Re: [newbie] Mandrake menu
Le mar 05/11/2002 à 04:29, Paul Rodriguez a écrit : Anybody know of a way to get rid of the Mandrake menu on the gnome panel? - Paul Rodriguez In menudrake, you will be able to restore the GNOME default menu. (the same for KDE and other environments) Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video again
Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2002 02:37, Nicolas VERITE wrote: USB is for photos and the MPEG low quality videos, FireWire (or iLink) is made for DV video. Ah, all is now clear! So I can, in theory, get my camcorder to stream crappy video through the USB port, but if I want to do anything serious, I should buy a FireWire card. Sir Robin That's how I've seen many camcorders work... For example, in the Sony line of camcorders, you have the Memory Stick cards in which you can store photos, but also low-quality MPEG videos copied from your DV tape (10 to 15 sec max for around 1 MB). This can be usefull for video-e-mails... Read the docs and try... everything ! Everything is not usefull for anybody... Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video again
Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 05:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 12:53, Nicolas VERITE wrote: Le mer 15/05/2002 à 10:59, Robin Turner a écrit : Has any one here had any success getting Mandrake to download from a camcorder via USB? Sir Robin With or without Mandrake, you can't up/download moving pictures (vidéo) from/to a camcorder via USB. You must use Firewire/iLink/IEEE1394. Nÿco Not true. You can use a Firewire to USB adapter. Example URL: http://www.simplesi.com/video2usb.htm And I said (or at least I think I did - could've been when the SMTP server was screwing me around) many newer camcorders give you the choice of Firewire and USB. So far, though, I haven't managed to get my Sony TRV740 to send to either Linux or Windows (the latter being with the drivers and viewer that came with the camera). Sir Robin -- The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever heard. - Bill Gates Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com USB is for photos and the MPEG low quality videos, FireWire (or iLink) is made for DV video. Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video again
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 12:53, Nicolas VERITE wrote: Le mer 15/05/2002 à 10:59, Robin Turner a écrit : Has any one here had any success getting Mandrake to download from a camcorder via USB? Sir Robin With or without Mandrake, you can't up/download moving pictures (vidéo) from/to a camcorder via USB. You must use Firewire/iLink/IEEE1394. Nÿco Not true. You can use a Firewire to USB adapter. Example URL: http://www.simplesi.com/video2usb.htm HTH, l8r, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com wow ! ;-) cool ! Weel USB is not made for video, FireWire is... (ex-IEEE1394) Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video again
Le mer 15/05/2002 à 10:59, Robin Turner a écrit : Has any one here had any success getting Mandrake to download from a camcorder via USB? Sir Robin With or without Mandrake, you can't up/download moving pictures (vidéo) from/to a camcorder via USB. You must use Firewire/iLink/IEEE1394. Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user capability, telnet (how many simultaneous sessions), file system comparison (journalling), crash recovery, users and group administration, etc. Rather than a philosophical comparison with praise or blame I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and contrast type. Many thanks in advance, Andrei I have not seen my post, so I repost : The best article to me is this one : http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=421 Tales of the BeOS refugee I is written by a famous BeOS power-user. This is more a BeOS / MacOS X comparision, than a Linux / MacOS X one. However, this is quite complete : it compares BeOS/MacOSX/Linux/Windows. Enjoy. Nyco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ripping cds on laptop
Paul Rodríguez wrote: For some reason I cannot rip audio cd's on my dell laptop, never have been able to. Doesn't happen on the desktop. Anybody know why this would be? - Paul Rodriguez Isn't there a problem of mounting ? I've read that : - in order to play audio CDs, don't mount the CD (and cable it inside the box) - in order to get data out of a CD, mount it Anyone to confirm ? Nyco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Directory Structure
Paul Kraus wrote: One of the reasons for switching to unix was the control over the os that it allows. But I must admit the may files are organized are completly chaotic. One install installs everything into one directory another spreads the files out to every single directory on your drive. How you can possibly maintain backups. Its driving me nuts. I can never find anything. I am anal when it comes to how I keep my files. Is there some logic to this that I am missing? PK Part of filesystem hierarchy structure is organized (read standardized) by the FHS (part of the LSB). FHS http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ LSB http://www.linuxbase.org/ Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really religious Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks, Andrei The best document I've ever read is Tales of the BeOS refugee. This compares not only MacOS X and Linux, but also Win and BeOS. In fact, it is a comparison of BeOS and MacOS X, with a look at Linux and Win. The point of view is : the power-user. Really a reference document to me ! http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=421 You can also read comments, there is a feedback version of this doc somewhere, but I can't find it... Enjoy ! Nyco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] EBDA too big
I've launched Software Manager, and selected lots of packages for install/update from CDs (can't remember which ones in particular), X freezes, CRTL+ALT+Fn show a real mess, try to blindly login as root and shutdown -r now. Now, ever and ever again : EBDA too big carriage return dot sign nothing more I boot on 1st install CD, type rescue... many different behaviours, each leading to the same kernel panic. Searched Google and more for EBDA too big, no solution worked fine... What's best ? Thanx Nyco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't mount my CDROM anymore
Yoh ! I don't think I've changed anything... but : # mount /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/scd0: unknown device It is the secondary slave IDE unit, so it should be /dev/hdd (?) Anyway : # ll /dev/ | grep -v grep | grep hd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 fév 11 10:31 hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 fév 11 10:31 hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 fév 11 10:31 hda2 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 fév 11 10:31 hda5 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 fév 11 10:31 hda6 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 /dev/hda is my primary master hard drive disk, recognise Mdk default install partitioning... # ll /dev/ide total 0 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 fév 11 10:31 hd/ drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 jan 1 1970 host0/ Musn't there be something like ./host1/ ? # ll /dev/cdrom lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 fév 11 10:31 /dev/cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 # ll /dev/ | grep -v grep | grep cd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 fév 11 10:31 cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 fév 11 10:31 cdrom0 - cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 fév 11 10:31 cdrom1 - cdroms/cdrom1 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 fév 10 23:44 cdroms/ lr-xr-xr-x1 root root8 fév 11 10:31 ptycd - pty/m221 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 fév 11 10:31 scd0 - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd What's that last line ??? I ain't got not SCSI host in my box ! Shouldn't SCSI devices be named like /dev/sda0 ? # more /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Oh s**t, it's in my fstab ! I'm lost, don't find helpfull enough on MUO... Please help ! Thanx Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't mount my CDROM anymore
Nicolas VERITE wrote: Yoh ! I don't think I've changed anything... but : # mount /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/scd0: unknown device It is the secondary slave IDE unit, so it should be /dev/hdd (?) Anyway : # ll /dev/ | grep -v grep | grep hd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 fév 11 10:31 hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 fév 11 10:31 hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 fév 11 10:31 hda2 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 fév 11 10:31 hda5 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 fév 11 10:31 hda6 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 /dev/hda is my primary master hard drive disk, recognise Mdk default install partitioning... # ll /dev/ide total 0 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 fév 11 10:31 hd/ drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 jan 1 1970 host0/ Musn't there be something like ./host1/ ? # ll /dev/cdrom lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 fév 11 10:31 /dev/cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 # ll /dev/ | grep -v grep | grep cd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 fév 11 10:31 cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 fév 11 10:31 cdrom0 - cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 fév 11 10:31 cdrom1 - cdroms/cdrom1 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 fév 10 23:44 cdroms/ lr-xr-xr-x1 root root8 fév 11 10:31 ptycd - pty/m221 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 fév 11 10:31 scd0 - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd What's that last line ??? I ain't got not SCSI host in my box ! Shouldn't SCSI devices be named like /dev/sda0 ? # more /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Oh s**t, it's in my fstab ! I'm lost, don't find helpfull enough on MUO... In HardDrake, I've got twice the same CDROM drive name, except : /dev/hdd is labelled 'unknown' /dev/scd0 is supposed to be a SCSI drive Can't change anything... In my fstab, the lines concerning removables media aren't the same (?) There is no /dev/hdd file... These docs can't answer neither : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/amount.html http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/amount2.html http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/amount3.html http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/amount4.html Can automount and/or supermount provoke some misconfigurations ? Howto know if these features are currently working ? No files in /mnt/cdrom, no process using it... # ll /mnt/cdrom/ total 0 # fuser /mnt/cdrom/ This doc ins't usefull either : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/troubles/ # ll /proc/ide total 0 -r--r--r--1 root root0 fév 12 03:15 drivers lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 fév 12 03:15 hda - ide0/hda/ lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 fév 12 03:15 hdd - ide1/hdd/ dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 fév 12 03:15 ide0/ dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 fév 12 03:15 ide1/ -r--r--r--1 root root0 fév 12 03:15 via # ll /proc/scsi/ total 0 dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 fév 12 03:15 ide-scsi/ -r--r--r--1 root root0 fév 12 03:15 scsi Neither mount nor eject work. This one is beter : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hremov3.html Oh I forgot to mention, this CD ROM drive is a CD burner... The model is Ricoh MP7080A. Help... Nyco PS : gonna watch Figure Skating and then my mail box before sleep... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Galeon * Mozilla
Hi ! What are the relationships between Mozilla and Galeon ? I konw Galeon uses the Mozilla's Gecko engine... I mean : how much are they inter-dependant ? How to upgrade one without breaking the other ? Thanx Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla's bookmarks and adress book
Hi ! My Mozilla data (eg adress book and bookmarks) is on my windows racked disk. I am cureently swtching to Mdk 8.1, I want to have these data under Linux on the ohter racked disk. What are the procedures ? What files to copy ? Thanx Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
