. That will probably work, but only use it if you are certain that the 2 rpm's will satisfy all the deps. In almost all cases, RH rpms work on Mandrake systems. Sometimes you have to figure out where the rpm actually puts stuff, though, and sometimes the RH rpm is looking for deps in someplace other than where mdk has them. I generally use tarballs if the mdk rpm isn't available, and sometimes even if it is, because I have a zip disk with stuff downloaded (java, Acrobat, flash, etc), and I'm on dial-up, so I'm not going to dl anything I don't absolutely have to. e Monday 23 June 2003 01:12 pm, DrewMartin wrote: Hello All, I tried to install Mplayer from the mplayer website,but ended up going round in circles(using the RPM's for Redhat),i.e. one would not install without the other,but could not install the other one first. Went to the Mandrake site the only RPM's where on the club site,which I can not afford to join at this moment in time.I don't want to try using Tarball's quite yet,because my base Linux skills are not that good yet. Can any one help me to find a version of Mplayer that will work with MDK 9.1,but does not take loads of knowledge to install. Cheers, Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sensors
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 23 2003 02:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have lm_sensors-2.7.0-2mdk installed Every time I shut down I get error message, /etc/rc0.d/k971_ ?line 73 error, too few arguments. here is the section. modules=`grep \^MODULE_ $CONFIG | wc -l` i=`expr$Pmodules` while [ $i -ge 0 ] ; doline 73 module=`eval echo '$'MODULE_$i` /sbin/modprobe -r $module /dev/null i=`expr $i - 1` done Can anyone help here ? I cannot understand it let alone do something with it John It's NBFD, just ignore it. Or you can search the cooker archive an find out which char (typo) to remove from line 73 to quiet the error mesg. I don't bother, I just ignore it. BTW, it's an lm-sensors bug, not Mandrake's. I believe, IIRC, it as simple as removing the 'P' in i=`expr$Pmodules` an maybe add'n a space, ie, i=`expr $modules` Thanks Tom, OK, will do, I can safely ignor it. but if anyone out there happens to know what to amend without me having to dig around for it so much the better. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Tue, 2003-06-24 at 00:54, JoeHill wrote: On 19 Jun 2003 20:44:41 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Ok, Femme, Mr. Ron (I don't live in a trailer up a holler) Hall, and all the other gamerz; THIS IS BLOODY BRILLIANT. http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/enemyterritory/guide.shtml been getting into it much online? I'm on dial-up. I'd rather not do multi-player games on dial-up. -- Tue Jun 24 08:54:59 EST 2003 08:54:59 up 2 days, 18:05, 3 users, load average: 1.15, 0.79, 0.37 - |____ |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 * All extremists should be taken out and shot. 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 Tue, 2003-06-24 at 03:19, ed tharp wrote: BTW, have you ever eaten conch salad, made from fresh Conch? Viagra got nothing on this food, but like a lot of things there can be drawbacks, if you eat enough to put lead in your pencil, the next morning your stomach feels like you ran the 3 mile run the night before grin Conch fritters was my fave - that and Gator tail (oh, and turtle soup/stew along with 2 doz. fresh oysters, stone crab claws with mustard sauce, and fresh steamed cherry clams...) Oh - in Oz: Shrimp = Prawns Clams = Pippies Crawdads = Yabbies -- Tue Jun 24 09:00:00 EST 2003 09:00:00 up 2 days, 18:10, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.72, 0.46 - |____ |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 * I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane 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 24 Jun 2003 08:57:54 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm on dial-up. I'd rather not do multi-player games on dial-up. so do you have people who you can play on a LAN with? -- + 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. + Quote of the day from Slashdot: + God forbid the FBI go after dangerous criminals ... + I feel much safer with pot smokers and warez + kiddies behind bars. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
Hello, I see your diaeresis (what is it called in Swedish?). Please do not spell your name any other way than the way it's spelled. Sincerely, Jim. Postscriptum: My spellchecker likes Bjorn better, I've taught it the error of it's ways. On Monday 23 June 2003 04:56 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:50:23 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snips yanks Bjorn outta his closet! NO CLOSSETING ALLOWED! Once you're OUT you're OUT! snip 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 snip But I LIKE my closet! sulking But you're right, It's probably more rewarding to participate in the discussion than to quietly wait for the interesting bits to trickle in. My main problem is that it's a pain in the a** to use this queer language :) Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter as quoted printable because of that letter. Does it matter? Should I spell my name Bjoern? Also, thanks a lot for the tip on ET. I'll have a look into it. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome
I have tried to run both KDE and Gnome and get hung up on either. They start to load and then just stop and the system hangs. I have pressed Alt Ctrl F1 to get to a prompt. From here I pressed the windows key on my keyboard. This brings up a list of errors which are scrolling by so fast I can not read them. I have been able to make out part of the error. It says "localhost xinetd [A seemingly random number] sgi fam PID [A process number I assume] from no address I can not tell what is here local host is not connected" It also flashes "warning: can't get client address" although I can not tell where this fits in. Does anyone know what this error means and how I can stop it? I should note that the number for xinetd and PID both change each time the message flashes. It seems like the system gets hung up because it is trying to perform an operation but keeps failing so it tries again. Incidentally, someone suggested that I look in var/log/messages. I tried, but I can not access the file because I do not have permission. I tried to login as root, but that does not seem to work. The login prompt I am recieving is "localhost login: "when I enter root and the password it tells me incorrect login. I know the password is correct so am I also doing something wrong here? Please, any help would be very much appreciated. Wade
[newbie] Open filename.mny.pif in Linux?
I'm running LM 9.0 at the moment. Can anyone tell me how to open a file with extension; .mny.pif?? (/filename./mny,pif) Much thanks, Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dual Booting MDK9.1 and MDK9.1
Hi all, I need some help. I'm new to linux, and my linux machine is my main computer. The problem I have is, I want to install 2 versions of Mandrake 9.1 on my 30G hd. I'm tired of trying to learn linux on my main machine and loosing all my programs and email :( So I got the bright idea of dual booting it. Can someone help me on how to do this? I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance! -- LeaAnne Kolp Don't forget to check out my sites! My Personal Site http://cowgirlk.shorturl.com My Cartoon Orbit Fan Page http://orbiters.funurl.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin
On Monday 23 June 2003 01:42 am, Derek Jennings wrote: If I can correct myself - xmms-cdread is not on your CDs it is on the mirrors in Contrib. I believe I may have mentioned once or twice on this list how to set up a Contrib urpmi source :-) Yep, you sure have, and I went to the archives, found the link for the Easy Urpmi site, did the setup, got the file and all was well in about 15 minutes. Thanks Derek. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:45pm up 2 days, 1:56, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.12, 0.09 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 Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:25, JoeHill wrote: On 24 Jun 2003 08:57:54 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm on dial-up. I'd rather not do multi-player games on dial-up. so do you have people who you can play on a LAN with? That implies being social. -- Tue Jun 24 10:45:01 EST 2003 10:45:01 up 2 days, 19:55, 3 users, load average: 0.67, 0.55, 0.37 - |____ |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 * NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right. -- G. B. Shaw, The Man of Destiny Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
Okproblems. when my friend built the computer, he said teh primary IDE connector on the motherboard was bad. well, it's not. turned out he had been trying to hook up a bad hard drive to it. so since then, everything has been running on the 2nd IDE port. the CDRW drive is the master, the hard drive is the slave. I go to put in the new hard drive today. Linux recognizes my new hard drive, windows does not, at least i don't know how to make it recognize it. now, i had tried to swap the IDE connection to put the CD and hard drive on the primary and the new hard drive on the secondary, and the newer larger drive will be used for non-system related stuff. well, if i swap them over, the computer goes to boot up, it starts to boot linux (i screwed up a setting somewhere, linux boots every time i fire the computer up, i have to exit linux to get back to windows, dual boot option doesn't come up on start up). anyway, after it starts to boot up linux, it tells me it can't find hdd7 (one of it's partitions) and just sits there and stares at me with the caps lock and scroll lock lights flashing. well, i wanna solve this problem... i've got the hardware reconfigured so i can get on (obvoiusly). what i want to do is just format the old hard drive, completly wipe it out, shut down the computer, hook everything back up the way it needs to be, configure the bios, and install my stuff from there. in doing that, will windows recognize that i have 2 hard drives right off the bat? mind you, my current 20gb drive has 3 partitions, 2 for windows and then the linux partitions. i'm not concerned with a loss of data, as any programs i need i have on cd to re-install with. so yeah, you can say i'm looking for the EASY WAY OUT, but that's what i need at this point or i'm gonna have to get frustrated again, and believe me, i'm sick of being frustrated :) i know i can do formatting of drives from disk drake, and i figure i can go in with the boot floppy i have and just format everything out from there. i'm just really lost, i'm making mistakes, and need to get everything running smoothly. i sure do ask a lot of questions...but that's how we learn i guess! thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:20, Wade Waldron wrote: I have tried to run both KDE and Gnome and get hung up on either. They start to load and then just stop and the system hangs. I have pressed Alt Ctrl F1 to get to a prompt. From here I pressed the windows key on my keyboard. This brings up a list of errors which are scrolling by so fast I can not read them. I have been able to make out part of the error. It says localhost xinetd [A seemingly random number] sgi fam PID [A process number I assume] from no address I can not tell what is here local host is not connected It also flashes warning: can't get client address although I can not tell where this fits in. Does anyone know what this error means and how I can stop it? I should note that the number for xinetd and PID both change each time the message flashes. It seems like the system gets hung up because it is trying to perform an operation but keeps failing so it tries again. Incidentally, someone suggested that I look in var/log/messages. I tried, but I can not access the file because I do not have permission. I tried to login as root, but that does not seem to work. The login prompt I am recieving is localhost login: when I enter root and the password it tells me incorrect login. I know the password is correct so am I also doing something wrong here? Please, any help would be very much appreciated. Wade Something is definitely wrong if you can't login as root - if anything, you can boot from the first CD, choose F1 at the initial prompt, then choose to run the linux resuce - once logged on, you can run passwd to change the root password and verify that you can login properly. If you can get that done, then, after booting normally, login to the system as root again, and see if you can access the /var/log/messages -- Tue Jun 24 10:55:00 EST 2003 10:55:00 up 2 days, 20:05, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.38, 0.37 - |____ |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 reason they're called wisdom teeth is that the experience makes you wise. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open filename.mny.pif in Linux?
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:30, Bob Read wrote: I'm running LM 9.0 at the moment. Can anyone tell me how to open a file with extension; .mny.pif?? (/filename./mny,pif) Much thanks, Bob PIF is PROGRAM INFORMATION FILE and it won't be opened by anything other than Windows. Now, being that it has TWO extentions, I would assume that it's a virus/trojan/backdoor program. -- Tue Jun 24 11:00:01 EST 2003 11:00:01 up 2 days, 20:10, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.24, 0.31 - |____ |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 * You must know that a man can have only one invulnerable loyalty, loyalty to his own concept of the obligations of manhood. All other loyalties are merely deputies of that one. -- Nero Wolfe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
On Monday June 23 2003 05:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jun 2003 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: mplayer, tho not full featured (questionable legal issues) is on your CD's. The full featured Mandrake, an probly illegal, ones you can get from http://plf.zarb.org/ Surely it's only illegal in 'the land of the free'? (and maybe one or two other places where the Prime Minister has a brownish tongue) Paul M. They're retry'n a boy (was at the time) in Norway, after he'd already been acquitted (DeCSS) .. that'd never happen in the USA. Once it's a done deal, it's a done deal here. No double jeopardy. Seems API (codecs) hijacking, reverse engineering, CSS, etc., is illegal in France too, most of Europe, all the way to south of the equator, America's, Asia, Africa, and Australia, NZ ... the various legal repercussions of which Mandrake can neither afford or want to even try an' deal with. Probly the most Draconian software limitations exist in Northern Europe. Sweden's fixin to outlaw everything as far as user free rights and access to proprietary software (ie, illegal to even d/l, a pending law, but close to passing). What's not on the block for oulawin, is heavily taxed. The only places to not cross paths with copyright holders and such, is where everything is not un-legal or unchallenged (ie, lawless, no lawyers or politicians). Antarctica? Syria? Iran? N. Korea? ... Anyhow, my only point was the software is available, suitable for a Mandrake system ... just not officially from Mandrake. Not supported either, but only for _world wide_ legal reasons. It is designed and compatible with Mandrake tho. The rpms will install properly in the right places, and add a menu entry ;) Use of generic or other distro rpms or tarballs will probly fsck'up somethin. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
On Monday 23 June 2003 03:59 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: snips a rattlesnakes rattler! OHH! Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that they want to help Grampa. Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and #1 Son. -- cmg Wake up OLD PEOPLE! Its called DISK ON KEY! HELLO?! USB keys? you know?? recognized as a floppy device by bioses now? ;D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Femme: Give me a call when the price drops to $10. That must include the necessary adapters and drivers to upgrade the various offsprings' collection of proprietary and two-guys-and-a-goat POS. (Ever try to find a BIOS upgrade for a TMC motherboard?) Until that glorious day arrives, I'll take very good care of my floppies. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting MDK9.1 and MDK9.1
Use Lilo, 1. Install Mandrake 9.1 and then when you have to configure the disk partition , make sure there are enough free space for your second Mandrake 9.1 instalation. 2. Choose lilo as the bootloader, and place it on the MBR (master boot record) on your harddisk. it's easier to use. 3. Install second Mandrake 9.1 on the rest of free partition on your harddisk. 4. Most important think, when configuring Lilo, make sure install it on the First partition of your Mandrake Instalation. It depends whether you choose boot partition on separate partition or on root partition. 5. Boot on the first Mandrake 9.1 instalation. Find your second Mandrake boot partition and after your figure it out, make the mount point of it, then edit and add it on your /etc/fstab file configuration. example : /dev/hda5 /mnt/Your_Second_Mandrake_instalation ext3defaults0 0 6. Edit your /etc/lilo.conf and add the line like this : image=/mnt/Your_Second_Mandrake_instalation/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hdax - your second_mandrake_root_partition read-only label=Second_Mandrake_9.1_instalation 7. Make sure you know where your place your boot partition, on separate boot partition or in your root partition. Hope this help. Good luck. LeaAnne Kolp wrote: Hi all, I need some help. I'm new to linux, and my linux machine is my main computer. The problem I have is, I want to install 2 versions of Mandrake 9.1 on my 30G hd. I'm tired of trying to learn linux on my main machine and loosing all my programs and email :( So I got the bright idea of dual booting it. Can someone help me on how to do this? I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance! 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] XMMS and cdread plugin
As for seeing your playlist :- To start playing a CD with xmms select PlayDirectory and select /mnt/cdrom Then you can press the 'PL' button on the xmms GUI to see the playlist. HTH derek -- If I could jump in here I've been trying to figure this out but I must be doing something wrong. I've tried clicking the play button and get the 'load files' dialog - then get to the /mnt dir and choose cdrom, but the files window shows no files. I've tried R clicking the player, then choosing 'play directory' then expand /mnt, then choose /cdrom, then 'ok' - I then open the playlist, and it's blank. I've also tried the +file button on the playlist window then + directory and /mnt/cdrom, but nothing happens. Even the load list button doesn't seem to do anything. Am I missing something? - www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sensors
On Monday June 23 2003 04:46 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 9:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's NBFD, just ignore it. One I haven't seen before. Google thought it was the New Boston Fire Department, but http://www.kelseypub.com/irc/abbrev.shtml put me straight. Like RTFM, or STFW, you can use F anyways you want ;) SOS DD same deal with the 2nd S ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com