Re: [newbie] Nvu rpms
Thursday 09 Sep 2004 15:47, julie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried using the WYSIWYG html editor Nvu? There is now an rpm for Mandrake 10 available and, before installing the program I was wondering if anyone had experienced any glitches. I had a look at it quite a while ago and wasn't impressed at all. At that time, it wasn't much better than Mozilla composer but perhaps by now, it may have been improved. -- Martin Registered Linux User #357086 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] update installation
Saturday 04 Sep 2004 21:53, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 12:25, john wrote: Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually, the message says that installation failed due to one conflicting with the other. Since neither has installed, I don't see how they could conflict. It doesn't say which file so I am not sure which way to go from here. Would appreciate any help on this. Exactly the same happens when I try to install either of these packages too. The offending file is reported in the output from urpmi: -- 8 -- installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/cups-drivers-1.1-138.1.100mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## Installation failed: file /usr/lib/cups/backend/mtink from install of cups-drivers-1.1-138.1.100mdk conflicts with file from package printer-utils-1.0-133mdk -- 8 -- Sorry I can't offer a solution. Solution: urpme cups-drivers printer-utils (to remove the old versions of both packages), then urpmi cups-drivers printer-utils (to install the new versions of both packages) Worked a treat, thank you very much indeed for that one :-)) -- Martin Registered Linux User #357086 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] update installation
On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 12:25, john wrote: Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually, the message says that installation failed due to one conflicting with the other. Since neither has installed, I don't see how they could conflict. It doesn't say which file so I am not sure which way to go from here. Would appreciate any help on this. Exactly the same happens when I try to install either of these packages too. The offending file is reported in the output from urpmi: -- 8 -- installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/cups-drivers-1.1-138.1.100mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...## Installation failed: file /usr/lib/cups/backend/mtink from install of cups-drivers-1.1-138.1.100mdk conflicts with file from package printer-utils-1.0-133mdk -- 8 -- Sorry I can't offer a solution. -- Martin Registered Linux User #357086 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cups drivers online update
I've tried to install the cups-drivers online update without success. After the download finishes and the installation begins, I get a message to the effect that there's a conflict with /usr/lib/cups/backend/mtink and the installation then aborts. Exactly the same thing happens when I try to install the online printer-utils update package. Any ideas anyone? -- Martin Registered Linux User #357086 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connect to ISP from command prompt
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 10:36:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: Can somebody please give me instructions how to set up my MDK10 (Official) to dial into and connect with my ISP from the command prompt. If you have it already set up, running /sbin/ifup ppp0 will do it. Erm, that was the whole point of the question, I don't have it set up and I don't know how to set it up :-) You may also want to look at wdial. It is not installed by default, but it is a handy PPP connection manager. OK, I've installed and configured that now and this appears to be exactly what I'm looking for. Many thanks for your help. -- Martin Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:26:21 +0100, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT147008089916080 Why are you using 1470 in front of your ISP's phone number? Judging by your email address, your ISP is FreeServe. When I had an account with them, it was unnecessary to use 1470. Freeserve is now Wanadoo - or, judging by their service, Wanadon't! I use the same number for dialup, and queried this with them - they said the 1470 is an essential part of their dialup number, or I'd get charged for the call by BT! H, here's the result of a search for 1470 on BeeTee's Web site: A customer with Permanent Number Withhold on their line can release their number on a per call basis by dialling 1470 before dialling the number of the person they would like to call. This means that the person they are calling will be able to see the caller's number on Caller Display or be told it through the free 1471 service. Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, --- Dear John, Thank you for your email. The 1470 is only needed if your caller identity is witheld - it usually will not cause any problem whether the number is witheld or not. If you have any further queries then please do not hesitate to get in contact with us again. Kind Regards Wanadoo Technical Support REF:WOOTS Original Message Follows: I'm currently using, 147008089916080 147008089916164 But is the 1470 strictly necessary, - And so I'm flabbergasted. Never would of thought it. But there it is. and so you think I should remove 1470 then ? I don't see any harm in removing it. However, I don't think that's what causing the problems. Have you had a look at my other suggestions yet? -- Martin Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Multiple monitor setup
In my Linux box I have 2 graphics cards: 1. nVidia RIVA TNT2 (AGP) 2. 3dfx Voodoo Banshee (PCI) I have seperate monitors plugged into each graphics card, the idea being to use MDK 10's multiple monitor support. I've twiddled and fiddled with the setup and I just cannot get both monitors to work at the same time. Can some kind soul give me clear concise instructions how to set this up. Thanks in advance . -- Martin Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele BELARDI wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How to decypher dialupscript Where can I get a list of explanation of the messages the dial up window gives you in kppp ? John Not sure of what kppp prints since I don't use it, but V90 and older modems use the Hayes command set (i.e. AT commands), you can find explanation for example here: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdenetwork/kppp/appendix-hayes-commands.html raffaele Much obliged Raffaele,that was what I'm looking for, though I still have a few lines unexplained, this is what I'm getting after a particular recurrence like this, kppp logs on and emails download, then halfway through the process my ISP seems to cut me off, I doubt if it's your ISP that's cutting you off, it's more than likely that your modem's timing out. this causes kppp to redial with this error message, It's not actually an error message, it's a report generated by the V1 command. What modem is it? ATZ OK AT F1 V1 Try either F or F2 instead of F1. Drop the V1 altogether. The V1 command isn't designed to be included in an init string, it's designed to be used after the connection has terminated to generate a report such as you have below: TERMINATION REASON.. NONE LAST TX rate N/A HIGHEST TX rate. 300 BPS LAST RX rate N/A HIGHEST RX rate. 300 BPS PROTOCOL N/A COMPRESSION. N/A Line QUALITY 255 Rx LEVEL 214 Highest Rx State 00 Highest TX State 00 EQM Sum. RBS Pattern. FF Rate Drop... FF Digital Loss Local Rtrn Count 00 Remote Rtrn Count... 00 V90 Hetre's a report I've just generated by typing ATV1 in a dumb terminal following my last call to my ISP: -- 8 -- atv1 TERMINATION REASON.. LOCAL REQUEST LAST TX rate 26400 BPS HIGHEST TX rate. 26400 BPS LAST RX rate 44000 BPS HIGHEST RX rate. 45333 BPS PROTOCOL LAPM COMPRESSION. V42Bis Line QUALITY 023 Rx LEVEL 015 Highest Rx State 67 Highest TX State 87 EQM Sum. 00D6 Min Distance RBS Pattern. 00 Rate Drop... 00 Digital Loss 2000 Local Rtrn Count 00 Remote Rtrn Count... 00 Flex fail OK -- 8 -- OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT147008089916080 Why are you using 1470 in front of your ISP's phone number? Judging by your email address, your ISP is FreeServe. When I had an account with them, it was unnecessary to use 1470. NO CARRIER Question is why no carrier ? At this point in time, sorry, dunno. See my suggestions at the end. Immediately I redial she logs on as usual. This has now become a pattern. I don't understand the scale of report in the F's and the numbers, like Line QUALITY.. 255, is that good bad or indifferent. Ignore 'em :-) All my searches in google have come up with no detailed explanation, and although your suggestion is very helpful it isn't complete, as far as I can see. The basic questions I need answering are, Am I being cut off because my ISP is overloaded and needs to make room for others, I wouldn't have thought so. It's more than likely a modem init/config problem. Am I being cut off because of line quality or modem config. Am I being cut off because of software like guarddog(don't think so, but I'm not sure) etc. Or what ? I suspect you have a Rockwell chipped modem, similar to mine. If so, fire up KPPP, click the Configure button and then click the Device tab. Things to look for here are: Flow control should be set at Hardware(CRTSCTS) Line termination should be set at CR Connection speed should be 115200 Modem timeout should be set at 60 seconds or greater. Now click on the Modem tab. Wait for dialtone before dialing should be X'd. Now click on the Modem commands button. For starters, try ATZ in the Initialisation 1 box. Leave the Initialisation 2 box empty. No dialtone detection should be ATX3 Now try it again and see what happens. Best of luck :-) Hope this helps. -- Martin Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:26:21 +0100, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT147008089916080 Why are you using 1470 in front of your ISP's phone number? Judging by your email address, your ISP is FreeServe. When I had an account with them, it was unnecessary to use 1470. Freeserve is now Wanadoo - or, judging by their service, Wanadon't! I use the same number for dialup, and queried this with them - they said the 1470 is an essential part of their dialup number, or I'd get charged for the call by BT! H, here's the result of a search for 1470 on BeeTee's Web site: A customer with Permanent Number Withhold on their line can release their number on a per call basis by dialling 1470 before dialling the number of the person they would like to call. This means that the person they are calling will be able to see the caller's number on Caller Display or be told it through the free 1471 service. -- Martin Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera 7.51 Menu font is tiny
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:54:01 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The opera menu font such File, etc is super tiny and hard to read. Anybody? Select Tools/Preferences/Fonts and then click on Interface menus in the Type column. Then click the Choose button and from there you can select the font, font size, etc. I have mine set at Nimbus Sans L [urw], size 14, weight = normal. -- Martin Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] LS-120 media change
After installing MDK 10 (Official), I have a Zip Disk icon on my KDE desktop which points to my internal LS-120 floppy drive. The first time I put a floppy in the drive and clicked on the icon, I was able to view the contents of the floppy. If I now put a different floppy in the drive and click on the icon, the contents of the first floppy are displayed. In other words, a media change doesn't appear to be being detected. Here is the relevant line from /etc/fstab: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 What do I need to do so as a media change will be detected? -- Martin Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] LS120/Zip drive woes
Greetings! I've recently installed MDK 9.2 and I'm having no end of problems with my LS120 and my parallel port Zip drive: I use the LS120 floppy drive as both a 1.44Mb and 120Mb floppy drive and I do not have a seperate 1.44Mb floppy drive installed. The Zip drive is connected to LPT1 and my printer is attached to the Zip drive. Here's my /etc/fstab file which was created for me during the installation process: -- 8 -- /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/ hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/ hdd,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/ sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 -- 8 -- If I insert a floppy disk in my LS120 and click on the LS120 icon on my KDE desktop, Konqeror pops up and the /mnt/floppy directory is completely empty. If I insert a Zip disk in my Zip drive and click on the Zip drive icon on my KDE desktop, Konqeror pops up and the /mnt/zip directory is empty. The strange thing is, I don't have any problems with my CD-ROM drive. Any/all help in sorting this out would be very much appreciated. -- Martin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Copy To/Move To
Thanks, that's what I've been doing but I much prefer the Copy To/Move To feature. What I liked about it was the Quick Browser method of navigating through the directories. Just a matter of personal preference really :-) -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Just left click and drag to the appropriate directory and it will ask you which operation you want. Cheers Jason Martin Foster wrote: In Mandrake 9.01, The Copy To and Move To options don't seem to be available when I right-click on a filename in the Konqueror filemanager. I found this an extremely useful function in previous versions, in fact, I would say that it's a must have. Maybe I need to tweek something somewhere? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Mandrake 9.1 Icon Problem
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:03 am, Netsonic wrote: Hi everybody. I have downloaded and tried to install Mandrake 9.1. The install itself runs OK, but when I load up KDE, there are no desktop icons whatsoever. All the previous Mandrake versions I used had a handful of icons there for things like 'Home', 'CD Rom' etc in the top left hand corner of the screen. Also when the KDE loads, the mouse pointer changes to an egg-timer type pointer as if its waiting for something to finish. It stays like this for 5 or 6 minutes, and then still no desktop icons. The menus and taskbar are available and work OK. Right clicking somewhere in the middle of the desktop does nothing, whereas there used to be a context menu appeared for things like desktop configuration. Gnome loads with the icons OK, just nothing for KDE. Has anybody else experienced this ?? Yes, I experienced this the first time I installed 9.1 In my haste to install it, I overlooked adding a user and so therefore I was running as root. The solution that worked for me was to create a user and then login as that user. As you should know, the root desktop is different to a user desktop :-) -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Copy To/Move To
In Mandrake 9.01, The Copy To and Move To options don't seem to be available when I right-click on a filename in the Konqueror filemanager. I found this an extremely useful function in previous versions, in fact, I would say that it's a must have. Maybe I need to tweek something somewhere? -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: 9.1 Flakey installs, no internet dialer etc
On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 3:47 am, Keith wrote: Has anyone else had problems with 9.1? Yes, lots! :-( [..] NO internet dialer... You need to run MenuDrake, click on Menu Style and then have a look at which menus have been installed. To solve the problem of the missing PPP dialer, you need to have the All applications menu enabled and the Add link to what to do option enabled. This solved it for me. Many other wierd things... Yep, same here. Went back to 8.2 Powerpak... You??? I've reinstalled 9.1 because I felt that a lot of the 'iffies' were self-inflicted. Looks like I was right, things are working MUCH better now. -- Martin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LS-120 formatting
Pardon my ignorance but how do I format a 120Mb floppy disk under Mandrake 9 -- Martin Foster Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive
Hi! OK, I've done all that but I still can't access the drive. "Mount" tells me that "vfat" is the wrong file system. Any further ideas please? Regards, Martin On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: Martin; To mount your internal zip drive; 1st - open a terminal window; 2nd - change to directory "/mnt"; 3rd - make a directory for it (I used "zip"); 4th - now mount it. i.e. cd / cd /mnt md zip cd / mount t- vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip The "sda4" in "/dev" maybe different on your machine. Check the "/var/log/dmesg" file to see what your system thinks it is. Also note that you cannot eject your zip disk until you umount the zip drive. Hope this helps; Bruce :-) Martin Foster wrote: Hi! Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how? Regards, Martin
Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive
Hi! This is the one that works: mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip Many thanks to you and everybody else for solving the problem. Your help is much appreciated. Next question(s) :-) Why hdc4 and not hdc? Can I put an entry for mounting the Zip drive in /etc/fstab? What is "supermount"? Regards, Martin *** On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: Ummm, Well, first of all it won't be /dev/sda because it is IDE, so it will be /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd, /dev/hab (most likely one of those three depending whether it is master or slave and cabled to channel 1 or 2, second, /dev/hdd4 would mount a FACTORY formatted Zip, and it is unlikely to be vfat but rather fat or msdos fat handles longer file names so should be the choice. third (and you probably got this right to get the error message), the form of the mount command is mount -t fat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip or mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip Fourth, a simpler way to do this is to use DrakConf/linuxconf to set up the filesystem and let it do the work for the options and the mounting. Civileme Martin Foster wrote: Hi! OK, I've done all that but I still can't access the drive. "Mount" tells me that "vfat" is the wrong file system. Any further ideas please? Regards, Martin On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: Martin; To mount your internal zip drive; 1st - open a terminal window; 2nd - change to directory "/mnt"; 3rd - make a directory for it (I used "zip"); 4th - now mount it. i.e. cd / cd /mnt md zip cd / mount t- vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip The "sda4" in "/dev" maybe different on your machine. Check the "/var/log/dmesg" file to see what your system thinks it is. Also note that you cannot eject your zip disk until you umount the zip drive. Hope this helps; Bruce :-) Martin Foster wrote: Hi! Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how? Regards, Martin
[newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive
Hi! Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how? Regards, Martin
Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote: It takes a couple of days? Yes but naturally, I didn't spend the whole of each day doing it :-) How did you get the other drives to show? During the installation, I "told" it to start KDE automatically and when KDE starts, all my DOS logical drives are iconised on the desktop. Neat, eh? I'm tying to get at the IBM Lotus. Sorry, can't help there. Sparks Regards, Martin - Original Message - From: Martin Foster To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 9:33 AM Subject: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive Hi! Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how? Regards, Martin Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
