I was in the same problem with my CMI8330, I used sndconfig and this app
detects very well my card, but I don not why I couldn't hear anything... then
I probe with sndconfig --noprobe --noautoconfigure and the detection was
very well.. it make the necesary files for me
Have you run aumix?
Indeed. What would a winders program have that Gimp can't offer, in graphics?
Well, Corel has their Corel suite ported to Linux too, if that's what you
want...
Can't respond to the requirements of the other guy but GIMP is a Photoshop
replacement; it's not a drawing program. That's why Adobe
Dear All and Paul, Thank you for the advice about installing or
upgrading to Mandrake 7.2. I am probably going to get the CD's and
upgrade afterall. I looked into Cheapbytes website and saw the CD's but
do not understand the difference between the two kinds offered really.
I checked their
When did I say "for posting HTML in groups?" I am a newbie to Linux, not the
Internet! I know about netiquette. Now, if you only answered my question
instead of lecturing me.
Gee Fred, maybe a switch to decaf would help. Tom's one of the sharpest
guys here. You just might need his
The install disk does not appear to be bootable. I burned it as a iso9660 file
rather
than the Joliet system. It shows up ok as an executable on the cdrom but it is not
You have to go one step beyond choosing a file system format. You didn't
mention what software you're using so I've got
I only subscribed today. I can do without that kind of help.
Fred, I dare say that you'll not likely have to worry about getting any
kind of help from either myself or Tom. Good luck with Linux; it's a
great operating system.
Cheers --- Larry
Mandrake 7.0 complete that I purchased from Office Depot about 5 months
ago. I am such a newbie (or was) :) that it took me so long to get
things to work right. With the help of some wonderful souls on this
You talk as thought you're the only one Marcia? I guess the rest of us
are just too
Basically the 7.2 at Wal-Mart is a "desktop" only version geared for
newbies. There is no expert install, no development tools and the KDE is
If you look a bit deeper, Eddie, you'll find that every version of
Mandrake xx Complete is described as a "desktop only version geared for
newbies".
I just wanted to say that I have purchased 7.2 at wallmart and the install
went perfectly. I did not have one problem at all. One small question where
is the enlightenment window manager ? I didnt find it.
Don't know if it's there but you access it by setting up Gnome as your
desktop and
Hi all,
I just wanted to say that I have purchased 7.2 at wallmart
and the install went perfectly. I did not have one problem
at all. One small question where is the enlightenment
window manager ? I didnt find it. Thank you, Chronos.
Chronosenlightenment is on the 2nd (extension)
I just installed v7.2 from downloaded iso's.
Everything is working great except when I tried to compile a kde app (kbear).
./configure told me I was running a beta copy of Qt2.2.1 (2.2.1-3mdk).
I downloaded the latest from rpmfind.net (qt2-2.2.1-4mdk).
However, on rpm -Uvh I am told that I
what are in ext CD iso?
The full Mandrake system is put on two CDs, the -inst and -ext CDs. In
their wisdom they don't provide the -ext CD in their Complete shrinkwrap
packages and thus you don't have part of it. You can download it from
their mirror sites; it's about 550megs. Smile while
I think it's a little early to pass judgment. Many devoted users and
developers have spent many hours of their personal
Not sure what you mean here Roman as we "pass judgement" constantly,
making decisions about what software we use. If we hadn't "passed
judgement" on Linux, and decided it
What's the difference between ' / ' and ' /root '?
/ is the base directory off which all other directories branch (presuming
they're on that partition). /root is the home account for the root user.
Cheers --- Larry
All you really need to keep from .netscape to accomplish what you're
talking about are the bookmarks.html file and your preferences.js
file. That will virtually restore Netscape for you on subsequent
It gets a bit more complicated than this with Nutscape. The reason is
that Mandrake has
There's also OpenOffice on cooker mirrors:
/packages/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/
openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (47mb)
Have you tested these Tom? I thought they were saying that they were
pretty flakey right now in terms of the compile scripts.
Cheers --- Larry
hey i right books and i create many things but you want to know what if i
post them on the internet i am going to have to expect one person buys it and
then redistributes it to their friends and then thier friends and so on.
Mike...this thought relies on the thought that you have an
I agree. There are way too many distos that are beta. Marketing Departments
have been known to shoot themselves many times in the foot.
Good point :-)
Buggy software in the Linux world can get difficult to iron out. But, then
again, that's part of the fun of learning. Or, is it?
Is this
I have just changed over from Corel to Mandrake 7.2. I have had a couple prob
lems with it. Has anyone else felt that it is very slow,
You've got some sort of problem with the installation as linuxconfig
should take only a few seconds to load. It takes only 2 seconds for the
control center to
It must be a percentage or something. I didn't get 128MB, not even 256; I
got 384MB (if I recall correctly). Couldn't size it down. I wonder if it's
whatever one cylinder is. -Gary-
Seems odd that you can't size it down Gary. Most of the installations
I've done come up 250meg and I
Running Linux, Pg 52 - A single swap file or partition may be up to 128MB
(more with the latest kernels).* If you wish to use more then 128MB of swap
(hardly ever necessary), you can create multiple swap partitions or files - up
Beware the rate at which numbers become outdated in books :-)
but very good. the author uses both products, and finds both fault greatness in
each. i think it's a very objective look at each product.
i would hope that in the last year Applix has fixed some of the problems he finds
with their product. but what is bad is that the few faults he found
so I can't say just exactly what this involves. I can say that
while an /opt dir was created, it's empty
So I've noticed. That's why I asked about "distro apps". If Star Office
is a "distro app" there's not going to be much of anything that they're
going to be putting in /opt :-)
I for one prefer Star Office. What exactly is it about SO that is too much
for you? Abiword is a nice enough app, but unfortunately it's still a beta
app and has a few...um...bugs in it.
I would agree. If I didn't have somewhat specialized problems I'd
certainly be using SO as it's by far
Check your 'man swap' and you will find they say 128 MB. You can have up
to 8 swap partitions (16 according to the LPI study guide).
Uhm...under what conditions? Swap isn't a single number, it's dependent
upon OS use of swap space, the size and number of apps being run, etc. If you
If I start the mandrake 7.1 install on a system with one ATA66 10.2Gb
Unformatted HD, will it format the disk when I get to diskdrake?
Personally I don't trust diskdrake but yes, it should partition and format
your drive. It's said, however, that you need an existing partition table
before
I've got 128MB of RAM and the Swap is only 96MB. When I was running
Caldera Open Linux 2.2, I never saw any of it being used. When I installed
Mandrake 7.1, swap utilization came up to 2-3%. I suppose if were doing
some heavy development work and creating huge programs, I would see it go
How do I change the screen colors for my user account?
I am able to change the colors for the root account so
I assume this is a security problem (do I need to
change rights to a setup file to allow writing? which
file?). I chose to use mid-level security during the
Check the permissions
There's Kword is an excellent alternative to MS Word in Mandrake 7.2.
Havent tried it yet. But I checked it out as Koffice is integrated together
like Office 2000. Lookin' like a window killer. hehe
The big problem with Kword is that it doesn't output foreign formats
yet. This is going to
BTW, does anyone here *not* like KDE2? Most people seem to prefer it, but I
have to say that although it has some excellent apps (konqueror is far
superior to kfm), on the whole the look and feel is a bit clunky for my
I haven't spent much time with it but mostly because I don't like
it.
Everything goes along fine until we're in the stage where the hard drive
gets partitioned. I have a 6G drive and I wanted to partition it
manually ... so I do. 128M swap, 512M root, the rest goes to usr.
Don't comment on how intelligent or stupid my partitioning scheme is,
please - that
Nah, what I mean is I'm running KDE 2 apps quite happily within Enlightenment
without any problems. Seems to crash much less than running KDE itself, oddly
enough.
grin...this is a path I've got to take with 7.2 I think. I'm much more
of a KDE 1.1 fan than I am of GNOME but KDE seems
1) I've tried the 'automatic' option - I get the error.
2) I create the swap, then root, then usr (I like having swap first on
the disk)
3) They are defined properly as swap and ext2 - I actually wanted the
usr partition to be ReiserFS, so I was trying that at first, but
eventually went
back to the group if I can't get it working. Will
there be a separate copy of that file for each user on
Yes, each user has one (presuming they're running KDE).
the system? Assuming the file is owned by root, do I
change the owner or just allow the write permission to
everyone? Thanks for
2. VB has been developed for the express purpose of writing programs to run
under Windows.
3. Microsoft is not a proponent of open source software (in spite of what
that Russian guy thinks).
4. Linux has strong roots in the C language.
5. C (and its descendants) and Basic are totally
cdrecord -duplicate cdrom cdrom2**i'm making up that switch you know**
but as i look thru the pages it isn't that easy is it?? or is it?? am i missing
anything here?
I haven't done this but I don't think it should be a big problem. You may
need some other command line switches depending
Well actually as veloct said, sendmail is the
mailer daemon but, if you go to
ftp://ftp.vergenet.net/pub/cucipop/
You should find a POP server you may like,
in order to recieve mail via pop, one must
install a pop server, such as cubic circle's
POP server software.
Don't think
sendmail is suppoed to support pop and stmp
so does postfix
postfix is what comes with the current linuxmandrake
it is compatible with sendmail commands.
Both sendmail and postfix come with LM, though you're right that postfix
is loaded by default.
Cheers --- Larry
thanks for the info, I must have
picked up some corrupt info somewhere.
There seems to be a lot of confusion here. Servers provide stuff, clients
get stuff...well, most of the time :-)
O and hey do you know alot about postfix?
Not really, though it's currently handling my mail in/out of
Any ideas? At this point I am assuming it is a driver problem.
Is the 3C905 driver known to work under 7.1? I remember that
Caldera didn't support this card in one of their releases about
six months ago.
Are you running adsl? It's one thing to have an ethernet connection and
quite another
What does the extras disc have on it anyway?
There are 300+ packages on it. IF you're only running a simple
workstation you should be able to install 7.1 without it.
And, when I setup 7.1, cant I update it with the mandrake update thingey to
7.2 ans then run the 7.2 extras disc?
Um... if he/she can't log in, I'm not sure this will fly... :-)
hello i have had to do this!!! and it does work if she is in single
user mode to change the password!
The thing is, to get logged into single user mode you have to provide the
root password. So you're right, if
That's probably because Larry and some others are using LILO
to login into linux. In Grub you have that failsafe option.
I hope this make sense.
Uhm...there's a failsafe (simple) mode set up with LILO as well. I guess
I'm confused as you guys talk as though you don't understand the idea
Can't he boot from something like Tom's root boot, and delete the file
containing the encrypted passwords, and then log into Mandrake as "Linux 1"
Can't say with Linux. Didn't see what Tom suggested but anything I've
seen him suggest has worked for me so his record is a lot better
So Joe HaX0r can't crack your system. I guess Mandrake figures that the odds
that some hax0r will break into your house to boot up the computer isn't that
great, so it provides the failsafe as a convinence.
You may be right.
7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late
yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will prob'ly have it
available in a day or two. The retail box sets will more likely be
two weeks.
Can someone from Mandrake tell us whether the release version is any
different from
Maybe I'm missing something here. Yesterday an article was posted at the
Linux Mandrake site saying that they are in the final stages of putting
7.2 together. Linked to it are several forums where they are soliciting
If it's the Oct 27th blurb that heads the Mandrake news board, I think
that
Well, according to Deno from Mandrakeforum.com. There is no
way that it's out to retail yet since it wasn't release until
early this morning.
This would seem "odd" as they told us that it wouldn't be released until
the 28th and I wouldn't expect that Walmart would have it before it was
Larry, the same questions been asked on the cooker list. So
far the consensus is that 7.2 final is the latest beta with about a
dozen rpm patch level upgrades, Linuxconf, DHCD, and some locales.
My take is that the last beta == 7.2 final for all practical
purposes.
Thanks
I'm not from MandrakeSoft, but here is what Deno said on Mandrakeforum.com
(best site for Mandrake news and discussions...):
No doubt there's good stuff there. The format, however, makes it
painfully slow to move through it and I have to make a living so I'm
Linux-overloaded right now.
Maybe Larry or Tom could explain what the best way to setup 7.2
would be, either update what you have or clean install?
Tom may provide guidance but I'm afraid you don't want to follow me
:-) I've got 7.2 installed but I've got to boot it off a floppy because
something goes nuts during the
Thanks a lot I found it... they ought to really list it on the front ... oh
well
Anybody got some good links on where to get free linux books (download) or
documentation projects that are not too broad. I've already got the LNAG,
www.oreilly.com
They have a lot of their books online.
Sounds like RedHad changed the install dir in their distribution, and then the
developers RPM put it in their intended place which gave you two copies.
If the code is something which Mandrake shipped on their install CD, then
generally they do a good job maintaining their MDK files which
How do I uninstall a package??
How do I know which packages are installed in a system??
Did anyone know of any How-To uninstall packages document??
Jesse, I just load up kpackage (as root). This will give you a list of
rpm packages on your system. Clicking on the ones you want to uninstall,
In the Nov 2000 on page 38 is an article titled: "Where to Install My
Products on Linux?".
Mike...what magazine are you referring to here? I've heard about the FHS
but have yet to see the standard in document form.
According to the FHS ver1 (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) you would expect
Since I got no reply, I assumed no
one knew. I have it up and
running now and it actually turns
out to be fairly straight forward.
Thanks for the "keeper" msg. Since you're working on SO, have you figured
out how to convert TT fonts to Adobe and get them into SO?
Cheers --- Larry
I've got the mag right in front of me and duh! forgot to list the mag name
(the shame, the horror, the FLAMES I'LL GET...)
Feeling the heat (grin)?
sorry, it's the Nov 2000 issue of Linux Journal ...
Great...My Oct issue is only a couple weeks old so it should show up soon.
Cheers ---
Using DrakConf and Printer Configuration, when I add a
new print queue with a Printer Configuration that is
"local printer" the system freezes.
Any hints? How can I setup local printer manually?
Edit the /etc/printcap file.
Cheers --- Larry
I have a default install of Mandrake 7.1 I downloaded a program
that I want to install in tar.gz format. KDE lets me view the
contents, but when I try to move these files to a new location for
installation, I get the following error:
Maybe if you opened the tar file you could move
Everything I send to this newslist (using kmail on Mandrake 7.1-kde) appears
twice. Could it be something onh my end?
I believe if you do a "reply to all", two copies get sent to newbie.
Cheers -- Larry
The reason for my question was to see if procmail would do that. I
continue to use Netscape because I try to separate my normal email
According to Mark it does but I've never done anything with procmail. I'm
able to filter conferences with typical move filters within all these
programs. It
I'm not sure if one can download the mail from one's ISP's mail server to
a dir on their system and then pickup that mail using Netscape Messenger
for reading. I've wondered about this and I can't see why it couldn't be
done, however, I have a feeling that making it happen would be a
I used partition magic and its fine, granted you will probably have to
reboot in safemode to uninstall partition magic as it locks itself into a
loop. Also youll need to edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys as my machine
Huh? I've never had Partition Magic lock up on me. These days,
Huh? Are we talking about the same Pine here? When I attach a file to a
message all I do in Pine is place the cursor beside the atrtachment
header, preses CTRL T which then goes to another screen within the Pine
windows already open where I can navigate to the file that I wish to
Sometimes
I...err actually use Windows and IE5.5 for my mail, but I only get
duplicate mail from mail groups, never duplicates of any mail sent directly
to me. And sometimes the duplicates will be missing the header or similar.
Now that is odd. When I'm not using Pine I use Pronto or Netscape.
The "dup" messages are coming primarily from the mailing list server at
Mandrakesoft.
I would have thought that too except that I've spent the last 3 days
without a single dupe msg in this conference. How about you? I'm
using Netscape 4.75 now - I used Pronto on the first of those 3 days.
I'm not sure if that's possible.
I'm not sure what in the message you don't think is possible so I
can't comment on this.
Although I have been wondering about that
myself. Fetchmail gets the mail from the ISP and passes passes the mail
off to procmail who then filters the messages and
To do so place the mouse cursor over the place in pine where
the text cursor is and click the middle mouse button. The
selected text will appear at the cursor position in pine.
The reverse of this also works for pasting from pine to apps
running in KDE.
You and Mark Weaver have made my
Ok...so I was a little rambunxious. The kernel IS running and I can
connect to the net through ppp, however for some odd reason I'm unable to
configure anything for ipchains. The kernel is 2.4-test9. Anyone have any
ideas as to how this can be enabled in the configuration?
Congrats on
Rod Baxter wrote:
You are not the only one! Its not consisent and sometimes the duplicate
messages arrive up to 24 hours later.
Anyone know why??
Are you using Pine? I have this problem every time I use it. It's
not that two copies are hitting the inbox, it has something to do with
how
I haven't had to worry with duplicate messages from the list since I
started using Pine and Procmail full time as my email client. Pine is the
reader, Procmail does the filtering, fetchmail does the mail getting from
the server. Such a nice combination. So neat...so clean...so easy.
Spoken
yeah...you do have a point there. Although I have done it in the past,
Pine doesn't do cut/paste very well at all. Attachments on the other hand
don't seem to be too bad.
Agreed, though having to open another window to figure out the
filename I need to attach, followed by having to type in
So a hardware problem would be completely missed by SMART and a clean FULL
format and a thorough scandisk and a defrag that results in erasing the
linux partition?
If your controller was acting up this could easily cause such a
problem.
I would love to know how a hardware error would
Hi all, I was trying to set up kmail and it crashed linux. tried to
reboot and got a kernel panic. I know my /home directory is still on
the hdc6 partition and swap is still there but have no idea how to get
back to being able to boot. I tried to do a upgrade hoping to write
back the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This fails under a standard, developer installation of LM 7.1. Go figure.
I just don't know what they're thinking.
They're thinking desktop (as in Windon't desktop) not hobbiest or
programmer. Yet hobbiest is the level needed to configure the system for use
Dennis Myers wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:25:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
much better than the Netscape fonts (which I can not get to change) that
I think I will use Mozilla to browse and Netscape for mail, until I can
figure out how to get Kmail to
/usr/include/g++-2/iostream
/usr/include/g++-2/iostream.h
/usr/include/g++-2/stdiostream.h
/usr/include/g++-3/iostream
/usr/include/g++-3/iostream.h
/usr/include/g++-3/stdiostream.h
Sure makes sense that they should exist there but they don't on my
installation. There's no libstdc++ in
Hrmmm I was going to say all I did was install the developer
installation but I do remember selecting packages as well and also
installed any rpms that included dev in them =o\ didn't realize they
didn't do it by default
for a second there I thought I typed something wrong =o)
If
Given that I lost 4h this morning doing 4 different installs of Linux I thought
I'd give an accounting of what I found regarding the ANSI C++ library.
Unfortunately I no longer have my earlier 7.1 disks (where the problem all
started as I gave that package to a friend.
A quick recap of that,
I have a cool program called Efdisk. It can create ext2fs partitions of any
size. You interested?
What do you use it for Chris? Sorry to be so dumb but why do you need a
special program for this?
Aside from that, my comments are leveled at an
installation program that should be doing all
I had tried the tar file on Opera and got a dump due to unexpected EOF. So
that didn't work for me. And I do understand that beta may load slower but
what I am seeing is after it loads and is running, if I change screens to go
to say "mail" it takes about 5 times longer to bring up the mail
Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that I was root
when I tried it. I tried again but no joy. Have to admit I'm a little
frustrated trying to get linux setup. Can't seem to get kde running
either.
Hmmm...sounds like you've got all kinds of problems. I've done at
One of the things I see regularly is people's unfamiliarity with
beta-test software, both in terms of expectations and interpretations. I
guess it is pretty unique for most people working in Windows to see true
beta-apps with all their trace code, dead code, etc. still hanging inside
Would it also give this method if it were trying to install when the
program was already there? I had a similar error and guessed that to be the
cause. -Gary-
I just finished suggesting that and I think you're right. It's unclear to
me why this program is stuck in
The most time consuming but exacting choice is the expert install. On
the screen where you choose package groups there will be a small button at
the bottom of the window to "choose individual" programs. The help screen
below says something about individually choosing from over 1000
or downloading softwareThe lynx and its later version links(which I use
with a great deal of comfort) are real great browsers.it would be great
it some peeps started using it and stayed away from browsers - each of whom
"create" "new" "standards".
I'm a commandline junkie,
Is there a compilable kernel anywhere on this planet that will not bail
What compiler are you using Mark? You recommended that I download Quanta
and I did. The compile blew up telling me that I don't have iostream
(that's how I realized that I don't have the basic C++ library). I've
noticed
This is probably a silly question but how do you get the g++ compiler to
work ? Im not getting any errors Im just not sure how to use the program.
You execute "g++ great_program.cpp" from the commandline. For any
programming project other than something trivial, though, you'll likely
call
/* Sample code - Hello World to test g++ */
#include iostream.h
int main()
{
cout "Hello World" endl;
return 0;
}
This fails under a standard, developer installation of LM 7.1. Go figure.
I just don't know what they're thinking.
Cheers --- Larry
That is why Linux-Mandrake developed GRUB, it does not have the problem with
1024 cylinders
Uhm...Linux-Mandrake didn't develop GRUB...it's a GNU program. Current
versions of LILO don't care abut 1024 cylinders either. All this presumes
that the BIOS is recent enough to deal with large
I have not formatted the hard drive yet, Im expecting to be
given that option in the next window. I am *not* wanting a dual
boot system, Linux only!!
Any ideas?
Yes, run fdisk and delete all existing partitions. Then repeat the steps
you've described. My guess is that your hard drive
Bookmarks??? I thought they handled just fine. When I'm cleaning them up
and placing them in seperate folders I usually just cut and paste them
from one place to another. That's the same as I've always done with them
Two things here Mark. First, I wrote that before I figured out that I can
I saw Larry's post about PPPoE and it just depends on what your DSL service
is offering evidently not all offer PPPoE...
Really? What are the alternatives? I thought the main thing that was
allowing DSL to become reasonably priced was the simple pppoe
approach. I'm also one of the dumbest
I have d/l'd Opera, Netscape 6, and Mozilla and find that I can not
install Opera due to wrong architecture, and the other two flow like
If you want to try this, download the tar file instead. I dont know
what's going on with their rpms but you've bumped into what's a common
problem there.
I'm trying to install Acrobat 4.0 from a 7.0 cd. After Installing
platform dependent files I get the error "./INSTALL: ed: command
not found" ERROR installing /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread.
Could it be that you're not root when you're doing this? It would be at
the point that the
Since nobody knows nuttin' about the C++ standard libary, I'll try
another one.
Tonight I decided to setup LM7.2 on another drive where I normally work
with 7.1. Not problem in theory but a couple things popped up and I
wonder if anyone else has had these problems.
During the install 7.2
/etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security.
Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point
out:
You didn't say why you wanted to change the path but I think you're
looking in the wrong place.
1) Where Mandrake hides the
I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need
to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my
second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then
hangs with just the first two letters LI
Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would
like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for
linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck
with understanding tar yet. Thank you, Marcia
I use knapster occasionally and
I don't see how drivers and/or devices installed in Windows will have any
affect on a Linux install - changes to the bios will have an affect, but I
don't think software installed in Windows will affect anything. Maybe
someone else knows differently - or give it a try anyway, since I
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