Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before
On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:01 am, Aron Smith wrote: I have 2 systems both running Mdk 10.1 there is one monitor connected with a KVM switch. tonight it started flipping from one computer to the other on a 4 sec cycle any body seen this before? Check your KVM switch. Many KVM switches have a key combination to put it in auto scan mode, which allows you to cycle through each PC with a delay which you can usually set. It sounds like you might have inadvertently found the key combination needed for that... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot execute ssh client application
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 07:46 pm, Janis Donald wrote: Hi, I have Mandrake 10.1 installed. When I try to run the ssh client as a normal user, I get the following error: $ ssh 192.168.0.2 -bash: /usr/bin/ssh: Permission denied When I 'su', I have no problem launching the application. How do I let regular users access the ssh client (or any other 'blocked' applications for that matter. I searched everywhere, but have not found any answers. Hi Janis. Typically, /usr/bin/ssh is only executable by root and anyone in the ntools group (if you 'stat /usr/bin/ssh', it should show it's owned by root, and the ntools group, and the permissions are probably 0750). Make sure your normal users are part of that group (as a secondary group), and they should be able to execute ssh without a problem. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Web hosting - dynamic IP address
What about any of these? http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/clients.html On Monday 10 January 2005 21:21, amalasingh wrote: Folks, My ISP does not provide a dynamic IP address. I have bought a domain from www.dnsexit.com and trying to use the perl script to update the domain when IP address changes. But it does not work. Could you please give me better scripts for dealing with Dynamic DNS. Cheers Amala Singh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia
On Monday 10 January 2005 02:53 am, Maureen wrote: Hi all, I'm fixing to rebuild the puter and have heard horror stories about nvidia. I have been using the download version of Mandrake 10.1, the powerpack. Some one said that the download version for club members doesn't have the nvidia drivers only the pay for pack does. Can anyone verify this, I don't want to get a mother board with nvidia if it isn't addressed by the OS. TIA, Maureen I can say that I have built some 8 Linux based machines in the past year - most of them running Mandrake Linux. I used NVidia cards in every one of them (nothing cutting edge, but I have an NVidia FX 5200 in this machine, running 8x AGP), and all of them work incredibly well. I've had enough success with NVidia that I know that I will stick with them, if that makes a difference... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bandwidth limiting
On Sunday 09 January 2005 08:57 pm, Miark wrote: I'd like a simple commandline or GUI app to limit outgoing bandwidth from my FTP server. Any suggestions? Miark Hi Miark. I assume from your posts on the expert list that you're running ProFTPd. With that being the case, you're going to need to use the 'TransferRate' directive: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_TransferRate.html That directive should do all you need it to and then some... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Saturday 01 January 2005 02:51 pm, JoeHill wrote: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... Do people with faster systems see faster load times for this than I do (admittedly, relatively slow)? First time through - about 6 seconds. Second time loaded - almost 3 seconds. System specs below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3's]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 1997.448 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips: 3956.73 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3's]$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1034552 kB MemFree: 4824 kB Buffers: 10308 kB Cached: 598736 kB SwapCached: 57820 kB Active: 810464 kB Inactive:32384 kB HighTotal: 131008 kB HighFree: 252 kB LowTotal: 903544 kB LowFree: 4572 kB SwapTotal: 2097104 kB SwapFree: 1954452 kB Dirty: 512 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 304128 kB Slab: 170892 kB Committed_AS: 813744 kB PageTables: 2840 kB VmallocTotal: 114680 kB VmallocUsed: 24896 kB VmallocChunk:88184 kB -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sunday 02 January 2005 05:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: There's so many factors involved, tho, if you look at Randall's stats his OO opens in the same amount of time as mine, and he's got a freakin' monster. Could be the OO version, could be a lot of things. *But*, with RAM bein' so stinkin' cheap, why the hell not, eh? Hehe, actually this machine is somewhat weak compared to the ones I get to play with at work. We've got a couple of dual 2.8GHz Xeon's with 2 gigs of ram on'em (dual channel DDR 400), and they're about the same. I think it's mostly due to the fact that OO is just a BIG program, and requires more than a couple of seconds to start. This machine I built has been mostly optimized for file serving anyway. It's got ample storage space available, though I'm about ready to go buy a few more drives for it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 30G 6.9G 21G 25% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 2.0G 36M 1.9G 2% /boot /dev/md/0 294G 246G 33G 89% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 20G 5.9G 13G 32% /usr /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 19G 422M 17G 3% /var I'm thinking it's about time to build one of those dual Xeon systems for my home PC... Might be nice to play with ;-) -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firewall
On Thursday 30 December 2004 02:31 pm, neo wrote: could someone tell me a good firewall for mandrake 10.1 thank you I've been using Firehol (http://firehol.sourceforge.net/) successfully for about a year now (on half a dozen Linux machines - some being servers, some being just desktop units, and then my home PC as well). There's no GUI, etc., but it is VERY thorough. It takes one single configuration file, and you can actually do advanced stuff with your firewall (for instance, one of our machines has dual nic cards due to the fact it sits on the internal network AND the external network - I use the same configuration file for 4 servers, and it has a section for eth1 which is only executed IF there is an eth1 - which would be on that one particular server. This way I have scripts that grab the firewall off of the main server when it's changed, and then it restarts Firehol, so we do not have to go in and manually copy the firewall files and restart Firehol, etc.). There are numerous example configuration files, which actually make things look harder than what they have to be, but is also a good way to see what it's capable of. You can also use things like iptables tarpit with it too. The possibilities are endless - but you can have the firewall up and running with 10 minutes of installing it - and if you've created firewalls with it before, then you can have one on a new machine within a minute or so. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source for 9.2??
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 9:59 am, cervixcouch wrote: I feel kinda doofy asking this, but where do I find the kernel source from the installation CDs? I'm trying to install software that needs to find it in /usr/src/linux. I've looked at all three CDs but haven't seen anything that appears to be the source for my kernel (2.4.22.10mdk). When I went into MCC and did a search for 'kernel' in the package manager, I got a higher kernel version than the one I have. What is the kernel src called on the disks? Is it called something obscure, like bimbos-on-juice.2.4.22.10mdk, and I'm just too braindead to catch it??? Yeah, I know I can download it from various places online, but I assumed it would be installable from the installation CDs, like it was in 7.2. Actually, 9.2 didn't include the kernel source on the CD's (for whatever reason). Your only option is to download it from the web... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MPAA goes after BitTorrent
On Thursday 16 December 2004 5:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: True - but after a little thought it was agreed that he had not acted illegally. Of course things have to be challenged in a court of law in order to set precedences - that's certainly how things work here, anyway. As for your last remark, who could disagree? It never fails to amaze me how many good and sensible people I have met all over, yet we all elect governments and create law systems that make us shake our head with disbelief. Well, the court system in America does tend to be a little overzealous when it comes to individuals suing others or companies (ie. the woman who sued McDonald's because she spilled a cup of their hot coffee in her lap, or the guy who sued a house owner because he was breaking into it and fell through the roof). The bad part about it is, there are lawyers out there who will try anything, and the court system tends to lean in their favor at times. As long as there are stupid people out there, there will be stupid lawsuits, awarded by stupid politicians. It's one of those I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine kind of deals. Since Shawn Fanning got the worlds attention with media sharing agents, there are those who now know the get rich quick scheme is to go after the users and the providers - which I don't think solves the problem - it just makes it worse. Those who are sued by the MPAA then all of a sudden feel like they have a reason to share files - they bought it. Ah well, it's one of those things that'll never be totally solved, but there's gotta' be a better solution than making companies like the MPAA even richer... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login
On Monday 13 December 2004 08:04 pm, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I login as root ? In fact, the problem is even worse. I have deleted that account too and now a window just ask me for password and nothing is accepted. Noe my system is completely dangled thanks to mndk, anybody help ? urgent... Thanks, Danesh 1a) If you know the root password, reboot your system, and when the menu comes up for Grub (it should show your kernel as one of the boot options), hit the letter 'e', and then 'e' again. You will now be editing the options for that particular kernel - add ' init 3' to the line, and then hit enter. Hit 'b' to boot from it. This will put you into command line mode. If that's the case, skip on to #2 1b) If you do NOT know the root password, put the Mandrake 10.1 Official CD in, and reboot your system. Go into rescue mode, and it'll drop you to the command line. Let it find your default installation, and then type: mount /mnt/sysimage This will chroot you into your Linux setup, and you'll be at the command line, ready to add a new user. 2) Create a normal user: adduser -p password myusername Be sure to replace 'myusername' with the username you want to use, and replace password with your new password. 3) Set the root password as well: passwd newrootpassword Now you can reboot the system again (pop out the CD if need be), then type: reboot Once it comes back up, you'll be able to log in as the new user, and you can of course then su to root as necessary. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login
On Monday 13 December 2004 08:49 pm, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: 2) Create a normal user: adduser -p password myusername Correction - it's expecting an already encrypted password. Take out the '-p password' above, and set the password form the command line: passwd myusername That should do it for you. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:09 am, Danesh Daroui wrote: I see... :-) Well, I hope so, because Mandrake Linux is at least more userfriendly with nice user interface. But you know, the problem is that I can not update it at all. It always says that there is problem with contacting mirror sites and last time it says that update agent should be re-added again or something like that, however my internet connection is working fine and I have installed Mandrake 10.1 from an attached DVD to Linux Format magazine. So, how can I update its kerner and of course other parts if any update waqs available ? Regards, You're going to find that 10.1 is really bleeding edge - it's still very new, so there are going to be issues with it. Luckily, people are reporting the problems they find, so updates will soon render these issues a non issue. If you're wanting stability, you're probably better off with 10.0. I myself am a RedHat convert, and love the ease of use of Mandrake, and while other distros have similar package managers and such, I still prefer what I have found with Mandrake Linux, and don't plan on going anywhere else. I'm sure once you get the wrinkles ironed out you'll feel the same way :-) -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)
On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:11 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Actually, they do. My boss and I both have Sandisk Mini Cruzers (256 megs), and they work like a charm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake]$ mount /mnt/sandisk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake]$ df /mnt/sandisk/ FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 245M 60M 185M 25% /mnt/sandisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake]$ lsusb Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0781:5150 SanDisk Corp. Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0458:0007 KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:0401 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5200c Bus 001 Device 001: ID : It just needed this one line added to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/sandisk auto noauto,rw,users 0 0 -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)
On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:46 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: i gave mine away to a windows user (where it worked fine [xp]) when it locked up 9.2 as soon as i plugged it into the usb port. i replaced it with a kingston data traveller which has never required any special handling on 9.2 10.0 and 10.1. Understood. I've been using it between Mandrake Linux 10.0, 9.2, and Windows XP. Have one machine that's SuSE that I'd like to try it on. Luckily I've never experienced any problems with it no matter which machine I've used it on, so for that I am thankful. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Thursday 11 November 2004 4:54 pm, Jack wrote: Okay, I've spent a couple of months playing with Mandrake Linux (10.1 community) and here are my (unsolicited) impressions: 1 - I like the interface a lot. It is very customizable and, well... downright fun!!! 2 - It appears to be rock solid in the programs that it will install, and incidentally, there are tons of free programs available for it. 3 - It avoids that tedious Windows process of having to restart almost everytime you install a program. 4 - Being able to drop down into console mode and having the flexibility to further drop down into root is awesome! 5 - Download speeds seem to be better than in Windows. 6 - Security is better than in Windows and pushing the user to create a non-root account is a wise move. But unfortunately, I still don't think it's ready for primetime and here's why: 1 - It never did see my Canon D760 copier/printer. 2 - Couldn't get my nvidia video capture to work, despite help from experts like Anne Wilson. 3 - Couldn't upgrade to KDE 3.3, despite having the CD for it and despite help from experts like Randall. I spent *weeks* on this. Nothing I tried worked, nor did any suggestions work. 4 - I use voice recognition extensively (Dragon NS and IBM ViaVoice). I don't believe this even exists for Linux. 5 - Most damning of all was my attempted upgrade to 10.1 official. I completely wiped my drive to do a clean install, and after everything was said and done, the official version could not find the internet, nor my onboard (Asus P4P800) sound card. 10.0 had no trouble finding these 2, nor did the community version of 10.1. Luckily for me, I had imaged the drive beforehand, so I was able to go back to 10.1 community. 6 - I spent the $170 or so bucks to become a silver club member, but not once have I received an answer from Mandrake when I found myself stuck. I was also forced to install Bit Torrent to download the new ISO's after have waited for over 2 weeks (in vain) after my request for FTP access. (I *hate* peer to peer networks and I didn't appreciate being forced to use one, even though it did turn out to be pretty fast. I consider peer to peer a security risk.) A mature operating system should not encounter these problems, I have a pretty standard Intel 2.6 gz system with 512 mb of ram, and Windows has never had a problem configuring my setup. I see great potential in Linux and I will maintain my dual-boot system, slowly learning to survive in Linux while waiting (and hoping) for the operating system to mature to a more usable state... - Jack This isn't a remark to Jack - this is mostly to those who don't agree with what he said... Remember when you guys were new to Linux? I'm sure about 90% of you thought the same way. I know I did. There is a substantial learning curve to Linux - you cannot go to a software store and buy software for Linux (at least not that I've seen), and when you purchase a printer, video card, or any number of other computer related hardware, it's Windows that they support, not Linux. There are still lots of things that are lacking in Linux - mostly due to the fact that the companies who build the hardware get locked into providing just Windows drivers for it, and so it leaves it to people who have no real knowledge of the hardware to try to write drivers for it in Linux. Yes, Linux has come a long way - but it still doesn't have that easy installation and total all around support for hardware that Windows has. That being said, Jack, you ARE on the right track. Getting into the newsgroups and asking is definitely the way to go. For the most part, the Linux community is really good about sharing information, and there are solutions for most of the problems, whether it's just a simple hack or a total recompile. You will also ALWAYS step on someone elses toes with any opinion you make, so don't let that get to you. Everyone else has an opinion too, and it's just human to want to say your part. In my opinion, Linux HAS come a long way. It still has a long ways to go. That's why developers work on it constantly, updating, rewriting apps, etc., to make it better. When you think it is as good as it needs to be, well, you're in the same boat the Microsoft developers are in. See where that gets Windows users? Linux may never have the same ease of use that Windows has been incorporated with (for the most part), but therein lies its strength. Once you learn HOW to install something, you are that much more knowledgable for the next go round. You also don't have to worry about software installing itself over the network automatically, as is the case with Windows and worms. That's MY 2 cents worth... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Friday 12 November 2004 10:07 pm, JoeHill wrote: LOL! Okay, I shouldn't o' had that last hit of acid... Hehehe... Well I'm a wasted rock ranger... I live the life of danger On the road to find a higher high! ;-) -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] virus
On Saturday 23 October 2004 08:04 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote: I keep getting things from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am well aware that I did not send this and so assume that a lot of the spam I get is from a bogus adress. Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a virus... I only had to say I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus. That and check out the headers - that's what tells the truth. I recently had about 10 viruses come into my inbox, and the funny thing is, they were all supposed to be FROM me TO me. Doing a little checking, I found out that one of my contacts had gotten a virus, and of course it was spoofing everything. What happens is, the virus raids their address book, and randomly sends out viruses to everyone in that address book, and it picks a random user from the address book to spoof from. It took all of about 30 seconds to figure out where it was coming from - I ended up going over to her office and cleaning up the system, and the emails disappeared. Funny how that works... We bought this computer, our first, 6 years ago. I have files, saved through reformatting, from 3 months in to working with Win98. My experience prior to that was with just DOS machines. I realize that all Windaze dose is to work dos for you. A rather silly thing if you ask me. Yep... Actually, in XP (and possibly in 2000), it's the other way around I believe... Everything is run from the within the Windows environment, and the dos prompt is just an emulation of Dos gone by. Either way, it's all about the same in the Windows world... That said, I must say, that I have not been tempted to upgrade to a newer Win version. I abelong to a Win list and have come to the conclusion that 98, maybe 98SE, are the pinacle of Win developement. I would like a newer computer that is a bit faster but 98 is doing the job. When we do it will be linux. I actually prefer 2000 over the rest of the Windows versions, mostly because it LOOKS like 98 but is easier on the eyes. Then again, who's counting votes? Hehe My son, poor guy, decided that he needed to improve and so went to 2000 and ME (I think that ME was to convince people that they needed XP). He wants nothing to do with Windoze what so ever. He still does have an ME machine but I got email from him off his linux machine (kmail). He did not get his system straightened out throught the information that I ineptly got from this list but he did find some other resourses on his computer (documentation) that has helped greatly that he found through some of the (undoubtedly grabled) info that I tried to give him over the phone. He has been rooting through your archives also. Seems to think that there is good stuff there. Actually ME was a version of 98 which they were trying to port over to NT... It came out WAY ahead of time as far as the development goes, and it was just bad all the way around. Windows 2000 was a whole new design (from the ground up) with the look of 98SE, so it worked a lot better. As far as searching through the Mandrake Linux archives, you can't get much better than this. He will find that Google is his friend though (especially Google Linux - http://www.google.com/linux). I have had the guts to try Mandrake Move. Yes had to change my bios settings to boot from the CD. Was impressed with the speed working off a CD. I do have a 3 CD version (download I think of 9.2) and have a some what older machine that needs only a couple of things to work that may well get that loaded on to it in the next few months. Sounds good. I think you'll love it when you do switch over... Back to the virus stuff. I just seent that in because I thought that it was information that someone may want. I have never had a virus because we do not have our adress all over the web and I had Norton system Works installed when we bought this thing and I keep it updated and actually run it. We also have Spybot Search and Destroy. Between that and not installing MS Outlook and using Netscape 7.1 with fairly high security settings, we seem to do all right. Our ISP seems to have a good filter too which is a fairly new development. Yeah - I do IT work on a bunch of PC's at work, and I always put on Spybot SD (with the teatime settings), Ad-Aware, and we purchased CleanMyPC registry cleaner. With that I've been able to get rid of all the extra unnecssary junk on those systems. The final thing I did was put an actual administrator account on the system, and put the users in a limited account. That prevents quite a bit of garbage from collecting as well. Needless to say, with me running Linux, I never have to worry about any of that. The biggest security risk we have is a 13 year old with the normal lack of descretion in where he goes on the web. I know that about half the sites he visits try to install spyware. So far they have not. All I can say is that if we can avoid
Re: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem
On Friday 22 October 2004 10:28 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Why not simply use ssh? It's very much more secure and allows you total remote control. With X forwarding enabled (default in MDK) and a fast connection you can run any app (including VNC-server) on a remote client whereas with a slow connection the commandline is your friend. I sometimes monitor and troubleshoot my home-server on a 56K gprs connection and my treo (palm PDA combined with GSM phone) using ssh:) To add to that, if you start using SSH, you can set your PC aside and not even hook up a monitor, keyboard, or mouse (most motherboards have an entry in their BIOS to halt on all errors, halt on no errors, halt on keyboard,disk, etc. - you'll want to set it to halt on no errors, so that the machine will not halt the bootup process if it can't detect a keyboard, etc.). Once that's done, you can simply plug the box into the wall and plug in a network cable and let it rip... You can then just SSH into the box to make any kind of modifications you need (you can even run the remote desktop from that particular PC using XDMCP or NXServer)... On a decent network, you'll think you were sitting at the box you're working on, and meanwhile your server is just sitting off by itself running like a top. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] virus
On Friday 22 October 2004 07:39 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote: A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the original message has been placed into the greymail quarantine area. To review the text only portion of the message, you may log into your greymail area and click on the message(s) in red. I do not know that this has to do with Russell W. Behne, but I also get things that claim to come from me inspite of increased security at rangeweb and constant attention to security by my security guy (me) to virus and spyware crap (have never had a virus). The subject line is Re: Hello. I am surely not trying to cast any doubt on anyone here. I do think that this my be something that would need the attention of everyone on the list. This may be a breach of security at my ISP. I am not calling them this weekend. Have been sorting cattle for shipment all day and ship tomorow and Tuesday. Am not up to interigation. Decided I did need to send this to you good folks, though. By the way, got an e-mail from my son today from his Linux machine. He will probably be inflicting himself on you directly. I he is happy with his machine, mine will be heading that way very soon. Hi Tom. I wouldn't seriously worry about it - lots of these viruses nowdays are spoofing their from addresses anyway, and trying to track down the real culprit isn't always easy. The best thing to do is to keep YOUR machines updated (if you're on Windows, install adequate virus protection and don't intentionally open any attachment that comes through, even if it shows to be someone you trust), and if you're having doubts about the integrity of your own machine, then go the extra mile to make sure it's not. If you're wondering about someone elses PC, well, let them take care of that - it's their problem (someone will let them know about it sooner or later, and it'll no doubt be someone who has a little more time on their hands). Most of us on this list run strictly Linux, or at least a dual boot system where they hide out in Linux as often as they can, learning it as they go. I myself have been on nothing but Linux for the past 5 years or so (except for one of my systems at work which I'm required to run XP on, but hey, if it was easy then it wouldn't be work), and frankly, viruses don't even catch a second look from me. Give it some time - I'm sure you and your son will be the same way... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-source-2.x.x.rpm versus kernel-2.x.x.src.rpm?
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 08:57 pm, Sevatio wrote: What's the difference between kernel-source-2.x.x.rpm and kernel-2.x.x.src.rpm? Could you make one with the other? Thanks, Sevatio Hi Sevatio. The kernel-source-2.x.x.rpm file is the one you want for building other files which depend on the kernel header files - that's the source code that was actually used to build the kernel, in a ready to install module. What you do with that source is pretty much up to you. The kernel-2.x.x.src.rpm file is used to actually build the RPM's which make up the kernels for your system PLUS the kernel-source RPM. When you rebuild it using rpmbuild, it will generate a regular kernel, an SMP kernel, an enterprise kernel, a kernel capable of handling memory up to 4 gigs, and the RPM file for the kernel-source as well. So, for the sake of simplicity, you want the kernel-source. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Sunday 17 October 2004 10:30 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Ok I did chmod which alowed me to execute the file but now I get this error. unable to build the nvidia kernel module interface, then unable to add a precompiled kernel interface for the running kernel BTW I have tryed this in smp and single kernel just to check the errors and they were both the same. I have also tryed the nvidia 5336 installer which complains about not finding a matching source for the kernel. Morning Dan. Sorry for the late reply - but Monday mornings come really early for me, so I've got to get a little rest before coming to the office ;-) OK, do me a favor. Please post the output from the next couple of commands when you have time: $ rpm -qa | grep kernel This should list off the kernel packages you have installed... $ uname -r This will list the kernel version you are currently using. Then, how about also posting the contents of /var/log/nvidia-installer.log as well. This might give us more information than what the installer is giving you (it tends to be a little terse when giving out info, but the log file helps you figure out what's actually going wrong). This should help us find something that might be causing the problem. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Monday 18 October 2004 12:17 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: I have only one question that has not been clear to me. uname -r tells me my kernel is 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp so for the set EXTRAVERSION part would I put 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp or -10mdksmp ? Should just be -10mdksmp Thanks for all your help Randall Not a problem at all... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Monday 18 October 2004 09:32 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi Randall... My XP partition went poof. I think it was a faulty mbr. My Drive Image 7.0 image backup didn't work so I was forced to unhook my boot manager, rebuild XP with the repair function, and then re-install my boot manager. All told it took me 2 hours. This is not the first time fooling around with something in Linux has killed my XP partition. (You'd think having each operating system on separate disks would prevent these problems but it doesn't apparently.) It tends to make me wary but how does one learn without fooling around. :-) I have now abandoned Drive Image for Paragon Drive Backup 6.0 which comes highly recommended. It even uses Linux on it's recovery CD. I do *not* want to have to depend on Window's repair function. It takes as long as a full install. Paragon DB even images my Linux installation so now I should be doubly protected (though I would prefer to never have to find out if I truly am). - Jack Wow, sounds like you had a rough time of it Jack. I have been there done that - my MBR got wiped out on several occasions when I had a dual boot system. The one thing I did that solved that was to completely wipe out the Windows partition and go strictly Linux. Haven't had that problem since! ;-) I won't point fingers and tell you you need to drop Windows altogether though - I think it's just a matter of convenience - you have to have what you need to work AND play. Once you get comfortable enough with Linux, you'll probably drop Windows anyway. It gets to a point where you just can't deal with the gaping security holes and the way Microsoft tries to close them (it's like the little Dutch boy and the hole in the dam - but instead of Microsoft putting their finger in it, they put a boatload of new holes and then they tear down the walkway to get to it). That's just my humble opinion though... used to be you could start up in dos and give fdisk MBR and it would reset the windows bootup. Does this no longer work in 10.1? or 10.0? Anybody know? Dennis, I do believe you are correct there. The trick is to disconnect the Linux drive, and then use fdisk /mbr to fix the master boot record on the main drive. Actually, then you just swap the drives around so that Grub or Lilo and Linux is the main drive (hda), and then let Grub or Lilo reverse map the other drive so that Windows THINKS it's the only operating system on the first drive, while in reality it's the OTHER operating system on the second drive (this enables you to have many boot options, including multiple copies of Windows, etc.) -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Sunday 17 October 2004 12:00 am, Jack wrote: Yes I do. On another matter... Is it possible that Konstruct interfered with my winXP setup on c: drive? I just spent the last 2 hours recovering my windows system. I might have mentioned that I'm dual-booting. Does konstruct do anything to the c: drive (hda)? My linux is on hdc and nothing from here should touch hda. Actually no - not that I can see anyway. I grepped through the source, looking for anything to do with hda, and got nothing. I haven't read any reports of it messing with any other partitions either. What happened to the partition? I take it it was something that was able to be recovered? (no permanent damage?) -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'
On Saturday 16 October 2004 10:08 am, Boyi Zeng wrote: Hello, Yesterday I tried to install mandrake linux 10.1 to my notebook. The installation process is smooth. But I got problem at the startup after installation. The error message is like that: checking root partition: fsck.ext3: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/' I had windows XP in my notebook before. Now I used Grub to boot both systems. The configuration of grub is default, and there is no such string as 'LABEL=/'. Is there any one know what the problem is? Thank you Hi Boyi... You're saying that the grub configuraion file (menu.lst) has no reference to 'LABEL=/'? How about /etc/fstab? Typically, the root directory is mounted in read only mode first, then remounted in read/write mode. If it's trying to reference a label in fstab that isn't actually on the partition, it would certainly cause this problem. First, check your fstab file for something such as: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 If that shows, then it means it's trying to reference the boot partition by the label. You might have to figure out which partition is actually the boot partition, and then you could either: A) Change the line in fstab to read: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 (just for example) B) Set the label on the partition: # e2label /dev/hda5 / or # tune2fs -L / /dev/hda5 To see if the label was actually set (or what it currently is set to), enter: # e2label /dev/hda5 (or whatever you believe your root partition is) My default installation of Mandrake 10.0 Official made use of the /dev path instead of the label (which I would assume is much safer). I am not sure why yours went sour like that, but maybe you'll be able to fix it wihout reinstalling Mandrake... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Sunday 17 October 2004 09:15 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Hi Randall I cant seem to get it to build the new driver. I do ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --add-this-kernel and I get permision denied no matter how I do this as root or user. Hi Dan. Out of curiousity, what's the permissions on the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run file? Do the following: # stat NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run You should see something like: File: `NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run' Size: 8167999 Blocks: 15984 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 900h/2304d Inode: 32778 Links: 1 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 501/mandrake) Gid: ( 501/mandrake) Access: 2004-10-17 19:54:32.0 -0500 Modify: 2004-09-30 17:12:18.0 -0500 Change: 2004-10-05 21:55:03.0 -0500 If the executable bit isn't set, you won't be able to execute it, no matter which user you're trying to run it with. To correct it, simply type: # chmod 0755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run Then you should be able to execute the file without any problems. Let me know if that's indeed the problem, or if we should dive a little deeper into it. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Friday 15 October 2004 07:58 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: I tryed this but when trying to install nvidia drivers the error I get is something about not being able to determin the source version. I have had these problems with smp before so i think im just going to reinstall with a regular kernel and source and try again. Thanks for the info I may try this again soon but right now I need things running by tomorrow. Hi Dan. After preparing your source code (using the method I sent you earlier), go to your directory where you have the NVidia drivers. Run the file like so: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --add-this-kernal This will add your current kernel to the setup, and it will generate a new NVidia driver file. After that, go into init 3: # init 3 Then run the newly created file: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1-custom.run This will install the driver, and all you'll need to do is modify the XFree86Config-4 file to load the 'nvidia' module. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Saturday 16 October 2004 12:14 pm, Jack wrote: Is there any way of installing KDE 3.3 *without removing KDE 3.2*? I've read quite a few accounts of a straight KDE upgrade de-stabilizing some systems. I would like the option of simply logging in back to 3.2 if this should happen to my system. Anyone know how to do this? Hi Jack. You can use Konstruct to do this. Download the latest stable release from here: http://developer.kde.org/build/konstruct/ Make sure you have the following RPM's installed: autoconf2.5 tiff-devel libldap2-devel bzip2-devel With URPMI, just issue the following: # urpmi autoconf2.5 tiff-devel libldap2-devel bzip2-devel Make sure you go into text only mode before you start to build KDE: # init 3 Now, go into the konstruct directory and edit gar.conf.mk, making sure everything is set the way you want it (it defaults to setting up KDE in your home directory, but you can easily put it system wide - if you want to see my copy of the gar.conf.mk to do that, let me know). Now, just go into the meta/everything directory (if you want to build KDE with all of the utilities and whatnot), and just issue a 'make install'. Building KDE from scratch does indeed take awhile, even on a fairly fast machine. I built mine system wide, and I have been VERY impressed with it (I'm running 3.3.1). It took over 8 hours to download and compile (I'm running on an Athlon 2400+XP, with 1 gig of dual channel 333MHz RAM (running at 266MHz, with the compiler optimized for AMD Athlon XP), and a cable connection that nets me a download speed of over 635K per sec. from certain servers). So, as you can see, it'll take awhile no matter what you're using, but it's well worth the wait. The best thing to do is, start it before you go to bed, and when you get up in the morning just check to make sure it's not needing something else - more than likely, if you have those packages installed that I listed above, you won't need anything else. Just be patient and let it build, and then give it a try when it's done. Let us know how it turns out for you if you give it a try... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Saturday 16 October 2004 02:11 pm, Jack wrote: Hi Randall... thanks for the reply. Being a silver member of Mandrake Club, I already have CD4 with the KDE 3.3 on it. Is there a way of doing this using the install drake instead? Or failing that, is there a way of adapting your technique to eliminate the necessity of downloading the KDE 3.3 and getting if from my cd instead? And finally, I would most definitely want to see a copy of your gar.conf.mk to make sure I was doing everything right. Unofortunately, the RPM's wouldn't afford you the ability to build it in another location. They're set up to install system wide, and will overwrite the existing RPM's with the new version (or should I say UPGRADE). You could probably do it with the source RPM's, but you're looking at modifying them much past the point of it being useful, so I would definitely recommend just letting it download the tar.bz2 files and compiling it from scratch. I've also attached the configuration file to this post (hopefully it won't be stripped out). If it is, I'll attach it and send it directly. Note that this configuration file is set up for Athlon XP and system wide install. The default settings should be OK for installing into your home directory, and you might want to uncomment out the optimization that fits your processor type. (On a minor note, would allowing the default of setting up KDE 3.3 in my home directory okay? Would that leave the 3.2 alone? Would I then have the 2 KDE's showing up as desktop options upon logging in?) Sure. Setting it up in your home directory will allow you to go with either version whenever you choose. If you install 3.3.1 and decide you like it, you might then decide to install it system wide - at which point you can just remove the KDE that's in your home directory, and compile it with the proper settings for all users. PS Sorry for the completely newbie type questions. Having formerly consulted in the Windows (and Dos) world for years, I'm gaining an appreciation for how my customers must have felt!!! :-) No problem at all. We all have to learn, in one way or the other. I am just glad I can help out... BTW, I've started a new thread on this (didn't realize it was tagged onto the end of another one, as I had threading off in KMail - so, I turned it back on and hopefully corrected the situation). -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com #-*- mode: Fundamental; tab-width: 4; -*- # ex:ts=4 # $Id: gar.conf.mk.in,v 1.3.2.2 2004/08/07 11:07:25 binner Exp $ # This file contains configuration variables that are global to # the GAR system. Users wishing to make a change on a # per-package basis should edit the category/package/Makefile, or # specify environment variables on the make command-line. # Variables that define the default *actions* (rather than just # default data) of the system will remain in bbc.gar.mk # (bbc.port.mk) # Set this variable if you have at least Qt 3.3 (including moc, uic and headers) # installed and want to skip the installation of the Qt 3.3 package. # Make sure that $QTDIR/bin, $QTDIR/lib and $QTDIR/include are reasonable. #HAVE_QT_3_3_INSTALLED = true # Setting this variable will cause the results of your builds to # be cleaned out after being installed. Uncomment only if you # desire this behavior! #BUILD_CLEAN = true # The GARCHIVEDIR is a directory containing cached files. It can be created # manually, or with 'make garchive' once you've started downloading required # files (say with 'make paranoid-checksum'. Example: GARCHIVEDIR = $(HOME)/kde3.3-sources # These are the standard directory name variables from all GNU # makefiles. They're also used by autoconf, and can be adapted # for a variety of build systems. # # TODO: set $(SYSCONFDIR) and $(LOCALSTATEDIR) to never use # /usr/etc or /usr/var prefix ?= /usr exec_prefix = $(prefix) bindir = $(exec_prefix)/bin sbindir = $(exec_prefix)/sbin libexecdir = $(exec_prefix)/libexec datadir = $(prefix)/share sysconfdir = /etc sharedstatedir = $(prefix)/share localstatedir = /var libdir = $(exec_prefix)/lib infodir = $(BUILD_PREFIX)/info lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp includedir = $(BUILD_PREFIX)/include mandir = $(BUILD_PREFIX)/man docdir = $(BUILD_PREFIX)/share/doc sourcedir = $(BUILD_PREFIX)/src # the DESTDIR is used at INSTALL TIME ONLY to determine what the # filesystem root should be. The BUILD_PREFIX is the prefix that # usurps the DESTDIR. It should be considered relative to # $(DESTDIR). Thus, if includedir were set to # $(BUILD_PREFIX)/include, it would expand out at install time # (BUT NO SOONER) to /tmp/gar/../../tmp/build. The /../../ at # the front should be harmless, as .. for / is just / itself. DESTDIR ?= BUILD_PREFIX ?= $(prefix) #BUILD_PREFIX ?= $(ROOTFROMDEST)/tmp/build ifdef HAVE_QT_3_3_INSTALLED # allow us to link to
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Saturday 16 October 2004 05:38 pm, Jack wrote: If I understand this correctly, I then should *not* use your configuration file and just accept the defaults that come with perhaps changing a few settings to optimize my Intel 2.6 CPU, right? That's correct. Use the original gar.conf.mk file, and just uncomment the CFLAGS option that fits your machine... It'll build in ~/kde3.3, and you'll be set. Randall, thanks again. You the man!!! :-) No problem at all. Give me a shout afterwards and let me know how it turns out... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Saturday 16 October 2004 06:29 pm, Jack wrote: It seemed to download everything and was working for awhile but then I got a msg: ERROR: Installation or Configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables I have C installed and have compiled things with it before, so I don't see why I'm getting this msg. Any ideas? (Was I supposed to install Konstruct? I just downloaded, unzipped it, and went to the appropriate directory /meta/everything (after init 3) and issued the make install command. There were no install instructions for Konstruct that I could find. The readme seemed to intimate that there was no need for an individual isolated install for Konstruct alone.) Just curious - which version of GCC do you have? Post back the results of these two commands: # rpm -qa | grep gcc # gcc -v Also, are you doing the make install as root, or as an unprivileged user? -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Make Error
On Friday 15 October 2004 06:53 pm, Elliot Somers wrote: I issued the make command after the ./configure command. It did it's thing but an error came about. I am still new to linux, I am running Mandrake 10. I am attempting to install the dba.openoffice source tarball. The error has to do with an undefined reference. I will just paste my command line where I see the problem started: /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -DSQL  -o mdb-sql  mdb-sql.o ../libmdb/libmdb.la ../sql/libmdbsql.la -lglib-2.0   -lfl gcc -g -O2 -DSQL -o .libs/mdb-sql mdb-sql.o  ../libmdb/.libs/libmdb -lm ../sql/.libs/libmdbsql /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lfl -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib mdb-sql.o(.text+0xb57): In function `main': /home/elliot/Documents/mdbtools-0.6pre1/src/util/mdb-sql.c:364: undefined reference to `read_history' mdb-sql.o(.text+0x10c2):/home/elliot/Documents/mdbtools-0.6pre1/src/util/md b-sql.c:483: undefined reference to `write_history' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [mdb-sql] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/elliot/Documents/mdbtools-0.6pre1/src/util' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/elliot/Documents/mdbtools-0.6pre1/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 I've had problems as a new Mandrake user with libraries not installed initially for dev purposes. I don't know if this is an extension of that issue or what. I appreciate any help you may provide. Thanks again, Elliot Hi Elliot. I'm not 100% certain, but it looks as if it might be trying to find the headers for SQL (maybe PostGreSQL or MySQL)... the -DSQL in the first line also sorta' points to this. You might want to first do a './configure --help' and see what it mentions about SQL. If it's indeed looking for that, you might need to install the development packages for it. Also, the configure script sets up the prefix as /usr/local - you might want to use './configure --prefix=/usr', as most RPM distributions put things there, and it'll fit in with overall system layout better (IMHO). -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Saturday 16 October 2004 07:53 pm, Jack wrote: gcc4.0-c++-4.0.0-0.1mdk libgcc1-3.4.1-3mdk gcc4.0-4.0.0-0.1mdk gcc-cpp-3.4.1-3mdk gcc4.0-cpp-4.0.0-0.1mdk Hmmm... I wonder if it's due to the GCC version? I've got: # rpm -qa | grep gcc libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk gcc-cpp-3.3.2-6mdk gcc-3.3.2-6mdk gcc-c++-3.3.2-6mdk # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.3.2/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --with-slibdir=/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --enable-long-long --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,f77,objc,java,pascal --host=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu --with-system-zlib Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk) I'll see if I can find some info on that... First I tried it as unprivileged user (as the readme said I could do). When that didn't work, I tried it as root. Same result both times... Yeah, theoretically both should work. Sometimes I've seen strange results when not installing as root (just due to permission problems), but this pretty much rules that out. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Saturday 16 October 2004 08:19 pm, Jack wrote: I seem to have more recent versions and I also have Mandrake 10.1 community. I suppose that could be making a difference also. I could remove the later versions of the C compiler and install your versions. Would you suggest that? Hmmm... Not sure if you should remove those RPM's, as there are quite a few dependancies for them. I will do a little checking, and see what else I can find out, and will post back in a few (possibly with a better answer)... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Saturday 16 October 2004 09:01 pm, Jack wrote: Okay, Randall, till then... Jack - do you have a config.log in your konstruct area anywhere? (namely in the section that failed). If you do, how about post the contents of that file, as it might give us a little more info. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
On Saturday 16 October 2004 09:32 pm, Jack wrote: Unfortunately, I do not... OK... You've got binutils installed too, right? (I'm just sorta' reading through posts on Google, and this RPM package has been brought up several times). -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Friday 15 October 2004 04:13 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Hello all, I just installed Mandrake 10.1 community and am running kernel 2.6.8.1-10smp which is working real well for me this time. I need the kernel source. Question is I see only a kernel source 2.6.8.1-10 (does not say smp) is this what i need or should i be looking for something else ? Hi Dan. That's what you need. Grab that, then install it. Then go into the /usr/src/linux directory, and do as follows: # make mrproper # cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config # make oldconfig # vi Makefile (set the EXTRAVERSION to what you have) Your kernel source should then be properly prepared for your kernel, and you'll be good to go. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting
salam i also use dual boot (xp Mdrake 9.2) but luckily i didnt met with those problem. what i did is : - i installed win 1st and left some hd space unpartitioned (8 gb) - installed linux in the unpartitioned space with 4 partition ( / , /home, /boot , swap) - then just followed the instruction. oh yeah my option when installed lilo was installed it in mbr hope you'll success with your installation. = Netkuis Instan untuk wilayah Bandung (kode area 022) - SD,SMP,SMA Berhadiah total puluhan juta rupiah... periode I dimulai 1 April 2004 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KillBill vol2
On Monday 16 August 2004 08:42 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well dang it all - I can't get this must see DVD to work here. I tried: Xine Kaffeine Mplayer and between those 3 its rare that I can't watch a DVD under my Mandrake v9.2 setup. Xine and Kaffeine say there is no plugin for it, and mplayer just says it can't open it. It does behave oddly, I'll admit. I put it in my Toshiba DVD and it the drive immediately tries to access it for about 30 secs to a minute. After that, the access light stays on *solid*. Thats not the way it normally does. I did a lsof -V for /dev/scd0, /mnt/cdrom but nothing has a hold of it. Anyone got it playing? Thanks. Ripped it a couple of days ago - still have a couple of movies to encode before I encode that one... Seemed to rip OK though... Update: just watched about 15 minutes of it using Xine (watching the VOB files that I ripped a couple of days ago). Didn't have a bit of problem with it though... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
On Thursday 24 June 2004 04:19 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:47:38 +0300 maxxik disseminated the following: Hi ppls ! http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1135aid=2 what do you think about it ? ) dont you want to support out favorite distributive ? ) PS sorry for offtopic ... I'm not so concerned about the offtopic, but the link you posted seems to automatically enter a vote for Gentoo. If you want to vote for Mandrake Linux, this link will do it: http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1135section=indexaid=7 -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
On Thursday 24 June 2004 05:25 pm, Amy wrote: Ah yes, the ol' lower yourself to their level to make up for the wrong they've done. *shrugs* Oh well, it is ~just~ a /. poll. I'm just annoyed that I ended up voting for a distribution I've never even run! Gotta love stupid human tricks... Ah yes, but if you're intelligent enough to read the posting then you'll KNOW who you're voting for with my post... I shall repost the relevant information so you can see it yet again: If you want to vote for Mandrake Linux, this link will do it: No flashing or offensively bold text, but I figured it was enough to point out which distribution you were voting for. Sorry if you felt misled, for whatever reason... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
On Thursday 24 June 2004 05:33 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Looks like they already figured it out and posted the correct link for gentoo Well it sorta' hits me as funny, as they had to post the cheating link to get it ahead. I would assume that that means they don't have enough faith in their favorite operating system to win on its own, either that or Gentoo's fanbase must be comprised by quite a few teenagers who think that's the way to fix the polls... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
On Thursday 24 June 2004 05:49 pm, Amy wrote: You know, I could get offended that you're implying I'm stupid because you assume I haven't been reading the posting. Just because I didn't send off a post right away when I read the first message in the thread doesn't mean I didn't read that one before all the other posting happened on the list. I has assumed that maybe I'd done something wrong, because I had thought that this list was safe and friendly and therefore I didn't have to watch out for underhanded idiots who'd drop links that aren't what they say they are. I suppose that makes me the idiot to try to make sure I hadn't done something stupid before crying foul on someone who's posted to a list I'd otherwise gotten a good impression of? And it makes me an idiot because I couldn't read the messages that hadn't been posted yet at the time I read the first message? OK, I do apologize... I was the one that didn't fully read your post (and understand it). In the mad rush of things, I had thought you were responding to my post, so I was totally in the wrong. I will slow down next time and try to read what's going on, instead of rushing through the posts and trying to do 10 things at once. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Need a backup script from an EXPERT!!!
On Thursday 17 June 2004 08:54 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 23:40, Sergio fernandez wrote:
I am no expert but I think Dantz Retrospect might be able to help you.
Their web site is http://www.dantz.com/ but they charge for the product
Nah - I'm just looking for a script - there's a script that lives on the
box already - simple - like mine - I might just go so far as to modify
the existing script so that it burns to CD for the moment - but I'd like
to delete any redundant backup kept on the drive that exceeds four
weeks...just didn't want to take the time away from my customers (and my
making money) to fsck with delving into shell scripting any further than
I really have to. Got bills to pay and food to buy.
What type of script is it currently using for the backups? Perl? Bash? Either
way, here's a simple one liner you can use to remove backups older than 30
days in a given directory:
find /backups -daystart -mtime 30 -type f -maxdepth 1 -name Backup*.tar.gz
-exec rm -f {} \;
You'll want to put the directory in that it'll search, and change the name to
fit. You can also change the number of days to keep as well. This is a simple
yet effective way to remove the older backups. Read up on the find command
for more control options.
--
Take care,
Randall Hobbs
Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc.
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Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe
On Thursday 17 June 2004 09:33 am, Alastair Fay wrote: If you don't like their product, then don't use it - just because *you* don't think they put any effort in - it might not be everyone's opinion. Why post such a pointless new-post, flaming a perfectly good company, with perfectly good products? They may *not* support Linux so much... but so what? How about using an alternative? xpdf perhaps? May I remind you, that they are the creators of Photoshop - which just happened to be what many regard as the best digital imaging/manipulation program ever created Think before you post, and you will gain more respect in the community - and what gives you the right to have a stab at Adobe? I have seen much worse. I didn't take it as a stab towards anybody. It was an opinion - one which others share as well. No one was saying Adobe should rot due to the fact they didn't make their Linux client better than the Windows version - it was simply a comment I don't think they lived up to their reputation on this one. Yes, they did create Photoshop, but that has no significance here. That's another application, geared towards another market, on another platform no less. Most die hard Linux users have probably never used it anyway. -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?
On Monday 31 May 2004 02:36 pm, frankieh wrote: Hey, don't knock the Vic-20, I loved my old commodore, one of the first ever PC's I had.. followed by a C64, I honed my BASIC skills on that puppy.. Ironically, its been so long, that the only thing I remember is: 10 print Franki rulez at BASIC 20 goto 10 :-) The first time I tried to learn a real language, I couldn't figure out why they would remove the line numbers. :-) Hehe, I grew up with Commodore's, and loved them. I started out with a Vic-20, went to the C64, then the C128. I finally ended up with a Commodore Amiga. All in all, I learned the most from the C64/128. I learned machine language early on, but the Commodore was the last thing I ever attempted assembly/machine language on (it's easy to deal with an Accumulator, an X and Y register, and 64k of memory, but today's machines are too much to deal with on the low end stuff, at least IMHO). Here's to nostalgia! -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mdk kernel enterprise src?
mdk-9.2 I am trying to get a closed source (VPN client) kernel extension working. I would like to use kernel-enterprise-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk, but I need the source. I see there is kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm (39303204) kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm (42200593) I wonder about the size difference :-( urpi only finds the 2nd. I tried that one, but symbols unresolved. http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/search.php?query=kernel-2.4.22.21mdk lists the 1st, but attempting to install it, but it does not: rpm -i kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm -vv D: == kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm D: Expected size: 39303204 = lead(96)+sigs(264)+pad(0)+data(39302844) D: Actual size: 39303204 D: unshared posix mutexes found(38), adding DB_PRIVATE, using fcntl lock D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages create:cdb:mpool:private D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0 D: read h# 342 Header sanity check: OK D: == DSA pubkey id 9aa8d0d022458a98 D: kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 22458a98 D: added source package [0] D: found 1 source and 0 binary packages D: Expected size: 39303204 = lead(96)+sigs(264)+pad(0)+data(39302844) D: Actual size: 39303204 warning: user qateam does not exist - using root warning: group qateam does not exist - using root warning: user qateam does not exist - using root warning: group qateam does not exist - using root warning: user qateam does not exist - using root warning: group qateam does not exist - using root warning: user qateam does not exist - using root warning: group qateam does not exist - using root warning: user qateam does not exist - using root warning: group qateam does not exist - using root warning: user qateam does not exist - using root warning: group qateam does not exist - using root warning: user qateam does not exist - using root warning: group qateam does not exist - using root warning: user qateam does not exist - using root warning: group qateam does not exist - using root kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk D: == Directories not explictly included in package: D: 0 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/ D: 1 /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/ D: == D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 1324 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/README.Mandrake;3fce6c45 D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 2948 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/README.kernel-sources;3fce6c45 D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0)137112 /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec;3fce6c45 D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 9651394 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/linux-2.4.22-q21.tar.bz2;3fce6c45 D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 29528612 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2;3fce6c45 D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 3403 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/linux-mdkconfig.h;3fce6c45 D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 7767 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/linux-merge-config.awk;3fce6c45 D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 3081 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/linux-merge-modules.awk;3fce6c45 GZDIO:4802 reads, 39336828 total bytes in 2.004 secs D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages Am I barking up the wrong tree? Cheers, Lloyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Twinview and output to TV
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:33, HaywireMac wrote: Should I not be able to start playback in X from my comp and see it on the TV too? From my understanding of how this works, yes. After your XF86Config is correct, then anything that you see on your monitor you should also see on the TV out. At this point anything you play with mplayer you should see on your tv. Let me know if you find out otherwise as I'm about to get an nVidia card for the same use. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] vhosting and cgi scripts
I've successfully set up a small server for vhosting and I'm having a couple of isolated problems. I can access each vhost via http just fine, but I cannot access any cgi scripts. I have suexec enabled. apache.org docs have examples with user and group directives, but uncommenting these directives gives a syntax error when restarting httpd. Is this my problem? ### vhosts/Vhosts.conf ### VirtualHost 192.168.0.5 #User erin #Group erin SuexecUserGroup erin erin DocumentRoot /home/erin/www ServerName test2.com #Setenv VLOG /home/erin/logs #ErrorLogs /home/erin/error_log #RewriteEngine On #RewriteOptions inherit /VirtualHost ### Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh access with secure install
Just to double check you do definatly have ssh-server installed configured on the new box don't you? Yes, installed and running. ssh won't let me in unless i drop the security down. Erin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie-it] Come ci si cancella da questa mailing?
Come ci si cancella da questa mailing? E' incredibile che qualcuno possa inondare una ML (e le caselle di posta degli iscritti) pretendendo a lettere cubitali di avere un'informazione che, usando gli stessi tre neuroni richiesti per compiere l'attivazione, dovrebbe essere in grado di avere già da solo. Finchè si chiede con garbo ed educazione siamo tutti disposti a ripetere per la centomilionesima volta i passi complicatissimi richiesti per conseguire la laurea in fisica quantistica necessaria a comprendere come ci si possa disiscrivere da una ML: esattamente-come-ti-sei-iscritto... (difficile, eh?) Ma, perdonami, magari non era questa la tua intenzione... però trovo le tua email decisamente sgradevoli. Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Mount e umount Chiavetta USB
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash auto defaults,showexec,noauto,users,quiet 0 0 con questo posso fare mount, ma umount? mi sembra che si deve essere root per fare umount... grazie ancora L'opzione users inserita nella riga di fstab consente a qualsiasi utente di effettuare (anche) l'umount della periferica... Daniele
RE: [newbie] change case
There is a prog called chgcase that does this. I found it on Google. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Todd Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] change case On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:53:15 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 July 2003 09:25 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:35:15 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At one time a long ways back someone posted, I think it was a small script file to change the case of file extensions, ie..MP3 to .mp3. Does anyone have that laying around? I've been googling and found a few, but none seem to work correctly. Thanks Chris Or, to change *all* extensions to lowercase: (assuming you are in the directory you want to do this) #/bin/bash for i in * do name=`echo $i|cut -d '.' -f 1` ext=.`echo $i|cut -d '.' -f 2|tr [A-Z] [a-z]` echo $i : $name$ext # mv $i $name$ext done Assuming that your filenames don't have '.' in the name other than to denote extension. Todd Thanks Todd, this looks more like what I want, have a slight problem though as shown below with the output: usr/local/bin/chgcase: line 4: Â : command not found /usr/local/bin/chgcase: line 5: Â : command not found /usr/local/bin/chgcase: line 6: Â : command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACDC - High Voltage]$ Made it executable, made a symbolic link from /home/chris to /usr/local/bin. When run chgcase *.MP3 *.mp3 the output is as above. I'm sure I've used this script before but I don't remembe how. Thanks Chris Hi Chris, You don't have to add any arguments to the script I wrote, just run it. Note that it will change the extension for *all* files in the directory, so .DOC .doc, .PDF .pdf etc. I sent another script that hasn't been distributed yet for *just* .MP3 to.mp3. Here it is again in case it got lost. #/bin/bash for i in *.MP3 do name=`echo $i |sed s/'.MP3'//` ext=.mp3 echo $i : $name$ext # mv $i $name$ext done -- Let us be utopian for a moment so that when we get realistic again it is not that realism so useful to the Establishment in discouraging action. -Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie-it] allegati e mail creative
Pienamente d'accordo con te... Daniele -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 E' da un po' di tempo che non posto più nella lista (purtroppo...),ma [CUT]
Re: [newbie-it] Filesystem AFFS
Alle 08:42, mercoledì 4 giugno 2003, Paolo Borzini ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, io ho Linux Mandrake 9.0 su un Celeron a 2ghz e vorrei leggere dei vecchi dischetti Amiga che ho , in cui avevo salvato i miei primi disegni (decenni fà ;-)). Ho visto che esiste AFFS che sarebbe il filesystem per leggere i dati Amiga, come faccio ad installarlo devo ricompilare il kernel c'e' qualcuno che l'ha gia'fatto Mi dispiace ma i floppy per amiga bisogna leggerli con un drive speciale. E' un problema hardware e non ci sono paliativi(almeno per quello che ne so.) Credo anche io che sia così: se ben ricordo, la cara vecchia Amiga era in grado di salvare su un floppy 880 KBytes contro i 720 di un normale floppy PC IBM... Daniele
Re: [newbie] File viewer (like QuickView for Win)?
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 14:13, rikona wrote: Hello, Is there a file viewer for MD, perhaps similar to QuickView for Windows, that allows one to browse dir trees files, and can display the files (without opening them) as you scroll through them? Nautalus for Gnome allows the icons for text files to show the top of the file as part of the icon. If that's not what you are looking for, both KDE's Konqueror and Gnome's Nautulas allow you to set up file type associations to any file type you want and open them in a text editor. There are MANY small text editors to choose from. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] changing background in GRUB
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RE: [newbie] Creating music discs
Eroaster I believe does it all in one operation. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB (937) 904-2585 (937) 416-6378 (mobile) -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:12 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Creating music discs Hi community Can anyone tell me where I can find a program which creates audio cd's. I am talking about the Nero type program which takes MP3's, converts them to cd tracks and burns them to the cd. Maybe I already have it but do not know about it. ;o() Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RE: [newsier] Creating music discs
Check www.freshmeat.net or even google.com Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:02 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] RE: [newsier] Creating music discs Thanks Brian, Where do I find it? Oren -Original Message- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 March 2003 13:31 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Creating music discs Eroaster I believe does it all in one operation. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB (937) 904-2585 (937) 416-6378 (mobile) -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:12 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Creating music discs Hi community Can anyone tell me where I can find a program which creates audio cd's. I am talking about the Nero type program which takes MP3's, converts them to cd tracks and burns them to the cd. Maybe I already have it but do not know about it. ;o() Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Lexmarrk X75 Printer Driver
According to the Mandrake Hardware Database page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 your printer isn't listed as supported. However, I do know my HP wasnt supported a couple of years ago, and worked if I used the 612 driver, and my printer was actually a 800 series printer. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Yoel P. Krigsman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:50 AM To: Newbie-Linux Subject: Re: [newbie] Lexmarrk X75 Printer Driver Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:44, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello Folks: I am not able to figure out how I can install the printer driver to my Linux 9.0. Can someone give me guidiance? Thanks! YPK Have you tried going through the Mandrake Control Center to add the printer yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Tried to add the printer via Mandrake Control center, it shows that I have Z53 as a driver, I dont see any X75 on that list. Tried to install as it said, NOTHING works, I already tried to remove it and added back, no luck. HOW and where I can get the updated Lexmark Drivers/RPMS? Thanks YPK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO
Bad burn? sounds like the burn isnt bootable. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Diane Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO Well, this is great! I didn't expect so many responses. ANYWAY - everybody so far has asked me to check the BIOS settings, and I have replied that my CD-ROM is indeed at the top of the boot list. Further to that, Anders (in this reply) asked if I can use the CD-ROM in Windows - the answer if YES. He also asked if my BIOS sees it. Again, YES. EXCEPT when I've got the Linux CD in the drive I'm very confused. Diane - Original Message - From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) Welcome to the wonderful of Linux *smiles* I created a 2 Gb primary Dos partition to install Win95 - all went well with that. Since I cannot boot from my CD-ROM drive (don't know why), I ran Win95, inserted Mandrake CD1in drive, get a setup screen offering several options (install, use floppy, etc). When I click on the Install Mandrake button, a message appears saying your computer will reboot ... installation will begin (or to that effect). When I clicked OK - nothing happened. You should be able to fix so it boots in the computers BIOS SO ... I created a floppy, using the cdrom.img file, and tried that way. Everything was going fine, then my computer rebooted diring the program installation, and I get a message that it can't find the CD-ROM. Asks me which driver to try. (I have NO idea). If I randomly choose a driver to try (what the heck, aye), I get asked for kernel info. Well, now I'm just lost. Can you use the CD-Rom in Windows? If no, does the computer BIOS see the CD-Rom? It probably is a IDE/ATAPI-CD (I am not sure what the drivers name is, but it is the most common type) Best Regards, Anders 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] Hams on the list
Agreed KC8NRB Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB ) -Original Message- From: Harv Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hams on the list On Friday 28 February 2003 09:09 am, A V Flinsch wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:24 pm, Larry Williams wrote: And another 73 DE N1POP Almost enough of us to start a Mandrake-Hams list If there are enough of us around, maybe we can get Mandrake to include a bunch of the ham specific software on the CD's (stuff like PSK31, etc) 73 Harv KG9GA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1
I had to force libarts as I seemed to be caught in a catch 22 situation with libarts and arts. I even had to --nodeps a couple of files Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Robert Wideman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1 libarts == 1.1.0-1tex is needed by arts-1.1.0-1tex kdelibs == 3.1-3tex is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.1-3tex libarts == 1.1.0-1tex is needed by libarts-devel-1.1.0-1tex go to rpmfind.net and find them, install them, then retry the kde install Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bass and treble control
I remember reading a post once somewhere of how to regain the bass and treble controls on a SB Live. Some editing of some file. Any help appreciated. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Java installation
You may need to chmod +x the file.bin then ./filename.bin will end up being a rpm file which may also need to be chmod +x filename.rpm rpm -Uvh filename.rpm Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Angus Auld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Java installation - Original Message - From: Ongkie PDS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to Anne, Robert, Stephen. I did download the j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin file. What I have to do to install it ? Thx, -OS- Hi Ongkie, you can find pretty good installation instructions here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/jre/install-linux.html#install-pkg If you need further instructions, there are others more qualified than I who will assist you. This list is a super place...lots of kind people! All the best to you! --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] kvirc menu entry
you may want to look at /usr/local/kde/bin as that is where a few kde apps installed thereselves on my mdk9 system. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Jerry Barton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] kvirc menu entry On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:22:14 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed kvirc, but can't find the executable (I want to make a menu entry) unless the entries in my 8.2 installation are relevant. Can anyone give me a pointer? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 the rpm i installed put it in /usr/bin/kvirc I don't know about where the source puts it though, i couldn't get it to install. [jerry@main jerry]$ whereis kvirc kvirc: /usr/bin/kvirc /usr/share/kvirc [jerry@main jerry]$ -- -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Konqueror + java + pogo = no good
I have java working well with Sun's Jre 1.4. Removed kaffe as suggested from someone on the list. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Jerry Barton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Konqueror + java + pogo = no good Following the advice of the java+konq FAQ, I installed blackdown's java 1.4.1, and 1.3.1, and neither one will work with Pogo. However, Galeon works just fine with pogo, and java 1.3.1. Under Konqueror, the java console shows up, and all proceeds as normal as I can tell.. Pogo never tells me that java doesnt work.. it just.. never loads the games. - -- I dunno if it's just me but i've never had any luck with konqueror and java... it says applet loading and just stops there, and i've tried every trick i can think of. Yet it all works fine with mozilla/galeon. you're not alone in this one :( Jerry -- -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 3com modem model 0727 (as someone suggested)
Does the output of lscpi -v show the modem? Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 3com modem model 0727 (as someone suggested) cyberhades wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 12:32 pm, cyberhades wrote: Driver? What driver? Joking apart, if it is a supported modem you will not need a specific driver, though you may need help to set up your connecton. Tell us what modem you got, and tell us what you have tried in the way of setting up your connection. Anne Hi Anne I checked and according to some sites it works with Linux, but my LM 9 can´t find it ! Kppp also can´t see it. I don´t know, but maybe I have to put it in another slot. Does it make sense ? Thanks. --- UOL, o melhor da Internet http://www.uol.com.br/ 3com modem model 0727 Is this hardware controlled ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 3com modem model 0727 (as someone suggested)
Here is a link to a mini-how-to on that modem. You may want to give it a try. http://www.pla.net.py/home/oliver/3com.html Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 3com modem model 0727 (as someone suggested) cyberhades wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 12:32 pm, cyberhades wrote: Driver? What driver? Joking apart, if it is a supported modem you will not need a specific driver, though you may need help to set up your connecton. Tell us what modem you got, and tell us what you have tried in the way of setting up your connection. Anne Hi Anne I checked and according to some sites it works with Linux, but my LM 9 can´t find it ! Kppp also can´t see it. I don´t know, but maybe I have to put it in another slot. Does it make sense ? Thanks. --- UOL, o melhor da Internet http://www.uol.com.br/ 3com modem model 0727 Is this hardware controlled ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] help needed for triple-booting
When I had 5 OS's on my machine (98, 2k, mdk, rh, debian) for the linux's I just installed them in the above order. Then made a directory in mdk's /boot for rh and debian Copied the files from the other's /boot dir to them. Modified the mdk lilo.conf entries, and all was fine. I like the Mdk Graphical Lilo screen Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:17 AM To: Vahur Lokk; NEWBIE 1 Subject: Re: [newbie] help needed for triple-booting Vahur Lokk wrote: Ühel kenal päeval (reede, 3. jaanuar 2003 01:14) kirjutasid sa: No /boot partition ? your trying to boot both OS's from one kernel, I guess. Hmm... I guess I understand the problem a bit better now. About solving the problem: How to repair things without complete reinstall? 1. Can things work without separate /boot? Eg if I copy needed files from /boot on hda6 to hda7 will it work? What files? What else has to be modified? certainly there is , there is an alternative to having a /boot partition,but the disadvantages are that it is not straight forward and requires post install configuration, whereas if you go to the trouble now of creating a /boot partition , at this juncture ,the task of dual linux booting, and upgrading is a doddle here on after. So if you don't want to create a /boot partition, you must mount the first OS partition with entries in fstab, making directories in /mnt directory for that partition and when you have gained access to the first linux OS you must copy many files from /boot directory to the second linux OS /boot directory these files include, the kernel, initrd.image you must then create fresh new stanzas in lilo.conf to run these kernels and initrd.image files at boot time, don't forget to run /sbin/lilo However, I do assure you that despite what it looks it is easier and more satisfying to create a /boot partition in the first place , run the install proceedures again for both linux OS's taking particular care with the lilo install in the second linux OS , so that all the stanzas you need to boot both linux OS's are included in the scripts, it's quite easy, drakX provides a very good graphical interface and the choice of entries for each aspect of the lilo stanzas are all there to be chosen from dropdown lists, just take your time and think about the overall look of each stanza group. Make sure that each kernel and initrd.image version is clearly defined. All the entries to do this will be there because with a /boot partition drakX puts all the kernels and initrd.image files in the one /boot partition whereas without a /boot partition it does not. 2. If above approach is too messy, it is possible to snip a little more from the end of hda1 and make it a boot partition. Or is it? How big? Again, what has to go in there? What else has to be modified? Of course just use either diskdrake or PM to snip 20-50mb off one of the other partitions. As a rough guide a kernel these days is 13-15mb the other files are negigeable and so I choose 100mb as being simply ample for future needs including experimental kernels. See this is why it is so easy and best to have a /boot partition, if for some reason you need an updated experimental kernel , just install it, it will put itself into that /boot partition then write another lilo stanza to boot an OS with it, no messing about. Job done , and if it does not work out, deleate it, and the lilo entry, and you still have your old kernel working properly as it ought to. I would not set my linux OS's up any other way than with a /boot partition. Time spent now getting things set up is time and effort saved later on. Then when another mandrake release comes along I install it in the older of the two linux OS partitions, drakX does it's stuff and puts the kernels and init.rd.image files in the /boot partition for you, you then have a choice of wherether to write a new lilo there and then or use the old lilo to boot to desktop and add a stanza to boot the new linux OS either way works, and I tend to choose do it on dektop if it's a beta version, or do it from drakX lilo install if it is a full release. And WTF all these hundred dual boot how-to's handle win/lin question that is actually no-question at all these days and not a word about other options?! Because its so intuitive? OK im complete idiot then... or not quite sober yet from the new year party;) If you could point out some docs I would be glad also. Don't feel bad about it we all learnt this stuff the hard way. The first time I learnt how to do this was one long weekend spent in the company of my son in law on an old beatup HP with inadequate memory and a borrowed hard drive, I think we did something between 20 to 30 installs before we got it right, I remember only too clearly that it was M7.2 and M8.1 and M8.1 was the only installer with the capability to write multiple
RE: [newbie] bin file
Run it as any other file. ./filename.bin. You may have to chmod +x the file though. After running this file, you will be left with an rpm file. rpm -Uvh filename as root will install it. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Gil Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:14 AM To: linux newbie Subject: [newbie] bin file i downloaded the j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin now how do i install it? Gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Using Internet
When I installed Mdk9, I had dialup, and a eth0 as well. Using the Mandrake wizard, always seemed to make gatewaydev in /etc/sysconfig/network file point to eth0 change that line to ppp0, then as root, service network restart. Hope this helps. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Using Internet On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 1:37 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 22:52, Gil Katz wrote: Here is the output of lfconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:EE:03:88 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:559 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1472 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1028 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:123381 (120.4 Kb) TX bytes:126049 (123.0 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xb400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1217 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1217 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:109314 (106.7 Kb) TX bytes:109314 (106.7 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:204.141.45.8 P-t-P:204.141.45.121 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:82 (82.0 b) TX bytes:131 (131.0 b) Gil -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Using Internet On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 21:53, Gil Katz wrote: Hi I got mandrake 9.0 and when I connect to the internet I can do nothing I mean I cant surf I can't send and receive mail I cant even ping. Does anyone got an idea? Gil OK, well you are obviously getting a connection. Check that shorewall hasn't got into the act by doing the following: run MCC (Mandrake Control Center select Security select Firewall If you get a message saying that the shorewall package needs to be installed, then that's not the problem (don't install it). Otherwise, check that the access allowed is ALL (no firewall). HTH Brian Sorry for cutting into this thread, but I see there is a local Ethernet defined. It is possible the Ethernet is set as default gateway so preventing Internet traffic from using dialup. You can test this by typing in a root terminal 'route' You will then get a display of known routes. If one of them shows the default route as being via eth0 then that is the problem. To fix it for the current session route del default route add default ppp0 HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK9.0 and ATI Radeon
Hi all, I find solution. I rewrited in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in section for Device ATI Option from DPMS to NoAccel. Now I can run under X Windows, but there is second problem :-). If I run for example TuxRacer, this is a little horrible - it's very slowely. If you've got MDK 9.0 and ATI Radeon and You want to help me, send me your XF86Config-4. If existing some special driver, add it. Thanks -- Paolo D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 51557144 dne: 12. jna 2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's
It is fine as it installed perfectly on my Desktop, which has a 4-5 yr old cdrw. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Joan Tur [mailto:jtur;wanadoo.es] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 10 Octubre 2002 22:15, en Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN va escriure: In my case doing so still asks for disc 1 then it still cant find what it needs. Then I'd try burning a new CD1 PD Have you checked the iso?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS -Original Message- From: Joan Tur [mailto:jtur;wanadoo.es] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's Es Dijous 10 Octubre 2002 19:51, en Paul Rodriguez va escriure: Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS, and would like to install Mandrake 9.0. It does not seem to recognize the 700Mb ISO cd (or at least boot from it), so I'd like to find out if a boot floppy would help to get it to boot from the cd. How do I make one of these in this scenario? Try booting from CD2 instead of CD1... - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9peYlok8j9RhtetwRAgn+AKCRA2wTlz1+jMMsqijQM3wzo8hUtACeIcjS 5cMRQwN3PufW5RJzysgf/VE= =dEoW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's
In my case doing so still asks for disc 1 then it still cant find what it needs. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS -Original Message- From: Joan Tur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 10 Octubre 2002 19:51, en Paul Rodriguez va escriure: Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS, and would like to install Mandrake 9.0. It does not seem to recognize the 700Mb ISO cd (or at least boot from it), so I'd like to find out if a boot floppy would help to get it to boot from the cd. How do I make one of these in this scenario? Try booting from CD2 instead of CD1... - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9pdObok8j9RhtetwRApqzAKCCZ0j0lmUAOeDWZmv+BcZ5EvYk9ACfcwoL QmqpfYzICRSvtt4A7E7e4ZU= =WjYk -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Pine in 9.0
If I recall, Pine isn't included in 9 due to licensing issues. Pine was included in 8.1, and I installed that version with no problems. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Pine in 9.0 How can there be no Pine included in 9.0? There should be a law that states Pine has to be included with every single version of linux. This is more a rant, than a question - no real need to answer. Sorry if you consider this an abuse of bandwidth. ;-) -- peace, Rog 010100100111011011100110011101100101011100100111001100100110011001110110111001110011001001100100011100100110011001101110011001101110001001110100011011100101011010010111001000100111001101101110011001010111001100110010001110110010110100101001 56469198 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Just install everything
I'm just trying out mdk-9.0. I don't see an easy way to just say install everything. In the past I've always used redhat. With RH7+, it's safe to just install everything (it doesn't actually activate all the stuff just because you installed the packages). Is it safe to install everything in Mandrake 9? Is there any way to do it without wading through endless menus? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] automated or serial based installation.
Hi, have you read the drakx autoinstall guide yet?That will give you lots of information on hand building an autoinst.cfg and building an autoinstall cd. I've been having similar problems, and hopefully the good folks on this list can help us out. On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install mandrake linux v8.2 on a box which is eventually going to act as a domain controller. I'm trying to do it either via an automatic install, similar to the rh kickstart method or via a serial terminal. Does anyone have any information on either of these possibilities? Thanks. Dave. On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:21:08 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm on KDE 2 - I wonder if that's why mine is different. There is no Receiving tab. On Miscellaneous I have the Beep option checked. It worked for a while. Anne On Monday 16 Sep 2002 8:07 pm, you wrote: Anne, 1) Open KMail. 2) Select Settings Configure KMail 3) Click the Network icon 4) Click the Receiving tab. 5) Check the Beep option in the New Mail Notification section. 6) Click OK. Miark Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Kmail is set to beep on new mail. It did for a while, but doesn't now. Is there anything I can check to find what's causing it? I suppose I'm looking for something simple like checking the control panel sounds under windows to see if the whole sound system has a problem or if it is specific to Kmail. GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] FW: DVD player
ogle http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: David Sexton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 8:24 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] FW: DVD player Duse any one know of a simple to install DVD player for Mandrake 8.2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail doesn't take the mailto addy
On Saturday 10 August 2002 04:59 am, you wrote: On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 12:41 am, D. Olson wrote: If I click a link in Galeon, KMail starts up a new message, but it doesn't take the email address from the mailto: part of the link. Anyone know off hand how to do this? In the appropriate box (do Settings | Preferences, then Handlers, then Programs), type kmail %t in the Mail Handler box. BTW putting Please see the Galeon Manual for a full listing of available expansion characters right up front in the interface is _really_ lazy design; the expansion characters, as well as %t, are: %t To %c Cc %b Bcc %k Reference %w News Host %n News Group %p Priority %a Attachment %e Reference %h Html %y Body %s Subject %r Reply %o Follow up %u Whole URL Alastair That is so beatiful... I tried putting kmail %1 (my bash/gawk programming experience made me think that would work) but that didn't do squat. Thanks for that list, I am putting it into my Linux journal. ciao! -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMail doesn't take the mailto addy
If I click a link in Galeon, KMail starts up a new message, but it doesn't take the email address from the mailto: part of the link. Anyone know off hand how to do this? -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Make ISO WAS: Command line burning
Yeah, I know that there are some howtos already, but my main goal is to make my own collection of tutorials on my site for newbies to be able to follow simply. No extra stuff, just the info they need. That's my goal. I think that the dd command line is what I was after. Thanks a lot! On Wednesday 24 July 2002 05:51 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday July 24 2002 03:16 pm, D. Olson wrote: I have been working a bit on a tutorial for this, but I would like to add how to make an ISO of a CD, and then burn it. Do you know how, via the commandline, to take everything on a CD and make it into an ISO? Preferably including the volume label and all that jazz. Thanks! Here's my latest ( disertation ;) on CL burning http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg99825.html Search the rest of the archive (expert too) and you'll find that others have added many good and useful ideas. The example I posted about on the cooker page (link below) gives an example of exactly how to make a bootable .iso, create a bootable CD If you just want to take everything on a CD and copy it to an .iso on your HDD, simply 'dd if=/dev/cdrom/ of=/where/you/want-it/filename.iso' If it's a bootable CD, the copy (.iso) on the HDD will be also since it already includes a bootable .img file. A CD-writing HowTo already exists, and has examples. Best way to find out what works... is trial'n error. Just use the '-dummy' option when testing CD writes. Soon you won't need it after you get the hang of it. Then you'll wonder why anybody would want the confusion of GUI's for CD burning. MOF, I believe it's needed to learn CL burning, just to figure out most CD burning software GUI's ;) -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop
Have you tried making a new icon/link. I seem to recall reading that the kde/mandrake install made link doesnt work, and you need to make a new. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Richard Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop On Monday, 22 July 2002 03:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though you created the mount point, did you mount it? In KDE there should be a icon on the desktop for the zip. mount /mnt/zip I think that is what it is Thanks, yes, I tried it. I get a dialog: X Error Could not mount device. the reported error was: mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist. Apparently something isn't right in the line in fstab, but I've not found a better example. regards, Richard. Hello, Installed mdk81 on Dell Latitude, PII-D300XT, 128MB. At install, the floppy was connected, not the Zip drive. Hence, problems to access Zip drive. Have created /mnt/zip and added the following line to fstab: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto ... user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 but it still isn't accesible. What should I add to wake up the Zip? Have found info about installing but nothing has worked so far. I have tried in the past to reinstall to correct minor annoyances, but ended up with LiLo at the end unable to write to MBR resulting in, for me, wiping out everything and starting over. There must be a better way. Thanks, Richard. -- Servicios GO-TRO,ca, v/f:0265-641-0003, 0414-675-8257 -- Servicios GO-TRO,ca, v/f:0265-641-0003, 0414-675-8257 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] qt dir for kde3
I forget if you need to specify qt to enable qt-mt or if qt-mt is a different package. I think the tar has it in it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: L.V.Gandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] qt dir for kde3 I was trying to install KMencoder which needs = Qt 3.0.2. I used the command as [root@localhost KMencoder]# ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3/bin \ --with-qt-includes=/usr/lib/qt3/include --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3lib I still get the error as checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.0.2) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! I have [root@localhost KMencoder]# rpm -qa |grep qt3 libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk libqt3-devel-3.0.4-1mdk [root@localhost KMencoder]# rpm -ql libqt3 |more /etc/profile.d/qtxft3.csh /etc/profile.d/qtxft3.sh /usr/lib/qt3 /usr/lib/qt3/lib /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libeditor.so.1 /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libeditor.so.1.0 /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libeditor.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.0 /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.0.4 /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqui.so.1 /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqui.so.1.0 /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqui.so.1.0.0 Where I am wrong? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86
On Saturday 13 July 2002 01:34 am, you wrote: Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake 8.2? There is a tutorial on http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ that walks you through installing the drivers for 3D. Worked every time for me. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound
In Xmms options, look at output plugin. If using KDE set for Arts. I can use OSS even though I use KDE. Change the setting and try it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Dear All, I just put together my brand new computer that I had built. I love it so far. It is an Athlon XP 1600 with 512 megs of ram and an Elitegroup ECS Socket A L7VMM mainboard with onboard sound: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller Subsystem: ELitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a76, Flags: medium devset, IRQ 5, I/O ports at e800 [size=256], Capabilities: available only to root and onboard video. Everything worked right away including the the network card, except for some sound. I can play a music CD with no problem and here very beautiful strong sound coming out of my new Altec lansing speakers. However, the sound does not work for xmms. I have no idea how to make it work with xmms. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. I am using LM 8.2. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound
In the KDE Control center, under sound i believe. There is the option to start arts on startup. Other than that I am out of help. I have a SBLive and it works great. Good Luck Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound On Friday 12 July 2002 11:45 am, you wrote: In Xmms options, look at output plugin. If using KDE set for Arts. I can use OSS even though I use KDE. Change the setting and try it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Dear Brian, Thank you for your help. I have not been able to get my arts driver to start up. I did change the output plugin to arts in xmms. What can I do to make sure the arts driver starts? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Dear All, I just put together my brand new computer that I had built. I love it so far. It is an Athlon XP 1600 with 512 megs of ram and an Elitegroup ECS Socket A L7VMM mainboard with onboard sound: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller Subsystem: ELitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a76, Flags: medium devset, IRQ 5, I/O ports at e800 [size=256], Capabilities: available only to root and onboard video. Everything worked right away including the the network card, except for some sound. I can play a music CD with no problem and here very beautiful strong sound coming out of my new Altec lansing speakers. However, the sound does not work for xmms. I have no idea how to make it work with xmms. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. I am using LM 8.2. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DVD in 8.2
For DVD playback, I prefer Ogle instead of Xine. Xine can read a lot of different formats, but Ogle for me plays DVD's better. You may want to look at Mplayer even, though I find it a real pain. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DVD in 8.2 Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? I just tried watching a DVD in 8.2 for the first time (actually, I've never viewed a DVD in any previous Mandrake, or linux, for that matter...), and watching it in Xine crashed X. Is there an updated Xine that I should be using, or a different program? Tnaks -- heh...that was supposed to be thanks...but my fingers slipped... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page
I use Quanta, and I use straight HTML, CSS, and PHP for my pages. On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:59 pm, you wrote: Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage creating software there is for linux other than cgi? Thanks much -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake III with nvidia
On Monday 08 July 2002 04:19 am, you wrote: I've got the Loki version of Quake 3 and it installs well, but doesn't want to start. I guess the problem is my nvidia geforce2. I have 3d (armagetron etc. works) but quake 3 just doesn't want to start. How can I start it? How did you install it? If you are using the Windows CD and the Loki installer, it just installs the binaries, and you have to copy the pak files yourself. Run it from a terminal and tell us any errors it tells you. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:20 am, you wrote: As WineX develops, Transgaming will be able to make more deals and partnerships with other games companies to make their games compatible with WineX. That's EXACTLY what I DON'T want. We want NATIVE games. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:48 am, you wrote: I know I'm going back on what I said earlier, but I can't help it... :-( D.Olson, can you tell me what you hardware setup is please? I'm just curious because I do not get the same performance from WineX that you do... Sure: AMD 1.2GHz Tbird 266 bus EPoX 8KTA3L+ 512MB PC133 SDRAM ASUS V7700 DDR Deluxe (GeForce2 GTS) w/ 32MB Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM UDMA100 HDD 1. Framerates here are as fast as, or faster than the same game running under the Windoze environment. 2. Not all games install correctly, or work correctly. I agree. 3. None of the games I'm using lockup, or lock my system up. Thats playing them for hours, even across my LAN and over the 'Net... Lyvim and I both did have one game (Lord of Destruction) do an occasional lockup. Changing a setting in the game options resolved this. Oh, I didn't say that the games that WORK lock the system up. But TESTING games locks up systems like mad. Don't believe me? Have a look at my listing that I posted a link to earlier. Try the games that I noted locked up the system, and you tell me if your system continues running perfectly fine or not. Ask Lyvim about Baldurs Gate. I think he plays it regularly under Winex. Sorry, I've not had a chance to try to install it yet. Don't be sorry. I wouldn't want to play it in WineX anyhow. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
What is *it* ? Which games? What framerates? Come on, out with it! ;) On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:43 am, you wrote: On Saturday 06 July 2002 02:36 am, you wrote: AMD 1.2GHz Tbird 266 bus EPoX 8KTA3L+ 512MB PC133 SDRAM ASUS V7700 DDR Deluxe (GeForce2 GTS) w/ 32MB Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM UDMA100 HDD Thats so odd. Your system is more powerful than mine! I've got: AMD Athlon 900mhz CPU Shuttle MB 384 megs Ram SB Xgamer Live IBM 60 gig Deskstar HD Geforce 2 Titanium (64megs) (but Winex played fine with the 32 meg card I had before) It doesn't make sense to me that it plays so well here, on an inferior system, and plays so poorly there... :-( -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
Okay, here's a summary of my past postings here, since you are too damn lazy (or stupid, take your pick) to actually read past posts: Firstly, I tried the whole WineX thing. And let me tell you, it sucks. I was using the CVS (read: FREE) version, of which you can find a tutorial on my site: http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/winex.php But since CVS was supposed to suck in comparison to the RPMs that they release, I got subscribed for 3 months. During that time, they released ONE RPM. ONE. As soon as I got it, I installed it. WineX 2.0. I have tested over 70 games myself on WineX 2.0, and less than 10% of them worked, IIRC. Here is a partial list of the games I tested: http://mdkxp.by-a.com/winex/WineXGames.html I have over 100 games, I just got sick of testing them. I should still have a list of most of them on this site: http://games.dolson.cjb.net/ Can you also see why I would buy WineX in hopes that many of my games would work? And could you not see how I would be disappointed when I find that 90% or more of my games don't work, and many of them froze my computer with WineX? I bought Baldur's Gate 2 because it had a high rating. And it works, SOMETIMES. Other times, it doesn't, and that is of course, if you can actually get it to install. I think that they should work on EXISTING games, the ones that people still like and aren't ported/never will be ported, before they work on the new ones. Yes, they are working on CURRENT games. Which means that MORE AND MORE companies will rely on TRANSGAMING to get their games working and they will IGNORE native ports. Emulated can NEVER compare to NATIVE Linux games. EVER. On Saturday 06 July 2002 04:08 am, and idiot wrote: On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 17:55, D. Olson wrote: I'm a little confused also, since anyone alive and not living under a rock has heard about Loki's demise. Transgaming is the bridge from the gaming world to the world of linux, and it's working. Nuff said. It's working? 30% of the Windows framerate is not what I call working. 5 out of 70 games is not what I call working. Locking up systems is not what I call working. Where are you getting your numbers, Olsen? Where are you seeing 30% of the Winblows framerate? Where are you seeing 5 out of 70 when you haven't even run WineX for your own self? Where are you seeing Locking up systems? If you come on here blowing off at the mouth about something, you darn sure better have your ducks in a row, cause here we cite our sources. That way we cut the troll crap off at the nut level. So cite your sources and quit wasting everybody's time with possibly malinformed rhetoric; especially for the benefit of those of us who actually run and have VALID Winex experience; while not locking up. Such as myself, Darklord, and others. All WineX is doing is showing developers that their work in porting software natively isn't worth a damn because Wine can handle it. You don't see it now, but Wine and WineX will be the downfall of the Linux gaming market. And when that happens, I'll have you to thank for it. Now, let me move right on along to the next few points. First of all, I'm glad you've got this brilliant idea about writing games for Linux. I suggest you put your money where your mouth is and come off the hip with a few million dollars and start your own company that rewrites winblows games for linux. That way you can promote Linux in your own way, and you won't be bugging the crap and high horseing others who are promoting it in their own way. If you need a name for your company, I've even got a suggestion for that; how does Loki sound? What a brilliant concept. You can take the onus of the programming work off of the winblows game programmers, saving them time and money, and hire your own team of programmers; hopefully you'll be able to pay them, eh? Yeah, what an idea. Something just occurred to me tho...there's only one problem with this brilliant idea, thoit's ALREADY BEEN DONE. Dern...I forgot about that ALREADY BEEN DONE part. RL's a bitch, aint it? Maybe we could start out being a little better informed next time, eh? You know, before we find out that we are actually milking a bull. But let's see...what else could you do? Oh hey, I know!! You could go talk to Bethesda Softworks or John Carmack (ever heard of them?) and get them to write for two OS's!! John Carmack would probably be OK with it (since he's already doing it for zero profit out of pure goodwill), but Bethsoft would have to either hire new game programmers or put their existing ones on double duty plus a new learning curve. Come to think of it, knowing them as I do and what a tight ship they run, Bethsoft might laugh you off the property. But hey, that's a risk you're willing to take, right? Anything to stop those stupid Winex users from playing their games under Linux. And don't forget...you've got ME
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Saturday 06 July 2002 05:30 pm, you wrote: My experience is the same, shane. Diablo 2 works just fine, and crashes just don't happen anymore. On the other hand, under Winblows I continually had problems. Plus from what I've seen, Diablo 2 runs faster and smoother under Linux. Is that the only game that you have running fine in WineX? Have you tried any of the other 69 or 70 on my list? -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
Umm... Why the hell are you playing these in Wine(X)? There are native ports for all the Quake games, and they run better than they ever will in Wine(X). umm i the hell did because at one time i didn't know, i the hell don't now. Okay, well, it's a valid question... Most people do know that you can play those games (as well as RTCW, Unreal, UT, and Doom) in Linux natively. I am surprised that a list like this, especially people who use WineX don't know about that already. I mean, even in the Transgaming forums they talk about the native versions of the Quake games. no, go load windows and play them and lay off the list. we aren't going to fix it. no list memebers own game companies. preach to those who can do something about it. Yeah, well, if I am the only person who emails any companies, how will they ever find out about YOU? How will they know that YOU want native games? THEY WON'T. Okay. But I don't see what's hard to understand about it. If a company sees that some people are satisfied with a game running at 34% of the speed under WineX, then they will shrug and not bother porting it. I would. if that were the case it would matter. Well, it will matter in the future, but remember, you are the ones who are making it that way. Companies are even replying to emails saying I recommend you try running the game/application in Wine/WineX which means that obviously they aren't going to bother porting it. Don't ask for references, as I read about this on a forum. I think it was the Mandrake User Board, a long while ago, but I don't recall. If you don't read the posts, then don't start insulting people saying they don't know what they are talking about when they have stated it fully previously. It just makes people look like - (blanked out for you, buddy). actually i did read the posts, i was saying i was questioning following further based on your attitude. i no longer question. if you feel i insulted you, imagine how your assinine remarks sound. I wasn't saying that you didn't. It was Lyvim Xaphir who started saying stupid things like Where are you seeing 5 out of 70 when you haven't even run WineX for your own self? I wasn't directing that at you personally, it was a statement. Period. You obviously didn't notice that blanked out for you, buddy part in my statement, in which I wouldn't have called you buddy if you were the one who said something as dumb as If you come on here blowing off at the mouth about something, you darn sure better have your ducks in a row, cause here we cite our sources. don't bother editing your comments, i can edit them. i have added you to my sort to trash list. That's nice. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like in Mac OS Ten... That'd be SOOO sweet! I LOVE how it zooms Mmmm I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? My icons don't zom anymore... They do for one second, then the don't zoom. They just highlight. And yeah, the Mac OS Z bar zooms in too... NICE Oh, the eye candy. You should have a peek at it if you can. Oh, and make sure you minimize a window too... M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
I meant OS X... Not OS Z... On Friday 05 July 2002 02:12 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like in Mac OS Ten... That'd be SOOO sweet! I LOVE how it zooms Mmmm I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? My icons don't zom anymore... They do for one second, then the don't zoom. They just highlight. And yeah, the Mac OS Z bar zooms in too... NICE Oh, the eye candy. You should have a peek at it if you can. Oh, and make sure you minimize a window too... M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
I'm a little confused also, since anyone alive and not living under a rock has heard about Loki's demise. Transgaming is the bridge from the gaming world to the world of linux, and it's working. Nuff said. It's working? 30% of the Windows framerate is not what I call working. 5 out of 70 games is not what I call working. Locking up systems is not what I call working. All WineX is doing is showing developers that their work in porting software natively isn't worth a damn because Wine can handle it. You don't see it now, but Wine and WineX will be the downfall of the Linux gaming market. And when that happens, I'll have you to thank for it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
