[newbie] Installing KDE 3
I followed the instructions on installing KDE 3 from the Mandrake website, but when I do the urpmi *, I get all of these errors about qt3 devel files conflicting with the qt2 devel files. How do I get around this? is is alright to have it install without checking dependencies? Thanks, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kamp-idled Better answer for future referance NOT
On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:17 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2001 17:52, you wrote: Fred, This is idle time on your machine. From a previous answer on this list I believe that instead of just recording idle time, it actually tries to minimise energy use by fiddling with the power management. Hence the apm part of the name. /Brian On Friday 14 December 2001 8:04 am, you wrote: Anyone know what kamp-idled is and why it is using 97% of CPU, at least that is what top tells me. Thanks, Fred (start) NON serious off topic crap, just because this has been gone over s many times, it is right up there with un$ub$ribe requests as being in need of a better answer NO!!! NO!! That is the Klingon-Asinine Mental Protection and as long as idle is up above 90% you need to write me (off list) and I will give you the only address in the world that it will be safe to dispose of your computer box and Motherboard and drives. You MUST (really n truly, do I look like someone how would lie about this???) send your stuff there (here) as it has become infested with the only viri (really, a sick worm from space) that is also able to infect computer motherboards and the human brain (if you have any space in your brain). If you have even considered switching to AOL over the last few months, you need to visit the nearest Government Federal building with about 2 pounds of modeling clay stuffed into your pockets (be sure to put some down your pants too..you will need it for protection.) be sure to bring some medical marijunia with you too, if you can acquire any. / (end) NON serious off topic crap, just because this has been gone over s many times, it is right up there with un$ub$ribe requests as being in need of a better answer Thank you for your reply, actually I did a search on the archives. but since I am dyslexic, or brain dead, I typed in kamp instead of kapm, which brought up nothing. But you are right, if I search for kapm the topic seems rather active. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kamp-idled
Anyone know what kamp-idled is and why it is using 97% of CPU, at least that is what top tells me. Thanks, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Editors won't save file, why not?
On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:27 pm, you wrote: Hi list, I am trying to edit my lilo.conf file in order to tell the system that I have a second cdrom drive that I want detected as a scsi dev. Each time I go to save the changes to the file in the editor it says 'cannot save file, discard?' Whay can't I save the file changes in the editor? I am using LM 8.1. Thank you. Mick Mick, you need to edit this file as root. log in as su before you edit it, then you can save it. When you open it as a user, it is opened read-only. Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] killing a connection
On Friday 07 December 2001 05:21 am, you wrote: Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at work and ran who that I show being still logged in a couple of different places, though my workstation is shut down. How do I kill these connections? Thanks, Fred -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ask the root to kill all the shells opened by you after you logout. mario OK, I am the the one who is root, so how do I kill my useraccount shells that are still active? ie, what command, or how do I get the pid? As root I did a ps -A, but don't see the connections anywhere. Thanks, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM 8.1
On Friday 07 December 2001 06:23 am, you wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have not gotten anywhere so far with the printing so I may install vmware put on my Win95 and print from there. Does anyone know how I would mount or access Linux files in Windows95 (without using Samba) when the Windows 95 is running in Vmware? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com don't know squat about vmware, but i suppose you could, copy your linux files to a windows partition from within linux. and then print from there. this assumes the files you want to print are plain text, or some other format that windows can open such as pdf, ps etc. mario I tried VMware on Mandrake 8.1 on two different machines, could not get printing to work with either, so called their tech support and they said that the kernel in 8.1 is not supported yet. So bought Win4Lin, and everything works perfect so far, it even picked up the scanner, a HP DeskJet 3200c. Took a little bit to figure out the settings, but after I got that right, all works perfect so far. Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] killing a connection
On Friday 07 December 2001 01:50 pm, you wrote: On Friday 07 December 2001 08:59, you wrote: On Friday 07 December 2001 05:21 am, you wrote: Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at work and ran who that I show being still logged in a couple of different places, though my workstation is shut down. How do I kill these connections? Thanks, Fred - - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ask the root to kill all the shells opened by you after you logout. mario OK, I am the the one who is root, so how do I kill my useraccount shells that are still active? ie, what command, or how do I get the pid? As root I did a ps -A, but don't see the connections anywhere. Thanks, Fred fred are you trying to kill root actions or servers running as root? have you considered top This is what I get when I run who: [fred@petlab fred]$ who fred pts/1Dec 7 16:01 (freds.computer) fred pts/2Nov 27 16:18 fred pts/4Dec 4 09:59 fred pts/4Dec 3 12:41 (freds.computer) The only one actually there is the one on Dec 7, today. I have tried top, but don't see which pid to kill. I am root on this machine, so if I need to go su, that is not a problem, just don't know what to do when I get there! Thanks, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] killing a connection
On Friday 07 December 2001 04:30 pm, you wrote: when you use top, try U the fred to get only the instances owned by fred. then try T (or h as it will bring up help) for time. showing you the process up the longest. Note: there is no need to hit enter after you enter U or T but is needed after you type: U fred. Thanks for your suggestions, I gave it a try, but they did not show up there, so waited till everyone was gone and rebooted the server, they are now gone. Not sure what the deal was. Thanks, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] killing a connection
Hi, I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at work and ran who that I show being still logged in a couple of different places, though my workstation is shut down. How do I kill these connections? Thanks, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix'
At 06:46 PM 10/29/01 +0100, you wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2001 19:54, you wrote:
Hi,
My system is running LM 8.1. When I try to install 'kylix' I get this
message:
[root@main kylix_oe]# sh setup.sh
: command not found
: command not found
: command not found
'etup.sh: line 54: syntax error near unexpected token `{
'etup.sh: line 54: `function CheckKernel {
Has someone the same problems?
Not exactly the same problem, mine installed fine on 8.1 (the borporetest
refused to run though :o/?) but then: On startup, the fontmatrix setup widget
appears and the proccess dies, leaving the widget there glaring at me :o(
Is there anybody with a running Kylix on 8.1 out there?
Yes, it installed and runs just fine on my system.
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[newbie] apostrophe in Mozilla
While viewing web pages in Mozilla 0.9.4, I notice that all of the apostrophes get replaced with a y with two dots over the top. Do any of you guys know how I get rid of this? Not a big deal, but kind of annoying. TIA, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Returning zip icon
On Friday 19 October 2001 10:12 pm, you wrote: Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi all! I changed all of my removeable drive icons to the old way, like in 7.2, where you click on them to mount the drive, and right click and umount from the menu, no supermount stuff. Anyway, this works great, but now everytime I reboot, it puts a zip drive icon on the desktop, which I delete, but it comes back every time. How do I get rid of the icon for good? I guess I should say that this is 8.1 and I am using KDE. Thanks, Fred Fredyou'll find that elusive little Zip icon in /usr/share/mdk where you can kill it off after which it won't reappear on your desktop after reboot any more. :) Thanks Alan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sums
Robert, at the command promt type: md5sum filename where filename is the name of the downloaded file you wish to check. This will spit out a character string, which should match what is in the md5sums file, which is a text file. hope I helped, and didn't confuse! Fred At 05:34 PM 10/4/01 +0200, you wrote: Hi I'm assuming that the md5sum file with the m8.1 iso's is a crc type check thing? if so how do i use it? Thanx Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can root replace user passwords
On Sunday 30 September 2001 10:59 pm, Michael wrote: yes, from console, as su, type: passwd username where username is the actual users login of course. You can also change the users password from within linuxconf. hope this helps, Fred One of my users forgot thier password. Is it possible as root to give them a temporary one, so i dont have to set up a new account for them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] S540 Xtreme 3D accel
HI all! I am having trouble getting a Diamond Stealth III S540 Xtreme card to run with 3D accelleration. Does anyone know how to get this to working? I have Mandrake 8.0 running, Asus P5A, AMD k6-2/500, 128meg RAM. I have been able to get Chromium to run, but is is ***VERY*** SLOW! TIA, Fred
Re: [newbie] Users and permissions
to add a user, from the command line: adduser you must do this as root, but since it sounds like that is the only account you have, shouldn't be a problem! hope this helps, Fred - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:20 AM Subject: [newbie] Users and permissions I've got my server set up. Now I want to be able to log in with something other than root. I'm running Slackware 7.0 and KDE. I went to the user manager in KDE and setup a user but I cannot log in with that account. Am I missing something? Does anyone know of any good/detailed info docs online that will help me set this up OR can someone help me out? Thanks. Regards, Jason
[newbie] S540 Xtreme OpenGL
I have a Diamond Stealth III S540 Xtreme video card, but don't seem to have OpenGL on my system, Mandrake 8.0 rc1. Has anyone got this config to work, or am I just screwed on the 3D accel? TIA, Fred
Re: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts
Put the following in your httpd.conf file. (of course replacing what you need to to make it fit your system) NameVirtualHost IPADDRESS VirtualHost IPADDRESS ServerAdmin Admin_email_address ServerName www.first.com DocumentRoot /home/www/first ErrorLog /var/log/first-error TransferLog /var/log/first-transfer AgentLog /var/log/first-agent RefererLog /var/log/first-referer /VirtualHost VirtualHost IPADDRESS ServerAdmin Admin_email_address ServerName www.second.net DocumentRoot /home/html/second ErrorLog /var/log/2nd-log TransferLog /var/log/2nd-transfer AgentLog /var/log/2nd-agent RefererLog /var/log/2nd-referer /VirtualHost VirtualHost IPADDRESS ServerAdmin Admin_email_address ServerName www.second.net DocumentRoot /home/html/second ErrorLog /var/log/2nd-log TransferLog /var/log/2nd-transfer AgentLog /var/log/2nd-agent RefererLog /var/log/2nd-referer /VirtualHost VirtualHost IPADDRESS ServerAdmin Admin_email_address ServerName www.third.org DocumentRoot /home/html/third ErrorLog /var/log/3rd-log TransferLog /var/log/3rd-transfer AgentLog /var/log/3rd-agent RefererLog /var/log/3rd-referer /VirtualHost where IPADDRESS is of course replaced with the actual IP address of your site. This is also for where the last two are aliases to the first site. Notice that if you have a virtual host, that you must have an entry for each site, including the main one. hope this helps. Fred - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts Does anyone have any real (working) experience in setting up virtual hosts on an apache server? I have my main web up and running and what I'm trying to do is run 2 other web sites from the same server... For example Main site = www.first.com Second site = www.second.net Third site = www.third.org Can some one help me with the httpd.conf file and what the appropriate settings would be? I've read through the Apache site and I can't quite figure it out. I've also used Comanche and I'm in the same spot... Regards, Jason
[newbie] Setting the time
Hi! Does anyone know how to sync the time with an atomic clock, and also my time always seems to be off by 1 hour, even if I select DST in linuxconf, any ideas? This is on a server running Mandrake 7.1 TIA! Fred
Re: [newbie] Setting the time
Got it set! Thanks guys! Fred - Original Message - From: "civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting the time On Friday 26 January 2001 17:08, you wrote: Hey Fred, Does anyone know how to sync the time with an atomic clock Try this: # date -s world.std.com also my time always seems to be off by 1 hour, even if I select DST in linuxconf, any ideas? Well, I'd seen this -- some time ago -- in the linux@egroups list. I think that it turns out to be a bios thing. Have you checked to be sure the time is set correctly there? Meph rdate -s time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc Civileme
Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters
Dave, No, I am not saying that a reinstall is certain, just wanted you to be prepared if it does turn out that way. Best of luck! Fred - Original Message - From: "Dave Burrows" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters Thanks for the response, Fred; I'm glad to hear that Windows won't see those Linux partitions. From the Linux-Mandrake web site tutorial on partitioning, I read that there's a partitioning option called "Use free space on the Windows Partition" and explains: "Before resizing a hard drive which alreadycontains Windows, it is strongly recommended that you run ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter from within Windows on the drive. And as always, back-up data you cannot afford to lose before partitioning drives." While it does warn that loss is possible, it doesn't iterate that it's inevitable. Of course, I shall backup that data. There is also an animated illustration of the partitioning in a graphical image that can be seen here: "This animations shows how to quickly and easily partition a drive thatalready contains MS-Windows using DiskDrake." http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake7.2/Install/Custom/page s/custom6.php3 Is it certain that Windows will be wiped out of it's share of my old partition? I have used Partition Magic but don't remember that I had to re-install anything then, either, as you imply. Any other feedback shall be warmly received, Dave Fred Schroeder wrote: Windows won't see any of the Linux partions. You do know however, that unless you are using Partition Magic or something like that, .. and maybe even then, you will lose all of the data on the disk when you repartion. So make certain you have back-ups. Fred I have a single drive partitioned into 4 with my current OS (Win98se) residing in C:\. Among the options in the install is one to take over part of C:\ for Linux. If I do this, what will happen to the assigned drive letters of D:\, E:\ and F:\, CD-ROM and CD-RW; will it reassign them with new drive letters? -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
Re: [newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ?
use tar. "man tar" - Original Message - From: "Keith Christian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: [newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ? Need this to uncompress a .tar.Z file and it's nowhere to be found. I'm not talking about gzip, zip, unzip, nor bzip2, but plain old 'compress.' Anyone have it on their Mandrake 7.2 distribution? If not, where can I download it? Thanks. =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] How does one uncompress files?
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/tar/tar_toc.html
will tell you a lot. Tar will take care of
*.tar and *.gz files, *.sh are normally shell scripts, you would run these
scripts. For instance if you had a file named install.sh, you would run
this script by typing "./install.sh" without the quotes of course.
I do think there are several GUI interfaces for
these packages, but I prefer the ol' command line. I think you can even
handle these type files in Konqueror, never tried.
Fred
- Original Message -
From:
pogo
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:44
PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How does one
uncompress files?
Fred
All of them. Tar, gz and sh. Are they
internal commands or have a program like winzip.?Can you do it from the gui or
do you have to go to the dos?
- Original Message -
From:
Fred
Schroeder
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:48
PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How does one
uncompress files?
rpm is not really a compression tool, but a
package manager, but anyway you can find more information on it at www.rpm.org
most of the compressed files are also tarred,
most of the time you can uncompress them and untar them at the same time
with "tar -zxvf filename" But you can type "man tar" at the command
line to get more details.
Which files are you needing help
with?
Fred
- Original Message -
From:
pogo
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
1:09 PM
Subject: [newbie] How does one
uncompress files?
I am having problems understanding how to
uncompress programs or files.Is there a doc that would explain rpm and
other de-compression
tools?
Re: [newbie]StarOffice5.2 Printer set-up
Yes, is there a way to set up printing in 7.2 like it was in 7.1? I have had all kinds of trouble with CUPS, never had a problem before this "improved" system. thanks! Fred - Original Message - From: "marcia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]StarOffice5.2 Printer set-up Dear All,Thank you for your suggestions. I do not have PrintPro so I guess there is no conflict there. I tried the changes on this list and it still does not work. I was setup with xpp however it does not print from that either. Last night I switched to qtcups and no printing again. When I had the Star Office 5.1a with LM 7.0 complete I had no problems printing. Maybe I am not setting something up correctly. Is there a way to check things through the terminal or to get a printout through the terminal? Thanks for your help. Marcia
Re: [newbie] re ssh
http://www.openssh.com - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 8:24 AM Subject: [newbie] re ssh Does mandrake 7.1 come with a ssh server on it? If not, can anyone suggest one thats easy to install can configure!(rpm packaging perfered) Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] Slow Gnome App startups
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.2, and all seems to be well, except that it seems when I start Gnome apps while in KDE, they take forever to pop up. I start them, get the spinning disk on the taskbar, then it will go away, and sometimes 4 or five minutes later the app will pop up. I tried starting them from a terminal, but it doesn't tell me anything. Is this a common problem? I searched the mailing list archives, but didn't find anything on it. Any help would be appreciated. TIA Fred
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
(Note that this is straight from the man page for setleds.)
For X, you need to edit the file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/types/basic'. The
last section of the file is the "KEYPAD" section and looks like:
type "KEYPAD" {
modifiers = Shift+NumLock;
map[None] = Level1;
map[Shift] = Level2;
map[NumLock] = Level2;
map[Shift+NumLock] = Level1;
level_name[Level1] = "Base";
level_name[Level2] = "Number";
To set NUMLOCK on by default, simply change every occurrence of "Level1" to
"Level2" and change every occurrence of "Level2" to "Level1" (without the
quotes). Then restart X. Note that the behavior of the NUMLOCK light will
change as well (i.e. the light will be lit when NUMLOCK is OFF and will be
dark when NUMLOCK is ON).
- Original Message -
From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
Number lock keeps resetting. There is a service which will in theory do
something but I never saw any effect when I use it. The numlock still
resets
at each runlevel change.
- Original Message -
From: "Charles" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 10:36 PM
Subject: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have
NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions?
TIA - Cmo
[newbie] User can't login
Hi, I hope that this isn't a FAQ, but I have looked and have not found anything yet. My problem is that I installed Mandrake 7.1 with the security on paranoid, and now when I try to login as a user, it just comes back up to the login again. The only way that I can login is as root. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Fred
Re: [newbie] User can't login
Maybe this is a stupid question, but where do I change the security? Thanks, Fred - Original Message - From: Steve Weltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] User can't login The system is set for PARANOID...I don't believe that a normal user should log into a locked-down box..I would log into your box as root and change (at least temp) your security to something more open, and attempt to log on as a user then. At least you'll prove my point Grinning. I think that the paranoid setting is for a firewall/secure box server, not the usual user's accounts, so all users might be denied via something other than login permissions only (like file locking or something)... BUT...I could be totally wrong too Give this a try first. Let me know if I'm right or wrong. Thanks!! Steve Weltman - Original Message - From: Fred Schroeder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: [newbie] User can't login Hi, I hope that this isn't a FAQ, but I have looked and have not found anything yet. My problem is that I installed Mandrake 7.1 with the security on paranoid, and now when I try to login as a user, it just comes back up to the login again. The only way that I can login is as root. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks, Fred
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive
Post a copy of your /etc/fstab file. also, do you have a directory on your system such as, /mnt/zip or /mnt/zipdrive or something along that line? Fred - Original Message - From: Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: [newbie] Zip Drive Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installed Mandrake 7.0 complete, purchased the OS complete with CDs and guides. I used Partition Magic, Bootmagic, and the supplied graphical installer. My zip is listed in Lothar. It is an Atapi Zip 100 IDE internal drive. I even put an icon on KDE for it but it does not access my zip. I did use the directions in the guide for installation but obviously I did not do something right. Could someone give me step by step instructions for getting this to work? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you, Marcia
[newbie] Ejecting Zip Disk
Hi, I posted this earlier, but never saw it on the mailing list and didn't get a responce so will try again. I have an internal zip drive and Mandrake 7.1, when I use the zip icon on the desktop I can use the zip drive, but it will not let me eject the disk when I am done, or want to change disks. Is there some setting that I need to change? TIA, Fred
