Re: [newbie] Security alert [thanks everybody]
Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks all, I got the picture. I'll stick with Jim's suggestion to uncheck that option in Mozilla for unwanted popups and let the matter rest. If you are curious, try running nmapfe. nmap is a scanning tool - it will tell you what ports on your machine are open. nmapfe is a graphical frontend to nmap. You do not have to be root to run them, but some options are only available to root. If you have lots of suspicious ports open, you might want to look into locking down your box a bit. If nothing suspicious shows up, you can continue to connect with a bit less worry. -- Chris Spackman Tue Oct 15 07:38:15 JST 2002 random quote Being ugly isn't illegal. Yet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] gcombust not working after cdrecord upgrade
Like the subject says, after upgrading the cdrecord package for 8.2 recently, gcombust makes nothing but coasters. gcombust seems to use mkisofs okay to make the iso and cdrecord from the command line works fine to burn, but burning with gcombust takes forever (seriously, a very long time) and does not report the amount finished, total data to be burned, or time remaining properly. To be honest, I am only guessing that it is making coasters, because the burn takes sooo long that I cancel it (after 30 minutes it reports about 250 meg burned -- far too long even for this slow 4x dvd/cd-rw). here is the output from gcombust: /usr/bin/mkisofs -graft-points -f -R -r -l -J -o/music/backup.iso -- [names of files] /usr/bin/cdrecord -v -pad speed=4 dev=0,0,0 /music/backup.iso ** WARNING **: readers.c 400: add_cdrecord_stdout_output estimated finish error: written: 0.00 left: 0.00 ** WARNING **: readers.c 400: add_cdrecord_stdout_output estimated finish error: written: 0.00 left: 0.00 ** WARNING **: readers.c 400: add_cdrecord_stdout_output estimated finish error: written: 0.00 left: 0.00 ** WARNING **: readers.c 400: add_cdrecord_stdout_output estimated finish error: written: 0.00 left: 0.00 ** WARNING **: readers.c 400: add_cdrecord_stdout_output estimated finish error: written: 0.00 left: 0.00 ** WARNING **: linebuffer.c 112: buffer not empty: Track 01:6 of 648 MB written (fifo 100%) 4.1x. any ideas? Funny, iirc, they updated cdrecord to fix a problem with xcdroast or one of the other gui burning programs, only to introduce what might be a new one for gcombust. -- Chris Spackman Sat Oct 5 20:23:56 JST 2002 random quote vacation, n.: A two-week binge of rest and relaxation so intense that it takes another 50 weeks of your restrained workaday life-style to recuperate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good media player?
Rob Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I've got a few MPG, AVI (VFW DivX) files from my windows drive that I'd like to be able to play in Linux, but I can't seem to find anything that will play them, the built in player (Xine is it?) won't play my files. I did try and download MPlayer for Linux (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/) but it was a lot of hassle, and didn't really want to work (complained that gcc was the wrong version, suggested I get an older one) Any suggestions? In my limited experience, mplayer really is worth the effort. Someone suggested the rpms, so if you can get those working, then great. If not, compiling mplayer isn't that hard. first, get the win32 codecs and install them where the docs say to -- /usr/lib/win32 iirc. the command to configure is: ./configure --with-gui --disable-gcc-checking this will give a warning, but ignore it (i think you can just hit return). I don't know for sure if the compiler rant applies to the mandrake version of gcc or not, but i've been using mplayer on 8.2 with no problems at all. after configure, just do: make and as root: make install then, do not forget to move [source directory/]etc/codecs.conf to .mplayer/ in your home directory (notice the . in front of the name) -- you may have to make the directory if it doesn't exist. -- Chris Spackman Sat Oct 5 20:23:56 JST 2002 random quote vacation, n.: A two-week binge of rest and relaxation so intense that it takes another 50 weeks of your restrained workaday life-style to recuperate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] japanese characters input Mandrake 9.0
ivo jorris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed a fresh Mandrake9.0 and also installed all packages that support japanese characters input. Can somone help me to input japanese characters in Mandrake9.0.? my keybord is 106-jp keyboard, n' I'm using gnome. Well, this is for 8.2 but if it hasn't changed . . . Did you set the language to Japanese during install? If so, make sure that the jserver is running and then hit shift-space to input japanese. (a little box or something similar should popup for input). If locale is not japanese, you will need to run localedrake. you can check that jserver is running in the services section of the mandrake control center. -- Chris Spackman Fri Oct 4 21:15:44 JST 2002 random quote Hi! I'm Larry. This is my brother Bob, and this is my other brother Jimbo. We thought you might like to know the names of your assailants. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cut big files into smaller chunks
Patrik Marxer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I think this may be a simple command, but I havent found it so far. I want to backup the vmware files on cdr so I need to cut them into pieces that I can burn on cd and later put those together into the original files again. What is the program/command to cut files and put them together? I think you are looking for split. man split will give you all the gory details, but basically all you need to do is: split --verbose -b 650m name_of_file_to_split you do not need the `--verbose' if you don't want it. the `-b 650m' tells split to divide the file into 650 meg files (as many as it takes), and you can change the number to whatever you want. `m' stands for megabytes. by default, the output goes to files named xaa, xab, xac, ... Btw. is there a program that does something like backup a big chunk (home dir, hda) and automatically cuts it into pieces that fit on cd and can later restore the original in a place that I specify? sorry, cannot help here. One was to unsplit files is to use `cat'. cat file1 file2 new_big_file or cat file2 file1 -- Chris Spackman Thu Oct 3 21:00:47 JST 2002 random quote One day a student came to Moon and said, I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons. Moon patiently told the student the following story -- One day a student came to Moon and said, I understand how to make a better garbage collector... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help please, keyboard rreeppeeaattiinngg
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:13:57 -0600 Jan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried a different keyboard? That would be the first step in ruling out a hardware problem with the keyboard. If the borrowed keyboard works, get a new keyboard and don't worry about it. If it does the same thing, it could still be a hardware problem with your motherboard. I have installed Mandrake 8.2 a lot of times, and have never had this problem with a variety of keyboards, from brand new to ones with a lot of key names rubbed off (old). Never had this problem. Sorry, I should have mentioned that this is a laptop computer -- how easy is it to test a different keyboard when one is already built in? Also, the problem does not occur in virtual consoles, as near as i can tell, just in X. This is a new one for me too. I've installed a lot of different distros and every mandrake since at least 7.2 and I've never had a keyboard problem before. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse problem
This might not have made it to the list, sorry if it is a dup: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:27:58 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrake8.2 and when i start my computer the mouse if fine but sometimes when im working the mouse pointer isnt in the right place like ill click and the pointer will be where i want to click but the click will be like 1 inch to the left..any idea how i can fix this? Thanks Try uncommenting (remove the # sign) this option in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file: # Option sw_cursor It is in the # ** # Graphics device section # ** of the file. Then restart the xserver (if you boot into the gui, there should be an option somewhere in the log-in screen to restart the server). I had a similar problem with my laptop and this solved it. Hope it works for you too. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] help please, keyboard rreeppeeaattiinngg
Hi all, I was given a new computer at work and they allowed me to put linux on it (they don't care what i use as long as the work gets done). They were even nice enough to get starsuite for me. :-) (The computer guy said that starsuite is selling like crazy - one of the most popular programs at the moment.) Anyhow, I put mandrake 8.2 on it and it works fine except for one or two things. The major problem is that the keyboard repeat rate is totally f**ked up. Typing quickly (normal speed for someone used to typing) causes a large number or double or triple letters, like `mman kbbdrate'. It does not seem to be affected by changing kbdrate or by changing the settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Changing those settings works for the regular repeat, but does nothing to prevent the annoying semi-random repeats. I found something on google about commenting out some code in some file in (from memory, I am not at work nor on the net as I write this) /usr/src/?/arch/i386/??. Anyhow, I commented out the relevant section in whatever file that was, but the keyboard still repeats. Does that file (whose name I cannot remember) affect anything, or would I have to recompile the kernel or something first? Any ideas? Could it be a hardware problem? I have found that it is less likely to happen if I pound the keys (imaging typing on an old, non-electric typewriter). Needless to say, that solution is almost as bad as the problem. tia -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault???
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:11:59 +0200 Tenchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is the original: - Hi everyone! I installed MDK 8.2 on one of my friend's computer. The install went pretty good. Everything seemed to work except for the soundcard. I downloaded drivers for it, so it works now too. I started setting it up with programs(nvidia drivers, openoffice, krusader etc...)and everything worked fine until I did a complete shutdown and a restart. There were no errors, but after that the Mandrake Control Center and rpmdrake exits with segmentation fault right before the password checking. When I started them in the terminal it simply said: segmentation fault. This is a big problem for me as I don't want to mess with text file config. If you haven't already, try su'ing to root in the terminal and then starting mcc or rpmdrake from there. This will skip asking for the root password, which is one possible source of trouble. If it still doesn't work, try actually loging in as root and running mcc or rpmdrake from an entirely root environment. One of the 8.2 betas had a brief mcc bug where environment variables were not properly set outside of kde. Maybe this is a similar problem? (of course, normally you should almost never log in as root, but since we are bug-hunting here, it might be okay. just be sure to log out and log back in as your regular user before playing games or surfing the net. :-) -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] thanks: usb smartmedia reader
Thanks all, for the advice on usb smartmedia readers. The selection wasn't nearly as broad as I expected, so I got a no-name brand smartmedia-only reader/writer and it works just fine. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Japanese Input
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:41:29 -0700 g2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, its me again. i successfully installed kinput2 and freewin RPM on my Linux Mandrake 8.2 as well as the Japanese fonts, but shift+space and ctrl+/ is still not working. how can i input hiragana, katakana and kanji? what applications do they usually can be used for? i tried it on advnace editor and kWord but still not working. is there something i missed? my default language is English and I just like to make Japanese available for my console cause my job requires some Japanese documents. also, i already configured my keyboard to 106 japanese but none of those extra keys work. I tried to edit the key binding configuration but it cant detect the extra keys. is the windows key really not working in mandrake? any suggestions? A few: 1. open mandrake control center -- system -- services and make sure that jserver is running and that it is set to start at boot. 2. use (as a regular user) /usr/sbin/localedrake to switch your environment to japanese. Now comes the tricky part. Someone once mentioned, either here or on the expert list, a website with instructions for modifying your personal .i18n file to support japanese input but leave most system settings in english. I do not have the url at hand, but it should be in the archives somewhere. If you can find it, it is very clear and works well. The only problem i had was that rebooting would reset my .i18n file to totally english. Which is obviously not a good thing. If jserver isn't running, or if your environment isn't set to japanese language, then shift-space won't work. I too sometimes need japanese for work. since i use latex for almost everything anyhow, i just use emacs and the latex cjk package to create japanese docs. since emacs can handle japanese input all by itself, without needing kinput or jserver, it is a good way to do the occasional japanese letter or report. but if you need to search the net in japanese or share japanese language spreadsheets, it isn't gonna help any. hope this helps, -- Chris Spackman www.openhistory.org gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:47:58 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [big snip] All would work I bet if I didn't get the following message: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist anyone have an idea of how to create sda1. All the usb and scsi modules are loaded as far as I can tell. Hope Mandrakesoft is working on getting better usb support for 9.0. Any help is always appreciated. Maybe I missed it, but are you using supermount? I turned it off first thing after installing and usb works just fine -- mounting exactly as you have done. So one guess would be that supermount is causing problems. just a thought. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:19:49 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi (all on one line) Broken down this is: -dvd 1=use track 1 of the DVD -ovc lavc =use the libavcodec (included in mplayer) for the ovc (Output Video Codec) -lavcopts.. =use the DivX codec (opensource), with Very High Quality (vhq), with a video bitrate (vbitrate) of 633 -oac mp3lame =for the Output Video Codec (oac), use lame -lameopts... =for lame, use a bitrate (br) of 96kb/s with a Constant Bitrate (cbr) -o Matrix.avi =Output results to Matrix.avi Thank you very much! I have been playing around with mencoder for a while, trying to get everything to work. Now it does. Turns out i didn't have lame installed. You are planning to write that book, right? Please? Personally, the big problem for me, and i assume many other video / multimedia newbies, is that i have no idea what most of the options do, or what all the technical stuff means. Kinda like the situation with people who are new to linux -- something that is simple for the initiated can really discourage a newbie. Like `open an xterm, su to root, and mount the file on loopback as type ext2'. That could cause a linux newbie to go running straight back to ms windows. I feel the same way when i read the mplayer / mencoder manpage. What is demuxing? What is deinterlacing? What is a vrc_strategy? Do i need that? That sort of stuff. So, thanks for the simple straight-forward command and explanation. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.2 + usb-mouse hotplugging
On Thursday 13 June 2002 09:53 pm, someone wrote: Hi everyone, I posted this message about a month ago in comp.os.linux.misc nobody has answered so far. I guess it was the wrong place to post something mandrake specific. Well, my problem is my usb-mouse. It works fine after startup, but after disconnecting and reconnecting the mouse it doesn't. It works again after I restart. There seems to be a module missing or something... I have never compiled a kernel or loaded a module. (If I have to do that: is there a (simlple?) how-to somewhere for compiling kernels or including modules? Can someone tell me how to do it?) Have you tried running mousedrake from the console (as root)? tell it about the usb mouse after you plug it back in, and you should be good to go. -- Chris Spackman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
On Monday 03 June 2002 08:37 am, someone wrote: No, it's just copied as a DOS file. Worked fine for me. You aren't using a boot disk, are you? i tried to copy the patch to the bootdisk, but of course there wasn't enough room. -- Chris Spackman random quote Dave Mack: Your stupidity, Allen, is simply not up to par. Allen Gwinn:Yours is. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?
On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:35 pm, ollyplaine wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:08:41PM -0400, D. Olson wrote: On Friday 31 May 2002 09:50 pm, you wrote:(first couple of lines from Haj) On the other hand : maybe I just screwed something up in my post. Something that the internet can't digest. - Like spam ??? Well, I can't digest spam myself, so there ya go. ;) If it is like the expert list, it is a problem with the mail address not matching the ip address, or not resolvable, or something like that. an overzealous attempt at preventing spam -- it ends up preventing a lot of people from posting. -- Chris Spackman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating cds using gcombust from ISO image?
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 16:18, Jerry wrote: OK.. i figured if i told gcombust to use an existing image (an .ISO) (2nd option on the burn tab... just below Data files/no image) it woul d create a disk extracting individual files from this image.. wrong? i guess so since when it was done i listed the contents of the cd and it was an exact copy of the ISO file, not the disk that the ISO was of. what am i doing wrong here? any ideas? thanks.. or .. just point me to the right howto/man page since i've been browsing for hours and reading things that seem to have nothing to do with what i'm looking for. thanks :-) So, you entered the name of the iso in the text box and then clicked on the combust button at the bottom? Weird. are you sure the iso is good? Just a thought, but you didn't select the iso file in the data files tab? I doubt it, but that is about the only other thing i can think of that would cause what you describe. -- Chris Spackman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:01, Terry Sheltra wrote: and download OpenOffice 6.0 for free. From what I've seen and heard, OpenOffice is no different than StarOffice, just that it's free. There are some differences. Star Office contains some proprietary stuff like clip art, fonts, and some code that sun didn't own and didn't have permission to open source (i think this in stuff like spell check or thesaurus, but am not sure). Otherwise, yeah they are almost exactly the same. -- Chris Spackman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
