Re: [newbie] And their OFF!!!!! 8.2 is now out!!
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Charlie wrote: Agreed. I'll be happy to buy a box set as soon as it's available at my local everything in software including the 'bugware' store. A pain to go all the way downtown but I refuse to do transactions of any kind online. Charlie I'm downloading it now, but will be buying it as well. I bought the 8.1 PowerPack, and except for being mildly annoyed at it's assertion that you get commercial software with it when you really just get trialware, I really thought I got much more than my moneys worth. __ On March 19, 2002 08:58 am, Steve spake thusly: NOT three x the people that used it - 3x the people that PAID for it last time...important distinction. Casual users is the last thing MandrakeSoft needs right now. Steve -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 Linux Computers
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Lanman wrote: I hate it when that happens! Here's the link, dude! http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ By the way, for those of you who don't know, you can start simplifying your Linux-related searches by using Google's Linux search page; www.google.com/linux - for the rest of you, and,... Nice! Thanks, I never knew aboot that... www.google.ca/linux - for us Canucks. You'll find your Linux stuff much faster! Lanman - Original Message - From: Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LM Newbie Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 2 Linux Computers Dude... you forgot the link :) NB On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 06:05, Dan LaBine wrote: James; Do both machines have Internet access? Unless you've got something new, you should be running 2 network cards in one of the two machines - 1 to the cablemodem, and the second network card (using a crossover Cat5 cable) to a network card in the second machine. If that's a cable/CDL router, and not a hub then what you're saying makes sense. In either case, check out the following link and have a look at the sections marked - setting up an NFS server - and - setting up an NFS client. You'll have to do both (server and client) to each machine. Lanman On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 04:11, James Thomas wrote: Hey all, I have two linux computers both connected via a Netgear hub to my cable modem. They don't seem to be able to see each other. Anything I can do to accomplish this? Thanks! James _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] And their OFF!!!!! 8.2 is now out!!
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 20 March 2002 00:47, Roger Sherman wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Charlie wrote: Agreed. I'll be happy to buy a box set as soon as it's available at my local everything in software including the 'bugware' store. A pain to go all the way downtown but I refuse to do transactions of any kind online. Charlie I'm downloading it now, but will be buying it as well. I bought the 8.1 PowerPack, and except for being mildly annoyed at it's assertion that you get commercial software with it when you really just get trialware, I really thought I got much more than my moneys worth. Will there be a plain download version CD set (as with 8.1)? I really have no need for the stuff in the Powerpack. Robin You mean, for sale? If you have a dial up, and don't want to be downloading for the next week, you can go to cheapbytes.com and buy the download set for probably under $10. -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anybody already on 8.2?
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, mandrake linux wrote: HI: anybody already on 8.2? Just finished burning my CDs...gimme an hour! ;-) From: Ming Wu -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: Sorry to address this to the list, but I'm at my wits end, and it's either this, or find a service center or something to fix this problem for me, and after building this PC, I really don't have the money. I built a PC about two 1/2 months ago (my first attempt at building a PC), and I'm having a booting problem, and a problem with it freezing up, and I'm hoping someone could help point me in the right direction, troubleshooting wise. First of all, the system configuration: Abit KG-7 motherboard AMD 1800XP 512 Meg DDR RAM ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 32mg vid card SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum w/Live Drive 60 gig Maxtor HD generic DVD/CDROM from my old PC, a Compaq presario (which is happily gurgling along as a dedicated FTP server now) Now, it's got a boot problem that is baffling to me - to turn this PC on, I have to press the start button, at which point it sounds like it's starting up, the HD and all the fans start spinning, but I don't get the beep that I get with a successful boot, and there's no video output. So, I then have to turn the PC off, unplug it, and plug it back in - at which point it will usually start up again. Now, I do mean it will start up again just from plugging it in - I don't have to press the start button. But, sometimes I'll plug it in, and it wont start, at which point I'll have to unplug it, then press start, and it seems to discharge a little power. Then I plug it in again, and it will start. Then I get the beep that it's booting correctly, and I get video output and away we go. Now, I'd live with this problem, if it weren't for the system freezes. The first time I turn the PC on each day, there is always a complete freeze of the system - and I totally can't get it unfrozen, either by Control-Alt-Backspace, or Alt-SysRq-r. My only recourse is to press and hold the start button til it shuts down (with this box, you have to hold the start button in for 5 seconds to shut it down, for some reason). Using the reset button doesn't seem to work. This system freeze can happen anywhere, too. Sometimes it'll happen when Mandrake is actually starting up, once it even happened at a command line login (it's set up to start at runlevel 3), but usually it happens about 2 - 3 minutes after the system is up and running...usually after I've started X, and am checking my email. And I can't let it run all day - the PC actually works great once it gets past the booting and system freeze problems (usually the system freeze problem happens one or two times, and then the PC will run properly), but if I get up and walk away for several hours, then come back, of course the monitor will have gone into power save mode, and I jiggle the mouse to wake it up, but at that point for some reason the PC will have stopped giving video output, and I have to start the whole process over again. My ideal situation would be to just leave this PC running 24/7, but that makes it impossible, obviously. Now, I've tried several things to fix the problem - a friend told me the symptoms are indicative of a hardware incompatability, so I changed the HD, the CD-ROM (which is why I have the DVD player in there - I originally had a Plextor CD-RW), the power supply, and I took out the SoundBlaster and nic card (a linksys nic), although I put those two back in, since it didn't seem to make a difference. I also tried disconnecting the floppy drive. Before I replaced the HD and CD-RW, they effectively stopped working with this PC, and I'm worried what's currently in there will stop working as well, as every time I make a change, things seem to get a little better, but never really work right, and then things degenerate. I don't have anything else I can swap into this box, so if it continues to degenerate with the current config, I'll have to stop using it until I can afford to take it to a PC doctor. Again, sorry for the OT post, but any help anyone can offer would be hugely appreciated. Ack...forgot to mention - I read somewhere that the KG-7 occasionally suffers from wierd voltage spikes caused by the CPU and case fan monitoring, so I tried hooking them up to fan connections that didn't use the monitoring, which made absolutely no difference. -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT - PC building help
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Bill Spatz wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT - PC building help Sorry to address this to the list, but I'm at my wits end, and it's either this, or find a service center or something to fix this problem for me, and after building this PC, I really don't have the money. I built a PC about two 1/2 months ago (my first attempt at building a PC), and I'm having a booting problem, and a problem with it freezing up, and I'm hoping someone could help point me in the right direction, troubleshooting wise. -- I had a similar problem with my laptop after upgrading the RAM. Be sure that your RAM is fully and securely seated in their slots. Bill Thanks Bill...I actually had to take a great deal of care with the RAM...this board seems to be incredibly sensitive to how the RAM is seated. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the problem. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.333 / Virus Database: 187 - Release Date: 03/08/2002 -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 Blackbox logout problem
I don't know if I should submit this as a bug report or not, but has anyone else noticed that on the menu on blackbox (where you right click to get a floating menu), it no longer has the Exit (logout) option at the bottom? Now to get out of it, I have to Cntl-Alt-Backspace. Is there a better way of doing this? -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help
Hey Terry... Yep, just did that. Stripped it down to the bare motherboard, reseated the CPU, RAM, vid card...reconnected the power switch, reset switch, etc. Then I tried starting it up, with basically nothing but the vid card attatched, and it still exhibited the same boot problem, so I guess I'm in the market for a new motherboard. I saw a couple Asus boards on the AMD recommended list that might do the job. Anyone want to make some recommendations for boards that worked well for them? It needs to be a board recommended for an XP1800, that will accept DDR RAM, and no integrated sound or video... On 18 Mar 2002, Terry Smith wrote: Roger, Sorry to hear about your troubles. I had some 'shutdown' problems with my new box also. Turned out to be a bad mobo (which has been replaced - no problems since). One way of debugging these things is to 'simplify'. Disconnect all your peripherals - removable drives, keyboard, floppy, mouse, etc. - everything except the monitor and the boot drive. Does it boot and run? (Obviously you won't be able to do anything). Yes, start adding components and rebooting. No. Swap drives. Try again. No. Swap power supplies. Try again. Well I think you get the drift. Try to isolate the component that's causing the problem. Good luck. Terry Smith Cape Cod, USA On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:28, Roger Sherman wrote: Sorry to address this to the list, but I'm at my wits end, and it's either this, or find a service center or something to fix this problem for me, and after building this PC, I really don't have the money. I built a PC about two 1/2 months ago (my first attempt at building a PC), and I'm having a booting problem, and a problem with it freezing up, and I'm hoping someone could help point me in the right direction, troubleshooting wise. First of all, the system configuration: Abit KG-7 motherboard AMD 1800XP 512 Meg DDR RAM ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 32mg vid card SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum w/Live Drive 60 gig Maxtor HD generic DVD/CDROM from my old PC, a Compaq presario (which is happily gurgling along as a dedicated FTP server now) Now, it's got a boot problem that is baffling to me - to turn this PC on, I have to press the start button, at which point it sounds like it's starting up, the HD and all the fans start spinning, but I don't get the beep that I get with a successful boot, and there's no video output. So, I then have to turn the PC off, unplug it, and plug it back in - at which point it will usually start up again. Now, I do mean it will start up again just from plugging it in - I don't have to press the start button. But, sometimes I'll plug it in, and it wont start, at which point I'll have to unplug it, then press start, and it seems to discharge a little power. Then I plug it in again, and it will start. Then I get the beep that it's booting correctly, and I get video output and away we go. Now, I'd live with this problem, if it weren't for the system freezes. The first time I turn the PC on each day, there is always a complete freeze of the system - and I totally can't get it unfrozen, either by Control-Alt-Backspace, or Alt-SysRq-r. My only recourse is to press and hold the start button til it shuts down (with this box, you have to hold the start button in for 5 seconds to shut it down, for some reason). Using the reset button doesn't seem to work. This system freeze can happen anywhere, too. Sometimes it'll happen when Mandrake is actually starting up, once it even happened at a command line login (it's set up to start at runlevel 3), but usually it happens about 2 - 3 minutes after the system is up and running...usually after I've started X, and am checking my email. And I can't let it run all day - the PC actually works great once it gets past the booting and system freeze problems (usually the system freeze problem happens one or two times, and then the PC will run properly), but if I get up and walk away for several hours, then come back, of course the monitor will have gone into power save mode, and I jiggle the mouse to wake it up, but at that point for some reason the PC will have stopped giving video output, and I have to start the whole process over again. My ideal situation would be to just leave this PC running 24/7, but that makes it impossible, obviously. Now, I've tried several things to fix the problem - a friend told me the symptoms are indicative of a hardware incompatability, so I changed the HD, the CD-ROM (which is why I have the DVD player in there - I originally had a Plextor CD-RW), the power supply, and I took out the SoundBlaster and nic card (a linksys nic), although I put those two back in, since it didn't seem to make a difference. I also tried disconnecting the floppy drive. Before I replaced the HD
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Blackbox logout problem
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Miark wrote: Session WindowManagers Exit Aha! Those slippery bastards...;-) Thanks, Miark. Miark On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:01:32 -0500 (EST), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I don't know if I should submit this as a bug report or not, but has anyone else noticed that on the menu on blackbox (where you right click to get a floating menu), it no longer has the Exit (logout) option at the bottom? Now to get out of it, I have to Cntl-Alt-Backspace. Is there a better way of doing this? -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Donald E.Gulmire wrote: Thanks for the help with the jpeg viewer question. I ended up with Gqview. I am trying to replace my Windows based programs with Linux stuff. Could I get some feedback on what News Readers and FTP Clients are good. I use Forte Agent and CuteFTP with Windows. I am trying to learn to do all the things on Linux that I used to do with Windows. Installing source software has been throwing me, but learning Linux is giving me a much broader computer knowledge. I guess I learn best by trial and error. Thanks for all the help. TheBender For the newsreader, Pan is billed as an Agent clone - it's not quite, but it's gotten to a point where it's close enough that I'm using it instead of Agent under WINE. For FTP, I use NcFTP, a command line client that works really well! -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com 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 AND Geek vswhatever
Lighten up, Francis. On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, David wrote: TO ALL who have posted to this: This type of stuff has ABSOLUTLY NO, NONE , ZERO, NADA, ZILCH, place on this list. Please find a chat room. On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:18:22 -0800 Mithrilhall2000 Mithrilhall2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chicopee, Massachusetts -Original Message- From: Hanan Shargi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 12, 2002 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all Paul Vortex wrote this on his reply to programs running on wine post, and since there is this trend in the past 2 days in the list where people are posting things that are not neccesarily == ( never mind the spelling ...hint would be nice to add a spell checker in Kmail /hint) related to the list objectivs :) Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? starter: Name: Hanan Country: Fairfax, VA United States IP: .. nah ;-) - Hanan AL-Shargi _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to burn iso - again
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mike wrote: If so how ? - or will this make a bootable cd: cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=1,0,0 MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso Yep, thatll do it... ( from the dir where the iso is of course ) ? If I use this method would it be bootable then? Yes. Or should I use gcombust or gtoaster and include an image of some sort? If this is what I need to do, where do I get the boot image and how do I include it? You don't have to worry about it with those isos... Man cdrecord has a ton of info...you can scroll a long (long) way down to the example section, and it gives good basic commands. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LinuxMandrake on a Mac
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Greg wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1013403852-23306-728 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Everyone Is there a LinuxMandrake for a MAc computer I have a Mac LC3 that was given to me and I would like to load Linux on it I dont know much about but it does work Can any one help Thanks greg There is for Mac PPC, I believe... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building a PC (3).
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, skinky wrote: OTH, I have onboard sound (AC97) on a Soltek SL-75KAV mobo and later installed a pci SB 5.1 Live! card: No problems at all. So ? skinky Heh...YMMV Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(6): [newbie] Building a PC (2).
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: Tell him to order it from Singapore. I used to get all my stuff there. :) (I lived in Bandung for a couple years. Seemed everytime I needed something, it was being ordered from Singapore.). Thanks for the info Ric, I would like to get the Soyo Dragon+, would be willing to purchase myself if necessary, as my tech guy keeps pushing the ABit KG7. I am not sure whether he will make more money on this or not. I don't know what a Soyo Dragon+ costs, but since with the KG7 you'd have to buy a soundcard and a NIC, the Abit would probably come out higher, pricewise. I don't know how objective I am, since I just put this PC together, and the old box was a 500mhz Celeron Compaq, so I might be too easily impressed right now...but the KG-7 rocks!!! Again, though, the other board overall would probably be the lower priced alternative. Same goes for the ATI Radeon recommended by the list. Do you or others on the list have a URL where I could order directly from Singapore for these items? Cheers, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 books?
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Stojs wrote: Is there a good book for beginners about mandrake 8.1? Preferable a printed one, but a digital one would be ok. I would like it to cover from basic stuff like installing rpms and tarballs to networking with windows and internet as an ftp server. Thanks in advance, Stojs I just bought the power pack, and the Installation and especially the Reference books are practically worth the price by themselves...and then I noticed the Ebooks included on one of the CDs! Go with the Power Pack, Stojs, you won't regret it. Except for the so called Commercial Apps, which are really just demos...I really wish Mandrake had been more up front about that; with the list of stuff you get, I'd have happily bought the power pack anyways. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speed.... Or lack of?
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Jason Ditri wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my machine. PIII @ 733MHz 64 MB Ram, 40 GIG HDD, With about 38 GIGs free. After I use KDE or GNOME and browse the internet for a while (maybe 20 or 30 mins), the machines starts bogging down so bad that it takes MINUTES to open new windows, check mail, open apps, etc etc... Any ideas or suggestions? Yeah, get more RAM. Simply put, neither KDE nor Gnome were made to run on 64...you can get another 128 from crucial.com for under $50. When I made that jump from 64 to 192 with my old box, it was really like I'd gotten a new PC. Thanks. JD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building a PC (3).
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: Ok, I am getting closer to my goal, but still have a few questions: 1) For those on the list using the Soyo Dragon+. I see that there is a sound card built into the motherboard (C-Media 6 Channel Sound Card). Any problems with Mandrake recognition of the card or performance problems with Mandrake? Should I disable the C-Media card and go for the Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum? I wouldn't ... I had a board with integrated sound, and putting in the SB created problems 2) My tech guy can't seem to get an ATI Radeon AIW 32mg nearby. The other possibilities are a PixelView GeForce3 T200 64MB or one of the new (new here anyway) Radeon 8500 cards. Any advice or comments? My obvious concern is getting everything in the box to work with the Mandrake install and not to have to niggle too much with post install configuration to get the box up and running. Cheers, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install error
Trying to reinstall 8.1, with CDs from the PowerPack. Now, I'd installed from these CDs before, on the HD I'm trying to install from. But now its saying Error in exec of stage2 :-( FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a dir I cannot recover from this. You may reboot your system. Anyone seen this before, and if so, any advice? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thanks!
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: I would like to thank all that responded to my posting. I am amazed at the overwhelming response. There is a lot of info to chew through, but it is always better to be an informed buyer than to go in blindfolded ;-) Absolutely. It's as important to know your options as it is to know what you want. Good luck! Cheers, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: Hi Shane, My comments follow: a few cents of worth... go AMD, get more speed, pay less. Any suggestions as to an AMD configuration, motherboard, etc? I am new at this 8-) I just put together a new PC about three days ago, with an AMD XP1800 cpu and an Abit KG7 motherboard. It rocks pretty hard... Also under the hood (in case you care) 512meg DDR RAM (as stated, so cheap right now, why not? And the KG7 will support up to 4 gig) ATI Radeon AIW 32mg vid card Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Platinum w/Live!Drive Plextor 16x10x40A CD-RW 60.5 gig 7200 rpm IDE HD (maxtor) 40 gig 7200 rpm IDE HD (maxtor) Linksys NIC card blah blah blah. Hope that helps...good luck with the new box! you can never have enough RAM, spend the money saved above here. ;-) OK check that chip, i always have trouble with onboard anything.. This would also fall under an AMD configuration. Suggestions ayone??? why the zip? just curious, i find my cd rewritable much more useful than i ever found the zip to be, but that is just me. Zip is just easy for me at this point, plus it is a small capacity media that I view more as an alternative to a floppy than competition for CDRW or a DVD configuration. One of these days (hopefully) I will learn how to burn CD's. well depends on what you want, but my only problem with the handspring is that kpilot is not yet USB. Well, a lot of this has to do with third party conduits. I sometimes use the Visor as an alternative to a laptop. Therefore, I am dependent on the e-mail programs in the Palm OS that have conduits that can transfer existing e-mails gathered on the road, that I need to sync via a conduit to my desktop. The same goes for creating text, psreadsheets, etc. Maybe when the Sharp Zarus or another Linux PDA gains mass popularity, this will not be as much of a problem for me, but at this time it is. Cheers, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC.
On 6 Feb 2002, Paul [ISO-8859-1] RodrÃguez wrote: cd-r's and cd-rw's are by far the cheapest backup medium right now. CD-R's are worth something like $.33 each, and they hold 650-700 MB. Very convenient since they can be read by all computers. Very easy to burn cd's in Linux btw, in case you were wondering. Yah, especially 8.1! It's a cd burning machine! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulatio
To both Dan and Joan: Thanks! That did the trick :-) On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Joan Tur wrote: Es Tue 05 Feb 2002 06:28, en Roger Sherman va escriure: Pardon my asking this question, which I know has been answered a bunch of times, but I have tried unsuccessfully to find it in the archives - what is the line I put in lilo.conf to make the system think my IDE CD-RW is SCSI? And where? Thanks! The following lines are from /etc/lilo.conf: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=8.2b1 root=/dev/hdg7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= mem=nopentium devfs=mount quiet hda=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only hdx=ide-scsi is what you have to modify. Where x is your ide device: a=master in primary ide controller b=secondary on primary ide controller c=master in secondary ide controller d=master in secondary ide controller. After having changed that you have to run lilo and, if you don't see any error messages, it'll be done! ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: common acronyms (was Re: [newbie] su)
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, mike wrote: Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual STFW - Surf the F**k*ng Web DAYOR - Do At Your Own Risk what else? hmmnnn. What is this AWAIK or something like that. AFAIK is As Far As I Know Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT(?) - header info in pine
Is it possible to check the header info in pine? I don't see a command for that amongst the list at the bottom of the terminal window... peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: shane wrote: 2.4.18 huh? and here i just did 2.4.17 today... ;-) On Monday 21 January 2002 11:25, you spoke unto me thusly: The bug only effects 2.4 kernels and they will be fixed automatically with 2.4.18 kernels hopefully. It has been known for windoze 2k and patched for more than 1 year. from what i read, it only affects machines which use AGP. and whose kernals are compiled to pentium or better type cpu's. the bug occurs becoz the athlon / duron processors have a bug when dealing with extended paging in conjunction with AGP. You can read more about it as well as find a quick fix to the problem here: http://www.gentoo.org/ Sorry if this is a stupid question, but would this affect an XP1800? Thank You, Regards, mario peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Friday, December 28, 2001): Tech support? Free downloads, but boxed packages that you pay for if you choose? Heh...sound familiar? Just a thought... The company I work for actually doesn't sell boxed sets. The total download is just about 15 MB and we provide updates practically weekly, so they would get out of date too quickly. doug I'm sure, however, that you see my point. I was just mentioning a couple possible revenue stream. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Firewire
I'm currently in the process of building a new PC (finally, everything is ordered except the RAM - and can anyone tell me why crucial.coms prices just jumped?), and I'm kind of curious about firewire - is it linux friendly? I do plan on doing some video editing with this machine, and some friends (mostly Mac users) have assured me that firewire is the way to go for that, if in fact it can be integrated into Linux. Thanks! Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: If software were free how could the employees of the software company be paid to begin with? Tech support? Free downloads, but boxed packages that you pay for if you choose? Heh...sound familiar? Just a thought... I'm sorry, but by this logic you could say, Instead of spending all that money on a down payment and mortgage, think of all the money I could save by just moving into the first house I see. You could say that, but it wouldn't really be analogous. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): True, but there is also another side to the story. What about the end users, who will _save_ money by using free software. Corporations spend massive amounts of money on buggy, insecure software. If the software was free, all this money could be saved, and the employees could be paid more (or more could be hired). I am not rabidly against charging for software, but in many cases free software can make a lot of sense. If a company chose to write a decent OS (BeOS and OS/2 come to mind) with decent software, I would consider using them. Microsoft on the other hand does not compete on quality, it competes on marketing and lock-in. On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:57:25 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a day-to-day basis, if you want to have a working economy, where people can support themselves then, for sure, it makes more sense to compensate labor and effort which can be attributed. In other words, pay the programmers who create programs. The compensation to society for providing the environment is paid in taxes. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): Doug Lerner wrote: There is a huge difference between an idea and an instance of putting the idea to use. And which is more valuable, or more worthy of being compensated (for)? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I've always liked penguins, and when I was in Canberra a few years ago we went to the local zoo with Andrew Tridgell (of samba fame). There they had a ferocious penguin that bit me and infected me with a little known disease called penguinitis. Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights just thinking about penguins and feeling great love towards them. So when Linux needed a mascot, the first thing that came into my mind was this picture of the majestic penguin, and the rest is history. -- Linus Torvalds 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: [newbie] A bit dangerous?
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: Maybe a warning dialog first like: This will delete your entire partition and all your data will be lost. OK? Call me crazy, but if I accidently hit the wrong button I would like at least one chance to take something like that back. :-) I think you actually still can at that point - just so long as you haven't actually hit Done. And when you do this, you get a pop-up saying that it's going to write new partitioning scheme to disk. So, there you go. Feel a little more secure now? ;-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Monday 24 December 2001 16:58, you wrote: I started with two partitions on my hard drive: one for Windows 98 and one for Windows 2000. I decided I could get along with just the Windows 2000 partition and so at the partitioning stage I clicked on the Windows 98 partition, selected delete and then auto-allocate. What exactly do you expect will happen when you select an option called delete? Maybe ... that that particular partition will be deleted? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn 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] ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 32mg AGP
I'm in the process of building a PC, and I'm considering using this video card. Any problems with that, that anyone knows of? This is going to be for use with both 7.2 and 8.1, primarily 8.1. I checked, but I did not see it listed in the Mandrake hardware page... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WINE rpm problem
I just did a full reinstall of 7.2, and then unzipped my backed-up /home /bin /etc directories in their proper places. But now I'm having a problem that has me baffled - when I installed, I specifically told it _not_ to install wine, as I prefer codeweavers wine. So, I tried to rpm -ivh codeweavers, and it told me it was already installed. Great! So I try to run it, and it tells me its not installed. So, figuring theres a couple pieces that got carried over in the backed up dirs, and some parts that didn't, I try to uninstall whatevers left with rpm -e. It tells me its not installed. So then I try rpm -replacepackages (however its worded), it tells me its installed again! Won't work though...I try to force it, still no go. Can anyone help? peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number of partitions, namely: Root Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) Thats actually called Swap Data (presumably a number of data partitions) Generally, if you just had three partitions, it would be root swap home... My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it for me? No, DiskDrake will cut it up for you just fine, and you can either have it auto allocate the space, or you can tell it exaclty how much you want in each partition. It's very well laid out, and fairly self explanatory. Good luck! peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sourcing Linux Journal
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Michael wrote: \ Paul, you might want to pick up this months Linux Journal (you can get it at most Barnes Nobles). The cover article is on building the ultimate Linux box - it will probably help a good bit. peace, Rog Roger Could you send me publisher/subscription details of Linux Journal. I would like to try to source it in New Zealand. Judging from some letters I've seen in there, I think LJ is available in New Zealand...anywho, you can just go to their website at www.linuxjournal.com. TIA Michael --- Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease - accept this and get on with it. peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [ OT ] Recommended AMD Athlon 1.x Motherboard
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Mandrake Newbie wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1005399492-1851-1381 Content-Type: text/plain Sorry for this OT. Anyway, I would like to ask your opinion to what Socket A Motherboard for AMD Athlon 1.x Ghz would you like to recommend to me? I am planning to build my all-in-one server for my small Internet cafe. Also, what UPS is good for this kind of server would you like to recommend to me? I just picked up an Abit KG-7. I haven't actually installed it yet, but the reviews are excellent. By the way, I am planning to install Linux Mandrake 8.1 in that server and probably I'll make it also as the Linux Terminal Server http://www.ltsp.org/, that is if I can make it. Thanks in advance. __ www.edsamail.com =_1005399492-1851-1381 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1005399492-1851-1381-- peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system
On 10 Nov 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] RodrÃguez wrote: I am building a system for the doctor's private practice. Stabillity is the number one concern. We will have windows and linux running on separate hard drives untill we can tansition the database to Linux, after which, I'd like to have a RAID system for increased data reliabillity. Do you have any suggestions on hardware I should be looking for or staying away from? I'd like to use an AMD chip. Are there any special considerations for having a mroe reliable system? -Paul RodrÃguez \ Paul, you might want to pick up this months Linux Journal (you can get it at most Barnes Nobles). The cover article is on building the ultimate Linux box - it will probably help a good bit. peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware
I am interested in this Lindows.com idea (aka company). It may have the right mix of ideas to really go, however it is hard to say at this point because their strategy is a bit of an unknown. So I put this out there as a hey, neat idea, do you think it can work thought. Cheers, Rog - Original Message - From: Rick [Kitty5] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware Did you not know that XP stands for eXpanding Problems? ;) Paul I thought it was eXtra Propriety ? Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA 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] Hey can someone put Mandrake 8.1 up in their Morpheus accounts so we can get some serious downloads going
I don't want to wait for 1 day just to get a file 650megs in size Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pine
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Admin wrote: Hello: Trying to get Pine to work in my system (running pine 4.30 under lm8.0). So far, I am able to send messages, but I cannot figure out how to retrieve messages. I have read man pine as well as gone to their web site, and either I am missing something, or the issue of retrieving messages is not addressed. Can somebody explaim to me what I have to do in order to be able to retrieve messages, or at least point me in the right direction? Thanks... Dexter The easiest thing is to configure fetchmail to go get it for pine. Type fetchmailconf in a terminal, and that will bring up the fetchmail configuration gui. After that, its pretty self explanatory. peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDDB
In case anyone is interested, I've found a command line program that will access CDDB while ripping CDs...its called rip, and you can get it at rip.sourceforge.net. On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:16:54 -0400 (EDT), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to access CDDB when ripping a cd from command line? peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Dunno... It may help to do a search at Freshmeat.net for something like cddb to find a console app which can do this.. OK, thanks man.. peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] running wine ?
Joan, I've never been able to get the wine that comes with Mandrake going; however, Codeweavers wine has run great for me. You can get it at http://www.codeweavers.com. HTH! On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! Does any of you know how to run a windows program using wine?? I get the following error: - [quini@quinipc Starcraft]$ winereal starcraft.exe Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory /mnt/win/Archivos de programa/Starcraft; starting in windows directory. winereal: cannot find 'starcraft.exe' [quini@quinipc Starcraft]$ Thanks! peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDDB
Is there any way to access CDDB when ripping a cd from command line? peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDDB
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:16:54 -0400 (EDT), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to access CDDB when ripping a cd from command line? peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Dunno... It may help to do a search at Freshmeat.net for something like cddb to find a console app which can do this.. OK, thanks man.. peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I'm going in!
I know it's not the smart thing to do, I know disaster waits ahead, but I'm doing it anyways! Glibc2.2 will be installed on my 7.2 box today, or I'm going to hose my system trying! Wish me luck! Heh...thank god for backup scripts... peace, Rog Registered Linux user #190719 The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Glibc2.2 and RPM
OK, I did it! I installed Glibc2.2 on my 7.2 box, and so far...well, I'd like to start fixing things, but I have a problem. RPM doesn't work anymore. So, I'm assuming I need to find a tar file of RPM...anyone know where I could find such a thing? peace, Rog Registered Linux user #190719 The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD spin down
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: OK, I did this: hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? I don't think there's meant to be a space between the S and the number. Here's what I use: hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda You can ignore the c1d1 here. Notice, however, the S242 (242 = 1 hour) on the end of the tag. Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else (including X) running. Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't know about the other journalling FSs. Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD spin down
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: OK, I did this: hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? I don't think there's meant to be a space between the S and the number. Here's what I use: hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda You can ignore the c1d1 here. Notice, however, the S242 (242 = 1 hour) on the end of the tag. Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else (including X) running. Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't know about the other journalling FSs. Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... Sridhar, someone just sent me a note suggesting that my thanks to you was less than sincere...hope you didn't take it that way, since without you I wouldn't even have known about hdparm. Thanks again! peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD spin down
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord speed question
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Miark wrote: Rog, your burner uses a feature called PoweRec. Plextor describes it thusly: At the beginning of every recording, in addition to the use of running OPC, the PlexWriter 16/10/40A automatically determines the media manufacturer, its part number and disc characteristics and then sets the appropriate laser power and write speed for any given disc. This process guarantees that the written disc has the highest quality playback. This is likely why its ignoring you. You'll have to check Plextor's web site for information on if and how to disable this feature. Miark OK, thanks Miark. - Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 9:54 AM Subject: [newbie] cdrecord speed question Can anyone tell me how to make cdrecord burn at speeds of higher than 4x? I have a Plextor 16x10x40A, and while I don't really need to write at 16x, I'd like to at least be able to do it at 8x. Ah screw it, I want to know how to do it at 16x, even if I never actually want to burn at that speed! Generally, I use a command like cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -audio whatever.wav but no matter what I put for speed, if its over 4, it ignores it, and just burns at 4x. Any tips? peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HD spin down
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Nope, you have got it,, test it, then try something and test it again, and so on and so forth... it may take a while but keep a record of what you do and what paramaters you are passing hdparm, and watch for error messages on the box... keep a record of your best results and use those parameters.. OK man, thanks! :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under partitions or something, there is an IDE parameters section.. OK so far... you can modify your hdparm settings in there, and if they work, (you can test it from there as well) cut and paste the results onto the end of your rc.local file... OK, there are two buttons here...one that says apply to disk, the other says Test Speed. When I hit that button it says: Speed test results Buffered: 25.75 MB/sec Buffer cache 2.63 MB/sec Nothing about whether or not the hdparm setting would have any effect. Is there another testing procedure I'm not seeing? It works well,, or at least it did for me. I did it on 7.2, and for my second hard disk on 8.1, which drakopt didn't like.. doubled the speed on my second harddrive and no errors... good stuff, and webmin gives you some good info on the vrious options as well. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog Registered Linux user #190719 The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HD spin down
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under partitions or something, there is an IDE parameters section.. OK so far... you can modify your hdparm settings in there, and if they work, (you can test it from there as well) cut and paste the results onto the end of your rc.local file... OK, there are two buttons here...one that says apply to disk, the other says Test Speed. When I hit that button it says: Speed test results Buffered: 25.75 MB/sec Buffer cache 2.63 MB/sec Nothing about whether or not the hdparm setting would have any effect. Is there another testing procedure I'm not seeing? It works well,, or at least it did for me. I did it on 7.2, and for my second hard disk on 8.1, which drakopt didn't like.. doubled the speed on my second harddrive and no errors... good stuff, and webmin gives you some good info on the vrious options as well. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HD spin down
I don't think my hard drives are spinning down when I leave the machine unattended for a while. I like to leave the PC on pretty much 24/7, so obviously it would be good for the lives of the hard drives if they were to spin down. Can anyone tell me what to set to get them to do that? peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
I have Optimum Online, which works great in 7.2, but I haven't been able to get online with it in any 8.x version. :-( On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Matt Greer wrote: on 10/17/01 1:15 PM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT@home gives me from 250-500Kb/s and 8.1 didn't even hiccough...zoom,zoom zoom. Damn. My crappy ass cable connection gives me about 150k tops. That's what I get for living in the city. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DHCP and 8.1
I installed 8.1 a couple days ago, and it has a major advantage over 7.2 (what I've been using since it came out) - I finally have sound. And, a nice little bonus, it looks great! One problem, however, and a rather major one at that. As with every version released after 7.2, from the 8.0 betas on, I haven't been able to get online. Now, I have a cable modem, using Optimum Online (Cablevision), I use DHCP, which always tells me it couldn't find an IP # when I boot into 8.1. I have a 3com 3c900B-TPO nic card, which uses the 3c59x kernel module. 8.1 detected it just fine, and uses the correct module, so I know thats not the problem. With 7.2, when I installed that (each and every time), it asked me what my host name is, and what my proxy setting are; both boxes I leave blank, and it works like a charm, every time. With 8.1, I tried it like that, and I also tried putting in what I believe is my host name, dyn.optonline.net. All that accomplished was having my terminal showing a prompt that said [rog@dyn rog] I didn't do anything with the proxy settings, as I don't believe I have any. Oh, and in the past, I figured out my (then) current IP # (it only changes on me once a week or so), and tried to set my box up like a static IP, but that didn't work either. So there you have it. Can anyone help? I really want to get 8.1 happening, as I have realized how much I miss being able to play my ogg files and CDs...Any more info needed, just ask - I'm willing to do pretty much whatever I have to to get it happening this time... peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2.4.10 kernel
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: ... is on the cooker mirrors today. I've been kickin it around for a few hours and can report, o it's probly gonna need an updated lm_utils to get sensors workin o supermount is still gone missin (altho there's a supermount module) I tried '-i enable', and some fstab edits, still no go. Other than that, no problems, I swear it makes my system just a touch snappier ;kernel-2.4.10-1mdk I installed the ready made, but source and headers are available. When you install the ready made, you go through the compilation process? Or is it like installing an RPM? peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2.4.10 kernel
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06:19 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: When you install the ready made, you go through the compilation process? Or is it like installing an RPM? peace, Rog I do 'rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.10-1mdk.i586.rpm' in a term after su'ing to root. This installs the new kernel 'alongside' your other kernel(s). A good precaution to take is to visit /boot and /etc/lilo.conf to see that proper links and conf (lilo) modifications were made. In the case of this kernel (2.4.10-1mdk) they were, but I ran 'lilo' anyhow just to make sure. Reboot and choose the new kernel that easy ;) Thanks, Tom! Now, would I be able to try that with my 7.2 installation, or would that be asking for trouble? My usual practice is not to fool with new kernels til they reach about -10mdk. BUT this time, since 2.4.9 was skipped, and cooker ML traffic seemed to indicate their efforts were for a solid 2.4.10, I decided to try their first effort. I was pleasantly surprised ;) Great job Mandrake ! You only need the source and header rpms and/or compile your own if you have special needs, or if you wantonly install closed source secret insecure binaries ... like nVidia drivers, Star Office, VMware, RealPlayer, Linmodem B$ and other Win-hardare kludges, etc. Then you might be UNpleasantly surprised by newer kernels, ready made or compiled ;~ peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Sig file, was Re: [newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP
Cool! Thanks, man! Wonder if that'll work in my pinerc...
Only one way to find out, eh? ;-)
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Tim Holmes wrote:
I have a line in my ~/.muttrc that goes in and adds that to the end of
my signature. There are various ways to do this, but here's how I do
it.
set signature='cat /home/timh/.signature ; echo Uptime: ; echo
;uptime; echo
|'
I put that all on one line in my ~/.muttrc and it adds that in there.
You can off course get rid of some of the information, or change how
it's presented, or even just print out the uptime by cutting out what
you want with a command like:
[timh@eric timh]$ uptime | awk '{print $2,$3,$4}'
up 4 days,
That's not my home workstations, which has a much better uptime to look
at, but I've not going through and created a script to pull that
information. But:
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ uptime
11:09pm up 58 days, 2:41, 23 users, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.08
Would like a lot better at the end of a signature! ;0)
tdh
peace,
Rog
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Re: [newbie] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can'treceive.
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, WCBaker@home wrote: Etharp - I have other computers that receive mail just fine. I am getting your mail (otherwise there wouldn't be much point to being on a mailing list. . . ). However, using postfix and pine I cannot seem to receive on Mandrake 8.0. Anyone have constructive suggestions? This may be a silly question, but have you tried using fetchmail with pine? peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Linux port for Agent - was Re: [newbie] how to play mov files?
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Sunday 02 September 2001 12:04, hellmut wrote: how do i play mov files with mandrake 8.0? i didn't find a program that recognises quicktime files. You write a polite, but firm letter to Apple requestion that they port Quicktime to Linux. Then you wait. On that note, if anyone here wishes Agent was ported to linux, Forte Inc is working on 2.0 right now, and they say they are on the fence as to making a linux port...perhaps now would be a good time to express interest...http://www.forteinc.com Aren't proprietary formats fun? peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Just curious - anyone going on the Linux Lunacy 7 day cruise in the Caribeaan? (sp?). Its in October, and my fiance' and I are going to use it for a honeymoon, -'Nix- style! Somebody congratulate me, the date is October 19th! ;- Congrats (or my sympathies, whichever applies ;-))! peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie :) WU-FTPD
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Newacct wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2001 01:43, you wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Newacct wrote: How can I make a secure ftp server on my linux box? Running Mandrake 8, Intel Architecture. Run ProFTPd. You can find it at rpmfind.net peace, Rog Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: hmm.. i want to use wu-ftpd Thats OK, you can do that too - its just ProFTPd is more secure. But I don't know if that comes with 8.0...I know it did with 7.2 (which Im running...and I actually have WuFTP going right now). Wu is real straightforward...just read your readmes, and you'll be fine. peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie :) WU-FTPD
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Newacct wrote: How can I make a secure ftp server on my linux box? Running Mandrake 8, Intel Architecture. Run ProFTPd. You can find it at rpmfind.net peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Eh, I don't think this is accurate. MP3 formats nor the MPEG format are proprietary... It was defined by a consortium Which is why there are so many legal alternatives to Fraunhoffer's encoder... Fraunhoffer's encoder ITSELF is proprietary, not it's output. So why is bladeenc illegal in the US then? I thought that was not based on Fraunhoffers encoder? peace, Rog
Re: [newbie] pretty graphical editor
Try Kwrite (listed as Advanced Editor in the menu, under ApplicationsEditors)...you might have to enable code highlighting, but it does the job for me... On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Kevin Fonner wrote: I know I asked this question once and got some reponses but if it ok I would like to just check once more but being a little clearer. Perhaps I am contaminated coming from the windows world but I like it when I am programming in a graphical editor and the editor colorizes on my code depending on whether it a comment or a function... I have JBuilder and it works great for java code. Are their any really good editors like this for C? I tried emacs, and well... we just didn get along. Thanks, peace, Rog
Re: [newbie] webmin
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, James S Bear wrote: I've got my webserver running, sorta, but I am really not a command prompt type of person. Can anybody tell me how to run webmin? I tried typing it from the command line, but it tells me from a browser go to http://localhost:1/ Instead of http, try https...that should do it... peace, Rog
Re: [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo
No! Go to Dotster.com, 15 clams a year... On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Hi all, I am going to buy a Domain Name (registered Domain) for my Web Server. I have a plain to buy it from Yahoo. Has anyone bought it from Yahoo? Is this a good way to do? It's cost about $35.00 USD/year. Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com peace, Rog
[newbie] Fetchmail problem
I have fetchmail configured (using fetchmailconf) to fetch my email (typical ISP email) every 5 minutes. For about ten minutes, it worked great, as it always had on previous installations of Mandrake I've had (currently I've dropped back from 8.0 to 7.2). But for some reason, it stopped working. I have absolutely no idea what I did, but when I boot Linux, and type fetchmail, it acts like its starting, it shows up in top and kpm, but it doesn't actually do anything. So, I try to bring up fetchmailconf, to see if maybe something went wrong, and here's what I get: [rog@ool-18be8465 rog]$ Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/bin/fetchmailconf, line 1841, in ? hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0] socket.error: host not found [rog@ool-18be8465 rog]$ I really have no idea what the above is telling me, but uninstalling and reinstalling the rpms for fetchmail didn't work, and neither did updating them. I looked at the fetchmailrc file, and all looked as it should, but it still doesn't work. If I run the command to have it just see if there's any mail waiting for me on the server, that works, if that's any help... Any suggestions?
[newbie] Message translation...
This was sent to root on my box by the system - is someone trying to hack me through port 23? It actually keeps getting sent to root, every half hour or so... From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 4 21:31:06 2001 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 16:35:37 -0400 (EDT) From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ALERT servers/telnet: localhost (Wed Jul 4 16:35:36) Summary output: localhost Group : servers Service : telnet Time noticed : Wed Jul 4 16:35:36 2001 Secs until next alert : Members : localhost Detailed text (if any) follows: --- localhost: problem connecting to localhost, port 23: Connection refused
[newbie] Soundcard problem
I have a Compaq Presario 5834, which unfortunately has an integrated soundcard on the mobo (an ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive, which apparently uses the snd-card-es1938 module). A couple months ago, about the time 8.0 came out, I bought a Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1. I never actually tried to get it going in 8.0, as I had no luck getting 8.0 online. So, I've finally reloaded 7.2 (interesting story so far, no?), and I have no sound. I do have sound in Windows 98 SE (I'm dual booting), but I just disabled the Solo-1 card in the hardware profile. Can anyone tell me how to get the Soundblaster working in 7.2? I've noticed the module for the integrated card is loaded; would I just have to get rid of that module, and replace it with the module for the SoundBlaster? Or do I have to disable the integrated card on the board? I don't see any jumpers on the board for doing so...and I looked through the BIOS, and didn't see anything there about disabling the soundcard. Compaq tech support was pretty helpful in getting it working in Windows, but not suprisingly, they've been resistant to helping with the Linux problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!
Re: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support
On Thursday 10 May 2001 10:51, you wrote: I just installed VMware 2.04 in mandrake...it run's. there is only one thing i can't figure out when i start Vmware it gives the following message : ! no xfree86 DGA support for this X-screen ! ! xfree86 Digital Graphics (DGA extension) initialisation failed ! and when i run a virtual win98 machine it says the following : ! The virtual machine will not be able to run in full-screen SVGA mode, because your X-server does not support the Xfree86 DGA extension for direct-to-frame-buffer graphics or because DGA is supported but the virtual machine cannot use it ! I am running mandrake 8.0 with XFree86 4 anyone has a clue? thanx in advance Tycho Try going to VMware's web site, I believe that there is an update available fot the 2.4.x kernel which might fix the problem. Roger
[newbie] Saving streaming audio
Some time ago there was a thread on this group concerning a way to save streaming audio files, especially Real Player's .ram files. Could someone please tell me where to find the thread on the archives as I can't find it, or alternatively let me know how I can save these files to disk. Many thanks. Roger
[newbie] Toshiba PCX1100U USB cable modem on linux?
- Original Message - From: Roger Pithers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 2:06 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Toshiba PCX1100U USB cable modem on linux? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Doe Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Toshiba PCX1100U USB cable modem on linux? Does anyone know or have experience with whether or not the Toshiba PCX1100U USB cable modem will work with Mandrake? Any links to info? My Motherboard NIC doesn't work and installing my Lynksys LNE100TX just frezes both Win98SE, WinME and Hardrake in 7.2 and 8.0. This is my last ditch effort to put Linux-Mandrake back on here, hate that M$ crap. Jon, I am using the same modem with Minnesota Road Runner, but couldn't get it going under USB. Instead Iam using a 3Com 3C905C-TX Ethernet card with it, having had no luck with the Linksys. Mandrake 7.2 and the other Linux systems I have on my box also recognised it straight away, and to my surprise Corel Linux did the whole thing automatically, about the first thing it has got right! Hope this has been some use to you, good luck! Roger
[newbie] Removing integrated soundcard
OK, here's the problem. I bought a Compaq Presario (I know, first mistake ;-))5834 about a year ago. Now way back then, I didn't know anything about the evils of integrated soundcards, vid cards, or anything else. By now I do, but I still am not sure what to do about this: I just bought a Soundblaster Live! Platinum 5.1, which absolutely rocks in Winbitesmyfatwhiteass, but doesn't work in Linux right now. Now, I believe theres a conflict, because when I disabled the stock integrated soundcard (with help from Compaq Tech Support), I did it from Safe Mode, not the BIOS. When I booted into Linux, Kudzu detected and configured the SB Live!, but when I look at Harddrake, I can see both the SB Live! and the old one (ESS Solo1 Audiodrive). And when Linux is booting up, I see it saying its starting sound module es1933 or something like that, which I believe is the ESS soundcard. Can anyone tell me what to do about this? Thanks! :-)
Re: [newbie] no mailinglist voor me.
Its mailed to you how to do that every single time you receive a message from this list... On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Robert Vredeveld wrote: please can you remove me from the mailing list. mail me how you do that. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Dan wrote: --- Andrew Iovannisci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to delete a non-empty directory via the command line without going through the trouble of removing every file and sub-directory first? -- Thanks, Andy Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.1 kernal 2.2.17 Registered Linux User # 202836 rm -r I'd always used rm -rf myself... __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] 8.0 and just!burn
Thanks, Jim, FireBurner did the job! BTW, www.fireburner.com, in case anyone was wondering... On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jim Lyons wrote: At 12:44 PM 05/03/01 -0500, you wrote: I downloaded the 8.0 isos last night, and want to burn them to disc, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I have to do it from the Windont side of my PC, as my CD-RW won't work under 7.2. The CD burning software I have in Windows is a bundle called just!burn, in which I'd use just!data to burn them. Now, I mentioned to a friend that I understood I couldn't just burn it straight to disc; that there was some settings that had to be taken care of, but having never done this before, I didn't know what they were. He told me just to make sure I set it so the CD would be bootable. Well, I looked all about in just!data, and couldn't find any setting to make it bootable. I'm assuming, BTW, that he didn't mean to set my BIOS so that I could boot from my CDR (I already can do that). So is anyone familiar with this software, and if so, what do I have to do? My coaster count is at one so far... peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071 Rog, I've just been through all this with .ISO files and it's a minefield. First, ther'e the catch 22 that much of the info I found was for Linux but I needed to burn the images in Windows (obviously, if I'm to get Linux going in the first place). Eventually after several days on the web I found FireBurner (just do a search) which is a very compact, stand alone, time limited program which took an .ISO file and turned it into a bootable CD. Have a look at it and get back to me if you have any questions. Now if I could only get Mandrake 7.2 to recognize my network card (any of them !!) ... Jim Lyons peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071
[newbie] New 8.0 thread
So, Im planning on installing 8.0b tomorrow, but I hear LILO wont work with it yet, and that Ill have to use a boot disk with it. But I also heard the feature to make a boot disk doesnt work yet either...what should I do to be able to boot into the system once installed? Or do I have it all wrong? peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071
RE: [newbie] 8.0 and just!burn
LOL...wow, did this finally post? I thought I'd addressed it wrong - I wrote it like three or four days ago. Anywho, could you describe that process a bit more? On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Evan Flynn wrote: i don't have a cdr but you could just make a boot floppy out of the cdrom image in the /images dir, just use rawrite -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 8.0 and just!burn I downloaded the 8.0 isos last night, and want to burn them to disc, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I have to do it from the Windont side of my PC, as my CD-RW won't work under 7.2. The CD burning software I have in Windows is a bundle called just!burn, in which I'd use just!data to burn them. Now, I mentioned to a friend that I understood I couldn't just burn it straight to disc; that there was some settings that had to be taken care of, but having never done this before, I didn't know what they were. He told me just to make sure I set it so the CD would be bootable. Well, I looked all about in just!data, and couldn't find any setting to make it bootable. I'm assuming, BTW, that he didn't mean to set my BIOS so that I could boot from my CDR (I already can do that). So is anyone familiar with this software, and if so, what do I have to do? My coaster count is at one so far... peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071 peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071
Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Dan LaBine wrote: I agree entirely with philomena, but 1 question?? How many 16 year olds does this guy hang out with? This guy sounds really old, so I'm wondering what kind of deviate he might be?? Come on now, there's no call for that. peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071
Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!
Are you joking? For real, is this really that hard? Sheesh... peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071 On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, adam wrote: Please take me off I can't even check my email without having 200 a day from people who don't know how to pick up a book...please thank's. - Original Message - From: Dale Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] boot.ini Well, not as easy as one would think. I have NT and Linux at work on same the machine, along with 98 and 2000.Maybe someone else knows away.I could post the procedure givin to me if you like. The one thing is you should be running lilo.Let me know if you would like the info and I will post from work today...
Re: [newbie] printer key
On Thursday 15 February 2001 22:11, you wrote: has any one tried using lexmark z52 w/7.2 looking for linux printer wondering how well it works also has anyone got a favorite key board please don't say ms natural won't but anything w/ms on it how about happy hacker I know that you can obtain a Z52 linux driver from www.lexmark.com but I'm I don't know what you have to do to get the driver working. I just use the standard Dell keyboard that came with my bow, but with my typing skills I wouldn't be able to tell a good keyboard from a bad one :-) Roger
RE: [newbie] commands
One book that's been tremendously helpful to me is Linux System Commands, by Patrick Volkerding and Kevin Reichard from MT Books. It lets you look up commands by function, name, or DOS equivalent, and gives pretty thorough descriptions of the commands and their arguments/options. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On 13 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also what books do you recommend i will purchase or do almost anything to end having to use windows i hate being in the main stream being sent in a direction i don't want to go ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] commands ** Original Sender: "Eugene C. Zesch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:37:34 -0500 (EST) ** Original Message follows... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: totally new in the old world i came from dos/widoze you would type cd/dir to change directories could some one please show me a type of directory change command i would be greatful God, man, get a book! Im sorry if that sounds rude, but why in the world are you trying to use Linux if you wont put even the smallest effort into it? Yahoo search on 'DOS to Linux Primer' yields about 2580 matches. Prominent in the first 20 are: http://www.superant.com/dostolinux/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html#toc1 http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/y2k/60/primer/primer.html Search engines can be your friend! But you have to take the first step. Gene ** - End Original Message --- **
Re: [newbie] Remove!!!!!!!!
OK...in return, can you make my next 6 rent payments? Come on... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Henk Buwalda wrote: Hi, Please remove me Henk Buwalda
Re: [newbie] GNOME or KDE
Blackbox ;-) peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Joel Fitzgerald wrote: What do most people prefer to use, GNOME or KDE? Thanks
Re: [newbie] (g)napster
Im using Knapster, and DLed a couple mp3s earlier today with no problem... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Has anyone here had any problems trying to connect to Napster and OpenNap servers via Gnapster (the latest version, 1.4.1a, that comes with Ximian/Helix GNOME)? All I get is a connection error. This has persisted over the past few days. I have not tried any other Napster clients yet, I guess I'll do that sometime too... -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Hey civilme, any idea if IDE CD-RWs like mine (LG CD-RW CED-8042B) will work in 8.0? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Friday 05 January 2001 22:51, you wrote: Unusual is what we want--It does no good to make a distro that runs on only "usual" machines. I will send you some software to analyse your system--I think I probably know what doesn't work CDRW, LS120 Civileme Well I would say I have an unusual machine. Its a compaq 433 LS-120 / Floppy that came stock Cd-rom stock Both of the above are on the Secondary IDE device. after market Hewlett Packard CD-RW after market US Robotics/3Com modem Parallel Port Zip Drive Plus Agfa Snap Scan USB Scanner that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes but no software does. I still haven't gotten everything to run on this though, can't imagine trying out beta...lol.
Re: [newbie] MP# encoder?
Im a big fan of bladeenc from the command line...I'm pretty sure the version I have is .92 peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Jon Doe wrote: What is a good mp3 encoder to use?
Re: [newbie] MP# encoder?
Actually, you can get a mandrake specific bladeenc RPM at rpmfind.net... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Holly Henry-Pilkington wrote: hellmut wrote: I use grip as frontend and bladeenc as encoder. Works fine! What is a good mp3 encoder to use? I'm a bladeenc fan too. Another one you'll have to install from source, but that's not hard to do. I use ripperX for my frontend -- probably just a bias because a friend was involved in some of the coding on it. ;) But it's nice -- does the CDDB lookup, ripping and encoding with lots of configurable options. The grip program recommended probably does as well. Look for all of these on freshmeat.net for ease of finding them all. You can usually put in just the titles as we've given them. Of course, you can also put in a keyword like mp3 and explore all the zillions of possibilities. :)) Holly
Re: [newbie] Where do i find the latest mandrake specific kernels?
Actually, 2.4.0 was just released http://www.kernel.org peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jorge RamÃrez Llaca wrote: I guess it is 2.2.18-mdk Can anyone tell me where can I download it from?
[newbie] Multiple Menu Entries
Following a failed install of Corel's Photo Paint, all traces of which have been removed, I now have four entries of each item on the menu. Ihave tried using the menu editor and "update-menus" but with no result. Can someone please help? I am running 7.2 updated with the Mandrake update CD. Thanks Roger
[newbie] Fetchmail problem
I use pine for email, and fetchmail to actually get the email. Strangely, today I hadn't gotten one single email, so I fire one off to myself as a test. I never get it. OK, so I figure fetchmail isn't working. I open Kmail to check the email, and sure enough, theres a ton of email on my server waiting to be downloaded and read. After dl'ing and reading said email, I open kpm, kill fetchmail (seemed logical) and type fetchmailconf in a terminal, so I can do a little troubleshooting. Well, it didn't work. Here is what it said: [rog@ool-18beefd7 rog]$ fetchmailconf Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 1841, in ? hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0] socket.error: host not found Anyone ever seen anything like this before? This actually happened to me once before, but I had done something stupid, which I definitly didn't do this time...this just seemed to happen out of the blue! Anyways, I _really_ don't want to have to reinstall again, so if anyone can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem
Thanks, problem taken care of...courtesy Mark Weaver, who is the man! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Meph Istopheles wrote: Roger [rog@ool-18beefd7 rog]$ fetchmailconf Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 1841, in ? hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0] socket.error: host not found Anyways, I _really_ don't want to have to reinstall again, so if anyone can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. I use pine fetchmail as well. I've never found fetchmailconf changed unless I'd done something either in that file or in fetcmail's gui config. All I can suggest is either you reconfig fetchmail through the gui or by hand. At least it'll be fixed. You might also look through your logs to see if anything odd happened earlier. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Fast CPU
Hey Mark, my email client uses Procmail just fine! ;-) Pine, by the way...;-p peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Nope...you are correct and this fact leaves me wondering how in the world I can filter duplicate messages with Kmail filtering technology. How about it MandrakeSoft? Any ideas? That, or a good solid method of using Procmail filtering with Kmail as one would use with Pine. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Friday 29 December 2000 13:47, you wrote: I thought I am the only person to receive multiple copies! There were (13) copies of this posting At 28-12-2000 +1100, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 22:04, ZER0 FREQUENCY wrote: John Arkoulis wrote: Can you please point me at a site (independent) that I can compare the new fast CPUs (P4 1.4, Dual G4, Athlon) Yes I know G4 is a MAC. Which one do you think is best for Linux??? Thanks I personally like AMD. Although linux mostly supports intel. Not much change since AMD has intel-compatible microprocessors. http://www.tomshardware.com has great PC CPU (i.e. no Mac) reviews. It recently has done extensive testing on the Pentium 4, comparing it to other Intel and AMD processors. It generally concludes that AMD chips are better, since they are significantly cheaper for about the same performance. The Pentium 4, it says, is difficult to compare to other CPUs since there are currrently no programmes that can take advantage of its new instructions. This is particularly important in the floating point department (i.e. mathematical calculations), where it rates poorly on current apps that are unoptimised for it. It will be quite some time before programmes can use the Pentium 4 well, so until then we should use more conventional CPUs. There is nothing wrong with using a Mac for Linux. PowerPC chips, like Alphas and SunSparcs, are based on RISC technology (Intel and AMD use CISC), which is typically better for complex mathematical calculations. If this is not a consideration, then CISC will do. In the end, it depends on what you want to do with the CPU that matters. If you want to run Windows in a dual-boot configuration and/or run many games, the x86 (i.e. Intel and AMD) architecture would be a better choice. It also makes installing apps a lot easier (it's easier to find ready-made i386, i586 or i686 binaries, hence you won't have to compile code). In this case, I strongly recommend AMD, for the same reasons that www.tomshardware.com does. If you plan to do much scientific and mathematical work, then RISC (whether it be PowerPC, Alpha, SunSparc or something else) is probably better (as long as you can find the programmes you need). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Fast CPU]
I totally agree...I first started using Linux about 4 months ago, and started out with KDE, as it provided a familiar environment. However, after a while, I started to notice it did take up some resources that could have been put to better use (and this was while I still only had 64 meg RAM). Blackbox is faster, and to me just _feels_ more "linux-y." peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On 27 Dec 2000, Michael Scottaline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that http://www.gamepc.com usually has a pretty unbiased view point on procs. Personally I'm really happy with my athlon 900. Mandrake 7.2 is fast as hell after I recompiled everything I use for my processors architecture. windowmaker opens from startx (enter) to finished in about 2 seconds ;-) === Blackbox will probably do it in less than one!! Give it a try if you're willing to forego eyecandy and like the understated elegance of simplicity. Runs just about any KDE or Gnome app with NO problem. Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [Re: [newbie] Fast CPU]
Just so you know, I'm not trying to say one is better than the other, or trying to sell you, or anything...just stating my preference...which could change in the next twenty minutes ;-) peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Penndragon wrote: Hi Roger I totally agree...I first started using Linux about 4 months ago, and started out with KDE, as it provided a familiar environment. However, after a while, I started to notice it did take up some resources that could have been put to better use (and this was while I still only had 64 meg RAM). Blackbox is faster, and to me just _feels_ more "linux-y." peace, I must admit the others do seem somewhat faster than KDE. I find the sound on startup with KDE breaks up whilst it's fine in most others. Use mostly Gnome or Enlightenment for the moment, but still getting the feel for the others. James Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On 27 Dec 2000, Michael Scottaline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that http://www.gamepc.com usually has a pretty unbiased view point on procs. Personally I'm really happy with my athlon 900. Mandrake 7.2 is fast as hell after I recompiled everything I use for my processors architecture. windowmaker opens from startx (enter) to finished in about 2 seconds ;-) === Blackbox will probably do it in less than one!! Give it a try if you're willing to forego eyecandy and like the understated elegance of simplicity. Runs just about any KDE or Gnome app with NO problem. Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] new to list - happy holidays
And now I'm running away from it! ;-) peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Roger, You did the same thing I did...you ran windows! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Tuesday 26 December 2000 02:38, you wrote: Hey man, welcome to the world of Linux! Im about 4 months into it, and I was just saying to Mark Weaver (one of the list guru's) earlier today "What did I ever do without a command line? What did I do?" peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Les Owens wrote: Hey all, I'm new to the list today, started my LM7.2 install last night, have a ton of questions, but thought I'd say hi first and wish all the best of the season - whatever your preferences. I don't know diddly ;-) but this is 2cool to pass up. later, Les Gastonia, NC
Re: [newbie] new to list - happy holidays
Hey man, welcome to the world of Linux! Im about 4 months into it, and I was just saying to Mark Weaver (one of the list guru's) earlier today "What did I ever do without a command line? What did I do?" peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Les Owens wrote: Hey all, I'm new to the list today, started my LM7.2 install last night, have a ton of questions, but thought I'd say hi first and wish all the best of the season - whatever your preferences. I don't know diddly ;-) but this is 2cool to pass up. later, Les Gastonia, NC
[newbie] 7,1 and 7.2 on same HD
OK, I just spoke with a guy on the expert list who has the same CD-RW as I have, and he said his worked in 7.1, but not 7.2. So, since I want to keep 7.2, I figure I'll just make a small partition and put 7.1 on it...But there's one thing I need to be sure about first. Right now, I'm using the Grub to boot with; will that remain unmolested by me installing 7.1, or will Lilo try to take over? I'd prefer things to remain as they are, but either way is cool, so long as both 7.1 and 7.2 work after I install 7.1. Thanks! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
Re: [newbie] Im Sorry,
Is it just me, or does this sound a little sarcastic? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Beckycould wrote: Sorry, I'm Sorry, Please forgive me. I'm SOrry. Please Forgive Me. Please I'm SOrry. Sorry. Please. Oh Please forgive my mistake. Oh HTML Sorry Oh Please. Sorry... I'm Sorry. - Original Message - From: "Mark Hillary" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hosting Primary and Secondary Please can you not use HTML when emailing to the list. It can be very annoying to some of us. I see that you are usign MS Outlook, you can turn HTML of by clicking Format - Plain Text or type ALT o x. Sorry I don't know how to solve your problem, but maybe some one else will. Thanks Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: Beckycould To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Hosting Primary and Secondary Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting. My question is: Does MY DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my Primary IP and if it is "down" will traffic automatically look for my Secondary IP? I Can type in my Secondary IP and pull up the index.html of my main website. I Cannot type in a URL and see any sites come up FROM my Secondary. (when the Primary is out of service) Presently The Only way "I know Of" to have the Secondary Server take over AS the Primary is to change the DNS and IP using LINUXCONF and making the Secondary BECOME the Primary. I welcome all help I can get Thank You, Becky
Re: [newbie] cdrecord
Its an IDE CD-RW. I don't think it runs off a controller card, but I'm not 100% on that. I did go into the BIOS to check to see if PNP was enabled, but there wasn't anything that said anything about it...cheesy Compaq... But I did find a list of IRQ stuff: PCI Devices Compaq VGA Controller - IRQ 11 Intel USB Controller - IRQ 11 Intel SMBus Controller - IRQ 5 Compaq audio device - IRQ 5 Ethernet Controller - IRQ 5 Any idea if any of this stuff could be affecting me? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Firstly, is your drive IDE or SCSI? Does it run off a controller card (almost a certainty if it is SCSI)? If so, then is the card ISA or PCI? Apparently ISA cards in Linux have problems with IRQs (they must be set manually). PCI cards can also have problems, though not as many. There should be an option in your BIOS called something like "Plug 'n Play OS installed". Set this to No. Try burning again (do dummy burns so you don't waste money on coasters). What other cards do you have on your system, and are they ISA or PCI? You could be experiencing a good ol' IRQ conflict. On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:57, Roger Sherman wrote: Hey Sridhar... OK, there was a guy who had virtually the same CD-RW as I do in the expert list, who got the same message about the controller returning the wrong size...he said in 7.1, even though he got that message, his CD-RW worked flawlessly. In 7.2 it's a bit more intermittant, but it works, so I don't think thats the main problem...at least its not mine. Someone else on the expert list had this to say: -- I have an adaptec AHA1505 ISA scsi card and SF 4x CDRW. I also have Yamaha OPL-SAx ISA sound card. A while ago, I too had similar problem with my CD burner. It turned out that both the ISA cards were using same IRQ and IO addresses were messed up. Also if I enabled sound or started any sound program my system used to freeze and I had to press RESET button. I solved the problem with doing the isapnp configuration by hand. Now both the cards are happy and I've had no problems. -- I don't really know how to go about figureing out if what he said could be my problem, let alone configuring it if in fact that is the problem, but it seems an avenue worth exploring...any suggestions on where to start? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: It seems that the main problem is the line "cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page". I am not an expert with cdrecord, but perhaps your drive is not yet supported by it. Have you checked linux hardware databases to see whether your drive is supported? I remember seeing a post on the list in the last few days that was very similar to your problem (same drive: LG CED 8042B). Unfortunately, I have deleted it. Perhaps you should search the list archives at www.linux-mandrake.com. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:43, Roger Sherman wrote: LOL...you asked for it,,, GnomeToaster Recording Terminal Recording 5209724 bytes to CD cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter page. cdrecord: WARNING: Track size unknown. Data may not fit on disk. cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter page. cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'LG ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8042B ' Revision : '1.07' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 6 seconds. 5 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds.cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter page. cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter page. CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00 Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00
