[newbie] Re: Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005
John Zoetebier wrote: I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts that look coarse. I have tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the fonts stay the same. Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font system ? Font anti-aliasing seems to be working now. However it seems you have to reboot ypur PC (or X server). These are the settings for my system: - switch anti-aliasing on - leave exclude range off - use subpixel RGB hinting, style medium -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005
I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts that look coarse. I have tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the fonts stay the same. Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font system ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2
After upgrading Mandriva LE 10.2 from Mandrake 10.1 the wheel on my mouse is not working anymore. It is a wireless Microsoft USB wheelmouse. Worked fine in Mandrake 10.1 with some ACPI options like: append=noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht With the above settings the USB mouse did not work at all in Mandriva. So I changed it to: append=splash=silent Mouse is working now, but not the wheel. Wheel on PS2 mouse is not working either. I looked in Xorg.0.log and found these error messages at the top of the log file: 1) Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 2) (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5964) rev 1, Mem @ 0xe000/27, 0xff5f/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff5c/17 (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5d44) rev 1, Mem @ 0xd800/27, 0xff5e/16 However Xorg seems to have detected my ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. Any ideas ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2
John Zoetebier wrote: After upgrading Mandriva LE 10.2 from Mandrake 10.1 the wheel on my mouse is not working anymore. It is a wireless Microsoft USB wheelmouse. Worked fine in Mandrake 10.1 with some ACPI options like: append=noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht With the above settings the USB mouse did not work at all in Mandriva. So I changed it to: append=splash=silent Mouse is working now, but not the wheel. Wheel on PS2 mouse is not working either. I looked in Xorg.0.log and found these error messages at the top of the log file: 1) Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 2) (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5964) rev 1, Mem @ 0xe000/27, 0xff5f/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff5c/17 (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5d44) rev 1, Mem @ 0xd800/27, 0xff5e/16 However Xorg seems to have detected my ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. Any ideas ? Suddenly the wheel is working again :) The only thing I remember having changed is in MMC change font size to 10 in stead of 12. This may have changed the Xorg settings and as a side effect the mouse is working now. After rebooting the PC I discovered that the wheel was working again. It am just guessing though -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install
frengoGorgia wrote: Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed --- I was upgrading from 3.2 on MD10.1 desktop. Is there a fix for this or should I reinstall earlier version? Thanks in advance for help. probably /etc/menu/menudrakeentry was breaked by the upgrade post that file in list so we could read it. maybe this help. -- Regards, Francesco Hello Francesco I went through a series of problems and ended up starting x from the command line. Everything seems to be working ok from there. It doesn't start with mandrake display manager and switches to konsole login with kdm. Googling showed that it had to do with the different login managers. Will use as is. Thanks for responding. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kde 3.4 install
Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed --- I was upgrading from 3.2 on MD10.1 desktop. Is there a fix for this or should I reinstall earlier version? Thanks in advance for help. -- John Bryant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Email and Firefox
Hello How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox
Paul wrote: Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:55:45 -0400 schreef john: How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. I use 10.0, hopefully things have not changed too much: Open gnome-control-center, click Advanced and then doubleclick filetypes and programs. In the new window scroll down to INternet services, click the triangle and find E-mail at the bottom. Click that, click the 'Edit' button on the right, and there point the service to thunderbird. Good luck! Paul Paul Thanks for response. I changed the mailer to thunderbird but I need to know the correct command to fill in. Evolution was evolution %s (w/o quotation marks). Thanks again in addvance John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KWallet question
On Monday 04 April 2005 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. Anne Go to Configure your desktop-Security-Launch Wallet Manager Double click on your wallet. Then you can remove and edit entries in your forms, and passwords for that site. Also you can just re-enter the information at the login screen and it'll see the change and fix it. John -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgpQ3wbcNuuBA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open
On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that Mandrake installed. It will open but it won't accept any input from the keyboard. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Eric Jackson Is there any other message from KDEinit about why it won't open Konsole? That might be helpful. I've not had that problem before. KDE has refused to open other programs but never that one. :) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open
On March 26, 2005 09:42 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip No, that's all it says. Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? Eric Jackson Follow the menu System|Configuration|Packaging|Remove Software and then query it for the file(s) Konsole. That will tell you which package needs to be removed. Then urpmi the newest version of the package and install that one. Here's hoping it works. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:09, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a picture. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Paul There's always the Gimp, but for something easier try KolourPaint. John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:55, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Aiyaa.. Those are 'heavy and very serious games'. They have their own stress level to play :) I'm looking for easy games to kill times. Well, I've installed 2 free RPGs, but unfortunately cannot run. The games die :( I guess I'll have to browse from letter 'C' onward later. Using the mcc KDE/GNOME doesnt show the games. Try just under the section Games? There's tonne of them in Contrib... Then there's also kdegames, with the killer app, solitaire :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:44:07 -0600 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised vendor. The only way to know for sure who actually makes the disk is to do; Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas This is not DVD but I recall several years ago, asking a salesman about the differences between different CDs. His answer was - price! Since then I have bought only on price. A few coasters have turned up but I could always account for them by my stupidity. John Montgomery Vernon BC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New HP laptop with NTFS Partition and trying to dual boot
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:38, Dennis Myers wrote: I have a new HP zv5360us laptop, NTFS partition with Windows XP on it. When I try to install Mandrake 10.1 It refuses to resize the windows partition. Am I going about this wrong. I know linux will run on it as pclinuxonline cd runs ok. I just can't get an xfs partition set up. Any ideas? TIA, Dennis M. linux user #180842 Mandrakes resizing is very conservative, it will not risk moving files around, which sometimes means it can't resize enough. Try http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html for a free trial (last time I checked) resize tool that does a more agressive job by moving files. Note also HP usually has an extra partition at the start of the disk for Windows restore, don't delete it unless you are sure you have a Windows CD you can re-install from (cause we all know that you'll have to eventually :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:08, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to organize the quotations I am getting from my readings. Is there such a software? Thanks in advance, Paul Hmmm, not really my area of expertise, but would this be something a bibliographic or citation program would handle? You could try Bookcase or PyBliographer. Something like MySQL is way overkill for something like this, if you do want to go for a DIY database, try Rekall or Kexi. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KGPG
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:09, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: --On Tuesday, March 01, 2005 22:53:34 + Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, February 28, 2005 16:30:51 -0600 John Michael Schneiderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a gpg key, but sometimes when I see one of my E-mails in a post, it says that my signature wasn't valid. I have posted my keys on-line. -- I've also noticed this. gpg says that the email in my sent box has a valid signature but the copy I get via the mailing list has an invalid sig whereas if I just mail myself its OK. I've wondered if this has something to do with the address displayed in the From/To column in the email client. If I mail myself this column has my email address and the sig is good whereas if I get one of my posts via the mailing list the From/To column has newbie@linux-mandrake.com and a bad sig. This could be a red herring but is the only pattern I see. Where does gpg get the email address to look up the sig for from? Damn, just posted a message to expert and it said the sig was good. That blows that theory or is it something to do with newbie? Cheers Nigel It's not just the newbie list, it also happens to me on the expert one as well. Strange. John -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgplwRW7bIaRI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem
Keith Powell wrote: I have installed Gnome2.8, using Thac's packages, but have a problem. There's no desktop panel! The gnome panel package was installed, so I have uninstalled it and installed it again. Still nothing, so I have no menus, applets, and so on. Also, if I try to change the background from the default, there is just a *very* quick flash of the box in which to change it, and then it's back to the default desktop. The desktop has its normal icons on, and everything else which is called up by the mouse right click, works. As root, there is no panel, but I can change the background. The gnome2.6, which is with Mandrake 10.1OE works great - I would just have liked a later version. I installed the upgrade whilst in KDE, but did not uninstall the previous Gnome first. I can't find what the problem is, so any advice will be very gratefully received. Many thanks Keith Keith I have had the same problem with gnome. I ran menu updates both from terminal and from menu drake but nothing has worked. I uninstalled gnome 2.6 first and tried with same results. I actually had the menus at one point and they disappeared when I was adding or upgrading another program. Don't know which one might have caused it. You might also check the gnome desktop forum at //gnomedesktop.org/ http://gnomedesktop.org/node?PHPSESSID=832faaac1ab9c3227723ebad9b767b83. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KGPG
I have created a gpg key, but sometimes when I see one of my E-mails in a post, it says that my signature wasn't valid. I have posted my keys on-line. -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgpg75IQtKjWF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Beware, Firefox is a spyware :)
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:23:52 -0500 Alex Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we know that image is real? It's probobly just a joke. If MS Anti-spyware actually did mark Firefox as spyware, we would have heard alot on it by now. Unless anyone else can confirm it, it's a joke. It's a joke. I tried it on my windoze partition and it didn't find firefox as spyware. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nvidia graphics
Hello I have just updated kernel to 2.6.8.1-24. I downloaded the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and installed per instructions. After downloading I tested with startx and everything worked fine. Upon reboot however, the driver would not load. Error message was: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Screens found, but none were usable configuration. I have changed nv to nvidia and have tried the load glx and also the open source load instructions: Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so. This worked with the open source driver on kernel 2681-12. Any help would be appreciated in getting this working. I have checked for an os driver (Thac's rpms) but could not find one for the 2681-24 kernel. The new nvidia driver was supposed to remove the old driver but would there be anything else needing to be changed? Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:14, Gica Strimbu wrote: Does anybody know how to run a windows program in mandrake 9.2. Is an emulator or something for this ? I need to run a small program for decoding a tv card and i don't have a linux version. thanks You just want to view normal, un-encrypted TV from a TV card on your Linux box? If the card is supported under Linux, then either tvtime or kdetv will do the job. If the TV card is not supported by the Linux kernel, then no emulator will get it working. Encrypted cable is a different story. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux autocad
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i just wanna ask if someone here is familiar or using Autocad application under mndk 10 environment.? if there is then where to find the installer? thanks.. The leading apps I know of for CAD under Linux are www.qcad.org, www.cycas.de and www.varicad.com, but http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html has a heap more. Some of these can be found in Mdk Contrib. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux books
On Monday 21 February 2005 23:55, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 09:35 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 22 Feb 2005 18:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 08:30 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi all Just wondering if there is any recommended texts suitable for beginners. I know there's heaps of stuff on the web, and I do download and print stuff. I like to have a written reference to follow when doing new things. Rute urpmi rute or download it http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz or just read it online Thanks Rosemary Yes I am wading through that and have some printed. Linux Etudes is also good but very basic For very beginners there's Linux For Non-Geeks by Rickford Grant. It's based off of Fedora, but much of the information can be gained from it. It's written in a very informal style. For a more in depth, but not too in depth, I liked Linux Administration: A beginner's Guide by Steven Graham and Steve Shah. It gives a few Red Hat information, though they confesses to love and use Mandrake, but what I love is that he also shows how to administer using the actual configuration files. -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgpHq0oZ5j6SW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:52, BJ Tracy wrote: SNIP Thanks to all of you. What I'm trying to come up with is a multi page web site with pics (real estate) and a way people can contact me. Thanks again, bj You might like to check out the following dedicated Realty web software: http://www.open-realty.org/ (demo at http://open-realty.org/demo/index.php) http://freerealty.rwcinc.net/ http://real-estate-management-software.org/ Xoops CMS: http://www.obscorp.com/obsportal/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=31lid=10 (Demo at http://www.folsomliving.com/modules/realestate/singlelink.php?cid=23lid=40060122) Mambo CMS (mambo is free, these modules cost): http://www.mosets.com/hot_property/ http://mambo.theyard.org/index.php?option=contenttask=viewid=68Itemid=30 For general web galleries, try this search at FreshMeat: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=php+gallerysection=projectsGo.x=9Go.y=4 There's a heap more out there, I'm sure, just google... John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] which word processor
On Monday 21 February 2005 11:32, Julie Sloan wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 03:53 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:19, Dennis Myers wrote: Rosemary, in my OO.org if I click on the bullets icon on the tool bar after hitting enter to start a new paragraph, the bullet that it creates at the empty paragraph dissapears and normal paragraphing continues. Does that make sense? HTH yes - it does make sense. I will try it - thanks. Don't want to go installing a whole heap of word processors to try! I've heard good things about abiword but haven't tried it myself. I'm a big fan of KOffice. Use it quite regularly for reports and such. -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgpE2DEBUr3Cg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
On February 21, 2005 04:54 am, John Layt wrote: snip You might like to check out the following dedicated Realty web software: http://www.open-realty.org/ (demo at http://open-realty.org/demo/index.php) http://freerealty.rwcinc.net/ http://real-estate-management-software.org/ Xoops CMS: http://www.obscorp.com/obsportal/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=31; lid=10 (Demo at http://www.folsomliving.com/modules/realestate/singlelink.php?cid=23lid=40 060122) Mambo CMS (mambo is free, these modules cost): http://www.mosets.com/hot_property/ http://mambo.theyard.org/index.php?option=contenttask=viewid=68Itemid=30 For general web galleries, try this search at FreshMeat: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=php+gallerysection=projectsGo.x=9Go.y=4 There's a heap more out there, I'm sure, just google... John. You might also want to look at any number of PHP-Nike powered sites just because most of the modules you'll need are free. ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Home directory
Hello Thanks for response. Sorry for the confusion. I'll try again. When I boot the system the login menu shows user 1, user 2, user 3. Users 1or 2, my wife and I, get the following error messages when I log in to KDE under either user. Message 1: Could not read network connection list. //.DCOPServer_localhost_0. Message 2: Will not save configuration- Configuration file //.kde/share/config/ksplashrc not writable. Configuration file //.kde/share/config/kdeglobals not writable. Message 3: No write access to $HOME directory-Kde is unable to start. I can log in to icewm but still have no access to any kde files. User 3 is the new one and login is ok. The file /Home now only lists user 3. The files /home/user1 or /home/user2 have been removed. Hope this is less confusing. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Home directory
Hello I was setting up rpmdrake to install a program. The list was set up by repository group. When I picked a group, menus started popping up indicating a choice of files to pick from to continue. I could not get this to stop and the repository group never came up. I turned off mcc and everything went down. I rebooted to kde and messages started coming up regarding dcop server, kdeinit, etc. The home directory had been deleted or changed. I rebooted and opened icewm through normal login and created a new user. The new account opened ok but a new home directory was created and there was no access to the old. The messages indicated no permissions, kdeinit could not launch, etc. The users are listed in mcc under user/groups and there are various files listed in ./tmp but the home directory only list the new user. There are 2 user accounts in old directory. There are various logs/ files indicating errors and failures but I don't know how to use them to get these files back. Any help would be appreciated. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Default Browser.
Lanman, did you try looking at KDE, Components, File Associations and seeing what is listed there for Text, HTML? Another old trick I use sometimes: Right click, create a blank HTML file. Name it whatever you want, doesn't matter. Now, right click on that file, and pick Edit File Types. From that list, put whatever you want at the top - I usually delete the rest of the list if I think that I'm not going to be using any other app with this type of file. Under Embedding, I usually pick Show File In Separate Viewer as well. (this really brings up basically the same screen/settings, just from different approaches) HTHS! :-) Hello I have tried both ways above and am using thunderbird. If firefox is open, it will switch to the created html file and also will try to open another firefox. Firefox will not open either way even if it is not already open. If I click on the address listed in e-mail, konq still opens. I moved firefox to the top of the list with mozilla second and deleted the rest. Mozilla works ok on the html as it opens as it should and does not duplicate. Again konq opens from email. I am downloading and installing the updates now for kde. Hopefully this will correct the issue, but is there anything else that I should look at and maybe change? Thanks for any help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well my plans are moving ahead and I need to know if there is a user friendly web page design software package for linux that those of you have used and like. I'm using Mandrake 10.0. TIA B.J. Tracy Depends on what you are trying to achieve :-) If you just want a simple site, and you're happy with hacking some of the HTML yourself (and it's always a good place to start when build your first web-site, you learn a heap along the way), then NVu/Mozilla Composer, Quanta, or Screem are popular choices. Quanta is very powerful stuff, it's widely considered the best web development environment on Linux, and has recently gained a WYSIWYG composer, but is really a bit much for a newbie or a simple site. For newbies, NVu is probably best bet IMHO, it's WYSIWYG, but also has good hand-coding tools. After you get more than a few pages on your site, managing them all can be a bit of a pain, and adding fancy features gets time consuming, especially if you are not great shakes at graphics or coding. A step up from individually maintained pages are PHP applications. PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Many PHP based web-applications also use a MySQL database backend for storing data. These apps can be anything from a simple blog, to a photo gallery, to a Wiki, to a forum, to a full-blown Content Management System combining all these, with many special areas in-between like genealogy sites, project management and auction sites. The CMS I use, for example, has easy to use modules for add-ons like themes, stock-tickers, weather reports, image galleries, forums, chatboxes, member registration, comments, e-store, etc. Setting up a PHP application can be as simple as copying a few files to the web server and then using your browser to login and tweak the settings. Most web hosts will have some applicatons pre-installed, many through a sevice called Fantastico. The hosting is pretty cheap too, I pay US$6 a month for PHP/mySQL hosting with 1Gb storage and 10Gb bandwidth. Popular, easy-to-use, free CMS's I'd recommend are Mambo and Drupal, which are able to serve as anything from a simple blog to a full blown community or web-shop. Of course, this could be way more than you're wanting, but if you're planning anything more than just a simple 'Hello World' page it may be worth looking into. Cheers! John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One of the biggest sites on the web is driven by Perl (IMDb.com). :-) True, but that's still more web-coding than I feel inclined to do :-) My point which I guess I didn't make very clear was that these apps often require no coding on the users/webmasters part, just a browser-based point-and-click interface. There are pre-packaged web-applications that use Perl/CGI or Python, but PHP is by far the most popular. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:31, David G Stevenson wrote: Slighty OT: Yes, your original poster simply wanted GUI editor. I just wanted to suggest an alternative to PHP which people tend to forget in favour of the current 'popular' choice. I do feel that while languages come and go and others evolve, Perl just seems to carry on being a darn good work horse especially when there is lots of data to crunch in the background. Then again, I am just an old timer that grew up on Perl and Oracle :-) All so true, as a programmer on the Big Iron, I know that a good old COBOL job can do in 1 minute what some of these new-fangled 4GL environments take 10 minutes to achieve :-) The 4GL takes 1 tenth of the time to write however. Of course, the ASM guys in the next pod over would normally chime in about this point in any conversation to remind us that they can run it in about 10 seconds... John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:39:39 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution [snip] Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they are all on the main mirrors so it's not much of a problem once you know to set up a main source. Thanks Peter, knew that, dun that :-) Thing is I'm on dial-up here and the thought of downloading more than 1900 files for a total of around 2Gb is not a real option either. (yes, I do know I don't need them all). Nevertheless it's very frustrating to have to continnually go online to obtain libraries and applications which you expect to be on a DVD which is supposed to contain better than 3500 files if the the file-count on the main repository is to be believed, I have taken other steps to rectify my shortfall, I merely intended to see if others on the list had encountered the same problem Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
Hi all, Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can only be described as an interesting discovery There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst several others: glibc-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-build-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-python-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-rebuilder-0.20-1mdk.noarch.rpm, rpmlint-0.62-1mdk.noarch.rpm are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution Anyone else noted this Sorry to have my day ruined Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how to change the default font?
On February 5, 2005 02:25 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: snip It might. :) It's the console I want to change to make it easier to read what's on the screen. I did actually scoop the answer from someones post in expert yesterday although it still needs a tweak or two but I'm getting there. Cool! I hope it's going well and when you get a solution perhaps post it here so that others can see what you did and emulate. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how to change the default font?
On February 4, 2005 09:23 am, Alan Ianson wrote: How can I change the default font from lat0x16 to default8x16? TIA! It might help if you told us which window manager you're using or if you're talking about the shell. Different answers for each one, Alan. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nvidia card
I have a nvidia xfx graphics card that I cannot get to work properly. I installed the proprietary driver from nvidia. I started x right after installation and it worked fine. When rebooting though, it would not load the driver. I saw the os drivers listed but didn't see any read me on what to install and how to configure the xorg.conf file. Nvidia's driver worked ok with 10.0 and the xf86 system. I need the 1.0-6629 driver. Using the os drivers, do i install the nvidia glx and nvidia kernel? Any help would be greatly appreciated. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia card
Bryan Phinney wrote: Edit /etc/modprobe.preload and add the following line: nvidia Now, simply issue the following command as root: modprobe nvidia then start X and the nvidia driver should be loaded and active. Or you can use the RPM's and that line should be added by them. Hello Thanks for the responses. The modprobe had nvidia listed. I loaded the nvidia kernel rpm and made sure that the xorg.conf file had the driver listed as nvidia instead of nv. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so was also listed in place of the load glx fille. When I rebooted, the white nvidia screen came up and everything loaded ok. Again thanks for the help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Snapshot of video
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:07, Miark wrote: If I pause video using mplayer and take a screenshot, the video still is replaced with solid blue. Is there a way around this? Miark That's because the default X video driver XV uses something called screen overlay which you cn't catch in a screenshot, but I won't go into details here (too many red wines :-). You need to use a player like Kaffeine which has a screenshot function (in Kaffeine either File/Save-As or just ctrl-s). Alternatively, in Mplayer Preferences, under Video, change the driver from xv to x11 or xvidix and try again, the video quality may be worse though. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 jukebox application
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:07, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: In Windows I have used Musicmatch Jukebox. Is there something comparable, or something you would recommend, to play MP3's in Linux? Thank you, Woah! Let the flamewars begin! There's a HEAP of choices out there, just about every beginning Linux geek tries his hand a writing an mp3 player :-). Some are really simple single file players, and then there's the video players like Xine and MPlayer that play MP3 in addition to video, but I'll skip those here, seeing as you want a MusicMatch replacement I assume you want a proper music database manager, tagger, ripper, etc. In the KDE world, my personal favourite is Juk: clean and simple but top quality with the best tagging tools. Amarok is preferred by others for all the bells and whistles. I haven't used them, but under Gnome there's Rhythmbox and Beep(?). And of course, there's the venerable XMMS. For ripping MP3's, there's also a lot of choices, but KAudioCreator or Grip are the two usually preferred. For burning to CD's the only real choice is K3B, which has some integrated ripping functions. You will probably find at least one of these already in your Mandrake menu under Multimedia/Sound, or you'll find them waiting for installation in the Software Manager under the Sound group. You may need to define Contribs as a source, and you will definitely need PLF to install lame to rip CD's to MP3. Cheers! John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KWallet
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 06:02, Chris wrote: However, I'm still not sure about the purpose of KWallet. Is it just to store passwords I use? If you go into the KDE Control Centre, there's a GUI config under Security. KWallet is an interactive password tool, it integrates with KDE applications that require passwords, like konqueror and kopete, remembering all your passwords for you and filling them in as needed, so you only have to remember one master password. It also stores form completion data, and pretty much anything else the app programmer wants it to. Note, the app designer has to code to use it. Some links: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.3/kdeutils/kwallet/ http://www.staikos.net/~staikos/presentations/August2003/kwallet/ John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?
It still broken my file looks like this.
# This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf
using generate-modprobe.conf command
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time
--ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe
snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss;} ;
/sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove
snd-emu10k1-- /g
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
I put them all on one line like you
said and it still brokem.
--- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:32 pm, John Retermeyer
wrote:
Sorry it diodnot work.
I typed in all what you said to type in
and it broke.
Did you put it in exactly as it showed up in the
mail, because if yea, that
would ot work
This should all be on one line
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time
--ignore-install snd-emu10k1
{ /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
and this should all be on one line
remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss;}
; /sbin/modprobe -r
--first-time --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
--
/g
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Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?
It still broken my file looks like this.
# This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf
using generate-modprobe.conf command
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time
--ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe
snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss;} ;
/sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove
snd-emu10k1-- /g
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
I put them all on one line like you
said and it still brokem.
--- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:32 pm, John Retermeyer
wrote:
Sorry it diodnot work.
I typed in all what you said to type in
and it broke.
Did you put it in exactly as it showed up in the
mail, because if yea, that
would ot work
This should all be on one line
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time
--ignore-install snd-emu10k1
{ /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
and this should all be on one line
remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss;}
; /sbin/modprobe -r
--first-time --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
--
/g
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Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?
OPSSS!!
Thank you very much.
Also someone else told me to
add the noapic command in the lilo.conf file
Like this:
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=noapic acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent
Now it works, thank you Frans and
thanks to Greg for all the help.
Sound works and *sounds* GREAT.
Even the ttl spdif input works!
--- Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 29 January 2005 14:56, John Retermeyer
wrote:
It still broken my file looks like this.
# This file is autogenerated from
/etc/modules.conf
using generate-modprobe.conf command
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time
--ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe
snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r
snd-pcm-oss;} ;
/sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove
snd-emu10k1-- /g
^ these last five characters
shouldn't be there: they
are Greg's sig :-)
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
I put them all on one line like you
said and it still brokem.
HTH,
-Frans
--- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:32 pm, John
Retermeyer
wrote:
Sorry it diodnot work.
I typed in all what you said to type in
and it broke.
Did you put it in exactly as it showed up in the
mail, because if yea, that
would ot work
This should all be on one line
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time
--ignore-install snd-emu10k1
{ /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
and this should all be on one line
remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r
snd-pcm-oss;}
; /sbin/modprobe -r
--first-time --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
--
/g
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Re: [newbie] Removing KDE removes...everything?
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:12, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:56:35 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: I thought to myself, 'hey, I don't use KDE, why don't I just remove it?'. Well, according to MCC, that means uninstalling most of my system, including seemingly most of Gnome and it's associated lib's as well. WTF? ...just in case anyone was confused, this *is* actually a question, not just a shot at KDE, though I have to say I'd be really annoyed to find that Mandrake had so integrated everything with KDE that I can't have a working system without it :-\ Anyone have any info on this? Well, I've done full gnome only and fvwm only installs without KDE using 10.1, so it's obviously not impossible (and then promptly used the clean system for a kde3.3 install). It's probably something shared between gnome kde like mandrake-mime-types that is screwing things up. Try rebuilding the rpm database, then delete one kde module (but several rpms) at a time, i.e. remove kdeartworks, then kdeaddons, then kdepim, then kdeutils, etc... Leave stuff kdelibs, kdebase, etc until the very last. You may have to leave some libs packages lying around, but surely even you can't begrudge a few Mb :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dwnloads
On Saturday 22 January 2005 17:12, dave needham wrote: hi all,hopeing some one can help me please.im a new user to linux migrating from winxp and i will not be going back.im using the official mandrake linux 10.0. i need to learn the best way to dwnload soft ware to my pc.i mean where is the easiest place on the pc to put them and i also whant to learn how to extract them to a directory and be able to get them to work. this should keep some one buisy to explain. thanks to all that helps dave. Welcome to Mandrake ! Nope, not going to be busy :-)) .it's pretty well already been done for you - depends really what sort of software you are wanting. Mandrake uses the rpm format for packages, and there are 2 ways of getting these packages which are self-extracting/installing. 1) If it's on a Mandrake mirror urpmi will download it and install it for you urpmi being Mandrake's package installer, have a look here for an in depth explanation :- http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi no, I'm not telling you to RTFM, the wiki has been written by members of these lists for the benefit of other members so it is easily understood and will explain the subject much more comprehensively that an e mail response will. 2) It's preferable IMHO, to use rpms built for Mandrake, they should install without problem but some non-Mandrake rpms will also give you no trouble. If you do need non-Mandrake rpms, make sure you download them from trusted sources, save them wherever you like, I made/use a directory called, imaginatively, downloads for this purpose, when you've got them click on them, you will be asked for the root password and they will install, if they need (depend) on other packages that are not installed you will be told, so them grab any dependent packages that it asks for, install them and go back to the package you first started with and try again. Observant readers will note that I haven't mentioned installing from source, the reason for this is that, again IMHO, for a newbie it can be daunting, when you are familiar with Linux come and ask us about it, if you need to that is, you will probably do a little reading and figure it out for yourself. As a general note, google is very much your friend in most Linux matters, go to http://www.google.com/linux, type in the keyword you are looking for and you will usually find pages of information - try it for example by putting install software in the search box - you'll be reading for weeks :-)) Have fun John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:03, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 20:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? While it is possible to run some Windows applications under Linux using 'Wine' to provide an adaptation layer between Linux and Windows apps, you will find it much easier to simply find an equivalent application written for Linux. Good resources to find Linux apps are SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/ and Freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/ as well as www.google.com/linux/ Having identified an application you would like to try you should then search for a Mandrake RPM package of it before resorting to compiling the application yourself. In many cases you will discover that the application is already on your CDs or available in online sources such as the 'contrib' folder on any Mandrake mirror site. derek You could try bibletime. It's included in the 10.1 PowerPack cd's. Click on configure your computer: you will be asked for your root password. Click on Software management and then on Install; choose bibletime.en and accept all dependencies. Bibletime (http://www.bibletime.info/index.html) is based off Sword (http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp) who provide massess of downloadable translations and aids. Bbiletime apparently now has a friendly download tool for the modules. For internet downloads, try KGet, which is an add-on for KDE, in the Software Manager ready for install, look under the menu at System/Configuration/Packaging/Install Software to see what you have available to install right now. Then pop over to the Twiki to learn about configuring other sources of software for installation. And best of all, its all free :-) If you really must run Windows software the best option is Win4Lin, followed by Crossover Office version of Wine, but they cost money. Just Google. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] New ATI Drivers Released
As just seen on Slashdot, ATI yesterday released some new drivers for XOrg and XFree: http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linuxprodType=graphicprod=productsLINUXdriversubmit.x=2submit.y=6submit=GO! Hope this helps those of you with XOrg/ATI problems :-) John (NVidia Fanboy) - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?
Sorry it diodnot work.
I typed in all what you said to type in
and it broke.
--- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 17 January 2005 12:47 am, John Retermeyer
wrote:
alias sound-slot-0 audigy
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
But you don't have an audigy. Shouldn't this be
snd-emu10k1, like this
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
and this should not be there
alias snd-0 snd-emu10k1
Also, there are tow install and remove entries.
There should only be one of
each.
This is what I think the lines in modrobe.conf
should look like based on my
working system that uses snd-cmipci. You have two
sets of entries and it is
asking for two different things.
alias sound-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time
--ignore-install snd-emu10k1
{ /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss;
} ; /sbin/modprobe -r
--first-time --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
--
/g
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Re: [newbie] still no DVD
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:04, Charles Lee Ying wrote: Rhein Christophe wrote: Charles Lee Ying wrote: Rhein Christophe wrote: what is your setting for CSS decryption method in the Xine control panel (if you can't see the media tab or this option under that tab, set your xperience level to 'Expert') charles Hello, It reades key and I tried the 2 other propositions but with no success. I really don't know if it comes from the fact that it is a DVD burner combo (MATSHITAUJ-831D) or that I got the notebook from France because I can watch the Zone 2 Pal DVDs and that is it! Really strange and I need to watch some movies for my classes. Bye Christophe Hey Christophe, I saw Anne made a suggestion concerning the region the player is set for. I tested this and it should have given you an error, maybe this does not happen in all cases. This setting is in the same location as the decryption method. You can change it to reflect the region the DVDs are from; 1: U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories 2: Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East (including Egypt) 3: Southeast Asia and East Asia (including Hong Kong) 4: Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean 5: Eastern Europe (Former Soviet Union), Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia 6: China 7: Reserved 8: Special international venues (airplanes, cruise ships, etc.). I got this info from the following site http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html, which is pretty OK. HTH charles AFAIK, the libdvdcss not ony decodes the css encryption, but it also bypasses the region code. For instance, my Xine setting is currently at Region 1, but all my DVD's are region 4 and they happily play. I think the fact that it complains about region is a sign that libdvdcss is not working right. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New ATI Drivers Released
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:33, Albert Charron wrote: I see on ATI web site that the driver they released is for Xorg 6.8. Mandrake 10.1 ships with Xorg 6.7. Is it still possible to install this driver on a stock (with updates) Mandrake 10.1 or should I upgrade Xorg? If I need to upgrade Xorg, where can I find the needed rpm files? Albert Charron Yeah, I probably wouldn't try them with 6.7. The 6.8 upgrade came with the PowerPack, or is available from Thac at: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/graphics10.1.html Been rock solid for me here with NVidia drivers, but the ATI users may have other thoughts on the issue. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where is libdvdcss?
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:59, Rhein Christophe wrote: Ok I installed all the packages and still I get the error message. How can I know where the libdvdcss2 is installed on my machine? Where should it be locateted? Thank you Christophe Very strange. Should be in /usr/lib. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] copying data dvd's
Hi all Can K3b copy DVDs ? I have a norton ghost image on a rewriteable DVD and I need to burn it onto a write once disk to free up the rewriteable one? If K3b can't do it any ideas. -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] copying data dvd's
On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 18:33, Anders Lind wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:02:03 + John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Can K3b copy DVDs ? I have a norton ghost image on a rewriteable DVD and I need to burn it onto a write once disk to free up the rewriteable one? If K3b can't do it any ideas. That should not be any problem, there is a DVD Copy feature on K3b that should do this for you /Anders I found it did not look further than the end of my nose ! Ta -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?
very good sir, here is what the file /etc/modprobe.conf contains: # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command alias eth0 via-rhine remove snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1 install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true remove emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove emu10k1 install emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install emu10k1 # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.6 --- options snd device_mode=0666 alias sound-slot-0 audigy # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- alias snd-0 snd-emu10k1 * --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 04:52 am, John Retermeyer wrote: Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. post contents of /etc/modprobe.conf Anne, you have this card, don't you? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?
Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. all info (that I know of) is provided below, if need more please ask. Linux localhost 2.6.8.1-12mdk #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ unknown GNU/Linux etc]# cat /proc/modules snd-seq-oss 31232 0 - Live 0xd0bad000 snd-seq-midi-event 6080 1 snd-seq-oss, Live 0xd0b49000 snd-seq 47440 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event, Live 0xd0bb9000 snd-pcm-oss 49480 0 - Live 0xd0c84000 snd-mixer-oss 17376 1 snd-pcm-oss, Live 0xd0ba7000 snd-emu10k1 90728 0 - Live 0xd0c3d000 snd-rawmidi 19300 1 snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0b8d000 snd-pcm 81800 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0c5f000 snd-timer 20356 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm, Live 0xd0b87000 snd-seq-device 6344 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi, Live 0xd0b46000 snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0b95000 snd-page-alloc 7400 2 snd-emu10k1,snd-pcm, Live 0xd0aed000 snd-util-mem 3232 1 snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0a12000 snd-hwdep 6916 1 snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0a1f000 snd 45988 11 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss, snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-timer, snd-seq-device,snd-ac97-codec,snd-hwdep, Live 0xd0b57000 soundcore 7008 1 snd, Live 0xd0a19000 sg 33788 0 - Live 0xd0b4d000 scsi_mod 104044 1 sg, Live 0xd0b64000 nfsd 189408 8 - Live 0xd0fdf000 exportfs 4736 1 nfsd, Live 0xd0bb6000 lockd 58344 2 nfsd, Live 0xd0bc6000 sunrpc 127652 2 nfsd,lockd, Live 0xd0af radeon 126804 2 - Live 0xd0b12000 md5 3584 1 - Live 0xd0aa2000 ipv6 230916 16 - Live 0xd0ca2000 autofs4 15268 0 - Live 0xd0c38000 rfcomm 32348 0 - Live 0xd0c56000 l2cap 19876 5 rfcomm, Live 0xd0c0c000 bluetooth 39076 4 rfcomm,l2cap, Live 0xd0c2d000 af_packet 16072 0 - Live 0xd0c0 ip_vs 90656 0 - Live 0xd0c15000 via-rhine 17572 0 - Live 0xd0ae1000 mii 4224 1 via-rhine, Live 0xd0a1c000 ide-cd 37280 0 - Live 0xd0aa5000 cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd, Live 0xd0ad6000 loop 12520 0 - Live 0xd0a94000 nls_utf8 1536 1 - Live 0xd0a0d000 ntfs 147964 1 - Live 0xd0ab via-agp 7360 1 - Live 0xd0a0f000 agpgart 27752 2 via-agp, Live 0xd09e7000 ehci-hcd 26244 0 - Live 0xd0a03000 uhci-hcd 28752 0 - Live 0xd09ef000 usbcore 103172 4 ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd, Live 0xd0a22000 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:38, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:10, Aidan Holmes wrote: ... Install went flawlessly, KDE works fine, inbuilt mouse and keyboard work fine and the battery level monitor works fine, all of which refused to work previously. After install I spent about another 2 hours with it installing more apps and 'playing arround' without any problems or stability issues. Only thing that remains to be done is find a driver for the software modem. I guess they were dinkum when they said 10.1 had improved laptop support. Cheers, Aidan Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Depends on the modem. The LTModem, Conexant HSF and HCF modems (paid-for version), and PCTel (I think) are all well supported, others less so. WHat do you have? John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where is libdvdcss?
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:38, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I have still the same problem watching DVDs other then type 2 PAL on my Acer Aspire 1680 with DVD combo burner. I have now Kaffeine, Xine, MPlayer, Totem installed and none is working. I installed libdvdcss2 on the notebook but nothing happenes. Where should I install this package because when I urpmi it I can't find it after. Is there a setting to do in the xine software? I need to use some movies for my job and I don't want to have to install windob. Thank you Christophe I'm assuming you have libdvdcss installed from PLF, or did you compile it yourself? If you compiled it yourself, where did it get installed? It may not be on your lib path. If so, I recommend installing from the PLF instead, at http://plf.zarb.org/, you can configure a urpmi source for it at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. If you used PLF, do you also have all the PLF versions of Xine MPlayer installed? Here's what I have installed (not all are needed for DVD's, but it means you get most Win formats supported as well): libdvdcontrol - from plf libdvdcss2- from plf libdvdnav4- from mdk libdvdplay- from mdk libdvdread- from mdk libcss- from plf libxine1 - from plf mplayer - from plf mplayer-gui - from plf real-codecs - from plf xine-arts - from plf xine-faad - from plf xine-flac - from plf xine-plugins - from plf xine-ui - from mdk xine-vcdx - from mdk xine-win32- from plf win32-codecs - from plf xanim-codecs - from plf I think that about covers it :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 10:50, M.Schild wrote: I run Mk 10 with an old printer HP Deskjet 690 that seems to have mecanical problems. I am looking for a easy to install, no problem printer with/without scanner. It doesn´t have to offer pro performance. as long as it installs easily. Any suggestions? What do I have to avoid? TIA Maryse I have a Epson Stylus C62. It has the old parallel and usb data connections. I have it on the parallel at moment but have used it on usb without any problems. Ink cartridges cost me £12 for 3X colour 3 Black from local PC fair. Quality is photo and speed is reasonable. I have it set up with Samba as the default printer for my complete home network, mix of xp,w2k, mdk 10.1, fedora 3. Only problem I have with it is the cat likes to sit on the paper out tray, when not sleeping on my keyboard ! -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:06, Miark wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:42:52 +0530, P.Prabhu wrote: How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0 ? Mmmm, plug it in? :-) What happens in KDE when you plug it in? Does a device icon appear on the desktop? Have you tried rebooting the machine with the drive plugged in? Miark Plug it in. If no icon appears, fire up MCC/Mount Points/Partitions and it should appear there, give it a mount point and mount it. Done. Note, using this second method, you loose the mount point every time you unplug, so you need to repeat it all over again next time :-( John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:36, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 15:29, John Layt wrote: Plug it in. If no icon appears, fire up MCC/Mount Points/Partitions and it should appear there, give it a mount point and mount it. Done. Note, using this second method, you loose the mount point every time you unplug, so you need to repeat it all over again next time :-( With other usb storage devices you can write the change to fstab and it (mostly) remembers it for next time it's plugged in. Can't you do that with USB hard drives? Anne There seems to be a bug in there somewhere, I think to do with the USB device randomly changing its id. I've had occasions where I've unplugged and replugged and it refuses to mount as it can't find the device. I've rebooted with the drive plugged in and had it unable to find it to mount. I've even had it disappear in the middle of being used without even unplugging it! Whether it's a config thing, or a kernel bug or a Mdk thing, I haven't had time to look. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: ... Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible support for Linux. ... Personally, I avoid Epson because of their business practices (not for technical reasons). I had a great little laser printer from them years ago, an ActionLaser 1500. Fast, reliable, good print quality, reasonably priced. But after they had sold a ton of them, they started jacking the prices of the cartridges way up. The last time I looked at buying a cartridge, the price was $250!!! The cartridges couldn't be refilled either, without damaging the printer, because they had put some of the parts that are normally separately servicable into the cartridge itself. At that point it was cheaper to buy an ink jet, so I chucked it, a perfectly good, running as good as new, laser printer, turned boat anchor. My brother, who works in the printer business, told me they had a history of this, and had left a trail of irate ex-customers. Since then, I won't touch them. Only epson cartridges I have used came withthe printer! So personally, I'd recommend sticking with HP. They seem to be the leader in printers for good reason (as opposed to being the leader due to unethical and anti-competitive business practices). -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Quick Update Question
Hi list just a quick one. When updating from mandrake control centre should I close any progs that are running that are on the update list. Will it tell me if I need to reboot or restart x? -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] winmodems
On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree get a router, and if you have more than one computer get a 4 port. Though be careful what they say on the boxes, our dsl router broke, so we went out to buy one, and ended up with something you put between your modem and your computer, the box said asdl router, but it wasn't that. Second time lucky and it works perfectly...funny enough that also said adsl router on the box!!! Jo The first one was probably a router two - but it was only a 2 port router. Designed to act as a hardware firewall more then anything. But you can hook up a switch or hub, and share the internet connection with more then one computer. The thing you have to look for is somethig about the number of ports if you want to be able to hook more then one computer directly to the router. The 4 port version is the most common, but they do sell an 8 port version as well. I have not seen more then 8 ports unless you are buying a comericial grade router. Overkill for a home network... Mikkel A bit off topic I know, but I run an old desktop box with a Linux firewall installed, that sits between my broad band modem (not adsl) and a 8 port switch (£23 from PC fair!). I then plug up to 8 computers into that. The firewall has various options for setting up a bunch of adsl routers, even allowing to upload firmware, where appropriate. I will be setting up another one for a friend at the weekend and could investigate which ones it works with. -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] winmodems
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 19:29, John Bowden wrote: A bit off topic I know, but I run an old desktop box with a Linux firewall installed, that sits between my broad band modem (not adsl) and a 8 port switch It should also be said that many routers come with a hardware firewall. They're not as configurable, usually, as a full linux firewall, but still worth having. Anne Especially as many routers are in fact running Linux, or some other FOSS OS :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] winmodems
On Monday 10 Jan 2005 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 01:19, Ana Paula Samodossi wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:09:10 -0300, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are unable to get your winmodem to work, there are hardware modems available, some reasonably priced. They are OS independent, and will work. I think is the best choice, Im getting bored of winbugs and its winmodem :@ but Im so newbie and I dont know how to recognize a good hardware modem to make it work on MDK. How can I recognize one? If you buy an external modem that connects to a serial port you can be pretty certain that it will be a no-brainer to set up. I have come across the odd external serial modem thats a software one. Stay away from usb ones. When you buy it make shure you tell the vender it has to be a full hardware modem and you want to connect it to Linux You will probably get a blank stare when you mention linux but at least you have covered yourself. Get a receipt BTW, it helps if gmail users put a reminder at the top of their posts - something like 'I;m a gmail user - please reply to the list'. Gmail's setup means that all replies come directly to you instead of the list unless we alter the 'To' line, so we need reminding. Anne -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:50, JR wrote: Could any notebook users post their experiences with 3D accelleration also? Jarlath I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with an NVidia Geforce4 5650. When I got it, it was so new that it was unsupported by NVidia's Linux drivers and I had to use the generic XFree nv driver from cvs. Support was added after about 3 months, and since then has been rock solid. My old desktop also has an NVidia Geforce2 and that's been rock solid as well. Most importantly, 3d acceleration works fine. I have rarely had problems with using either the RPMS from Mdk, or the installer from NVidia. NVidia has, without a doubt, the best drivers out there for Linux, with the most complete support, they have major clients in Hollywood who demand quality drivers for their Linux render farms. ATI is miles behind, and only occasionally show the will required to catch up. The 2D drivers they contributed to X are very good, but their 3D drivers are seriously lacking. As for the NVidia forums, yes there's a LOT of light and noise going on in there, but I think that's just a reflection of the relative popularity of NVidia over ATI. I suspect a lot of the problems people grouse about over there are PEBKAC's resulting from not RTFM :-) That and the variety of NVidia hardware out there, not all card manufacturers are equal, some make great cards, others cut corners and they play up under Linux. Cheers! John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 08:51, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:58 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: Hello Today I put a third hard drive and an additional 256MB of ram (there were already 2 256MB sticks) in my computer, after which it would not boot. I took the new ram out and it booted ok. I took one of the original sticks out then to look at it make sure I had gotten the right kind, and replaced it. Since then when I turn the computer on it turns off right away. As soon as the fans start to turn, it cuts off. It is a 1.53 gig athlon, K7S5A motherboard, pc2100 ram. Appreciate any help. That's your power supply shutting down to protect the system It is detecting a short. check every connector that you touched Check for dust and dirt in the grove that the memory sat in. If that Does not help remove the two sticks that you have played with and see if that helps. Were you wearing an anti static wrist srtap when handling the mem sticks? Thanks, SW -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 13:12, et wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 11:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I believe there is also an option to install to the MBR of the second hard drive, but that is probably only an expert option. Ether would work in your case, but installing to the MBR of the second hard drive is probably the better option. Then you can just have XP boot of the second drive, and lilo will take it from there. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Someone on this list may remember as well. My problem is that I don't do fresh installs that often. I know how to edit the /etc/lilo.conf to do it, but I don't know where the option show up in the installer. (Only 3 MDK installs so far - one 9.2 and two 10.1.) Mikkel in 10.0 and newer (maybe further back, I forget when it started), there is a window almost at the very end of the install, just before you reboot, it gives you a chance reconfigure damn near anything, including where lilo or grub is and how it is configured. Yes. After every thing is installed and just before the first reboot ( where you asked to remove the install disk). You can set up the boot manager from there. -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 13:41, et wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 03:51 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:58 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: Hello Today I put a third hard drive and an additional 256MB of ram (there were already 2 256MB sticks) in my computer, after which it would not boot. I took the new ram out and it booted ok. I took one of the original sticks out then to look at it make sure I had gotten the right kind, and replaced it. Since then when I turn the computer on it turns off right away. As soon as the fans start to turn, it cuts off. It is a 1.53 gig athlon, K7S5A motherboard, pc2100 ram. Appreciate any help. That's your power supply shutting down to protect the system It is detecting a short. check every connector that you touched Thanks, SW also consider that you may have moved the motherboard durring your changing of ram sticks (etc) and now may have a short to the case if your board is held down with metal screws and stand offs. CPU fan turnning? -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kmail Problem
Ok 2 Kmail questions probably not related. 1, recently when I start kmail (when machine is first booted up) I get this message box KDEInit could not kontact-Kmail.sh. Kmail stil starts up and down loads any new mail and seems to work ok. I click ok and the error msbox goes away. There is generaly 5/6 konqueror and 1 gaim sessions starting up at the same time. 2, When I leave the Linux box alone for long periods running Kmail ( set to check for mail every 5 mins), and internet radio through amorok, Kmail seems to take for ever to complete a new mail check. I noticed this just berfore going to bed and so am shutting the pc down, so I dont know if it completes the new mail check. -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 17:23, Scott Wagner wrote: Thanks for all the responses. Well, stupidly, I tried (actually I succeeded) in putting a stick of DDR ram in an SDRAM slot. The system still worked after I took it out though. This morning I disconnected all the drives, took the ram out and cleaned the slots and replaced it and gave it an overall cleaning with air. There is some play in the motherboard, I pushed away from the case- not sure what else to do about that. Tried starting it to see if there was any difference. It ran longer this time, maybe 10 seconds, then there was a blue flash in the vicinity of the power supply and it cut off. Oh well, I think this one is beyond me. Thanks, SW The blue flash came from the power supply box or near the m/board? -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail Problem
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 18:11, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 10:00 am, John Bowden wrote: 1, recently when I start kmail (when machine is first booted up) I get this message box KDEInit could not kontact-Kmail.sh. Kmail stil starts up and down loads any new mail and seems to work ok. I click ok and the error msbox goes away. There is generaly 5/6 konqueror and 1 gaim sessions starting up at the same time. Can't speak to this, but I would try to uninstall and reinstall kdepim-kontact. Will give it a try when I have a bit of time. 2, When I leave the Linux box alone for long periods running Kmail ( set to check for mail every 5 mins), and internet radio through amorok, Kmail seems to take for ever to complete a new mail check. I noticed this just berfore going to bed and so am shutting the pc down, so I dont know if it completes the new mail check. Perhaps you have chosen a stream that is eating all your bandwidth. What are your connection specs? Amarok has some pretty high quality streams by default, and a slow connection could become quickly bogged down. Could be I have a 3/4 mb cable connection, but also run some other servers 24/7. I was wandering about the band width usage must look closer. Perhaps time to up it a bit. wheres that wallet? -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 22:38, JR wrote: I'm wondering which option is best to connect to my laptop to a digital camera (which hasnt been chosen yet). I thought that if I got one that supported mass storage, then it would be as simple as mounting my mp3 player. But someone else reccommended getting one that uses CF / SD cards and getting a pcmcia card reader for the laptop. Has anyone any suggestions? I'm a little confused. I expect there will be some difficulty trying to connect the camera via usb, but the pcmcia option might be just as difficult in itself. Thanks, Jarlath I acquired a JENOPTIK JDC 3.1 digital camera yesterday. It has usb and tv out and takes sd. I just this min plugged it into my mdk 10.1 box via the usb and a DigitalCam Pro icon came up which allowed me to copy 1/2 dozen pictures over to my home Dir. Reading the camera's manual it claims to comply to the DCF protocol. This is what Harddrake see's Identification Vendor: Description: DigitalCam Pro Disk identifier: DigitalCam Pro Media class: hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)) Bus identification Vendor ID: 1843 Device ID: 8720 Connection Bus: SCSI (USB) (1) Channel: 0 Logical unit number: 0 Device Old device file: /dev/sda New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Partitions Primary partitions: 1 (sda1) Misc Device USB ID: 3 Geometry: 3/255/32 (CHS) Disk controller: 0 Module: usb-storage (usb-storage) Identification Vendor: Description: DigitalCam Pro Disk identifier: DigitalCam Pro Media class: hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)) Bus identification Vendor ID: 1843 Device ID: 8720 Connection Bus: SCSI (USB) (1) Channel: 0 Logical unit number: 0 Device Old device file: /dev/sda New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Partitions Primary partitions: 1 (sda1) Misc Device USB ID: 3 Geometry: 3/255/32 (CHS) Disk controller: 0 Module: usb-storage (usb-storage) -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 18:47, J or M Montgomery wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:20:46 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: starting it to see if there was any difference. It ran longer this time, maybe 10 seconds, then there was a blue flash in the vicinity of the power supply and it cut off. Oh well, I think this one is beyond me. Thanks, SW time for a power supply -- Perhaps not. Some time ago I cleaned the box out with air and when I powered up, I had the blue flash experience. After getting my internal organs back in their proper places, I took the cover off the power supply and had to laugh. A spider had taken up residence in the power supply and built a web which apparently had been quite productive, judging by empty carcasses. The blast of air, I assume moved the web enough to create a short. Truly a computer bug, well, perhaps a computer arachnid). I replaced the fuse in the power supply and am still running. Be sure you use a fast acting fuse. Cheers John Montgomery Glad it worked out ok. I once found a mouse nest in an old ICL mini computer ! -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can I install Linux on that drive and expect it to BOOT up since Windows XP seems to provide a BOOT from any device? Yes, but be very, very certain that the Mandrake installer understands that you want Mandrake installed on your slave disk (hdb) and not the primary disk (hda). Note that Mandrake will overwrite the FAT32 formatting on hdb and replace it with a native Linux format; the default is ext3, but other options are available. If you use Partion magic to shrink you NTFS partion run the move app program first and after and it will edit the registry and setup any of the windows programs that have moved drives. A little trick I have learned when installing linux on a machine with multiple drives or partions is to leave the drive/ partion unallocated. in other words no file system on a partion on a Linux / Win shared drive and no partion on a drive to used solely by Linux. The Linux installer will defualt to useing the free space. When I first moved over from dos /win file system to Linux file systems I got confused with the change from drives a, c, d, to hda, hdb for IDE drives and hda1, hda2 for partions.REMEBER to back up anything inportant before sizeing partions or installing Linux. As part of the installation process, Mandrake will alter the MBR (master boot record) on your primary drive so that you can choose between Mandrake and XP each time that you boot your system. Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Yes. But bear in mind that while Linux can read files on NTFS partitions, writing to them is not supported. However, Linux has no problems accessing FAT32 partitions, so if you want to be able to have the freedom of reading and writing data that can be accessed from either OS, the standard workaround is to shrink the existing XP partition using Partition Magic or similar, and then create a FAT32 partion in the vacant space. Next, move your Windows data to the new partition and fiddle with your Windows applications so that they know where the data lives. Kinda cool for stuff like music and video, and also useful for correspondence, spreadsheets, yada yada... -- cmg -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Burning disks Q ?
Hi Gang I use a program on that other o/s ( the one who's name should never be spoken ) that checks my CD DVD disks after burning them to check for errors , called CdCheck. It will do a basic read every sector, or crc, or compare check and even try to recover data on a damaged disk. Is there any thing similar to this ? I know there are individual progs to do crc and md5 sum checks, but is there a single app that will do the lot ? -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Back again...Booting slow
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 11:55, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I'm back to the list after not knowing why I didn't access to the list a few months?!! I have a new ACER Aspire 1680 notebook since 2 weeks and I installed MDK 10.1 community. Of course I had Win XP installed on the machine and MDK installed lilo to boot the system. Then I decided to remove XP by erasing the HD by instqlling again MDK. Now I have only linux on my toaster. Question: 1.do I still need lilo to start MDK since I don't use another system? If not how do I remove lilo? 2.When my computer starts I get an Acer page to access the BIOS (F2), is it possible to remove that screen or not? Yes. If you can find out who actually made the notebook and the mother board thats in it you can go to their site and download a updated bios if you are lucky. To find out Do a web search for a dos program called ctbios. It fits onto a dos bootable floppy and when run will interigate the bios and mother board and give you lots of usefull info. I have found it most usefull for finding old mother board manuals. 3. When MDK is loading and checking all the parameters it takes a long time (I think it is after firewire control), is it the same for you because MDK 9.1 was faster? 4. When I power down the notebook I have the finish by pressing the button to turn of the machine. I know there is a trick around but I forgot it. Thanks for your help CHristophe -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Samba 3.0+ on 9.1
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 19:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Jan 2005 16:15, John Bowden wrote: On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 17:13, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote (long ago): Has anyone upgraded the standard Samba 2.2.8 on MDK 9.1 to 3.0+? stephen kuhn - proprietor Hi Stephen, have you managed to do that? I also run 9.1 on a couple of server boxes and might need Samba too. Regards, Misko I am running samba 4k on mdk 10.1 for a small home network. It was running OK until I updated last night. Now it is only seeing some of the share that were there before. Will have a go at fixing it over the weekend That sounds oddly familiar :-) I documented my experiences at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SambaBasics#Samba_Stopped_Working Anne Thanks Anne looks like the answer. Have bookmarked page and will get me editor out tomorrow. -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] batch res reduction
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:53, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2005 19:12, Lee Wiggers wrote: Dear List, I have a pile of high res pics to reduce to 800x600 or 640x480 for the website. Anyone have a batch script or prog to do a directory at a time? ImageMagick is your friend. Try : man convert. It's a little awkward, but works. Kaj Haulrich. Or if you prefer a GUI, apps like Digikam, Kimdaba or PixiePlus have batch convert options that make calls to either ImageMagick or imlib. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Samba 3.0+ on 9.1
On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 17:13, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote (long ago): Has anyone upgraded the standard Samba 2.2.8 on MDK 9.1 to 3.0+? stephen kuhn - proprietor Hi Stephen, have you managed to do that? I also run 9.1 on a couple of server boxes and might need Samba too. Regards, Misko I am running samba 4k on mdk 10.1 for a small home network. It was running OK until I updated last night. Now it is only seeing some of the share that were there before. Will have a go at fixing it over the weekend -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firewall
On January 6, 2005 08:53 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:34 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:03:10 -0800, John wrote: I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly when he knows you use Mandrake. Oh well, perhaps it's just me :) You just have that effect on people YOU ASSHOLE! ;-) Miark I'm subscribed to the Shorewall list and found Tom E. to be very helpful. He helped me, even though he knew I was using Mandrake. He did make the comment that Mandrake did a few things in a non-standard way. He is very direct, but he didn't insult me. As with so many things Linux, he does expect a person to read all the FAQs and docs, *before* posting a question. Just my experience. Ahhh, so it is me then :) Either that or I caught us both on a bad day. I'll try again. :) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:19, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate action. But then it returns to the desktop. Couple things Is your swap partition big enough to handle a suspend operation, for instance, suspend won't work if you have 512MB memory and 384MB swap. Some laptops don't really follow the acpi standard, so suspend and stanby really don't work properly. cpufreqd is another app that works with acpi to slow down your processor when it is on battery or idle. And the klaptopbattery is not shown in the system tray, even though that option is checked in the config for the application. Hmmm. It is working here. Did you do service acpid start after installing the new packages? Check in teh MCC/System/Services that they are set to run at boot. You also need to check dmesg after rebooting to check that acpi was enabled at boot, if dmesg reports that it was disabled due to some reason, then using the acpi=force option will make it load. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can I install Linux on that drive and expect it to BOOT up since Windows XP seems to provide a BOOT from any device? Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Cy Yes! Linux will happily run from the second drive, it's an option that many of us have used. Mandrake installer will happily set it up for you. Just note that the FAT32 partition will be re-formated with the Linux filesystem, so don't leave any data on there you want to keep. Linux will then install a bootloader to the the first HDD's bootsector which will give you a menu on boot to choose between Linux and Windows. The WinXP partitions will be left untouched. Welcome to the world of Linux, if you have any problems along the way, don't hesitate to ask (just provide lots of detail when you do :-) Cheers! John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:18, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:37:31 +1100, John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inkscape: No to open or import Karbon14: No to open or import OpenOfiice.org Drawing: Not sure, but looks to be no to open or import Gimp: Nope, not there either... Google: Nope... Dunno about StarOffice, it has extra filters than OpenOffice, but the website doesn't make it clear what. Guess you'll need to find a Windows app to convert them to a Linux compatible format, sorry. Or you could track done a copy of the very very old and very very bad CorelDraw for Linux (quote: It's only good for converting .cdr files to something usable). John. Looks like I'm going to have to run CorelDRAW from Wine Does anyone know where I might get CorelDRAW 9 for Linux? CorelDRAW 12 requires WinXP, so I'm doubtful I'll be able to run it via Wine Thanks folks. According to Codeweavers, CoralDraw12 is untested: http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=610 But version 11 shows up as known not to work. http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=794 The good news is that the WinXP/Win2K API implementations in Wine do actually work better than the old Win98/95 API implementations, so if you have CorelDraw12 lying around I suggest it's worth downloading Codeweavers trial version and giving it a test: http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/download_trial/ I also notice Corel have a 30 day unlimited function free trial version available for download, so if you know someone with Windows you could get them to install the trial and convert your files to something useful :-) http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Contentpid=1047022690654cid=1047022692152 According to this Corel faq: http://support.corel.com/scripts/rightnow.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=FFNMBRuhp_lva=p_faqid=753535p_created=1067965481p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTE2NiZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPTMmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9MTUmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDI9MTMzJnBfc29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0xp_li= CorelDraw 11 7 12 include a VBA macro to batch convert you CDR files to any of CMX, CDR, EPS, AI, WPG, WMF, CGM, PCT, SWF, SVG, DSF, DXF, BMP, JPEG, PPF, CPT, TIF, GIF, and PNG. I'd say EPS, SVG or DXF would be your most portable formats. Cheers! John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grabbing at another straw http://www.xnview.com/ Nope, sorry, that just shows the (optional) embedded preview stored in the CDR file, not the actual drawing. So it might be useful for checking what's in a file, but not for using it :-( John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:55, julie wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:59 am, Curt Tresenriter wrote: On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:44:37 +0530 Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ::Does anyone know a software that can open .cdr files created by ::CorelDRAW? I'm interested in printing them. Editing and all Curt responded Maybe Scribus? Nope, I just tried with Scribus 1.2 (Aug 2004), it won't import the CDR format let alone open it. You might try Inkspace since CorelDraw produces vector images. Julie Owens, Portland, Oregon Inkscape: No to open or import Karbon14: No to open or import OpenOfiice.org Drawing: Not sure, but looks to be no to open or import Gimp: Nope, not there either... Google: Nope... Dunno about StarOffice, it has extra filters than OpenOffice, but the website doesn't make it clear what. Guess you'll need to find a Windows app to convert them to a Linux compatible format, sorry. Or you could track done a copy of the very very old and very very bad CorelDraw for Linux (quote: It's only good for converting .cdr files to something usable). John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:17, András Keszei wrote: As during the install the kernel is configured to make the most of the machine it was installed on, it will panic when it finds itself surrounded an unknown processor, mainboard, etc. The only way you could have gotten away with it, is if you had found an exactly the same armada _with_ a CD drive and installed on that. No, wrong. If he had hand-compiled the kernel to match his hardware, or if he made a major change in platform to say AMD64, this might be true, but for Pentium class 32 bit single processor boards Mandrake uses a standard pre-compiled generic i586 kernel, with hardware driver modules loaded as required. Harddrake runs at boot, and if the hardware changes then it changes the config files for the hardware modules as required. How do you think bootable Linux CD's like Knoppix or Mandrake Move manage to work on wildly different hardware??? If you read the error messages he gives, the boot fails only when it tries to mount the root filesystem and the mount fails. The kernel by that stage is already happily running on the hardware, /proc has been created and udev is up. Aron: The fault here lies in the HDD or filesystem config. Wait for Mikkel to get back to you, he's right on the money here. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:44, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:13, Steve Goodey wrote: John, Thanks for your suggestion. However, big problems with Digikam 0.7, although 0.6.2 was installed and worked OK. Are you running KDE 3.3 by any chance? Ooops. Yes, I am. I didn't realise Thac had compiled them against 3.3 rather than 3.2. Thac makes the SRPMS available if you know how to use those, at http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/SRPMS/, otherwise I'll have a hunt around for a 3.2 RPM set when I get home from work tonight. John. Sorry, haven't been able to find any RPM's for KDE3.2 that I can vouch for, there were some on MandrakeClub, but apparently there were 'issues' with them and they were withdrawn, although they seem to still be on some of the mirrors. Digikam has just released v0.7.1, which among the bug fixes, includes a new backend for USB Mass Storage cameras which supposedly works better than the old GPhoto2 one, and a new startup option to automatically open with the Camera Download window if the camera is already plugged in, which could be handy for autostart. So for now, it looks like either rebuilding SRPMS or compiling from scratch :-( John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:14, John Layt wrote: Making some progress on LinuxQuestions there's this page: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=560 which points to http://digikam.free.fr/hotplug/howto.html but it appears a little outdated in places. I'll see what I can learn from the scripts provided and follow up later. john. Eureka! Got it! Between those links, and actually installing GTkam to see what files it played with, I've figured out the secret to Mandrakes hot-plugging :-) I'll write it up in full later as a step-by-step process once I have it down pat (yes Anne, and add it to the TWiki :-), but for now here's a high-level description of how stuff is linked in together from one script to the next to the next to the next... You plug in the usb camera/scanner/whatever, the kernel doesn't recognise it as something it has a kernel module for, so passes it on to Hotplug to figure out what to do. Hotplug gets the device details from the device, which includes the device id number and the device class, which is 'camera' for a camera, 'scanner' for a scanner, etc. Next hotplug looks up the device id in the file /etc/hotplg/usb.usermap to see if it's something it knows what to do with. In the case of cameras, libgphoto2 has added to the usermap all the cameras that it supports, and tells hotplug to run the script /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam. Scanners are added to the usermap by libsane and points to the script /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner and so on. When these scripts are run, they do whatever initialisation is required, such as creating the usb device file (/dev/usb/whatever) and setting the required permissions on it, or downloading a required firmware to the device. Mandrake has added Mandrake specific parts to the camera initialisation file to perform the autorun stuff by calling the script /etc/dynamic/scripts/camera.script and passing it the device file to use. The scanner scripts libusbscanner and scanner.script are provided by libsane and as standard call the autorun stuff. These files do more distribution specific setup work before calling yet another script, depending on the device class and the currently running desktop, to launch the required program (no, not there yet!). These scripts are kept in folders aclled /dynamic/launchers/device_class, such as /dynamic/launchers/camera or /dynamic/launchers/scanner. In each of these folders are files kde.desktop and gnome.desktop which are .desktop files describing which program to autorun under that particular desktop. In the case of Mandrake, these are actually symbolic links to the /etc/alternatives directory, which is the standard location for defining default applications such as your default browser. For cameras, kde.desktop points to /etc/alternatives/camera.kde.dynamic, likewise for gnome. But it doesn't end there, camera.kde.dynamic is also a symbolic link back to /etc/launchers/camera/gtkam.desktop! Finally, we've reached the actual file that runs gtkam! So, in short for a digital camera: 1) Plug in camera 2) Look camera up in /etc/hotplg/usb.usermap 3) Run init script /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to create /dev/usb entry and call 4 4) Run /etc/dynamic/scripts/camera.script with the /dev/usb entry and call 5 5) If under KDE, run /dynamic/launchers/camera/kde.desktop which points to 6 6) Run /etc/alternatives/camera.kde.dynamic which points to 7 7) Run /etc/launchers/camera/gtkam.desktop So the quick hack will be to edit /etc/launchers/camera/gtkam.desktop to actually call kaffeine instead of gtkam :-) Unfortunately, I've loaned my digital camera to my brother for his honeymoon, so I can't confirm it works, but if you care to try, as root edit the file so the contents appear as follows: [Desktop Entry] Name=digikam Comment=Digital Camera Program TryExec=/usr/bin/digikam Exec=/usr/bin/digikam Terminal=false Icon=digikam.png Type=Application Let me know if this works for now. The proper course will be to uninstall gtkam, create /etc/launchers/camera/digikam.desktop, and create the other required symbolic links. I'll experiment and detail that later. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:55, Edward Holcroft wrote: John This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. Thank you. ed Cool. That's one less little mystery to solve, one more fix to document in the TWiki :-) Now, back to that KsCD problem... John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:24, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Jan 2005 10:55, Edward Holcroft wrote: John This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. Add that camera to the TWiki page, please? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CaMerasHW Anne Anne, I'm thinking I'll put together a page about describing the whole Hotplug / Magicdev thing from a user point of view, i.e. explain that when you plug stuff in / insert a CD, here's the programs Mdk starts by default if installed, here's how to change them, etc. Then on the Audio and Cameras page have a short description of the fix and a link to the new page for more details. It will take a few days to put together. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:09, Anne Wilson wrote: I read your other post with interest, and am looking forward to seeing this. In this last mail I was just asking for a simple 'it works with' entry on the HardwareCompatibility page. Canon get a hard ride sometimes, so it's good to note something they got right. Anne Canon Cameras seem to be the only place they get it right, mostly because the marketplace has forced them to follow the industry standards. I've been through Canon printers and scanners, and while great products they don't play nice, only my Canon camera has survived. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:13, Steve Goodey wrote: John, Thanks for your suggestion. However, big problems with Digikam 0.7, although 0.6.2 was installed and worked OK. Are you running KDE 3.3 by any chance? Ooops. Yes, I am. I didn't realise Thac had compiled them against 3.3 rather than 3.2. Thac makes the SRPMS available if you know how to use those, at http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/SRPMS/, otherwise I'll have a hunt around for a 3.2 RPM set when I get home from work tonight. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Hi all Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Thanks ed Well, I think it has sonething to do with Hotplug, the config files for which are found in /etc/hotplg and /etc/dynamic, I know how to change the defaults for CD's and DVD's, but I can't find anything for the defaults for cameras scanners. John. P.S. Which versions of Mandrake and Digikam are you using? - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:09, Edward Holcroft wrote: John I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and Digikam 0.6.1. I looked at the files you refer to but can't see what to edit, but will play around a little and see what google has to say. In response to Martin, I did not set my PC up manually to detect my camera and run gtkam - that just worked out the box. I tried Anne's suggestion in the KDE settings but it's not working yet. Maybe after a system restart ... I'll let you all know if it works. ed You may like to try upgrading to Digikam 0.7, the rpms for which are at Thac's site http://rpm.nyvalls.se/kde10.1.html. It's getting close to being THE killer app... I'll try a bit more digging around on the autostart front as well. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:58, Steve Goodey wrote: Hello, I'm running 10.1O with KDE. Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any body any experience with these? Thanks. I'm going to put in a plug here for Digikam 0.7 which is THE photo album for KDE. You can get RPMs for it from Thac at: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/kde10.1.html Make sure you install the Digikam Plugins and Kipi Plugins to get all the extra features. John. P.S. There's a 0.6.2 version that comes with Mdk10.1, but 0.7 is a vast improvement. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) For most people, that means OpenOffice and Mozilla/variants, with Evo if they are used to Outlook. My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that would really stump most people. Yep, KDE Patience is exactly how I snared my sister :-) That and all the free educational software, her being a teacher. But I had to prepare the way by first having OOo and Mozilla on her new XP box, and not 'fixing' the things she found most annoying about XP :-) Then it was just a case of having her visit one day, having to pop out for half an hour, and leaving patience up on the screen :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:53, Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe I misunderstood him, Eric. I thought he was wanting to browse the photos on the camera. You're right, of course, it is the program that opens when a jpg is selected. If his camera doesn't mount as a usb storage device he probably is stuck with gtkam for downloading. Digikam can make the albums for his later, if necessary. Anne Actually, all he has to do is close GTkam and then open Digikam and use its excellent download tool instead, it's just a pain to have to do :-) I've been trying to read the Hotplug, Udev and USB websites to find out how to change this, but it sure is dense going and there's no obvious solution yet. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
