[newbie] Trouble with 9.1 installation

2004-01-04 Thread josh4
I just got Mandrake 9.1 for my PPC G4 and i've installed it with reasonable success with one problem. After booting linux from the boot prompt I am asked to log in as the local host, using the user name and password previously created in the installation setup. When I log in correctly I'm

Re: [newbie] Trouble with 9.1 installation

2004-01-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got Mandrake 9.1 for my PPC G4 and i've installed it with reasonable success with one problem. After booting linux from the boot prompt I am asked to log in as the local host, using the user name and password previously created in

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-04 Thread E. Hines
On Friday 02 January 2004 06:10 pm, John wrote: As far as I know the rpm update fixes all the issue with menus apart from the fluxbox one I mentioned. derek I should have added to my last post that running update-menus -v will produce a verbose output which should give you a

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

2004-01-04 Thread E. Hines
On Friday 02 January 2004 10:19 am, JoeHill wrote: I've been at this every which way I can think of and I can't figure out why RealPlayer is not doin' what it should... I installed RealPlayer 8 from their site, but when I go to install the mozilla-realplayer plugin from texstar (ya, I know

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 12:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Now I have some reason to suppose that it is an issue to do with how mencoder rips AC3 sound, which is dolby's surround sound. Sometimes it makes a dogs breakfast of encoding and creating the all important index

Re: [newbie] Trouble with 9.1 installation

2004-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got Mandrake 9.1 for my PPC G4 and i've installed it with reasonable success with one problem. Josh - only a small number of us run ppc. To get their attention, try adding 'PPC' to your subject line. Anne -- Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Carroll Grigsby

2004-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 04 January 2004 01:30, Fig ('RL Cassidy') wrote: What is the appropriate way to address something in a specific email? Fig, you need to read http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette which explains the whys and wherefors of the things we ask you to do.

Re: [newbie] Trouble with 9.1 installation

2004-01-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 8:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got Mandrake 9.1 for my PPC G4 and i've installed it with reasonable success with one problem. After booting linux from the boot prompt I am asked to log in as the local host, using the user name and password previously created in

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

2004-01-04 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:05:58 -0800 E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinkin' there be sumthin strange about the way 9.2 is handling Mozilla plugins. I just put 9.2 on a test machine, and I could not get the Flashplayer 6 plugin to appear. Both files were installed in the plugins

Re: [newbie] uses an invalid list file

2004-01-04 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:00:44 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.media is what you are looking for. derek Yep that's what fixed mine. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-04 Thread John
On Sunday 04 January 2004 03:54 am, E. Hines wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 06:10 pm, John wrote: I installed 9.2 on an experimental box yesterday, and immediately I ran into the menus problems when cups was installed with my printer configuration. Some of my panel icons went missing, and

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:07 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: You have tried the -idx flag to mencoder? Oh gosh yes, always include it without fail, Not quite: On Saturday 03 Jan 2004 6:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Core was generated by `mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:07 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: You have tried the -idx flag to mencoder? Oh gosh yes, always include it without fail, Not quite: On Saturday 03 Jan 2004 6:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Core was

[newbie] creating rpm

2004-01-04 Thread Aaron
Hi, I have an rpm that I need to build, under redhat I used rpmbuild which is nowhere to be seen on Mandrake 9.2. There is rpmbuilder which won't find my spec file. I need a way to create an rpm under mandrake, what tool do I use and how do i use it?? Thanks Aaron Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] creating rpm

2004-01-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:42 am, Aaron wrote: - Hi, - I have an rpm that I need to build, under redhat I used rpmbuild which - is nowhere to be seen on Mandrake 9.2. There is rpmbuilder which won't - find my spec file. - I need a way to create an rpm under mandrake, what tool do I use and how -

Re: [newbie] creating rpm

2004-01-04 Thread Aaron
yes I was root and no rpmbuild... I am going to check the repository and see if I find it there. Aaron Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:42 am, Aaron wrote: - Hi, - I have an rpm that I need to build, under redhat I used rpmbuild which - is nowhere to be seen on Mandrake 9.2.

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-04 Thread E. Hines
On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:48 am, John wrote: Hi Thanks for the response. Is there a way to download and install the update rpm and dependency again? Automatic update has dowloaded and indicates no updates when checking. I am not familiar enough with mandrake to proceed from here. I

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

2004-01-04 Thread E. Hines
On Saturday 03 January 2004 09:19 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:05:58 -0800 I got flash to work with the plf .rpm but not with the installer from macromedia's site. There's some other file needed but i don't remember what it is. Anybody know the file that's needed to make

[newbie] no video capture from tv-card

2004-01-04 Thread magnet
I have 9.2 installed and the machine has a wintv-go card that works fine with zapping, xawtv, nvtv, kwintv, motv and tvtime so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware or driver problem, but for the life of me I cannot get streamer to do a capture since it all just stopped working last week. The

[newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Greetings and Happy NewYear, I would like to write a script to accomplish a task, and then run it at regular intervals (I'll start another thread for that). The thing is I know zero about programming and in process of learning. I have a stand-alone firewall (mdk9.1) with no X installed, and a

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
Hi Mike, Your script to 'logrotate' the files could look like this: #!/bin/sh filetest() { if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar fi } cd /directory where your files are filetest 4 5 filetest 3 4 filetest 2 3 filetest 1 2 The filetest function

[newbie] 9.2 poor hardware configuration by harddrake

2004-01-04 Thread LtCdData
hi after upgrading to 9.2 form 9.1 i got some hardware failing to work because harddrake seems to have got confused... camstream webcam wont work as it thinks the tvcard is the correct device the webcam in harddrake is now listed as a scanner even though it reads it as a webcam the scanner

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

2004-01-04 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 04 January 2004 7:59 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2004 09:19 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:05:58 -0800 I got flash to work with the plf .rpm but not with the installer from macromedia's site. There's some

Re: [newbie] Re: Help! Total Newbie on ppc

2004-01-04 Thread Josh Peters
Are you referring to the incomplete video that I'm getting as I install? I guess I may have to pick up a new video card if that's the case. From: Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 12:58:25 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: Help!

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

2004-01-04 Thread E. Hines
On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:26 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Flash is working here; as well as on every box I've installed it under 9.2, and some that I just sent the following instructions to. To the best of my knowledge anyway; meaning nobody

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: Then when you run it under gdb, Or are you saying after the ./confure , and make, but before make install, run gdb on the install file which lies somewhere in the source directory ? OK so I have to recompile with the debug options and then gdb the make file in directory

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-04 Thread jason pearl
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 01:54, E. Hines wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 06:10 pm, John wrote: As far as I know the rpm update fixes all the issue with menus apart from the fluxbox one I mentioned. derek I should have added to my last post that running update-menus -v

[newbie] realplayer and amazon.com

2004-01-04 Thread Todd Slater
Every time I try to listen to song samples on amazon.com using realplayer (both 8 and realone), it aborts with just the message aborted. I'm copying the link location from the browser and trying to open it with File Open Location in realplayer. TIA, Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Paul wrote: Hi Mike, Your script to 'logrotate' the files could look like this: #!/bin/sh filetest() { if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar fi } cd /directory where your files are filetest 4 5 filetest 3 4 filetest 2 3 filetest 1 2 The

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
On 01/04/2004 07:30 PM, mike wrote: I think I understand the function is to take the oldest which is the first argument if it exists rename it to the second argument. Yup. So it cd's to my file directory and sees if wireless_stat3.tar it would filetest 3 4 (rename file3.tar to file4.tar) and 2

[newbie] uses an invalid list file

2004-01-04 Thread Johan
Hi Derek. Anne Correct all stuff listed in MCC is here.. rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.media is what you are looking for. Hi Anne, Correct about MCC.just click on the X ...it is removed but site still there and not active... Thats the one I would suggest if you want to keep it but no

Re: [newbie] no video capture from tv-card

2004-01-04 Thread Linus Drouhard
I had a similar problem (actually several problems). I recently upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 and changed my mobo/processor. I wasn't sure what was causing the problem as everything worked fine with 9.1 and the old mobo. Anyway, the only way I got my system to work was to upgrade the kernel to 2.6

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

2004-01-04 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 04 January 2004 9:56 am, E. Hines wrote: whack Yup, that's my rpm, and that's what I did. The only difference is that I haven't upgraded moz from 1.4 to 1.5 (I'm on dial-up), but that plugin works in 9.1 with 1.3. But, Flash 5 does work

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Paul wrote: On 01/04/2004 07:30 PM, mike wrote: I think I understand the function is to take the oldest which is the first argument if it exists rename it to the second argument. Yup. So it cd's to my file directory and sees if wireless_stat3.tar it would filetest 3 4 (rename file3.tar to

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 5:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: First off this is the instruction as per source code debug readme:- B.4.6.1 How to conserve information about a reproducible crash Recompile MPlayer with debugging code enabled: ./configure --enable-debug=3 make and then run MPlayer

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 and Hauppauge pvr-250

2004-01-04 Thread et
On Sunday 04 January 2004 06:52 am, Toth Bela wrote: Hi! I first (at the first probe) try use hardrake, but this was in the command line when I try run detect in hardrake (I have a ATI Radeon 9200 video card): WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support. can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-04 Thread John
On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:56 am, E. Hines wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:48 am, John wrote: I downloaded the packages individually using the link to the ftp mirrors on the Mandrake bugfix site--these: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php The packaglist needed is on the bugfix

[newbie] dead Xserver

2004-01-04 Thread Troy T. Hall
I have a plain install of MDK 9.2 and it is having a problem with X. When I try to start it, it sits blank. If I hit F1 then I get a my cli back stating error 104. My vid card is an mpact 3 agp card. Any hints? Troy --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system

[newbie] grsec error

2004-01-04 Thread Troy T. Hall
Anyone have any clue what this log entry means? I see it on the console all the time also Jan 4 12:05:56 mail kernel: grsec: From 202.154.161.61: attempted resource overstep by requesting 3466888384 for RLIMIT_FSIZE against limit 1024 by (cleanup:16073) uid/euid:72/72

[newbie] Managing downloads and packages

2004-01-04 Thread Warren Post
I'm trying to manage better my downloads and packages. From previous posts to this list, I've concluded that I should always prefer an Mandrake RPM, but if a suitable RPM is not available then I should build an RPM from source tarball and install it that way, and that checkinstall is an easy way

Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
On 01/04/2004 08:32 PM, mike wrote: I'll probably post back on the running the cron part but, I'll research it a bit more before I panic. :-) Your friends there will be: man crontab man 5 crontab and perhaps also man cron It is not difficult, just something you need to get used to. su to

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-04 Thread John
On Sunday 04 January 2004 02:59 pm, John wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:56 am, E. Hines wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:48 am, John wrote: hi e just a quick note to let you know that only 2 of the 6 packages installed from the mirror update. I remeber those 2 because i did those

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 5:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: First off this is the instruction as per source code debug readme:- B.4.6.1 How to conserve information about a reproducible crash Recompile MPlayer with debugging code enabled: ./configure --enable-debug=3 make and

Re: Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread robin
Paul wrote: On 01/04/2004 08:32 PM, mike wrote: I'll probably post back on the running the cron part but, I'll research it a bit more before I panic. :-) Your friends there will be: man crontab man 5 crontab and perhaps also man cron It is not difficult, just something you need to get used

Re: Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 04 January 2004 22:00, robin wrote: For those who think life is too short for vi, there is also kcron. and Webmin Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 9:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: $ gdb ./mencoder (gdb) run -v [options to mencoder] and reproduce the crash. Then give the following commands: backtrace disass $pc-32 $pc+32 info all-registers info threads (gdb) gdb ./mencoder Undefined command: gdb. Try

[newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Dempster
Hi Folks, I've been trying to download the cooker iso's using bt for the last day or so but running bittorrent slows my internet connection to a crawl my connection is a cable modem 600K Down / 128K Up). After googling about it looks like I need to preform some traffic shaping on my connection

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-04 Thread John
On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:37 pm, John wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 02:59 pm, John wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:56 am, E. Hines wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:48 am, John wrote: hi e just a quick note to let you know that only 2 of the 6 packages installed from the

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter explanations. Can

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 9:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: $ gdb ./mencoder (gdb) run -v [options to mencoder] and reproduce the crash. Then give the following commands: backtrace disass $pc-32 $pc+32 info all-registers info threads (gdb) gdb ./mencoder Undefined

[newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

2004-01-04 Thread Merlin Zener
Hi all, well I've been trying to get these two boxes [my Mandrake 9.0 desktop and my Thinkpad with WIN2KPRO] talking, and haven't been able to get Samba to do much of anything. I had an idea to try the basics, and surprise surprise, it's no wonder Samba is having trouble - the two boxes aren't

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 11:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: (gdb) run -v mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1024 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -alang en -idx -o toystory1.avi and I suppose it's going to start a rip file inside directory sources, yes ? if so I

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 11:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: (gdb) run -v mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1024 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -alang en -idx -o toystory1.avi Looking closer, you probably want (gdb) run -v dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

2004-01-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 11:35 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi all, well I've been trying to get these two boxes [my Mandrake 9.0 desktop and my Thinkpad with WIN2KPRO] talking, and haven't been able to get Samba to do much of anything. I had an idea to try the basics, and surprise surprise, it's no

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Dempster
Richard Urwin said: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-04 Thread Mark
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Patrick Dempster wrote: Richard Urwin said: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error:

Re: [newbie] How to secure file with seperate password

2004-01-04 Thread Mark
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bashan wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:24, Mark wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bashan wrote: If I have a file I would like to secure with an extra password, how do I do it? what app are you using to create the file? you could just encrypt the file with gpg.

Re: [newbie] How to secure file with seperate password

2004-01-04 Thread Bashan
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:48, Mark wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bashan wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:24, Mark wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bashan wrote: If I have a file I would like to secure with an extra password, how do I do it? what app are you using to create the

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

2004-01-04 Thread Guy Rouillier
Jerry Barton wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:05:58 -0800 E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinkin' there be sumthin strange about the way 9.2 is handling Mozilla plugins. I just put 9.2 on a test machine, and I could not get the Flashplayer 6 plugin to appear. Both files were installed in

Re: [newbie] Securing my box

2004-01-04 Thread Mark
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Aron Smith wrote: So you are saying that my tinfoil hat is on crooked;-) I just picked up a book on linux security nahmaybe its just a little off-center. ;) -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?

Re: [newbie] creating rpm

2004-01-04 Thread Mark
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:07 am, Aaron wrote: yes I was root and no rpmbuild... I am going to check the repository and see if I find it there. Aaron urpmi rpmbuild so, it this for building src.rpm's or for creating an rpm? -- Mark If necessity

[newbie] no screensavers in kde

2004-01-04 Thread Joe
I have no screensavers listed when i try to configure them in KDE. xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl and kdeartwork are installed. A look into /usr/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers shows that they are there. Why can KDE not see this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] creating rpm

2004-01-04 Thread Aaron
for both, but I can't get rpm build to setup correctly. I used it on fedora, and it worked like a charm... Aaron so, it this for building src.rpm's or for creating an rpm? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Securing my box

2004-01-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 20:16, Mark wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Aron Smith wrote: So you are saying that my tinfoil hat is on crooked;-) I just picked up a book on linux security nahmaybe its just a little off-center. ;) Dots me Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] OT -Frozen Bubble

2004-01-04 Thread moey tony
i have Mandrake 9.2 on a multiboot system Frozen Bubble plays perfectly well on it. could it be your resolution setting? Rgds, Tony - Original Message - From: Patrick Dempster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:33:49 - (UTC) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

[newbie] mozilla and gaelon hangs

2004-01-04 Thread babar haq
Hi I have mandrake 9.2 installed. Both my fav browsers hangs after start up. How to find out that wat going wrong??? konqueror is working fine. Regards, Babar -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm