[newbie] ALSA SPDIF and KDE
Hi,
I am having problems getting SPDIF and sound (using ALSA) to
with in KDE with my nforce2 onboard audio. It works ok it I use aplay in a
shell, but not with any applications that run in KDE.
I have included the output from lsmod and my .asoundrc file
below. Even if you dont know the answer I would love to get a pointer in
the direction of some beginner style doco on ALSA and SPDIF setup, particularly
a good description of the creation of the .asoundrc file as Im hacking
in the dark at the moment.
TIA!
Module
Size Used by
snd-intel8x0
32776 1
snd-ac97-codec
58148 1 snd-intel8x0
gameport
4480 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-mpu401-uart
7072 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-rawmidi
23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-device
8008 1 snd-rawmidi
snd-pcm-oss
51812 0
snd-pcm
93156 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm-oss
snd-page-alloc
11972 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm
snd-timer
24484 1 snd-pcm
snd-mixer-oss
17952 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd
52484 11
snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm-oss,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mixer-oss
soundcore 9248
1 snd
sg
38044 0
st
38616 0
sr_mod
17028 0
sd_mod
16832 0
scsi_mod
114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod
md5
3872 1
ipv6
232352 12
af_packet
20520 2
hid
53312 0
raw
7616 1
ide-floppy
18752 0
ide-tape
34864 0
ide-cd
40548 0
cdrom
37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd
floppy
59444 0
forcedeth
14304 0
ohci1394
33956 0
ieee1394
287856 1 ohci1394
fglrx
205028 0
ehci-hcd
24196 0
ohci-hcd
18692 0
usbcore 99132
5 hid,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd
rtc
11576 0
ext3
110408 2
jbd
54328 1 ext3
pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm
nforce
}
pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm hw:0,2
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 32768
rate 48000
}
}
ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?
well I am not sure what you have done so far. I found a directory called camera under /mnt/camera I mount it and all is well. That is in my Fedora partition. At first I played around like you are but now I don't have to at all. Maybe Fedora has an automount for usb?? I couldn't get MD 10 to read my partition table so I couldn't install. But from here it seems that something isn't quite right on your system. boy I a stumped Aaron On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 17:38, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:32:03 +0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not listed as /dev/sda1? Strange. However, you can watch what is happening by doing: tail -f /var/log/messages when you plug-in the camera. Mar 14 09:36:35 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 4 Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: Vendor: Fujifilm Model: FinePix 1400Zoom Rev: 1000 Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found. Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:3Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 262143 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 262143 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:3Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 262143 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Mar 14 09:36:43 localhost scsi.agent[10473]: disk at /devices/pci:00/:00:04.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0 so is the important line the modprobe:FATAL one? This is a bit over my head. if it can't find the module how do i tell it where to find it / where do i look for it? thanks. it looks like it's trying to attach it at /dev/sda but I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# cat sda cat: sda: Input/output error Someone mentioned hotplug... hotplug is installed and running. I tried locate scsimon (yep.. i ran updatedb first) but it didn't return anything. Any suggestions? __ 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 Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mail clients
Your tecnical question. Do you mean you log in to X as root? That is a no no and unneeded. To set up email do it as yourself. To do tasks as root use su or sudo. However if there is some strange reason you have that forces you to enter X as root then copy the .evolution or .mozilla directory to your home directory, making sure to change permissions using su or sudo. Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Callwave
I had the same problem with win4lin I remeber I had to disable proxy servers. Or check if you are using the correct network connection. I hope you are using a registered version of win4lin, there tech support is very good and has never failed me. Aaron On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 00:18, Matt Harrison wrote: Does anyone know of a linux based alternative to Callwave? Or, does anyone know how to get Win4Lin to share my Linux dialup connection so that Windows can get on the internet when I am dialed in through linux? -Matt __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] corrupted partition table?
Hi, I tried to install MDK10 alongside my Fedora core1 on a spare partition. I didn't get very far. The installation said that my partition table is to corrupted (it was created with Fedora) and I have a choice to delete all partitions (not a choice for me). it names sr0 and something calling it, I don't remember the exact message. Is there a way to trouble shoot this? Thanks Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a program similar to Hotmail Popper
Thanks I also installed it and its nify Aaron Paul Smith wrote: Thanks for your suggestions! I have just installed Hotway suite, which easily does both jobs, I mean: it receives and it sends e-mails from Hotmail accounts! It is fantastic! Paul 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] Is wine the best choice?
Although you can't use win4lin with W2K or XP. you sure about that? I thought I saw that the latest version does, hmn I will have to check on that Aaron Anne 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] Is wine the best choice?
Christophe Rhein wrote: Me again... There are as far as I can tell three main choices Wine Cxoffice vmware win4lin Wine and crossover office are hit or miss not everything runs. vmware and win4lin offer the widest range of programs working (not games) transgaming is for games although dosbox of freedos will get you a lot of mileage as well I use win4lin and although it is a commercial product I am very pleased with it. Aaron Is wine the best and easiest way to use windows software? Thank You Christophe 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] wma to mp3
I was surprised to find that Audacity did not have that ability. Don't be suprised wma and mp3 are lossy compression methods and it is highly unrecommended to go from compressed to compressed format. I do remember an application that does this but results will vary and if you can find a cd audio file or a wave its the best. Also see if Sox will do the conversion. Aaron tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] look ma no emacs
HI all, I was doing some cleanup removing some uneeded programs and somehow my emacs dissapeared. More specifically the shortcut when I try to start emacs I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] site-lisp]$ emacs bash: emacs: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] site-lisp]$ when I do locate for emacs I find all the emacs stuff? I even tried removing emacs and installing it again to no avail. Help Thanks Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] creating rpm
Hi, I have an rpm that I need to build, under redhat I used rpmbuild which is nowhere to be seen on Mandrake 9.2. There is rpmbuilder which won't find my spec file. I need a way to create an rpm under mandrake, what tool do I use and how do i use it?? Thanks Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] creating rpm
yes I was root and no rpmbuild... I am going to check the repository and see if I find it there. Aaron Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:42 am, Aaron wrote: - Hi, - I have an rpm that I need to build, under redhat I used rpmbuild which - is nowhere to be seen on Mandrake 9.2. There is rpmbuilder which won't - find my spec file. - I need a way to create an rpm under mandrake, what tool do I use and how - do i use it?? - Thanks - Aaron rpmbuild and man rpmbuild show up here on the d/l edition of Mandrake v9.2 okay. (from a shell) You sure you were root when you tried to run it? :-) 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] creating rpm
for both, but I can't get rpm build to setup correctly. I used it on fedora, and it worked like a charm... Aaron so, it this for building src.rpm's or for creating an rpm? 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] dosemu-stable 2003 Edition
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2004 09:52, boulanger wrote: Hi, Here's something that looks interesting: [ 868395 ] dosemu-stable 2003 Edition Released http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=868395group_id=49 784atid=457447 Should I put this (dosemu-stable) on the twiki? If anyone wants to try it, the direct link for it is http://dosemu-stable.sourceforge.net/packages/dosemu-stable-2003.tar.gz. I've tried it, and I have 2 questions: 1) Has anyone had any experience with this program? It works so far on some old DOS games, like Warcraft II, although my Timidity patch set makes the MIDI sound bad. 2) Are there any packages (rpms) available for it, maybe on cooker? I haven't found any on rpmfind.net. It'd be a bit simpler to just get urpmi to automatically update it. TIA! Regards, boulanger Isn't this the same as dosbox which is in contribs? No dosbox is geared mainly for games. dosemu still needs dos to run it usually comes with freedos. Aaron Good luck, HarM 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] Books for Newbies?
Think unix
the linux cookbook
rute
Aaron
Fig ('RL Cassidy') wrote:
Hi,
I've just started using Linux, Mandrake 9.2 I have 'Kiss the Blue Screen
of Death Goodbye' on order from Wal-Mart.com for $22+change including SH.
And I was wondering what would be a good reference/study book in addition to
the Kiss ...? I saw three books on Linux Journal's 2003 Readers' Choice
Awards, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7029
Most Indispensable Linux Book
1. Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Ed., Ellen Siever, et al.
2. Linux System Administration, Vicki Stanfield and Roderick W. Smith
3. Running Linux, 3rd Ed., Matt Welsh, et al.
Once again, the top three titles are the same, although Linux System
Administration and Running Linux switched places this year. Many of the
purists opt to rely solely on man pages. Judging by the sheer volume of
write-ins and new releases that come through the LJ offices for review, the
Linux book market is picking up speed.
Does any one have any experience with these or any other good book? All
opinions are welcome, I can't wait to totally get rid of M$. Thanks in
advance for any/all assistance.
Richard
Registered Linux user 207547
http://counter.li.org
--
Dell Inspiron 5100 / Intel P4 / Bios A26 / 512M / 40G
Mandrake 9.2
WinXP (until I can figure out all this Linux stuff)
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] no sound in 9.1
I would search the alsa users mail list archives for your sound card and or your problem and see if someone else had the same trouble. I find the alsa group to be most helpful Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
Just for my 23 cents worth, I was using evolution for over a year and just switched to kmail, I am not so thrilled with either to tell the truth. I would have stayed with evolution if not for the lockups I kept having and it's lack of proper hebrew support. I get the feeling that the real big boys email programs on linux aren't the gui ones but the text based ones. I tried mutt for a short time but just didn't have the time or patience to set it up the way I needed, but I saw that it was more powerful and had the ability to do anything I would ever need. I never tried gnus but I would guess it is also true. That fact that they have been around longer than the gui's is most probably the reason. Anyone try Sylpheed?? Balsa?? A lot of people are raving about thunderbird, I might try it and see. Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
ok next could you send me cat /etc/modules.conf please Thanks Aaron Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 22 December 2003 17:13, Aaron wrote: do rpm -qa | grep alsa i get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sefernigunim]# rpm -qa |grep alsa alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.9rc1_2mdk libalsa-data-0.9.8-1thac libalsa2-static-devel-0.9.8-1thac alsa-utils-0.9.6-3mdk pd-alsa-jack-extended-0.36-2thac pd-alsa-jack-extended-devel-0.36-2thac libalsa2-0.9.8-1thac libalsa2-devel-0.9.8-1thac [EMAIL PROTECTED] sefernigunim]# My urpmi source file uses thac for audio but the same files exist from mandrake as well. Aaron alsaplayer-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-vorbis-0.99.74-1mdk xmms-alsa-0.9.7-3mdk xine-lib-compat-alsa-0.9.13-11mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-mad-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-flac-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-ui-gtk-0.99.74-1mdk libalsa2-0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk alsa-utils-0.9.0-0.8rc7mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-esound-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-nas-0.99.74-1mdk libalsa-data-0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-mod-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-jack-0.99.74-1mdk alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.6rc1_2mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-sndfile-0.99.74-1mdk xine-alsa-1-0.beta4.1mdk Anne 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] Dual boot setup
Greg, thanks for the response. As far as my reply-to setting goes, I'm using a Web-based e-Mail client for this list and cannot change the reply-to setting. Sorry. --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - DATE: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 22:11:42 From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: On Sunday 05 October 2003 08:54 pm, Aaron West wrote: So, are you saying that I can't install Windows on the slave drive and Linux on the master drive? Sorry for my confusion. It depends on the version of Windows you are using. The 9x series (including ME) want to be on the first primary partition of the first drive in the system. This is not exactly true for Win2k and XP, but there are some issues with non-dos filesystems on partitions lower than the Windows partitions. Sometimes they are not seen and sometimes they impact drive performance. I have experienced both. If you are going to use the whole 15GB drive for Windows, and you are using Win2k or XP, then you should be able to do it as you are proposing. Most people install windows first, then install Mandrake, which will detect your windows install and make it a choice on the boot menu. So in your case, you might want to do something like this. 15GB drive for Windows as primary master. 80GB drive foe Linux as primary slave. Optical CDRW drive as secondary master and dvd/cdrom reader as secondary slave. Also, please clear the reply-yo in your mail client. Replies to your messages are going to you directly instead of to the list. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.2 ads?
Not sure if this is something that has already been discussed, or if it's an appropriate topic on the newbie list, if not, please disregard. Anyhow, I heard 9.2 comes with ads. Any merrit to this? If so, what impact does this have on our use of Linux and esp. it being much more secure than Windows. I for one don't want adware on my Linux box (once it gets set up). Regards, --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dual boot setup
Evening all, Simple question here. I'm getting closer to the point of being ready for the 9.1 install but want some opinions. Since I'm going to dual boot with Windows 2000 (Windows with use a completely different physical hard drive, my current 15GB hard drive. Linux will use the new 120GB Maxtor) and Linux, I've been trying to determine the order of OS install. I read somewhere that you should install Windows first before you install Linux. I'm going to completely wipe my current Windows install in order to start fresh. And then will be installing Linux on the new hard drive. Is it the right idea to go ahead and get the fresh Windows drive working so once the new HD comes in I'll be ready to go? Thanks!! --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot setup
So, are you saying that I can't install Windows on the slave drive and Linux on the master drive? Sorry for my confusion. --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com - Original Message - DATE: 05 Oct 2003 19:32:06 -040 From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 19:04, Aaron West wrote: Evening all, Simple question here. I'm getting closer to the point of being ready for the 9.1 install but want some opinions. Since I'm going to dual boot with Windows 2000 (Windows with use a completely different physical hard drive, my current 15GB hard drive. Linux will use the new 120GB Maxtor) and Linux, I've been trying to determine the order of OS install. I read somewhere that you should install Windows first before you install Linux. I'm going to completely wipe my current Windows install in order to start fresh. And then will be installing Linux on the new hard drive. Is it the right idea to go ahead and get the fresh Windows drive working so once the new HD comes in I'll be ready to go? Thanks!! --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com M$ wants to see an M$ product on the first sector of the first partition on the first disk on the first ide chain. win 9x ME require them to be on that partition. win2k can sit elsewhere as long as a M$ product is in that first spot. Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] New to the list
Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small at 15GB. I am in the market for a higher capacity drive - anything from 80GB up - and wanted to get some advice before I buy anything. Are there any drives I should stay away from or is just getting any IDE drive (like a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200rpm IDE) going to work. I'd like to get the new hard drive in, install 9.1 on it, and then hook up my current 15GB drive as a slave for possibly holding all my music data. This sound fine? Also, is there a list of supported peripherals for 9.1 anywhere? I'd like to check my current system setup (network card, router, video card, sound card) etc.. to make sure they are supported. Thanks all, --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBLive! driver won't change permanently
stephen, thanks, i finally was able to configured it permanently. maybe the reason it won't change permanently is bec i just changed it in my console using su and not really logging as root. i solve it...thanks mangz On Friday 05 September 2003 01:48 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:58, Aaron G. Mangoroban wrote: hi all, i am running mandrake 9.2 on an athlon 1.4 with sblive! soundcard. i have tried a couple of times to configure my soundcard with drakconf and draksound to the snd-emu10k1 driver but everytime i turn on my computer, it would change the driver to the audigy driver. is there anyway i could make the change permanently? thanks and hope to find resolution to this soon.. linux rocks! mangz Login as root; make all the changes; try again. If that doesn't do it - at least in using the drakconf, try running sndconfig whilst logged in as root; that's generally how I do it - then again, I try not to use the MCC tools as they often misfire... stephen kuhn == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * - Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong. -- Brent Welch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SBLive! driver won't change permanently
hi all, i am running mandrake 9.2 on an athlon 1.4 with sblive! soundcard. i have tried a couple of times to configure my soundcard with drakconf and draksound to the snd-emu10k1 driver but everytime i turn on my computer, it would change the driver to the audigy driver. is there anyway i could make the change permanently? thanks and hope to find resolution to this soon.. linux rocks! mangz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LimeWire Problems
NO no java. I will say that on Mandrake it flew for me but on Xandros I can't get a connection up?? But I would say give it a try. The other option is gtk-gnutella, but I also had problems with it. Aaron On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 08:00, David E. Fox wrote: Well I don't know if its spyware but I certainly found mutella to be much faster!!! Well does it use a Java runtime like Limewire? I use LimeWire sparingly -- just downloaded a more recent version. For me, sometimes I can get files fast, but that's few and far between, with long waits. I got one file in a few minutes, but another file of smaller length is taking over an hour, yet the connection spped was supposedly DSL. (I'm on a DSL connection, btw.) Other files sit waiting for a connection for what seems forever. I use it sparingly mostly because it really swamps my DSL connection with just a few files going out and one or two files coming in, maybe 4-6 connections at a time. It does have a gui but I never set it up. gui is helpful but not strictly necessary. I've got an old gnut but last time I tried it couldn't find any files :(. __ 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] LimeWire Problems
Well I don't know if its spyware but I certainly found mutella to be much faster!!! It does have a gui but I never set it up. You could always try it and if you don't like it dump it. Aaron On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 13:48, John Drouhard wrote: Hi, I just installed LimeWire, and found it to be really good. It downloads files quickly, and searches are neat. But, I was wondering if it was spyware. If it is, then I may try Mutella. So if someone could tell me if was or not, that would be great. -John Drouhard On Tuesday 18 February 2003 07:26 am, Aaron wrote: I had Limewire installed but found it slow so I dumped it for mutella which I like much better. But if you must go to the Limewire forum and under Linux installation is a post that will cure all your problems.:- )(hint kaffe needs to be removed) Aa On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 13:54, andy wrote: Hi I just recently installed limewire, and when i tried executing the .bin (which it came in as), it came up with this message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documents]$ ./LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. The thing is, I have Java VM installed, and I know for sure its working, it's just somehow not detecting its there. Any help? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LimeWire Problems
I had Limewire installed but found it slow so I dumped it for mutella which I like much better. But if you must go to the Limewire forum and under Linux installation is a post that will cure all your problems.:- )(hint kaffe needs to be removed) Aa On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 13:54, andy wrote: Hi I just recently installed limewire, and when i tried executing the .bin (which it came in as), it came up with this message: [deek@localhost Documents]$ ./LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. The thing is, I have Java VM installed, and I know for sure its working, it's just somehow not detecting its there. Any help? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler
try urpmi f2c-20001107-4mdk.i586.rpm Aaron On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 03:53, laura wrote: I'm new in Linux. Before asking, I tried to use g77 or f77, but I don't have them on the computer. I have the gcc installed and I can compile C programs without problems, but I can't compile Fortran programs. I only wanted to know where I can find this compiler. Laura. Jerry Barton escriu: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 07:30:50 GMT laura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to install a Fortran compiler. Where can I find one of them? Thanks. Laura. gcc-g77 from software installer: Name: gcc-g77 Version: 3.2-1mdk Size: 3746 KB Summary: Fortran 77 support for gcc Description: This package adds support for compiling Fortran 77 programs with the GNU compiler. If you have multiple versions of GCC installed on your system, it is preferred to type g77-$(gcc3.2-version) (without double quotes) in order to use the GNU Fortran 77 compiler version 3.2. Files: /usr/bin/f77 /usr/bin/g77 /usr/bin/g77-3.2 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/f771 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/include/g2c.h /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/libfrtbegin.a /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/libg2c.a /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/libg2c.so /usr/share/doc/gcc-g77-3.2 /usr/share/doc/gcc-g77-3.2/ChangeLog.0.f /usr/share/doc/gcc-g77-3.2/ChangeLog.f /usr/share/doc/gcc-g77-3.2/ChangeLog.libf2c /usr/share/doc/gcc-g77-3.2/README /usr/share/man/man1/g77.1.bz2 -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (o_ //\ V_/_ __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand
I missed most of this thread but read it with interest. The interest is because of the lack of point. The point is whether there is ultimately absolute right and wrong or just different opinions. Islam especially radical Islam holds that killing others is an obligation if they refuse to accept their religon. They have a goal and are ready to use what ever means. The choice is to call their way an opinion or evil. I choose the evil label based on the Judeo/christian concept of good and evil. With real evil giving in only increases its strength. The UN is made up of a host of nations who are not democracies and many of whom support Jihad. The UN has not proven itself a bastion of freedom and democracy. Sometime read the Arab press and you will get a clear idea who the enemy is. I don't live in the US but if the United States relays on the UN and doesn't do what it needs to there may be no country at all. I wish The Americans and Pres. Bush the strength to do whats right because the opinion of Jihad (Muslim holy war) is indeed the end of western Civilization as we know it. am Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] where's compress
ncompress On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 06:49, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Can't find compress on my MDK9.0. Does anybody know in which package it might be located? thanks, raffaele 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] easy to use HTML editor?
Well, The problem is that the more gui the slower is the coding. I tried screem, quanta, bluefish and one from IBM. The point is that a beginner should understand that html is not programming. A good beginning is to look at some tutorials for html. I would recommend jbarta's tutorials but they don't conform to the standards. The amazing thing with html is how little you need to know to get the results you need. The issue is what tool will get you there the quickest. Any editor that gives you a list of the tags is good. I ended up using VIM with the xml editing extensions. But I first used the XHTML vim. The what you see is what you get route will only confuse you in the long run. The first step is a good tutorial. Aaron On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 19:04, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 03:50 pm, et wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:31 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an easy to use HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented toward the inexperienced user. TIA for any feedback on this. Best regards to all. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** I love this thread... I suggest jed, kate, joe, nedit, emac or vim, and do it by hand so you know how to fix what ever your wsiwyg editor screws up. if you can't read the html produced, how can you fix it? and how come, if there is time to go back over it and fix it correctly later, how come there is not enough time to do it correct the first time? I agree completely. However, a completely newbie to html might find it a bit hard to produce something in a hurry using only a text-editor. Using - for example - Mozilla Composer gets you running. That doesn't exclude reviewing the code in a text editor and doing a tidying-up job. And, finally, in Konqueror there's a nifty little gadget that lets you validate the code at W3C. So : try Mozilla Composer. Validate the code at W3C and study the errors you get from there. HTH Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === __ 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] xserver??
Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed my problem down to hardware. I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. Aaron On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:55, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:33 pm, Aaron wrote: I need to know how to upgrade my xserver. I am using MDK 9.0 Thanks To what? for what purpose? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RofnwDpHP6GALAARArfrAJ9tRtRsorLG3ECOWX/D7ZMITGKlqQCfbzM3 yW2xMAcegKsBQXOpeTZq+F4= =yhig -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ 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] xserver??
I have a dual processor pentium III 550MHz with 128 meg ram, A Matrox G400 dual head. I have had lots of problems so far with system lock ups this has been connected with pro audio applications. I was told that it could be my mother board and when I I searched for info on system lockups and my Tyan thunderbolt I saw there were problems. I would like to speed up my system (and do some audio work) and let my kids play a few games Aaron On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 19:51, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 02:25 pm, Aaron wrote: Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed my problem down to hardware. I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. Aaron You really should be using 4.2.1 to take advantage of the latest hardware drivers. What is your hardware setup? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpUOwDpHP6GALAARAp/6AKCZrFD94iDfUe7m1q2ir0GW6UlApwCfXFym wfMSoXlWBDL3odpcFI9M4cU= =I0Zm -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ 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] How to edit KDE menu ?
well, I would use menudrake. a On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 10:55, Markus Bela wrote: Hi, With kappfind I added (unfortunately) menu items to the KDE menu. How can I remove them? menudrake do not sees them, displays only the original menu. Bela __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Back to Basics
Well I did the same but came back to the rpm way. The problem is that everything is in a different place, has a different name, there is way to much to learn before doing the simplest thing. I also found that the debian community had a different mind set... And the clincher is that hardware isn't always auto installed. I had lots of usb troubles etc. However the deb package rocks. I was just spending way to much time fiddling with the os and very little time getting anything useful done. Aaron PS. Contemplating a move to debian...any comments? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Back to Basics
Wow. I just went to yoper and if what I read is true I will be switching to it as soon as the first release is out. Aaron On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 12:51, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:34 pm, et wrote: snip consider yopa. it is a new distro for th desktop, and while I have not yet had a chance to check it out, it comes highly recomended by folks I have learned to trust. On this list, I think it was YAMA, Sridhar Dhanapalani, that thought this was a good distro, and every other bit of advice he gave was right on the money. /snip et, I'm pretty sure the name is Yoper. BTW : where is Sridhar these days ? Miss him too. Kaj Haulrich === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === __ 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] WINE or something similar??
Well my experience has been that the only open source option is wine, however wine is not so stable and requires a lot of fiddling to get it to work, and it is not so fast. VM ware is not for everyone, if you are testing on many OSes it probably is the best choice. I don't know all thats out there but for explorer and similar apps Crossover office works fine. From what I have read on this list Win4Lin is much faster and runs more apps. If you must have it open then have fun with wine Aaron On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 16:49, Chuck Burns wrote: Here's the deal.. I have a pure Mandrake 9.0 system on this box.. No windows partition at all.. now.. lets say I wanted to make a disk image inside my current linux setup, and run win apps.. and I want it to be opensource.. NOT vmware. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
Hi What modem are you using?? Did you use the mandrake internet connection wizard?? Please give us some more information so we can help. Aaron On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 08:09, Margot wrote: I'm a very newbie running Mandrake 9 and I can't get it to connect to the internet. My ISP is eurobell. I've set up the connection in MCC, and that bit seems to work OK - it dials, verifies my username and password, and is clocking up a penny a minute for the connection when I test it - but I can't get any further than that. I've tried setting up my details (username, password, server names as supplied by eurobell), but when I use the various applications to try to access www, usenet, email accounts I just get error messages - message wording varies depending on the application, but amounting to host eurobell unknown. I've checked the documentation on the machine and printed out several trees worth, but still can't crack this. The only documentation I found that seems relevant told me that the host name should be in the /etc/hosts file. This is what my /etc/hosts file contains: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.50 home No mention of eurobell in the file. Should I add something here and, if so, what? I've been reading this list for a couple of weeks and picked up some useful tips, but nobody seems to have exactly the same problem as me. Luckily I still have the old Win 98 machine running so I can access the mailing list - but it is annoying to have to unplug the modem and keep moving it from one machine to the other as they are in different rooms! I tried eurobell's tech support, but their first question was which version of Windows do you have? and the conversation went downhill from there. Can anyone help? TIA Margot Lawrence __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] c shell path
Can someone tell me how to create variables and add to the path in C shell??? I can't use many programs because of this, Thanks Aarom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] glibc mdb-tools
Hi I saw the post and downloaded the mdbtools only to find it needs glibc to be exact glibc-common-2.3.1-36.i386. If I hunt up an rpm and install what could happen to my system? I am a bit afraid to do this without urpmi but I don't see it using this tool. Since this is not the only thing I do I would hate to break all my apps for this one??? Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
Do you have the installation discs from mandrake?? try the control center software manager. Or use urpmi and the name of the package. __ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] why mandrake?
Hi my 2 cents I started out with Redhat 6 at work and upgraded to 6.2 At home I kept upgrading Redhat until the 7 series when I tried debian, a distro which looked amazing but which required to much time to install. I then tried SuSe but just plain didn't like it. The gui, the installation, I never got my internet connection working. I tried a 7 something version of Mandrake but it didnn't recognize my hardware. I windozed for a bit then I tried Corel oh boy a good idea that just didn't deliver. They hid all the tools and I had hardware problem after hardware problem. But I liked the ease of use and not being afraid to have the video setup easy to do. I installed a 8 version Mandrake and really liked it everything seemed to work wow. but because I really wanted to learn debian I installed Potato. I banged my head for a couple of months, and finally realized I was missing basic functions I needed so as soon as Mandrake 9.0 came out I installed. I still experience some hardware related problems but once I junk supermount life is great. I can't get my usb printer working but I see that redhat et al has the same problems. I am waiting for the next version (and not printing) which I hope will have solved some of these problems. The interface and tools in MD are just great. Aaron On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 04:19, Les Henderson wrote: I'm curious as to why someone would choose mandrake over other distros and thought that this might be the best place to get some oppinions since i'm sure that there are a number of people on this list who have some strong views on the subject. i've personally only run mandrake 8.1 on my home machine (when i downloaded it, it was current). i've run a red hat box on a work machine as well for a short period of time. i've got things that i'm very happy about with mandrake and things that i've been somewhat annoyed with. my main annoyance is that i can't find rpms from the original packages that were present on the 8.1 CDs on a number of the mandrake mirror sites (my original cds have become somewhat scratched). the main thing that i really like about mandrake is its installer. on a previous computer that i had mandrake would easily install when red hat wouldn't no matter what i tried (not that i necessarily knew too many things to try). there are a number of other things that i like and dislike about what i've seen with mandrake, but i would like to hear what its vocal user base likes about it compared with other distros. just curious. btw, i'm looking for actual comparisions about what are the features that you like about it, not just flat out oppinions that mandrake rocks. i hope that this isn't too off topic. Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 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] backup what??? plus NIC
Thanks, Does anyone know where the setting for my nic are stored. I want to write a script which will copy my current setting for my nic and my adsl configuration so that I don't have to spend 2 weeks waiting for an internet connection when I reinstall. Thanks On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 09:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:57, Aaron wrote: I am finally getting up the courage to remove my windoze directory and have a Lin only box. I want to format and reinstall Mandrake 9.0 I originally installed from source tree and it seems that there were apps missing at the time. I will reinstall from the iso cd's which I now have. The question is. I want to retain my ximain evolution mail settings, ny internet settings (I use a provider with a unique setup), and my mozilla bookmarks. My urpmi remote directories etc. This is just a sample of what I know. What directories, files should I backup to insure that I my system will have all the needed information to get me up and running quickly?? Thanks Aaron I know for a fact that if you just take the ~/home/username/evolution directory, your evo settings, mail and etc will be saved...I certainly don't want to loose 50,000+ emails...(gads - and to think that Outlook can't deal with that type of bulk - ha!) -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup what??? plus NIC
Thanks Aaron On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 01:02, Aaron wrote: Thanks, Does anyone know where the setting for my nic are stored. You might want to save your /etc/modules.conf - that would contain the actual options for your NIC - and you might want to save everything under your /etc/rc.d (for reference - not to use again) I want to write a script which will copy my current setting for my nic and my adsl configuration so that I don't have to spend 2 weeks waiting for an internet connection when I reinstall. ...and your /etc/ppp directories... ...and your /etc/sysconfig directories... ...that should about do it - am I missing anything? -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
we all need help Aaron On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:55, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] backup what???
I am finally getting up the courage to remove my windoze directory and have a Lin only box. I want to format and reinstall Mandrake 9.0 I originally installed from source tree and it seems that there were apps missing at the time. I will reinstall from the iso cd's which I now have. The question is. I want to retain my ximain evolution mail settings, ny internet settings (I use a provider with a unique setup), and my mozilla bookmarks. My urpmi remote directories etc. This is just a sample of what I know. What directories, files should I backup to insure that I my system will have all the needed information to get me up and running quickly?? Thanks Aaron -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] before I quit
Thanks for the response, sorry I didn't respond back sooner but I changed email programs and just now finished updating all the threads. I now sorta have the drives working. The problem was that in my fstab I had scd0 and scd1 but when I tried to mount them I got an error not a block device. I looked in /dev/cdroms/ and I saw the entried cdrom0 and cdrom1 I added them to my fstab and voila the drives mount now. It just makes no sense to me but there you have it. Still my ide plextor gives me a message no media found but when I try to mount the light goes on and I see it trying to scan the drive so I know its working. Thanks so far. Aaron On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 11:46 am, Aaron wrote: Hi I have been running mandrake 9.0 for the last few months. I have a number of hardware issues which I can't seem to resolve. I am writing one last time before I install RedHat. I have three cdroms on my computer one is a dvd ide drive hitachi the second is and ide plextor burner 40/12/40a and the third is a true scsi plextor 40max The only one I can use as a cd drive is the dvd one. Do you mean that you can't even read from the others? My Hitachi dvd drive is the one I installed from, therefore the one that all updates are taken from. This may be the case with you, but you should be able to read from the others. The writer worked from eroster and webadmin until last week when I get errors (which I don't remember) the drives are not mountable etc. Which method do you use to try to mount them? What happens? here is my fstab, /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto If this one is the burner, it needs the ro changing to rw codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 This is my equivalent line: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Of course, supermount doesn't work in every setup, so using auto instead should work fine. Keep it simple, at least until you have a working system, then make changes one at a time. /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom3 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,user,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /snd ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 --- The second problem is my printer I have a usb deskjet 3420 of HP. Mandrake finds it and installs all the necessary drivers etc. but it doesnt print a test page or any other page for that matter. The driver installed by default isn't always the best one. Go to Mandrake Control Centre, remove the printer, then re-install it. Take care to use the Advanced (or is it Expert?) button, which lists the models in detail. This should ensure that you get the best driver. It's very difficult to change the driver on an existing printer setup. Much easier and quicker to start again. Anne __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] before I quit
Yes I agree that all distros have their own quirks and I am now back on board. The drives all worked on my win boot that was what was making me crazy... And even crazier is the fact that the cdburning stuff found my cdr and used it succesfully.. :) The printer is another bag of beans, I went and downloaded the driver from HP. I installed it according to instructions but I just couldn't understand how to enter the command line options they gave to test the configuration. I tried reinstalling from scratch with the new driver but no results. Since my cd problem is solved I have regained a bit of patience for the printer, although it is a bit frustrating to reboot everytime you need to print I am going to the printing user groups archives to see how others got up and running. Thanks to all who answered. Aaron On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 02:25, mycal62 wrote: Hi , have you tried to run the cd drives in other boxes to insure they work? also have you changed the IDE cable first? I ask because I went through a similar situation. it turned out to be the slave connection on a UDMA cable. the master was fine but the slave was bad though it was a new cable. after several hours of fighting it, I changed the cable and I put in a cd drive I thought was dead, but now works fine. it was the cable. this was a hard one to figure out because the drives would show up in the bios, but would not work in the os. also I have had other cd drives that were not perfect that Linux ( RH or MDK whatever ) would not play with because they were not perfect. I am loyal to MDK , primarily because it's Linux, and I like the interface, your flavor may vary ;-) Mike Aaron wrote: Hi I have been running mandrake 9.0 for the last few months. I have a number of hardware issues which I can't seem to resolve. I am writing one last time before I install RedHat. I have three cdroms on my computer one is a dvd ide drive hitachi the second is and ide plextor burner 40/12/40a and the third is a true scsi plextor 40max The only one I can use as a cd drive is the dvd one. The writer worked from eroster and webadmin until last week when I get errors (which I don't remember) the drives are not mountable etc. here is my fstab, /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom3 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,user,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /snd ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 --- The second problem is my printer I have a usb deskjet 3420 of HP. Mandrake finds it and installs all the necessary drivers etc. but it doesnt print a test page or any other page for that matter. - If anyone can help me it would be most appreciated. I have down loaded redhat 8 and thought I would give mandrake one more chance before I install it (I like the interface etc of the distribution) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] before I quit
Hi I have been running mandrake 9.0 for the last few months. I have a number of hardware issues which I can't seem to resolve. I am writing one last time before I install RedHat. I have three cdroms on my computer one is a dvd ide drive hitachi the second is and ide plextor burner 40/12/40a and the third is a true scsi plextor 40max The only one I can use as a cd drive is the dvd one. The writer worked from eroster and webadmin until last week when I get errors (which I don't remember) the drives are not mountable etc. here is my fstab, /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom3 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,user,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /snd ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 --- The second problem is my printer I have a usb deskjet 3420 of HP. Mandrake finds it and installs all the necessary drivers etc. but it doesnt print a test page or any other page for that matter. - If anyone can help me it would be most appreciated. I have down loaded redhat 8 and thought I would give mandrake one more chance before I install it (I like the interface etc of the distribution) -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lindows
well I did some research and the bottom line is do you want a distro that lets you run windows apps?? Are you looking for a debian distro? Then these distros are trying more or less succesfully to fulfil a niche. A dummies linux for windows people. Lindow Xandros and all of them cost money. I tried corel and liked the idea but not the implementation. They say this round of distros is much better. But if you have mucked around with a normal distro you are probably one who doesn't need them. ON the other side. If you feel you want to run windows apps on linux there are apps out ther e that let you do this some better and some worse just as xandros and lindows. These are Vmware and Win4lin and crossover office. these pay alternatives will bring you pretty much up to the windowy level that these distro's offer but with a user base that has longer experience. lol Aaron --On Monday, December 23, 2002 05:35:25 AM -0600 Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed in Wal-Mart for taking it. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lindows
You are forgetting the w2k crowd that understand user permissions. Lindow seems a bit annoying to me at least Xandros is based on corel which with all its problem didn't try to be windows. Aaron --On Monday, December 23, 2002 01:10:52 PM + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 Dec 2022 1:09 pm, robin wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed in Wal-Mart for taking it. From what I know of Lindows, it strikes me as the worst of both worlds. I hear it automatically logs you in as root, thus blowing most of the famous Linux security and stability in one fell swoop. That should make windows users feel at home :) Anne AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] menus menu menyou menme help
I am having menu problems. I have lots of rpms that don't appear in the menu of mandrake and I want to know how to scan the rpm database and have them added to the menus. I also have applications which I added from sources or shell script installations which I also would like to scan somehow and add them to the menu. I would think a way exists for rpms already. (as I remember in the old kde there was) But for tars etc., there would have to be a custom script or something?? I realize that for command line apps this doesn't seem so important. I could if want later go into the gui and have it run from a shell. Thanks Aaron AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives
--On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:49:30 PM +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:12, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi all, I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight. The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and Counter-Strike. As I see it, my choices are wine(x), vmware, and dual booting. I think win4lin. I don't own it but plan to it will solve the problem of dual booting in the mean time. counter-strike like most of its time are system draining, which I think kills vmware and wine before you start. write to the win4lin people and see if they have or will test it for you Aaron Most of the past 4 days has been spent searching, reading, and trying different things to get Half-Life (Counter-Strike) running with winex. It still doesn't work and I'm not prepared to spend that much time trying to get Visio running, so I've built another partition and put Win2k on it. I'll dual boot for now. But that's not gonna cut it for long. I want Linux as my base OS, and I have to be able to run Visio until there's a nix equivalent that will handle Visio files flawlessly. (Exporting/Importing via HTML or whatnot is neat but not good enough.) I'm considering the purchase of VMware Workstation, but it's a $300 decision. So I thought I check here first. This has to be a common issue. Are there any other options - recommendations? Thanks in advance, -- ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanted to say something about this before, but constantly forget to do so - so I'll do it now. WINE wants to be an abstraction layer - a clone, per se, so that Windows apps can run - right? SO, if you look in the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory, you see a rather bleak and bland SKELETON of Windows directories and the likes. Well, that didn't sit right with me - and wanting to run MYOB whilst in fave linux, I decided to hack WINE. First, I copied just about everything from my /mnt/hda1/windows directories right into the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory. Fonts, DLL's - you name it - I copied it there. I wanted to give Windows programs everything they asked for. I also dittoed the same with the Program Files subdirs, too. I dug through all the ini files and the WINE registry files to straighten out things that had been changed as well as point some virtual dll's to the real McCoy's...took a while, and took a fair bit of experimenting, but overall, now I can run native Windows applications in my linux world. Now my way was hacked/slashed - but from what I unnerstan...WineX is by far the better way to go...they've spent a good deal of time getting WINE Game Playable - which basically tells me that if you can run a game like UT2002 or HL under linux, running sniveling little MS wanna-be programs like Viso (only joking there) would be a snap. And mate, if I can live completely in a Window-less world (socially even) then so can you! -- Wed Dec 18 22:40:01 EST 2002 10:40pm up 5:32, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.14, 0.20 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | '. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I love dogs, but I hate Chihuahuas. A Chihuahua isn't a dog. It's a rat with a thyroid problem. AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] menus menu menyou menme help
Thanks Aaron I am really looking for a way to create some post install routines for turnkey that will scan a file which has a list of installed programs with a menu item in it and add these automatically to the mandrake menus. I would need to be pointed where to look for what format such a file should be in and how to link it up. (like it was an rpm data base that mandrake/kdes/gnomes menus would think they were the same and update their menus from it) Aaron --On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:22:55 PM + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 1:35 pm, Aaron Mehl wrote: I am having menu problems. I have lots of rpms that don't appear in the menu of mandrake and I want to know how to scan the rpm database and have them added to the menus. I also have applications which I added from sources or shell script installations which I also would like to scan somehow and add them to the menu. I would think a way exists for rpms already. (as I remember in the old kde there was) But for tars etc., there would have to be a custom script or something?? I realize that for command line apps this doesn't seem so important. I could if want later go into the gui and have it run from a shell. Thanks Aaron AM in the AM (PM) You will only get an automatic menu entry if the spec of the RPM defines one. If you think some menus entries are missing, then the command 'update-menus' as root will update the menus of every user. Of course if you have been installing non-mandrake RPMs then the menu entries are not compatible and will not appear. (Note: It is possible for a 'bad' menu entry to prevent other menu items being displayed. I remember Civileme wrote a script to check for malformed menu entries. A search of the archives will find it for you) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming
There are lots of text editors on linux but the two main ones are vim and emacs. both have a bit of a learning curve both do all that you ask, and as to which is better is a dangerous question to answer. I have tried emacs and after much persistance I finally learned vim well enough to call it my tool. aaron - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cgi help
Since were on the subject of cgi. I setup apache and put a test site in the var/www/html/ directory. I added some cgi scripts and programs I download from the net. However non of them will work for me. I checked that I have the correct path to perl But I still get Internal Server Error from the apache server. I don't know what I am missing. Could someone help?? Thanks Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:28, Franki wrote: try swapping the url to the image and css from relative to absolute, and move both out of the cgi-bin. they should be somewhere like /var/www/html/images in the script they should link to the URL.. http://mydomain.com/images/gandhi.jpg see how you go with that. some setups will not server images and stuff from the cgi-bin. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of L.V.Gandhi Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 11:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cgi help When I call the cgi file given below, I don't get the effects of stylesheet mentioned in the header and also the picture. both the files are in the same folder as that of the cgi file. === #!/usr/bin/perl print End; Content-Type: text/html\n\n html head titletest/title link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=teststyle.css / /head body h1test/h1 img src=gandhi.jpg alt=My picture height=153 width=131 align=left /body /html End == I called the script with test .html given below. htmlheadtitleTest/title/head body a href=cgi-bin/test1.plcsstestabr /body/html What should be done to get the desired effect. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA 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] Linux and pre-schoolers
While on the subject for kids here are some links I ran accross. kidsforge page http://www.linuxforkids.org/ The KDE project http://edu.kde.org/ http://telematique.org/ft/kids.htm This is a lego clones which I was unable to get running on md 9.0 If anyone is able let me know how. http://leocad.gerf.org/ lol Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:08, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 2:10 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:39:28AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Looks great, Todd. I would like to see projects like this reported in computer mags - at least those with an open mind. I would suggest possibly forwarding this post to Linux Format, Linux Magazine, PCPlus and Computer Shopper. The last two are not linux only, of course, but both carry some coverage. It's projects like this that take some of the 'scare' out of starting. What do you think? Anne Thanks. I have thought about writing some more details about the setup and turning it into a web page and submitting it to opensourceschools.org. But I also like the idea of taking it mainstream. Well, we have been discussing how we can get more media coverage. I think something like this would be invaluable - a real application of how to use it for a specific market. There are obvious packages for kids under windows, but it's not well-known that you can set up a whole user base for such youngsters under linux. Anne 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] cgi help
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:18, Franki wrote: here are some steps to try. OK here is the output but I am not sure what it means 1. Check the error log.. open a console: tail /var/log/httpd/error_log [Wed Nov 27 21:05:15 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist: /var/www/html/_vti_bin [Wed Nov 27 21:05:20 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist: /var/www/html/_mem_bin [Wed Nov 27 21:05:21 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist: /var/www/html/msadc [Wed Nov 27 21:05:23 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist: /var/www/html/scripts [Wed Nov 27 21:05:27 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist: /var/www/html/scripts [Wed Nov 27 21:05:29 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist: /var/www/html/scripts [Wed Nov 27 21:05:34 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist: /var/www/html/scripts [Wed Nov 27 21:05:36 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not exist: /var/www/html/scripts [Wed Nov 27 21:14:54 2002] [error] [client 62.219.128.77] File does not exist: /var/www/html/scripts [Wed Nov 27 21:14:57 2002] [error] [client 62.219.128.77] File does not exist: /var/www/html/scripts 2. Make sure the file was uploaded as asci not binary.. if you used an ftp client. This is all localhost 3. Make sure /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf or httd.conf has a section for /cgi-bin/ and that its set to ALLOW. 5 make sure the permissions and ownership are correct.. as a basis to see if you can get it working, try this: chmod 755 myscript.pl chown apache.apache myscript.pl then try it again.. they are the most common problems I have seen with cgi scripts and server 500 errors. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] cgi help Since were on the subject of cgi. I setup apache and put a test site in the var/www/html/ directory. I added some cgi scripts and programs I download from the net. However non of them will work for me. I checked that I have the correct path to perl But I still get Internal Server Error from the apache server. I don't know what I am missing. Could someone help?? Thanks Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:28, Franki wrote: try swapping the url to the image and css from relative to absolute, and move both out of the cgi-bin. they should be somewhere like /var/www/html/images in the script they should link to the URL.. http://mydomain.com/images/gandhi.jpg see how you go with that. some setups will not server images and stuff from the cgi-bin. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of L.V.Gandhi Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 11:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cgi help When I call the cgi file given below, I don't get the effects of stylesheet mentioned in the header and also the picture. both the files are in the same folder as that of the cgi file. === #!/usr/bin/perl print End; Content-Type: text/html\n\n html head titletest/title link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=teststyle.css / /head body h1test/h1 img src=gandhi.jpg alt=My picture height=153 width=131 align=left /body /html End == I called the script with test .html given below. htmlheadtitleTest/title/head body a href=cgi-bin/test1.plcsstestabr /body/html What should be done to get the desired effect. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cgi help
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:29, Franki wrote:
is your IP address either of those?? my ipaddress?? I am using localhost do I need
an ipaddress for this and if so???
I am using apache to locally test a site I built. I would also love to
let others see it. Am I barking up the wrong tree??
Or is the ipaddress the one my machine uses to connect to the net???
Thanks
Aaron
the vti and mem and msadc look like a frontpage application of some sort..
just what is the script you are trying to run???
{ xmlboard and clinks
I am trying to get a usable free forum and a cgi script that will rotate
a line of text weekly.}
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 4:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] cgi help
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:18, Franki wrote:
here are some steps to try.
OK here is the output but I am not sure what it means
1. Check the error log.. open a console: tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:15 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/_vti_bin
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:20 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/_mem_bin
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:21 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/msadc
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:23 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:27 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:29 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:34 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:36 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:14:54 2002] [error] [client 62.219.128.77] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:14:57 2002] [error] [client 62.219.128.77] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
2. Make sure the file was uploaded as asci not binary.. if you used an ftp
client.
This is all localhost
3. Make sure /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf or httd.conf has a section
for
/cgi-bin/ and that its set to ALLOW.
5 make sure the permissions and ownership are correct.. as a basis to see
if
you can get it working, try this:
chmod 755 myscript.pl
chown apache.apache myscript.pl
then try it again..
they are the most common problems I have seen with cgi scripts and server
500 errors.
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] cgi help
Since were on the subject of cgi.
I setup apache and put a test site in the var/www/html/ directory. I
added some cgi scripts and programs I download from the net. However non
of them will work for me. I checked that I have the correct path to perl
But I still get Internal Server Error from the apache server.
I don't know what I am missing.
Could someone help??
Thanks
Aaron
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:28, Franki wrote:
try swapping the url to the image and css from relative to absolute, and
move both out of the cgi-bin.
they should be somewhere like /var/www/html/images
in the script they should link to the URL..
http://mydomain.com/images/gandhi.jpg
see how you go with that. some setups will not server images and stuff
from
the cgi-bin.
rgds
Franki
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of L.V.Gandhi
Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 11:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] cgi help
When I call the cgi file given below, I don't get the effects of
stylesheet
mentioned in the header and also the picture. both the files are in the
same
folder as that of the cgi file.
===
#!/usr/bin/perl
print End;
Content-Type: text/html\n\n
html
head
titletest/title
link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=teststyle.css /
/head
body
h1test/h1
img src=gandhi.jpg alt=My picture height=153 width=131
align=left
/body
/html
End
==
I called the script with test .html given below.
htmlheadtitleTest/title/head
body
a href=cgi-bin/test1.plcsstestabr
/body/html
What should be done to get the desired effect.
--
L.V.Gandhi
203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam,
530017
MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Want to buy your
RE: [newbie] cgi help
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:12, Franki wrote:
no,, 127.0.0.1 should work.. but it means those entries in your error log
have nothing to do with you..
give us more details..
1. where exactly is the file installed?? (eg /var/www/cgi-bin ) {There are two
parts in two directories the xmlboard.cgi is in the /var/www/cgi-bin directory}
{And the rest of the program is in a directory called forum. I first put
it under var/www/ then I thought that maybe it should be in my home
directory so I made one there and changed the path to it in the
xmlboard.cgi script file}
2. Where did you get the script, whats it called, where did you get it and
what does it do (supposed to)?{ It is a xml based forum. I got it from cgi resources
the home site of the script is http://xmlboard.hypermart.net/ }
3. What exact url are you using in the browser to test the script.{
http://localhost/cgi-bin/xmlboard.cgi}
that info should help in working out what is going on.
{Also here is the readme file as an attachment.}
Thanks
Aaron
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 4:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] cgi help
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:29, Franki wrote:
is your IP address either of those?? my ipaddress?? I am using localhost
do I need an ipaddress for this and if so???
I am using apache to locally test a site I built. I would also love to
let others see it. Am I barking up the wrong tree??
Or is the ipaddress the one my machine uses to connect to the net???
Thanks
Aaron
the vti and mem and msadc look like a frontpage application of some sort..
just what is the script you are trying to run???
{ xmlboard and clinks
I am trying to get a usable free forum and a cgi script that will rotate
a line of text weekly.}
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 4:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] cgi help
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:18, Franki wrote:
here are some steps to try.
OK here is the output but I am not sure what it means
1. Check the error log.. open a console: tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:15 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/_vti_bin
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:20 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/_mem_bin
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:21 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/msadc
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:23 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:27 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:29 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:34 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:05:36 2002] [error] [client 62.219.125.72] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:14:54 2002] [error] [client 62.219.128.77] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
[Wed Nov 27 21:14:57 2002] [error] [client 62.219.128.77] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/scripts
2. Make sure the file was uploaded as asci not binary.. if you used an
ftp
client.
This is all localhost
3. Make sure /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf or httd.conf has a section
for
/cgi-bin/ and that its set to ALLOW.
5 make sure the permissions and ownership are correct.. as a basis to
see
if
you can get it working, try this:
chmod 755 myscript.pl
chown apache.apache myscript.pl
then try it again..
they are the most common problems I have seen with cgi scripts and
server
500 errors.
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] cgi help
Since were on the subject of cgi.
I setup apache and put a test site in the var/www/html/ directory. I
added some cgi scripts and programs I download from the net. However non
of them will work for me. I checked that I have the correct path to perl
But I still get Internal Server Error from the apache server.
I don't know what I am missing.
Could someone help??
Thanks
Aaron
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:28, Franki wrote:
try swapping the url to the image and css from relative to absolute,
and
move both out of the cgi-bin.
they should be somewhere like /var/www/html/images
in the script they should link to the URL..
http://mydomain.com/images/gandhi.jpg
see how you go with that. some setups will not server images and stuff
from
the cgi
RE: [newbie] ATI support
I am currently using the newly released ATI drivers on my AIW 8500DV. No features beyond 2D/3D are supported as far as I know. They also seem to be slower than the last set and the DRI drivers, but they handle playing videos better. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Anthony Abby Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:21 PM To: Mandrake-Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] ATI support On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 12:49, Ralph M. Los wrote: Has anyone on the list tried using the Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500R? The fact that I don't see support for it is the ONLY thing keeping me in WinXP right now. I would absolutely LOVE to see a Radeon AiW 7500r card supported!!! Remote, tv-input, dvd play, and all. Feedback is requested. Well it's not perfect, but you could use the generic VESA drivers. Thats what I use on my Compaq Prsario 2710US laptop (ati rage mobility LY). When I got the laptop it had Windows XP HE installed, but I wasted little time in loading Linux on it. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE/ATAPI CD-RW
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:32, John Richard Smith wrote: Aaron wrote: Hi I am also having a problem but guess I am not so far along as you are. I have a plextor ide cdr that stopped working so I sent to be repaired. I never tried to configure it under MD 9.0 before but I am attempting this now. I see in kdes scsi control module that it exist as Host:scsi2 channel:00 ld: 02 Lun: 00 whatever that means. Whaen I do cdrecord -scanbus I get this Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-ROM PX-40TS ' '1.10' Removable CD-ROM 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) * 2,1,0 201) * 2,2,0 202) 'D ÿD ÿ' 'D ÿD ÿD ÿD ÿ' 'D ÿ' vendor specific 4 unknown device type 0x1c 2,3,0 203) * 2,4,0 204) * 2,5,0 205) * 2,6,0 206) * 2,7,0 207) * I had it setup in fstab before I took the drive out, now the entries are no good, and I need to find out what to put in fstab for my cd. I have three cds a ide dvd reader, a scsi reader, and an ide cdr. thanks Aaron Gutten Tag Aaron, You have 2 devices , a CDROM Ultraplex 40max scsi reader and a Writer, both on 2nd IDE line (my hitachi dvd??)? I have 2 ide devices a dvd hitachi and the plextor writer The Plextor is the writer ?Yes 40/12/40a Plexwriter ide are they both IDE devices ? if not which is true scsi device The 40max is true scsi? can we see your /etc/fstab entries please/dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /download ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb/mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,rw,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom3 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,user,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks do you need to see /dev/ I could ls dev.txt if you like??? Thanks so much Aaron 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] [OT] Mousemats
As a tech writer I developed tendenitus from the mouse. I tried many device and it is amazing how little they help really. the one device I tried look like a joystick but didn't bend. It was the best for the arm and hand but had no scroll wheel and was a pain to work with. From others I heard that adding voice control in combination with the mouse helped a lot. the other alternative is a macro recording program to turn mouse clicks into keyboard shortcuts. btw many programs have keybindings they don't document that they used in development. Any mouse where you turn your hand flat can lead to trouble. Also to assist your shoulder check your desk height you may need a drawer to lower the mouse and a foot support, these really help the shoulders etc. lol Aaron On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 13:36, _nasturtium wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:13, Poogle wrote: About 2 weeks ago my employer moved from a package which was about 90% keyboard based to a new package which requires almost complete mouse useage. As I am now pointing clicking for 8 hours a day my mouse side shoulder is getting quite sore. Now to the question, I have seen thigh mounted mouse pads advertised and wondered if any of you have any experience of them, if so do they help ease the problems caused by repetitive mouse useage ? Another possibility is alternating between right/left hand useage, again do any of you do this or does the action which is alien to the wrong hand create the same problem on that side? There's a few choices available that might ease the symptoms; 3M sells an Ergonomic stick mouse, that's rather like a joystick (but the whole thing moves). Or the iMac mice (NOT the soapbar ones) are good, in my experience. I'm referring to the nice optical one where you actually use your whole hand to click the button. Thigh mounted mousepads are not very good. Your arm tends to be bent sharply at the elbow for prolonged periods of time, which isn't very comfortable. Furthermore, they move too much, and unless you got an optical mouse you won't get much precision (which I expect you would need, using it all day). Swapping between right/left hand usage: theoretically, this is a great idea. Just remember to switch the left/right mouse buttons; it makes sense because you want the index finger to press the left/main button. There are only two drawbacks to this method: 1) Most people aren't ambidextrous. Sure, if you play soccer and your right foot is sprained, you can kick with your left leg, but your results won't be too good. 2) Some mice, notably Microsoft IntellimouseS, are biased towards the right hand. It's simply not possible to hold it with your left hand. Other mice (like my 2button Logitech) is dimpled, which is OK. If you're using a graphics package, then a Wacom graphics tablet may be just what you need. Regards, _nasturtium 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] IDE/ATAPI CD-RW
I did find sr0 and scd0 but when I substituded them in fstab I got the following error: mount: /dev/sr0 is not a block device thanks Aaron On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 18:16, John Richard Smith wrote: Aaron wrote: Itried mounting and got this root@adsl mnt]# mount /mnt/cdrom1 mount: special device /dev/scd1 does not exist In /dev I see links for cdrom, cdrom0, and cdrom1??? how do I find my cd drive names?? Thanks Aaron No, I didn't mean that. lets take your fstab entries below, your device will be called whatever you describe it in fstab, so /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 the device is /mnt/cdrom, that is ok, this looks like it's the straight ide device and you do not want or need scsi-emulation. /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,rw,user,nodev 0 0 but here again you have another device cdrom, you should not have 2 devices with the same name, unless of course it is the same device, but I don't think it is in your case.Therefore change the name of the device to be something else, eg. cdrom2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom3 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 I think this is your true scsi device.it is ok to call it cdrom3 so what I am saying is, why not change the entry in fstab from , /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,rw,user,nodev 0 0 to /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,rw,user,nodev 0 0 and then ensure that in directory /mnt you have all three devices as:- /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom3 That way you have 2 scsi devices, one true scsi, the other and ide device faked under scsi-emulation , and a genuine ide device. All are then properly mounted under /mnt/cdrom , /mnt/cdrom2, /mnt/cdrom3, and to mount everything just type into a root terminal mount -a , and they should all be mounted. the way you have it at the moment, two devices are mounted under the one /mnt/cdrom directory. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE/ATAPI CD-RW
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 00:34, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aaron wrote:
I think this is a case for one of those modprobe commands that I'm not
really
cleaver with, but in a root terminal try modprobe -c and lsmod
and report back and let us see if other list members can help.
{I did the modprobe -c and redirected it to a file which is attached}
Aaron
--
John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
# Generated by modprobe -c (2.4.19)
path[boot]=/lib/modules/boot
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdksmp
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4
path[kernel]=/lib/modules/kernel
path[fs]=/lib/modules/fs
path[net]=/lib/modules/net
path[scsi]=/lib/modules/scsi
path[block]=/lib/modules/block
path[cdrom]=/lib/modules/cdrom
path[ipv4]=/lib/modules/ipv4
path[ipv6]=/lib/modules/ipv6
path[sound]=/lib/modules/sound
path[fc4]=/lib/modules/fc4
path[video]=/lib/modules/video
path[misc]=/lib/modules/misc
path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/pcmcia
path[atm]=/lib/modules/atm
path[usb]=/lib/modules/usb
path[ide]=/lib/modules/ide
path[ieee1394]=/lib/modules/ieee1394
path[mtd]=/lib/modules/mtd
# Prune
prune modules.dep
prune modules.description
prune modules.generic_string
prune modules.pcimap
prune modules.isapnpmap
prune modules.usbmap
prune modules.parportmap
prune modules.ieee1394map
prune modules.pnpbiosmap
prune System.map
prune .config
prune build
prune vmlinux
prune vmlinuz
prune bzImage
prune zImage
prune .rhkmvtag
# Above
above hid keybdev mousedev
above usbmouse hid
above wacom evdev
# Below
below ov518_decomp ov511
# Aliases
alias binfmt- off
alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-263 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-264 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-267 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-387 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-332 iBCS
alias binfmt--310 binfmt_java
alias block-major-1 rd
alias block-major-2 floppy
alias block-major-3 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-7 loop
alias block-major-8 sd_mod
alias block-major-9 md
alias block-major-11 sr_mod
alias block-major-13 xd
alias block-major-15 cdu31a
alias block-major-16 gscd
alias block-major-17 optcd
alias block-major-18 sjcd
alias block-major-20 mcdx
alias block-major-22 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-23 mcd
alias block-major-24 sonycd535
alias block-major-25 sbpcd
alias block-major-26 sbpcd
alias block-major-27 sbpcd
alias block-major-29 aztcd
alias block-major-32 cm206
alias block-major-33 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-34 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-37 ide-tape
alias block-major-44 ftl
alias block-major-46 pcd
alias block-major-47 pf
alias block-major-56 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-57 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-58 lvm-mod
alias block-major-88 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-89 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-90 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-91 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-93 nftl
alias block-major-97 pg
alias char-major-4 serial
alias char-major-5 serial
alias char-major-6 lp
alias char-major-9 st
alias char-major-10 off
alias char-major-10-0 busmouse
alias char-major-10-1 off
alias char-major-10-2 msbusmouse
alias char-major-10-3 atixlmouse
alias char-major-10-130 wdt
alias char-major-10-131 wdt
alias char-major-10-135 rtc
alias char-major-10-139 openprom
alias char-major-10-144 nvram
alias char-major-10-157 applicom
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
alias char-major-10-184 microcode
alias char-major-13 input
alias char-major-13-32 mousedev
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias char-major-19 cyclades
alias char-major-20 cyclades
alias char-major-21 sg
alias char-major-22 pcxx
alias char-major-23 pcxx
alias char-major-27 ftape
alias char-major-34 scc
alias char-major-35 tclmidi
alias char-major-36 netlink
alias char-major-37 ide-tape
alias char-major-48 riscom8
alias char-major-49 riscom8
alias char-major-57 esp
alias char-major-58 esp
alias char-major-63 kdebug
alias char-major-90 mtdchar
alias char-major-96 pt
alias char-major-99 ppdev
alias char-major-107 3dfx
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias char-major-109 lvm-mod
alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
alias char-major-171 raw1394
alias char-major-195 NVdriver
alias char-major-200 vxspec
alias dos msdos
alias dummy0 dummy
alias dummy1 dummy
alias eth0 eepro100
alias iso9660 isofs
alias md-personality-1 linear
alias md-personality-2 raid0
alias md-personality-3 raid1
alias md-personality-4 raid5
alias md-personality-7 multipath
alias net-pf-1 unix
alias net-pf-2 ipv4
alias net-pf-3 off
alias net-pf-4 ipx
alias net-pf-5 appletalk
alias net-pf-6 off
alias net-pf-10 off
alias net-pf-17 af_packet
alias net-pf-19 off
alias netalias-2 ip_alias
alias irlan0 irlan
alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
alias irda-dongle-1 esi
alias irda-dongle-2 actisys
alias irda-dongle-3 actisys
alias irda-dongle-4 girbil
alias irda-dongle-5 litelink
alias irda-dongle-6 airport
alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin
alias plip0 plip
alias plip1 plip
alias tunl0 ipip
alias cipcb0 cipcb
alias cipcb1 cipcb
alias cipcb2 cipcb
alias cipcb3 cipcb
alias ppp0
Re: [newbie] Great Win for Mandrake 9.0 APC mag.
Hi just read what Stephen wrote about tweaking kde and I honestly am finding it a bit slow. I would rather stick with it than change windowing but since most of my time is taken with working I haven't put much thought to fiddling with kde. However I would like to hear some pointers on this. Cause now I am ready. Thanks and lol Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:49, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 18:37, Franki wrote: Hi Guys, The december edition of APC mag (AUstralian PC mag) has voted Mandrake 9.0 as the best OS of 2002.. They also gave away a copy last month as a coverCD (the first two CD's Actually)... and they are constantly sprouting about how good it is.. They are the most popular PC mag in Australia, so alot of people read them. Good news for the cause huh?? rgds Frank Having bought APC last month and having loaded Mandrake on several machines and in several VM's, I do have to say it's not bad for a workstation, but required a bit too much of my time for configuration and tweaking - package management and package installation didn't really fit my requirements. Overall, though - and I do mean this honestly - it's not bad for noobs or for workstations - and does come with some great software integration. I have already recommended it to several clients/customers and the likes. I'm still a bit peeved over the lack of speed in Gnome2 and KDE out of the box, but then again, I wouldn't be happy if I couldn't or didn't have to tweak something. It will live on a few workstations here and in a few VM's here, but my personal baby eats RH 7.3 and suits MY personal needs... On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give MDK 9.0 an 8 - which is quite good, mind you... ...and I don't mean to cause any consternation with the remarks made here - just being honest and open mates! -- Wed Nov 20 18:40:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 The scene: in a vast, painted desert, a cowboy faces his horse. Cowboy: Well, you've been a pretty good hoss, I guess. Hardworkin'. Not the fastest critter I ever come acrost, but... Horse: No, stupid, not feed*back*. I said I wanted a feed*bag*. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi setup
Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp mirror how do I set this up. I have tried using Mandrakes control center but with no success. Thanks Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi setup
thanks, Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:17, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:43 pm, Aaron wrote: Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp mirror how do I set this up. I have tried using Mandrakes control center but with no success. Thanks Aaron Remove your CD sources using rpmdrake, (but keep contrib) and then in a root terminal (while online) urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz (This command on one line) Or some other mirror if you prefer. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi setup
I did it and this is what I got root@adsl aaron]# urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz added medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD (disk1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.windowscontr.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] retrieving description file of Distro_9.0... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of Distro_9.0... curl: (19) Can't open synthesis.hdlist.cz: No such file or directory ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0 retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Distro_9.0.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium Distro_9.0 unable to update medium Distro_9.0 I will try another ftp also any idea what went worng?? Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:17, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:43 pm, Aaron wrote: Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp mirror how do I set this up. I have tried using Mandrakes control center but with no success. Thanks Aaron Remove your CD sources using rpmdrake, (but keep contrib) and then in a root terminal (while online) urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz (This command on one line) Or some other mirror if you prefer. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi setup
thanks to everyone. just appears that I tried the wrong directory. next question. Is there a way I can add a non mandrake ftp to urpmi?? I am interested in multimedia and would like to be able to update from the net. Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 20:19, Carl J. Bauman wrote: Thanks, Derek. That worked. Derek Jennings wrote: Whoops.. sorry my mistake. I cannot even cut and paste properly it should be urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz I do recommend that rediris server. It is really fast. :) derek On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 6:08 pm, Aaron wrote: I did it and this is what I got root@adsl aaron]# urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz added medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD (disk1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.windowscontr.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] retrieving description file of Distro_9.0... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of Distro_9.0... curl: (19) Can't open synthesis.hdlist.cz: No such file or directory ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0 retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Distro_9.0.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium Distro_9.0 unable to update medium Distro_9.0 I will try another ftp also any idea what went worng?? Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:17, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:43 pm, Aaron wrote: Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp mirror how do I set this up. I have tried using Mandrakes control center but with no success. Thanks Aaron Remove your CD sources using rpmdrake, (but keep contrib) and then in a root terminal (while online) urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz (This command on one line) Or some other mirror if you prefer. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Make command....
A common problem I used to have is not being root when configuring. The configure script checks your system etc and if you are not root often it fails. Also alway read the INSTALL file which will tell you lots of useful information, what configure does etc. lol On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 01:13, Radosaw Krl wrote: Hello everyone , i don't understand where i have made a mistake , i want to use a new program , downloaded from internet , for example : game called pacman or something else , it is not an installation version all i have to do is give two simple commands in shell first - ./configure and than make when I give make command my shell respond me that no makefiles was found but it is impossible i saw them they are in the right directory what to do ? Could you help me ? Ps: I want to thank all the people who had hellped me with using console problem. Arvo. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hp 3420 usb printer blues
I have been using MD 9.0 without a printer because I have no idea how to get mine working. One of the reasons I choose MD 9.0 was because of its improved usb support. When I installed the distribution it correctly found my printer and set it up as a usb device. It did a few steps and then choose a driver. It unfortunately didn't work. The problem I am having is how to debug whats wrong. 1. Is it a usb problem? 2. Is it a problem of the printing system cups et al.? 3. Is it a driver problem?? I saw that there were updates for the printing system and drivers I installed them but I don't see anywhere a driver specific to my printer. THE QUESTION IS WHERE DO I START?! Thanks in advance, Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome Wave Cleaner
Hi a thought, did you search google to see if someone made an rpm of it. if they did try using urpmi if you have it configured correctly it will try to find dependencies and install them, if it fails it will usually give a list of the needed rpms. Which you can download or have it download. I solved a lot of problems that way recently. lol Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 10:31, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:35:56 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just made my first attempt at compiling and installing a package (gwc-0.17-5) from source. Unfortunately I'm in trouble. The GWC README file lists FFTW and libsndfile as dependencies and I downloaded these and they seem to have compiled and installed ok, after a bit of confusion as to whether libsndfile should be in /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib they seem alright. However when I come to ./configure gwc it complains with the error:- Could not find gnomeConf.sh file that is generated by gnome-libs install I certainly have no gnomeConf.sh file and yet I do have gnome-libs-1.4.2-1mdk installed. Has anyone got any pointers as to what is wrong. TIA Pete Artdnamurchan Scotland You have to install libgnome32-devel-1.4.2-1mdk. HTH, -Frans 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] staaarting databases
I installed it and it needs to connect to the server with a username which i have not figured out how to set (I assume in mysql) Also of interest is an article on the mysql documents page www.mysql.org about using openoffice as the front end like ms access. I started it but it appears that alot of deatails have changed. In fact that is a constant problem the version changes and the documentation. Aaron On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 09:23, Raffaele Belardi wrote: There is a gnome GUI front end to mysql and postgresql, it's called GDA. It's in your MDK8.2 or 9.0 disks, you need to install the gda package and the gda-mysql or gda-postgres packages. I installed but had not the time yet to test it. Has anybody tried GDA? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, what is the best GUI for these databases? Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] staaarting databases
Hi I am trying to get a database working in MD 9.0. I have both mysql and postgrep installed. In both of them I can't get the server to start. using postmaster I get the following error. postmaster does not know where to find the database system data. You must specify the directory that contains the database system either by specifying the -D invocation option or by setting the PGDATA environment variable. I look for a data folder and don't find one. these are the trees which I see contain a directory called data. which is the right one??? /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/btree_gist/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/cube/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/intarray/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/rtree_gist/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/seg/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/tsearch/data Thanks and how do I set it?? - Mysql I try connecting to the server and I get the following errors ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Any idea anyone?? thanks Aaron Thanks for any help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] staaarting databases
wow to simple for words. Thanks Aaron On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 16:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't know about postgresql, but it sounds like you didn't set up either db server to start automatically at boot. for mysql (probably as root), type service mysql start that should get the db server running, allowing you to use the mysql client to connect. --- Original Message --- From: Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] staaarting databases Hi I am trying to get a database working in MD 9.0. I have both mysql and postgrep installed. In both of them I can't get the server to start. using postmaster I get the following error. postmaster does not know where to find the database system data. You must specify the directory that contains the database system either by specifying the -D invocation option or by setting the PGDATA environment variable. I look for a data folder and don't find one. these are the trees which I see contain a directory called data. which is the right one??? /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/btree_gist/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/cube/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/intarray/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/rtree_gist/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/seg/data /usr/lib/pgsql/contrib/tsearch/data Thanks and how do I set it?? - Mysql I try connecting to the server and I get the following errors ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Any idea anyone?? thanks Aaron Thanks for any help. 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] staaarting databases
Ok it installed but now what I looked at the installation directions and maybe just because of the way it is written I had no idea what to do to get it up and running. If you could help it would be a big help. Thanks Aaron On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 21:07, Paul wrote: In reply to Aaron's mail, d.d. 11 Nov 2002 23:00:54 +0200: I am also trying to install a gui. but non of them seem to install with MD 9.0. mysqlcc mysqlgui mysqlnavigator phpMyAdmin is wonderful. It works with a browser interface. You can get it from SourceForge.net Paul -- I quote others only the better to express myself. -Michel de Montaigne http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.3 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! 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] Limewire installation
Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny thing is when I checked my .bashrc it had no path info. In MD 9.0 is this stored somewhere else or what??? what should I put in my .bashrc do I need a JAVAHOME or something like it, I vaguely remember with an earlier dist I had to set it or maybe java did it as part of the install script. Thanks Aaron On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:42, Terry Sheltra wrote: Miark, Have you checked to make sure that Kaffe wasn't installed as well, and that in your ~/.bash_profile, you have the path to your j2re java executable? I had a similar problem to this, and for me, it turned out to be Kaffe. As soon as I uninstalled Kaffe, I was able to install Limewire. Let me know if you get it working. I have another problem with Limewire that I am unable to figure out. Thanks! Terry Miark wrote: Anybody been able to do install Limewire 2.7 successfully? I get a bunch of errors. I'm running j2re 1.4 from Mandrake Club. The error: Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... Launching installer... Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx100331648'. Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'. Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX) Stack Trace: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGd9 at ZeroGed.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x864382a) at ZeroGee.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86c5d73) at ZeroGed.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8224452) at ZeroGdv.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x85f3717) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x868f8f1) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.c(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86701ac) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8333ac2) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke0(Method.java:native) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:256) at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82ba9d6) at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82623ed) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Composed on a 100% Micro$soft-free PC 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] Linux book in normal english
hi I found the other book. rute it is called. http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz I still think that the best starting place is think unix. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Marc Sent: ?a 04 ?aaiao 2002 5:28? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux book in normal english A friend and I have been discussing linux in general and Mandrake in particular. below is part of a email that I received from him. Can anyone suggest some good reading material for this guy? Thanks all Marc Personaly I have always found that working with it while I am learning works best for me . On computers and about anything elese for that matter. But maybe that is just me I seem to learn in kinda a different way than most people. That's usually true for me to, but in this case, don't want to upset my applecart with regarding the things I use everyday... If I had a third computer to play and learn on, that'd be different. And remember learning enough to run my own is not enough, I want to be able to work on others as well. So a lot of playing and futzing is required. And I'm the kinda guy thats gotta have a gestalt. I need to build a construct in my head of how this thing works and where all the switches and buttons are just like I have with Winblows. Right now, I'm just learning the terminology. And the tutuorials I'm finding so far are all geek speek. They use one set of technical terms to explain another... it's a circle. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie]
could you be more specific. do you make partitions? did you call one of them swap / and what else did you do? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Craig Lister Sent: þà 03 ðåáîáø 2002 11:18þ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hiya! Brand new to Linux, and trying to install Mandrake 8.0 on an old Compaq Proliant Server (1500) with P166 and 128. Also new to SCSI, and this machine has tonnes of it. I managed to boot off the installation diskette, and got to the install of Linux, but was stopped when Linux could not find somewhere to load the OS onto. I have heard that installaing linux on these servers isn't easy. I used Compaqs Smart Start CD, and I think I got all that right. Maybe there is a command line way to get this to work? Thanks, Craig Wet Behind em Ears! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 5:50 am, aaron wrote: Hi I just finished installing mandrake 9.0 and am a bit bewildered. I look at /mnt/cdrom and in konqueror I see a lock on the icon. My scsi cdrom drive also has a lock on it. I can't access the drive from the command line. I can't chmod I can't chown. I have one cddrive with no lock on it but the disc shows all the content locked I am guessing this is due to the supermount but don't see any documentation on this. Is there a CD in the drive? (Not an audio CD, as that is not a file system and cannot be browsed.) derek You bet and I tried a few. I had just deleted debian (too much bother at this stage in my life) they worked fine then. In mandrake 8 all was fine. I am seeing a picture of a lock on the icons and also on the contents on the inserted cd of the one drive that doesn't have the lock thanks 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] mandrake 9.0
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 8:35 am, aaron wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 5:50 am, aaron wrote: Hi I just finished installing mandrake 9.0 and am a bit bewildered. I look at /mnt/cdrom and in konqueror I see a lock on the icon. My scsi cdrom drive also has a lock on it. I can't access the drive from the command line. I can't chmod I can't chown. I have one cddrive with no lock on it but the disc shows all the content locked I am guessing this is due to the supermount but don't see any documentation on this. Is there a CD in the drive? (Not an audio CD, as that is not a file system and cannot be browsed.) derek You bet and I tried a few. I had just deleted debian (too much bother at this stage in my life) they worked fine then. In mandrake 8 all was fine. I am seeing a picture of a lock on the icons and also on the contents on the inserted cd of the one drive that doesn't have the lock thanks Sorry if it seemed a dumb thing to ask, but you would be surprised how many people have asked that question without having a data CD in the drive :) Maybe your /etc/fstab file is incorrect. Here is what mine looks like :- none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umas k=0 0 0 (Note I am using scsi emulation that is why it is /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/hdc) If you are not using supermount, then of course the CD has to be mounted before use. If you are using supermount, any attempt to mount the CD will just screw up supermount. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I looked in the archives and I guessed that the problem was related to the supermount issue. I have a strong feeling I should just remove it. I have no problem with mounting drives. i am currently on my windows partition. (no internet in lin yet) I will reboot and try this out and let you know. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake 9.0
Hi I just finished installing mandrake 9.0 and am a bit bewildered. I look at /mnt/cdrom and in konqueror I see a lock on the icon. My scsi cdrom drive also has a lock on it. I can't access the drive from the command line. I can't chmod I can't chown. I have one cddrive with no lock on it but the disc shows all the content locked I am guessing this is due to the supermount but don't see any documentation on this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Mandrake.
For Quicken, check out Crossover Office. It (reportedly) allows you to use up to Quicken 98, with the added bonus of Office 2000 as well (if that can be construed as a bonus). I plan on picking it up as soon as I have 9.0 installed, it's gotten very good reviews. Incidentally, have you found that Quicken works well under Wine by itself? On Friday 27 September 2002 14:03, et wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 12:55 pm, you wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.2, but would like to upgrade to 8.2, which I presume should be better. However when I tried to do an upgrade, I lost all my Wine settings. I need to run Wine, so I can use a couple of Windows applications, which do not appear to yet have Linux equivalents. They are Quicken and Agent. ohh please, pan wipes agent out the door, just get the latest version, and don't get 8.2, get 9.0, and Gnucash may not be better than Quicken, but no reason not to think it is just as good for almost every usage. Heck the Apps I don't see for linux are the US income tax prep and send and you can use the online html versions of those It appears that Wine now stores its config files in a different location and uses a different syntax. Is this correct, or can I still use my old configure file. I also lost read/write access to my windows partition except when logged on as root. There did not appear to be an easy way of changing permissions, but perhaps I could not find it. I tried editing my fstab file but then go errors on boot up. Again can I preserve my present fstab file, or is there an easy way of giving users full access to my windows partition. keep (move) the current fstab as fstab-old so you can look back and see the changes and edit the new file the way you want, I like to have only root able to write to the fat partition, it makes sure nothing from an e-mail ever gets to screw with the fat partition. use the superuser mode to write to fat, any one can read from it. just my way. I hope someone can find the time to answer these queries, or perhaps the only interest is in people using versions 8 onwards. Bernard Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using a USB hub?
Remember sda1 and sda4 aren't DIFFERENT devices (in theory anyway), but different partitions on the same device (first and fourth partitions on the first SCSI disk). Seems like supermount is trying to mount the first partition on the zip disk, which doesn't exist (for some reason zip disks are always sda4). If maybe you could assign the CF reader to a different device file (sdb1, for example) it might help, but I'm not quite sure how you'd go about doing that (from the hardware section of the Control Center?). On Monday 02 September 2002 10:01, Terry Sheltra wrote: Good morning all, Since the mailing list ate my question over the weekend, I shall repost it again to see if someone can answer it. I just bought a hub for my laptop to share my one USB port with a 250 MB zip drive, and a SanDisk ImageMate CompactFlash reader. I made the necessary entries in my /etc/fstab file with the following: none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/media vfat rw,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev 0 0 Either of these devices work perfectly when connect to my laptop without the hub, but when i connect the hub, only the zip drive works. I can open USBView, and see both devices listed, but cannot access them both. When I try to mount the reader using: mount /dev/sda1 I just get an error message saying that /dev/sda1 does not exist. Any suggestions? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Email List server
What is involved in setting up a email list server?I have a LM 8.2 machine that is a web/ftp server and I would like to start an email discussion list. I do not have anything for mail running and I don't think I even installed things like sendmail because I had no need for them and did not want to worry about open ports I am not using so I will have to know what software to install also. I don't really want to run an email server but I need the list so help in getting it going and secure is what I am looking for. Thanks,
Re: [newbie] Specifying a hostname
from the replies I got it does not seem to matter though it seems to be a good idea to not use top level domain extensions like .com .net. I named mine eol.lcl and it seems to be fine with it. Beware the innate animosity of inanimate objects - Original Message - From: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Specifying a hostname Aaron Winters wrote: What are the rules when giving a machine a hostname? The machine in ? does not have an external IP and there is no real hostname to give, as in mandrake.com or something like that I am just going to use it as a learning box for setting up web, ftp, Samba, etc. So can I call it whatever I want, does it need to be, something.com? Hi Aaron, I would also like the same and if I could set up say a wacky domain name for my Linux box that connects via its modem and a dynamic IP to the internet. I mean could I call it for instance localhome.co.za? Does anyone know what the RFC number is for me to go and look at regarding hostnames? -- === Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 mobo Licenced Windows user === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Specifying a hostname
What are the "rules" when giving a machine a hostname? The machine in ? does not have an external IP and there is no real hostname to give, as in mandrake.com or something like that I am just going to use it as a "learning box" for setting up web, ftp, Samba, etc. So can I call it whatever I want, does it need to be, something.com? Beware the innate animosity of inanimate objects
[newbie] Can not get users web site to come up with Apache and LM 8.1
Hey yall, I have a clean install of LM 8.1 and I can not get my users web sites to come up. When you type the URL http://domainname.edu/~user I get an error telling me I do not have permission to access it. I have done this before and the only thing I can think of is that this time during the install I chose medium instead of low on the security setting because this box is on the net all the time with a static IP running Apache, ProFTPd and SSH. The domain web site comes up fine it is just the users sites that are a problem. I have looked in the httpd config files and it has entries that look to me like it should work but what I know about configuring Apache is just enough to mess something up. Can any of you give me a hand?
Re: [newbie] Can not get users web site to come up with Apache and LM 8.1
Well, in testing after I found it was not working with my personal login I logged in with my test account created the public_html directory, started Netscape Composer typed this is a test and saved it as index.html in my public_html directory I just made. That has always been fine in the past. Does setting the security level to medium change the default permissions to where that will not work? - Original Message - From: Keith Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Aaron Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can not get users web site to come up with Apache and LM 8.1 I think your problem may simply be permissions on the files and directories where the pages are stored. Keith Lynn Systems Administrator School of Computer and Information Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36608 Phone: (334) 460-6390 Fax: (334) 460-7274 Alternative E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/ On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Aaron Winters wrote: Hey yall, I have a clean install of LM 8.1 and I can not get my users web sites to come up. When you type the URL http://domainname.edu/~user I get an error telling me I do not have permission to access it. I have done this before and the only thing I can think of is that this time during the install I chose medium instead of low on the security setting because this box is on the net all the time with a static IP running Apache, ProFTPd and SSH. The domain web site comes up fine it is just the users sites that are a problem. I have looked in the httpd config files and it has entries that look to me like it should work but what I know about configuring Apache is just enough to mess something up. Can any of you give me a hand? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
I haven't found any info yet. - Original Message - From: Mandrake7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Aaron Peterson' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:54 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Yes I have the same problem it cant make a ramdisk and when I amlooking in the log said the same thinks 4hdb: drive not ready for command 4isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339 and other stuff like this I am using a via chipset and a dvd rom gd2500 any solutions? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aaron Peterson Sent: , 11 2001 1:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hello, This is a problem I haven't been able to solve. Hi. I'm very new to Linux so I bought the 3 CD pack for Mandrake 8.1 expecting the installation to be pretty much trouble free. Unfortuantely, after the initial setup/ welcome screen using the boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, the setup said that it couldn't find an installation CD in the CD-ROM. The error message is as follows: I can't access a Mandrake-Linux Installation disk in your CDROM Drive. By looking in the setup log I also saw some of these messages: 4ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting, Oh well 4hdb: Status timed-out 4hdb: DMA Disabled 4hdb: drive not ready for command 4isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339 and other stuff like this If you guys don't know of any solutions off the top of your heads then I guess I'll see if we can get it up and runing at the Installfest. Thanks. / He has a DFI motherboard with Award BIOS. bios version is current. CD rom is primary slave, HD is primary master This problem also occurs when using RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1 We tried two copies of the installmedia, so the disk wasn't bad. Demo Linux boots just fine off of the CD-Rom. / First of all, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I built the computer myself and currently I have Win 98 and Win 2K on two seperate primary partitions. Then I used PartitionMagic 5.0 to create a Linux partition. Anyway, the CD-ROM is bootable, but since I was having trouble with just booting off the CD-ROM I tried it again with a bootdisk. I think that I'm using the cdrom.img file if that is what you mean by the image file - the actual CD is from MandrakeSoft. Also, windows has no trouble booting from the CD-ROM. I got an email from Eric Sandall and I asked him what the situation is with getting rides to the Installfest and what all peripherials we need to bring. I can bring my Mandrake 8.1 CD's, but do I need to bring anything else besides my tower (i.e. monitor, keyboard, mouse)? Anyway, thanks for the help. Travis Chamberlain == Travis Chamberlain From: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Travis Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LUG] Mandrake 8.1 installation problem Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:36:29 -0800 boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, a boot disk is not required with a bootable CD-ROM newer Computers can boot from the CD-rom. go into the bios to enable boot off CDt. delete or a function key will get you into the bios. (good stuff to include in any request for help) What disk image did you use? What kind of computer do you have? -installfest is on 11-14-2001 we can help more then. Oh, for trouble shooting... does your windows cd boot? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Hello, This is a problem I haven't been able to solve. Hi. I'm very new to Linux so I bought the 3 CD pack for Mandrake 8.1 expecting the installation to be pretty much trouble free. Unfortuantely, after the initial setup/ welcome screen using the boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, the setup said that it couldn't find an installation CD in the CD-ROM. The error message is as follows: I can't access a Mandrake-Linux Installation disk in your CDROM Drive. By looking in the setup log I also saw some of these messages: 4ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting, Oh well 4hdb: Status timed-out 4hdb: DMA Disabled 4hdb: drive not ready for command 4isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339 and other stuff like this If you guys don't know of any solutions off the top of your heads then I guess I'll see if we can get it up and runing at the Installfest. Thanks. / He has a DFI motherboard with Award BIOS. bios version is current. CD rom is primary slave, HD is primary master This problem also occurs when using RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1 We tried two copies of the installmedia, so the disk wasn't bad. Demo Linux boots just fine off of the CD-Rom. / First of all, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I built the computer myself and currently I have Win 98 and Win 2K on two seperate primary partitions. Then I used PartitionMagic 5.0 to create a Linux partition. Anyway, the CD-ROM is bootable, but since I was having trouble with just booting off the CD-ROM I tried it again with a bootdisk. I think that I'm using the cdrom.img file if that is what you mean by the image file - the actual CD is from MandrakeSoft. Also, windows has no trouble booting from the CD-ROM. I got an email from Eric Sandall and I asked him what the situation is with getting rides to the Installfest and what all peripherials we need to bring. I can bring my Mandrake 8.1 CD's, but do I need to bring anything else besides my tower (i.e. monitor, keyboard, mouse)? Anyway, thanks for the help. Travis Chamberlain == Travis Chamberlain From: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Travis Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LUG] Mandrake 8.1 installation problem Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:36:29 -0800 boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, a boot disk is not required with a bootable CD-ROM newer Computers can boot from the CD-rom. go into the bios to enable boot off CDt. delete or a function key will get you into the bios. (good stuff to include in any request for help) What disk image did you use? What kind of computer do you have? -installfest is on 11-14-2001 we can help more then. Oh, for trouble shooting... does your windows cd boot? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems
I don't understand why you would have a problem witha badly pressed CD when doing a install over the net? I'm not using any CD? Aaron -Original Message- From: Adams, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:07 AM To: 'Aaron' Subject: RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems I know this dosnt solve your problem, but i had exactly the smae problem. It was a badly pressed cd in the end. Cheers -- Jamie -- From: Aaron[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 July 2001 01:38 To:Mandrake List Subject: [newbie] Net Install Problems I have tried to install three times now and keep getting the same error when Mandrake 8.0 is installing. I can't tell if its one specific program that is causing the problem because there is a splash screen over top of the progress bar and the name of the program that is being installed. When the error occurred I get a message box saying: An error occurred Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference. After I get this error the only thing I can do is press the OK button and the installer starts reloading the list of packages and I have to go through selected what I want to install again. Does anyone know what might be happening or a way to fix this? thanks, Aaron ::.. Aaron ..:: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems
That's OK. I'm now trying to burn a ISO image and see if that works. Aaron -Original Message- From: Adams, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:56 AM To: 'Aaron' Subject: RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems Sorry, i thought you meant that you were installing it over a network from a cd, not over the 'net'. Cheers -- Jamie -- From: Aaron[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 July 2001 07:35 To:Adams, Jamie; Mandrake List Subject: RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems I don't understand why you would have a problem witha badly pressed CD when doing a install over the net? I'm not using any CD? Aaron -Original Message- From: Adams, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:07 AM To: 'Aaron' Subject: RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems I know this dosnt solve your problem, but i had exactly the smae problem. It was a badly pressed cd in the end. Cheers -- Jamie -- From: Aaron[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 July 2001 01:38 To: Mandrake List Subject: [newbie] Net Install Problems I have tried to install three times now and keep getting the same error when Mandrake 8.0 is installing. I can't tell if its one specific program that is causing the problem because there is a splash screen over top of the progress bar and the name of the program that is being installed. When the error occurred I get a message box saying: An error occurred Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference. After I get this error the only thing I can do is press the OK button and the installer starts reloading the list of packages and I have to go through selected what I want to install again. Does anyone know what might be happening or a way to fix this? thanks, Aaron ::.. Aaron ..:: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
[newbie] Net Install Problems
I have tried to install three times now and keep getting the same error when Mandrake 8.0 is installing. I can't tell if its one specific program that is causing the problem because there is a splash screen over top of the progress bar and the name of the program that is being installed. When the error occurred I get a message box saying: An error occurred Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference. After I get this error the only thing I can do is press the OK button and the installer starts reloading the list of packages and I have to go through selected what I want to install again. Does anyone know what might be happening or a way to fix this? thanks, Aaron ::.. Aaron ..:: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Which Version Should I use?
Thanks very much for the help. I think I am now going to download the ISO image and burn some CD's! Aaron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:30 AM To: Aaron; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Which Version Should I use? 8.0/i586 most definitely. 8.0/i586 is optimised for i586 (Pentium-class) processors, which you obviously have (in fact, you have an i686 SMP). 8.0/i486 is optimised for i486 processors. Corporate Server is designed for corporations to use, and so prizes stability above usability. As a result, it is always several steps behind the main Mandrake distro. On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:49, Aaron wrote: I am looking at installing Linux Mandrake and would like to know which if the following versions would best suit my needs. I will be using this machine as for web development if that makes a difference. 8.0/i586 8.0/i486 Corporate Server The box this is going on contains: Tyan S1832DL Tiger 100 Motherboard 2x Intel PII 750MHz CPUs 2 SCSI 9GB Drives and 1 12GB IDE Drive 384MB Ram Matrox Millennium G400 32MB thanks, Aaron -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] Which Version Should I use?
I am looking at installing Linux Mandrake and would like to know which if the following versions would best suit my needs. I will be using this machine as for web development if that makes a difference. 8.0/i586 8.0/i486 Corporate Server The box this is going on contains: Tyan S1832DL Tiger 100 Motherboard 2x Intel PII 750MHz CPUs 2 SCSI 9GB Drives and 1 12GB IDE Drive 384MB Ram Matrox Millennium G400 32MB thanks, Aaron
[newbie] Some problems on mounting.
Hi, I have a couple of problems regarding mounting on Linux Mandrake 8.0. Firstly, I have an external HP 8220 CD-RW that is connected via USB that is recgonized by Harddrake as /dev/scd0. What do I do in order to get it mounted (if it works)? Secondly, I also have a windows vfat partition /dev/hda1. However, only the root account can have the right to write to the windows partition. Is there a way to change the rights in order to allow ordinary users to read write the windows partition? Thanks a lot for your help, Aaron
[newbie] What am I missing??
I had to re install my system from the LM 7.2 complete box. I was trying to reinstall my Aureal sound card with the new drivers from sourceforge and I am getting the following error message. root@localhost aureal]# make install cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DAU8830 -mpentium -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o au_audio.o au_audio.c make: cc: Command not found make: *** [au_audio.o] Error 127 I have a feeling that I some packages didn't install. What packages am I missing to install the drivers? Thanks, Aaron
