Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
I've seen some palm connectivity software built into linux. I think it comes with the office workstation option in the install. I've never bothered to use it because I'm tied down to Outlook hehe. Whether it works with the serial cradle, usb cradle, or both is another issue. Hope this helps. Tony Castro __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XDMCP
Anybody ever use XDMCP to connect to their linux machines? Any advice for setting it up? Thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
I have a hauppage tv tuner with the brooktree chipset and it seems to work fine. I never use the card in linux but i do get the blue screen from the yellow jack and i get snow from the coax. So it does work. I haven't actually tried capturing video with it Linux but I assume that it will work. --- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan, I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? T - Original Message - From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV and grabbed stills using KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] For anyone having trouble with mysql
If you get the following error after installing mysql binary distro exactly as specifed and running bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql Can't change to run as user 'mysql'. Make sure user exists! Use mysql version 3.23.48 or lower. This had me confused for a couple weeks. This should fix it. If it doesn't, it must have been installed wrong. __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE
Norton Ghost would be able to clone your whole hard drive onto the bigger one. I use occasionally to image my hard drive and i've never had problems with it. --- Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 07:24 am, George Baker wrote: - Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE If it were mine I'd put the two CD drives on secondary IDE with CD-RW as master, and the hard drives on the primary as master and slave in whatever order you like. Depending whether you want to re-install your operating system of course. If not the 3.2 will have to stay as master on the primary IDE channel since most versions of Windows won't boot from anywhere else. I've heard that Laplink will clone your drive. If I understand this correctly I can clone my 3.2 gig HD to my new 30 gig HD and then make the 30 gig master and it should boot into Windows. Does this also clone Lilo and my MDK 7.0 partitions? If so it would be great but if it at least clones the Win partition that would be OK as I don't mind reinstalling MDK as I was going to upgrade to Ver 8.2 anyway. Any info would be appreciated. George Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi George; If you're going to reinstall Linux anyway you may be better served by installing the new hard drive and partitioning it with diskdrake (or whatever) being sure you preserve the first partition for Windows, then moving or copying any personal data you want to keep to a partition in that drive. Then wipe and reinstall the operating systems as you like after switching that drive to master on the primary IDE channel. I personally don't trust any software to move data or clone a drive, especially Windows software. I've seen too many people bitten that way. Having said that; the easiest and most reliable way I've seen to clone a Windows system to a new drive is run from DOS, not Windows. Make your partitions on the new drive, leaving room for Mandrake to work of course; then at the prompt in DOS using the tree command: XCOPY C:\ D:\/h/i/c/k/e/r/y/s There's a space between XCOPY and C:\; a space between C:\ and D:\ but NO spaces anywhere else. (the \/ looks as though it's a V but it is actually a backslash and a forward slash next to each other.) This process _must run in DOS_ not a DOS prompt. You know, from the command line. Then from your Windows bootdisk do fdisk and make the new drive active. It should act and appear the way the old one did, just a lot BIGGER. It's been a long time since I touched this kind of process; and my memory isn't what I would deem totally reliable. The syntax may be out of whack. :-) Or I am. But you should be able to preserve all of the files in any directory including the properties thereto (hidden, system, etc) and then be able to do a fresh Windows install on the new drive after appropriate selector switching (master IDE0) and use them to restore your configuration as it is now. I found this link that may help you with your 'cloning' questions and I (vaguely) recalled some of the information from (almost) three years ago; the last time I owned a machine running Windows anything. http://www.valink.com/jeep/harddrives.htm The tree command is on the site! Amazing, I'm not the only one to do it that way in the past apparently. http://www.valink.com/jeep/Harddrives/H-I-C-K-E-R-Y-S.htm Best of luck and I hope some of this stuff helps you. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know. -- Plato, Dialogs, Theateus 191 [Quoted in VMS Internals and Data Structures, V4.4, when referring to image activation and termination.] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upcoming addition of Linux to XP system
Steve, your approach sounds pretty good. Is 20 gigs enough for all that though? My xp installing is over 6 gigs. I have a similar setup but I use a 15gig chopped in half (7.5gig for all of linux and 7.5 for fat32 data partition). Then I have a 40gig drive with xp on a 12gig partition and the rest is for storage. You should be all set. The latest mandrake is pretty easy to set up. --- Steven Kopischke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My laptop is returning home tomorrow after a week in the shop for a bad hard drive. It is a 4-month old Compaq Presario with 256Mb RAM and a 20Gb hard drive -- plenty of room for XP and Linux to coexist while I migrate to Linux. That having been said, how do I begin? (I have the three Mandrake 8.2 ISO CD's I created from downloads and once successfully installed on the above-mentioned laptop. However, the lesson I learned is that I can't be too cavalier with carving up my laptop.) From what I have read on this list over the past couple of weeks, I am considering the following approach: 1. Start with XP loaded and install Partition Magic. (I would partition the hard drive before installing anything if I could, but I only have a 'recovery' CD that drops an image onto the hard drive without regard for how I may want to partition it.) 2. Carve the hard drive into at least four volumes: a: Windows XP operating system and applications (leave as NTFS file system) b: Linux operating system and applications (ext2 file system) c: Linux swap d: Data (FAT 32 file system so I can access from both OS') 3. Install Mandrake 8.2 4. Install XP applications 5. Restore data files My questions are these: - Is my approach sound? - Will my drive partitioning work? - How large should the drive volumes be to maximize utility? (I know I can resize at will with Partition Magic, but I'd like to leave it stable for a while.) - Is there anything I am neglecting to take into consideration? Many thanks in advance for your input. Steven Kopischke Green Bay, WI USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re DSL in mandrake
I ended up reinstalling mandrake anyways and i configured the dsl while installing the OS. Works good. Thanks for your help though. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
