Re: [newbie] Portable OGG player(s)?
For those of you who would prefer a Linux solution, the Sharp Zaurus does a great job with oggs. Traci On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 06:10, Trevor Rhodes wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:52 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I know there is some interest in this, so this might be interesting: http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/iriver_ihp-120.html What I couldn't figure out from the article is if it requires proprietary software to run it... My Palm Tungsten C plays oggs just fine. I love it. Expensive but fun. hehe Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 22:09:26 up 1 day, 3:17, 3 users, load average: 1.27, 1.21, 1.14 -- Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dying Gateway and Internet Connection
Because I am using a satellite broadband connection that isn't supported in Linux I have to use another computer on my lan as a gateway to the Internet. All the settings are correct and the setup works most of the time. Unfortunately, my system seems to forget the gateway on a regular basis. The fix is to restart networking and everything is fine again. When it has forgotten the gateway I can ping anywhere on the Internet via ip address but it doesn't find the name servers. I can ping the name servers and I have connectivity, it is like the system just forgets to use them. I can use the name servers from any of the other PCs on the network - just not my Linux box, until I restart networking. Has anyone heard of a similar problem? This is a new one for me with Mandrake 8.1. I didn't have this problem with 7.2 and essentially the same network setup. Any suggestions about what might be flakey? Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Evolution under Mandrake 8.1
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 20:57, Jim Dawson wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to install the latest Ximian Evolution under Mandrake 8.1? I keep getting dependancy errors when I try to install. I wouldn't say it is an easy way, as far as I know it is the only way to use the RPMs, that is, you download each of the dependencies and install them. When they result in dependencies you download and install those. You keep doing that until you stop getting dependencies and then you work your way back up the chain installing all the rpms that failed previously. It takes some time but all the rpms are there at the Evolution site so it is mostly just tedium. The latest candidate is much more stable than the version that shipped with Mandrake 8.1. Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers Success...NOT!... so fast.
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 10:53, Mr. E. wrote: So, now I'm at square one... no nvidia drivers installed I'll try to install the drivers again. I figured something went wrong by me using the rpm drivers at first, then trying the tar files, then modifying that console.perm file.. so I'll stick with ONE set of driver files this time. Actually, I suspect the opposite since I have just successfully gotten the Nvidia drivers up by using the 8.1 rpms from MandrakeUser, the Instructions from MandrakeUser and the one missing instruction from MandrakeUser, the need to go all the way down to a system power off and cold boot after the drivers are installed. That worked perfectly for me, YMMV, but I think where you got into trouble was trying to fix the failures after the rpm install by changing security permissions rather than power cycling the system. I could easily have gone there because most of the early advice focused on fixing the security problems and that might have been important with versions of Mandrake prior to 8.1, but with 8.1 and using the MandrakeUser rpms it isn't necessary to do anything to the security settings. The fixes you attempted probably put you in a position where the proper setup couldn't work even after a power cycle. I would urge you to try the MandrakeUser 8.1 rpms again, run XFdrake to set your resolution, shutdown, power off, and cold boot. That is all that is necessary for 8.1 with a stock kernel. Anyone who has updated their kernel will ofcourse need to use the sources to recompile. The only area of possible confusion would be if people didn't know which of the three 8.1 stock kernels they have. I have the download edition of 8.1 and the Nvidia kernel rpm that worked with that one is the one that is refered to as the standard kernel. Obviously, those of you with multiprocessors will recognize that you need the smp rpm, I wasn't sure which versions of 8.1 would use the third kernel option but I correctly suspected that they wouldn't include the download edition. Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 07:31, Robert MacLean wrote: there is no need to reboot. when you are at the command prompt, edit the config file and type startx. it will then attempt to load x. if it fails it will kick you back to the console. otherwise it will work Hi! I am wondering what I need to do beyond installing the Nvidia drivers for Open GL or Mesa to work. Or if that is an inappropriate goal what is a simple 3D thing I can do to observe the effect of having 3D drivers on my system. I downloaded the RPMs for 8.1 from the MandrakeUser site and followed the instructions that were there. I seem to have been successful because Gnome is working just like normal. Now I would like to do something that makes use of the 3D capabilities of the Nvidia drivers but when I go to the Mesa and OpenGL demos in the toys section of the amusements menu they don't appear to be working. OpenGL demos open a Window but it appears to include my desktop and it never does anything else, the Mesa demos don't seem to even launch. I click but nothing visible happens and I can't find a process for them in gtop. Is there something I need to do to activate 3D support other than successfully installing the Nvidia kernel and glx? The instructions said that I just needed to run XFdrake and choose my resolution after rpming the drivers. I did that. The instructions said that I didn't need to edit anything since I was using 8.1, but, I either don't understand what should be happening or I'm don't know how to invoke what should be happening. Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks. Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] re: staroffice
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 00:59, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: I'm going to give you an advise about it that worked on Windows, so I guess it will probably work on Linux too. I have installed Adabas prior to StarOffice installation and everything worked fine. When I finally installed StarOffice itself it did actually detected the Adabas installation though I got a message that the database itself would not be installed by the Staroffice although it detected it. Later on, when I started Staroffice the Adabas worked quite well. All those I'm telling you happened under Windows installation but I think the same will happen under LM8.1 since we're talking about the same application. I' ll try it though today under Linux and I promise you I'll come back with all the information I'm able to gather about it I made the mistake of installing it in reverse order. I installed StarOffice first and after the installer told me it couldn't access Adabas I went ahead and installed Adabas. I was hoping someone would have a way I could save the situation from where I am rather than removing both Adabas and StarOffice and starting over. If no one has any good ideas about how to do that the radical solution is still an option. Dimitris, it would still be helpful to me if you could tell me how you know you have Adabas integration when you are looking at the menus inside of StarOffice. Are there Adabas specific menu choices if this gets done properly? I would just like to be able to tell when I have successfully fixed things. smile Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mail Folder Lost in Transition from Netscape to Mozilla
Hi! When I upgraded from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 I kept my /home tree intact and reformatted all the other partitions for a complete re-install. One of my most important goals was to keep the mail folders that I had established to hold on to important old mail. In several of my accounts everything worked perfectly, even though Mozilla came up when I hit the icon to launch Netscape Communicator there was no problem once i chose tasks mail and news - my mail folders and all the old mail was there. Unfortunately in one account this didn't happen. The .nsmail directory is still there and seems to have all the folder files just like it should, unfortunately Mozilla's mail and news section doesn't seem to be able to access them. I checked out the import options but the wizard has no provision for migrating Communicator Mail to Mozilla. Is there some way to tell Mozilla in that account to look at .nsmail for the mail folders and boxes? Is there some repair facility that will reindex the mailboxes and make their contents visible to Mozilla? I'm not sure what is needed but I think I have all my old mail, that it is just invisible to Mozilla. I would appreciate getting pointed in the right direction. Thanks. Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] re: staroffice
Still on the general topic of StarOffice. I am using the 6.0 beta and I seem to have messed up the database integration some how, or perhaps I'm just not sure what I should look for if it is working properly. I went through the StarOffice installation prior to doing the Adabas installation. The StarOffice installer told me it couldn't find the database and that if I wanted those features I should run that installation. I ran the database installation the same way I ran the StarOffice installation but I can't detect any evidence from inside StarOffice that I have added the database. There isn't a menu option for a new data file under the file menu. I have no idea what I should be looking for but it seems like it ought to be a little more obvious than this. I originally did a /net install of both programs and then ran a user install from the directory I created during the /net install. Any advice on how to get back on track would be appreciated. Thanks. Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DirectPC on Linux?
Jon Doe wrote: Does anyone know or know where I can find out if anyone has been able to use the DirectPC internet service, uplink and downlink with linux? My cable company still doesn't have internet access yet. -- Registered Linux User #181996 There is a company, Helios, which provides Linux drivers for DirecPC. The last time I checked their drivers were a little pricey ($190) but were supposed to work very well. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] video conferencing software for Linux
Add me to the list of people who would like a video conferencing client for Linux. There is an open Hxxx something project for open source ip telephony, would this project have anything to do with video as opposed to voice conferencing? Traci -michael- wrote: On Saturday 03 February 2001 10:55 pm, regarding Re: [newbie] video conferencing software for Linux, you said: On Sunday 04 February 2001 02:03, Kris Kanyon wrote: I was wondering if there is any video conferencing software available for Linux?? Something similar to Net meeting, or icuii??? Someone told me about a program called SANE??? Thanks for you help. Alan. I second this, if anyone knows of anything please let me know as well. Something like CUCME open source would be nice. It must be GPL to go into the distribution. -Chris TechTV had a piece on a kid from some college who actually got it to work better than Windows based (ie CUCME). He was using a generic webcam... -- -michael- -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 and Mime Types SOLVED!!!
Thanks, I haven't had time to do it all yet but I'm glad to get a comprehensive answer that definitely looks like it has gotten all the bases covered. Traci Altoine Barker wrote: I would like to shift to Netscape 6 instead of 4.7x because of its ability to manage multiple e-mail accounts for a single Linux user (under 4.7x I had to keep a separate user account for each e-mail account). My problem is that the scripts which come with RealPlayer8 for mime and plugin support only work with 4.7x and not 6. Has anyone already gone through the process of getting the mime types to work properly with Netscape 6? Are there simple edits that could be made to the scripts which will make them work with Netscape 6? There are dozens of mime types that mention realplayer in the 4.7x configuration and I would really like to avoid adding them one by one under 6. Also six seems to have some problems with editing or delete mime-types where you made a mistake. Does anyone know the name and location of the file that holds this information so that I can manually delete an error that I can't seem to remove any other way. Thanks. Any help would be appreciated. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html Traci, I found a webpage on linuxnewbie.org that had just what you and I were looking for! It was written by Avatar but I've did some modifications for our period of instruction. They were written for Netscape 4.7x but I found them compatible with Netscape 6 (ie v.6 or v.7) RealPlayer basically is running the show using these MIME types; 1. Open up Netscape and click on "Edit" and then "Preferences." 2. On the new screen that appears, click the little arrow next to "Navigator" and then "Helper Applications." On the right, you should see a list of all the mime types already in the system. This is where we will be adding in the info to configure the G2 player. 3. Click the "New type..." button to bring up a new mime tpye. 4. Enter the follwing settings, ***REMOVE THE CHECK IN THE CHECK BOX*** then click the "OK" button to save them. Description of type: RealMedia File File extension: .rm MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s The description doesn't matter, but the rest does. Make sure to click the box nextto "Application" to enable G2, and don't forget the "%s" part or it will just open G2 and not stream. If G2 installed somewhere other than /usr/bin/realplay, replace that part with your path. Another thing to watch is that you put the "." in front of the suffix. 5. Add all of the following using the steps 3 4. Description of type: RealVideo File File extension: .rv MIMEType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description of type: RealAudio File File extension: .ra, .ram MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description of type: RealAudio File 2 File extension: .ra, .ram MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s *Special Note* I couldn't get Netscape 6 to recognize both RealAudio files but I have had no problems... yet! :) ***REMOVE THE CHECKS IN THE CHECK BOXES*** Now, your G2 player should work great with Navigator 6. But say you hop over to live365.com and you want to listen for awhile. Well, live365.com sends you a mp3 play list, not a standard stream. This is nice if you're sitting behind a firewall and your administrator has blocked streamed data. To get this up and running on you Linux box, add this last part into Netscape, again using steps 3 4. Description of type: Live365 File extension: .pls MIMEType: audio/x-scpls Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s So, now maybe you want to hop over to MP3.com and have a lsiten over there. No problem. look down the list for "MPEG Audio." Once you find it, click on it, then click on edit. Change the follwing: Description of type:MPEG Audio File extension: MIMEType: audio/mpeg Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s ***REMOVE THE CHECK IN THE CHECK BOX*** (Click OK) We have to add another one now. Follow step 3 4 to add this one in. Description of type: MPEG Audio 2 File extension: .m3u MIMEType: audio/x-mpegurl Application to use: /usr/bin/realplay %s ***REMOVE THE CHECK IN THE CHECK BOX*** (Click OK) That should do it. Now the G2 player will handle all that media from the web with little or no hickups. Enjoy! Cheers Everyone -- Al __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Helix Gnome and MDK 7.2
Mannequin* wrote: Hi all, I've just downloaded and installed Helix Gnome on my MDK 7.2 system. After the install 'kdm' stopped allowing me to access Gnome at all. (It doesn't show up in the window managers list at all.) How do I go about getting it back on the list so that I can use Gnome instead of KDE? I had this problem exactly and I have to thank John Wheat for passing on what he learned from Helix. When I followed these instructions it worked for me. I tried to reply to this thread last week but I guess only one of three of my posts actually makes it to the list... At any rate try this to fix your GDM problem; as root: chmod +x /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome Also add that command to the bottom of /etc/rc.local. -- John Wheat -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Re: Win4Lin - Does it do WinMe?
With all the gungho WIn4Lin supporters out there I wonder, does anyone know if it supports WinMe or is it exclusively for Win98? -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Netscape 6 and Mime Types
I would like to shift to Netscape 6 instead of 4.7x because of its ability to manage multiple e-mail accounts for a single Linux user (under 4.7x I had to keep a separate user account for each e-mail account). My problem is that the scripts which come with RealPlayer8 for mime and plugin support only work with 4.7x and not 6. Has anyone already gone through the process of getting the mime types to work properly with Netscape 6? Are there simple edits that could be made to the scripts which will make them work with Netscape 6? There are dozens of mime types that mention realplayer in the 4.7x configuration and I would really like to avoid adding them one by one under 6. Also six seems to have some problems with editing or delete mime-types where you made a mistake. Does anyone know the name and location of the file that holds this information so that I can manually delete an error that I can't seem to remove any other way. Thanks. Any help would be appreciated. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Version Declaration and Realplayer8
Hi! I have downloaded and installed Realplayer8 and run the mime and plugin scripts that came with it. Things are working very well in Netscape 4.7x but I have a problem with the streaming MP3 at www.live365.com. When I tell live365 that I would like to play their music using Realplayer and then click on a link to play something I get a message that says I need to install support for Realplayer 7 or above. Since I have Realplayer8 installed and working properly there is obviously something that live365 is looking for that identifies the installed revision which I don't have. Does anyone know what identifies Realplayer version levels for sites that need to know that? If it is more than a mime type declaration or a text file could you also let me know how to modify or create it? I suspect that it is just missing on my system. -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Netscape 6 and RealPlayer8
Hi! I'm in the process of moving from Communicator to Netscape 6. I have Realplayer8 and Xmms installed on my system and I would like to launch them appropriately from Netscape 6 the way I did with Communicator. I'm having some difficulty getting them set up properly. To begin with the applications section doesn't have any already defined media types to speak of. I made a small error when I added my first media type so I removed it. Now when I attempt to add in the correction I keep getting an error message that the media type already exists and it asks if I would like to replace the existing type. I click on yes but the type is never visible on the screen and Netscape crashes whenever I click on a url that would be played with Realplayer. Has anyone had success getting the media types correct in Netscape 6? Can you point me in the right direction. The scripts that come with Realplayer8 are obviously for Communicator so executing them again does not sort out the problem. Any help would be appreciated. Traci -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Creating PDF Files From within StarOffice
A V Flinsch wrote: from staroffice file print select generic postscript printer check print to file box give it a filename OK from console ps2pdf file_you_saved_above I could have sworn that Sun claimed it would create pdf files natively. Are you sure it is necessary to go through this external process to achieve the results? Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] More Alsa and the Ac97
Hi! I read the thread on Alsa and AC97 with interest. I also have one of the Athlon systems with the Via 82C686A sound chipsets. As I understand it, this chip is not supported by the OSS drivers installed as part of Mandrake 7.2 but it is supported by the Alsa drivers. Based on the advice from the thread I was able to remove the existing sound modules and modprobe the appropriate Alsa modules unfortunately I have some device problems. The Alsa Player will play wav sounds now but none of the other sound programs such as Xmms will work. None of the graphical mixers will work either. I am not that far into a fresh install so I am willing to go either way. I need to figure out how to get a fresh Mandrake 7.2 installation to install the Alsa drivers appropriately to begin with, or I need to figure out how to move ahead and get the rest of the devices using the Alsa driver and devices. Is there someone out there who would be willing to point me in the right direction to do one or the other of these tasks? Thanks. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: Don't be so quick to blame instabilities on 7.2. I've put it on over 20 different systems without a hiccup on any of them. All have been running without a reboot since installation. Remember: if it really were as problematic as you say, we would all be complaining... Just for the record, I had a similar problem with the Intellimouse driver even after re-formating and a fresh start. I have temporarily reverted back to the basic mouse driver without support for my center wheel but eventually I would like to get full functionality. I have one of the Optical Intellimice, I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not, perhaps the driver hasn't been updated to deal with them if they are different than the mechanical ones in their signals. I am also using a Belkin OmniCube 4-Port KVM switch to controll several computers. My mouse went crazy when i came back to the Mandrake box, it was clicking everywhere, wouldn't go more than 1/3 of the screen away from the lower left-hand corner and eventually locked up Gnome and blew it away so that it was no longer available for any user on my system. I'm not blaming, I'm very glad for the people who enjoy writing drivers and provide the breadth of the hardware support we have in Linux. There does seem to be something new going on with the Intellimouse driver with 7.2. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome
Hi! I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and had just begun to play with it when I had an X lockup and ultimately needed to reboot the system to regain control. Even the keyboard shortcuts wouldn't take me to a virtual console... After the reboot neither Gnome nor Sawfish were graphical environment options when I logged in. Since I hadn't really done anything with this new install I decided to blow it all away, reformat, and reinstall from the begining. I just completed that process and everything seems to have worked as planned, except, this time I didn't get the default desktop icons for my users. Is there a step that I missed? Rather than going through a complete re-install again I was wondering if I could recreate the default desktop? Mandrake used to support an option that would do that but I can't find it at this time. Does anyone know how to recreate the default desktop with the default icons? Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome
Romanator wrote: Have you tried right clicking on the desktop and select "application". You will have the option of selecting the icons for your application by clicking on the dropdown arrow. Select Devices. Select the icon and OK. It's important to note that by default, it will check System first. If you are looking for icons for the hard drives, select "devices". That is a problem, perhaps part of the same one. When I tried right clicking on the desktop I didn't get any response at all - no context menu. If I right click on the panel I get the panel context menu so I suspect that my right mouse click is being received, but when I right click on the desktop nothing happens. Is there a setting, preferably simple, that would suppress the desktop icons as well as the right mouse button context menus for the desktop? Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help
Is there anyway to use the disk utilities to mount write the bootdisk to my local hard drive and then use it to launch the installation from the CD? I have a laptop that can have a CD or it can have a floppy but it can't have both at the same time and it can't hot swap between them -neither can it boot from CD. I am trying to figure out the best way to boot and launch the installation from CD. Traci paul haine wrote: So far I have tried the CD only. When using the PCPLUS cd-rom i cannot create a boot disk, I get the message LoadLibrary16 failed! I have tried to set the bios to boot from CD, but my bios doesnt handle that. It can only boot from disk or hd. Make sure that the cd is in the drive and then go to the MSDOS command prompt, and type d:\dosutils\rawrite.exe, where d: is your cd drive. You should be able to create a bootdisk this way. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] avoid YAMAHA Audio Chips
The commercial OSS drivers have excellent support for the Yamaha sound chips. You do have to pay a little extra but for $25 you can get some use out of that Yamaha sound card. Traci Denis Havlik wrote: Yamaha + linux = problems. Avoid these peskies if you can. Yamaha stil does not get it, and their chips are mostly unsupported. By the way, Xwave QS3000A is also from Yamaha. AVOID, AVOID, AVOID. cu Denis - Mag^H^H^HDr. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Text Mode Install When Starting Install from DOS
Hi! I am attempting to install Mandrake 7.0-2 on a laptop which can have either a floppy disk or a CDROM but not both. I need to use the installation method which lets me start from DOS. My laptop uses the CT6 chipset which is listed in the supported hardware list but I am unable to see the DrakX screen when I do the graphical install. My problem is that I would like to do a text install which is started from DOS. When I use the autoboot.bat file to start the installation from DOS I don't get the prompt which lets my type in Text and choose the text mode installer. I would like to edit the bat file so that I can invoke the text mode, either by getting the prompt or by giving the right command to get into the text mode immediately. Can anyone help me figure out what I need to do? Axalon? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Problems With Linux4Win on a Laptop
Linux4Win sounded like the perfect technology to use to play with Linux on my laptop. The laptop uses the Chips and Technologies 6 video chipset and has an active matrix screen set to 800X600 resolution. I checked the Mandrake home page and the 6 is listed as supported under Mandrake 7. I began the Linux4Win installation process, I performed the pre-installation processes described in the demo spotlight on the Mandrake home page but when the graphical installer was supposed to start up it was impossible to see what was said on my screen. I could see a ghost of a penguin near the top of the screen but the bulk of the screen was completely black and unreadable. Does anyone know if there are any switches for Linux4Win that will force it to give me a text based installation manager up until the point that it lets me choose my X configuration with the CT6 controller? Obviously the simple graphics which should run on anything don't run on my laptop. Is there another way to approach the problem? -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Problems With Linux4Win on a Laptop
The problem is that I loose the ability to see my screen before I have the opportunity to pick the expert mode. Drakx goes graphical before it lets you choose which of the modes you want. I need to be able to tell the lnx4win installation not to go graphical until after I have had that opportunity. It seems to be very prepackaged to work exactly one way, which is good, but I am hoping that Mandrake left in some switches to handle the exceptional cases. I can't find those switches documented if they exist. I'm hoping that I just missed the right document and that someone can point me toward it. Traci lewillia wrote: Did you run in expert installation mode... ? this should then give you the full options on install, ie: X configuration. -- Many Thanks. C i s c o S y s t e m s Lee Williams Virtual Desk Technology Lead EMEA Special Projects |||| Cisco Systems, Inc. |||| ..:||:..:||:.. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] RPM for GRIO or KRIO?
Hi! I'm looking for an RPM for the Gnome or KDE Rio utilities, does anyone know where to find them? I have checked RPMfind and Freshmeat but all I am coming up with are tarballs. Any help getting pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: with a standard dvd my cd-r just spits them backout. Will it write to a standard cd-r? According to the manufacturer's web page, no. I haven't gotten the drive yet so I'm not sure from personal experience. I suspect I can trust them on this. I think it's safe to assume booting from a dvd isn't a major problem SuSE is doing it. Basicly what was done was just to allow for a 4gig iso9660 filesystem. Okay, I already have a normal DVD drive on this box and I have been booting CDs from it but never a DVD since software isn't usually distributed that way. It is good to hear that at least one of the distributions is doing it. cdrecord is your only option barring another OS. I remeber hearing about a packet driver maybe being started, but don't know what became of it. Standard usage of even cd-rw drives use cdrecord's -blank switch to re prep the disk for a re-write. I was afraid of that SIGH. Oh well, since you have heard that cdrecord works with DVD-Ram it isn't that big a deal. At least there is a solution that works GRIN. Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] DVD-RAM?
There seems to be a lot of information out there about using the recordable CD formats but I was wondering, does anyone know what is involved in getting started with a scsi DVD-RAM drive? Is there an FAQ or project you can point me to? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: _basicly_ it's no different than any other cdwriter. execute cdrecord -scanbus and it should pick it up no problem. You just need to make sure you don't go over the size when you do your mkisofs. Theres maybe a link on the cdrecord homepage to a gui util that won't whine about going over 650 megs. There was a link at one time to an observatory useing cdrecord to burn thier dvd's. I found the second link but I wasn't sure it would directly apply to me since I didn't have daily data requirements of that size. I am still fuzzy about a couple of things, if you don't mind continuing to help I would like to ask a couple of followup questions. Once I have sent an ISO image to my DVD-Ram disk can the resultant disk be read by a standard CD-ROM drive as long as I keep the size under 650 megs? If not, can it at least be booted in a DVD-ROM drive to do things like operating system installs? When I am just using a DVD-Ram disk for backup or extra storage space do I even have to use something like cdrecord? Or since it is a scsi drive and I have a working scsi driver can I put an ext2 fs on it and just copy or move things to it via normal linux commands? I think I will understand the role of the cdwriter program a bit better if I have the answer to these three questions. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] 100 fonts in SO51a -- the rest of the story!
Benjamin Sher wrote: Anybody know what's going on? Is there a pattern? I would suspect that documents that were created before you did your upgrade would offer you the smaller number of fonts and that documents created after the upgrade would offer you the 100 fonts. Just a guess but consistent with the way I have seen other word processing programs work over the years. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Strange Jumping Between Virtual Desktops
Barry Marler wrote: In Enlightenment, disable "edge flip". /b It makes me feel better to know that I am approaching this the way the rest of you would approach it. Unfortunately, that was the first thing I did and it resolved the problem of flipping when I got too close to the edge. It failed to resolve the problem of the strange jumps when I select an option that creates a new window. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Strange Jumping Between Virtual Desktops
Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: I had a similar situation. I cured it by turning off Active Desktop Borders in the KDE Control Center/Desktop/Borders. Hope this helps. It might, my problem is happening in Gnome but there may be a similar setting. I will hunt and see if I can track it down. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Netscape Messenger Fails to Open in Just One of My User Accounts
Hi! I just upgraded to Mandrake 6.1 by reformatting everything but /home and doing a clean install. Then I removed Netscape 4.61 and installed the glibc version of Netscape 4.7 since Mandrake had not yet posted 4.7 rpms on the update page. Everything seems to be working pretty well except in one of my user accounts. In that account Netscape refuses to open Messenger. I have chosen to have Messenger open automagically whenever Netscape is invoked but in that one account it fails to open. If I choose the Communicator menu and the Messenger option it also fails to open. There is no error message and it always fails. Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a fix for this? -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Strange Jumping Between Virtual Desktops
I find that whenever I choose an option in one of my programs that involves opening a new window that there is a 1/3 probability that instead of opening the window I will suddenly jump from virtual desktop 0 to virtual desktop 4. When I go back to desktop 0 and retry the operation it usually works. There isn't any error message. I am using Mandrake 6.1, Gnome and Enlightenment, and I have applied the 6.1 updates using the KDE upgrade utility from my root account. I installed Mandrake 6.1 by formatting everything except for my /home partition and performing a clean installation. This isn't a big deal but it does happen often enough to be irritating. Does anyone have a suggestion about how I might be able to fix this problem? -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Recreating the standard Mandrake Desktop Icons under 6.1, Gnome and Enlightenment
Hi! I recently upgraded to 6.1 by reformatting everything except for my /home partition and doing a clean install. Once that was done I went ahead and recreated my users. This always destroys the standard Mandrake icons on each user account's desktop and in the past I have used the recreate desktop option which was available for gnome by right mouse clicking on the desktop. The right mouse button menu has been dramatically changed in 6.1, mostly for the better, but the recreate desktop option has been removed. I have found an option to recreate the KDE desktop under the KDE menu but I can't find an option to recreate the gnome desktop anywhere. Does anyone know which script recreates the gnome desktop and where I might find that script? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Strange Jumping Between Virtual Desktops
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, you wrote: I find that whenever I choose an option in one of my programs that involves opening a new window that there is a 1/3 probability that instead of opening the window I will suddenly jump from virtual desktop 0 to virtual desktop 4. When I go back to desktop 0 and retry the operation it usually works. There isn't any error message. Well, I don't know, but it might help if you told us what program it is. :-) John Actually, any program. It happens from the panel when I select a launcher to start a program or it happens inside a program like within Netscape when I want to reply to an e-mail. Any where I make a choice that launches a window I can get dumped into virtual desktop 4 and if that happens the window will remain unlaunched. It happens less than half the time but often enough to be irritating. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Post 6.1 Issues
A couple of small problems after installing Mandrake 6.1... The right mouse button on the desktop used to bring up a context menu which let me choose to reconstruct my Gnome desktop. Now it brings up an entire menuing system which looks like it will be much more useful in the long run. Unfortunately, I need to reconstruct my user desktops now that I have recreated my user accounts with my old home directories. Where is the option for recreating the gnome desktop located under 6.1? Also, what is the drag bar that is available from Enlightenment? What would I use one for? -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Upgrade Problems - HELP!
Hi! I am attempting to use the upgrade icon to bring my Mandrake 6.0 Powertools CD distribution up to speed in security and other areas. Everything seemed to be working the first time I tried but there was a problem downloading the first RPM. I attempted to abort and try again but every since that attempt I have a problem. My error message tells me that it can't set the share lock on the RPM database and it core dumps on me immediately after establishing contact with the mirror and attempting to download the update list. Obviously my first attempt left a lock in the wrong state or something similar. Does anyone know how to clear whatever this error is and restore my state to what it was before my first update attempt so that I can run the update routine again? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [Re: [[newbie] In Search of an Email Client capable of Multiple Accounts]]
Mahogany is an x based e-mail program that supports multiple e-mail accounts within the same user account. It makes life so much simpler than all the logging out and logging in all the time. Traci Murray Strome wrote: Yes, I do log in and out of the separate accounts. It does not take long, and in fact, I find it to be more difficult than what I do in Outlook -- show properties and select the profile I want to use. I know that I can check into the other accounts without doing that, but the problem then is that the E-mail I collect from the other ones ends up in the "wrong" inbox. Another problem with Outlook that I NEVER have with the way I use Netscape in LINUX is that all too frequently, after I have switched accounts a few times, Outlook locks up and I have to log out in Windows and re-login -- which is much more painful and slower than in Linux. Anyway, I find this works best for me. Murray Strome Michael Scottaline wrote: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Netscape for multiple accounts. Basically, I have set up the system with separate users for each account. When I log in to a new user for the first time, I set up Netscape (Edit; Preferences; E-mail/Newsgroups; then Identity and Servers) for that user. Everything works very for me that way (in fact, a LOT better than Outlook, which I use in Windows 98) Murray Strome Murray, Are you saying that you set Messenger up for each of your separate linux accounts? If so, then you have to log into and out of each user account to check e-mail. Or do I misunderstand? Can a single user check multiple POP3 accounts from Messenger?? I didn't think NS Messenger could handle multiple POP3 accounts the way kmail (Or Outlook Express for that matter) can. They'll even periodically check multiple accounts "on the fly". Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Applications from CD
"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: Use the rpm command to query the package and list all of the files it installs. You'd use rpm -ql name-of-installed-package for a package that's installed, or rpm -qlp filename to query an rpm file. Alternatively you could use kpackage or gnorpm but those are slower than using the command line. That will list every file that the package installs. Look at the list of files; the binary file used to run the program will probably be in a 'bin' directory (like /usr/bin) and the location of help files (if there are any included in the package) will probably be apparent too. I hope that helps you. :) I think it will, it gives me a location and a name. You can do a lot with a location and a name GRIN. Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] after upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0 any major upadtes I need?
Ken Wilson wrote: Click on the updates icon in KDE. Pick a site and then select the upgrades you need. I usually just get them all. The download and installation of the packages is automatic. Does this work for all the Mandrake upgrades or just the KDE upgrades? I normally run in Gnome but I wouldn't mind firing the system up in KDE every now and then to simplify the upgrade process. Does this do the kernal upgrades too? Once you have used the KDE updates icon with a kernal upgrade is there anything else you need to do? -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Applications from CD
Hi! The Powerpack release of Mandrake 6.0 includes a CD of personal use and demo applications. There is a folder for each application, inside each folder there is an RPM and a short text file which describes what the program does but not how to launch or use it once the rpm is installed. Is there an FAQ on the application CD somewhere that provides at least terse instructions for launching and using the applications? I have searched around on the Mandrake site and discovered descriptions of each app that match the descriptions on the CD but I haven't found any launching and using instructions anywhere. Probably a silly question but it would be nice to be able to use some of these apps. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Saving Window Positions
I'm sorry, but, now I am really confused. What does partition management have to do with saving window positions for my favorite applications? I did read about diskdrake and it sounds like a great project, I may even replace my copy of Partition Magic with it, but neither program will make my favorite applications always open in the same place on my screen each time I execute them. Or at least I don't think so and I don't understand how it would be possible that they would. I'm willing to be educated but this sounds entirely too weird on first hearing. Traci Gerry Doyon wrote: Have your heard about the new partion utility from Mandrake called "DiskDrake" ? Take a look at it at this location: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake Traci Collins wrote: Kenton Riley wrote: Hi! I am new to Mandrake, and only slightly more experienced with gnome. The single most irritating feature of graphical environments under Linux is that apps don't seem to remember their screen position the next time they are opened. Is there a way to configure gnome under mandrake so that my apps will remember where I put them? I know I can save a workspace but I don't think that is what I want. I don't want these apps to begin execution when I login to my account, which is what I think would happen if I saved the workspace when I logged off the account. All I want them to do is remember where I put them and always open to that location no matter when I launch them. Is that possible? If so, can you point me toward a faq where I can learn how to do it? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] Saving Window Positions
Axalon wrote: If you use gnome with enlightenment for the windowmanager, you'll find a save settings option (towards the bottom) when you alt-right_button on an application. This is the only windowmanager i know that does this, it's generaly left upto the application to save it's own size and shape, and the window manager for positioning. Thanks, that was exactly what I needed to know. I hadn't noticed the alt-right_button menu before. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] Saving Window Positions
Kenton Riley wrote: Hi! I am new to Mandrake, and only slightly more experienced with gnome. The single most irritating feature of graphical environments under Linux is that apps don't seem to remember their screen position the next time they are opened. Is there a way to configure gnome under mandrake so that my apps will remember where I put them? I know I can save a workspace but I don't think that is what I want. I don't want these apps to begin execution when I login to my account, which is what I think would happen if I saved the workspace when I logged off the account. All I want them to do is remember where I put them and always open to that location no matter when I launch them. Is that possible? If so, can you point me toward a faq where I can learn how to do it? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
