Re: [newbie] New to the list.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:11:25 +0200 l.biagiotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the server options (under expert mode) such as linear - Fifo conservative etc. did the trick but Mandrake won't keep these settings. Finally: What I'm talking about here is not just the fact that I can't get any res higher than 640x480, but also that THIS res. is acting wildly. My desktop goes OUT of the screen area, and so do any window that I open ... so I'm pretty sure that this is not a problem related to the video card but rather some strange driver-related (?) problem ... or isn't it? yes, i've seen this happening on a 2MB Trident video card, too. i tried to switch it to 1024x768 (which was the res it could do in windows, so i knew it was possible) and it worked ok.. until the next time the X server started. then the effect was like when the actual resolution is set at 800x600 but you are 'zoomed in' with Ctrl+Alt++ ... the desktop size exceeds the screen and you can 'scroll' it by taking the mouse pointer to the edges... Unfortunately, this seems to be a bug of the Xserver. i've seen no way of fixing this.. so yes, i would recommend you to but another card (i've had computers working great under Mandrake 7.1 with video cards of 4MB) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts
On 03 Oct 2002 12:57:20 +0200 Bo Rosén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing (clean install) Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with fonts in OO. I'm using the same old .ttf fonts from Windows. I imported them with darkfont during installation which failed to make them available to OO so I used spadmin in my ~/.openoffice directory. Nothing strange here, I've done it several times before. But the fonts look squashed, they seem to overlap making the text illegible, this is true for both old and new documents in both native and *.doc format. Anyone else having the same problem? Cheers, Bo this was solved in the expert list days ago. this is the last part of the thread: --- Well, this was not the problem, as all fonts was mashed together. But I managed to solve the problem myself, og just wants to tell you about it should you enconter the problem. It seems that OO does not handle printer-resolutions which are not X times X, ex. 300x300 DPI. My printer (Brother laser 1470N) has a max-resolution of 1200x600 and this caused OO to distribute 50% too little space for each character, spacey!!! Any homegenous resolution (I chose 600x600) works just fine! Wierd, but it solved the problem! Best regards! Morten Poulsen --- HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts
On 03 Oct 2002 18:34:06 +0200 Bo Rosén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tor 2002-10-03 klockan 14.43 skrev Damian G: Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand this. This seems to refer to the fonts as printed, not on-screen which is my problem. I'll look at the archives for the expert list though. Thanks, Bo Actually it refers to both. that poster claimed that changing the printing setup improved the display on the screen. you might want to give it a try... HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:23:20 -0300 Oder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Mandrake 9.0 and tried to use wine but the wine launcher was unable to find the xmessage program. It recommend 'that you use your distribution's software methods to locate xmessage. Can someone point me any idea about this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder. ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/X11R6-contrib-4.2.1-3mdk.i586.rpm try that one. if it doesn't work, check out the contribs for 9.0 (had the same problem a couple of days ago.) have fun. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] finally got the first iso
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:10:00 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with my dialup connection. heh.. i downloaded the first iso, as my incoming partition was getting full, i moved it to another directory, then started downloading the other two. when the last ones were finished, i realized i deleted the first one accidentally in one of my random, wild deleting sprees [BTW i downloaded them from the eDonkey P2P network] so, off i went to find a reasonably fast FTP server to ammend my stupid mistake as fast as possible and your modem connection should be getting no less then half of my DSL speed, as the servers are still quite busy.. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] burning ISOs
On 01 Oct 2002 15:17:06 -0400 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, T. I appreciate your kind consideration throughout all of this. Do you know where I can find a searchable archive of the list? The link from the Mandrake site seems to not have a search function. - paul you can search the lists in google. for example, if you want to find info on hdparm on Madrake newbie list, go to google and search like this: Mandrake Linux Archives [newbie] hdparm don't forget to enclose Mandrake Linux Archives in quotes, this way you avoid a lot of false positives. HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ArGo..blah blah
[modified Subject to avoid my own filters. ;oP] Command Command not understood. looks like that admin doesn't understand a lot of things eh? ;o) -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ArGoSoft Mailing List Server
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 18:56:19 -0400 Gilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an Understood in the crowd? how about we all send the help reply? once or twice? or a gazillion times? ;o) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Easy way to have 2 linuces (MDK) running on 2 diff partitions.
From what i've read here on the list and in books, you should have 2 boot partitions ... each one for a different installation. I did ask once about a single /boot partition for all my linux installs but I was told that can be quite tricky. I Know i tried it once, and i ended up fuxoring my whole set of 2 installs in one day :P ROFL!! ... sorry i don't mean to laugh at you Femme, that sounds just like what i would be constantly doing with my computer if i were not forced to keep it working for my parents to use... aaah the phun i would have.. OMG the PHUN !! ;oP~~ i make one post in the whole day, and all i can come up with is this nonsense.. aghh enough 'stand-by mode' for my brain. i'm off. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
On 27 Sep 2002 21:50:20 -0500 Jim Fazio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. TIA, Jim F well, this is usually something like which is better KDE or Gnome however, for what i know, all of them work quite well, ReiserFS is supposed to be the fastest, however i notice little or no difference, and it is the only one that has ever crapped out on me -- after 20 or so consecutive unclean shutdowns -- some PAM files broke and the installation started refusing all logins, so i had to reinstall on that machine. And, i've heard wonders about XFS. it is regarded as the best by many people, and it probably is the one i'll attempt to break next :o) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gtk Errors
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 06:10:57 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're talking about the tmp folder in / correct? It has a bunch of socket files in it. I also see a folder called mcop-chris and mcop-root. Inside of the mcop-chris is Arts_audiomanager which was installed the other during security updates. There are also 4 folders owned by root. So its ok to just remove the contents of the /tmp folder? yup. log out of X, just in case, go to runlevel 3, (as root, telinit 3) and then go into /tmp and rm -rf * ( MAKE SURE YOU ARE INSIDE /tmp ). Oh, and it that doesn't help, try deleting hidden directories that contain configuration files for gtk apps. ( like .gconf, .gnome, etc.) you will possibly lose some of your config (like which theme you are using for GTK and such) but it takes little time to restore those. HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
Another idea, implemented. The broadband connection at home is a bit slow: it would take 18 hours to upload the three ISOs. _But_ I've put them on my company's internal network well, the good part of multi-source download is that you can get faster and faster as more people get the same file -- with edonkey you start sharing chunks of the files even if you just started downloading...-- and since several people already have the isos, it's not such a bad start point. however i see your point. anyway i've already looked for Mandrake con edonkey to see what comes up and found out there's a lot of people sharing Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 ! (with permission) and advertised their presence on the intranet. That potentially soaks up 11,000 users directly, who can download at about 28MB/sec, and goodness knows how many others indirectly (pass the CDs). sounds good! I also note that the Mandrake Linux Web site is extremely close to being slashdotted - it took about 2 minutes to load the front page. Alastair yup. the word spread pretty fast. looks good, too ;o) this is why i won't even try to download from the official mirrors at least until next week. (i remember rushing to get Mdk 8.2 as soon as i saw a post in here: 8.2 is out, go get it and it actually took me 4 days to get the three discs..) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
Guys! 9.0 is released. ( well you probably know this already ;oP ) but since the servers are pretty much jammed right now, how about this idea i read about in a comment in PcLinuxOnline: Any chance someone could put this up on edonkey, or other service which allows multisource transfers? how about it? i, for one, would pretty much apreciate it!! ( besides i do think it's a great idea ) ;o) thanks! Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gtk Errors
try wiping out /tmp Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:19:13 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn over the 690MB's. The first 2 images contain data that is around the 693 and 699 MB's. I have mounted the 2 images, and see quite a few things I would never use. I only need to free up a few MB's per CD. How could I go about properly deleting these to bring down the ISO-sizes to burnable sizes? Mount the ISO, copy the files to a temp directory, delete the couple of files, then remake an ISO. But, how would I successfully go about making a bootable CD? Does anyone have any experience with re-creating Distro-CD's? I'm sure I won't be the only one with this problem, so any knowledgeable advice would be great :-) Greetings Ralph i think you can do it by keeping the bootable iso, and when using mkisofs to make the new, smaller one, you can tell it to copy boot sectors from the original image. this is just the theory, read man mkisofs, you'll find it quick ( commands are listed alphabetically, it's under b for 'boot' ). HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
Ok, this seems good news. But the thing is this. I have looked at the man page already, but I don't understand much of it :-( There are some *.img files in the images directory, but I presume these are for floppies. Then there are some files in isolinux, but how and what I would not know. The man page presumes that a person using mkisofs actually understands the components of build-up of a CD; I don't ;-) i finally found some free time to look for it myself, but i can't find it :o( looks like it's a good idea to re-read TFM after an upgrade... I was actually hoping that someone with experience or knowledge would explain what to do, which file to use, and what mkisofs command to use ;-) oh, no. sorry, not me. :o) I suppose this is one of those things that once you have done one, you never forget, but unfortunately I have never come remotely close to this :-) most likely. anyway, I'm positive there must be a way to copy boot sectors from one ISO to another. i'll dig into it a bit further today. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] another one of OO's annoyances..
hi..! does anybody happen to get this, too? whenever i use a - character between two words, OO replaces it with a question mark. for example, hello - world gets replaced by hello ? world ... does anybody happen to know how to stop this? i've already tried disabling nearly every autocomplete, formatting, etc etc etc options.. however it keeps happening.. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: another one of OO's annoyances..
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:38:51 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi..! does anybody happen to get this, too? whenever i use a - character between two words, OO replaces it with a question mark. for example, hello - world gets replaced by hello ? world never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind i hate being stupid. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] another one of OO's annoyances..
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:43:56 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would I be correct if I guessed that when you _print_ the page, it comes out correct? Miark wouldn't know, miark, i never even tried. however, i doubt it, i found only minutes later that the spellchacker was, for some obscure reason only comprehensible to the maker of such feature, replacing - ( what do you call these in english? ;o)) with question marks. it was not a bug in OO, not a font glitch, the spellchecker was actually replacing the char, so probably that's what i would get. thanks anyway for your quick response. disabling spellchecker worked. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] opera 6 and java
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:52:14 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have java installed. I included path for plugins in opera. still no jre report i get. I didn't find any option in preferences for showing java path. How to make it recognize java first, go to the plug-in page in the configuration, and then: can you that window inside of which you can specify paths for Opera to find plug-ins? you can open it up pushing the 'modify path' button. well, inside of that, click on 'add' and the path to your jre's _netscape 4_ plugin. ( not java main executable, you have to find a ns4 directory somewhere. that's what you are looking for ) for example, i use jre1.4.1 and my path for Opera's plugin is this: /usr/java/j2re1.4.1/plugin/i386/ns4/ after that, close all instances of Opera and restart. HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT]Nondeliverable messages?
Am I the only one this is happening to? no. -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 9:15 am, Damian G did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: PS: This is a note for anyone reading this post: I really don't feel like starting a OO vs. MSO war. I think i provided enough info for anybody to try this test for themselves, so i suggest every reader of this post to try this. It really opens your eyes a bit. Don't let the M$ is evil concept blur your intelligence. Be objective about this kind of stuff. i have to say that while MS is evil, office is (or at least 97 was, haven't used the newer ones) one of the things they do well. i am very glad to hear about crossover office because it means the only savig grace to bills empire can run in linux. still they took that saving grace and fscked it up with their file formats. the size of the files alone should explain that! agreed. on the other foot, most people will never need more than what OO gives. i completely agreed. know we could have used it in the school i used to work for. 36 teachers each running office? you have any idea what that costs a school that has to run hand me down computers? shane, i was just comparing speed and performance on slow computers. There's no question whatsoever about OO's usability. (i have switched to it) there's no question whatsoever about how expensive MS can be, either. All i was trying to do was to state that, under certain conditions, OO.org is a trade-off. Waiting over a minute for startup, having your word processor playing catch-up with your typing and waiting 5 seconds for a right-click menu to pop up is not my idea of a 'usable program'. some years ago i bought a book to learn some modeling in discreet's 3D MAX program. in one of the first chapters, the author made some statememts about system requirements for 3D modeling. It was something like: There's no point for me trying to recommend a processor or type of computer, as probably by the time you read this, my recomendation will be obsolete already. but there's an easy way to find out if your computer is good enough for you, or not: If your workflow stalls because you are waiting for the computer to finish it's job, and you realize that your knowledge and ideas could be flowing faster but your computer is delaying you, then you need a faster computer. On the other foot ( as you say ;o)) OpenOffice is not the only word processor available to Linux. Abiword and Gnumeric could also be enough for an average user, and probably work very well on low-end computers. Time and MDK9 will tell. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
I wonder if you have compared how fast OO opens in linux the second time? hm.. actually, i haven't... you are right, it does start faster.. but still i think there's no comparison.. the difference is not that great. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
I timed OO and it opened in 20 secs. Using 900mhz Duron and a 40gig 7200rpm uhm we were talking about old ( i.e. Pentium 233 ) machines.. :o) Maxtor hd. Not super fast but not any worse than MSword. Oh, this is on 9.0rc1. ML 9.0 seems to be faster than 8.2 anyhoo, just an impression but it does feel faster. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MPlayer and .wmv file
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:10:24 -0700 (PDT) teddy wl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:49:24 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk8.2. I installed MPlayer-0.90pre5. When .wmv file is played I get only screeching sound intermittantly henever a sound occurs. What to do? Sorry I can't answer your question, but I just re-installed MPlayer and I can't remember where the win32 codecs are supposed to go. Anybody know? /usr/lib/win32 Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MPlayer and .wmv file
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:49:24 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk8.2. I installed MPlayer-0.90pre5. When .wmv file is played I get only screeching sound intermittantly henever a sound occurs. What to do? why pre5? pre7 was out nearly a week ago..! you could have a corrupt .wmv file. if you are sure the file is fine ( i.e. you have played it before ) then i suggest you get newer MPlayer and codecs (which have changed lately) and try again. anyway you may not be able to play movies encoded with this new codec pack Microsoft released a while ago until you do... Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper
I have a few problem with MPlayer. One I have mdk 82 avifiles as below. libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk libavifile0.7-devel-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk Still libavcodec is not taken while compiling. MPlayer doesn't use avifile at all. to enable libavcodec for MPlayer, you need to pull libavcodec from CVS and add it to MPlayer's source tree before compiling. ( read http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs.html#libavcodec for details ) Sound is not captured when using v4l device. i don't use v4l.. sorry, can't help you there. however, from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/video.html#tv-out Under Linux you have 2 methods to get G400 TV out working: IMPORTANT: Only Matrox G400DH/G400MAX has TV-out support under Linux, others (G450, G550) have not! I will be thankful if you can reply how to recompress to various formats? sample commans with options pl. there's a lot to it. way too much for a simple email. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html you will find good explainations and examples there. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] this Kivio stuff..
hi. i've got a rather interesting question about kivio.. lately i've been using dia to make some flowcharts i need for my homework.. but since it can't see my arial font which is required by my teacher, i have to find another app. i like kivio's interface, i found out pretty much instantly about adding stencils and such.. BUT I CAN'T FIND A WAY TO DRAW A STUPID LINE!! i've clicked thay button on the left toolbar which has a line drawn on it, it changes my mouse cursor to a line, but it doesn't do anything! i can't find a way to connect to figures for the life of me.. is this an expected behavior? or is my recently-installed Koffice borked? thanks much. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper
Hi there Damian, You used the RPM's from that site, and compiled MPlayer yourself, or did you use a pre-compiled MPlayer? It's just that I'm too lazy to test it all out due to lack of time. As I said, I am writing a guide how to rip a DVD (16:9) to DivX using mencoder / libavcodec / liblame, and although I always advise to recompile everything, it's interesting to know if users have other experiences with pre-compiled binaries. Greetings Ralph Hi. i have used precompiled RPM's for MPlayer once or twice and i have found out that the developers were right about them. This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i never encoded using a precompiled mencoder. i like being pretty much on the bleeding edge with MPlayer, and recompile from CVS pretty often. The reason is that it evolves so fast... see ya. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:15:38 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can be connected to TV uhm.. you mean you need a program that plays a movie thru the TV output? i don't have such video card, so i might be wrong, but AFAIK MPlayer can do this as well. just to make sure, take a brief look at www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer) with this lame-encoder RPM? It's not a question of whether you think it will or It appears people have :). I have never tried mencoder - I don't have any dvd hardware on the uhmm.. no DVD needed to test it, you can try recompressing regular movie files, too. i have used it in the past to recompress .MPG files into DivX 5, and it works beautifully. i can recompress/change format easier, faster than with any other program i have tried ( Adobe Premiere 6 and Ulead Media Studio just to name two of them) and the resulting quality ( especially when changing resolution/ scaling or converting framerates ) is unmatched. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:22:02 +0200 Jon-Eirik Pettersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I trying to instal Mandrake Linux I get an error message: cannot uncompress second stage ramdisk or somthing like this. What is wrong? which version of Mandrake Linux? and.. how did you get it? ( did you download and burn, or got it in a magazine or something?) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ????
i've been getting no messages from either newbie or expert list for almost two days now. is my subscription to the lists cancelled or expired in some way? is the list dead? am *I* DEAD???!! weird. -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OMFG the internet is broken!!
is it??? if averyone else is reading the list messages with no problems ( and laughing at my stupidity ) please let me know on a private message!! thanks. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ????
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:52:20 +0200 MELEAN Yasmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, I think its a general problem wow.. i sent that message days ago... Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OMFG the internet is broken!!
Damian, The list was down all weekend long. It was the weirdest thing. I've never known the list to be down that long. I've been a list member since 7.0 came out and that was a first. It was like a ghost town. Mark thanks Mark and everyone who answered privately. looks like it's slowly going back to normal.. i hope. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Builder
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:07:52 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:44:55 -0400 Tommy Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firestarter IS good... almost has that easy Zone Alarm interface that will display hits live. However, firestarter was written for gnome. I can't seem to get it to start on KDE without some errors popping up. Have any of you successfully made Firestarter run on KDE (w/mdk 8.2)?? If so, how did you do it? the 'eeors' ... do you mean those GTK-CRITICAL messages that appear when you open it up and press buttons? dimply ignore them, it works just as well anyway. Damian wow.. what a tough day i must be having... look at all those typos.. i must be really stressed. :oP Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 installation, and desktop
probably a bad download, or a bad CD burn. try downloading and burning your CD again. those 'failed' packages are sign of big trouble. it shouldn't happen. (oh BTW during the installation, make sure you tell the installer to start X when you reboot ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] good ftp program and remote controL!
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:33:50 +1200 Mehra, Sachiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's a good ftp program to use for 'un assisted downloading, like bullet proof ftp or any of those ones that just keep retrying etc. Also is there a program to let me remote a linux box over the internet? and uses HTTP tunneling? Howdy from NZ :) Sachiv actually, if what you need is 100% reliability, nothing beats lftp. Nothing. not only it keeps retrying, it never hangs, it's fast and it's easy to use. -- here's a little story ;oP last night i decided to dload an iso of slackware to give it a try and started getting it with lftp running inside a terminal window. later on, i started playing with libs and stuff, and i manage to crash the X server. obviously, the terminal window that was running lftp died, too... but you know what? lftp itself was not only alive, the bastard just kept downloading like nothing! i could see it with a process manager ( like top ) and check on it's progress by checking the size of the growing .iso file on my disk. impressive. the download finished successfully, and then, only then, lftp died. the md5sums for my files checked correctly... ya know.. everything kool. te moral on this story? Slackware's installation SUCKS! hehehehe -- lftp is a commandline program. you type lftp ftp.server.com and from that moment on, you walk thru it just like the ftp is a local directory ( you can use cd, ls, you can complete filenames using the tab key, etc.. ) and then you use 'get [filename]' to download. (the downloaded file goes to the directory from where you started lftp, so be sure to go to the right place before you start ). oh and remote administration... i'm not sure about tunneling, but webmin is the coolest remote admin tool i know.. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
I was seriously considering buying a Mac until I watched his address. Sure, OSX looks cool, but I have a feeling there are a lot of hidden costs waiting down the road. I'm really happy with Mandrake Linux, and you can't beat the price and the support community. I wouldn't even be surprised to see the Mac fanatics defect at some point. Cheers, Todd Do you not find L-M to be expensive down the road? I am psyched about Linux, but frustrated that I have to go without updates that could really help me just because the new ..? the cat suddenly jumped in and punched 'send' before he could finish! Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] read a pixel!
i need a suggestion on programming languages. this is how it goes. i need to build a program that can tell me the RGB value of a given pixel inside of an image file. that is, load a graphic from file, and reading color values from it regardless of whether it's showing on the screen or not. i've tried kylix Open edition, but it fails to do it ( probably buggy libs ) as it loads and displays a graphic correctly on the form but when i try to read a pixel from it... the RGB value i get is wrong ( i think it's getting converted to 8-bit palette ) while the same code does run correctly on windoze's Delphi 5, ( so much for cross-plattform programming ) i hate having to reboot my computer ( or even loading a virtual machine ) just for the sole purpose of barfing fome clumsy lines of code -besides i'd like the linux binary- , so i've decided that i need to learn something other than pascal for killing time... can anyone recommend me a programming language that allows me to do this pixel-reading stuff and is as simple as possible? ( i will have to learn C sometime, but for the moment i think is a bit overkill... is there a choice? ) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:50:29 +0800 frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, I thought it was cool too.. (I saw it myself last night when search for onfo on the SP1 for XP and the SP3 for 2000. so you can install the SP, but the SP is still going to send info to M$, so it makes little difference really. rgds Frank h... true, true, you're right.. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla error on loading
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:18:04 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I just selected a new skin for Mozilla And geuss what ? I screwed again. All I get at the startup is a message that says: Error launching browser window:no XBL binding for browser What now? are there some files I can edit to restore my previous situation ? thanks Klemm hmm.. delete the ~/.mozilla directory. i had mozilla do some REALLY WEIRD stuff the day i wanted to install the locale package for spanish.. ( i mean things like creating a window 3 times the size of my screen, with no menu, no widgets, just a white window, and filling up with code -- like HTML or something ) the only solution i found was deleting the dir i mentioned to make it go back to just-installed state. HTH Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] samba GUI interface
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:27:08 -0600 Rob Burris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? - Thanks, Rob B. if what you are looking for is a GUI way to configure Samba, you should try webmin. it's got configuration interfaces for nearly every possible service and administration task. first, as root, type this command: service webmin start then open up your regular web browser and connect to webmin's interface by going to https://localhost:1/ it will ask for a login. you wanna log in as root. if you do not have webmin installed, do a: urpmi webmin HTH Damian Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMware problem
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:26:21 -0500 Buzek, Tom R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I to had a problem with this, the install went fine and I could boot win2k, but if I rebooted the machine and tried to start vmware, win2k would hang and never boot up. I worked on this for 2 weeks and never could figure out why it was hanging. I ended up setting up a dual boot hard drive for now. Tom this is probably a stupid advice, but since it's newbie list, i'll go for it.. ;oP did you make sure your vmware service is running? open up gtop and chech all the vmnet-blahblah processes are running. if not, try service vmware start. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? 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. i've seen this happen, too. there's no way of explaining this other than 'it segfaults'. my problem used to happen by simply adding a new ISA card to my system. it just plain crashes. i don't think there's much of a fix to it, just try deleting your temp files, ( /tmp, /usr/tmp, ~/tmp and so on ) and also since the system was recently installed, there won't be much loss if you delete /var also. see if that helps. other than that, there is reinstalling all drak* tools maybe someone that actually knows how these programs work can tell you more ( maybe there's actually a fix which i didn't know about ) but whenever i get those segfaults, i'm simply forced to undo what made them stop working. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter
-- Todd Slater The current tune is joe jackson - night and day - cancer It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. (Bertrand Russell) How about XMMS' wav writer output plugin? AFAIK it works correctly, too. open up XMMS, go to options - preferences, and in the 'output plugin' page, select the wav writer. then, make up your playlist, hit 'play' and you will be done in a minute.. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:41:27 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 10:26 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: hi list, has anyone else noticed that the iso's for Mandrake 9.0beta release are too big to fit on regular size CDRW media? Yeah, the forum had a comment on that right after beta 1 was released. I guess they decided they couldn't change it just now. I will bet that it is set up at less than 650 per CD on final though. Course I never win any bets and stay away from casinos for that reason. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 well, making the distro in 3 X 700 instead 3 X 650 ... i'd surely like that extra 150 MB of packages.. :o) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file
Actually nano has the same command structure as pico, and to get pico you need to install pine. You won't be seeing pine in the download edition any longer because the authors have clarified their license terms and it is abundantly clear that it is neither free nor open-source nor really distributable. This means of course that you won't be seeing pico either. Civileme uhm.. not even an older version, issued with a not-clarified license? Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:01:02 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it me, or is it reely slow today on Newbie? Miark wha? Joe Sixpack -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot??
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 03:32:48 -0400 Charles P. Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I presently am dual booting Win98SE and Win2K on a 9 or 10GB HDD. I also have a 40GB drive with apps and data, partitioned into 9 1/2 GB chunks. I like Win2K, but it will be my last M$ OS (XP turns me off and Palladium scares me) and would like to replace 98SE, which is on the C: portion of the small HDD and is 2.92GB, with Mandrake 8.2, which a friend with DSL burned the 3 ISOs to CD for me. As most of E: is devoted to 98 apps and data, that would eventually become available for Mandrake use also. Everything is FAT32. The default boot is 98SE on start-up, unless I use the arrow key to select 2000. I have 1.03GB free space on the C: drive. well, i assume you know how to make partitions to a drive ;oP anyway, have you booted the CD's? do it just to see how the installation's first screens look. i guess you can say i was a bit suicidal, but the first time i installed linux in my life, it was a Mandrake 7.1 CD i got with a magazine. i installed with 0 help, 0 manuals, just reading the buttons' captions, the 'help' text shown in the screen during the installation, and a couple of trial-and-error installs ;o) really, installing Linux is no harder than Win98 or 2K, in fact, it may be even easier. just a couple of warnings: 1- make backups before starting the installation. and defrag all your harddrives ( go into defrag's options and click NOT to arrange apps so they start up faster. Do this so the data is well arranged in the drive and the partitions can be resized more easily) you see, Linux can be installed on FAT32 ( or so i heard around here) but it's really not the right thing to do. you are going to have to delete/resize some of your partitions and create new ones for linux. ( Mandrake's installation program includes a 'select partition' stage which will let you do all kinds of operations on your partitions without hassle, and it's quite easy to use. ) and 2- don't select the 'newbie' kind of installation, as it takes care of the partitioning automatically and may end up overwriting partitions that are valuable to you. choose the 'expert' one. .. well, there's really not much left unless you feel like posting back with more questions.. good luck. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lost 1G of data
Hi Need help again I have some lost files I do not find anywhere, but I know I just copied them there 3 days ago. The dir is empty. I use konqueror as my filemanager and when I have a look at the properties of /home the following makes me wonder: Size 738,1 M Free space 494,1 /2.3 Gb (78%) used I see a mismach here in numbers. if there is 738M used then I should have one and a half gigs free. How that can happen and how can I recover or find the files I don't have any more ? Klemm is your filesystem ext3 ? try listing that directory with the missing files from whithin a console. if you can see them in the console, use midnight commander ( just type mc ) to copy them to some other location. don't ask me why, but i have experienced some weird stuff with ext3, for example some apps ( konq, xmms ) couldn't see my mp3 backup, and i had to copy it to another partition in order to use it... HTH Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] chmod and chown on vfat
Sorry, don't have it here at hand, but you just need to append quiet at the end of the options part, eg.__ /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat noauto,exec,users,quiet 0 0 -- HTH Roman cool, thanks a lot! ;o) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] from adsl to dial up with isa pnp modem ...
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:42:13 -0400 Rainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i'm switching back to dial up using an isa pnp 3com/usr 56k modem. i had a hell of time (3 months, the 5th linux geek i asked finally got it working!) getting it to work on red hat 7.2. so any advice re mandrake 8.2 would be much appreciated!!! thanks well, if your modem is a hardware one, then there should be no problem. imply start the kppp program ( if you don't have it installed try urpmi kppp) the configuration is much like windows' dialup dinnection dialog. you will be prompted for your usarname and password, and below it you will see a connect button, alongside setup and cancel. click setup. in account setup you can make a new one, entering username, password, phone number and dns servers.. no need to touch anything else. it's quite simple. in the 'modem' tab, you can find a 'query modem' button to see if your modem was detected successfully. maybe you wanna try that one first. HTH Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SDL recognition problem
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:56:22 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to reinstall mjpegtools..For this jpeg-mmx and libmovtar needs to be installed first. As a pre-requisite, I was configuring libmovtar after compiling jpeg-mmx as [root@localhost libmovtar-0.1.3]# ./configure --with-jpeg-mmx=/root/jpeg-mmx All went ok but for sdl. For SDL I got try ./configure --help maybe it can accepct --program-prefix=FOO switches so that you can tell it where your SDL includes are. i had similar problems getting SDL to be recognized by the configure scripts.. however i solved it downloading SDL source and compiling with --prefix=/usr HTH Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SDL recognition problem
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 09:35:07 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 12:08 am, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:56:22 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to reinstall mjpegtools..For this jpeg-mmx and libmovtar needs to be installed first. As a pre-requisite, I was configuring libmovtar after compiling jpeg-mmx as [root@localhost libmovtar-0.1.3]# ./configure --with-jpeg-mmx=/root/jpeg-mmx All went ok but for sdl. For SDL I got try ./configure --help maybe it can accepct --program-prefix=FOO switches so that you can tell it where your SDL includes are. i had similar problems getting SDL to be recognized by the configure scripts.. however i solved it downloading SDL source and compiling with --prefix=/usr I have all mdk82 SDL files kept in /usr prefix. yep i do, too. however the only way i got some apps to find it was downloading the source and recompiling.. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie and Confused! :)
This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because, you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of marketers requesting information. If this is not the case, PLEASE accept my sincerest apologies and reply with remove in the subject field. ..no problem. i forgive you. ;oP -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandarke won't boot anymore!
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:41:18 -0400 eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I suspect I really messed things up yesterday! I ran Norton's Disk Doctor's Scan Disk program on the drive where I have my just for the record, when you run norton windoctor on a drive that has partitions of unknown type to windows ( i.e. your linux partition ) diskdoctor will barf some BS about your partition table needing to be fixed and ask you if you wanna correct the problem always remember to say no. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sudden Logouts of KDE
Shoot, that dern wizard is going to run every single time without changing anything! :D And the ~/.kpersonalizerc didn't stop mine. So, I cut it off at the roots. I used to comment out that whole section in startkde, but now I highlight it and delete it. :D I hope the OP don't have to resort to that, but just in case. -s maybe you are saving the file in the wrong place. check this out: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2048 Create or edit the file '~/.kde3/share/config/kpersonalizerrc'. Put this line into it: FirstLogin=false so it doesn't go in ~/ but into ~/.kde3/share/config/ see ya! Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sudden Logouts of KDE
well I think it happens after 5 minutes of logging in. It only happens when KDE is idle and when I am logged in the Virtual Terminal (ctrl alt f1). In KDE 2.2.2, after log outs, the xwin restarts but with KDE 3.0.2, after that log out, the Xwin crashes, when I execute startx, it prompts for no window to start or something like that, so I had no choice but to reboot my system. ok, then do this: go into /tmp, find any file or directory containing X11, qt, kde, mcop, ksock or mcop in their names and delete them all. the same in ~/tmp for all of your users. ( you will probably have to do this from outside X ) and then see if it happens again. Yes I upgraded (more like degrade) my KDE 2.2.2 to KDE 3.0.2. If in case I find several tmp dirs, which should I delete? its safe to delete either right, but i was just wondering for a more specific location all of them are safe, all necesary files in a tmp folder get re-created when they are needed. you can go into all tmp's and erase everything you see. Thanks! np ;o) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Divx win vrs Lin
now my question is this... Is there a way of doing this in Linux?? and sure. only one program needed. top-quality results. one command and forget about it ( unless you want two-pass or three-pass encoding, which will need two or three commands ;o) www.mplayerhq.hu download mplayer, it will come with mencoder bundled. once you are up n running with mencoder, read their great docs. www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/ mencoder is a commandline utility, so make sure you read all there is to it before you start compressing movies. i use it currently to encode all my movies to DivX5 which makes it half the size with no quality loss. sometimes i can even enlarge the movie and still the resulting one is half the size. can it be scripted? not only is my linux server much faster (2100XP no need. it's one or two commands you will need. but if you really need it, you could make an alias for it.. athlon) but if it can be scripted, I can set and forget it.. start the process, and later come back and burn the movies to disk. Now that I know I can do it in windows, I'd like to work out how to do it in linux and back up my dvd collection. any tips would be fantastic... rgds Frank PS, Has anyone tried the XMPS player??? it looks fantastic.. and apparently plays divx well... hmm never needed anything other that mplayer. ;o) yea yea i'm mplayer fan. no doubt about that. ;oP Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mailing list test
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:12:56 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 July 2002 05:28 am, you wrote: test?? yes or no? depends on what you were testing ;o) no. no what??? -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] yahoo messenger having problems ...
uhmm.. why don't you try gaim to connect to your yahoo messenger? i've been told that the yahoo messenger client for linux hasn't been updated in a very long time... gaim may prove better. Damian On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:29, vangala sarma wrote: Hi I have the linux version of yahoo messenger installed in my system (MAndrake 8.1). It displays the messenger window and then the screen is stuck like that. The only thing I can do next is close the screen. Can anybody tell what the problem is and how can I rectify that. There are no error messages being displayed either. Well, the last couple of days, I cannot connect to YM with a winsux box or my linux box. I think they are having problems. Bill -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:19:00 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 all future web sites have to be .png? http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25658.html the claim seems to adress programs having the ability to display JPG, not the ones serving it, so maybe we would have to end up paying in order to be able to get a 'licensed' browser with jpg-display capability ( just in case, keep your gqview program handy and hidden ;oP ) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting problem with Mandrake 8.2 Win XP
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:01:41 +0200 Tor Harald Thorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a huge problem with booting my pc My configuration was: Primary Master: Win XP Prof. Primary Slave: Mandrake Linux 8.2 Sec. Master: HD with MP3¨s Sec. Slave: CD-Rom I installed mandrake linux 8.2 with Lilo graphical boot loader and everything worked fine... Then my Primary slave with Linux on ¤%/%/¤/ and stopped working.. Now i cant boot my pc. When I turn it on it starts up, and when it should begin to read the hard disk, all that appears on the screen is:L 01 And it stopps. What can i do? How can I make a new boot record and put system files on it? it's quite simple, it will only take a couple of minutes. boot off your Mandrake CDrom ( the first one ). when you see the Linux Mandrake prompting you to press 'enter' to begin the installation or 'F1' for options, press F1. then type 'rescue'. the machine will boot up from the CD and show you a list of options. among them you will find one that reads restore boot loader. select that one. then reboot your machine. everything should be fixed. HTH Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:19:03 -0400 Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this and other replies...only problem is there does not appear to be a -net, --net, --net, --network, /net, or /network option for either /tmp/install/install, /tmp/install/setup, or /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup. Are we all talking about OO1.0? Running /tmp/install/install --help returns only five options: --help --version --prefix==PREFIX --single (since this installs a single user setup, I presume the default is a network install --interactive To further complicate matters, after deleting /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/ and reinstalling the program, the program still works for root, but changing the setuid bit (which previously allowed a normal user to launch the program), prevents even an aborted launch, i.e., the splash screen never appears. HELP!! Paul uhmm how 'bout this. reinstall it the ususal way ( yeah delete the installation you have now ) when install it it only works for root, right? ok. go into /opt/ ( that's where you are installing it? ) and then do : chown -R username /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0 ( where 'username' is any regular user) and a : chmod -R +777 /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0 done. try to launch it as user now. HTH Damian ( i didn't exactly follow the whole thread so if you tried this already, sorry for this. ) -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
smoked Damian Smoked as in trout or hemp? -- Michael smoked as in talking nonsense .. just like i would if i had smoked some weird stuff. ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] debugging, compiling, building, and executing c files
to use the 'gcc' and 'make' commands in the terminal window. I have successfully managed to use gcc to debug, but am not able to use 'make'. based on the way you are trying to compile a single .c file, i' m not sure you really need make. to compile a .c file and get an executable just do a [user@localhost user]$ gcc -o outputfile source.c that will create the outputfile executable which you can then run simply by calling it: [user@localhost user]$ ./outputfile that should be enough to compile and run .c sources. HTH Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine Powerpoint 97
Now I have 2k, so...Linux doesn't see the install to grab its fonts!? I tried putting them on my FAT32 drive Just somehow seeing if I could do an Import fonts...but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this? -- Femme uhm.. did you try to put them in /usr/share/fonts/TTF ? ...other than that, you could try this http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/8.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-9mdk.noarch.html and then if you are still not satisfied with the fonts it has, at least you can use kpackage to tell where the fonts are being placed? HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X Font Server fails
On 13 Jul 2002 21:43:57 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My X Font Server occasionally goes crazy and X sucks up all available CPU cycles forever. The only fix I've found is to reboot, horrors. Upon shutdown the first thing I see is that an orderly shutdown of the X Font Server fails. This does not appear to be related to any particular application or window manager. What sorts of things should I be looking at to find and fix the cause? df tells me I have plenty of room on /, top says I have lots of swap free, and memtest86 can't find anything wrong with my memory. Warren i've seen this happen once or twice, seems to be a bug so there's no fix .. but no reboot is really needed, all you have to do is restart the X server.. ( try ctrl + alt + bkspace ) and everything goes back to normal. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System.map
'uname -r' will list the kernel version. Maybe something from here could be used in the script. Maybe I will look into this further tomorrow?? At least this is a start at explaining the usage of System.map. HTH Charles thanx a lot, Charles. i'm going to check that link after dinner. so, apparently, that system.map is not mandatory to make a kernel boot lately i've been rather busy, but i'm going to look around in the kernel docs and see if it says anything about it there... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System.map
Hi... well, i've just finished building my very first custom kernel ( well, actually not my first build, but it's my first SERIOUS one and i might like not tearing my OS apart this time ;oP ) and i'm a little confused about that System.map file. the kernel i'm running now has it's own System.map and the new one has another. right? ok. in /boot i've got System.map which is a link to System.map2.4.28mdk.. ok, so in order to use my new kernel i've got to rename my new System.map to something like System.map2.4.28mine and change that link to make it point to my file. now, my question is: how am i supposed to keep both kernels? i've checked lilo.conf and the boot sections seem to have no reference to these files... what do i have to add in order to make lilo choose the corresponding system.map whenever i choose a kernel to boot? thanks. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web page print issue
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 12:45:13 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When reading a long document like Mandrake's recent answer to United Linux I prefer to print it out. With some sites I have found that it is more readable if I print from Mozilla rather than Konq, but I suspect that it depends upon the length of line being used in the web page. So here I am with a document printed out in, I would think, about 6 point font - almost unreadable. Does anyone know of a workround for this? Of course I don't really need the side-bars, so the ability to print just the centre section would be find. I used to use Print Frame in Wins to get round problems like this, but maybe this is not an option because people use frames less? Anne well... given the trouble it is to save a whole web pages with images and all, i never even tried to print a webpage directly. instead, i copy the text, and paste it to OpenOffice or Kword. once you are there changing the font and it's size is trivial, but i doubt you will even need it, as they print quite well ( what you send to the printer ends up looking very much alike what you were looking at in the monitor ) i know this is not a fix to your problem, but i don't think you can change that from any satting that i'm aware of. oh btw do you have a preferred font set and size and have configured the browser to only use those? in that case there is that option of not allowing fonts any smaller than ... whatever you need. look out for that one... (mozilla) Preferences - Appearance - fonts and enter a reasonable value for the minimum font size. apart from that, i pretty much think you could be stuck with using other apps to finish up the text before printing it... ( oh and here's a second idea, if the text renders readably in your screen, try print to .ps file, open it to make sure it looks nice, and then print that one... ) HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grep..?
never mind... figured it out myself. first attempt AFTER i made the post. some days you are better off not stepping out of your bed. sorry. Damian But posting the solution might help others :-) Anne ok, ;o) the command looks like this: grep -i -A 2 ~/CDs/* -e searchterm will look inside of every file in ~/CDs/ directory, the -i switch means 'ignore the difference between upper and lowercase' so it can find Gaim when i search for gaim , then -A 2 means i want it to show me two lines After the matching line. and -e searchterm is... well, the search term. this one reports findings like this, for example: [user@localhost user]$grep -i -A 2 ~/CDs/* -e kylix /home/user/CDs/installers 7-kylix shit/ /home/user/CDs/installers 7-DATA.Z* /home/user/CDs/installers 7-_INST32I* where installers 7 is the file in which kylix was found ( in this case means the title of the CD), and the rest of the lines are files and subdirectories... of course i made an alias for this on my .bashrc so i don't have to remember this stuff.. ;oP Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MPlayer error
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:24:42 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. But How to make mplayer work with soundserver? well, i never tried to do it, but you could launch mplayer with the command that xmms was using. ( soundwrapper ) HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] print/capture screen
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:10:10 -0400
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:28:53 -0300
Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:50:54 -0400
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:55:06 +0100
Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's an easier way from KDE - do Alt-F2 then type ksnapshot. The
snapshot is grabbed immediately you press Return, then the ksnapshot
window appears and you can do what you like with it.
That is easy. I was looking for a way to call it from CLI without
getting the terminal in the shot. I don't think Fluxbox has any way to
do that.
Todd
uhm.. add it to your menu?
edit ~/.fluxbox/menu
add a line like this:
[submenu] (Snapshot-tool)
[exec] (Ksnapshot) {ksnapshot}
[end]
HTH
Damian
Yes, I have that in my menu already, but it won't work unless you have
some free desktop to click in. Is there a keyboard shortcut for bringing
up the menu?
Thanks,
Todd
umm, if there is, i'm not aware of it, however you can always set up
key-bindings for stuff. have you tried it?
in this case, edit ~/.fluxbox/keys
and, for example, if you wanna open Ksnapshot with
the Window$ key + k then the line to be added would be like:
Mod4 K :ExecCommand ksnapshot
maybe you already know about his too, but.. well, just in case
you needed it ;o)
( Mod4 means the windoze key, Mod1 means Alt key aww gawd i
forgot the rest. )
damn fever.. i'll go to bed now.
Damian
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[newbie] Grep..?
hi listers ... maybe my brains are working slower than usual as i think the winter caught up on me and i'm feeling kinda... dead. anyway, here's my problem: i've read the man page for Grep and i really can't figure out wether what i want to do is possible or not. i have a lot of backup CD's and everytime i needed to restore something i had to look for it in avery single one of them, as maintaining a list of all of their contents would be a job demanding more time and patience than i have. so, basically i started inserting every backup CD i had and doing ls -R /mnt/cdrom /home/user/cds/cd**.txt where the ** is a number. this way i got a pretty raw list of the contents of each CD. now, i need grep to tell me inside of which file the search criteria is found. for example i run this: cat /home/user/cds/* | grep -10 gaim it shows me the Gaim rpm file, 10 lines above, and 10 lines below. that's fine but now i need to know inside of which file it found that! is that possible? thanks. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grep..?
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:35:02 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi listers ... maybe my brains are working slower than usual as i think the winter caught up on me and i'm feeling kinda... dead. anyway, here's my problem: i've read the man page for Grep and i really can't figure out wether what i want to do is possible or not. i have a lot of backup CD's and everytime i needed to restore something i had to look for it in avery single one of them, as maintaining a list of all of their contents would be a job demanding more time and patience than i have. so, basically i started inserting every backup CD i had and doing ls -R /mnt/cdrom /home/user/cds/cd**.txt where the ** is a number. this way i got a pretty raw list of the contents of each CD. now, i need grep to tell me inside of which file the search criteria is found. for example i run this: cat /home/user/cds/* | grep -10 gaim it shows me the Gaim rpm file, 10 lines above, and 10 lines below. that's fine but now i need to know inside of which file it found that! is that possible? thanks. Damian never mind... figured it out myself. first attempt AFTER i made the post. some days you are better off not stepping out of your bed. sorry. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] QT problem with kde3
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:29:13 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:34 am, robin wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have kde3 with mdk 8.2. I wanted to compile an application which needs QT3. I did [root@localhost arson-0.9.6-kde3]# export QT_DIR=/usr/lib/qt3 [root@localhost arson-0.9.6-kde3]# ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3 But I still I get error checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.0.2) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! config.log also couldn't throw much light. What to do for proper compiling? ..uhm.. is the program you are trying to compile an instant-messaging application?? just curious. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MPlayer error
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:56:09 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What to do for sound? When I first tried to play mplayer /mnt/wind/LailaOhLaila.avi AO: [oss] 44100Hz Stereo Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) ao2: 44100 Hz 2 chans Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy - no sound couldn't open/init audio device - NOSOUND Audio: no sound!!! .. actually there can be a lot of possibilities, that message says the soundcard is busy, nothing more.. do you have any other sound-intensive programs open? ( xmms, etc ) are you using KDE and have aRTS enabled? does any movie file play correctly? my guess would be the second one, maybe? if it is, try going into KDE control panel, to the sound section, in there you will see a sound server options page. turn the soundserver off, then try again. if you are not using KDE, then i'm sorry but this may be beyond my reach... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MPlayer error
I am using kde 3. with disbling sound server I could get sound with mplayer. But xmms works with soundwrapper and it could show and give audio output for .mpg files with server on. but mplayer same trick didn't work. Any workaround? soundwrapper is some sort of a pipe that an application not built for aRTS uses in order to use it ( and therefore not get the 'soundcard busy' error ) to get xmms working without aRTS, simply remove the soundwrapper part. launch it by calling old plain xmms. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]OT- Walmart, kisses and Mandrake
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:45:06 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 June 2002 07:02 am, Lyvim Xaphir did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Well, it is only for the Wal-mart online store at this time. They are already advertising Lindows though they have not completed the EULA for that one. Heck, this is better than the first time I kissed a girl. ;) Well, not really. But it's up there! :) i bet that first time girl would be real glad to hear that ;) reminds me of the beer commercial where she is in her nighty and puts on satin sheets and he doesn't care, but she gets out beer and he runs up the stairs. how would that make you feel? i can't even imagine sex so bad and beer so good i would behave like that i enjoy linux, and love mandrake, but my says honey and i am there. ;) hmm.. how about this: your first kiss is happening two seconds from now. she's right before you, and you accidentally slip over, smash her nose with your forehead, she ends up biting your eyebrow, you both fall down, and in the way she desperately tries to grab onto something to break her fall, only to scratch you all over. you both end up bruised on the floor, one on top of the other, and right in that moment her mother walks into the room. with any luck, pretty much everything in the rest of your life will be better than that, including the 10 years of therapy you will need before you even think of trying again ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MPlayer error
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:48:11 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:35:19 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt and gcc 3.1.1. I compiled MPlayer .90 rev 4 with --enable-gui option. It compiled and installed ok. I made a menu item with application as gmplayer. I opened a file /mnt/wind/VannaPoongavanam.mpg. When I pressed play button I got message that 'File not found /mnt/wind/***[EMAIL PROTECTED]' When I open the same file as argument to gmplayer in terminal it opens. But still I get no sound? What could be the reason? What to do to make it work normal? -- L.V.Gandhi hi LV. just so you know. the issue involving the buggy file -- open GUI routine seems to be fixed now in their latest CVS snapshot. give it a try if you want, it may solve your problem. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Re: Mencoder Commands
mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi I couldn't wait untill lame + libraties were installed,to try it, So I put up a terminal and proceeded with just this command. It all looks very impressive. However I haven't a clue where the output is going, I don't even know what the name of the file is, in order to look for it. Isn't there some way I could pipe this to my chosen directory /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/divx. How about a | (pipe) or a redirect , or something. John ..uhm.. the output of that command is in a file called Matrix.avi, and it will be sitting in the directory you were on at the momment you issued the command... to now where the file s going always look what's after the -o HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MPlayer error
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:35:19 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt and gcc 3.1.1. I compiled MPlayer .90 rev 4 with --enable-gui option. It compiled and installed ok. I made a menu item with application as gmplayer. I opened a file /mnt/wind/VannaPoongavanam.mpg. When I pressed play button I got message that 'File not found /mnt/wind/***[EMAIL PROTECTED]' When I open the same file as argument to gmplayer in terminal it opens. But still I get no sound? What could be the reason? What to do to make it work normal? -- L.V.Gandhi it's not a configuration error, it's a GUI bug, i'm sorry, i know many of you like to use the GUI, but there's nothing to do until the MPlayer developers decide to fix the sourcecode for their skin system. that problem is very widely known ( BTW, is that mpg in a FAT32 partition? if so, try opening from a different filesystem tipe ) and it's supposed to be fixed in a soon-coming new version. as of now, the GUI is only usable if you opened the file from a command, which means you have to configure a file association between movie files and Mplayer in your favourite file browser, and then navigate up to the file and click on it. opening gmplayer and going to file - open doesn't work. about the sound, try a different sound driver. which parameters are you using to call mplayer? or do you use none? if you know what driver your soundcard is using ( OSS or ALSA ) try passing them as parameters for audio-output: gmplayer -ao oss file.mpg or gmplayer -ao alsa file.mpg if you are not sure, your best bet ( and this is what i use ) is SDL layer. gmplayer -ao sdl file.mpg this one will probably fix a lot of problems for you. ( i even use SDL for video output) . my tipical mplayer command is like this: mplayer -vo sdl -ao sdl file.mpg of couse i don't type that every time, i made an alias for it ;oP HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:31:27 +0200 Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what you'd like to implemented in the 9.0 release. My wishlist is in short: - a script for installing the nvidia drivers OR a deal with nvidia to provide them preinstalled in MDK 9.0 - Hungarian spell checkers - Opera 6.x - Mldonkey - Latest gtk-gnutella - Themable graphical boot - More KDE/Gnome themes - Support for Mustek ScanMagic 1200 (paralell) - Mozilla 1.1 - Mplayer - An advanced control center with more advanced options - winex and crossover office - preinstalled flash plugin - Maybe a gamer's extension 4th CD so on the first 3 CD there would be only serious programs and the games of kde/gnome - A more discrete and professional Mandrake look (icons, bootup, etc.) -Maybe a change of logo? BAT well, i do think they need a redesign.. ( icons, colors, images simply look old ) but hey, they are busy trying to make it work, and they normally accomplish that. the day they can't make it work, they will try to make it look pretty. ( a la M$ ;o) they probably have a very little or no graphics design division..? kde/gnome themes? .. uhmmm nah it would mean valuable CD space that we're better off using for useful apps.. adding collections of themes for every WM or for Xmms is simply a waste of space, since everyone is going to like only one or a few of them and feel the rest shouldn't be there. an advanced control center.. this might be a good idea.. but add options for what? i think it's complete enough... preinstalled flash plugin -- definitely. MPlayer.. would be nice, although it's claimed that a precompiled package will never perform as well as an install from tarball.. personally, i have nothing to ask of them. all of my hardware works, 95% of the programs i need are in the download CD's ( too bad i can't afford the boxed sets ) so.. i'll just let them surprise me. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)
[snip] Damian, clearly you haven't seen kde-301 yet, have you? and besides...it's not their job to make it look prettier. thats what desktop managers like KDE, Blackbox, and the rest are for, right? .. i used KDE 3.0.1 a while and i dumped it when i found fluxbox ;o) but i think you didn't get my point. i'm not saying Mandrake has to improve KDE themes. that's up to kde-look . it's true you can make a beautiful KDE by dwnloading a couple of coloschemes and icon themes and such, but then you will find out what i was talking about. .. you will have perfect, beautiful icons, transparent menus, sleek 3D window decorations, gorgeous fonts with antialiasing. and a horrid mandrake control center icon that matches nothing, looks way too flat, and with opaque colors. what i meant by icons, colors, etc, is: the Mandrake control center icons, for example... you see, when i said mandrake needs a graphic redesign, i really meant mandrake. not KDE, Gnome, or any other product. just the looks of Mandrakesoft's products. Damian DISCLAIMER: There's no accounting for taste ;o) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ?
Somebody teach me, please! I have a very low frame rate in my Mandrake 7.2, when I try to playing all video files. Configuratinon is: K6-2 450, 128M. What can I do? What video card do you have? What version of X are you running? Charles playing video files? what videos? what player? resolution? codecs? color depth? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mounting a cdrom iso in write mode
I get these kinds of errors cp: cannot create regular file `cdrom/nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/bundles/09RaQ4-All-System-2.0.1-13993.pkg': Read-only file system How can I modify the content of the iso, then run mksiofs to build a new iso? TIA an iso file cannot be written to. if you have to change it's contents, you have to take all files out of it, make them look the way you want, and then create the iso again with mkisofs. read this: man mkisofs HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
OK I'm about to make my first attemp, a couple of questions though, I've got around to unpacking the tar ball and found the Readme which is for once quite comprehensible , and in there it mentions , Step1 : Install FFmpeg libavcodec, I take it libavcodec is already there inside MPlayer-0.90pre5, looks like it to me? yes, it is. any official release of MPlayer includes libavcodec. those instructions only apply if you are downloading a CVS snapshot. Step5: unpack and stuff screen display fonts /usr/local/share/mplayer/font, I have file: ISO-8859-1 and 2, I don't need to name them ?, just use them ans they come ? only needed if you use subtitle files with your movies.. i never used this feature so far. but i suppose you don't need to change the names. Step6: Install gui skin, Any good skins to recommend ? two would be enough for me, there are loads to choose from. and stuff in /usr/local/share/mplayer/skin/default/(skin name) woops, wait. sking go into /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/(skinname) the 'default' subfolder is used by the 'default' skin only. well, i use default, proton, and plastic. but remember there's no accounting for taste. :o) ( and this means i have: /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/ /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/proton/ /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/plastic/ directories. ) then alter mplayer.conf (doesn't say where this will be ?) , skin=(skin name) John -- /home/(your user)/.mplayer/mplayer.conf or, if you prefer, /usr/local/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf probably the file won't be there at first, since the install doesn't create it. just make a textfile and put gui=yes skin=(skinname) in it. you may also find you would like to add other parammeters as well, later. Damian John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. I've just spent 2 hours reading all the bumf on Mplayer website, and I must say there is so much of it it is hard to take it all in in one hit. It seems to me leaving aside esotyeric things like skins, there is only the one MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz file to compile and install. Does this actually mean it's all there, you know, encription, conversion, etc etc, the bits that really do matter and make the programme all it is,because it seems a small download for a tar file and for there to be everything that you might conceiveably want. As I say I'm not particularly interested in sky blue pink graphics but I do want all the really important encription conversion stuff,(eg. DVD to DivX) and preferably in a gui guise. John download the tarball ( it contains MPlayer and Mencoder and it will do everything you say you need ) and at least one skin. ( the skin works for MPlayer, but for Mencoder you will still have to use CLI for now. ) oh and you will probably need the codecs, too. download the package named win32 codecs unpack it and copy all of it's contents to /usr/lib/win32 unpack the mplayer-0.90pre5 tarball, enter it's directory, and do this: ./configure --enable-gui make make install once you have done this, you unpack your mplayer skin to /home/(your-user)/.mplayer/Skin ( note the capital S on Skin ) and put the skin in a subdirectory. (i.e. if you downloaded default skin, copy it to /home/(user)/.mplayer/Skin/default/ as you have compiled and installed MPlayer as root, make sure you give your user permission to read the skin files. otherwise mplayer will report it didn't find any. chmod +777 -R /home/(user)/.mplayer ... and i think that's all there is to it. MPlayer is a huge program, but all of those tons of information will be severely reduced once it compiles in your machine and excludes all the stuff your computer doesn't need. don't worry. once all is done, you can launch mplayer ( CLI ) or gmplayer ( GUI ) mplayer's biggest problem for a newbie is choosing the video output ( vo ), since you may found better features/speed with some drivers depending on your videocard. some video drivers installed may not even work. However SDL or X11 seem to work for almost everyone. ( mplayer -vo sdl moviefile.avi ) you can also play net streams, or to dump them to disk ;o) ( mplayer -vo sdl mms://server.net/moviefile.asf ) and ( mplayer -dumpstream mms://server.net/moviefile.asf will create a stream.dump file that you can then rename to *.asf ) and mencoder ( CLI ) encodes movie files in virtually any format available. notice, however, that mencoder requires very precise parameters in the commandline, so it requires some reading... HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:30:41 -0400 Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). no problem. glad it worked. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how can i have Windows beside Mandrake ..
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:22:54 -0800 FARSHAD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi dear i'm using from mandrake 8.2 but i have 2 hdd and i have mandrake in one hdd and 98,2000,XP in other hdd , and i couldn't install mandrake beside Microsoft base .. i have heard by LILO i can create a bootable disk each time i want go to mandrake i can put disket and start that , please tell me step by step how can i use from LILO ? in first should i install 98,2000,XP or first mandrake ? please tell very easy and complete ... thanks in advanced .. bye Windows has to be installed in you primary master drive. ( your first HD ) then, you install Linux on the second drive. it's quite simple, as you have two HD's almost no partitioning is needed. when the linux installer starts ang gets you into te partition manager phase, simply make sure you make a swap partition of about twice the size of your RAM and the rest leave it for linux ( ext2 or ext3 filesystem ). if you were using this drive as a backup drive for windows, you may have to delete existing partitions on that HD before this. oh, and Lilo can install itself on your Master Boot Record. that means when you start your computer the first thing you will see is the BIOS initializing, and then LILO will come up asking which system you want to boot. no diskettes needed. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:14:07 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 June 2002 01:31 am, Damian G wrote: |test | | It works. | -- cmg | | What works? | | Jays test works. | -- | Michael | |who's Jay? ;oP | |Damian you knowJay. mmmh... maybe i should take this to expert list. Damian Jay was first poster. Regrettably, I was the second. -- cmg ...the second what? LOL ok ok ok ok i'm done. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem using linux
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:47:40 +0100 (BST) Prabhas Kunisetty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hellow, I faced a problem in login linux, i installed the software from a cd which is freely supplied with a magzine . i installed the software, it automatically partionied my hard disk, when i started my computer it is asking a login , how to bypass that login , how should i use with out login, my operating system is windows 98, 256mb ram , 40gb hard disk, how should i uninstall the linux software from windows, because i cant able to login linux please help me bye... kachi hm.. i think you need an explaination.. Windows and Linux are both Operating systems. they are both used to fullfill similar tasks. therefore, when you use the Linux installer, it will overwrite Windows partitions unless you tell it not to. Linux and windows can coexist, but it takes a bit of experience with partitions .. some practice, and some trial and error. now, if you forgot your login/password and cannot use your computer, it's a good chance to start all over, since you will probably need to reinstall everything anyway. do the Linux installation process again. this time, choose the expert install, so you can choose how to partition your hard drive. this will let you choose how much space you want to leave to Linux, as well as restore your windows installation. when you come to the partitioning stage of the installer, do as follows: ( the partition manager is pretty intuitive and i think you can follow these steps just by reading the captions in the buttons. ) first of all: select and delete all existing partitions, one by one. All of your harddrive space should be displayed as a white bar, meaning all of the space is free. second: create your first partition with filesystem FAT32. ( i think it's labeled Win98 FAT32 in the installer ) use the sliders in the 'create partition' dialog to give it as much space as you like, but remember you need some space for linux too. leave about 2 GB AT LEAST for Linux. the option mount point is the folder inside of which you want Linux to show your Windows 98 files. /mnt/windows or any name you like, inside of /mnt/ is a good option. third: as the new fat32 partition shows now in the dialog ( it will be displayed in blue )select the remaining white space, and click 'create' button again. this time, choose 'ext3' filesystem, give this partition all of the space you have left, minus 500 MB. you will use those 500 MB on the next step. The mount point for this partition will be the root directory. in mount point, simply select the slash / . fourth: you should have the blue fat32 partition and one red ext3 partition and a little 500 MB blank space left. select that blank space and create a filesystem of type Linux swap. pull the slider all the way to the right, to make sure you waste no space. the mount point for this one, is swap. now you should have the blue fat32, the red ext3 and the last green Linux Swap. now, this is the importat step: - once you have made all of the partitions, choose to format them all. once you are done with this, exit the installer. reboot your computer, and reinstall your windows 98. as you complete your windows installation you will notice that your hard-drive space will not show the space being used by Linux partitions. that's the way it is. Windows cannot see or display filesystems other than FAT, so while you are in windows, Linux will be invisible. once you are happy again with your windows installation ( you may have some problems downloading all the porn again ;o) ) you can get back to installing Linux. ( when you are installing more than one operating system in a computer, it's always better to install windows first, since it's more agressive on the boot settings and would overwrite your Linux boot entry no matter what you did, and it would cause more problems. ) once you enter the Linux installation again, make sure you don't delete or format any partitions, as they are already ready-to-go and you don't want to risk formatting your windows partition AGAIN by mistake. Always read the help messages displayed in the lower part of the screen. they may help you understand what you are doing. that's why they are there. And please remember: Logins are important in Linux. when the installer asks you for an administrator password and/or usernames/passwords, use names you can remember, if not write them down. Finally, once the installation is complete, reboot your computer and you should see a dialog on every start-up from now on asking if you want to boot Linux or Windows. I hope this helps anyone who reads it, i don't think i'm too good at explaining things, but this should be a start for you to read.. anyway, didn't the magazine that brought the CD include some sort
Re: [newbie] problem using linux 2nd reply from et
second: create your first partition with filesystem FAT32. ( i think it's labeled Win98 FAT32 in the installer ) of course if you see the win fat partition BEFORE you delete all the partitions, then you may very well have not lost the house, just missplaced the keys to the door snip in mount point, simply select the slash / . ext3 may (or not) be the best choice, I (personally) would suggest ext2, and for swap a standard suggestion is 2x the amount of ram. snip thanks for filling in the missing bits, et. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:20:21 -0400 (EDT) Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was having problems sending to the list, but I fixed it. which list? Damian On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:31 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:24, D. Olson wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 09:47 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 06:32 am, Jay wrote: test It works. -- cmg What works? Jays test works. Jay who? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
|test | | It works. | -- cmg | | What works? | | Jays test works. | -- | Michael | | |who's Jay? ;oP | |Damian you knowJay. mmmh... maybe i should take this to expert list. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't dupe any CD's. ;-(
just in case you need it, you can make a .iso image to HD and burn from there. it's more likely to go well this way. to make an iso image of a cd, put it in your cdrom and : dd if=(whatever your reader device is) of=(isofile output) like this: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/user/diskimage.iso then use xcdroast and burn that image... Have you used Mandrake update recently? There are updates for xcdroast and cdrecord http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2094lang=en derek On Wednesday 05 June 2002 9:38 pm, darklord wrote: Anyone else having trouble duping CD's under 8.2? I had not tried it until just now. X-CD-Roast won't see any CD that I put into my reader (a Toshiba SCSI DVD). It did under 8.1... I've got a Toshiba SCSI DVD and a Plextor CDRW, tied to an Adaptec SCSI card. Both show up under X-CD-Roast. Before, under 8.1, everything worked fine... cdrecord -scanbus gives us this: [root@darkforce darklord]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-M1401' '1009' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W124TS' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '14.A' Removable Disk 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * X-CD-Roast gives No CD loaded with nothing in my DVD reader, and with any data CD it gives Empty CD-R/RW Thats data CD's that I've previously copied, commercial CD's, anything (I even tried CD's from my Mandrake Powerpack). I can see any of these CD's just fine by opening them up from the desktop icons...or from a terminal... Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Yet again, how to mount all three iso images
but then it would only work for those three files. that Ailas to mount an iso with one quick command was just an idea in case he needed to mount isos frequently. ;o) Damian The better, more profesional way would be to write a script called mntiso. --- #!/bin/bash mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/file1.iso /iso1 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/file2.iso /iso2 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/file3.iso /iso3 and run it with ./mntiso -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
