Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released (Did they do it again?)
At 12:31 PM 3/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: The Mandrake mirrors have received e-mail announcing the availability of 9.1 final. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com comparing the sums posted on the web to the sums from .rc3 I get then exactly the same? did they do it again? 6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD1.i586.iso 6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD2.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f Mandrake91-cd2-exte.i586.iso ff187c7a552722f42790b5726fdb62b3 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD3.i586.iso ff187c7a552722f42790b5726fdb62b3 Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
the XP is short for Windows eXPerience, at least that's what Bill Gates said at the Kickoff. Mudder At 10:53 AM 3/22/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Saturday 22 March 2003 04:40 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope so. Just as long as they don't start giving releases silly names like Mandrake Millenium or Mandrake PX. By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party members in the back (Paranoia being a wonderful exception that really captures the atmosphere of the IT world). Sir Robin eXcrement Packaged --LX That makes sense : their next release is named *longhorny* Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. 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] worried
Funny thing, On my 500 MHz AMD K-6 and 64 meg of memory I could barely get XP Pro to run! And adding another 64meg of ram did little to improve things. Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 ran o.k. but nothing to cheer about. They both showed a marked increase in performance when I doubled ram, however , MDK 8 ran fine on 64 megs and showed about a 4 fold increase in performance when I doubled the ram. (I was not able to test MDK 9 as I have sold the machine) And to make everything even, I reformatted and started fresh when installing the extra ram. (I thimks I have way too much time on my hands) Just goes to show that almost every computer is an entity unto itself. What works for me may not work for you and vice versa. or could we just have a different definition of what acceptable performance is? Mudder At 11:08 AM 3/1/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 05:30 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Now before I get flamed let me explain. I run a small 500mhz Athlon with 64mg memory but for speed and effeiciency XP is by far the fastest. My Md9 is a minimal installation (although having most of the HD) but still pales in comparison to XP even when a large number of apps are working. With XP I boot and hey-presto I'm logging in with Md9 I can make a brew etc etc. (well not literally but you get the point) Now this is rather interesting, XP should not even run with 64MB if I am correctly informed, there you go.anyway, personally I ran Mdk 9.0 on a PII 233 Mhz although with 160 MB of RAM without any problems whatsoever, of course I did not use KDE as my desktop but XFce but still. I am not saying you are wrong, just that I am very surprised that you could even get XP to run on that configuration. /Anders or install anyway,,, no more feeding the trolls, says the wife,,, little does she know she married an alpha troll. et 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] Xwindows Stability (Thungggg sound from the monitor)
Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor switching modes. I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors. Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound every day when I boot into MDK 9.0 and my monitor is 5 years old and has not blown up yet... Anyone else hear this noise? Hope it helps. Mudder At 10:59 AM 2/19/2003 +, you wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote: I'd be led to wonder if it's a flaky Energy Savings issue - are you in KDE, or GrrrGNOME? this email, literally anything, and you get that Thun sound from the monitor, john, i agree with stephen about 'energy savings issue' and i am wondering just what you mean by monitor making a 'thun' sound. most color monitors have a degaussing coil around front outer edge of crt. most, when _first_ powered on, will make such a sound. it is caused by magnetic field attracting metal screen dot mask and metal shielding around crt. _normally_, there is no degaussing after power is first applied. could this possible be sound you are referring to? if so, then you may be having a power supply problem with your monitor. you could test this theory by placing a compass against monitor at outer edge and noting needle swing. first try it when monitor is first powered on, leave compass in place and wait for monitor to go blank again and watch needle. a far out test, but it may well help you locate problem. and, yes. i just check my monitor to see for sure that compass needle would swing. and, no, it does not swing afer monitor has been on and comes out of energy save mode. good luck. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. 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] Lovin' KDE 3.1
I agree. Thank you Miark. Followed his post, downloaded everything dropped to runlevel 3 issued the command, and in a few minutes I was enjoying 3.1 Mudder On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 03:33, mycal62 wrote: I have to say I agree with Miark it was very very effortless ! ;-) Ony ly had to remove one rpm which was already installed and everything went without a hitch. I really REALLY like kde3.1 ! thanks for the post Miark ! -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ° Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta 3 KDE 3.1 ; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Registered Linux User #248955 ° If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! 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] HP ScanJet 3200C (readme Alice)
hm.. I have same problem with Acer ScanPrisa 640s. it worked fine in 8.2, in 9.0- no :/ who can help, really? -- //--- Alice [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG-ID: F5CDDB22 * From: Colin Rose * Subject: [newbie] Anybody having problems with 'snapscan' and their scanner? * Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:24:02 -0700 (PDT) The problem is that somehow a typo is introduced in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. If you get the error 'no devices found' then edit the above file and change the word 'SnapScan' to 'snapscan' and it should work. hope this helps, Mudder Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Agfa snapscan typo
On Saturday 12 October 2002 02:15 pm, Ed Tharp wrote: I seem to remember a post within the last few weeks about a typo in the 9.0 snapscan config files, but damn if I can find it in teh archives, anyone else see that or can tell me where to find it? thanks in advance ET * From: Colin Rose * Subject: [newbie] Anybody having problems with 'snapscan' and their scanner? * Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:24:02 -0700 (PDT) The problem is that somehow a typo is introduced in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. If you get the error 'no devices found' then edit the above file and change the word 'SnapScan' to 'snapscan' and it should work. hope this helps, Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Journaling file systems (revisited)
At 07:16 AM 10/8/2002 -0600, you wrote: At 09:32 AM 10/8/2002 +0100, you wrote: On Monday 07 Oct 2002 11:28 pm, you wrote: At 06:19 PM 10/7/2002 +0100, you wrote: On Monday 07 Oct 2002 11:35 am, you wrote: Some may already know, but for those who do not. The October 2002 issue of Linux Magazine has a very good article about Journaling filesystems. Or if enough people ask they may be persueded to put it on the website? http://www.linuxmagazine.com I'm not sure if this mag is available outside the U.S. (I do get the U.K. mag Linux Format here but it is very expensive) One of our posters in usa said that subscribing to LF was a good deal cheaper than buying in stores - and it gets there weeks earlier. HTH Anne I tried subscribing to their mag. Did it by website (First LAST Time i do that!). Never a response. Emailed em saying, don't bother with my subscription i can't be bothered b/c you won't reply anyway. Nothing. Said Fuggit. Sigh --- Femme Sorry to hear that. I think a lot of the stuff is online, but if you want the disks, of course, that doesn't help. It never ceases to amaze me how many sites have mailto forms that simply do not work or work correctly. I have thought that they were probably designed for windows-only environments by those who know no others, but you would expect a magazine like LF to know better, so I don't know what's wrong. Would you mind if I tried to forward this to Linux Format magazine? I think they should be told if problems like this exist. Anne Be my guest. If they actually give a response I want to talk to those guys! They have my CC info/#'s ! damnit... --- Femme Linux Format is part of the Future publishing group. They publish quite a few magazines, so you may want to try here for a response: http://www.futurenet.com/futureonline/ Regards, Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Journaling file systems (revisited)
Some may already know, but for those who do not. The October 2002 issue of Linux Magazine has a very good article about Journaling filesystems. Or if enough people ask they may be persueded to put it on the website? http://www.linuxmagazine.com I'm not sure if this mag is available outside the U.S. (I do get the U.K. mag Linux Format here but it is very expensive) Regards, Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Scanner
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 07:53 am, et wrote: On Tuesday 01 October 2002 03:50 am, you wrote: mudder wrote: try looking at these sites: http://orbita.starmedia.com/~neofpo/yaprimaxgui.html http://primax.sourceforge.net/ They may shed some light on your problem. I remember that my acer usb scanner needed to have it's firmware uploaded using a perl script and a modification of the sane backend. Be prepared for a lot of trial and error and an equal amount of frustration. Regards, Mudder Thanks for the links. So far as I can make out, they are doing their best to write drivers for every Primax scanner but mine. Time to think about a new model, I guess. I would be reading up on how the other scanners with models kinda like your are made to work, and try to figure out what the differences are, and how you could make your work. the Acer Remark above struck me, since I have an unsupported Acer Prisa 320 that I followed the directions for the prisa620, and changed which binary (*.bin) I used (in the windows install disk and folder) until I found the correct one, from then on I could use that scanner great, and I paid $40.00 US 2 years ago for that scanner. Can anyone recommend one? I'm not the world's greatest hacker so ease of setup is an important consideration. BINGO! The Acer scanner that I was referring to is a Prisa 320U and I followed almost the same path. Weird...I thought I was the only one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Scanner
On Monday 30 September 2002 01:30 pm, Poogle wrote: On Monday 30 Sep 2002 H:06 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: This is probably a long shot. I'm trying to get a Primax Colorado 9600 USB scanner working with Mandrake 8.2. Hardrake detects it, it shows up under dmesg output, but Scanimage can't find it and Xsane reports that no devices have been found. Has anyone been down this road before. If so, how did you do it? I think you are out of luck, a quick glance at the sane compatibility page shows that it is not yet supported. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. try looking at these sites: http://orbita.starmedia.com/~neofpo/yaprimaxgui.html http://primax.sourceforge.net/ They may shed some light on your problem. I remember that my acer usb scanner needed to have it's firmware uploaded using a perl script and a modification of the sane backend. Be prepared for a lot of trial and error and an equal amount of frustration. Regards, Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *.Iso check up
On Monday 30 September 2002 05:28 pm, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 12:10 pm, Lúcio Costa de Almeida did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My second Cd have corrupted files or something like this. quoting myself here: if you have an old cd drive you are doing the install with, it may not be reading the final few packages. in the install hit ctr-alt-f3 (maybe f4, not sure) and see what packages it is trying. for me it was xwpic, xmovie, ytalk and yudit. start the install again but be sure those are not selected. zsh and xmms may also be problems, might want to uncheck them. install should proceed fine. now here is the kicker, once installed and booted i was able to install the failed packages. guess the generic install driver is not as good as the real running driver. ;-) you might also try reburning cd 2 on a slower speed. i say cause this error has occured and solution worked for me and 3 friends on a total of 6 different machines now. - -- I used to be confused, but now I am not that sure anymore.. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mMHnBwq+ZwvIN/oRAq3IAJ40YtQyMOb4YEQGkTpWx829jUvqAQCeN1e4 +xFQ5L/dRYaDbokpAnjnM0w= =NPDg -END PGP SIGNATURE- I have had the same problem, I checked the MD5 sum and that seemed ok, Burned the second cd at 4x speed and tried again and had the same files fail. These were as follows. rpm-devel-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm rpm-python-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm rpm-build-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm rpmlint-0.47-1mdk.noarch.rpm rocksndiamonds-2.0.0-10mdk.i586.rpm I extracted the files from the .iso image and tried to install them from the command line and was told that a checksum did not match (it was late and I was bleary eyed, so this may not be 100% correct) I was, however able to get the packages from www.rpmfind.net and install them from a terminal window.(reminds me of the old days in DOS and CP/M)(Yes, I'm so old I give my age in hex to feel better ;-) ) Regards, Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9.0
At 10:56 PM 9/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: s wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 09:08 pm, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all, Just got 9.0 running after much hair tearing. d/l'd the iso's, checksum was ok on all, but install locked up on some files on cd2. Tried a number of times to no avail, finally told the installer I only had cd1, then when I got online, d/l'd some of the rpm's I needed. looks like somethings wrong with webmin and a few other files. Any idea what could be the problem, as the checksums sre ok? (can't download new copies for a while, just about used my quota) Well, the packages are fine, I would bet it's your burn. -s quite correct. you likely burned the images too fast. try burning them at 4x and I bet you find that they work falwlessly. You may even be able to get away with burning at 8x, but I wouldn't go any faster then that. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I concur, I would also bet you burned them too fast. I've done this a time or two before. 4x burn is the safest bet. although I have had iso's burned at 6x and 8x work fine too. Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spellchecker for Openoffice 1.0.1
Greetings, I was fooling around tonight and I realized that the Openoffice 1.0.1 that installed with rc3 did not have a spell checker. Looked on the Openoffice.org web page and found instructions to install a spell checker. http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html Trouble is, I believe that I followed the instructions but when I load a test document that has deliberate misspellings the system locks hard... so hard that I have no alternative than to press the reset button. (don't like to have to do that) I was able to install a 641 version and the spellchecker works fine. Does anyone know if this is a problem that is common of have I done something drasticly wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble making a boot floppy
On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:49 am, iggy wrote: On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:10 am, mudder wrote: Hello Has anyone had trouble creating a boot disk? I've been playing around with this since the first beta, and have had problems with the boot floppy.From the first beta through RC2 I would get something like the following Boot: loading vmlinuz.(17 periods) boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue I just loaded RC3 this morning and it is telling me that the boot floppy is not a bootable disk. Anyone have any advice? I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 and have not had this problem. The floppy drive is a Epson SD-800 3-1/2 5-1/4 combination drive. Any help would be appreciated Epson SD-800 3-1/2 5-1/4 combination drive? shame on you ;^) did you try the simple things first? disk drives fail, diskettes go bad, etc. have you tried replacing the diskette? replacing the drive? by the way, you didn't try to make a 5-1/4 the boot disk? there may not be enough room on one of those for all the info. good luck. -iggy ps, assuming hardware failure first. btw, were you able to create a boot disk whene you first installed rc3? Shame on me?? I need the 5-1/4 drive because I program some older types of gearcutting machines that use old computers and 5-1/4 360k floppy disks. (yea, I'm old. But not too old to learn something new.) I have installed Elx Linux, Lycoris Desktop LX, and Mandrake 8.2 all in the last few days and I was using brand new disks. I was able to write a disk when I installed rc3 and in a terminal window I can see that it has these files on it. boot.msg initrd.img syslinux.cfg and vmlinuz and it tells me that it is not bootable? I am able to format disks inside of linux, write text files and read them on other machines in both drives. And I had just installed mandrake 8.2 last night and all was well. I'm going out to buy a floppy drive later on today, buy I have a hard time believing that the drive is bad given all of the conditions that I see here. Thanks for replying so fast. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble making a boot floppy(Solved)
On Thursday 19 September 2002 12:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:36 am, iggy wrote: SNIP I don't know about anyone else but as long as you have it figured out/fixed I don't care where the help came from. :-) Have fun! Many thanks to everyone who gave me input. mkbootdisk was 1.4.5-4mdk syslinux was 1.76-2mdk It turns out that I did have to build a boot floppy from a terminal window. This was my first post to a linux mailing list and I must say that I am impressed. You guys were fast to reply and accurate with your answers. Thanks again. Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
