[newbie] Can't set nomail!
For various family reasons, things will be rather chaotic for the next 2-3 weeks. Consequently I will not be doing any computing. As I don't want hundreds of postings waiting for me when I am back on the computer, I have been trying to set nomail for both newbie and expert, following the instructions in the Sympa help file, but can't. I have tried three different ways to set nomail, but none of them work - I am still getting all the postings. I tried SET newbie NOMAIL in the body of the e-mail, with no subject: the same but with SET newbie NOMAIL also as the subject, and also with SET newbie|* NOMAIL in the body (both with and without a subject). This was repeated for the expert list. I can't think of anything else to try :( All were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I am certain is the correct address. So, PLEASE can someone tell me where I am going wrong, and how to temporarily suspend the postings. I wonder if it is me, or if it is Sympa playing up? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't set nomail!
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 17:04, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:00:08 + schreef Keith Powell: All were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I am certain is the correct address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be better... Good luck! Paul Thanks, Paul, If you don't hear from me again, it's worked!! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome2.8 problem
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:03, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 03:10 pm, Keith Powell wrote: In trying to sort the problem, I messed things up altogether and Gnome would not start. So I uninstalled Gnome completely, and reinstalled all from Thac's packages. Now, Nautilus starts and then I get an error message: There was an error starting the Gnome Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred. Gnome will try to restart the Settings daemon next time you log in. But I just get this message each time. There is no Nautilus desktop. Incidentally, it would not install the Gnome-Control-Center normally. I had to force its installation. Help, please, someone. Keith Sometimes, not always, a -devel file may be missing and that will put the hurt on the main app. Can you do a urpmi on say gnome-devel* and see what pops up? Thanks for the suggestion, Dennis. There wasn't a gnome-devel file to install, just many, many libgnome-* library files not installed. Unfortunately I have a monthly cap on my broadband usage, and am almost there for this month; so I wasn't able to download them all to see if any of them solved the problem. My new broadband month starts next week-end, so I will have to wait until then before I can continue trying to find the solution. Thanks again for your reply. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk error messages
On Monday 28 February 2005 12:38, riccardo wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:31 am, Keith Powell wrote:
I know that hard drives are cheap, but I don't want to have to go
to the trouble and expense of buying a new one unless I have to.
Also, it means salvaging all the data from it.
_
~ on the other hand, data loss is a 'Pain', thus, maybe it is
cheaper to have a couple of spare HardDisks, just to do off-site,
whole-system RSYNC backups on alternate weekends :)
{ probably takes about 15 minutes to rsync backup an 8 gigabyte
system - then unplug the spare HD and store it, off-site. }
best rgds
_
Thanks for the reply.
Your suggestion of the RSYNC backups seems a useful one, and I will
investigate how to do it.
I think I will abandon the drive-seek error drive while I can still
get the data from it.
Cheers
Keith
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[newbie] Hard disk error messages
I have a Seagate hard drive, and when I close down, I get Hard Drive Seek Error messages. However, while it is in use, it appears to be working properly and without any problems. Do these messages mean that it is about to pack up completely, and can it be salvaged? I wouldn't think that drive seek errors could be rectified. I know that hard drives are cheap, but I don't want to have to go to the trouble and expense of buying a new one unless I have to. Also, it means salvaging all the data from it. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gnome2.8 problem
In trying to sort the problem, I messed things up altogether and Gnome would not start. So I uninstalled Gnome completely, and reinstalled all from Thac's packages. Now, Nautilus starts and then I get an error message: There was an error starting the Gnome Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred. Gnome will try to restart the Settings daemon next time you log in. But I just get this message each time. There is no Nautilus desktop. Incidentally, it would not install the Gnome-Control-Center normally. I had to force its installation. And I did want to try the new Gnome :( Help, please, someone. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 19:39, john wrote: 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. 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 Thanks, John. I got your message just after I had sent my last one. I also run PCLinuxOS (a derivative of Mandrake), which started off as just a KDE distribution. Then Texstar added Gnome2.8 to the repository and I installed it. No problems at all! Very confusing!! I will look at the gnome desktop forum tomorrow. Too tired tonight after struggling with Gnome for many hours. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE upgrade
Some weeks ago, there was a long thread on problems with upgrading KDE using the Thac packages. Since then, I have not seen anything about it. Have the problems been sorted, and can we now upgrade KDE? Many thanks for any information. Keith 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 upgrade
In reply to my question on how to upgrade KDE with the packages on CD4, On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 19:21, linuxgirlie wrote: I installed KDE 3.3 bu doing the following: Copy all the KDE files into /tmp Login as root (for some reason there is a bug, may have been fixed now) that won't allow you to add media under other users. Go to Mdkc Control Centre (configure your computer) and add new media...eg the folder with kde in it. Once this is done go to install software Type in KDE Look for all the files with 3.3.* (* being your version) Add them, with a tick Click install. Sorry if this is to basic, just trying to put it in some sort of understandable order!! Jo Thanks very much for your help. I appreciate your prompt reply. No, it isn't too basic! Generally speaking, I think that an answer cannot be too basic. If a thing is explained in a simple way, more people reading it are likely to understand it and get help from it. Cheers Keith 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 upgrade
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:33, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have been a complete failure. So, PLEASE someone, in plain language, how does one install KDE3.3 from disk4? I don't need to keep KDE3.2. SNIP Here's how I did it (then). I put in CD4 and cd'd to the KDE3.3 directory. There I ran 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' which returned some missing dependencies. Mostly libjack* IIRC. I already had online 10.1 sources set up, so I used those to get the deps. You might be able to use your CD sources. That upgraded KDE packages I already had from the many from the 10.1 CD install. (which is what 'rpm -Fvh' does, see 'man rpm'). After the upgrade was finished, I ran 'upall' as root; [ alias upall='rpm --rebuilddb updatedb ldconfig -v update-menus -v -n' ] Then logged out, back into KDE, using Ctrl+Alt+Bsp to re-start the X server while I was logged out. If you are setup to auto login to your desktop, this will bypass the login next step. For my experience and opinion: _Don't do it_! If you really want KDE3.3, setup cooker sources and use urpmi to update to KDE 3.3.2, (complete cooker 10.2) You'll be better off. KDE3.3.1 shipped with 10.1 is alpha an buggy quality, IME. Cooker is currently stable. Do it NOW while cooker is slow for the holidays Thanks for your reply and the help. I appreciate it. I now know two good ways of doing the upgrade, yours and Jo's. Thanks also for the warning about the buggy quality of the packages on the CD. I must think about what to do. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE upgrade
After several frustrating hours of failure, I am afraid I will have to ask! In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have been a complete failure. I have tried everything that I can think of, using urpmi. None work. :( I also can't get Install Packages to find the new KDE on disk4. Tried all sorts of add media as well. So, PLEASE someone, in plain language, how does one install KDE3.3 from disk4? I don't need to keep KDE3.2. I can't find the answer in twiki or the archives. Very many thanks for any help. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Quanta Fonts
I have been looking at Quanta for the first time. Clicking on the Fonts tag, shows the Face box empty. Should it be, or should there be a selection of fonts listed from which to chose, or do I have to insert the font names manually? If there should be fonts listed, how do I get Quanta to see them, please? I can't find an answer on Google. Thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] A .tar.gz problem.
I am trying to install a .tar.gz program but, as is usual with me, it is proving a disaster. I can rarely get the things to install, but end up with lots of error messages. I hate these type of files and usually don't have anything to do with them. However, I would like to install this one, if possible. The last few lines of ,/configure are: appending configuration tag F77 to libtool ./configure: line 19136: test: too many arguments checking for X... no checking QTDIR... /usr/lib/qt3/ checking Qt version... grep: /usr/lib/qt3//include/qglobal.h: No such file or directory configure: error: *** Don't know how to handle this Qt major version I assume that this means I have the wrong version of QT installed, but I don't know which version is required by the program. The version of qt3 which I have installed with Mandrake 10.1 Official, is 3.3.3-26. There is no other version either on the disks or in the download sources. My /usr/lib/qt3 folder does not have include or qglobal.h. Please can someone help? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A .tar.gz problem. [Success]
On Wednesday 15 Dec 2004 13:48, Nick de Graeve wrote: Keith Powell wrote: I am trying to install a .tar.gz program but, as is usual with me, it is proving a disaster. I can rarely get the things to install, but end up with lots of error messages. I hate these type of files and usually don't have anything to do with them. However, I would like to install this one, if possible. The last few lines of ,/configure are: appending configuration tag F77 to libtool ./configure: line 19136: test: too many arguments checking for X... no checking QTDIR... /usr/lib/qt3/ checking Qt version... grep: /usr/lib/qt3//include/qglobal.h: No such file or directory configure: error: *** Don't know how to handle this Qt major version I assume that this means I have the wrong version of QT installed, but I don't know which version is required by the program. The version of qt3 which I have installed with Mandrake 10.1 Official, is 3.3.3-26. There is no other version either on the disks or in the download sources. My /usr/lib/qt3 folder does not have include or qglobal.h. It indicates you have to install the devel packages: Which package it is in? [root: ~]# urpmf qglobal.h libqt3-devel:/usr/lib/qt3/include/qglobal.h libqt3-devel:/usr/share/doc/qt-3.3.3/doc/html/qglobal-h.html So type [root: ~]# urpmi libqt3-devel and try ./configure again. Nick. Thank you very much for you very prompt reply and the help, Nick. I installed libqt3-devel and the installation went smoothly with no more problems. One of my very rare .tar.gz successes - thanks to your help! Doing a urpmf qglobal.h, now gives the same locations as you said. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem (update)
Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more confusing. But first, I have just connected for the first time today, to get my e-mails and postings. I have found that there is nothing from the list between about eight o'clock last night (GMT, or UTC) and mid-day today. I have no idea where any postings between those times have gone to, so if anyone has been kind enough to send me a reply, I am afraid that it has gone :( I'll look in the archives to see if I can find the missing postings. I have been busy trying to sort things. I have installed several distributions in turn, on my spare hard drive to see what shutdown problems there are with other distros. There were none with two of them, so I installed Mandrake10.0 Official. That gave me the choice of several boots: Linux (no shutdown problems) Linux-smp (wouldn't shut down) linux-nonfb (no shutdown problems) 263-7 (no shutdown problems) Failsafe and floppy, which I didn't test. Before, with 10.0, I have only had the choice of Linux, 263-7, failsafe and floppy. So, I did a clean installation of 10.1. That gave me the choice of: Linux (wouldn't shut down) Linux-nonfb (wouldn't shut down) Failsafe and floppy So, I am back to 10.0 on my spare hard drive to send this, and will use that unless someone could please give me some advice about the work-around needed with 10.1. Does it still look like hardware problems? By the way, sorry if I went a bit over the top last night, but I was tired and the information I was given was a real blow. I had only got my new computer the previous day. Any help will be very gratefully received. Thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem (solved)
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 16:14, Keith Powell wrote: Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more confusing. I have installed several distributions in turn, on my spare hard drive to see what shutdown problems there are with other distros. There were none with two of them, so I installed Mandrake10.0 Official. That gave me the choice of several boots: Linux (no shutdown problems) Linux-smp (wouldn't shut down) linux-nonfb (no shutdown problems) 263-7 (no shutdown problems) Failsafe and floppy, which I didn't test. Before, with 10.0, I have only had the choice of Linux, 263-7, failsafe and floppy. So, I did a clean installation of 10.1. That gave me the choice of: Linux (wouldn't shut down) Linux-nonfb (wouldn't shut down) Failsafe and floppy This is bordering on being ridiculous! I have run the Mandrake10.1 (the one in which I had to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file append line to get it to shut down), which is installed on my main hard drive. As an experiment, I re-edited its lilo.conf file, replacing apic=off with the default apic=ht. Then I ran lilo. It now shuts down correctly! But it definitely didn't when there was apic=ht in the append line when it was installed. I wonder if re-running lilo sorted out an installation problem? I'm probably wrong. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Shutdown problem
I KNOW that this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer in the archives or in twiki. Sorry for asking it again. I have a new machine, and now, when I close down, everything closes down correctly, but then Mandrake does not actually switch the computer off. If I remember correctly, there is something to change in the lilo.conf file, but I can't remember what it is - not having needed it before. Please, what is it? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 11:37, Keith Powell wrote: I KNOW that this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer in the archives or in twiki. Sorry for asking it again. I have a new machine, and now, when I close down, everything closes down correctly, but then Mandrake does not actually switch the computer off. If I remember correctly, there is something to change in the lilo.conf file, but I can't remember what it is - not having needed it before. Please, what is it? Many thanks Keith In /etc/lilo.conf try editing the append-line, especially the apic thing. Remove it completely or set it to apic=ht or noapic. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks, Kaj. apic=off has solved it. The append line was already apic=ht, so I first changed it to noapic and then apic=noapic. Neither had any effect. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 08:53 am, Keith Powell wrote: apic=off has solved it. The append line was already apic=ht, so I first changed it to noapic and then apic=noapic. Neither had any effect. APIC, advance programable interrupt control. If your system works better with 'noapic', then what this really means is you have non-compliant and/or deficient hardware bordering on the 'designed for windoze' variety. Disabling ACPI and/or APIC is best avoided when not absolutely necessary, to deal with sloppy, sub-standard hardware. Tho in fairness, other popular distros do disable them by default. If your system can't use these advanced features, don't kid youself with believing that optimization for i586, i686, or K7, compiling with PREEMPT and such, will provide any benefit. This is *very* depressing reading, Tom. It is a new computer which I had built to my own specification, using components which have been recommended by people on this list as working well with Mandrake. For example, Asus motherboard, Pentium4 processor, NVidia graphics card, and so on. Are you saying that the recommendations on this list are false? There is no way that I can afford to change this substandard hardware now. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem
Margot wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 11:37, Keith Powell wrote: I have a new machine, and now, when I close down, everything closes down correctly, but then Mandrake does not actually switch the computer off. If I remember correctly, there is something to change in the lilo.conf file, but I can't remember what it is - not having needed it before. Please, what is it? Many thanks Keith In /etc/lilo.conf try editing the append-line, especially the apic thing. Remove it completely or set it to apic=ht or noapic. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I think you're mixing up apic and acpi! The options for apic include noapic and/or nolapic. The options for acpi include acpi=on, acpi=off and acpi=ht. There doesn't seem to be any magic formula for which combinations of these options will work - it seems to be just a case of trial and error until you hit the particular combination that will give you a clean shutdown. Keith, if you still have problems after checking all possible combinations of apic acpi, you might need to try a different kernel. Thanks Margot. Sometime, I must find out the difference between apic and apci - I thought they were almost the same! But, at the moment, Tom's reply has made me very depressed to find out that my new computer is no good! I don't think that it can be the kernel, as everything closed down OK on my old machine. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Groups
Duncan Anderson wrote: Keith Powell wrote: A very basic question, please. How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and add myself to another group. You can look at /etc/group to see which groups you belong to. Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users and groups doesn't appear do it. You can edit /etc/group (as root) and manually create a new group and add yourself to it. (Make sure you assign a unique group id number if you create a new group.) Having said that, are you sure MCC doesn't allow you to add groups? regards Duncan Thanks for the information, Duncan. I was wrong, you can add groups with MCC. Derek explained how to do it in his reply. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
Thank you for your reply, Carefree. Very much edited, my original posting said: From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. I get this additional error message, titled Informational - artsmessage: Sound server informational message. Error while initializing the sound driver. can't get requested samplingrate (requested rate 8000, got rate 48000) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. On Wednesday 08 Dec 2004 04:01, care free wrote: What brand of soundcard do you have? It's an on-board AC'97 chip, which I think may be the problem. From what I have been able to find out, I don't think that the sampling rate can be changed. What version of MDK do you have on your box? It's 10.0. but I am going to upgrade to 10.1. Do you choose auto detect or other options? Yes, I chose auto detect. If I try any other settings, I lose sound completely. I get the same problem with two other Linux distros, that's why I think it is the sound chip. There are still the error messages if I select alsa, but again I lose all sound. However, alsa works and the errant program works, with my Libranet (Debian based) distro. I have been trying various distros on my spare hard drive to find out what happens with each of them. As I am going to upgrade my machine soon, I think that I will abandon this until I have changed. I'll see what happens then. Thanks for your help Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Groups
A very basic question, please. How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and add myself to another group. Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users and groups doesn't appear do it. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Groups
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 06 December 2004 17:14, Keith Powell wrote: A very basic question, please. How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and add myself to another group. Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users and groups doesn't appear to do it. Many thanks Keith Yes it does. You're right, it does!! Select the 'Groups' Tab to see which groups exist and their members. Select OptionsFilterSystemUsers to see all the system groups. Right click on a group to add members. derek Thanks, Derek, for another very useful piece of information, of which I have made a note. I hadn't looked deeply enough into Users and Groups. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
care free wrote: First, do you have any analog sound at all? How many users do you have on your box? Issue ls -al in /dev/sound to see who owns the files in that directory. I had quite similar problems with mdk 10.0. After logging into the box, a user own those device files. However, those files are not released. So when the next person logs into the system, those files are still owned by the previous user, and the sound system does not work at all. I have to log in as root and issue chmod 666 * in /dev/sound/ so that other can read and write to those device files. I close the mixer and then restart it. There is sound again. /dev/dsp is a soft link to /dev/sound/dsp. JT From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound problem. Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 + This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the archives, on twiki or on Derek's site. I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. Any advice, please? Many thanks Keith Thanks for your help, carefree. I do have analogue sound - well I did until a few days ago when my CD drive packed up. A replacement is on the list. There is only me uses the computer. My wife isn't interested in using it. Sorry, but I have done as you suggested and there are still the same error messages. I have even tried running the program as root. No difference. However, on starting the computer now, I get this additional error message, titled Informational - artsmessage: Sound server informational message. Error while initializing the sound driver. can't get requested samplingrate (requested rate 8000, got rate 48000) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Originally, ls -al showed that root owned everything in /dev/sound Any further advice, please? Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem.
** An update. ** Keith Powell wrote: I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. I spent sometime trying various things, but always the error messages. So I installed the Libranet distro on a spare hard drive. It's a Debian based distro and I haven't used it for some time. Running to .deb version of the offending program, gave the same error messages. In the Libranet Control Centre, I installed and configured alsa. Tried the program again and it worked without error messages. Back to Mandrake and I installed everything to do with alsa that I could find. Changed the KDE-sound-system sound-hardware setting from auto to alsa and tried the program (it's a KDE program) again. Nothing! Just the same error messages. So I have the program running using alsa in one distro, but not running using alsa in another distro. Very odd. Incidentally, selecting custom setting of the sampling rate in the hardware section of KDE sound settings, kills the sound completely. There are no system sounds. That's as far as I have got. Cheers Keith 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: Asus motherboards
On Saturday 04 December 2004 1:57 pm, Yvan wrote: Hello Keith, I have a P4P800 ASUS Motherboard. It has a Gigabit Ethernet controller on board. It really sucked with Mandrake 9.0, Ethernet didn't work correctly, no sound support. I recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 and now everything works with no problems. Hello Yvan. Thank you for your reply. The motherboard will be used with 10.0, 10.1, and later versions. So I should have no problems. cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards
On Friday 03 December 2004 7:47 pm, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: I am running my Mandrake 10.1 on Asus A7V600-X motherboard. Wojciech Podgrni Thank you for your reply, Wojciech. The general answer is that I will have no problems with it, which is good to know. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound problem.
This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the archives, on twiki or on Derek's site. I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. Any advice, please? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question, please. Does Mandrake find the on-board 10/100 ethernet chipset of this motherboard, or would I be better off still using my SMC card? I don't know what chip is used, as it doesn't tell on the Asus web site. Thanks, Anne and Dan for your very prompt replies. 15 minutes between my sending the question and your replies. Not bad service, that :) I am very pleased that you say the Asus motherboard and the on-board Ethernet chipset both work well with Mandrake. I will use that, rather than my SMC card. Why I asked is because, if I remember correctly, there have been comments on the list in the past, that there are problems with some on-board Ethernet chipsets. I may have mis-remembered though. Fortunately those comments don't apply in this instance. Thanks again for the replies. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question, please. Does Mandrake find the on-board 10/100 ethernet chipset of this motherboard, or would I be better off still using my SMC card? I don't know what chip is used, as it doesn't tell on the Asus web site. So long as you have the 'harddrake' service enabled you should be able to just swap motherboards and Mandrake will auto detect the new hardware and configure itself accordingly. The only exception would be if you changed video cards at the same time when you would have to run XFdrake after it booted. Thanks very much for the information, Derek. It will be very useful, so I have made a note of it. Yes, I am changing the old video card as well. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards
Dan Gordon wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question, please. Does Mandrake find the on-board 10/100 ethernet chipset of this motherboard, or would I be better off still using my SMC card? I don't know what chip is used, as it doesn't tell on the Asus web site. Here is how Mandrake 10.1 installed it on my M/B Asus P4P800 Vendor: 3Com Corp. Description: 3C940 10/100/1000 LAN Media class: NETWORK_ETHERNET Module name: sk98lin Mac Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Bus: PCI Location on the bus: 2 Thanks Dan. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
Debian based distros? I suggest Libranet, a very user friendly version. It's available as a free download. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
On Monday 22 November 2004 7:50 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:14:09 + Keith Powell disseminated the following: Debian based distros? I suggest Libranet, a very user friendly version. Yep, forgot about that one. IIRC, it's a Canuck outfit, no? Yes. It is a mixture of Debian stable, unstable, and tweaked! If the two Libranet bosses decide that a package in the Debian unstable branch is perfectly stable, it will be added to the distro. So it is quite up-to-date for Debian! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Broadband router
On Tuesday 16 Nov 2004 21:43, Margot wrote: amalasingh wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a broadband router compatible with UK BT based ISPs. I have supanet broadband. I have trouble with connecting from Mandrake since the ISP only supports Windows. Cheers Amala Singh Netgear DG834 working well here with Force9 Broadband, and it was easy to set up in Mandrake 10.1 - haven't tried it in any earlier versions of Mandrake. -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* SMC7204BRA is working well here, also with Force9 Broadband. Welcome to Force9, Margot! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD burner problems
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 7:31 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It will play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn with it, I get a message that there is an input/output error. The tray then opens and I get a message to insert a blank CD. Push the tray back in and the same thing happens again. It's the same whether I try to burn a new CD, a new CD-RW or a previously recorded CD-RW. It won't erase a CD-RW either. For some time, before this happened a couple of days ago, it would only record a CD-RW at a maximum speed of 2x and a CD at a maximum of 6x. When it was new (two and a half years ago), I was getting 10-15x for a CD-RW and 20x for a CD. All the blanks are still from the same batches as the original ones. I have tried to burn with K3b and XCDroast in Mandrake, PCLOS and Libranet, also Nero in W98SE. All are the same, please insert a CD. I already have done :( I don't want to go to the expense of buying a new drive, unless I know that the drive is faulty and the fault does not lie elsewhere. From these symptoms, is it likely that the drive has gone duff, or can someone please suggest what else may suddenly be causing the drive to play but not record? Thanks, Mikkel and Greg for your replies. I have installed the latest firmware update, but it still does not work. There are the same error messages. So it looks as thought the writing laser has gone. I will have to get a new writer. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On the other hand, a friend of mine at work was complaining about their home comp not giving access to the internet but the worm/virus that infected it would connect whenever it wanted. So I hand her a disk with MandrakeMove on it and tell her to boot from cdrom get on the net and download the antivirus file they need to clean the harddrive and get back on track. Guess what ? It worked like a charm. The Move found all their hardware, detected their internet connection, gave them access and allowed them to d/l the needed files. Thanks, Dennis. What a good idea to use a LiveCD to download Windows stuff. I hadn't thought of that! I have 98SE on a small hard drive (for occasional use), and it is not, nor ever will be, connected to the Internet. At the moment, if there is anything Windows I want to download, I do so in Linux, burn it to a CD-RW, replace the Linux hard drive with the Windows one (they are on separate caddies) and copy the stuff off the CD. Your idea is much more simple and much better. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CD burner problems
Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It will play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn with it, I get a message that there is an input/output error. The tray then opens and I get a message to insert a blank CD. Push the tray back in and the same thing happens again. It's the same whether I try to burn a new CD, a new CD-RW or a previously recorded CD-RW. It won't erase a CD-RW either. For some time, before this happened a couple of days ago, it would only record a CD-RW at a maximum speed of 2x and a CD at a maximum of 6x. When it was new (two and a half years ago), I was getting 10-15x for a CD-RW and 20x for a CD. All the blanks are still from the same batches as the original ones. I have tried to burn with K3b and XCDroast in Mandrake, PCLOS and Libranet, also Nero in W98SE. All are the same, please insert a CD. I already have done :( I don't want to go to the expense of buying a new drive, unless I know that the drive is faulty and the fault does not lie elsewhere. From these symptoms, is it likely that the drive has gone duff, or can someone please suggest what else may suddenly be causing the drive to play but not record? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.
Hello Anne, Bascule and Derek (in alphabetical order!!!) Thank you very much for your replies and all the detailed information you have given me. I really do appreciate it, as broadband is completely uncharted territory for me. What an excellent and helpful list this is. I have had some jobs to do in the house this morning, but this afternon I will try to have a session at getting broadband set up (hopefully!) To comment on certain points you have all raised. Anne, thank you also for the offer of helping me if I have SMC settings trouble. I hope that I won't, but will contact you if I do. My ISP has given me some settings to use. I didn't mention it in my original posting, but the PCI card manual says that the set-up CD must be run *before* the card is installed. So I wondered if Mandrake would find the card, but then I would have to unplug the card again, run SMC's Windows installation program and then plug the card back in, before I could use it with Windows. Very complicated. That is why I asked about setting it up in Windows first. Bascule, you say that you will be gobsmacked if I have any problems. Knowing my luck, I will be gobsmacked if I don't! Derek, I thought about the ebuyer router, but wondered if it worked well with Linux. It probably did, but I didn't want to risk it and decided on the SMC which is known to work. The changeover needs to be as painless as possible. I have got some microfilters, but thanks for mentioning them. I hope that I won't need to buy a crossover cable, as the nearest PC World is a 30 minute car ride away. We only have one computer shop round here, and I would rather not comment on it. I went in once! Thank you all again for all the help. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 11:32, Alan Dunford wrote: On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 22:12, Keith Powell wrote: The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :( I have 98SE, which I very occasionally run. Would I be better setting the card up using the wizard and Windows, and then changing to the Mandrake hard drive after it has been set up? Not sure if this is particularly helpful as I am on a cable network but in my own case, I used the Windows program provided to establish the connection and set up my account with my ISP (ntl). Then I just plugged the modem into my Linux box (I think you wouldn't even have to do that as you switch between Windows and Linux on the same box), and then set up Linux to work with the new account. My ethernet connection worked first time - now I have a router connected to both Windows and Linux boxes with the modem connected as the link to the Internet. I now work with either the Windows machine or the Linux one (or both) without any problem. HTH Alan Hello Alan. Thanks for your additional help. I had sent my thank you posting before I got yours. That's why you were not included in it. Cheers for now. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.
Bascule. I forgot to mention that although I have both Linux and Windows, I don't dual boot. I have four hard drives each in it own tray (caddie). Each drive has a different operating system on (2 Linux, 1 Windows and one for experimenting). I plug in to the computer what operating system I want to use for that session, so they are all completely separate. I think this is a better system than dual booting. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Setting up broadband.
I am about to change to broadband and the hardware has now arrived. Clarification of a couple of points would be greatly appreciated, please. The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :( I have 98SE, which I very occasionally run. Would I be better setting the card up using the wizard and Windows, and then changing to the Mandrake hard drive after it has been set up? I have read on this list, that if one just installs the card, Mandrake will find it. But then the BIOS won't be set up will it? There is a Linux driver on the CD, which I would install when in Mandrake. It's the same with the router - an easy automatic set-up using Windows, but little information on setting it up manually. For information, the card is an SMC1255TX-PF, and the router is an SMC7204BRA - which Derek recommended as working well with Linux. (I want to play safe and not have any problems getting going in broadband). Any advice gratefully received as I am itching to get on to broadband but am confused at the moment! Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Broadband modems [solved]
On Friday 15 Oct 2004 9:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Keith The Access runner Conexant chip set is the one I warned you about. It is REALLY HARD to get working. I helped a friend get one working and it took 2 weeks of email support from a guy in New Zealand before it worked, and that was with the 2.4 kernel, now he dare not upgrade the kernel for fear it stops working. The problem is the driver is a binary driver which is no longer maintained by Conexant. Trust me, anything is preferable to that dog. Hello Derek. Thank you for the reply and the warning. After the previous postings from you and others on the list, I had no intention whatever of getting the PCI modem. The forwarding of the message with the two URL's was simply information in case anyone was interested. Thanks again. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Broadband modems [solved]
I have received the following message regarding a PCI broadband modem, and am forwarding it just for information in case anyone is interested. Keith Not sure if the following refers to the same PCI modem, Keith, but it will hopefully be of some help: Subject: Â Â Â Re: Plusnet PCI ADSL Modem and Fedora 2 From: Â Â Â Â Simon Arlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: Â plusnet.tech.linux Date: Â Â Â Â Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:51:58 +0100 Rod wrote: Has anyone had any success in persuading Fedora 2 to recognise the PlusNet Connexant Access Runner PCI ADSL Modem. There seem to be many tutorials on the internet - but most of them warn against using the 2.6 kernel. http://patrick.spacesurfer.com/linux_conexant_pci_adsl.html http://patrick.spacesurfer.com/adsl/CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.1.tar.bz2 If anyone can find a link - or better still has succeeded themselves and would like to share their knowledge I would be eternally grateful. I'm using the above driver on 2.6 and it works fine, cat /proc/net/atm/CnxAdsl\:0 will give you the status of the ADSL connection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP [Solved]
Thank you all for your suggestions regarding not being able to install Mandrake on a hard drive which already had XP on it. When trying to install, the machine just rebooted into XP. It was solved by starting the Mandrake installation with Disk2. When asked which CD drive to use for installation, remove Disk2 and replace it with Disk1 and click on OK. Then, from the report I have received, the installation went smoothly as though Disk1 had been used for booting. So it would appear that there is a problem with his CD drive not reading some disks. I also have that problem occasionally. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Broadband modems
Thank you for all the help and advice you have given me regarding broadband modems. I really do appreciate it. If I send you each an individual Thank you message, it will clog up the list too much, so I hope you will accept this general message. Derek asked about computers here. There is only one with one user. My wife is not interested in computing. The children have long since left home and got married. My ISP is Force9, which is the same as UseNet. I have never found out why they trade under two different names. Force9/UseNet are offering a package of 1Mps download speed with a 3GB cap, for £18:49 a month, which is the one I am thinking of going with. The general opinion, is to forget the Voyager USB modem and the A220 PCI modem which they supply, and go with an ethernet card and a router. There has been so much excellent advice given, that I am printing all your replies so that I can study them. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Broadband modems
I'm lost!! I want to go broadband, and the ISP gives me the choice of two modems in their broadband pack: Voyager 105 USB Modem or A220 PCI Modem (internal?) The Mandrake hardware database does not list either. Any advice on either of these, please? Will either work with Mandrake? Would I be better off going to a computer shop and buying a different modem? If so, what would you recommend? I am running Mandrake 10.0 Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP
On Thursday 07 Oct 2004 19:33, Keith Powell wrote: I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as WindowsXP. I have received an e-mail from him saying that when he tries to install Mandrake, he gets a message saying to do a reboot and Mandrake will be loaded. This he does and then XP is started. He can get no further. Has anyone any suggestions I can pass on to him, please -apart from telling him not to dual boot? I have no first-hand experience of WindowsXP or dual-booting, so don't know what to suggest. If any further information is needed, I will ask him for it. Thanks to Marc, Miark and Thereidos for your replies. I have sent your replies on to him, but have not yet received the information you ask for. As soon as I hear from him, I'll let you know. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Dual booting with XP
I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as WindowsXP. I have received an e-mail from him saying that when he tries to install Mandrake, he gets a message saying to do a reboot and Mandrake will be loaded. This he does and then XP is started. He can get no further. Has anyone any suggestions I can pass on to him, please -apart from telling him not to dual boot? I have no first-hand experience of WindowsXP or dual-booting, so don't know what to suggest. If any further information is needed, I will ask him for it. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spell-checking in Thunderbird (Solved)
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 22:37, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 21:01, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 15:07, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:06, Keith Powell wrote: I have been trying Thunderbird - a very nice program, and the spam filter works well. However, I can't get it to spell check in GB English, only American English. I have downloaded the correct dictionary from dictionaries.mozdev.org/installation.html but can't get Thunderbird to find it. The download site says to use Tools-Options-Attachments to install it. but there is no Attachments item in that menu. How do I install the new dictionary, please? I can't find the answer with Google :-( Many thanks for any help. Keith It works for me with Thunderbird 0.9.1 which is available as an RPM from MandrakeClub or from Chip Cuccio's site http://norlug.org/~chipster/index.pxml?rpms (You may need to install xorg-x11-Xvfb before it will work) Thunderbird 0.91 supports extensions Tools-Options-Extensions not Attachments. To install the British spell checker go here http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/installation.html If you are using Mozilla or mozilla-firefox clicking on the spell checker will install it in mozilla itself. To install it in Thunderbird right click on the link and save the file somewhere in your home. Then in Thunderbird - Tools-Options-Extensions Press the 'Install' button and select the previously saved spell checker. :-) derek Sorry I must engage brain before typing :-( The latest version of Thunderbird is of course 0.7.3 Also I had to run thunderbird as root when installing the extension or else it did not have permission to the correct folder for the spell checker. Finally when running a spell check you should be anle to select the appropriate language in the drop down menu. derek Thank you for your help, Derek. I am running 0.7.1, which is the latest I can find on Chip's site - not joined the Club yet. Sorry about the typing error, I meant Extensions and not Attachments. It must be the weather which is affecting the brain! I have run Thunderbird both as root and as a user, and there is definitely NOT an Attachments item in the Tools-Options menu. So I am at a loss how to install the British spell checker. The next thing I will do is to download and install xorg-x11-Xvfb and see if that brings me an Extension menu item, but I can't really see how it will. However, I am probably wrong. In the language menu item in the spell checker, there is still only the American language. Any further ideas will be *very* gratefully received. Keith Thunderbird 0.7.3 is here http://norlug.org/~chipster/rpm_handler/cat2/mozilla-thunderbird-0.7.3-2.no rlug.i586.rpm You should not be looking in Tools-Options Look in ToolsExtensions xorg-x11-Xvfb is a dependency for the MandrakeClub RPM. I am not sure if Chip's version requires it. derek Thanks Derek for your help - it is appreciated. It would have helped if I had looked for Extensions in the correct place. Dictionary installed as root, and it is now working. A thought. I wonder if it would help reading Stephen's messages if I installed the Australian Dictionary? ;-) Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Spell-checking in Thunderbird
I have been trying Thunderbird - a very nice program, and the spam filter works well. However, I can't get it to spell check in GB English, only American English. I have downloaded the correct dictionary from dictionaries.mozdev.org/installation.html but can't get Thunderbird to find it. The download site says to use Tools-Options-Attachments to install it. but there is no Attachments item in that menu. How do I install the new dictionary, please? I can't find the answer with Google :-( Many thanks for any help. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Stopped printing.
I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped printing from Mandrake (although it will still print correctly from other distros). I haven't altered anything since it printed correctly in Mandrake yesterday! I have tried Open Office, Abiword, KWord, KWrite and printing from a terminal. None will print :-( This is the error message I get: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: cupsdoprint -P 'EPSONStylusCOLOR670' -J 'Untitled' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'keith' -o ' copies=1 cpi=12 lpi=7 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies orientation-requested=3 page-bottom=36 page-left=36 page-right=36 page-top=36 scaling=100 wrap=true' '/tmp/kde-keith/kdeprint_7KoTFRaB' : execution failed with message: server-error-not-accepting-jobs Can anyone help, please? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 14:04, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:44, Keith Powell wrote: I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped printing from Mandrake (although it will still print correctly from other distros). I haven't altered anything since it printed correctly in Mandrake yesterday! I have tried Open Office, Abiword, KWord, KWrite and printing from a terminal. None will print :-( This is the error message I get: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: cupsdoprint -P 'EPSONStylusCOLOR670' -J 'Untitled' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'keith' -o ' copies=1 cpi=12 lpi=7 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies orientation-requested=3 page-bottom=36 page-left=36 page-right=36 page-top=36 scaling=100 wrap=true' '/tmp/kde-keith/kdeprint_7KoTFRaB' : execution failed with message: server-error-not-accepting-jobs Can anyone help, please? Many thanks Keith use cups to re-start the print server. If you are using KDE, open the menu, configure, printing, cups WWW admin, admin, manage printers, start printer. You might need to check 'jobs' first and remove any that are stuck in there, if so, you may not need to go into admin. Many thanks for your help, PM. The printer is now working. I followed your instructions and started the printer - nothing. So I clicked on Accept Jobs and it sprang into life. However, I probably needed to start the printer as you suggested, before telling it to accept jobs. Thanks again. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
Thanks Charlie, John and Carroll for your replies. I was off the list for some time and lost track of what was happening to Community. Am now much clearer about the situation. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake10 Community
What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a dial-up connection. Many thanks for any information. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a dial-up connection. Many thanks for any information. Cheers Keith Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] APT for Mandrake
I have downloaded APT from Mandrake10 Contrib, and have tried to get it working. It attempts to access the APT repository at Sunet, but says it can't. Does anyone know if APT is now back with Mandrake? It used to be and then disappeared. If so, where is the repository, please? Even if it does work, there may be no packages from it, which are not available from the urpmi sources. I though it was worth looking at, though. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up? (Solved)
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 2:16 pm, Keith Powell wrote: My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I rebooted. It started to boot, then stopped with the error message: Partition Check: hda: 4hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x21 hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting the hard drive activity light was permanently on. Stephen said that caddies sometimes go flakey, so: I put the faulty hard drive into a different caddy and a good hard drive into the caddy the faulty drive had been using. Everything now works, so it appeared to have been a caddy/drive connection problem. I will investigate this further. Also, I will put the drives back into their original caddies and see what happens. Thanks to all who have made suggestions. They are all noted for possible future use. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 6:45 pm, RichardA wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:17:08 +0100, Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly, it was mentioned on the list some time ago that the download edition will have adverts which will pop up at any time. This inconvenience is to help 'persuade' us to buy the boxed sets, which will be free of them. The 'ad' is in the install, whilst the packages are being copied over. Not intrusive. Not a problem. Thanks, Richard. As I always click on Details and watch the packages being installed, rather than looking at the pictures, I will probably miss the ad anyway! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hard drive packed up?
I know this isn't strictly Mandrake, so apologies. My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I rebooted. It started to boot, then stopped with the error message: Partition Check: hda: 4hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x21 hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting the hard drive activity light was permanently on. This error message means nothing to me. I have tried installing two different Linux distros, but neither would install. I then found my old Windows98 CD and tried installing that - it wouldn't. I ran the complete Maxtor diagnostic program, but the results were that everything was OK. I have formatted the hard drive, and tried various things with FDISK. The drive still can't be used. Googling brings up nothing of apparent use. Can the hard drive be sorted, or is it only fit to be thrown away? Any ideas will be gratefully received. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up?
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 3:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:16, Keith Powell wrote: My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I rebooted. It started to boot, then stopped with the error message: Partition Check: hda: 4hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x21 hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting the hard drive activity light was permanently on. This error message means nothing to me. I have tried installing two different Linux distros, but neither would install. I then found my old Windows98 CD and tried installing that - it wouldn't. I ran the complete Maxtor diagnostic program, but the results were that everything was OK. I have formatted the hard drive, and tried various things with FDISK. The drive still can't be used. Can the hard drive be sorted, or is it only fit to be thrown away? Have you tried the HD in another machine? Have you tried with a different IDE cable? Have you tried with the drive installed upside down? (not a joke) stephen kuhn - owner Hello Stephen. I am afraid that I haven't access to another machine in which to try it. The other drives work in their caddies, so I can't suspect the IDE cable could be faulty just for this one drive - could it? However, you have given me an idea! In case it is a caddy fault, I will try the faulty drive in one of the other caddies which I know to be OK. I will also try the drive upside down. If I can get it working again, it will save me about £50 for a new drive. Many thanks for your help Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up?
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 2:59 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:16, Keith Powell wrote: My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I rebooted. It started to boot, then stopped with the error message: Partition Check: hda: 4hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x21 hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting the hard drive activity light was permanently on. This error message means nothing to me. I have tried installing two different Linux distros, but neither would install. I then found my old Windows98 CD and tried installing that - it wouldn't. I ran the complete Maxtor diagnostic program, but the results were that everything was OK. I have formatted the hard drive, and tried various things with FDISK. The drive still can't be used. Can the hard drive be sorted, or is it only fit to be thrown away? You'll have more potential to diagnose the problem by attempting to mount it from a running system than by trying to install onto it. Can you connect it as a second drive and try diskdrake on it? HTH Brian Hello Brian. I could mount it as a second drive, but as it would mean quite a lot of work (I don't have a second drive installed) I will try the other suggestions first. Thanks for the suggestion. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up?
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 3:37 pm, Marc wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:16 am, Keith Powell wrote: I know this isn't strictly Mandrake, so apologies. My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I rebooted. It started to boot, then stopped with the error message: Partition Check: hda: 4hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x21 hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting the hard drive activity light was permanently on. This error message means nothing to me. I have tried installing two different Linux distros, but neither would install. I then found my old Windows98 CD and tried installing that - it wouldn't. I ran the complete Maxtor diagnostic program, but the results were that everything was OK. I have formatted the hard drive, and tried various things with FDISK. The drive still can't be used. Googling brings up nothing of apparent use. Can the hard drive be sorted, or is it only fit to be thrown away? Been there done that. There are 2 different Maxtor diagnostic utilitys, maxblast and and powermax. Powermax is far more usefull. have you used it? Have you tried a low leval format. I had a problem with a maxtor drive where that was the only thing that would help. There is a low level format utility in powermax. Hope that helps Marc Thanks for the reply, Marc. It was Powermax which I used. I went through all the tests, including the full low level format. Powermax found nothing wrong. That's why I can't think what the problem could be. I will try another low level format and see what happens. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10
Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or version 10 (Official) are having problems. There seem to be many bugs still in them. My question, and it is a serious one, is: When the boxed sets come out in a few weeks time, will they still be buggy, or will the bugs have been sorted? Or would it be better to wait several weeks before buying, if this means that all the updates to sort these bugs out are available on CD? Alternatively, I could buy the download edition on cheap CDs, and use that as a test to see how things are beforebuying the boxed set. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
On Saturday 17 April 2004 9:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 08:27, Keith Powell wrote: Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or version 10 (Official) are having problems. There seem to be many bugs still in them. My question, and it is a serious one, is: When the boxed sets come out in a few weeks time, will they still be buggy, or will the bugs have been sorted? As I undertand it, 'Official' is what will be in the boxed sets. Or would it be better to wait several weeks before buying, if this means that all the updates to sort these bugs out are available on CD? The greatest number of bugs have been ironed out between CE and Official. There are, of course, always bug fixes to follow. Alternatively, I could buy the download edition on cheap CDs, and use that as a test to see how things are beforebuying the boxed set. - From Mandrake's point of view, buying the cheapies and subscribing to the club is much better than buying direct from MandrakeSoft. They get all of club money, but only a bit from sales. Anne A very good suggestion, Anne. There is one thing, which I am hoping that you, or anyone else with a greater knowledge of Mandrakesoft than I, can answer. I assume that the cheap CDs I would buy from, for instance, The Libranet Emporium, would be the download edition. If I remember correctly, it was mentioned on the list some time ago that the download edition will have adverts which will pop up at any time. This inconvenience is to help 'persuade' us to buy the boxed sets, which will be free of them. Is this correct, or am I dreaming it? Knowing me, it is probably the latter! Any information will be greatfully received. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
On Saturday 17 April 2004 8:47 am, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:27:00 +0100, Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or version 10 (Official) are having problems. There seem to be many bugs still in them. It all depends. I for one haven't been seeing any of these bugs. And my system specs, for lack of a better word, is manure. Horse. :P So you won't really know until you try, but if you don't want to risk it, leaving off until the official comes out is also alright. :) //philip Thanks for the reply and suggestion, Philip. My system too, is over two years old. So it's ready to donate to the local museum to put in their Prehistoric Techical Equipment section. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10
Thanks to all who replied. Here is a composite reply instead of wasting bandwidth with individual ones. Hope no one minds! Anne suggested waiting a couple of weeks for the Official download edition to be available. I'll do that, Anne. Thanks for the information that there are not the pop-up adverts I wondered about in the download edition. False alarm!! I always first burn my home directory to a CD and then do a clean install rather than an upgrade. For me, it is much safer than risking an upgrade - although others get away with it. In the past and, I assume for version 10, an individually burnt CD with all the updates/bug patches to the date of ordering it, has been available from: www.linuxemporium.co.uk I have bought them several times and they have saved me much time, trouble and cost, trying to download the updates with my modem. Thanks again, all, for your replies. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:17 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I assume that the cheap CDs I would buy from, for instance, The Libranet Emporium, would be the download edition. Whoops! I meant to type The Linux Emporium. Sorry!! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
On Saturday 17 Apr 2004 6:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 April 2004 17:09, Keith Powell wrote: In the past and, I assume for version 10, an individually burnt CD with all the updates/bug patches to the date of ordering it, has been available from: www.linuxemporium.co.uk That does sound an excellent service. Anne It is, Anne. I have found them an excellent firm, with very god prices and same day despatch. Can't fault them. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 5:02 am, robin wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 13:28, Keith Powell wrote: I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched all through the various Internet configuration files, I can't find a way of doing it. Disconnection appears to only to be able to be done manually. I think the app you're all looking for is wvdial. You can set it to log you in automatically (even with ISPs that use terminal-based authentication), reconnect automatically, disconnect if idle for a specified period of time and a whole load of other stuff. It's not on the 10.0 CDs, but is on the mirrors. Just download it and edit /etc/wvdial.conf to your needs. No GUI required. The only glitch is that it normally only runs as root. There are three ways round this (other than doing su of course): 1. Make it suid (never tried this); 2. Change permissions of wvdial, wvdial.conf and /dev/modem (or whichever device your system works); 3. Have it started automatically on boot (this used to work fine on 9.2, but is rather flaky on 10.0 - sometimes it works, mostly it doesn't). Obviously you don't want to try option 3 if you're on a pay-per-minute connection! It's probably not advisable for situations where security is a major issue, such as a server, but then how many people run servers via a modem? Sir Robin Thanks for your help, Robin. I have installed wvdial, and it's working as I want. At the moment, it is only usable when running it as root, but I will experiment with permissions to make it run as a user (me!). It isn't on my Download Edition CDs (I've found before that there are some packages missing from them, which should be on them), So I had to get it from the Internet. There has been another suggestion of adding an idle time in /etc/ppp/options. That works as well, so I now have the choice. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 1:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:52, Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs, not any binaries for Mandrake. I would rather use a binary than a tarball. Many thanks. Keith Keith, try rpmfind.net : http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/wvdial-1.53-3 mdk.i586.html HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks, Hal, for telling me where to download WVDdial. It's not on my Download Edition CDs, so your information has saved a search with Google. WVDial is now installed and working. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 2:09 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:28 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched all through the various Internet configuration files, I can't find a way of doing it. Disconnection appears to only to be able to be done manually. Any ideas, please, anyone? Many thanks Keith is this for everone using the dialup connection? if so,,, add (to the file /ect/ppp/options) the line (without the quotes, as root) IDLE=300 will give you a 5 min idle time before disconnection. also the command man pppd can be your friend too... Many thanks for your reply and the information. There's only one user here - me! I have activated the idle line in the /etc/ppp/options file as you suggested. It works. At the moment I am using your suggestion, but I have installed WVDial (which has an idle time setting) and am also trying that program. I had not noticed that /etc/ppp/options was the file to edit. I must have missed it when first checking through the Internet configuration files. Next job is to read the ppd manual. Many thanks again. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs, not any binaries for Mandrake. I would rather use a binary than a tarball. Many thanks. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear just fine. Adolfo Latest Scores so far today! Messages posted to the list: 3 Messages appearing on the list: 3 Bounce messages received: 3 Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Saturday 13 Mar 2004 2:35 pm, Charlie wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:11 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing wrong with the Aspell installation. I'll carry on trying to find what's causing the problem. Others don't have it with KWord, and I only get it with the KOffice programs, so presumably it's something to do with my set-up Very odd!! Thanks for the help. Keith Further to my last experimentations I discovered the following In KWord Settings/configure/spelling/ DictionaryASpell default Encoding US-ASCII ClientInternational Ispell Consider run together words as spelling errors enable Show Misspelled words in Document And the automagic spell checker works. But what I did was changed the Client to ASpell I think, and it returned to Ispell So maybe you have to work in there and it will set itself up? So everything on the left click menu is now working. Very strange. In Kpresenter I had some problems, leaving it as default I discovered that on auto spell check it marked the words, but unfortunately brought up the spell checker and froze the screen. I couldn't get out without logging out and coming back in. Then I placed ASpell as the Client, and it went through all the processes as with KWord. But the spell checking window flashed onto the screen and then off again. So I again selected International Ispell as the Client and it went back to the Dictionary setting as ISpell Default instead of ASpell default and worked perfectly. I went back to KWord and it was as above I had left it with ASpell default as Dictionary and worked without fault. So it would appear that you have to work round with the KOffice applications in Whatever KOffice App/settings/configure/spelling/ and take what works, changing things round a bit so that they can look for what is needed. Hope this is not to confusing and helps. Charlie. Hello Charlie. Thanks for your suggestions, and sorry for the delay in replying. Things have been rather (no, VERY!) hectic here lately, and I haven't had time to do any further tests. I have now been able to have another look at it, and the best I can do is to have the Configuration/KDE/components/Spell checking set to: Dictionary: Aspell default Encoding: ISO8859-15 Client: Aspell and the KWord spell checking set to: Dictionary: Aspell default Encoding: ISO8859-15 Client: International Ispell. (If I change it to Aspell, it immediately goes back to Ispell). With these settings, I can spell check and incorrectly spelt words are corrected. However! Although American spellings are marked, the dictionary ignores them. (So, both color and colour are accepted). It's not perfect, but isn't too bad. I think I will leave it at this for the time being, as I don't know what else to try. If you come up with anything else, I'd like to hear about it. Many thanks again to you and Anne. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 8:26 am, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Did it through the install for me. You have to have Aspell installed. Does auto spellcheck as well as manual. That is in Linux Mandrake 9.2 Charlie Thanks for the reply, Charlie. I have got Aspell installed. Unfortunately, I still can't find what could be causing the problem. KWord marks the words as being incorrectly spelt, but won't call the dictionary. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 7:37 pm, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith If you type aspell into a terminal, there are many options that might help you configure it. Does Aspell work in OO.o or any other program or application that uses it. If so then it doesn't require any configuration I would imagine, unless there is a way to direct it into a programs path? Sorry, Can't think of anything else. CXharlie. I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing wrong with the Aspell installation. I'll carry on trying to find what's causing the problem. Others don't have it with KWord, and I only get it with the KOffice programs, so presumably it's something to do with my set-up Very odd!! Thanks for the help. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KWord spell checking
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: DictionaryASpell Default Encoding ISO 8859-15 ClientAspell Anne Anne. Thanks for your prompt reply. I do have Aspell installed. Kword started with the spelling settings of Dictionary: English ISO: 8859-1 Client: International Ispell I changed the settings to the ones you gave me and typed a few words, some with spelling mistakes. When I tried to spell check, KWord crashed! On restarting, it had defaulted back to the settings I gave at the beginning of this reply. Nothing happens when I try to spell check using these settings. Ispell is installed. I have tried many combinations of Dictionary, ISO, and Client, but it always starts with the default settings, rather than the ones I have changed it to. Most combinations just don't work, but some make it crash. Very peculiar! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default Encoding ISO 8859-15 Client Aspell Anne Anne. Thanks for your prompt reply. I do have Aspell installed. Kword started with the spelling settings of Dictionary: English ISO: 8859-1 Client: International Ispell I changed the settings to the ones you gave me and typed a few words, some with spelling mistakes. When I tried to spell check, KWord crashed! On restarting, it had defaulted back to the settings I gave at the beginning of this reply. Nothing happens when I try to spell check using these settings. Ispell is installed. I have tried many combinations of Dictionary, ISO, and Client, but it always starts with the default settings, rather than the ones I have changed it to. Most combinations just don't work, but some make it crash. Very peculiar! Very odd indeed! Have you tried changing the settings, then exiting, in the hope that they are saved? After a crash things do tend to revert to the settings when they last closed down properly, so that fits the pattern. Anne I have just tried it again, changing the settings to the ones you use. I then exited the program and restarted it. Dictionary was still Aspell default, and ISO was still 8859-15. But the Client had changed back to International Ispell. Trying to spell check with these settings caused KWord to crash. I then restarted it and the settings it came up with were ASpell default, 8895-15, International Ispell. So I changed the client again to Aspell and clicked OK. Immediately opening the Spell Checking menu again, and the client had reverted to International Ispell. Just to try to cover everything, I did the same but clicked on Accept and then OK. It tells me that the font Symbol isn't installed, but I can't think that has any bearing on the problem. As I said earlier, I have ASpell installed and have no problems with KMail (which I understand uses it), or Abiword. However, KSpread and KPresenter both crash when I try to spell check in them. As Alice said, Curiouser and curiouser! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird
On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 7:42 pm, Floyd Hagen wrote: You really don't need an RPM for it. It's got its own installation script. Grab the tarball, and there's a README file in there with clear directions. If you want an icon or entry for it in your menu, you'll have to add it yourself, but that's easy enough. On Sun, Mar 07, 2004, Keith Powell wrote: I would like to try Mozilla-Thunderbird and have found a Mandrake RPM for it on Rediris, which I have downloaded. I hope it's not a Spanish version :-( It's the only one I can find. There's nothing in the usual repositories. Hello Floyd. Thanks for the prompt reply and the information. Derek has told me where to get the Mandrake .rpm from. As I prefer to install from an .rpm rather than from a tarball, I have used his solution. I have so many problems with tarballs, that I keep clear of them as much as possible! However, your tarball suggestion is useful to have in reserve. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird
On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 7:40 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 19:28, Keith Powell wrote: I would like to try Mozilla-Thunderbird and have found a Mandrake RPM for it on Rediris, which I have downloaded. I hope it's not a Spanish version :-( It's the only one I can find. There's nothing in the usual repositories. However, it won't install as it needs libXinerama. I can't find Xinerama or libXinerama on the Download CDs, Google, Sourceforge, Gnome.org, or Mozilla.org. - only documents on how to run Xinerama. There's a .tar.bz of it on the Mozilla site, but I would rather stick with the Mandrake RPM. Has anyone managed to install Thunderbird, please? If so, how? Many thanks Keith Using Chip Cuccio's urpmi download page http://norlug.org/~chipster/index.pxml?rpms derek Thanks for the information, Derek. I have installed Thunderbird from Chip Cuccio's site and it is working OK (from a preliminary trial). Unfortunately, I didn't know of that repository. I can't remember it having been mentioned before - but it almost certainly must have been. He has some interesting packages on it. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 11:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Did scribus need and dependencies ? just out of interest. John Hello John. I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about it, having read an article on it in Linux Format magazine. So I haven't given it a really good test, yet. However, from what I have found, it appears to work OK. I only installed the program and libscribus. On the site from where I downloaded it, there was a list of another 16 libraries which it said Scribus requires and which are not installed on my machine. I haven't downloaded these, but will do so (as it says they are needed), so that the installation is complete. For information, the missing libraries are: libICE.so.6, libSM.so.6, libX11.so.6, libXext.so.6, libC.so.6, libdl.so.2, libqcc s .so.1, libm.so.6, libnsl.so.1, libpnq.so.3, libpthread.so.0, libqt-mt.so.3, libresolv.so.2, libstdc++.so.5, libz.so.1 I can't find any of them on my CDs. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2004 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:40, Keith Powell wrote: I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about it, having read an article on it in Linux Format magazine. So I haven't given it a really good test, yet. However, from what I have found, it appears to work OK. I only installed the program and libscribus. Keith, I'm interested in trying Scribus as soon as I can get the time ;-) One of the things I need, though, in a DP app is the ability to correctly print folded brochures, you know - 2xA5 on an A4 sheet, printed 1 24 on one side, 2 23 on the other. Is this asking too much of Scribus at present? Anne Leave it with me for a few days, Anne, until I have started to get to grips with Scribus. I'll get back to you as soon as I have found out if it will do booklets/brochures. Cheers for now Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scribus
On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:58, Keith Powell wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I will be with you all in a minute, I'm just in this forest looking for a bit of wood!!! Many thanks to all who replied, and sorry for such a basic and badly researched question. As I said, I could only find tarballs with Google, and I had completely forgotten about RPMFIND. There is not a Scribus .rpm on my Download Edition disks, so I have now downloaded it from RPMFIND and it works. I asked the question on the Newbie list, for two reasons. 1) I am a permanent newbie and 2) I thought that I daren't admit to the Expert list that I have great problems with tarballs! Thanks again for all your help. Cheers Keith I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual screenful of things it can't find and needs. I have almost completely abandoned tarballs, as I can rarely get the things to install. They always stop during ./configure or make with lots and lots of error messages :-( There must be one on one of the mirrors - it's in the power pack of both 9.1 and 9.2 Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQmJckFAvMr/nNX8RAiYhAJwKEpBNzWO3QHFE8ldqaJfwNgMdCACfV2z0 hnW3CA1UZrmFRQZpwQn7dcg= =56N9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 1:44 pm, Lanman wrote: The fact that at least one list-member is unable to find Scribus on the download CD's for Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0, made me wonder how many folks on the list are aware that there are 2 lists of packages on the Download CD sets. Assuming that you normally do your installations using the graphic installer included on the CD's, you may not be aware that you can also access a detailed list of packages instead of the default package list. This could be the reason that some folks on the list aren't seeing some of the apps, packages, and libraries which are included on the CD's. Also, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that your list of installed packages which is viewed in the software installer in MCC shows you a list based on how you viewed it during your install. Assuming that this is the case, you're missing out on a lot of software contained on the CD's which you would normally have to find by browsing each CD manually. Next time you're doing an install and you get to the first panel which lists main package groups (Workstation, Network Client, Desktops, Server ), check the box at the bottom of the panel called Individual Package Selection and click Next. Once you're at the next panel, you will see 4 icons in the lower-left corner of the panel. From left to right, icons 12 allow you to view the current list in expanded mode, or to close the expanded mode. Icon #3 however, toggles the default list to the full comprehensive list or what is also known as the Flat List. This is the one which will present you with the detailed list of packages. Dependancies will still be selected as required , so don't worry about that. Icon #4 can also be exceptionally helpful if you have a floppy drive. You can use this icon to save your list of packages to a floppy and also to read from that floppy disk the next time you need to do an install, on any PC, server, or laptop which has a floppy drive. This will save you a substantial amount of time when having to re-install, or upgrade. If you remember to back up your home folders and config files, you can also perform full installs of new versions, then create your old users in the same order you had done before, and copy/paste your saved files and configs back to their respective folders. Not only will you save time, but you can avoid the hassles of leftover package remnants from previous installs screwing up your install of the latest version of Mandrake. Hope this info helps! Many thanks, Lanman, for the very useful information. I have printed it out for future reference. Scribus is definitely not on my download CDs. I have looked at the actual rpm's on all of them (not just the lists), and it's nowhere in sight. I must have bought an incomplete download edition. Can't download the CDs myself, as I only have a dial-up Internet connection. I have decided that when Mandrake10 is available, I'll buy the boxed set. This will teach me not to economise! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 8:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Many thanks, Lanman, for the very useful information. I have printed it out for future reference. Scribus is definitely not on my download CDs. I have looked at the actual rpm's on all of them (not just the lists), and it's nowhere in sight. I must have bought an incomplete download edition. Can't download the CDs myself, as I only have a dial-up Internet connection. I have decided that when Mandrake10 is available, I'll buy the boxed set. This will teach me not to economise! Cheers Keith None of these any use to you ? http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=Scribussubmit=Searc h+... Mandrake's version is 3.1MB, achievable in a download programme like d4x , even for dialup. John Thanks for your reply, John. I had downloaded Scribus using rpmfind, and it works OK. It was downloading the complete 3 CD Download Version to which I was referring. There's no problem with downloading just individual programs, but with my limited connect time, downloading the complete distro in bits would take weeks!!! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Scribus
Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual screenful of things it can't find and needs. I have almost completely abandoned tarballs, as I can rarely get the things to install. They always stop during ./configure or make with lots and lots of error messages :-( Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.
The e-mail address for the program is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it was Gillian Lacey-Solymar who did the item. I'll send an e-mail and see if it does any good. I am retired and we watch it while we are having our sandwich and piece of cake mid-day lunch. Our main meal is in the evening. There is only one other TV program watched here during the day, Anne. My wife is a Countdown enthusiast. I come up here to the computer so that I don't have to watch it! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.
I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television business/consumer program called Working Lunch. In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being on the Internet. During the item, which concentrated on how this would affect we computer users, the following statements were made: You can't just go out on the High Street and buy a different Operating system. There are others, but Windows is the best. After dwelling on Windows and briefly mentioning Mac, their Consumer Affairs Correspondant said, There is a third system called Linux. However it is very complicated and you have to be a computer expert to be able to use it. I certainly couldn't use it With a large influential company (the BBC) making such pro-Microsoft and anti-Linux statements such as this, we have quite an opposition to overcome. It's no good writing to them and complaining, as they won't want to know. I sign myself A disgusted viewer. Keith. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 12:04 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2? Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes. I just installed K-Office to test this. The spelling check (manual) crashes when I intentionally misspell words but the auto correction does underline them. ASpell didn't work at all, I switched to the Canadian English accented dictionary and selected I-Spell. It all worked as expected. BTW don't forget that K-Office in 9.2 is a beta package. There may be glitches. (-; a) If so, which dictionary do you use? Answered above. Did you select the same dictionary as in K-Control? K menu, Configuration, Components, Spell Checker? I didn't that's the one (A-Spell) that crashes without error when I do a manual check. Auto correction is turned on here. b) Can anyone please confirm if English-GB spell checking works The only difference between that one and Canadian English w/accents should be the accents. I'll start it from a terminal and try it... OK, I tried to crash it, _honest!_ I switched the dictionary to GB -w accents and hit auto-correction. Nothing but a bunch of stops for input. I kept telling it to Ignore All so that it wouldn't correct anything 'cause the document I was checking was the load output from running k-word from a terminal. I can send you the text if you like but it seems rather pointless. I also switched to A-Spell and ran it again, same result. Hello Charlie. Many thanks for all the help you are giving me. I really do appreciate it. This gets curiouser and curiouser as Alice said. I did exactly as you had done, but all it did was to crash. Since then I have been doing other things on the computer and have tried it again. Now it doesn't crash! However. It spell checks, but I can't get it to differentiate between British and American spelling (it accepts both color and colour). Whatever I set the KWord spelling settings to, as soon as I clicked on OK to exit the settings box, it reverts to English Dictionary, Keeps the encoding I have just set, and International Ispell Client. I can't get it to save the new settings. Then I renamed all the american files in /usr/lib/ispell, just leaving the british ones, to try to make ISpell only see the British part of the ISpell_en dictionary. I assumed that the dictionary was a combined one and the spell checker just chose which country's spellings it needed. But that makes no difference - it still accepts both spellings. That is as far as I have got. A start, but not very far. Hope this explanation hasn't been too garbled! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check. (Explained)
Hoping to reach a wider audience, I have asked on the KDE list if anyone has had problems with KWord spell checking. I have received this reply from Dik Takken: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Keith Powell wrote: Is there a problem with spell checking in KWord1.2.92, please? Yes, there are serious problems with the new KWord. KWord 1.2.94 doesn't crash anymore, but spell check still not really 100% usable. Hopefully KWord 1.2.95 will be a lot better. Just stay tuned. Dik So that is the answer Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 3:34 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your packages are earlier than mine (for example, your kdebase-servicemenu is 1.0-6, whereas mine is 1.0-12) Umm, looks suspicious to me. Anne has no problems with spell checking in KWord, but she runs MDK9.1. Mine is MDK9.2. Again , I'm not yet on M9.2, but it lt is looking like a bug to me ? Why not try a new thread with 9.2 in the subject line, and ask if anyone is prepared to look at kword spellchecking? It would help to know Link to Application a) is anyone able to confirm that spellchecking works, and with which dictionary b) is anyone able to confirm that spellcheking is working with an English dictionary, and which one? Add any other questions you can think of to eliminate factors Anne Am running Mandrake 9.2 here. Kword spell checker works fine with a (US presumably) English Directory , Encoding is US-ASCII and the client is International Ispell. Thanks for your reply, Alan. As I have recently posted, mine has stopped crashing (at the moment), but still doesn't spell check correctly. I'll manage with the spell checking I am able to do, until 1.2.95 comes along, as Dik explained in his posting which I sent to the list. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.
In my last post, I said that I had got spell checking to work with KWord, but it wouldn't differentiate between British and American spellings. I have found a work-around which appears to work. When starting spell checking and the spell checking box with the alternative spellings/words first comes up, the Language shows that it is set to English. Scroll through the list and click on English (United Kingdom). It then checks with just the UK spellings. Very simple and everyone else probably already knew this :-( Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:45 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Hello Charlie. Sorry, but your suggestion does not work. KWord ignores the Control Center/Components/Spell Checker settings, and just starts each time with the English Dictionary, US-ASCII Encoding, and International Ispell Client. Even if I change the spelling settings in KWord, it just crashes when I try to spell check. I have uninstalled KOffice and reinstalled it, but the problem is the same. Cheers Keith Is that KDE CC - Components - Spell Checker Maybe your missing a kde spellchecker app, I don't know which supplies it, but here is a list of all the kde stull on mine and english (uk) spellchecker seems to work OK in kword. Thanks for the reply and the list, John. I had several packages not installed, so I installed them. Doing an rpm -qa | grep kde on my installation gives me about thirty more packages than are on your list. They are mainly libraries, so I assume you edited your list. After installing them, there is still the same problem of KWord crashing when I try to spell check, and it not recognising the KDE CC - Components - Spell Checker settings. Nor remembering the spelling settings in KWord itself. I have reinstalled KOffice again, and also reinstalled KDE. But it's still the same - keeps crashing. The only thing I may do is to reinstall the complete distro and see if that cures it. Otherwise I am at a loss and will have to give up trying to use KWord. I daren't trust myself to send any letters without the spelling being checked! there is also something called, kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk I guess there is something similar for your required language I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your packages are earlier than mine (for example, your kdebase-servicemenu is 1.0-6, whereas mine is 1.0-12) Anne has no problems with spell checking in KWord, but she runs MDK9.1. Mine is MDK9.2. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.
Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2? Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes. a) If so, which dictionary do you use? b) Can anyone please confirm if English-GB spell checking works I have tried using ASpell and ISpell as the dictionaries, and various encoding and clients, but every time there is the crash. Also, KWord does not recognise the settings in KDE - Control Centre - Components - Spell Checking. Every time I start it, KWord has gone back to English - US-ASCII - International ISpell. If I change the spelling settings in KWord, after the crash, it has gone back to these original settings. English-GB Spell checking works with other KDE applications (for example KMail), and it also works in Abiword, which uses ASpell. There was not this problem with Mandrake9.1. Many thanks for any advice. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 2:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Dec 2003 1:56 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone got the spell checker to work in KWord, please? I have experimented with various settings in Settings-Configure KWord-Spellings. When it has spell checked the first word, it either won't call up the dictionary again, or it crashes with a seg-fault. It won't save the settings but keeps reverting to the default ones. I can't decide if the problem is KWord, or me! Ispell and Ispell-en are installed, as are Aspell and Aspell-en. I can't find an answer in the archives. Many thanks for any advice. Keith I use KWord in 9.1, Keith, and the spelling works fine. It's set to use Aspell Default dictionary, with client set to just Aspell. HTH Anne Hello Anne Thanks for the advice. Sorry, but it doesn't work here :-( Setting it to Aspell Default dictionary and the Aspell client, causes KWord to crash with a signal 11 SIGSEGV error if I try to spell check with it. Then, when I run KWord again, it's gone back to the English Dictionary, US-ASCII encoding and International Ispell client defaults. I'm running Mandrake9.2 with KWord1.2.92 Thanks again, Anne. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 2:19 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:15:57 + Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will get that error if you are not using ../base for your contrib source. The whatever/contrib/i586/ contains a synthesis.hdlist2.cz and the rpms can be installed using such, But, it does not contain a list or hdlist as does base so you get the 'invalid list' Thanks Charles, My original contrib url is ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 path to hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz (this was the urpmi.addmedia given by easy urpmi on plf) that path to hdlist was the only /base dir i could find. So as far as I can tell it was reading the right hdlist. I'll mess around with it and see. I even tried updating the contrib source or using a different one and it still gives me that error when installing from contrib. I'll report back after trying a few things. Jerry. Thanks for the information, Charles. I was just about to reply, when I read Jerry's reply to you. I use rediris, but its path to hdlist is the same as the one Jerry gave. I too will experiment over the week-end. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 8:54 am, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:18:48 + Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why the Contrib repository was giving the error messages with Mandrake9.2, when it didn't with earlier versions. Should I try to solve the bad signature message problem, or ignore it? That was the reason for my posting. I hadn't seen anyone else reporting this happening. Keith, same thing happens here. I just didn't think much of it since i got so used to texstar and plf rpms doing it. I too haven't ever had a signature problem with contrib before until now. That and i get some kind of mirror uses invalid list trying alternate method message when I install packages from contrib. but so far i haven't had any that haven't installed. Jerry I too get the Mirror uses invalid list try alternative method message when installing packages from contrib. I didn't mention it, though, as I did not want to confuse things even more! It's still there after a contrib update. Things install OK, so I ignore it. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
