On Sunday 13 October 2002 06:58 am, Kiran wrote:
generally reserved for X servers. I have noticed that F12 on MDK
systems seems to be stderr although I haven't looked into that yet.
While Mandrake is certainly directing some errors at F12, stderr still acts as
normal. It's is very easy to
Does it work if you use cdrecord by hand form the command line?
On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:22 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote:
Am Samstag, 12. Oktober 2002 17:56 schrieb Ken Thompson:
On Saturday 12 October 2002 02:08 am, Steffen Barszus wrote:
dummy -eject -pad tsize=109760s -
Make sure
Mandrake Control Center can automate this process by clicking Network
Internet and then Connection Sharing.
Just set up the workstations to use DHCP and they'll retrieve all the
information they need. This is the simplist and quickest way to take care of
this problem. You should also have
In /etc/inittab change id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:
startx KDE, startx Gnome, startx XFce, etc
A better way is to use Xtart. To install it:
urpmi Xtart
Then don't use startx at all. Just type Xtart and it will present you with a
short text menu of available WindowManagers.
Hmm... odd.
Without launching Licq, what do you see if you type:
ps -ef|grep 9776
Also, do you have any old pid files in your ~/.licq?
On Saturday 12 October 2002 08:45 am, Ken Thompson wrote:
On Friday 11 October 2002 11:15 pm, Todd Flinders wrote:
Licq is working just fine for me
Mandrake Club has Nvidia drivers for 9.0.
You can always download the .src.rpm's and rebuild them yourself:
rpm --rebuild NVIDIA*src.rpm
You will need to have the rpm-build package installed.
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:53 pm, Roberto Armenteros wrote:
Nvidia has drivers for MD 8.2
After you install the GeForce4, download and install the Nvidia drivers for
Mandrake 9.0 either from the Mandrake Club or a contrib directory. Then run
XFdrake or edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by hand (XFdrake is probably
preferred). Then you should be able to start X.
When X is running, bring
This may not be the most elegant way, but you could edit
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and change the ONBOOT parameter to
no.
Then when you want to bring up eth1, type:
ifup eth1
When you want to undock the laptop, you can bring down eth1 first with:
ifdown eth1
On
Licq is working just fine for me. However, I did bring over my ~/.licq
directory from 8.2.
Can you show us what you see when you type licq? You might be getting some
error messages which would help us to troubleshoot the problem.
On Friday 11 October 2002 08:54 pm, Ken Thompson wrote:
Please make sure you have rpm-build installed:
rpm -q rpm-build
If not, you'll need to install it:
urpmi rpm-build
On Thursday 10 October 2002 05:22 am, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote:
I have downloaded different .src.rpm files and get the same error.
[root@mrroboto
Yeah, I've had lots of CD-ROM reading errors myself. I believe there is
something wrong with 9.0's supermount. In my case disabling supermount
immediately fixed the problem. The problem was only occurring on certain CDs
as well, but it would happen reliably with those CDs. Others always
Texstar was kind enough to package this up for us. You can find them at:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms
You can add texstar's rpms to your urpmi with the following (all one line):
Let's not forget the end users might also be programmers. As a programmer I
appreciate the increased efficiency and better design. What if we want to
tinker with the code? What I'm trying to say is that there's more than one
angle to address. It's an evolving process. If there are ideas
The tool you are looking for is urpmf. For example:
[flindet@flindet flindet]$ urpmf librpmbuild
rpm:/usr/lib/librpmbuild-4.0.4.so
rpm-devel:/usr/lib/librpmbuild.a
rpm-devel:/usr/lib/librpmbuild.la
rpm-devel:/usr/lib/librpmbuild.so
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:30 am, hans privat wrote:
hi,
be just as effective as increased revenue. Let's not be too
critical of Mandrake's efforts to improve the distro.
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:03 am, Praedor Tempus wrote:
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:38 am, Todd Flinders wrote:
Let's not forget the end users might also be programmers
Does it work if you disable esd before launching Quake 3?
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:48 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
Hi,
using Alsa with an Intel 810/815 chipset (Sony VAIO VX88). I run XFce as
my desktop environment, with esd in my startup script. Sound works
normally for most things.
http://www.textbookx.com/product_detail.php?detail_isbn=0201563177type=keywords=Unix+Programmingsearchtype=stdstart_num=0order_by=
On Monday 07 October 2002 03:11 am, Thierry TERRIER wrote:
Hi there,
Is anybody known a good way to learning system programming on Linux (in
France near Paris) ?
libiberty.a is apparently included in the package libbinutils2-devel. This
was not installed by default on my box. Try installing it to see if that
fixes your problem. It's on CD 3.
urpmi libbinutils2-devel
On Saturday 05 October 2002 09:51 pm, Paul Ruhland wrote:
I just installed
That was an active philisophical decision to not implement the GNU su that
way. According to Free as In Freedom, Stallman had many ethical problems
with the password implementation. The weakened security of su was
intentional.
You'd think there'd be a wheel-style su for GNU/Linux on
Yeah, I've been fighting similar problems for weeks.
I have been trying to compile smpeg 4.2 or 4.3 and
they won't find GL. They always disable opengl
support because it cannot be found.
You might try compiling the nvidia drivers from
tar.gz. I was going to try that next. Most
applications
Worked fine for me in Konqueror.
--- Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear friends:
Just wondering. Anyone have any problem launching
what I think is a Java
applet at the following URL:
TVGUIDE ONLINE:
http://www.tvguide.com/Listings/index.asp?I=60922
I have NO problem with
We need to know what video card you have to help you
with the GLX problem.
For joystick support, see the following site
(although, there may be something more current out
there.. I don't know):
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/
--- Randy Donohoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was
What video cards are you people using? Tuxracer works
perfectly with my GeForce2 GTS.
If you're using voodoo's try booting at runlevel 3 and
startx to get into X. Some people said that helped.
Other voodoo users said it helped to use xdm or gdm
instead of kdm to login with runlevel 5.
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Just create a Linux boot floppy. Then once you've
installed Windows 95, use the Linux boot floppy to
return to Linux. Make the appropriate changes to
/etc/lilo.conf and reinstall lilo by typing
/sbin/lilo. Then you should be able to boot as you
always do, but this time with whatever windows 95
of
the higher numbersI dont know..
atleast upto 40GB I dont have any problems...
prasad
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Todd Flinders wrote:
Hello:
I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100
hard
drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give
30
gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux
My Linksys LNE100TX was not detected during the
install of 7.2, but I found that if I set it up with
Linuxconf (not the mandrake tools) and chose the tulip
driver there, it would work! Try that, if you have
not already done so.
Incidentally, the Linksys NIC is detected easily with
Mandrake 8.0.
Hello:
I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100 hard
drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give 30
gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux.
Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any
necessary partitioning or parameters to allow Linux to
see the 90 gigs? Do I need to do
Eric,
In regards to trying those new drivers, I have tried
them and I have had some issues with KDE. In
particular there were quite a few people in the
linuxgames.com forums having issues with Mandrake 8.0.
I haven't tried it yet, but it was recommended in
those forums to compile from source
Have you tried setting the printers up with kups?
That makes it super easy.
Configuration-Printers-Kups
--- John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a cross-post.
I've set up a local network of 2 1/2 machines (well
one is only half
working til I find some monitor specs grin), and I
Yes, the rpm changed.
Check the md5sum of the isos to make sure they are
okay.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I had some problem installing LM8.0 (and I didn't
install it yet!!!). Now I installed LM7.2 and I
would like to update some packages (KDE, XFree,
etc.)...the problem is that
Maybe your video driver doesn't support anti-aliasing?
What video card are you using?
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 10 May 2001 11:45, Todd Flinders wrote:
To turn on anti-aliasing go into the KDE Control
Center. Click LookNFeel-Style. Click the
checkbox
for anti-aliasing
Well, jre is refering to java (Java Runtime
Environment, I believe). Mandrake comes with kaffe
which is not very current at all. Maybe if you
install a newer java, that might help.
Try http://www.blackdown.org.
--- Babam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I try to install oracle817 on linuxbox LM
Look in /usr/src/RPM/BUILD. If there are scripts
still in there, see if you can install them.
./configure
make
make install
Something seems to have gone wrong.
The only time this has happened to me ./configure
bottomed out, but I didn't notice any error. Give it
a try.
--- Benjamin Sher
I am using the Logitech cordless Mouseman+. I had
weird issues too, but now it works flawlessly. When
installing, I had to select the Logitech mouse. Then
all buttons would work but the mouse wheel would not
work. I then cancelled out of the Logitech selection
and selected the Generic PS/2
To turn on anti-aliasing go into the KDE Control
Center. Click LookNFeel-Style. Click the checkbox
for anti-aliasing (in the middle).
--- rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are serious problems with fonts in LM8.0. This
is *very* noticeable in
KDE for instance. The optimisations they used
Hello:
I'm writing in regards to problems I'm having with
Shogo: MAD and Sin (both by Hyperion) using OpenGL.
I have the following system:
Linux Mandrake 8.0 Final
Kernel 2.4.3
XFree86 4.0.3
nvidia 0.9-769 drivers from nvidia.com
Hercules Prophet II (GeForce 2 GTS with 64 Megs DDR
RAM)
In the console type:
XFdrake -expert
--- Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Out of curiosity: is it possible to have Mandrake
8.0 install Xfree 3.3.6
instead of 4? I'm reinstalling mandrake 8 from
scratch, because I
uninstalled Xfree 4, and I have spent 3 days so far,
and I'm
We really need more information about your setup, but
assuming you are using KDE (the default) you can try
the following:
In KDE Control Center click LookNFeel-Style. Click
the checkbox to enable Anti-aliasing. Click Font (on
the left again). Here you can set up the fonts that
you prefer.
In
I'm no Samba master, but for me to get it to work, I
had to log into Windows with the same name I told
Samba about.
You add a user to Samba with smbuseradd (or is it
smbadduser?).
I don't THINK that you MUST have a Linux user by the
same name of the Samba user, but I'm not sure. I
think you
Go to the Mandrake Control Center. In the Boot
options is a place to change Aurora. Choose the third
option. There are thumbnails. So, you'll recognize it.
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--- SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What RPM file for LM8.0 has update-alternatives?
Note: When you reply to this message, please include
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To:.
WHOOPS! Messed up that last post. Sorry. Here's the
corrected request:
I seem to be having a problem displaying .gifs with
Konqueror. For example, the .gifs on the front page
of tuxgames.com (each of the for corners of their box)
don't display. Does anyone have any ideas?
.gifs display
I seem to be having a problem displaying .gifs with
Konqueror. For example, the .gifs on the front page
(each of the for corners of their box) don't display.
Does anyone have any ideas?
.gifs display normally in Netscape 4.77.
I'm using Mandrake 8.0.
Run XFdrake -expert
After installing X 4.0.3, you'll need to edit your
XF86Config-4 file again.
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I have Quake3 and Unreal Tournament working just fine
on my 8.0 Final with a GeForce2 GTS. Is there a
problem if you do a fresh install of Heretic II? Or
did you do that just to save your settings and games?
--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon Apr 30, 2001 at 05:19:41PM +1000,
I don't have help for your specific errors. But at
least make sure you are running X 4:
X -version
And that NVidia loaded properly:
lsmod
If you are definitely running X 4.0.x and NVidia shows
up in the list of modules, right back with specific
information about your hardware and Linux
Civileme:
I need to buy an ATA/100 RAID controller. Because you
are saying the Promise will not work with the latest
kernels, where can I find a list of RAID controllers
that likely will work?
--- Andrew George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think (suspect) the problem is with the Promise
Well, mandrakesoft.com
(http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/range) says that
the powerpack will not be released until about mid May
2001.
However, if you'd like, you can purchase the
downloadable version of Mandrake 8.0 at cheapbytes
Okay, Ken, I found that anti-aliasing does help our
problem.
Bring up the K Configuration Panel and select Look and
Feel. Then select Style. Towards the middle is a
check box to enable anti-aliasing. If you do that,
after restarting X, you will have anti-aliasing.
Konqueror then displays the
Yes, IBM drives tend to be VERY good. Especially the
75GXP series.
And besides, at least IBM tries to put some money back
into Linux and promotion of Linux.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote:
Let me see if I have this straight. At various
times
I had the same font problem. Turning on anti-aliasing
made a big improvement for me. Of course, you can
only do this in KDE so far.
To turn on anti-aliasing enter the K Configurator and
select Look and Feel. Then select Style. Around the
middle of the page is checkbox for anti-aliasing.
Okay, I finally got Mandrake 8.0 completely downloaded
and installed. Overall, I would say it's a success.
We've had a lot of people posting about problems and I
know that has discouraged some from trying 8.0. But
if you have a similar situation as me with a box that
can afford the risk, I
You might start your search with xawtv at the
following link, but I don't know specifically if they
work with ATI or not:
http://www.strusel007.de/linux/index.html
--- Phil Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's a good resource to find out how to use the TV
tuner and DVD capabilities of this
Doesn't xmovie play .avi? I'm not sure. Anyway, if
it does, it should be found under Multimedia in the
same place.
If you didn't install it for some reason, you can do
so easily by going to the Mandrake Control Center and
using the Software Manager.
--- vick Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do I need to do to enable Anti-aliasing with
Mandrake 8.0?
--- Eric Plante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just discovered something about AA sluggishness.
I've posted it on
mandrakeuser (is there _anyone_ over there?).
Anyway, my post is at:
Okay, I firmly disagree that the IBM 75GXP are slower
than Maxtors drives.
But whatever. Sorry, this is irrelevant to the list.
--- Wood Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor.
Especially
Maxtor (in my
drivers for Red Hat 6.2 and 7.0. I was looking at
they're FastTrak 100 wondering if it would work easily
with Mandrake 8.0.
I know very little about RAID, unfortunately. :(
--- Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Todd Flinders wrote:
I filled up my hard drive today. So, I'm in the
market
A few weeks ago Civilme wrote about how it was
especially bad to pair together a Western Digital and
a Maxtor. There were issues with timing and CRC
checking.
I'd recommend searching the older message to find this
post to read the details. This might apply to you.
--- John Wolford [EMAIL
Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
Maxtor (in my opinion).
--- Charles Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Weaver wrote:
Chuck,
Point well taken. ;-) you aren't by any chance
using Western Digital hard
drives in your machine are you?
Ack.. As a
Hello:
I filled up my hard drive today. So, I'm in the
market of expanding. I've decided to purchase two IBM
75GXPs. I would like to stripe them together with
RAID 0.
I'm hoping the list can recommend an ATA 100 RAID
controller card. Specifically, I am interested in one
to work with
Try adding yourself to the cdrom and zip groups.
--- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a ppa zip drive and 2 cdroms setup with
supermount. Only root is able
to mount them. How do I correct this so that I, as
a user, can mount the zip
and cdroms?
--
Against stupidity,
.
--- Jay DeKing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Todd Flinders wrote:
I cannot access my zip or floppy drives, even when
logged in as root.
The message I get is "input/output error." While
researching this issue,
the only hint I found was "try a different disk, you
probably
than
10 from the hub sense that is all it can handle. And
my switch handles both speeds with no problems.
Both are Linksys. Hope that helps.
Maybe hubs can't handle the different speeds, but my
switch does.
--- David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Todd Flinders wrote:
Now, I do
I'm reposting some messages that are gettin' bounced
back. I don't know why. Sorry if this help is too
late.
Note: forwarded message attached.
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If you come across any more details, please post them.
Take care.
--- "Matthew O. Persico" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to Wayne Stout, Terry L. Cary, Todd Flinders,
Karl Cunningham, I
have made progress. Here's where I am right now:
ot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to Wayne Stout, Terry L. Cary, Todd Flinders,
Karl Cunningham, I
have made progress. Here's where I am right now:
DSL Router, also serving as the DHCP server and the
firewall (it's a
Zyxel Prestige 641, in case anyone is interested) at
address 192.168.1.1
Okay, at the risk of sounding like I'm a total moron,
I will suggest:
update-menus -v
You may have to restart X at that point, but for me
(in 7.2, mind you) that always keeps my menus as I
expect them.
--- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed KDE 2.1.1 and all works except the
I too use the LNE100TX. It would not install for me
during installation either. However, I was able to
use Linuxconf and sometimes Networkconf (or whatever
the drak tool is) to get it working immediately after
install.
Linuxconf will get the LNE100TX working flawlessly.
However, probably
I would help. I have some basic C++ and Java
programming experience. I've programmed in other
languages as well, but that is not relevant.
I've never programmed something like this, though.
But if there's room to learn, I would be interested in
participating.
--- Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can, of course, try dialpad.com, but I haven't got
it to work with Linux yet. It even locks up my
windows now. Good luck. If you get it working, let
us know how.
--- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have seen this question asked in the past but paid
no attention and
AFTER ensuring that /boot/lilo.conf has the correct
settings, simply run /sbin/lilo
You'd better make a boot disk first just in case
something goes wrong.
If you want your grub back, there's an install.sh in
the grub directory.
--- Big G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was using grub with 7.1.
You are hitting your return for each of those lines of
the compile statement. DON'T!!
That is ONE line! Keep typing and let it scroll.
Don't hit the return. If you can't scroll to the next
line enter a backslash (\) at the end of the line.
This tells the command line that the following
I am using a Linksys PCI network card (LNE100TX). I'm
not sure what chip it has. During installation of
Mandrake 7.2, the install program could not identify
my network card. However, immediately after the
install, I was able to easily install the network card
with linuxconf by telling
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