On June 1, 2002 07:37 am, Peter Ruskin wrote:
what happens if you make that wmediaplayer.sh %u ?
Peter,
It didn't help. I actually did have it working ONCE and then it stopped again.
After doing some reading on pclinuxonline.com I think the problem is with KDE
3.0.1. It seems to have broken
That worked great, Peter. Thanks for your help. It's funny how sometimes the
most obvious things get missed.
-Chris
On May 30, 2002 07:52 am, Peter Ruskin wrote:
In KDE Control Centre | File Browsing | File Associations, select the
file type and then click the Embedding tab - Show file in
I'm still trying to tweak my file associations in KDE and I have encountered
an odd problem. I just installed the Crossover Plugin so I can use some
Windows plugins and so far it seems to work pretty good. But I am having an
odd problem with file associations.
I have downloaded and installed
Hello,
Is there some reason why file associations don't seem to work in KDE 3.01?
Take mp3 files for example. If I browse to a directory and click on an mp3
the player that KDE uses is the embedded mp3 player (Kaboodle?). I would
like to change this so that it uses XMMS. So I changed the
I have been pulling out my hair trying to get this to work correctly and I
dunno what the heck is wrong. I'm hoping someone can help.
I am running KDE 3.0 and have anti-aliased fonts turned on. They render very
nice and I am pleased with that. However, I have noticed that when I go to
certain
Today I did some cleaning up and removed all of my KDE2 packages except for
KDE2 libs and QT2 libs. As a result, KDM from KDE 2.2 is gone.
After I did an init 1/init 5, when X started I was prompted with GDM instead
of the new KDM. I did some snooping through logs and found that the problem
Damian,
Thank-you for your help. I'm embarassed that I missed the most obvious thing.
:) Everything is working great now. Thanks again!
-Chris
On May 19, 2002 05:36 pm, Damian G wrote:
use KDE Control Center to do that. Go to system --
login manager ( i'm sorry bu ti think you will have
Hello,
What does one have to do to get an anti-aliased Helvetica font in KDE 3.0?
Anti-aliased fonts are working fine for me on my desktop and my applications,
however I am finding that there are some web pages out there (including
www.linux-mandrake.org) that are coming up with non-AA
, Chris Spencer wrote:
Hello,
I hope someone can shed some light on to this because I'm at a loss.
I have a small LAN going on at home: a Debian box acting as a firewall
(external interface gets its IP address from DHCP and the internal address
is 192.168.0.1); a Linux/Windows box that has
Hello,
I hope someone can shed some light on to this because I'm at a loss.
I have a small LAN going on at home: a Debian box acting as a firewall
(external interface gets its IP address from DHCP and the internal address is
192.168.0.1); a Linux/Windows box that has no problems (only has one
I just wanted to express a sincere thank-you to everyone on this list. From
the developers, to the long time subscribers, and even the newbies. You all
have helped me in incredible ways to learn, adopt, and embrace the GNU/Linux
environment.
I installed Linux Mandrake for the first time about
OK, first a little background information:
Up until recently I have been running the fetchmail service along with
postfix. Since I am just running a one user workstation this seems to be a
little overkill. Thus I am trying to run fetchmail without using postfix.
I have chowned
On Sunday 22 April 2001 23:22, Nima S. Panahi wrote:
Um, I am sorry, I miss read the question. My problem is still the same
though, I cannot install any linux guests under linux host. It hangs at
lilo.
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Nima S. Panahi wrote:
I am have same problem. I cannot, for the
On Sunday 22 April 2001 23:22, Nima S. Panahi wrote:
Um, I am sorry, I miss read the question. My problem is still the same
though, I cannot install any linux guests under linux host. It hangs at
lilo.
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Nima S. Panahi wrote:
I am have same problem. I cannot, for the
In the next few days I'm going to be doing a major hardware upgrade of new
motherboard, CPU, video card, and primary disk controller.
I'm thinking that what I would do is do a backup of my entire system with
tar, go through a Mandrake upgrade (to deal with the new hardware) and then
do a
Hello,
I am wanting to use the ip_masq_vpn module from a stock 7.2 kernel. If I do a
make xconfig and look at the configuration I can see that it was compiled as
a module. However, doing a modprobe ip_masq_ipsec results in an error saying
it can't find the specified module. If it already
I'm having a -duh- moment. How do I cut script from a terminal to be
used in post.
Thanks in advance ;-/
---
Spence
On Saturday 10 February 2001 13:28, you wrote:
Hi all!
I recently played around with fontdrake, deleting some fonts that
seemed unnecessary to me. Well, I guess at least one of them was not
unnecessary, because now X refuses to start, saying:
Man, this error message is a pain in the arse.
Hello,
I just finished doing a clean expert install of 7.2. During the install I
selected the extra packages of ssh-server and telnet-server. After the
install I upgraded all my packages. Other than that, I have installed XFree
4.02, a new freetype, and the Nvidia drivers. Everything else is
This is actually a Windows virus that is currently being spread.
Funny that it somehow ended up on a Linux mailing list...
-Chris
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
I just got a spam direct:
Received: from localhost (ppp-7-49.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.135.49])
Subject:
This is probably such a basic question I'm almost afraid to ask. :)
Can anyone tell me where Mandrake pulls the information that is shown when
a telnet connection is made? ie: When I telnet I see the following:
Welcome to hostname
Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
Kernel 2.4.0 on an
Anthony,
No, thats not it. The motd is displayed after login. This is before login.
-Chris
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Anthony Russello wrote:
/etc/motd
anything in that file will be displayed when a connection is made either
through the terminal, ssh, or telnet
Ahh...that did it. Thanks!
-Chris
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, D. Stark - eSN wrote:
/etc/issue.net
check your rc.local to make sure the file isnt being rewritten at every boot
like on a RedHat box.
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
xt 8952
What I did to find out that information was just run 'make xconfig' in
/usr/src/linux and look at the configuration. I saved my newly downloaded
kernel in /usr/local/src/linux, ran make xconfig in there, and then just
switched between the two windows making sure that the new kernel had the
same
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Mogens [iso-8859-1] Jæger wrote:
Hey list.
I am running a system with a dual Celleron, so I use the -smp- kernel.
So far I can only use the 2.2.17.. because the pppd is NOT supported
by the kernel, when I install the kernel-smp-2.4.0-5mdk.i586.rpm! why?
will it be
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, bascule wrote:
I think thats a cron job set waaay into the future. :)
-Chris
never tried webmin before, just took a look and i'm wondering what you can't
do from a browser (solve the middle east crisis perhaps?)
bascule
In the "for what its worth" department, I
On 18 Jan 2001, chronos . wrote:
Hi all,
I`m running mandrake 7.1 and I have 128 for ram but it only sees 64 of my 128. I
went to mandrakeuser.org and found the following- edit tittle linux kernel
(hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda1 then append mem=128M to the end of it. The problem
is I
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, bascule wrote:
can't help you but i have a similar problem,
i have added a line to /etc/crontab to start setiathome and the command works fine
off the command line but the job never starts, all the other regular mandrake stuff
seems to happen fine though, this has only
For any other people out there who like to compile their own kernels I
noticed that a Supermount patch for 2.4 final has been released. Since I'm
out of town I haven't had a chance to patch my own kernel (and I don't
feel like doing it over an ssh connection :) ) but here's the URL:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Marsden MacRae wrote:
Chris Spencer wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Michael O'Henly wrote:
What is the proper method for adding TrueType fonts to Linux-Mandrake?
Any time I have added a Windows font to Mandrake I have just used
fontdrake, which can be found
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Darin wrote:
Chris,
Thanks for the pointer.. That got it working for me.. I can now play UT...
Thanks again
Good stuff. Glad I could help. Getting UT working nicely under Linux was
the last nail in the coffin for my Windows partition. A great feeling. :)
-Chris
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Michael O'Henly wrote:
What is the proper method for adding TrueType fonts to Linux-Mandrake?
Any time I have added a Windows font to Mandrake I have just used
fontdrake, which can be found in DrakConf.
-Chris
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote:
I have tried patching the 2.4.0 kernel with with supermount patch,
partial text below, but it fails. I get rejects and then no patch. Is
there something obviously wrong with this patch?
The last time I looked (which was yesterday) there wasn't a
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Darin wrote:
Hi,
I've tried following the suggestions on the MandrakeUser site, the nVidia
site, and any others I could find out there.. I still cannot get the bloody
thing to work..
One question: Is there a known problem with the nVidia kernel driver and
the
Has anyone tried gatos with that card. It's supposed to work with it.
cu;-) Spence
Rusty Carruth wrote:
Steve Young wrote:
i have an all in wonder 128 pro and i was wondering if anyone knew of
software that would make the tv inputs and output work
Has anyone tried using VMWare to
Up until now I have not had Postfix running, simply because I didn't really
need it. Alas, today I decided to start it so that root could be notified of
system-related things via email.
WELL HOLY CRAP!! It seems as though cron sends out an email every time it
completes a job. This really
OK, I need someone to explain to me how the heck to get Menudrake to work
correctly.
Here is the situation. I have created a new Menu directory in Menudrake
called Windows Applications. When I am logged into KDE I can see it and
launch applications from it. When I log into Gnome, though, it
On December 8, 2000 12:20 pm, you wrote:
After cleanly installing Mandrake 7.2 on my desktop system, a
fast Athlon 700 with lots of RAM (it was fast under pre-7.2
installs and after a manual upgrade to 90%+ Mandrake 7.2),
everything is SOO SLOW.
snip
I had a problem like this
On December 6, 2000 05:30 am, you wrote:
Mandrake's Updates are _beyond_ the 2.01 release already and the folks
taking care of those packages saw no need for regression. This is true in
the updates Chris Molnar has been making available for some time, (and they
tested as well or better
Balaji Ramani wrote:
On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote:
Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
Spence
Yes! I have Micro$oft sidewinder force feedback pro joystick working under
LM7.2. But force feedback does not work. I can use all the buttons.
stephen boulet wrote:
Very interesting. The module "emu10k1-joy" is not included in a stock LM7.2, as far
as I can tell. I wonder if a kernel compile is really necessary...
I guess it's time to do some compiling.
-- Stephen
On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote:
Has
Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2?
Spence
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Can anyone possibly tell me the proper procedure for setting up a
joystick. I'm running LM7.2 and want to set up a MS Sidewinder Pro.
Thanks in advance
cu:-)
Spencer
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On November 25, 2000 03:39 am, you wrote:
I have 2 pairs of IDE connections.
I had installed LM when my drive was connected to the
first IDE channel. It was referred as hda1.
Now I changed it to my second channel and now the
drive is recognized as hde, 'cause of this I am
getting
On November 22, 2000 10:45 pm, you wrote:
I know what you mean. :) Keep it up - its a great way to learn. Good
luck!
-Chris
You're telling me. I need to buy a new notepad :)
Thanks for the answers, now all I need is to find this fabelled ReiserFS
homepage which everyone seems to be
On November 22, 2000 10:50 pm, you wrote:
Actually - YES! I'd love to! only problem is that I don't know where the
command is running from :/ it's ending up in root mail already, but as for
why it spouts all that stuff to every active connection/terminal I have no
idea! it's rather
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Leopold Palomo wrote:
I have configured my Maxtor HD91080D5 drive with this parameters:
hdparm -u 1 -d 1 -c 1 /dev/hda
I have read that there are the -m parameter that can optimize a lot the
hd but is dangerous.
Can anyone tell me if have tested this parameter with a
On November 22, 2000 04:15 pm, you wrote:
I forget to say that I have a MB BX, with a PII 266
Do you think that I can put your parameters without risk?
Leo
A definate probably. Do a hdparm -i /dev/hdxx to get information about your
drive so that you know what it supports. Also make sure
On November 22, 2000 06:24 pm, you wrote:
Just out of curiousity, and my apologies for eaves dropping :), when I run
hdparm -i /dev/hda, it diplays the possible modes. Now, I'm just
guessing, and please let me know if I'm right or wrong here, but the mode
with the asterisk beside it is the
On November 21, 2000 07:27 am, you wrote:
I am new to the Mandrake system but an experienced Linux user (SuSE,
Caldera), I made two successful installations of Mandrake 7.2 and it worked
perfectly. But now when I try to make a new installation the installation
itself seems to work perfectly
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Wayne Wilson wrote:
Yep, as I said, been there and done that. Tried all permuations just to
make sure. NO effect, same bad sound when it works. I am beginning to
think that the crystal audio drivers are just plain bad. Does anyone
have a good audio card that Mandrake
On November 20, 2000 10:05 pm, you wrote:
I am running the last ISO Mandrake v7.2 and have a question about
installing some of the lastest cooker apps specifically Licq and
Python. When I try to upgrade to the lastest cooker version of these
application they require the latest glibc,
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Has anyone tried, successfully or unsuccessfully, to get VMWare up,
running, and doing useful work on 7.2? I'm getting ready to build a new
workstation, and I'd rather not have to experiment more than I must. I'm
perfectly happy to use an
On Saturday 11 November 2000 14:06, you wrote:
Hello
I have installed vmware 2.0.3 under Mandrake 7.2. Unfortunately things
went as I though they would be:
1) NO DGA modes even after checking, rechecking if the line omit dga is
commented out on XF86Config. Is there anything else I
On Friday 10 November 2000 07:57, you wrote:
Hi,
I'm having problem with 'less', if I type 'man less' I recieve the
following errors:
I'm just taking a guess but try reinstalling the manpages RPMs
-Chris
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I'm not stupid...and maybe this is a bug. But why the hell won't this work?
I am running 7.2 w/KDE. I have used the menu editor to modify the "shortcut"
to load nmapfe as follows:
/usr/bin/kdesu -s /usr/bin/nmapfe
If I type this in at a command prompt I get prompted for root's password,
Errr...I made a typo in this email. The real command line I am trying to run
is:
/usr/bin/kdesu -c /usr/bin/nmapfe
-Chris
On Saturday 04 November 2000 10:33, you wrote:
I'm not stupid...and maybe this is a bug. But why the hell won't this
work?
I am running 7.2 w/KDE. I have used the
On Friday 03 November 2000 11:45, you wrote:
How about 7.1, do you have Aureal Drivers working under 7.1?
I would sure like to have some if there were any available,
7 months of Linux-Mandrake with no sound, would be a great
change in my environment to have some.
The Aureal drivers work
On Wednesday 01 November 2000 02:06, you wrote:
To the original poster:
Is there a sym link from /usr/include/linux to
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/ ? If not, add it, and you should be set.
Alexander Skwar
Yes, that symlink is there. Everything appears to be in order I just have no
idea
Check if you have /usr/include/linux symlinked to
/usr/src/linux/include/linux werewolf:~# ll /usr/include/linux
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 26 Jun 8 02:09 /usr/include/linux
- ./src/linux/include/linux/
Same with /usr/include/asm. Or you can have both dirs "real" instead of
Argh. I feel dumb.
I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to
compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been
crashing with a file not found error.
I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is not in
the path, or include
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 15:55, you wrote:
Do you have the kernel source code in a directory with a name similar to
/usr/src/linux-2.2.xx or do you have the source for the kernel stored
elsewhere? You need that directory tree (and its files) somewhere. Then
you need to make a link from
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 19:57, you wrote:
Why do you need /usr/src/linux in the $PATH? Chances are the files that
are missing are in some devel package. Do a web search for the missing
file and see what package it looks like it is in. You can always check
rpmfind.net for the most up
First of all, the names are different. The socket A is an Athlon, which has
an off-die L2 cache. The slot A is a Thunderbird and its L2 is on-die.
-Chris
n Sunday 29 October 2000 22:50, you wrote:
I've decided to build an Athlon system. I understand that the Athlon comes
in 2 versions
gcc-2.96 is not recommended for use, even by the people at gcc. 2.95.2 is the
latest stable compiler
Regards,
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, you wrote:
Hi, everybody.
I have a little problem when compiling new kernels.
Kernel 2.2.18-pre15 compiles fine under gcc-2.95.2. It is just plain
Hello,
I think I need something explained to me.
I am the only person that uses my Linux box. I have a POP account on my ISP
which I use fetchmail to retrieve my messages and procmail to deliver them. I
have it set up as a cron job as follows: fetchmail -m "/usr/bin/procmail -f -"
I have
Ron,
Relax. In my humble opinion, unless you are senior management at Mandrake or a
signifcant shareholder (which you obviously are not) then you should keep your
criticisms (and in this case personal attacks) to yourself.
Quite frankly I am tired of your trollish remarks and comments. If every
Normally, if you were to install source code you would follow these steps:
As your normal user:
- download the .tar.gz tarball
- Type tar zxvf foo.tar.gz to untar/zip it
- cd foo to change into the new directory
- Read the documentation, such as README, INSTALL, etc.
- Run the ./configure
with /dev, of course!)
Then type "p" to print help.
There's an option ("l" maybe? Maybe "t") to change the type of the
partition.
Have fun!
-- Asheesh Laroia.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Chris Spencer wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible to change a Type
Hello,
Is it possible to change a Type 85 (Linux Extended) partition to Type F
(Windows 95 Extended)? The reason why I ask is because I like to use Ghost to
backup my Linux partitions. However, Ghost does not like Type 85 partitions.
If anyone can answer this I'd greatly appreciated it...
I have a very annoying problem with a cron job I set up to run fetchmail. The
problem is that every now and then the job doesn't complete.
The job is set up to run as a normal user and the .fetchmailrc file is in the
user's home directory. The cron job itself is set to run every five minutes and
Perhaps this thread is indicative of the problems of running beta software.
Report your findings to the KDE folks.. Beta software is generally not
supported and is released to help find/squash bugs...
-Chris
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, you wrote:
You've pretty well summed up my experiences with it
I had an almost the exact same experience. Simply reseating everything in the
computer - all the cards, RAMS, IDE cables, etc. fixed it. It takes five
minutes and might be worth a try...
-Chris
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Ok, I'm a wee bit confused here. My Linux box has started hanging
I've installed them. And yes, its a huge difference. Not much difference in 2D,
but watch out if you load up a full-screen 3D OpenGL game! Unreal Tournament is
very, very fast with the Nvidia drivers...
-Chris
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Hi people,
Has anyone successfuly installed the
Aha! Thats what it was. Thanks for refreshing my memory. :)
-Chris
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Chris Spencer a écrit :
Hello,
I recently reinstalled Mandrake 7.1 and, like a lunkhead, I forgot to set
things up to run XFree 4.0. So right now I am running 3.3.6.
I know
Hello,
I recently reinstalled Mandrake 7.1 and, like a lunkhead, I forgot to set
things up to run XFree 4.0. So right now I am running 3.3.6.
I know that there is a file somewhere that I can edit so that I can run 4.0
instead of 3.3.6. However I forget what the file is. :( Can someone please
Mandrake runs great on an Athlon - I'm doing right now, in fact.
-Chris
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I have had complaints from customers about the fact that mandrake is
compiled for the Pentium class systems when using an Athlon. Have any of
you had the same problem. My experience is
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