I wrote a while back that I had my machine working ok with
mandrake 8.1 but now, with LM 8.2 I get a crashed screen if I do
not add an Option noaccel in XF86config-4
Even with that option in the screen is slow and has waves as
I move windows around etc.
Has anyone got this combination to
, this should
be ok in 24hrs. The archives not instantly updated.
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In Re: [newbie] Smartmedia card reader, on Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:45,
Joseph Braddock wrote:
I'm pretty sure if it says nomount, you will
manually need to create the entries under /dev. The devfs=mount
should create them automatically.
Thanks. I have the mount option.
Good to learn all
Hi
To add a module into a kernel either type modprobe
usb-storage
done now i have it show up with lsmod!
However it does not persist after a reboot... how does that work.
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usbmouse
usb-uhci]
scsi_mod 91072 4 [usb-storage sd_mod sg sr_mod
ide-scsi]
1005 root@psybernet:/dev (07:26:13)
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
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on it in Konqueror or
Nautilus, or add an icon to the desktop).
Joe Braddock
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:21:00 +1200
Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have 2 usb ports. The Intelleye mouse is working off one
port. i have just plugged in a Smartmedia card reader in the
other port
then it should be loaded too by
hotplug
usbviev - I installed it and it shows my mouse and card reader
beautifully!
Thanks for all that.
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In Re: [newbie] Smartmedia card reader, on Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:25,
Florian Struck wrote:
Hi sorry for late reply.
Thanks for doing it - not late at all!
To add a module into a kernel either type modprobe usb-storage
done now i have it show up with lsmod!
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,user,noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
fstab lines 1-11/11 (END)
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visual
937 root@psybernet:/ (10:04:37)
So would it be useful for me to improve my system?
Shld i go to 8.2 first?
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Any clues about anything here would be good as i am still new.
= My Machine =
Dell i8100 laptop
ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility
Mandrake 8.1
Linux 2.4.9-13smp i686 [ELF]
Upgraded to Xfree86 4.2.0
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not mozilla that starts
the program.
Hmmm - but have lost my book marks and settings and the old links
no longer work - so i will need to do some tweaking.
Walter
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Hi,
I have a Palm m505 and am working away on the IrDA in 8.1...
But in anticipation of getting that wking...
Which desktop - conduit systems are available and best.
I have evolution - but not sure i like it seems very big
jpilot - bit confusing
??
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it...
Oops - too late. I have just installed
j2sdk-1_4_0-linux-i386-rpm.bin - and it is working - tried a demo
that came with it - looks Great!
I wonder if it is still worth un-installing
I have yet to configure browsers etc.
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in a position to discover that for
myself, not till I get better at this.
Walter
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windows, for the time you are using a news reader anyway.
I am using it for the first time but I cant get the groups in the
servers i have set up. I am not sure that i have the settings
right but the names are right ... can you post up a good news
server settings I can test?
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Rick,
I find their upto 2 months behind current versions for
somethings, (except for security updates)
So what do you do instead Rick?
Walter
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Donald
I use Forte Agent and CuteFTP with
Windows.
Try pan for news - closest to Agent i have found. I use a thing
called deadftp (of all things) works well.
As for installing files - see the excellent current thread on
Getting and Installing packages
Walter
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- still 9.8 - but
a ximian package - now it does the site - yes paypal and a
stockbroker.
Galeon still wont do it - but never mind.
Walter
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their files?
Walter
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!
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(not Rob who asked the otriginal question.)
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Hi,
What is the way to set up the DVD in fstab (and/or wherever) I
have no /dev/dvd which seems to be what my dvd player is looking
for. At present I need to change it to dev/cdrom - that works.
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combo
and set as a scd0 somewhere.
I wonder if there is any difference in the two ways of doing it?
Anyway its done. And another bit of learning about linux achieved,
simple though it may seem to some - it still has to be learnt.
Walter
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| grep parallel
etc.
then use kill process# to get rid of it. The last one that CUPS
would not do could not be killed that way either! I used:
kill -s SIGKILL 2345
That did it!
Walter
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--rebuilddb to rebuild the database
indices from the installed package
headers.
~
I guess this means it just rebuilds its data from rpm related
installations.
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such a distribution? Debian?
Walter
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~~~
*
* Mithrilhall's Linux*
* Server *
* AMD-K2 350MHz*
* http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net *
*
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-3.3.1_jtp_1.9-3mdk
libXxf86dga.so.1 is needed by libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk
libXxf86dga.so.1 is needed by libsmpeg0.4-0.4.4-3mdk
libXxf86dga.so.1 is needed by vlc-0.2.83-1mdk
166 root@psybernet:/home/walter/wldownloads/x (03:20:26)
#
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libtcl83so is needed by python-imaging-112-3mdk
libtcl83so is needed by sketch-0612-2mdk
libtcl83so is needed by tkinter-211-3mdk
libtcl83so is needed by postgresql-libs-712-19mdk
111 root@psybernet:/home/walter/wldownloads/pilot (01:17:12)
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Hi,
I have Mandrake 81 on a Dell i8100 with an ATI Radeon video
card It is currently running XFree86-410 and only has very
generic support for the card Apparently there is a better
driver in XFree86-420
Am I on the right track? I have been fining quite a few of the
files that are needed
an audio CD in the drive.
So it is not a big problem but I am curious as to how to fix it.
Walter
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Rodrigo,
Thank you all, these sites are really cool !!!
Some more just for the record:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/bash.html
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytitle/22D84C62513A001186256B4900603332?OpenDocument
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Paul,
Are there any good linux file sharing apps?
qtella - seems ok, very like grokster i used on windows. But it
is not as efficient - maybe i need to tweek it somewhere.
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- even after a printer reinstall.
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Hi,
What do the * and the @ denote after a file - as in the
following listing:
998 walter@psybernet:/sbin (04:45:25)
$ ls
agetty*ether-wake* ifup* killall5*
mkfs.msdos@
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Michael,
Thanks - great to be in an nebie group!
The '*' indicates that the file is an executable or has the
'executable' bit set (ie, rwx or r-x). The '@' indicates that
it is a link to a different file, located in a different
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I am not sure at all either, but i recently used rpmdrake to
delete another program.
Note that the actual emails are in ~/Mail and you may wish to
keep those.
Walter
On Monday 11 February 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote:
I have gotten the KDE Kmail setup all fouled up ... how do I
uninstall
Hi,
I had this printer working ok for a few days - now it stars
printing garbage as soon as it is no. it does not matter what
order I switch things on as soon as the printer is on in Linux
it begins to print garbage.
The problem is not there in XP on the other side of the dual
boot!
Was: Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc
Yes i am familiar with the process you describe in Word. I
wonder of Star Office has the same ability?
The best editor I've found so far in Linux (IMHO) is nedit
I have that here installed automatically in 8.1 and not tried it
yet - will do
Hi,
I am still on my learning curve here... but in case there are
other newbies viewing this thread... I am finding this site
useful. man rpm etc was just a bit too advanced without this
basic intro:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/brpm.html
Walter
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Does anybody know of any visual web building application for
linux such as Front Page ??
Note too that there is a homesite like program called quanta and
the w3c Amaya - which is interesting - allows writing wysiwyg.
Neither are FrontPage -which I'd say is a good thing- but many
user
On Monday 11 February 2002 01:41 pm, you wrote:
Just surfing around various broads, trying to answer a
previous post. I came across that DiskDrake cannot format ntfs
partitions(Laptop was winXP on a ntfs partition) without
corruption. I think this explains my inability to successfully
Should be man XXX | col -b XXX.txt
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Gabber, Jabber, Everybuddy, GAIM, what's your favorite?
I see that GAIM came ready installed on my ML8.1 - can i use my
old ICQ id?
Or should I get a new one TOC or Oscar? ??
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try man XXX|col -b|XXX.txt
Sounds good , but alas did not work for me as you can see i get
a file with nothing in it. What am I missing?
909 walter@psybernet:~ (03:13:50)
$ man urpmi|col -b|urpmi.txt
910 walter@psybernet:~ (03:14:17)
$ ls urpmi* -l
-rw-r--r--1 walter walter
RPMDrake always stops at 68% when
reading the FTP site of LM8.0 updates.
I have already mentioned this in the Installing Files thread -
but it is OT here:
How did you configure RPMDrake to go there?
Upon opening RPMDrake checks the database of installed files
etc.
I have explored it but
I am trying to make a file from a man doc that I can then print
or view in an editor.
848 walter@psybernet:~ (10:51:52)
$ man urpmi manurpmi
this creates the file however it has strange formatting:
O OP PT TI IO ON NS S
- -- -h he el lp p print an help message and
i use rpmdrake once in a while but mainly use the
commandline rpm. read the manpage to learn more but here is
the short end of it
Thanks for this - i am preferring the command line already for
this... if for no other reason than I can copy out the messages
from it! I am getting pretty
Hi again,
I dont want ro do the nodependency check thing -- i want this to
be a stable machine. Also i want to do a more serious xfree86
upgrade and need to grasp all this.
# rpm -Uv xmms-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
xmms = 1.2.5-4mdk is needed by
I have found the Evolution RPM and the first three
dependencies, but after a couple of hours hunting through a
number of cookers, have not been able to turn up the last four
dependencies. Any leads?
ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/mandrake-81-i586/
I got mine from there (i think)
I have successfully configured the fstab file to mount the
vfat partitions that are elswhere on the hard drive, but I
can't get the ntfs partition to mount at boot.
I think my one mounts at boot. All I need to do is type in the
file name with the (long ) path and i am there.
Below is my
I started using Evolution 0.13 that came with the Mandrake 8.1
distro and really liked it except that the Reply function was
flaky,
I think you will need to upgrade, I did it. The current version
is 1.01 so to try with o.13 is a bit futile.
See the discussion here Evolution RPMS
Walter
I'm considering getting a Sony Vaio FXA-36 laptop which will
run both Windows and Mandrake 8.1. Does anyone here have any
experience with the Sony laptops, or with laptops in general?
I am on an i8100 dell
I like it and there is an excellent group linux-dell-laptops
Walter
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Thanks for all the help with this, i hope it of use for others
too.
Charles wrote,
If you have All the xmms rpms move them all to 1 dir, call it
xmms if you like, cd to that directory and rpm -Uvh *rpm
I like that!
However there were still dependencies - but less. Until i found
one of
There is a lovely little tool bar applet in KDE - dictionary
It does wonders with acronyms.
eg -seeoutput below.
Trouble is the applet is not persistent on the pannel / toolbar
- I keep meedign to reinstall it.
Walter
~~~
Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]
AFAIK // n.
Delete .xmms directory in your home
that will fix it
That was cool. I renamed it and when restarting xmms it created
a new one. Nice.
BUT it still wont load at all now. I uninstalled some
visualization plugins maybe i shouldn't have.
ANYWAY I am now on a path of reinstalling xmms
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:19 am, you wrote:
Walter,
Where does a person find this applet? How does one
installit?TIA Charles
I am using KDE - on the panel - what in windows was called the
task bar - find a unused space on the right hand side, right
click - Add Applets dictionary.
If I still worked for my previous employer I might be very
interested in GNomes mail client (Evolution??).
I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my
1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i
cant change them. It seems they are set in another
Derek
Thanks for that - exactly what i needed to grasp.
Walter
~~~
Cooker is the 'bleeding edge' version of Mandrake in which new
applications are put together to make the next release. So the
Mandrake8.2Beta1 at present is very similar to Cooker.
You can get Cooker files as well as 8.1
Use Gnome Control Center (gnomecc) to set your fonts and font
sizes for Gnome apps. You can run GnomeCC in KDE, no problem.
Have been trying this for a while but there are problems. Using
Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 2.2.1 Gnome control center 1.4.0.1
On the occasions it has not crashed it has
xmms has gone haywire - wont play.
I fiddled with the visualisations and now xmms wont load. The
visualizations load but quickly die.
If this were windows Id remove the ap and reinstall! Same here?
Or can I fix this?
Here is the output from the console.
Walter
~~~
793
I assume you mean 'harddrake' Try typing 'harddrake' (as
root, without the 's) in a terminal. Then if it doesn't run
properly, paste the error messages into an email and post that
to the list. Depending on your hardware, it could be that the
detection process is just taking a long
I have no way of stopping the printer from the gui as far as i can see. Is there some
way?
I have rebooted both the printer and linux but it wants to print out the useless file!
(I dont have the right driver for the printer but that is another story.)
I am learning to use the CL and
In terms of reading the postscript file, you probably don't
have the needed parser with ghostscript. Linux, unfortunately
is not strong in publishing, even with TeX.
I saw there was a program in development called killustrator,
could that be of use? I hope it will be soon, as i am hoping
Hi,
saw this on http://freshrpms.net/
02 Jan 2002 - Happy new year to everyone! And as a special gift
to all of you Red Hat Linux users, I bring you at last my
packages apt-get-able ;-) All you need to do is to install the
apt package found here, run apt-get
HI,
I wrote:
In the KDE Control Center it would seem that hd is in three
sectors /dev/hda5 ext3 3.36 (mount point: /) 99.9% full!
Thanks for the info received on what to do. I immediatly found that i had been
keeping copies of the CDs I'd been burning, and fixed that, which took care of
Hi,
I have just upgraded Evolution from 0.13 that came with mandrake
8.1 to Evolution 1.0.1 I think it is all looking quite good. I
used gnorpm to install the downloads.
I usually run KDE and Evolution keeps taking me into the gnome
Control Center - and suddenly my KDE screensaver
I have have error message that hda5 is critically full.
I have a 30gig hard disk ... it would seem (i did not set it up
- and i am totally new)
In the KDE Control Center it would seem that hd is in three
sectors /dev/hda5 ext3 3.36 (mount point: /) 99.9% full!
Plenty of room on hda7
I have have error message that hda5 is critically full.
I have a 30gig hard disk ... it would seem (i did not set it up
- and i am totally new)
In the KDE Control Center it would seem that hd is in three
sectors /dev/hda5 ext3 3.36 (mount point: /) 99.9% full!
Plenty of room on hda7
Hi,
$ su
Password:
273 root@psybernet:/mnt/floppy (01:43:43)
# ls
274 root@psybernet:/mnt/floppy (01:43:48)
#
this is what i get when trying to read files in the floppy drive
- the disk has files and folders created in Windows - can it see
those?
Walter
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Hi,
I have been getting this msg on boot-up quite a bit. It is
sometimes followed by some strange behaviour inluding the loss
of the Panel or freezing up of the screen, but not always or
often.
PS How can i cut and paste such error messages? Are they
available from the console - command
Hi,
I am using mandrake 8.1 with KDE on a Dell i8100 laptop.
I have one CD-ROM working fine with a desktop short cut. (I did not set it
up - a friend did it for me.) It is in fact a DVD CD-RW combo in the fixed
media bay. I have only the cdrom working and also audio CDs will work from
Nick,
Also when i query the modem it seems to make contact but the query results
window is completely empty.
It's an internal laptop modem.
Does this all mean that I've got a Winmodem that's not going to work with
Linux?
I am very new to this - maybe more than you, but I have a winmodem,
Hi,
I am new to Linux Mandrake, but am very fortunate to have had
excellent help in setting up my system, which looks great and
most of the hardware is working including the winmodem!
Now i am here needing to learn some very basic moves! And i do
it by trying stuff out...
We did not quite
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