Ciao a todos.
Qualcuno potrebbe consigliarmi un buon libro su cui apprendere seriamente il
funzionamento di Linux? Avrei bisogno di qualcosa che parta proprio dalle
basi ma che non si fermi a quelle. Mi spiego: ora non so molto di Linux, ma
vorrei conoscerlo in maniera piuttosto approfondita,
Scusate, ancora una cosa: ma voi con Konqueror li vedete gli accenti e le
virgole? Perché io vedo solo punti interrogativi... Devo installare qualche
pacchetto particolare? Cmq personalmete trovo migliore Opera, solo che non lo
uso per via del fastidioso e invadente banner... (avevo un certo
Aiutoo.lo sono che non centra molto con questo newsgroup, ma devo
costruire un programma, per pilotare un cellulare attraverso un collegamento seriale.
So che i cellulari vengono comandati con i comandi AT come per il modem, ma vorrei
trovare una maggiore quantità di informazioni
il primo consiglio e' di scaricare dal sito della
nvidia i src.rpm e compilare quelli in con il comando
rpm --rebuild per ottenere un pacchetto rpm per la tua
mdk, nel caso tu avessi un altro kernel installato.
Ti sara' cosi' piu' semplice disinsallarli quando
vorrai farlo.
Altrimenti puoi
Salve, ho da poco installato mdk 8.0 e ho configurato oltre a root un'altro
utente.So che quest'ultimo non ha tuuti i privilegi come su ma vorrei avere
la possibilità di visionare i cdrom.
Posso vedere la cartelle contenute nel cdrom, ma mi viene negato, l'accesso
ai file ! come posso fare?
Ho provato ad installare il mandrakefreq2 che contiene il nuovo xfree, ma
non mi riconosce l'usb dell'asus cusl2 (e quindi nemmeno il mouse).
Ho provato quindi da Mandrake8 ad installare solo i pacchetti delle xfree
come aggiornamento e anche in questo caso al riavvio non viene più
riconosciuto
Il 14:00, giovedì 19 luglio 2001, hai scritto:
Aiutoo.lo sono che non centra molto con questo newsgroup, ma
devo costruire un programma, per pilotare un cellulare attraverso un
collegamento seriale. So che i cellulari vengono comandati con i comandi AT
come per il modem, ma vorrei
Ho un problema con l'installazione dei driver nvidia , quando tento di
compilare i sorgenti mi da il seguente errore :
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use
Kernel-headers system hearders,
/usr/include/linux/modeversions.h:1:2: #error but from headers from an
check whether sound modules are loaded by cat /proc/modules as root.
if it is there check mixer settings by default alsa is mute.
On July 19, 2001 07:48 am, Paul wrote:
It was Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:43:15 +0530 when Alwan Sadagopan wrote:
Very strange. Sounds like a problem in IRQ's, when a
At 11:34 PM 7/19/01 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:27, Charles Oriez wrote:
so it is. I went back and looked. It is in Geelong, with seems to be near
Melbourne in Victoria. Can't get any further south than that without
ending up in Tasmania. The LUG I sent
Jim,
To change the Refresh Rate...
Edit the following file:
/etc/X11/XF86Config
Look for the Monitor Section: (example below)
Change the values for VertRefresh and HorizSync
Save the file
Log Out and press [Restart X] button
EXAMPLE:
#
Yes, you read correctly. MandrakeSoft is going to be listed on the French
Marché Libre on July 30. Here's a link to the MandrakeForum discussion:
http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1099
Drop by and have a chat with Yama (me) :-)
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
There are two major
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:57, Charles Oriez wrote:
At 11:34 PM 7/19/01 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:27, Charles Oriez wrote:
so it is. I went back and looked. It is in Geelong, with seems to be
near Melbourne in Victoria. Can't get any further south than that
Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default
browser Netscape which comes with it.
But this sucks specially on pages where there are
some applets. I tried installing Netscape
6.0, it works great but crashes very often.
Does anybody have any suggestion on
which broswer works great?
Thanks
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Opera 5 for Linux works great for me, although I think Java does not work
yet.
Dave
On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25, thus spake Ravi Malghan:
Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which
comes with it. But this sucks
Konqueror works fine for me. Its stable, and seems to render pages well.
If you use KDE, the konqueror icon is on your panel.
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From: Ravi Malghan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 July 2001 16:25
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Hello: I have
My only problem with Konqueror has been with its
rendering of floating tables. Aligned tables,
no problem, but floating--what a mess.
If you're unfamiliar with floating tables, see
http://www.prepaid-phone-cards-gbs.com
And while you're there, lemme know what you think
of my shameless
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:13, Curtis Matthiesen wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade my CUPS (as well other programs) to the newest
version anyway, when I use Mandrake Update it fails saying that I
already
have CUPS (or the other programs I'm trying to install) installed.
Can someone tell me how
Most of the time MandrakeUpdate will work; however, certain programs that
handle regular expressions and pattern-matching DON'T work the same when a
different locale is in place, thanks to newly-implemented POSIX standards.
The resuklt is that the sorting for newer versions fails, seeing the
John--
On Thursday 19 July 2001 02:17 pm, you wrote:
Surely somebody's come up against this before. Any hints at which of the
libs is likely to be the one? Or should I rpm -U NVIDIA_GLX, then refresh
Mesa, then manually delete all the conflicting components, and reinstall
NVIDIA_GLX? Any
hi
I have research for an answered in this matter before, but nothing
seems
to work.
I've been trying to connect my home network. I have a win95
machine and
a linux mandrake currently running 7.0 (don't ask).
I'vew followed directions in the networking tutorial in mandrake's
web
site as well
I created a new windows partition on my second harddrive. I was going
to use diskdrake to set linux to automatically mount it. It won let me
mount it at /mnt/win98. How do I get linux to automatically mount a new
partition?
Thanks,
Kevin
It was Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:08:06 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote:
I created a new windows partition on my second harddrive. I was going
to use diskdrake to set linux to automatically mount it. It won let me
mount it at /mnt/win98. How do I get linux to automatically mount a new
partition?
WOW thanx that was quick i really expected some hacking but nope it worx
finefinefine! Only gkrellm well i dont like the interface and for some reason
it doesnt show me the fans (or then im blind ) id like a kde app for it ill
seek and (hopefully) find... there is klm (wich doesnt work on
Hello
I sync a Handspring Visor (USB interface) with my Linux Mandrake 8.0
system. Everytime I reboot I have to enter the command
root $ /sbin/modprobe visor
for things to work properly. It's not a big bother, but a bother
nonetheless.
What do I have to do to have the visor module loaded
It was Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:08:14 -0230 when Steven Watt wrote:
root $ /sbin/modprobe visor
for things to work properly. It's not a big bother, but a bother
nonetheless.
What do I have to do to have the visor module loaded automatically when
I boot?
Add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and you will
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
AFAIK, all external modems are hardware modems. Swann appears to be a
respectable brand (although I've never tried one myself), and I believe that
they use Rockwell chipsets (like many other modem makers), which would mean
they are good to
Ravi Malghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it.
But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing
Netscape
6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion
Civileme wrote:
right click the ZIP Icon and select Eject or issue eject /dev/zip
in a console.
There is no Eject option if I right click on the Zip icon on the KDE
desktop. Nor are there options for mount and unmount. I have not changed
any icons that were installed by default. There is no
My /etc/fstab file is quite similar to yours, Dennis. I modified this
line:
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
like this:
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
and now I can mount and unmount as user.
--Judy Miner
Hello All.
I had a dual boot with Win98 and LM8.0.
Today I delete Win98 and I install Win98SE.
After that I can not choose to boot Linux now.
How can I restore the Boot Manager (I belive LILO is its name).
TIA.
Sridhar wrote:
Have you tried KDE's own help?
Certainly. Let me tell you about KDE's own help. There is no search
for a keyword. So effectively, you have to page your way through the
whole thing trying to find a section that *might* pertain to what you're
looking for. If you click on search in
For what its worth, have a look at www.linmodems.org where there is a whole
heap of advice on modems.. I have been using a winmodem based on a lucent
chipset, using a driver from the linmodem site, successfully.
If you have a compatable winmodem there is a RPM available for Mandrake 8
On Thursday 19 July 2001 15:38, Steven Watt wrote:
Hello
I sync a Handspring Visor (USB interface) with my Linux Mandrake 8.0
system. Everytime I reboot I have to enter the command
root $ /sbin/modprobe visor
for things to work properly. It's not a big bother, but a bother
nonetheless.
Strange. I just pointed Konqueror at
www.prepaid-phone-cards-gbs.com
and not only are the floating tables not floating, but the
Mandrake and Apache images at the bottom of the page don't
appear at all! The Mozilla trio (Mozilla, Galeon, and
Netscape) have no problem.
I guess if you need a page
Mark,
Thanks for the tip, although messing with the sliding controls had no effect,
still nothing when playing a CD. I tried both the digital sliders amongst
others. I still believe the EMU10K1 driver (or OSS) require some settings
that arn't enabled by default.
Thanks again
Glen
On
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
They are just animated GIF files. Could they be done with a simple screen
capture programme? I know both GNOME and KDE have applets designed to do
this, and The GIMP can do this as well. KDE 2.2 (IIRC) will have a feature
where you can press your Print Screen key
joneswm wrote:
Hello everyone,
Having a problem registering my L-M 8.0 Power Pack (US
boxed edition). The serial number is supposed to be on one
of the disk sleeves, but is not. Is there any way around
this, to get a fake number, that will let me register
online?
Also, when I
You need to be root first, then the command is: sh nv_check.sh
-s
On Thursday 19 July 2001 01:50 pm, you wrote:
I d/l'ed that but I'm a newbie and I don't know how to run it, when I try
a, ./nv_check.sh from Konsole I get the following error message:
bash: ./nv_check.sh: bad interpreter:
On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:38 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
On Thursday 19 July 2001 11:19, you wrote:
My /etc/fstab file is quite similar to yours, Dennis. I modified this
line:
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
like this:
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount
I hope someone can help you. I too would love to know. Good luck.
Regards
skinky
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From: Juan Carlos Conde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: linux newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:34 AM
Subject: [newbie] Boot Problem
Hello All.
I had a dual boot
Konqueror is my fave. Opera, mozilla, galeon, and slipknot (or something or
other that comes with the power pack) are all adequate enough, but konqueror
is undoubtedly the best (imo). And if you like a netscape, get 6.1. It is
very stable and useable, cause your right, 6.0 will crash every
Hi all,
I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple Link to an
application or shortcut on the Gnome desktop.
Any ideas?
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
su is not the root of your problem
but the start of a new journey
Hi,
I'm getting the error message below when I try to run
Tribes 2. The launcher disappears after I click on the
play online option.
I see this error message in the terminal window:
extension GLX missing on display :0.0.
Any ideas how to get this fixed?
Jim
Jim,
Have you installed the GLX and nVidia driver RPMs from the
nVidia web site? If not, you'll need to. You can download
them from
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux
and let me know if you want a white-space friendly version
of nVidia's sardines-in-a-can instructions.
Miark
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From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity.
Microsoft has never been about helping the public. They've always been
about
helping themselves. I mean they've
Whilst downloading from the internet my general machine performance seems to
fall away terribly.
the machine is no slouch 900 athlon 512m memory only on a 56k modem too.
is this sluggishness normal?
What could be wrong ?
Thanks Rob
Hi all,
I've got the L-M 8, and I installed the program from
distributed.net to run in the background, and use idle CPU
cycles to do work for them.
It won't run. When I log in as mike and run the program,
BASH responds with dnetc: command not found. Same thing
when I log in as root.
When I
Can anyone help please?
I installed mandrake on an old 32mByte machine with two hd's. I have win98
on first (8gig)hd and put linux on second (4gig)hd. Linux did not work so
am going to reinstall it on my main 512mByte, 17gig machine. I Intend to
partition the 17gig and dual boot with
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I believe the desktop right-click menu option is Launcher, or perhaps
New Launcher.
Dave
On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:33, thus spake Romanator:
Hi all,
I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple Link to an
application or
On Thursday 19 July 2001 22:36, Miark wrote:
Strange. I just pointed Konqueror at
www.prepaid-phone-cards-gbs.com
and not only are the floating tables not floating, but the
Mandrake and Apache images at the bottom of the page don't
appear at all! The Mozilla trio (Mozilla, Galeon, and
If you can't find the launcher, can't you do a
ln -s /usr/bin/whatever /home/you/Desktop/whatever
I used to do it that way a while back, but haven't in a while. You don't get
to choose a perty icon. ;-)
-s
On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:33 pm, you wrote:
Hi all,
I can't for the life of me
George,
Civilme is right...3 GB is kind of small these days.
Anyways, here's a few suggestions:
#1. Check to see if there is anything you can remove from /tmp
#2. Check to see if you have log files in /var/log that end in .[1-9] or
.gz, if you see files that end in either of the above, they
Hello all,
I'm new to this list. I installed Mandrake 8 on a 2nd drive on my
P166 machine a few days ago, and am going through it slowly. The
installation went through with hardly any problems, except for these:
1. The boot (floppy) disk can't be accessed, either as root or user.
2. Is
Mike,
I believe it will be a path problem. I created and installed into /dnetc. I
have not created a link to it. When I start dnetc, I type /dnetc/dnetc and
off it goes.
HTH
Bill
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From: joneswm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001
I first used ldd, (and the distributed.net program) with
Caldera 1.2. ldd lists the libraries that a program is
In these situations, ldd will report libraries that cannot be
found. So, I don't think we have the same scenario as you are
referring to in Windows.
Not a dynamic executable
Yes...
It's extremely annoying to me. I wish I knew how to correct this problem!
Konqueror had a similar problem, but I corrected it through settings changes.
But, SO52 doesn't have any such settings to change! So, what can we do???
Mike
In a message dated 7/19/2001 8:01:35 PM Eastern
Hi all,
After about a week of frustration, I finally got mandrake 8
running on my home network, but I think I might have done something
very wrong.
I have 2 drives, but hdb5 ? was not mounted.
I mounted it and rebooted, and got the message that the superblock could not
be
read.. and
The glidepoint will appear as a PS/2 mouse, and I believe that there
exist Linux specific drivers for it...
Don't waste your time though. Unless you -REALLY- have a compelling
reason to use one you are better off with a mouse, tablet, or at worst a
trackball.
Using the Glidepoint is tedious.
Hi All
I'm looking at buying an external modem because I currently have a poxy HSF
Conexant Soft56K WINMODEM (ugh!). Am I right in assuming that all external
modems are compatible with Linux? The modem that I'm considering is a Swann
SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem (serial) - the reason
Hiya All,
Im still trying to get my sound card working. Its a Yamaha OPL3-SA2. I
have been informed that this can be configured with the sndconfig
utility as Harddrake no longer detects it.
When i start sndconfig it complains that i do not have a moduler kernel
or sound loaded as a module, how
Hello,
I want to setup Enlightment windows manager in my system, but I can't find it in my system. I made countless searches but is nowhere. Each time I am trying to reinstall it the software manager is telling me that it is already installed... Maybe you give me a hint.
Thanks,
Alex
Do You
When you log onto your machine, does it go in and give you a graphical prompt to login
to?
IF it does, it should give you the option. Enter in your userID, passwd and then
select
the Windows Manager from list.
If you don't login in that way. And actually login and then type xinit, then
I am trying to compile a program and an getting a message saying that there
is no such file or directory as curses.h.
What package do i have to install to get that file?
Thanks
Preston
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Hiya, you have to install the NCurses packages. They should be on your
first CD.
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Sent: 19 July 2001 10:23
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] where is curses.h?
I am trying to compile a program and an getting a message
I'm looking at buying an external modem because I currently have a poxy HSF
Conexant Soft56K WINMODEM (ugh!). Am I right in assuming that all external
modems are compatible with Linux? The modem that I'm considering is a Swann
SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem (serial) - the reason being
Well, if your point was that it would be a good tax wrtie-off, I agree. It
just amazes me that Bill et al can't see an opportunity even when it's being
stuck in their faces. Were these people born stupid, greedy, and arrogant, or
what? I think this whole issue clearly demonstrates how
Ok today came the security update for openssl and my mirror has it (i
checked) it has the same name as the installed package only a .1 is added
at the end of the name mandrake update wont see this it actually appeared in
the installed section of mandrakeupdate but if i do a :
# rpm -qa | grep
Well look at it this way.
How much of a tax write off do you think there is for giving way Windows9x?
About 2% of what they would gain if the OS was bought legally.
Even then, we all know that Microsoft has used very aggressive tactics with
dealing with competition. So going after a few
Partial success, partial failure:
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 11:55 am, Miark wrote:
The nVidia drivers that come with Mandrake are not 3D
capable. You'll need to go to nVidia's web site to download
the proper driver RPMs and the Installation Guide.
Okay, so now I'm clearly using the nVidia X
Microsoft has never been about helping the public. They've always been about
helping themselves. I mean they've stolen technology from other companies
from day one. Why suddenly work for their billions?
This is true. Even the primal MeSsy-Dos that was generated by Bill Gates and
his
Yeah, here's an url to a little script that I just love. It checks to make
sure the nvidia drivers are loaded, and that you have edited your xf86config
file properly, but most importantly (and conveniently) checks for conflicting
mesa files.
http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A
Dear All
I use kmail. Can't remember which option I chose for address book layout but I can
edit the address book in addbrowser.
My machine is being repaired so I have no address book.
This is a stupid situation - relying on one's computer is not good. When my computer
comes back I want to
Thanks Sevatio! I feel like a right dork! I switched mice (plugged in the
cordless Intellimouse), flicked the switches on both the mouse and its
receiver, and it went haywire again (flickering along the top of the
screen). I then rebooted the computer, and whaddayaknow? BINGO, I now have
a
There are some files and directories in /etc that only the root user is
allowed to view. This is for security. If you want to back up /etc you should
so so as root (just su to root from a console, or open a file manager in root
mode).
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:51, Colin Jenkins wrote:
Hi,
I'm
Making donations to charity (either made by Microsoft or by The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation) is the best way for M$ to simultaneously create
good PR and gain new customers and revenue. Remember, software costs
basically nothing once its created. What people pay to buy software will
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