Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. My frozen bubble is exactly the same, but I can play it fine using the cursor keys, space bar and esc. I've always assumed that there isn't meant to be mouse control. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting a video camera
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 14:52, Auke Jan Kroon wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 10.0 on my aunt's computer (can be upgraded to 10.1 if necessary) and she bought a Sharp VL-Z1S video camera with DV/IEEE1394/Firewire output. I don't have a video camera, so my knowledge about this is close to zero. Can anyone tell me which (brand and type of) Firewire card she should buy to connect the camera to the PC? I cannot find anything on the hardware compatibility list. In addition, can anyone point me to documentation about how to get it to work? Thanks, AJ I don't know too much about this but my experience for what it's worth is :- I have a panasonic DV camera and I plug it into the firewire port on my Audigy sound card. I use Kino to handle the video, to make it work I had to add raw1394, dv1394 and video1394 to /etc/modprobe.preload. This worked fine on 10.0 but when I first installed 10.1 udev did not make device node /dev/raw1394 and I had to do it manually, however there has since been an update to udev which fixes this. You may need to change the permissions for /dev/raw1394 so that a user can access it, tip if so add /dev/raw1394 to the camera line in /etc/security/console.perms. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] email problems
On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 08:32, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: By the way. What file precisely does kmail/konqueror say it cannot find? derek /var/temp/kdecache-rosemary\krun\0.427.0 The print is tiny in the box that comes up - but I think that's it. Rosemary I had this problem when using Firefox to open URL's, The solution was to go to SystemconfigurationKDEcomponentsFile associationstexthtml and edit the mozilla firefox entry by changing the application command from soundwrappet /usr/bin/mozffremote to :- /usr/bin/mozffremote %u This fixes the problem until you do anything to update the menus when the command gets changed back, in order to fix this you need to make the same adjustment in usr/lib/menu/mozilla-firefox HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 05:13, John Rye wrote: Hi all, Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can only be described as an interesting discovery There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst several others: glibc-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-build-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-python-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-rebuilder-0.20-1mdk.noarch.rpm, rpmlint-0.62-1mdk.noarch.rpm are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution Anyone else noted this Sorry to have my day ruined Cheers John Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they are all on the main mirrors so it's not much of a problem once you know to set up a main source. -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Create device at boot SOLVED
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 23:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: Thanks for the responses guys. However I have stumbled across the answer to my problem. In /etc/rc.d/rc.local mknod -m 666 /dev/raw c 171 0 does not work, but /bin/mknod -m 666 /dev/raw c 171 0 works I can only surmise that this is something to do with when $PATH is set Many Thanks -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Create device at boot
I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it does not exist After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a root terminal creates the device and that it works. mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 Now I would like the device to be created automatically on boot up so I have put the above command as the last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, unfortunately nothing happens ie the device is not created. anyone know how I can create /dev/raw1394 automatically TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Create device at boot
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it does not exist After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a root terminal creates the device and that it works. mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 Now I would like the device to be created automatically on boot up so I have put the above command as the last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, unfortunately nothing happens ie the device is not created. anyone know how I can create /dev/raw1394 automatically TIA Maybe you can create an alias in bash environment instead? It's not automatically,. but saves you from typing the whole command. as root, put this in /root/.bashrc alias mycamera=mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 good idea - thanks -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File tree organisation
There was a post recently asking for information about the file tree structure. I've just stumbled across the 10.1 documentation on the mirrors and chapter 7 gives a good description of the structure for mandrakelinux Hope that helps someone. -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM
I have two icons on my desktop for CD-RW (/dev/hdc) and DVD-ROM (/dev/hdd). How can I get rid of them. If I right click on them there is no delete option. I'm trying to get back to the good old days when I mounted and unmounted removeable devices when I wanted to instead of having magicdev or supermount muck it up and refuse to allow me to unmount or eject. Also both of these drives are listed twice in X-CD-Roast once as ATA and once as ATAPI, they also appear twice in kwikdisk. Anyone know why this is? TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 22:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same libmplex2-1.6.so.0 error. Next I tried mjpegtools-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm from sourceforge but this fails due to unsatisfied libpng.so.2. I have a libpng.so.3 installed so I tried a symlink but it still wont urpmi. I don't know how to resolve this, has anyone got any advice how to get a working mjpegtools with 10,1 OE please. Peter, I installed mjpegtools last thing yesterday in 10.1 Official, and today used lavrec and glav without problems. I've shut everything down for the night now, but in the morning I'll check out whether I'm using libmplex2-1.6. I didn't do anything fancy to get it, that's for sure. This is the Mandrake version of the tools. Under 10.0 I had to use the sourceforge version, as sdl was not supported in the Mandrake version, but this looks much better. Anne Anne and Joe Thank you both for your positive responses. I have been having so many problems with 10.1 that last night I was feeling despondent and seriously considering going back to 10.0. However this morning after reading your replies and feeling more optimistic I tried again, this time libmpegtools was proposed instead of failing with unresolved dependencies and the installation went ahead perfectly. No idea what went wrong last night., perhaps a glitch with the mirror? Many thanks -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 10:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same libmplex2-1.6.so.0 error. Next I tried mjpegtools-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm from sourceforge but this fails due to unsatisfied libpng.so.2. I have a libpng.so.3 installed so I tried a symlink but it still wont urpmi. I don't know how to resolve this, has anyone got any advice how to get a working mjpegtools with 10,1 OE please. Peter, I don't understand this. I searched my drives for libmplex and found that on the partitions that had the old install it's there, but I don't appear to have it at all in the new install, where I was happily using mjpegtools yesterday. urpmq -i mjpegtools tells me that I am running mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk but the same search on libmplex says that there is no package called libmplex. I'd go with Joe - use easyurpmi.zarb.org to set up some additional sources. I think maybe contrib is the one that will provide these packages, but I'd set up one for each category just to be sure. I didn't note where I got mine from, but as I said it just installed and worked out of the box. Sorry I can't be more specific Anne Anne As I said in an earlier post that I have now got mjpegtools installed, but like you I have no libmplex. I really don't understand what was going wrong last night but thanks again for all your help Regards -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xscreensaver
My screensavers in KDE don't work! All the screensaver executables are there in /usr/X116R/lib/xscreensaver/ and if I click on one it runs fine in a window. However when a screensaver is supposed to start by itself I just get a blank screen. If I run xscreensaver-demo from a terminal it tells me that the xscreensaver daemon is not running and asks if i want to start it, if I say yes then the mandrake slide show screensaver works fine but none of the others work. Next time I boot up the xscreesaver daemon is not started and nothing works. Grateful for advice on how to start xscreensaver daemon at boot and/or how to get the other screensavers working. By the way, in Gnome everything works perfectly, the xscreensaver daemon runs automatically and all the screensavers work. The only thing is I can't work out how to change the time before a screensaver comes on, I don't feel comfortable with Gnome and would like to get this working in KDE if possible But is it possible that xscreensaver only works with Gnome? TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mjpegtools dependencies
Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same libmplex2-1.6.so.0 error. Next I tried mjpegtools-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm from sourceforge but this fails due to unsatisfied libpng.so.2. I have a libpng.so.3 installed so I tried a symlink but it still wont urpmi. I don't know how to resolve this, has anyone got any advice how to get a working mjpegtools with 10,1 OE please. TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with kino and /raw/dev1394 UPDATE
On Monday 22 Nov 2004 12:12, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2004 05:43 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I recently posted a question about a problem using kino in capture mode because I do not have a /dev/raw1394, as I had no replies I have been fiddling about and made some progress. Something I have done is causing my box to use devfs instead of udev, I'm not sure what. However using devfs kino works perfectly. It appears that udev makes far fewer devices under /dev than devfs does and in particular does not create any raw devices at all, hence my problem with /dev/raw1394 which it appears needs /dev/rawctl to be set up. I think that this is a bug with udev but I would be grateful if anyone who is using 10.1 and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk could let me know if they have a /dev/raw containing devices raw1 raw2 etc (up to raw255 in my case) and rawctl as it is also possible that this is a problem with my box I took a look in dev on my box and I have no raw at all. Not one. Sorry it is the same kernel as yours though. Thanks Dennis - its reassuring to know that its not just me. I'll keep searching for the solution -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with kino and /raw/dev1394 UPDATE
I recently posted a question about a problem using kino in capture mode because I do not have a /dev/raw1394, as I had no replies I have been fiddling about and made some progress. Something I have done is causing my box to use devfs instead of udev, I'm not sure what. However using devfs kino works perfectly. It appears that udev makes far fewer devices under /dev than devfs does and in particular does not create any raw devices at all, hence my problem with /dev/raw1394 which it appears needs /dev/rawctl to be set up. I think that this is a bug with udev but I would be grateful if anyone who is using 10.1 and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk could let me know if they have a /dev/raw containing devices raw1 raw2 etc (up to raw255 in my case) and rawctl as it is also possible that this is a problem with my box TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with kino and /dev/raw1394
I'm trying to set up kino using 10.1 OE and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk but it won't go into capture mode and shows error message WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394! Under /dev there is no device /dev/raw1394 at all. However I have added raw1394 to /etc/modeprobe.preload and lsmod shows:- lsmod: video1394 15244 0 ohci1394 30788 1 video1394 raw139424492 0 ieee1394 292056 4 eth1394,video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 Also in /etc/security/console.perms I have the line camera=/mnt/camera* /dev/usb/dc2xx* /dev/usb/mdc800* /dev/raw1394 /var/log/messages includes the following lines ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized petebox rawdevices: succeeded petebox drakxservices[5964]: running: chkconfig --add rawdevices All the above looks ok to me. The problems seem to be that when I boot the scrolling messages on the screen shows Start sevice raw devices Assigning raw devices: Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such device or directory As it says there is no /dev/rawctl in /dev, but this error message does not show up under dmesg or /var/log/messages Also Control centre Systemservices shows service rawdevices stopped although it is checked to start at boot, if I click the start button the error message about no /dev/rawctl is repeated. I'm sorry for such a rambling explanation but if anyone has any idea what is wrong and how to fix it I'd be most grateful. My hunch is a kernel problem but I'm out of my depth knowing what to do next TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] fsck on boot
Where do I set how often the HD's get fsck'd on boot. TIA -- Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup
For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie half of the time I am unable to connect to the internet with dialup and half I am not. I have disabled the firewall to make sure that is not the problem and checked everything that I can think of in my config files to no avail. Interestingly ifconfig and route -n both give exactly the same output whether I can connect or not. I am at my wits end, If Derek or anyone else has any advice I would be most grateful. TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 16:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 13:12, Peter Watson wrote: For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie half of the time I am unable to connect to the internet with dialup and half I am not. I have disabled the firewall to make sure that is not the problem and checked everything that I can think of in my config files to no avail. Interestingly ifconfig and route -n both give exactly the same output whether I can connect or not. I am at my wits end, If Derek or anyone else has any advice I would be most grateful. TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland So Pete when it fails, you do connect to your ISP and get an IP address? And 'route' shows the default route is via dial up? How about /etc/resolv.conf ? Does it help if you 'down' eth0 first? Is there a gateway defined in /etc/sysconfig/network ? I am not sure what might have changed in 10.1 that could affect it. Except maybe it is something to do with IPV6. You could try disabling IPV6 by putting 'alias net-pf-10 off' in /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting. derek Thanks for the quick reply. I think I have found the cause of the problem without understanding it. The only difference I could find between 10.0 and 10.1 was that with 10,1 I had network starting at boot, I have stopped that and so far it seems to work every time, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Many Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Inet6 address
On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 09:27, Ronald Ip wrote: For more information, check out the IPv6 HOWTO to further understand how IPv6 works. Ronald. Will do Many Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Inet6 address
The NIC in my MDK 10 box has an IP address of 10.0.0.1 which I set myself in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. However ifconfig shows that eth0 also has an inet6 address of fe80::205:5dff:fe74:e3d3/64. lo also has an inet6 address of ::1/128. None of the other boxes on my lan, Win 98, XP-Pro and Peanut Linux have an inet6 address. The question is where did these inet6 addresses come from in Mandrake. TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Problem with detectingmodem, Scanmodem
Mandrake 9.1 cannot detect my modem intel(r) 536EP V.92 I downloaded ScanModem, to detect what modem I have. After unpacking and addint +x permition when run from console ./ScanModem there is a massage: WARNING: lscpi not found - exiting Please install the package: pciutils How to install this package? What else shoud I do to make my modem work under linux! I have an intel 536EP modem. I did manage to get it just about working under 9.0 and 9.1 using the drivers from Intels site, but it was a gruesome task and involved a convoluted detection routine using minicom after each boot-up. Under 9.2 and 10.0 I have never been able to get it working at all. I know that it is not what you asked for, but my advice would be to ditch this modem and get an external serial modem which will just work out of the box with no hassle at all. I eventually did this and then kicked myself for all the time I had wasted on the 536EP HTH Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format
On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 10:57, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have got dozens of text files (which are the output of a simulation program) containing tables of numbers. I would like to convert them into a format readable by a spreadsheet program (OpenOffice Calc, for instance), so that each number in the original text file can be transformed in a spreadsheet cell. Is there such a converter? Thanks in advance, Paul OpenOffice.org calc will open text files containing tables directly using it's import/export filter. Go to File Open, from the file type drop down box select Text/CSV, select the name of the file and press open, select the appropriate seperator, check from the preview pane that the format is ok and then press ok. The file should open. Any problems read up under importing in OOo help HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotlabd PS please lose the reply to address in your headers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] difficulty reconfiguring Kwallet under mdk 10.0
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 03:41, g2 wrote: I am running Mandrake 10.0 Official. Somehow I accidentally set a password for the Kwallet, despite really not needing one. Now each time I start up kmail, the mail program I use regularly, I have to enter in the kwalltet password. I get a dialog box explaining that the application has requested access to the kwallet, and prompts me for the password. I would like to get rid of this extra step so I don't need to enter this. Before it was a minor annoyance not worth the effort to get rid of, but now I want kmail to launch apon boot, so i really need to get rid of the password problem. I tried getting into kwalett by accesssing it via the menu under kde system:configure:other:kwallet. The system seems to be trying to do somthing for about a minuet, and then nothing ! Not sure whats wrong, why I cant get in to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. PS once I get this problem solved, how do I set kmail to automaticly launch apon system startup? Thanks a bunch. Gideon Run /usr/bin/kwalletmanager then open kwallet from the icon in the system tray and you will be able to access the configuration settings and un-enable kwallet. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] AVI - MPG (VCDs)
On Monday 23 Feb 2004 2:44 pm, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi guys, I have some video files in AVI format that I would like to convert to VCDs -- what *free* software is available for Mandrake to do this ?? Ta, Jamie Transcode and VCDImager HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] missing /boot/boot.b
I am trying to make a bootable CD using mindi. However it complains that I have no /boot/boot.b and offers to use /boot/boot.0300 instead. I am sure that I used to have a file called /boot/boot.b and a line in /etc/lilo.conf install=/boot/boot.b but this has gone also. I do have the /boot/boot.0300 file which mindi refers to. I can only think that something must have gone wrong when I updated my kernel as this is the only time I can remember doing anything which would affect /etc/lilo.conf. Anyone know what has happened here? Thanks Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail word wrap
I've got this problem with Kmail. Word wrap is set at col 75 and in the composer window this works fine. But when I see my messages after they are delivered they are not wrapped at all. Anyone got ant ideas? Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi to svcd programs?
On Thursday 29 Jan 2004 5:53 am, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:31:48 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found mencvcd, just trying it now with a DVD. A couple fits starts, but we'll see what the results give. Following up on my own post (/slap): Well, I experimented a few times with that mencvcd script, found a few options that worked, and ended up with 2 files in /tmp: one's a mpa and the other one is an mpv file. 'file' says one is mpeg 2 audio (MP2, 224k) and the other one is an mpeg video stream. So far, that's probably what I want, right, for VCD encode? Seems like the next step is to take those two files and make a disk image (or two, as they both are larger than a single CD). What's my next step -- is this something that vcd imager or k3b is going to be able to do ... i.e., split the files up into cd-sized chunks, write out the right directory structure including a DAT file for the movie? (That's what I see when I mount some VCDs that my brother did in Windows). David I haven't used mencvcd but when I make VCD's using transcode I end up with 2 files, one video -.mpv, and one audio -.mp2, the next step for me is to multiplex them into one mpg file using mplex. After that I use vcdimager to create the right structure and cdrdao to burn. Maybe you need to multiplex your files next. If you want to cut files up into smaller chunks I would suggest you look at mpgtx, this is what I use. In the past I have had good results with avidemux, but for me it seems flaky under 9.2 HTH Regards PeteArdnamurchan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live (solved)
On Saturday 10 Jan 2004 5:42 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 22:33, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: Ok, I did it ! Now I can play .midi and .kar files in Kmid. I just followed the instructions in the article. First, I installed the awesfx package [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi awesfx OK - done that Then , I copied the sound samples to /etc/midi/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cp /mnt/cdrom/AUDIO/COMMON/SFBANK/8MBGMSFX.SF2 /etc/midi/ Where did you find these sound fonts? Which cd? A Mandrake one? Hi, Anne! I copied them from the Sound Blater installation cd. If you don't have the cd, I can e-mail the sound fonts to you. I have already bzipped them - their size is 6,4M. Can your email handle it ? folks The awesfx rpm includes a sound font, GU11-ROM.SF2, you should find it in /etc/midi HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video
On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 7:40 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. However a lot of water under the bridge since then and I'm in a new install of 9.2 for a while now and find myself in the same boat but unfortunatly can't remember what the name of the program was and I can't remember what the name of the thread was either for the archives. Anybody got any recommendations? avidemux should do these easily (you can set the codecs to imort mpeg). However although I have used it fine with previous versions of mandrake my 9.2 version seems borked. Has anyone else had problems with this version ? You may want to try it anyway John, when it works it is a fine tool Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem
On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 3:22 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Wednesday 26 November 2003 7:09 pm, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mine does. Or at least Intel says it will. It's got the Intel 586EP chip set. I put a message on here, asking about getting mgetty to work, but haven't heard from anyone yet. But Intel says specifically that it works with Linux as well as XP. Look for a modem that is advertised as a hardware modem. WinModems use software to share their job with the WinSnooze OS. That's why the WinModems are a tough breed to get working with Linux. The best place to read up on them is http://www.linmodems.org/. I have a 536ep modem and I managed to get it working previously (up to 9.1). However, before it would work with kppp I had to launch minicom, wait for 30 sec, then close minicom and launch kppp. Failing to do this iniialisation with minicom would cause the keyboard to stop responding and the only way out was to press the power button. The same happens in 9.2 but, in addition, the speed is now so low as to make it virtually unusable, It always worked fine with XP, still does. But for linux I have bought an serial modem. First off I bought an el cheapo from ebuyer for GB pounds 15, this worked great for short periods, but after about 15 mins it would slow right down to a crawl, it also got very hot, which I suspect caused the slow down. This week I have bought a Hayes Accura GB pounds 60, so far it is working flawlessly. YMMV but I think the Hayes is worth it for the lack of trouble alone HTH Pete ARdnamurchanSCotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Superuser
On Saturday 22 Nov 2003 4:15 pm, Cenora wrote: Hello, I have just installed MDK9.2. How do I run a terminal under superuser mode, or the file manager under this mode? They just don appear on the menu. Thanks Thiago I don't know if this is the best solution, but I use ALT F2 then enter konsole or konqueror, under options I select run as different user, enter the password and voila. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 19:55, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Question home movies, I am helpless. But you can make vcds with those above programs and vcdimager. OK I'll bite... I've only done a few dvd rips to avi, with some success using mencoder, gmencoder, or dvdrip. right now i'm attempting to do a vcd of a dvd using dvdrip. but i've not used vcdimager or vcdximager - are they stand alone programs or filters that other programs (such as dvdrip) use? is there a step by step guide to burning a vcd on mandrake? i did another test run of a dvd (older classic film with monaural sound) last night but the audio is seriously out of step with the video (i.e., the previous scene's dialogue is spoken when the new scene is being displayed) ;). I'm ripping collateral damage now to vcd with dvdrip. In about 13 hours or so it will be done. THe last time I tried doing it, i think it segfaulted or something :(. I use vcdimager to create VCD images of video from my DV camera. First I import the AVI into Kino and then export it as mpeg1. Vcdimager takes the mpeg1 stream and converts it to the required image files ready to burn with cdrdao. I use vcdimager from the command line and there is good documentation explaining the principles and giving examples at http://www.vcdimager.org/documentation.phtml Vcdimager also has several GUI front ends including qvcd, arson and k3b, but I have never used them, it works great as a standalone program from the command line, the only problem for me is that the quality of VCD is very noticeably inferior to DVD HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/krHnbAtXXQnVtr0RAgycAJ9G6yf2nJoDKn70L1442uiQ7q3NDgCfRWzi mhINzmckcYns85vqbQnuNgM= =Ac9H -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SNIPOn Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority. But just to calm you down a bit : Those of you who live in democratic and free countries may think that it's a real parliament. It certainly is not. The members are not elected, they are appointed by national political parties. The real power lies at the Commission. One of the commissars recently called the EP a Mickey Mouse Parliament - very appropriate. /SNIP For the benefit of any non EU readers the above statement is not actually true. Members of the European parliament *are* elected by ballot and *any* EU citizen can stand. Where Kaj's statement has an element of truth is that, unfortunately, the electors (ie the general public) are pretty well brainwashed to only vote for candidates who represent an established political party, and this does have the effect of filling the parliament with the sort of deadbeats that Kaj describes. However, this is really a reflection of the sheep like mentality of the electors and not a valid criticism of the parliament as such, to put it another way. if you vote for idiots you get idiots in parliament, but is this the idiot's fault or yours Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/csk6bAtXXQnVtr0RApCVAJ9fcBr/rNpl9ihqJ7JJDO6zGnGkZACdE4y2 PvNsNVa2DvNlkr7qI5jpTkY= =Eltz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT}Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 12:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 11:53 am, Peter Watson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SNIPOn Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority. But just to calm you down a bit : Those of you who live in democratic and free countries may think that it's a real parliament. It certainly is not. The members are not elected, they are appointed by national political parties. The real power lies at the Commission. One of the commissars recently called the EP a Mickey Mouse Parliament - very appropriate. /SNIP For the benefit of any non EU readers the above statement is not actually true. Members of the European parliament *are* elected by ballot and *any* EU citizen can stand. Where Kaj's statement has an element of truth is that, unfortunately, the electors (ie the general public) are pretty well brainwashed to only vote for candidates who represent an established political party, and this does have the effect of filling the parliament with the sort of deadbeats that Kaj describes. However, this is really a reflection of the sheep like mentality of the electors and not a valid criticism of the parliament as such, to put it another way. if you vote for idiots you get idiots in parliament, but is this the idiot's fault or yours Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Actually Peter your statement is not quite true either. In the UK and several other EU nations the voter votes for a party *not* a candidate. The party decides who actually goes to the parliment by keeping a 'party list' The proportion of votes cast for a party determines how many people on the list get elected. Anyone whose name appears near the top of the list for a major party are **bound** to get elected no matter how big an idiot ( or crook ) they are. You might as well vote for the 'Monster Raving Loony' party (Yes. There is one!) derek Derek Still not quite true. Any (EU citizen) individual can stand as an independent, ie no party except himself (and obviously be top of his own list). I'll stand if you will promise to vote for me, but realistically independents have zilch chance of being elected, unless perhaps they are really famous. Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ctncbAtXXQnVtr0RAmSjAJ0YGBYtbjM9niTVww5H4p5pNm5VngCfQW+f xRR1tWSt5rsAs50eCKFGPEI= =V1Fa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT}Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 15:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:04 pm, Peter Watson wrote: snip I'll stand if you will promise to vote for me, but realistically independents have zilch chance of being elected, unless perhaps they are really famous. Pete ArdnamurchanScotland /snip OK Pete, please run for the parliament and I promise I'll vote for you, if you could only tell me how ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark. Kaj put an x against my name on the ballot paperg Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ct8ybAtXXQnVtr0RAjjBAJ9Q0xYvKbcJwt7w3jPJvXwUhUHEMgCfaNmh i6C6YZfnacYaEzAaf7p592Q= =8KZN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firewall question
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 00:41, Chris wrote: I've setup firestarter and when I ran the test at www.grc.com all my ports show closed except for 21, 23, and 80. I would think that these should be at least closed. Anyone using firestarter know of how to do this? Thanks Chris I'm running firestarter out of the box and GRC shows these ports closed for me. However, if you run the firestarter GUI there is a tab for rules and under that you can enter port numbers to block or stealth, I would give that a try HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pre-installed LM9.1
Although its not yet on their website some of you in the UK may be interested to know that Evesham are advertising a PC with Mandrake Linux 9.1 preinstalled in this months PC Pro mag Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel version
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 18:43, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday April 5 2003 08:11 am, pete wrote: Before I move to 9.1 there is something I have never understood on 9.0 and previous releases, I would be grateful for an explanation. I have installed :- kernel-source 2.4.19-16mdk kernel-headers 2.4.18-41mdk Why the different version numbers and what are the implications? headers are tied to glibc. source should match the kernel version. The switch was made around 2.4.11 IIRC. Lately there are no kernel-header rpms, being part of glibc now. I think that's been for several months. Tom excuse my stupidity but I'm still not clear on this. Why are they both not the same version? TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel version
On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 16:19, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday April 6 2003 08:29 am, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 18:43, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday April 5 2003 08:11 am, pete wrote: Before I move to 9.1 there is something I have never understood on 9.0 and previous releases, I would be grateful for an explanation. I have installed :- kernel-source 2.4.19-16mdk kernel-headers 2.4.18-41mdk Why the different version numbers and what are the implications? headers are tied to glibc. source should match the kernel version. The switch was made around 2.4.11 IIRC. Lately there are no kernel-header rpms, being part of glibc now. I think that's been for several months. Tom excuse my stupidity but I'm still not clear on this. Why are they both not the same version? TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Well, it's not stupidity, unless I am too :) I don't entirely understand the change either. You can search the archives of the cooker ML, or the linux-kernel ML for better explainations. Seems what was called kernel-headers were actually glibc headers all along. kernel-source contains the actual kernel headers. By completely integrating the headers into glibc, they don't need to be updated unless glibc is, and are not as dependent on kernel version. Like I said, if I understood it better, I could explain it better ;) Thanks Tom - thats clearer now - all this thinking makes my brain hurt :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 18:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:47 pm, Miark wrote: This was the direction of my question. I can't think of a more difficult way to burn Knoppix than jumping through these hoops. I'd just download the ISO (which I'm doing now, seeing as 3.2 is out). You're probably right, Miark g But as you know, the bull-terrier in me will not let go. I'm still puzzled by this. The instructions in Linux Format gave c/l instructions for both burning an iso image and skipping the image. The gui instructions were for XCDRoast, and I though I had followed them to the letter, and it even gave a couple of screen shots. You wouldn't have thought I could go wrong. I cheated in the end, and burned using Nero, but I'd still like to know. Anne Anne In XCDRoast 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings''HD Settings' which will contain your ISO image 2)click 'create CD', click 'master tracks', select files you want to include in right hand window (File/Directory View) click 'add' and files appear in left hand window (session view) 3)click 'create session/image' tab, click 'master to image file' (this is in the directory you set up in 1) 4)click 'write tracks' (at side), click 'write tracks' (at bottom) Eh Voila, note you may also need to look through all the myriad of other options along the way to be sure they are ok, eg things like rockridge or joliet. -- HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD-R Information
There was a recent thread which talked about identifying the manufacturer of CD-R'S using ATIP information. I have since come across the following, I've no idea how true it is but it makes interesting reading. == Charles Palmer, from cd-recordable.com, had this to say about the manufacturer identification: Two components that many users of these programs always take as gospel are Media Manufacturer and Dye Data. These two readings are next to worthless. The reason for this is that many CD-R manufacturers (like CD- Recordable.com) purchase their stampers (the nickel die that all CD-R substrates are molded from) from 3rd party sources. These 3rd party sources (either other disc manufacturers, or mastering houses) encode the data that these 'Identification' programs read, at the time that the original glass master is encoded. The 'Manufacturer' information that is encoded is usually the name of the company that made the master. Since stampers made from that master will be sold to disc manufacturers the world over, all of discs that those manufacturers produce from those stampers will contain the same 'Manufacturer' information. Information which is obviously quite erroneous and irrelevant. Very seldom will the 'manufacturer' information encoded on a CD-R actually tell you anything other than who made the original master. [...] The second piece of data (the dye type) is also dubious. Because most master/stamper configurations are designed to be matched to specific dye types (Phthalocyanine, Cyanine, Azo, Etc), the 'Dye' information that is encoded when the master is produced indicates the type of dye that the master was designed for. This of course, does not assure that the manufacturer that buys and uses this stamper will be using it with the dye that it has been designed for. It is quite possible that a stamper/dye combination is used by a CD-R manufacturer that contradicts the 'dye' information encoded on the master. Therefore that information becomes as potentially misleading as the 'Manufacturer' data discussed earlier. The only reliable piece of information in the ATIP region is the disc length. == -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-R Information
On Wednesday 19 Mar 2003 14:08, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday March 19 2003 05:19 am, Peter Watson wrote: There was a recent thread which talked about identifying the manufacturer of CD-R'S using ATIP information. I have since come across the following, I've no idea how true it is but it makes interesting reading. Thanks Peter. I've never had any reason to doubt atip info till I read what you posted below. Guess I need to do some Google'in ;) If it's fact, then there is no way to tell who to heck made the CDr's. Which if that's the case, I'm left with 'the greener the better' when looking at the uncoated side ;) Let us know if you unearth anything interesting. -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audigy drivers
On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 20:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 12:12 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Wrong search method, use rpm -ql emu10k1-tools It will give you a listing of a whole slew of entries. If you want to do it by hand you can edit /etc/emu10k1 There are instruction included in the file. Charles Charles, I still have not got anywhere with this. Clearly Mandrake does not put things where the documentation says they will be, but I found the .conf file and edited it. The instructions then to on to say that I should run emu-script, which I can't find. Can you help me, please? Anne Anne I wondered how long before you came back on this. I tried when you first raised it and came to exactly the same point your'e at ie where is emu-script. I'll be interesred to hear the answer. -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT Good news on the modem front
Thought I'd share some good news. For months I've been struggling with a winmodem, and whilst it does work its a real PITA to get it started. Anyway I finally succumbed and bought a serial modem from ebuyer.com it cost GB pounds 14.56 or GB pounds 19.45 including VAT and carriage and it arrived in two days even though I live in the remote north west highlands. And _it_works_perfectly_ now I'm kicking myself for struggling for so long. I haven't always heard good reports about ebuyer, but this transaction was brilliant. -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No CDROM read again
On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 03:38, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 18 February 2003 06:58 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Here is my fstab : /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 snip most of it answering my own post. I should have known better, It was a permissions problem. Somehow the cdrom and cdrecorder files in /dev were set to root permissions only. I am not sure what else to set them to so I set them to my user name and can now access cdrom and cdwriter. I wish I would remember to check the basic stuff before getting frustrated and blowing it all away. Civileme once told me you should never have to reinstall Ha, that applies only if you have some inkling of what you are doing. I keep learning. Some things I keep learning over again. looks like your'e using K3b. I had the same permission problems and multiple entries in fstab after I installed it. -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix and Kmail
My local mail gets put in /var/spool/mail/username. However I would like to read it in Kmail and so I have set up an incoming account which reads from /var/spool/mail/username, this is ok except that when I try to get mail I receive a message could not lock /var/spool/mail/username. If I change the permissioms on /var/spool/mail/ to let others write entries everything works fine for a while until something (?msec) changes the permissions back to what they were. Can anyone tell me an elegant solution to this problem please? -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and Kmail
On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 15:34, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 2:38 pm, Peter Watson wrote:
My local mail gets put in /var/spool/mail/username. However I would
like to read it in Kmail and so I have set up an incoming account
which reads from /var/spool/mail/username, this is ok except that when
I try to get mail I receive a message could not lock
/var/spool/mail/username.
If I change the permissioms on /var/spool/mail/ to let others write
entries everything works fine for a while until something (?msec)
changes the permissions back to what they were.
Can anyone tell me an elegant solution to this problem please?
If you were to read your mail spool at the same time as postfix was
writing to it, nasty things can happen. So to avoid this a lockfile is
created before Postfix starts writing, and will be deleted again when it
is finished. Kmail will not try to read the spool if the lockfile is
present. Similarly Kmail will create the lockfile before reading.
The default lockfile is /var/spool/mail/user_name.lock which your user
does not have write permission to hence your problem.
To fix it you could either configure your Kmail to not bother with the
lockfile (in the account settings), or else you could use procmail to
define a different lockfile.
If a ~/.procmailrc file exists postfix will pass mails over to procmail
for final delivery. An example ~/.procmailrc looks like this:-
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/include:/usr/local/sbin:/bi
n:/sbin:/usr/sbin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
LOCKFILE=/home/derek/.procmail/lockfile.lock
DEFAULT=/home/derek/Maildir
JUNKMAIL=/home/derek/junkmail
LOCKTIMEOUT=10
LOGFILE=~/procmail.log
LOGABSTRACT=all
VERBOSE=no
#Run SpamAssasin
:0fw
:
| spamassassin -a -P
|
:0e
{
EXITCODE=$?
}
:0: $LOCKFILE
* ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
$JUNKMAIL
# Catches everything else.
:0 : $LOCKFILE
$DEFAULT
In this configuration mails end up in ~/Maildir, and the lockfile is
~/lockfile.lock. This procmailrc also runs spamassassin to mark suspect
emails and put them into a mailfolder called JUNKMAIL
See man procmailrc
HTH
derek
Derek
Thanks for the reply (and Tod and Greg). I created a ~/.procmailrc file
similar to yours but
without spamassassin and am now using the procmail lockfile I defined in
my home directory, so this has solved my problem.
However I am intrigued by how procmail works, in order to get mail
transferred into the default folder I defined I need the last two lines
you quote ie:-
:0:$LOCKFILE
$DEFAULT
But none of the examples in man procmail seem to include this and the
comments imply that everything left at the end goes to $DEFAULT by er!
default.
Am I missing something?
--
Regards
Pete
ArdnamurchanScotland
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Re: [newbie] Postfix and Kmail
On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 22:00, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP Derek Thanks for the reply (and Tod and Greg). I created a ~/.procmailrc file similar to yours but without spamassassin and am now using the procmail lockfile I defined in my home directory, so this has solved my problem. However I am intrigued by how procmail works, in order to get mail transferred into the default folder I defined I need the last two lines you quote ie:- :0:$LOCKFILE $DEFAULT But none of the examples in man procmail seem to include this and the comments imply that everything left at the end goes to $DEFAULT by er! default. Am I missing something? Procmail recipes are wondrously arcane. It took me days to get my head around even the simplest. Once I had something that worked I did not attempt to cut out redundant bits. To analyse these two lines :- The leading ':0' delineates the start of a recipe The next ':' tells procmail to set the lockfile. Next comes the name of the lockfile. If no name is given the default lockfile is assumed, so I did not really have to explicitly name it. The next line would normally contain the filter this recipe is testing against, but since this is the default action no test is required, and we go straight on to the action which is to put the mail in the $DEFAULT mailbox. Another example recipe is :- :0 : $LOCKFILE * ^To:.*@linux-mandrake.com $NEWBIE This says Set the lockfile, scan the mail looking for a newline followed by 'To:' with any number of characters following then '@linux-mandrake.com'. If this filter is met put the mail in NEWBIE folder. derek Thanks I'll keep trying -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postfix aliases
On Monday 17 Feb 2003 23:18, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 February 2003 04:27 pm, Peter Watson wrote: Mail to root is currently sent to /var/spool/mail/postfix. I want to change this to another user so I have edited the line root: . . postfix in /etc/postfix/aliases to root: . . newuser The docs say execute the command newaliases to update the aliases db. However here /usr/bin/newaliases is a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases and this does not exist. Can anyone suggest how I accomplish this please? This happened to me to. i think it was a bug in 9.0. run update-alternatives --auto mta and the links should be corrected. - -- Greg Great that fixed it Thanks Greg -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] postfix aliases
Mail to root is currently sent to /var/spool/mail/postfix. I want to change this to another user so I have edited the line root: . . postfix in /etc/postfix/aliases to root: . . newuser The docs say execute the command newaliases to update the aliases db. However here /usr/bin/newaliases is a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases and this does not exist. Can anyone suggest how I accomplish this please? -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:11, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm still having a lot of problems with javascript in browsers - all browsers, Moz, NSCP7, Galleon, Konq. In each case I have javascript enabled for browsing (not mail ng in Moz). Yet javascript doesn't seem to work in any except Konq. Even in Konq, if I go to, for instance, the bookmarklets site I am told that I need javascript, and can't continue. I did visit it from Mozilla a few weeks ago, but I suspect that whoever sent me there (sorry, I can't remember who) probably gave me a link beyond that page. Unfortunately I can't find it. What things can I check? Moz shows libjavaplugin_oji.so libnullplugin.so nppdf.so libflashplayer.so rpnp.so What's missing? Anne I don't know if its anything to do with your problem but your'e missing ShockwaveFlash.Class HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewire e.g. 1394
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 13:16, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Hi all Has anyone get firewire to work on mdk9.0 I have look at and read www.linux1394.org and done what it says to do but still not work anyone help sorry for the spelling have a problem and can not spell what it is Cheers Ben I have an audigy soundcard with a 1394 port which works fine under 9.0. I use it to upload and download DV video from my Panasoic DV camera using Kino. To get it working I had to add raw1394 video1394 to my /etc/modules HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewire e.g. 1394
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 14:52, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 13:16, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Hi all Has anyone get firewire to work on mdk9.0 I have look at and read www.linux1394.org and done what it says to do but still not work anyone help sorry for the spelling have a problem and can not spell what it is Cheers Ben I have an audigy soundcard with a 1394 port which works fine under 9.0. I use it to upload and download DV video from my Panasoic DV camera using Kino. To get it working I had to add raw1394 video1394 to my /etc/modules PS /etc/modules.conf already contained the following line alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewire e.g. 1394
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 15:32, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 2:52 pm, Peter Watson wrote: To get it working I had to add raw1394 video1394 to my /etc/modules Pete - do your front panel connectors work? Aux in and midi? Anne I don't have any front panel connectors, at the back I have 1394, mic., line in and audio out sockets, these all work fine. Sorry Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recognition of Todd Lyons
snip If a CEO cares about his company and has to make decisions about redundancies he is already hurting - believe me, I know. To have an outsider who does not know the problems nor have to deal with them telling him how to deal with the situation is at best unhelpful - and I can guarantee that it will increase the hurt. The reply you got may not have helped the situation, but, by god, it is understandable in human terms Anne /snip I did *not* tell him how to deal with the situation, in fact I expressed my sympathy with his predicament and told him i would like him to know how valuable I had found Civileme's assistance to be and how much I thought people on these lists would miss him. I hardly think that justifies an impolite response. I must admit that I've never been too clear about Mandrakes commercial strategy and would not see it as my place to tell them how to run the business. but I'm damn sure that I am a customer and that it is businesses who value and delight their customers that succeed. The Mandrake distro is first class IMHO but my experience of and what I read about their customer care leaves something to be desired. I hope for their sake as well as ours that they can get their act together on this. Regards Pete ArdnamurchanSxotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install modem
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 14:04, Gil Katz wrote: Hi i got new modem rockwell HSF i downloaded the driver from the site and install it after wards i run the configuration program and in the end i got a message that the modem is ok and i can access it via /dev/ttySHSF0 but when i try to configure kppp i cant see /dev/ttySHSF0 in the device list. any help? Thanks Gil Have you tried ln -s /dev/ttySHSF0 /dev/modem then use /dev/modem in kppp, this is what I do in similar circumstances. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recognition of Todd Lyons
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 16:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I want to make an official appeal to the Mandrake management to keep Todd Lyons securely in the company, in the recent light of current events regarding the Chapter 11. Todd Lyons has been an incredible asset to the Expert list, helping countless users with their problems and concerns. It would be a terrible loss to Mandrake and an even more terrible loss to all Mandrake users were anything to happen that would force him to seek other employment. We want him around and we want him to stay. Civileme was a huge asset to all of us here in North America, as well as the rest of the world. We don't want the same thing to happen to Todd Lyons. If this concerns you now is the time to make your support known. Thank you, Todd. LX I wrote to Jaques le Marois when I heard that Civileme was to be booted and received a snotty reply for my trouble. I certainly agree with you about the contribution that Todd makes, but I'm not sure that Mandrake are sophisticated enough to value the opinions of their customers (look at the Mandrakestore debacle). Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] userdrake mcc run amok
snip On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 22:04, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 5:06 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi Anne, I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show that they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are both read-only for all others, look: [andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp -rw-r--r--1 root root 635 Jan 13 10:47 gtmp -rw-r--r--1 root root 1365 Jan 13 10:47 ptmp are you absolutely sure that these are non-critical files? I'm pretty sure this has come up before. Still, I think someone more knowledgable than me will come on this evening and give you a more definitive answer. Sorry, I don't know enough to answer the rest of your questions. Anne /snip gtmp and ptmp are lock files created by userdrake whilst changes are made. They can be safely deleted, I always find that userdrake does not work properly if run from mcc (ie these lock files are left open), If you run userdrake from a root terminal it works properly. Thanks to Stephen who answered this for me some time ago. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix update
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 13:06, Lee wrote: On Thursday 09 January 2003 06:30 am, you wrote: On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 5:38 am, Todd Slater wrote: I should keep a list of people (if any?) who use this so I won't trouble the list at large with this. You can change the default extension in the main config section (if your camera uses .JPG instead of .jpg, just change it there). Fixed the montage feature for those that like to generate a contact sheet of images. Before, if you brought a lot of images from your camera, montage would eat up all your memory and swap, and might end up getting killed before it finished the job. Now, it processes only enough images for one contact sheet at a time. It still eats up CPU, but it works very nicely and won't die on you. Also, made it so that if your contact sheet requires multiple pages, the title will say the directory name and page 1 of x. http://clevername.homeip.net/scripts/getpix Todd Todd - a personal plea. Please don't take this off-list. First, because it doesn't cause huge numbers of posts, so surely can't be a nuisance to anyone. Second, because there must be many like me that intend getting to grips with this, but circumstances have intervened, and it's still on the to-do list. Third, because it opens possibilities to people new to the list and not knowing about it. Anne Let me second that motion. I don't talk much, but I read everything. Might need it tomorrow, after all. And archives are cold.l Lee I third that Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
When mandrake sacked Civileme I wrote to Jaques le Maroir to tell him I was disappointed, as C. had been an enormous help to me and many others. In reply I got a rather aggressive email telling me if I knew a better way to run the company let him know. I,m the first to admit that I don;t know a viable commercial strategy for mandrake, but I think its sad when a company is so contemptuous of a customers opinions. Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting new hardware recognised.
On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 09:28, Anne Wilson wrote: Should it be necessary to reboot to get new hardware recognised? In specific terms, in my struggle with usb devices, I have not yet got my camera recognised. If I try different usb connections, will I need a reboot? I have been assuming that I don't. If I'm wrong, I need to start again. Anne When I want to use my Fuji FinePix 2600z I pull the USB cable out of my printer, stick it into the in socket on the hub which is in the base of my LCD screen and plug the camera into an out socket on the hub, issue a mount command and I'm in business. No reboots, everything happens on the fly. Afterwards I reverse the above and the printer works again. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DV Cameras for tthe holidays
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 16:35, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this has been covered, I just resubscribed. My dad recently switched to Linux, and he's been hinting to EVERYBODY that he wants a DV camera for Christmas. If he gets one, will he have trouble using it with his box? I think he wanted that ultra small Sony. Is there even video editing software for Linux? - Paul Rodriguez I've got a Panasonic NV DS28B its no longer a current model but it works fine with linux (lm9.0 here using IEEE1394). Kino is fine for linux, I use 0.5 but I see that 0.6 is available. I can import video to my box do editing (cut, paste trim etc) and rudimentary effects( create title sequences from jpegs from gimp, do fades,wipes etc) then either export back to the camera (make sure the camera has an import facility) or save to disk then convert to mpeg4 or other formats with transcode or mencoder. Avidemux is good for splitting files replacing sound etc (but not for raw video) and I hear good reports for cinellera but I have not used it. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 14:11, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:01:06AM -0500, Dennis Sue wrote: I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ). Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as well. Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work. It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such. Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility ? My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ). I could never get my Fuji Finepix 4700 to work with Gphoto, but my 8.1 and up systems always knew the camera was there. When I set it up in 8.1, I connected the camera and turned it on as if I were going to transfer files. I then ran MCC and in the hardware/mount points section, it recognized the camera there as well. I just clicked it and gave it a mount point. After that, I could mount it without any problem. I don't know if that will work in 9.0. The important thing would be to see which device it is, probably /dev/sdb1. The line in my fstab is: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fuji vfat user 0 0 I type mount /mnt/fuji, and I can copy all the files from there. I would say your chances are good since the system knows it's there. But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if I were totally wrong! Todd My Fuji FinePix 2600 is not supported by Gphoto but it works fine under LM9.0 as a mass storage device. it comes up automagically as /dev/sda1. You need module usb-storage loaded, I added it to /etc/modules, and a mount point created, mine is /mnt/camera. also a line similar to above in /etc/fstab then just plug in, type mount /dev/sda1 and there it is. Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT avi to mpeg?
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 06:07, Ibly Piblo wrote: Sorry if this is OT. Is there an avi to mpeg converter for linux that is easy? Already tried a few which were useless, mjpegtools proved to be trash, as it just spit out useless errors instead of actually converting the file. lav2wav Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi ++ WARN: Input file Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi is not in JPEG 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 format **ERROR: File Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi has 23.976000 frames/sec, choose norm with +[np] param This tells me nothing, and it did not convert the file. I hope that there are some better ones out there. Thanks. Ibly Both mencoder and transcode will do this, but neither is easy. You will probably benefitf rom reading Ralph's DVD ripping tutorial at http://tuxpower.f2g.net/mencoder.php which gives a good starter as to how mencoder works. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] userdrake
On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 23:14, Pilagá wrote: Hola a todos. I'm trying to add a new user with userdrake (su), but I can't go beyond this: warning: userdrake: the file password is busy (/etc/ptmp present). Can't lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist. Any idea? Gracias I had this problem and Stephen kindly helped me by suggesting KUSER. However I subsequently discovered that userdrake only played up if I started it through Mandrake Control center, if I launched it from a root terminal it worked perfectly. YMMV Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More package installation woes
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:25, Keith Powell wrote: I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0. Installation went very well; then the problem started. I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install from the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the Commercial Disks. But not from the Supplementary Disk. The packages are listed, and can be selected. But not installed. When I try to install from the Supplementary Disk, I get the error message:- Everything is already installed. (Is this supposed to happen at all?) Everything is definitely NOT installed. I have tried every combination of disk selection in Package Manager. I have tried updating. Using urpmi package (as root) gives an error message that the package cannot be found. I suppose that I could install single packages by clicking on them and using GURPMI, but that would be just a work round. It would not fix the problem I am having with the Package Manager. The source is given as:- removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 ../base/hdlist7.cz The other Supplementary source is 8 instead of 7. These sources compare with the other sources, so do not appear to be incorrect. I have looked in the archives, and can find thisproblem mentioned with respect to a DVD, but not CDs. Please can someone shed some light on the problem and tell me how to install packages from the Supplementary Disk? Many thanks. Keith Not sure if I can help, but I have previously had the Everything is already installed (is this supposed to happeh at all ) error when I was using the wrong path to the hdlist, maybe you could check that out. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 10:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:02, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: What about removing the modem, rebooting, putting the modem back in, rebooting and seeing if the modem is found again? Just a thought, can't you do the same thing, but just run kudzu for detection instead of having to reboot? -- Yeah - yeah - that's a good point... Yeah that works!! Thanks a million guys. Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /dev/tts/2
Hi folks I've broken my modem whilst exploring linuxconf.. Previously the modem was /dev/ttyS2 which was a symlink to /dev/tts/2. Now /dev/tts/2 has disappeared completely and /dev/ttyS2 is showing as unknown, presumably because its not pointing at anything. I've tried rebooting, but no joy Cam anyone tell me how to get /dev/tts/2 back please. I'm using LM9.0 and devfs which I find hard to understand in spite of much reading up. Can I create a device myself and if not how can I get /dev/tts/2 back? PS you'll notice that I am back in winders until I can get this fixed. TIA Pete ArdnamurchansCOTLAND --- ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.416 / Virus Database: 232 - Release Date: 06/11/2002
Re: [newbie] Userdrake problems
On Friday 15 Nov 2002 03:48, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 12:32, Peter Watson wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 23:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:19, Peter Watson wrote: Each time I try to use userdrake I receive message box:- cannot lock usr lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist Both these files exist and are exact copies of /etc/passwd and /etc/groups, if I delete /etc/ptmp and /etc/gtmp userdrake works properly -- until the next time when I have to go through the same routine. Does anyone know how to avoid this problem Are you logged in as ROOT when you're doing this ? Yes I run userdrake through MCC which runs as root, its not a huge deal as I know how to gey round it (as above) but I would like to fix it if anyone knows how What happens if you use KUSER (sorry, kuser) to check/add/delete/modify accounts -? Do you get the same errors? No... kuser works fine! I guess that is the solution to my problem for the future. I wonder if there is something wrong with userdake. Many Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Userdrake problems
On Friday 15 Nov 2002 12:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 22:55, Peter Watson wrote: What happens if you use KUSER (sorry, kuser) to check/add/delete/modify accounts -? Do you get the same errors? No... kuser works fine! I guess that is the solution to my problem for the future. I wonder if there is something wrong with userdake. Well, I kinda went that route before - so instead of attempting to figure out WHY userdrake choked and puked, I defaulted to KUSER - mostly because of it's nice-shiny-cute look (and I used to use x-useradd and they looked kinda the same)...but it always works for me (so does adduser from the terminal, but we've grown up and started using GUI's nowadays) And who says Australians aren't on top of things! (grin) I'm happy now with kuser, so many thanks, but you got me thinking and I sniffed around a bit more. I found that if I start userdrake from mandrake Control Centre, which is what I always previously did I got the problems I outlined, but if I launch it from a root console it works fine. Looks like some sort of interaction between MCC and userdrake is screwed. Many thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Checkinstall
With some valuable assistance from this list I succeeded in compiling my first package from a tarball. Feeling smug I decided to try another using checkinstall. I get to the stage where checkinstall says The package will be built according to these values and lists 10 values, I press enter to accept them and then receive the following message NOT-FOUND has no SOURCES directory, Please write the path to the RPM source directory tree I have tried entering every path I can think of but I always get a repititioon of the above message but with NOT-FOUND replaced by the path I have just entered. I end up having to Ctrl-C to get out of the loop. Obviously I am too dim to understand what is meant by the SOURCE directory, can anyone help me please? TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Userdrake problems
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 23:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:19, Peter Watson wrote: Each time I try to use userdrake I receive message box:- cannot lock usr lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist Both these files exist and are exact copies of /etc/passwd and /etc/groups, if I delete /etc/ptmp and /etc/gtmp userdrake works properly -- until the next time when I have to go through the same routine. Does anyone know how to avoid this problem Are you logged in as ROOT when you're doing this ? Yes I run userdrake through MCC which runs as root, its not a huge deal as I know how to gey round it (as above) but I would like to fix it if anyone knows how Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 01:19, Angus Auld wrote: Peter Watson wrote: I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them from ConfigureKDEPower ControlEnergy. After succesfully ripping the DVD I tried to re-enable Power Saving but no luck, the screen never blanks. A bit of digging showed that when trying to re-enable the menu's command kcmshell energy puts rubbish in file ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc, I have edited this to be the same as /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc ie == [DisplayEnergy] displayEnergySaving=true displayPowerOff=45 displayStandby=15 displaySuspend=30 = but still no screen blanking. The other apparent fault is that ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is completely blank ie 0kb and I don't know what it should contain. If anyone can give me any pointers onthis problem or post the contents of their ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc I would be very grateful. Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland ### Hi Pete, my ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is 0kb also. My /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc is the same as yours. However, ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc contains only the following: [X11] exportKDEColors=false My power management seems to be working OK. I'm using KDE 3 on LM 9.0 as well. Hope this helps. --Angus How do you destroy a righteous person? Give him or her one follower! --ancient Cherokee saying (fr. Earth Medicine by Jamie Sams) *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** Thanks Angus I changed mine to be like yours but still no success. I just splashed out on a 17 LCD monitor and I feel a bit dubious about leaving it powered up all the time. There must be some other problem that I don't know about, I may give gnome a try to see if that works ok Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off
I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them from ConfigureKDEPower ControlEnergy. After succesfully ripping the DVD I tried to re-enable Power Saving but no luck, the screen never blanks. A bit of digging showed that when trying to re-enable the menu's command kcmshell energy puts rubbish in file ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc, I have edited this to be the same as /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc ie == [DisplayEnergy] displayEnergySaving=true displayPowerOff=45 displayStandby=15 displaySuspend=30 = but still no screen blanking. The other apparent fault is that ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is completely blank ie 0kb and I don't know what it should contain. If anyone can give me any pointers onthis problem or post the contents of their ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc I would be very grateful. Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Initialize Modem
On Friday 11 Oct 2002 2:47 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 10 October 2002 06:15 am, Peter Watson wrote: I've got an Intel 536ep linmodem, using the drivers package from Intel's site makes it work fine except for one inconvenience. Each time I reboot the system I have to launch minicom before I can use KPPP to dial up my ISP. If I don't run minicom first the whole system locks solid and I have to turn off the power and boot up again. After using minicom the modem works fine until the next reboot. It seems that minicom initializes the modem, anyone got any ideas how I can make this initialization persistent? Thanks in advance Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Pete: If the initialization commands are AT-type modem commands, this should work: o Open KPPP (Tip: Make sure the logging option is checked) o Select setup, modem, modem commands o Revise the initialization string as required (default is ATZ) Back out, and connect. -- cmg Thanks Carroll I've tried every combination of strings I can think of but no success. looks as if I'm stuck with the minicom-initialization route until I can figure out what's happening Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Initialize Modem
I've got an Intel 536ep linmodem, using the drivers package from Intel's site makes it work fine except for one inconvenience. Each time I reboot the system I have to launch minicom before I can use KPPP to dial up my ISP. If I don't run minicom first the whole system locks solid and I have to turn off the power and boot up again. After using minicom the modem works fine until the next reboot. It seems that minicom initializes the modem, anyone got any ideas how I can make this initialization pesistant? Thanks in advance Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] gcc 2.96 with gcc3.2
I have a driver package for my intel 536EP modem which contains a cor binary compiled with gcc2.96. I tried to install gcc2.96 to compile this package but received the following error message:- file /etc/colorgccrc from install of gcc2.96-colorgcc-2.96-0.80mdk conflicts with file from package gcc-colorgcc-3.2.1mdk I had read that both gcc2.96 and gcc3.2 could be installed at the same time and the link from /usr/bin/cc changed to point to whichever was required. Have I done something wrong or is there a way round this? Thanks in advance Pete ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.393 / Virus Database: 223 - Release Date: 30/09/2002
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
- Original Message - From: Scott Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:13 AM Subject: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition snip I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? /snip I had the same problem. My solution was to create a seperate FAT32 partition on the windows HD (using PartitionMagic) but leaving most of the disk as NTFS. This FAT32 partition is easily mountable and can be read and written to by both linux and XP. Anything to be transferred to the other OS has to be copied to this partition, it could alternatively be on the linux HD and you would probably not need PartiionMagic. Regards PeteW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.389 / Virus Database: 220 - Release Date: 16/09/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 1024 cylinder limit
Many thanks to everyone who replied to my question about swap file sizes. Now I have another concern. I have an 80GB hard drive with one partition containing windows XP and formatted NTFS. I plan to use Partitionmagic 7.0 to shrink this partition to 40GB thus leaving me 40GB to install LM 8.2. However the PM manual containds dire warnings about a linux bootable partition needing to be below the 1024 cylinder (8GB) boundary. Is this still a problem with LM 8.2 and if so what would be the best way round it. Note my previous nmachine only had a 8GB disk and so I had no problems with Win 98 and LM 8.0. Thanks in advance petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0
- Original Message - From: frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:29 AM Subject: RE: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 yeah, I'd join for the same reason... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dale Huckeby Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:43:50 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Well, the problem is bugs in the current revision and it is up to Mandrakesoft to fix them. My involvement with the fixing process is becoming distant as I struggle to complete a few more testing tools before my lay-off is effective. (two days hence). I haven't been too interested in joining Mandrake Club, but would sign up for $10/mo for a year if the funds could be earmarked for civileme's salary. Any chance of this happening if others wanted to do the same thing? I agree with those who think he's an asset to this list and Mandrakesoft. Dale Huckeby I emailed Jacques Le Marois (Mandrakesoft CEO) to say how disappointed I was at the news of Civilemes layoff. His reply really said they are not yet generating sufficient revenue and need to take these unpleasant measures, could I suggest any revenue generating ideas, perhaps a special club membership. Anyone up for a Civileme Club membership??? Regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Message from MandrakeSoft CEO.
- Original Message - From: Gael Duval [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Message from MandrakeSoft CEO. SNIP Hi Mandrakians - I'm sending this message regarding yesterday's message about Civilme. This message is from Jacques Le Marois, CEO- he currently doesn't have direct Internet access- Gaël. /SNIP __ I emailed him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and got a similar though not identical reply to you within 3 minutes Regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 17:27 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 30 Jul 2002 3:07 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 30 Jul 2002 5:13 am, civileme wrote: Well, the problem is bugs in the current revision and it is up to Mandrakesoft to fix them. My involvement with the fixing process is becoming distant as I struggle to complete a few more testing tools before my lay-off is effective. (two days hence). Civileme It is very sad to hear it! We do hope you continue to contribute to the list. Ditto. It is clear a man of your talent will have no trouble securing a satisfying career. derek I'm so dismayed that Civileme is going that I emailed the CEO, Jacques Le Marois, to tell him what a loss I think he will be. Regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sony laptop CD visibility for MD8.1 install
On Saturday 23 March 2002 12:17 pm, Wally wrote: Want to install Mandrake 8.1 on a Sony Vaio 505FX, but having trouble with the MD installer seeing the CD-ROM drive... The laptop's CD drive connects via a PCMCIA card. Although the Mandrake CD boots okay, the install then fails to see the disk. Did some web-troffing and found that folks installing earlier versions Mandrake and RedHat told the installer something like... ide1=0x180,0x386 In the MD8.1 install, there's a text-mode dialog box where one can add parameters, but it's not clear which driver I should use (cdrom.o? ide-cd.o?). I'm not sure if the particular parms I'm using apply to this machine. Have also tried... ide1=0x180,0x360 ide2=0x180,0x386 ide2=0x180,0x360 on both drivers, but no joy. Does anyone know which driver I should select, and which parms (if any) I should supply? Wally Wally There's a good article about installing MD8.1 on a vaio 505fx here:- http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/fx505/vaiofx505.html Hope this helps with your problem Regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?
John I've followed this thread for a while and think I may be what you are looking for. I'm 58 yrs old and have a PII 266 with 64kb. Last year i bought mandrake 8.0 power pack, i stuck it in the cd and eveything went fine. I have KDE, Internet connection, web browsing, Star office, xmms, gimp, bluefish, gcash and loads of other things, also proper sound and all with vey little hassle although its a little slow. For me it was just as easy as M$98 which was my only other os install experience. Long live mandrake regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
Hi, from Ardnamurchan, the most westerly point on the UK mainland (probably the wettest as well) Regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde menu
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 21:15 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: ..does anybody know if that tool for editing the k menu you open in K --- configure panel --- menu editor is updated upon startup? i installed a program that added links in my menu i don need, and that app doesn show them.. do i have to restart kde? or maybe i'm looking in the wrong place? thanks. Damian Did you remember to save the changes before you closed the menu editor, if so the changes should show up at once, they do for me. HTH Regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'ls' doesn't sort the way it used to?
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 18:01 pm, you wrote: On Monday 04 March 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: Why not try an alias in your bashrc file, so that ls does it YOUR way? That's a fair question I suppose First, this is a multiuser operating system and I want to fix the problem where it exists, so that it fixes it for all new accounts that I create Secondly, I did But the default values aliased to 'ls' do not just go away Rather any customization I make just gets _added_ in with the other values initialized from the /etc/profile (or where ever) directory upon login I realize I could just moving the /etc/profile directory off my partition, and maybe look at building my own, but I am really only interested in one particular problematic feature One in which I have spent a fair amount of time already trying to discover how it is set up, and have not been able to solve So, if there is anyone who can tell me what part of the bash scripts in /etc/profile or elsewhere are causing this funky behavior, I would very much appreciate it At 04:42 PM 3/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hello everyone: A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, 'ls' used to display directories and files in case sensitive order, prioritized by Directories, then directory names that start with capitals first Now directories and files are sorted w/out respect to directory or file, and the first letter in the names are alphabetized w/out sensitivity to case I guess not too many people liked this, but call me a geek, I found it kind of useful for organzing things Can anyone help? Thanks so much, Steven Try /etc/profiled/aliassh HTH Regards Pete -- 12:36am up 13:45, 2 users, load average: 015, 012, 004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] What gives?
On Friday 25 January 2002 03:51 am, you wrote: Hi All, I used urpmi to update, then left it for a few hours. What is the smiley face bouncing around my kde desktop? its AMOR - amusing misuse of resources - if you right click on it you can quit. It usually lives in K Amusement Toys -- Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux
RPM's may not be perfect, but when you install a new app on winders the chance is it will overwrite an existing DLL and screw something else. You pays your money (or not in the case of Linux) and takes your choice. -- Regards Pete On Sunday 25 November 2001 16:34 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: Just because something is different doesn't mean it should automatically be harder. As easy as RPM's are to use they still aren't as good as installing something on Windows or the Mac OS. You shouldn't need to hunt for an extra anything not even if its as close as your own CD. It wouldn't be making Linux Windows-like to fix that problem it would just be making it more simpler and easier to use. You could always opt to compile from source if you need to personally test your own manhood when installing software. On Sunday, November 25, 2001, at 10:12 AM, Richie wrote: ..Wow, what a lazy bunch of buggers! First, the 'hunting for libraries' complaint is moot: I have yet to look any further than my own LM install disks for libraries-- LM is probably better than many distros out there as they actually provide you with more than one install CD and all the stuff they offer has been compiled for a Mandrake system so it's going to work. Second, no one says you *have* to install the latest kernel and it isn't even necessary unless you're adding brand new hardware that didn't exist six months ago-- how many of you out there are installing kernels just because it has a higher number? By-and-by the install process is standard-- using RPMs is easy enough and for the odd times when I have to compile there's always an install.sh or configure.sh-- and another silly thing that even comes with Windoze installations: README files-- how many of you have failed to install something properly because you didn't read the instructions. Bottom line: If you want something 'Just like Windows' then use Windows. There is no such thing as out-and-out replacing an OS. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. And while we're at it the day Linux starts acting completely like Windows is the same day I have to defragment my ReiserFS partition after I do a virus scan because my firewalling software didn't work. Linux is different. Get over it! I really don't care if my neighbour is using it or not, I just want Linux to be there so I have a choice in how I use my PC. Period! Richie 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] Cheap CD's
Anyone in the UK with a dial up connection or without a CD burner might find this site useful www.letsbuylinux.co.uk They sell cheap Mandrake CD's (and most other distros) -- Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java Konqueror
On Friday 16 November 2001 10:39 am, Jason Pearce wrote: Hi list , I am having some trouble getting java applets to work in konqueror. I have set the path in .bashrc export PATH=$PATH:'/opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin' and also set the path in konqueror. before i set the path in .bashrc I was getting the error unable to find java blahblah now I get loading applet in the applet window but nothing else. I am running mandrake 8.0 on 266 p2 with 320meg Ram. any help would be appreciated cheers Jason I got blackdown and set the Path to java executable in Konqueror, but my PATH env was such a mess with lots of things appearing twice that I never added java to it cause I couldn't figure out where ut was being set. Konqueror still loads java apps just fine, although I don't suppose i could use java for anything else. -- Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary
On Thursday 01 November 2001 14:06 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:39:32 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:40:39 -0500, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand the huecry, especially from linux users, about the activation process of Windows XP, or the fact that it is tied to 1 system. This not an unheard of, or unused procedure. Red Hat has been using basicly the same in there treatment of installations since 7.1. Ummm... How? Red Hat is GPL. You can download it freely of the Internet. What's the point in a product activation copy protection scheme then? -- Yes RH is GPL, so is SuSE but you can not dowload a fully functional ISO of it. Being GPL has nothing to do with the basics action that RH leads one to beleive you must take once you have have installed RH. Read the following from the RH site: Get the most out of your Red Hat systems. Red Hat Network is an Internet solution for managing one or more Red Hat Linux systems. All Security Alerts, Bug Fix Alerts, and Enhancement Alerts (collectively known as Errata Alerts) can be retreived directly from Red Hat. You can even have updates automatically delivered directly to your system as soon as they are released. Because Red Hat Network keeps track of when Errata Updates are released and sends you email notifications, it can: Reduce the time and effort required by system administrators to stay on top of the Red Hat errata list Minimize security vulnerabilities in your network by providing the patches as soon as Red Hat releases them Filter out package updates not relevant to your network Schedule Errata Updates so that packages are delivered to selected systems when you want it To start using Red Hat Network today, follow these steps: Create a System Profile by registering your system with Red Hat Network. Just run the command rhn_register on the system. Log in to Red Hat Network and entitle the system to all the Software Manager benefits. Start scheduling updates. If you need help with these steps, refer to the Red Hat Network User Reference Guide. If you are a current Red Hat Network customer, please read The New RHN to learn what has changed and what features have been added. When you register and entitle your system, a profile for that system is created. If you wish to install on another or even change systems and still access the RHN you must first unentitle the original system and then register and entitle the second system. If you should wish to use the RHN on more then 1 system you must purchase additional subscribtions at $19.95 per month per machine. Sure, you can get around this by listing all updates applied to one system and then manually updating on any others that you might have. But how many users would even think of this much less do it. There is nothing wrong with RH doing this, linux distros if they are to stay viable must find means of generating revenue beyond that aquired through the sale of box sets of the OS. Is this exactly the same practice that is being used by MS with WP? No. But the basic priciple behind the approch both are taking is the same, 1 copy of the OS on one system. You may well have a differing view, that is why we each are individuals and each has the 'right' to hold and express their own views. But, as to me personally, I can equate no difference between MS's policies in regards to XP and those being currently employeed by RH. Charles I think that you're missing the point here. Red Hat Network is an entirely voluntary service which you _may_ choose to use or not. It does not affect your use of the operating system in any way. On the other hand there is absolutely nothing voluntary about M$ activation, and it does _not_ provide you with the sort of service that Red Hat Network gives. Regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GPG won't sign Kmail messages
I got GnuPG 1.0.4 and Kmail 2.1.1 GPG will encrypt messages from kmail fine, but if I try to sign a message I get asked for my passphrase and then nothing happens. Anybody else seen this? -- Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] high CPU on kpam-ideld
On Saturday 20 October 2001 22:27 pm, Michael Dannhorn wrote: Hi, In 'top' I see a high CPU-usage of 'kapm-idled' Output of 'top': PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 4 root 18 0 00 0 SW 13,9 0,0 2:19 kapm-idled It tooks up to 40% of the CPU. Is this normal at a Athlon 1,4 Gh CPU? You will find numerous explanations about kapm-idled in the list archives. Basically it is to do with power management and is not a problem for you. Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever
You guys might all think that the article was a joke, and I must admit that I can't get too excited about it. B_U_T the views expressed by some of the respondents were enough to make your blood run cold. It seems that a large proportion of them would make us live in a totalitarian state, just because they don't like our choice of operating system. Crazeee petew PS They did a previous article about Mandrake round about Jan/Feb it was equally pathetic(funny if you like) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards -- petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain
On Thursday 18 October 2001 13:18 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:53 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards Crackers have their own 'language' (leet speak), consisting of their own slang and variations of standard English words. Letters are often replaced with similar-looking ASCII characters. 133+ means leet, which is short for elite. Script kiddies like to use this language to sound 1337 (yet another of many ways to spell leet). Sometimes one letter is replaced with several ASCII characters to 'draw' the character. For example, |-| is the letter H, and |\| is the letter N. Here's a longer example: 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA| i$ whEn J00 +4lK L1K3 t|-|!5. t0 u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo |\/|u5+ be lEET. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N0T 5p3A| 0r ReAd | +|-|I5. Literal translation: Advanced leet speak is when you talk like this. To understand you must be leet. If you are not leet you cannot speak or read this. Your homework for today: Try to decipher my sig! :) Sridhar Dhanapalan phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r 73kn!q. ! 0wn j0o ll4m@ +00|z OK I'm learning something here, but ph34r and ll4m@ have got me beat. Like to help me out . Thanks petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Folder Icon Color in KDE2 Konqueror
On Thursday 18 October 2001 14:18 pm, Bryan S. Tyson wrote: Thanks Peter, this is useful information. My followup question is, can the theme be edited if you only want to change one thing (in my case, the folder icon color)? ** I'm no expert here, but have a look at these links How to build themes:- http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytitle/B390A002F1F75BD186256A29005F94ED?Openl=kde3,t=gr,p=KDE-Tutorial Good selection of themes:- http://kde.classic.themes.org Hope that helps petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Login prompt
I had a problem with settings in X and could only see a blank screen when KDE started at boot-time. I managed to fix this with the Xfree86config tool, but I decided it would be easier to boot to a cosole login prompt and so I changed my default run level to 3 in /etc/inittab. This works fine, except that after the localhost.login prompt shows there is a pause for a second or two then half a screenful of stuff about winbond super-io detection and other winbond things appears. If I have started to enter my user name or password this completely screws the login and I have to wait and try again. I don't get a new login prompt after the winbond stuff but I can login ok. This is only a minor irritation, but can anyone advise how to suppress the winbond output or throw it up before the login promp please. Many thanks -- petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
