Re: [expert] A little vi help
On stardate Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 09:30:30 -0400 From: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] A little vi help Michael Holt wrote: I do have another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size of fonts as well as italics, bold, etc. Is that possible? Does vi have something built in that will allow you to format a document? AFAIK (and like J. Craig Woods said) there is nothing built into vi to let you do those kind of things. I can imagine that someone who writes a book in vi uses one of two approaches (or a combination of the two): * Use vi to write the book in plain ASCII text, then move the plain ASCII text to another application to apply fancy formatting. (I often found this a useful approach even in a word processor, at least until I learned to use styles effectively. Content is the most important thing, after you get the content right, then do the formatting, hopefully to enhance the meaning and readability of the document.) * Use vi to write the book in plain ASCII but add tags (manually or semi-automatically using macros or whatever) to support a markup language like DocBook, LinuxDoc, HTML, LaTeX, or whatever. You know the tags I mean, things like: There are ways to run arbitrary Linux or other commands on a (remote) web server from your browser by: ul li creating a cgi script with the desired commands /li li using a tool like CGI-Telnet /li /ul To me, this is not a fun approach. Randy Kramer OK, that makes sense. I'm new to vi but really enjoy the ability to move around by keystroke and not have to mess with the mouse. I was wondering if there was a sort of common way the *nix people have done that I haven't seen yet; there are so many tools in the *nix world (TeX, LaTeX - I don't really know what those things are - yet) Word processors are great, but I tend to get a little lost in all the options they offer nowadays and there just seems to be something nice about sitting in front of a translucent, shaded Eterm window doing my work rather than an ugly gray desktop with click-able 'buttons' everywhere that I never can remember which one is which and with that I shall /rant Thanks! Mike :-) -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A little vi help
On stardate Mon, 8 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Randy Kramer wrote:
Michael Holt wrote:
I do have
another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi
and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size
of fonts as well as italics, bold, etc. Is that possible? Does vi have
something built in that will allow you to format a document?
AFAIK (and like J. Craig Woods said) there is nothing built into vi to
let you do those kind of things. I can imagine that someone who writes
a book in vi uses one of two approaches (or a combination of the two):
Not built in, true, but I do almost all my documentation in vi/TeX. One
nice thing about vi is that you can filter sections of text through
external programs, or read directly from the stdout of any program. This
allows me to format a section of text by doing (trivial example):
:10,50! fmt
For TeX code I've created a bunch of little helper scripts to do things
like plug in an image or format columns. E.g.:
#/bin/sh
# epsinsert
GEOMETRY=`grep -A1 % Image geometry $1|tail -1`
# echo $GEOMETRY
WIDTH=`echo $GEOMETRY|cut -d' ' -f1`
HEIGHT=`echo $GEOMETRY|cut -d' ' -f2`
echo \\begin\{figure\}[label]
echo \\centering
echo \\includegraphics[height=${HEIGHT}pt,width=${WIDTH}pt]{$1}
echo \\caption\{ CAPTION \}
echo \\label\{label\}
echo \\end\{figure\}
This can be called with:
:r! epsinsert images/somefile.eps
OK, that might have just left me a little behind; I'm going to do a search
on google for tex and I'll get back to you!
Mike :-)
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Re: [expert] [OT] Xine problem with 8.2
On stardate Sat, 13 Apr 2002, civileme wrote: To the original question: Either buy a decoder card (the Dxr2 from Creative is supported) or make a decision to be an outlaw and download the source for DeCSS and compile it as a plug-in for Xine or abandon the idea of playing encrypted DVDs. Civileme Wouldn't you still need the software (DeCSS)? I was under the impression that the decoder board only took care of decoding the compression algorithm, not the encryption. tia, Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ebay with mozilla
On stardate Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 15:46 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: »Wolfgang Bornath« sagte am 2002-04-15 um 15:31:46 +0200 : I'm using mozilla 0.9.8 as a web browser. I have an account with ebay. If I want to log in at www.ebay.de (as I live in Germany) I cannot login because ebay tells me that my browser doesn't accept cookies. Yes, it seems like ebay is sending cookies from some strange sites. To solve this, I removed all the cookie settings (that is, the blocked sites) and made sure that I allow everything from ebay. That's what I did, too. I made the door wide open but ebay.de refuses to come in, ebay.com has no problems to enter. wobo mozilla 0.9.9 works just great - just tried it. mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test (OT -- sorry)
test -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] asus 8200 geforce 3
Hello all, I just put together a dual cpu athlon system (wow!); I decided to grab the geforce card to top it off and see if I could get my quake 3 frame rates up a little higher. Installing Mandrake 8.2 went great and the world seemed like such a great place... until I tried runnig quake - oh crap - no openGL support with XFree 4 on my new card and only experimental support on 3.3.6. I tried installing the nvidia drivers from their website but still no go. My obvious question is; anybody in my boat? Did you figure out how to fix it? Thanks in advance! Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive
Hello experts! I just acquired a thumb-drive (one of those USB gadgets that doesn't require any drivers), and tried it out on my mdk 8.2 laptop, but *oops* it doesn't get recognized. The light is on on the unit itself and I did some snooping around the web but didn't come across anything special to get it to work - anyone else have one of these gadgets and care to share the secret? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, D. Olson uttered these words of wisdom: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 11:36 pm, you wrote: Hello experts! I just acquired a thumb-drive (one of those USB gadgets that doesn't require any drivers), and tried it out on my mdk 8.2 laptop, but *oops* it doesn't get recognized. The light is on on the unit itself and I did some snooping around the web but didn't come across anything special to get it to work - anyone else have one of these gadgets and care to share the secret? Thanks, Mike I don't know if it works with this device, but the principal is the same... Have a look at my Lexar Media JumpShot cable tutorial. http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Go to Tutorials, then Lexar Media blah blah... It should be easy from there. ok, I've tried this but I've been doing it at the command line: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/trek the respone is /dev/sda: no special block device Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Joseph Braddock uttered these words of wisdom: On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I've tried this but I've been doing it at the command line: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/trek the respone is /dev/sda: no special block device Mike Try using sda1 instead of sda. Joe Yeah, I've tried that also - same response. Another curious thing, when I originally connected my flash card reader and put a flash card in it, I could pull up diskdrake and it would find the flash card on it's own. In fact, that's how I would tell which partition it wanted to use - I've done the same thing with pcmcia cflash adapters and my usb zip drive. When I try that for the thumbdrive, it doesn't show up at all. It seems that it's just not recognized as a device. I read somewhere that 'usb-storage.o' needs to be loaded, but lsmod doesn't show it. /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive
Well, thanks for all the answers, but it would seem I'm spinning my wheels. Upon further checking at the trek website, their first thumbdrive only supports windows and mac but their later attempts do claim to support linux 2.4 kernel and later. thanks again! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dhcp lease info
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Bruce Endries uttered these words of wisdom: I use a cable modem, and the cable company provides a dynamic IP address. I'd like to know a command that will tell me when the lease on my IP address is up. The computer uses a standard dhcp request when it starts, to get it's IP address. Any help will be appreciated. I think you would have to write some type of script to do that - maybe something that would pipe the output of ifconfig to a file then compare it and notify you of changes? I know that www.dyndns.org has some tools that deal with having a changing ip (of course, that's what they do). I'm curious though, does your ip actually change when the lease is up? I have a router that I've been using for about two years with dsl and the only time my ip actually changes (yes, it's dynamic also) is when there has been some kind of down time from the either my end or the server side (verizon). Other than that my ip has remained the same throughtout. From what I understand, DHCP usually gives preferentual treatment to a mac address which has already had a certain IP address. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore
Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, James uttered these words of wisdom: Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. Do I ignore the fact that it died or the fact that your fixing it *grin*. James hehe - problem solved now, so I guess it's a moot point :-p /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, J. Craig Woods uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote: Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. -- Hey Michael, did that mail server die because of too much traffic on Ramsey? drjung hehe - I think it had more to do with the 102 degrees on Ramsey yesterday! So where are you located? My wife and I just moved here about 2 1/2 months ago from Washington state. /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] USB numeric keypad
Hello all, I was thinking of getting one of those usb numeric keypads for my laptop and I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with those? If so, what's it like getting it running? Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] USB numeric keypad
Hello all, I was thinking of getting one of those usb numeric keypads for my laptop and I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with those? If so, what's it like getting it running? Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, civileme uttered these words of wisdom: To all of your others out there, it is no kidding DEADLY to install windows second. My recovery here was not for the faint of heart--23 partitions on two hdds were thoroughly scrambled by XP renumbering. I had to rescue boot and find root and edit fstab, and that still didn't work because my old /var partition was renumbered where swap was so my logs disappeared at swapon... A reinstall was necessary formatting /boot / and /usr fortunately I keep /home /usr/local and /opt separate. I could have used expert mode on fdisk to recover--redoing my old partition table-- but that still would not have covered the destruction of /var. Civileme I've had similar experience trying to beta test WinXP on the same computer I had linux loaded. Any hard disk which was connected when xp would boot didn't operated correctly afterward. I don't really remember the details since it was quite a while back, but that, along with the rest of your response to this email, makes me want to see Bill Gates behind bars! It sounds like soon it will be illegal to use anything windows - why can't people (lawmakers) just see through all that and quite giving M$ free rides? /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, jerry white uttered these words of wisdom: I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched th archives and found nothing. I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked out ok. But when Itry to burn cd 1 or 2 gcombust tells Me theres not enough room on disk. What am I missing and how can I burn good copies if some parts are left off?? Thanks in advance for any replies. Jerry White Actually, I believe that you can fit something like 702MB on a 700MB disk and if you have a recent version of something like gcombust, it is able to recognize 700+ cd-r's. It's actually pretty straight forward. Or as it's already been mentioned, just use the commandline cdrecord and it will do the same thing. /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
I'm not quite sure of the roots of this email, I jumped in late. I have just read several posts in the thread and would like to add a couple of words. Even though I love using Mandrake (it's on most of my computers including my server), if it weren't around, I would choose another version. Yes, I like Mandrake's config tools, but I could live without them. I think that I heard a couple of people alluding to Mandrake making their config tools proprietary. Again, I heard other people talking about making only previous version of Mandrake free for download. Both of these things IMHO would take Mandrake off of most people's computers for good. Till Kampeter has done wonderful work with cups and printing - and I'm sure other people could name people(s) that did something great with some other aspect of Mandrake; but I don't use Suse because I can't download the latest version ISO. Linux is more than just an operating system or software at this point - it's a movement, it's an entity. It's not just one company that has put Linux together or created what it has become. It's people on developers lists world-wide and even though I sincerely appreciate the work of the developers at Mandrake, they could not have made the distribution that Linux-Mandrake is today without the help of all those people world-wide. People give suggestions and figure things out and beta test and basically take up there time for the same reason that people give time and money to churches and other organizations. People like me are using Linux and telling everyone around about it because of the absolute irritation that's created by the arrogance of a guy named Bill Gates; a man who I believe has the audacity to try and patent the air we breathe! I realize that people need to make money, but leave it in the pay for support arena. There's already several poles out there that show the biggest complaint with Linux is the lack of corporate support even when you pay for it - the market is there!! One last comment, I like to make money, who doesn't? I do believe however, that EVERYONE has a right to technology. How many people believe that it costs phone companies the $50+ per month they charge me for a cell phone? How many people think it's just right on target that I'm charged $80 per month for 1.5M/384K dsl? How many technologies are stalled simply because we have to figure out a business model for charging for the product? That's bull-crap! Everyone should be able to get dsl, it should be included in regular phone service! I'm sorry for the length of the email, but I hope there's someone out there who understands what I said and agrees. Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, civileme uttered these words of wisdom: Agree, Mike. SuSE could have a much bigger market share and Caldera is now insignificant, SuSE for its closedness, and Caldera for its abysmal support, proprietary software, and per-seat licensing. I am one of the people bit by the cutbacks to keep Mandrake afloat and I STILL agree that their policy is on track. The idiots (and I can and will use that word for the lamers whose heads are so wrapped up in business they can't see five minutes into the future, now that I am not a Mandrakesoft Employee) who retreat to the tried and true business principles practiced successfully only by monopolies the minute the going gets a little rough, simply do not understand this market NOR do they notice where Mandrakesoft's assets are. The one thing Mandrake has going for it is a very very small group of engineers who have designed a marvelous product. Those folk ccould be making rwice as much somewhere else without the 90-hour weeks they voluntarily work now. Start charging for the software in the wise of closed-source or anything hinting of Bill Gates tactics and that asset will vanish so fast no one will know what happened. The caliber of people there cannot be held by offers of more money, even if there was more money to offer them. Get a clue! Make it work as free software or watch it die. Quit the sideline sniping which is unproductive and clueless. Civileme I'm sorry to hear that you were layed off, I haven't been watching the lists that closely lately 'cause we've been moving and looking for work, etc... I would like to thank all those people who are putting in those 90 hour weeks, and also to guys like you and everyone else on these lists for the great work. My hope is that the 'lamers' of which you speak open their eyes and read these posts and consider the way of SuSE and Caldera. I do like the mandrake club and the different levels, the subscriptions, and all that stuff I think that whole thing was a great idea. I hope that that kind of originality continues to prevail. /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Praedor Tempus uttered these words of wisdom: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not yet know whether or not I was successful. As for receiving a fax... Are there any GUIs for hylafax? I have seen several listed for efax and sendfax, but since I am using hylafax, I have simply fax (ie, fax send number filename. Simple enough in principal but I would prefer a frontend that anyone could use (I wont get my wife to do CLI stuff). Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). praedor I've just recently setup hylafax on my laptop but I don't really use it that often, so I'm wingin' it. I use Staroffice 6.0 and just setup another printer for faxes. When you fax, you just hit print and then select fax and it will bring up a dialog box asking for the number. From there, I use gfax to see the job status. I hope this helps. /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hey Civileme
On 15 Aug 2002, Dave Sherman uttered these words of wisdom: Hang in there, guys! I was contracting and sub-contracting for almost a year, from June 2001 through March 2002. It was mostly part-time contracts, so I tried to keep a couple going at any time, but it was impossible to find enough work to keep me busy. I landed a systems engineer job for a consulting company, starting April 1st. It's a small company, and they can't afford to pay me what I would like, but at the time I took the job, I wanted a steady salary more than I wanted to keep looking for contracts and/or employment :-) You guys are making me really sad :-( I've been a machinist in the aerospace field for about 13 years and I've spent the last 4-5 years trying to break in to the IT field. That is one tough field to crack! I've been doing computer work on the side from my regular job, but without documentable experience with a company (or a BA/BS), no-one wants to hire. I just settled for going back to a job running a cnc machine - I want to be a system admin!! Oh well, /self-pity Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] sorry :-(
Sorry all about the bounced email you must have received. The phone company came yesterday and installed a second line for our neighbor and in the process they managed to make a clean cut in our line! Consequently, by the time we got home and realized what happened and were able to call them, they couldn't get out and fix it until today so my email server has been down for about 36 hours. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then just ignore this and have a great day! /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] beta testing messages
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, s uttered these words of wisdom: Well, as stated earlier, if too many useless, uninformative, false bug reports start showing up, then the list may become unavailable for the average joe or the developers will move to another list or just email directly. Something like that. It's an informative list for interested parties to lurk on as it is now, but I can imagine it becoming chaotic and testing the patience of developers. You know, about every 6 months this same theme seems to pop up on cooker - who should be allowed to post to cooker. IMHO this thread could die if people would just read the Mandrake homepage. Everytime there is a new beta or release candidate, Mandrake announces it and asks for everyone to download, try it out and give their opinions - your participation is highly appreciated is the exact quote. So how 'bout if we just go with that, eh? Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ot - file sharing tools
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, iggy uttered these words of wisdom: Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:46:00 -0400 From: iggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] ot - file sharing tools hi, all. was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's worth. thanks in advance -iggy sorry!!! i thought i was sending it to the newbie list. please align this little nub with the far one... both should make a straight line to iggy. gently pull on this little lever... the projectile will exit with great force. and thus, the dumbest among us are weeded out! I think your best bet is to use kazaa through win4lin or something like that. There was a project on sourceforge to connect to the kazaa network, but to my knowledge it hasn't been working for quite some time. There's also limewire, but your mileage may vary on that one. /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ISP specific list
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scott uttered these words of wisdom: Does anyone know if there is an ISP specific list for Mandrake or 1)It's cool to post questions here I think this is the correct forum for your questions. A lot of people here (including myself) are running their own web / email / etc... servers at home off of either dsl or cable internet. Not quite the scale of an ISP, but the approach should be similar. 2)I should start a new list on my Mandrake servers here :) Can't speak for that one, but there are also IRC channels devoted to mandrake as well as the several lists I have more questions about Mandrake as I replace my BSDI boxes at the ISP I am running, but not sure if it is cool to post those questions on this list. I'm surprised to hear that you're switching from BSDI to Mandrake; why is that? (just curious) -Scott /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ISP specific list
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Scott St. John uttered these words of wisdom: What IRC channels and where? irc.openprojects.net #Mandrake #Mandrake-Linux #mandrakefr (For those who are french) #mdk-athlon (Building an athlon specific Mandrake 9.0) #MDK-Cooker (For cooker-related questions, etc...) I'm surprised to hear that you're switching from BSDI to Mandrake; why is that? (just curious) Familiarity would be the main reason. The BSDI boxes are old and long past retirement age so it's time to move forward and Mandrake was the logical choice for me since I have been using it since the first version. aahhh, that does make sense :-) -Scott Take care! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] burning a data disc
Hey all, I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I go to burn the disc, all the top level directories give this message; using 000 for folder1/(.) Then a folder named '000' is created under the real folder. Any idea what's going on? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] burning a data disc
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:13:53PM -0700 : I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I go to burn the disc, all the top level directories give this message; using 000 for folder1/(.) Then a folder named '000' is created under the real folder. I had that problem once, but don't recall exactly what I did to fix it. Try turning off include dir name and/or adjusting the Default pathlevel setting and/or making sure No Deep Relocation is off. If it's not one of those, I can't remember what it was. Blue skies... Todd Cool, I'll try that when I get home from work! Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] burning a data disc
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:13:53PM -0700 : I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I go to burn the disc, all the top level directories give this message; using 000 for folder1/(.) Then a folder named '000' is created under the real folder. I had that problem once, but don't recall exactly what I did to fix it. Try turning off include dir name and/or adjusting the Default pathlevel setting and/or making sure No Deep Relocation is off. If it's not one of those, I can't remember what it was. Blue skies... Todd Cool, I'll try that when I get home from work! Thanks, Mike Well, I upgraded the box to Mandrake 9 and that solved the problem - go figure - I wish I could have known what the actual cause was. Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] burning a data disc
Well, it's odd; I've burned data discs before, I just don't remember when the last time was so I'm not sure which version of Mandrake I was using at the time. I usually only upgrade when something won't work without it. I'm going to dig out my notebook and start writing things down again :-) Mike On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Sridhar G uttered these words of wisdom: Michael, I had this problem with 8.2 too. This started happenning after I did a update to mkisofs through the SOftwrae Manager. I solved it by going back to mkisofs from my original 8.2 disk. Not sure what to do when ur on 9.0. Sridhar Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I go to burn the disc, all the top level directories give this message; using 000 for folder1/(.) Then a folder named '000' is created under the real folder. Any idea what's going on? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux apps
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, tarvid uttered these words of wisdom: On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:31 am, Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, anyone know of a check printing program for linux? I'm using a windows based program called 'versa check' through win4lin right now, but I'm always searching for ways to become 'windows free'. Mike Freecheck and gnuMICR Jim Tarvid Thanks! I'm playing with it now :-) Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD
I haven't used the multisession option myself (under linux), I've done it in the past under windows but it's not very efficient. Everytime you open and close a cdr it takes actually quite a bit of room on the disc http://www.roxio.com/en/support/cdr/multisession.html This is a windows burning tool that gives a little explaination of what multisession does. As I said, I don't use it, but I have seen the option under 'gcombust' so I believe that just checking the box would do the trick. http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/FAQ.shtml This is another little faq that could help you troubleshoot if you have problems - but I wouldn't modify anything until you've actually tried to burn a disc and found it didn't work. There are quite a few gui clients already packaged for mandrake, most of them have 'buttons' that cover the options you're looking for. Mike On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Gonzalo Avaria uttered these words of wisdom: Hi all, i want to make one little question. Here it is... :) - I would like to make backups or my user folder on the home, that is, i want to make a multisession CD that i could go creating folders with the contents of my /home/gonzalo like every month or week. How can i do that?. I have a ASUS 8x4x32 IDE-CD R/RW. Well if you need mor info i will send it to you. thanks for your time PS: I'm using MDK 9.0 = Gonzalo Avaria Alumno de Licenciatura en Fisica Facultad de Cs. Fisicas y Matematicas Universidad de Concepcion CHILE _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] jpilot and pine
Hello, I'm looking for a method to sync my visor pda with pine which is my email client. I've been looking around on the net, but haven't found anything. Any thoughts? Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD
I've also found that cd/rw's can be a risk - they do on a occasion, corrupt information. I have proof of that sitting on my desk. The problem is that you don't know ahead of time when that's going to happen, so I would make sure to use a more proven back up media on regular occasions (maybe tape) if you have something you really don't want to lose. mike On 19 Oct 2002, Gabriel Phoenix uttered these words of wisdom: A simpler *backup* (not archiving) solution is do is cycle CDRWs. On a four-week cycle, you use four CDRWs, one for each week. I record the date in the Volume label of the CDRW. When you get to week five you re-use the first week CDRW and start another cycle. This is repeated every week there after. So 4 - 1 (burn this one) 3 - 4 (move this one) 2 - 3 (move this one) 1 - 2 (move this one) I don't label my CDRWs so I can simply by moving them from one numbered cases to another. You can semi-automate this procedure with a script - still have to insert a CDRW thou. The result is you have four weeks of backups (or more if you like) and only have to burn one CDRW a week. No need to worry about multisessions at all. Gabriel -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Has anybody tried to install NVidia Drivers for mandrake9.0?
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Roberto Armenteros uttered these words of wisdom: Nvidia has drivers for MD 8.2 not for 9.0. In case anybody has successfuly installed the 8.2 drivers successfuly please I would appreciate if you can tell me how everything went. THanks a lot, Rob. Actually, there are mandrake 9.0 drivers on the nvidia website - I just installed them last weekend. When you get to the nvidia / linux website, scroll to the bottom of the drivers list and you should see them. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] linux apps
Hey all, anyone know of a check printing program for linux? I'm using a windows based program called 'versa check' through win4lin right now, but I'm always searching for ways to become 'windows free'. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] thinkpad 600e
Hey all! I've got two questions: 1) What happened to sndconfig in Mandrake 9? I used to be able to get my thinkpad sound card configured post-install by using the sndconfig tool and following some instructions from the ibm website. Now since moving to Mandrake 9, I can't seem to find the sndconfig tool. 2) Though I've been using Linux for about 4 years, I've never been very successful at compiling my own kernels. I'm interested in simply making changes in my existing kernel. I've loaded the kernel sources and followed the directions but things always seem to have problems. Here's what I did today: log on as root, cd to /usr/src/linux-2.4xxx make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage cp bzImage to /boot and update lilo to reflect changes. Now, I didn't change anything in the configuration - I just wanted to see what would happen. After rebooting, I noticed quite a few errors that I don't get with my original kernel. I thought that the .config file would represent my existing kernel - is this correct? Please take it easy on me - I know it's something simple because a lot of people are able to do this relatively common task - I'm just not getting something. Thanks all! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] thinkpad 600e
Oh duh! I didn't think to check if it was installed :-) It's working just fine now, thanks Tim! On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Tim Werner wrote: Same thing happened to me. When I installed it, it said already installed, but afterwards it worked where before it hadn't. In a shell as root: urpmi sndconfig sndconfig Hey all! I've got two questions: 1) What happened to sndconfig in Mandrake 9? I used to be able to get my thinkpad sound card configured post-install by using the sndconfig tool and following some instructions from the ibm website. Now since moving to Mandrake 9, I can't seem to find the sndconfig tool. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] thinkpad 600e
Ah, so /boot/config is where the running kernel config lives? That was what was confusing me. I thought that the .config text in /usr/src/linux*/ was the for my existing kernel. I'm going to work on that after reading email. Thanks Rolf! On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Rolf Pedersen wrote: You should do make mrproper first. This is in the kernel upgrade howto at mandrakeuser.org and in Linus's readme in /usr/src/linux. Then, what works for me is make xconfig, load /boot/config, the config of the running kernel, make my changes, save, then follow the MUO howto for the rest of the commands. Mandrake's sources will change the version to $VERSIONcustom and the installkernel script copies the kernel to /boot, mkinitrd, if needed, and changes the links in /boot to boot the new kernel (probably runs lilo, too, but I use grub). -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel recompile
Hello, I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third time; I'm sure I followed all the steps exactly as described on the MUO pages and when it gets to the make install part - it fails on mkinitrd. I try doing it manually as the error message suggests and I get: mke2fs 1.27 (14-Mar-2002) could not find any device /dev/loop# Can't get a loopback device I've left my laptop sitting as is and I'm hoping that I can rescue it from where it is - if not, at least find out what the problem is. Thanks for any help, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel recompile
:-) yup - number 3 is the answer. I know from the previous times at this point that it's not going to boot; now I just want to see if maybe there's a bug in mkinitrd or something like that? Mike On 6 Nov 2002, James Sparenberg wrote: Mike when you say rescue do you mean it can't boot or it can boot but the new kernel isn't usable? OR you don't know if it will reboot and don't dare find out *grin* James On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 12:03, Michael Holt wrote: Hello, I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third time; I'm sure I followed all the steps exactly as described on the MUO pages and when it gets to the make install part - it fails on mkinitrd. I try doing it manually as the error message suggests and I get: mke2fs 1.27 (14-Mar-2002) could not find any device /dev/loop# Can't get a loopback device I've left my laptop sitting as is and I'm hoping that I can rescue it from where it is - if not, at least find out what the problem is. Thanks for any help, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel recompile
Cool, I'm on it! Mike On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I remembered some disussion of a like issue on cooker; gather modprobe loop and retry mkinitrd worked-around for some; the threads can be found with a search on 'could not find any device /dev/loop#' at http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker;linux-mandrake.com/ -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel recompile
Cool, give me a little bit and I'll send it - I've got to see if I can extract that stuff now. Mike On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:39:18PM -0800 : Michael Holt wrote: Hello, I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third time; I'm sure I followed all the steps exactly as described on the MUO pages and when it gets to the make install part - it fails on mkinitrd. I try doing it manually as the error message suggests and I get: mke2fs 1.27 (14-Mar-2002) could not find any device /dev/loop# Can't get a loopback device I've left my laptop sitting as is and I'm hoping that I can rescue it from where it is - if not, at least find out what the problem is. I remembered some disussion of a like issue on cooker; gather modprobe loop and retry mkinitrd worked-around for some; the threads can be found But before you do that, the real problem is that for some reason devfsd has died. Can you send me (offlist) your /var/log/messages and /var/log/daemons/info and /var/log/daemons/errors files? It would help to figure out _what_ caused devfsd to die, then we can know what to look for in the future. Blue skies... Todd -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Portable MP3 MD players?
I have an older Nomad player (mp3) from creative which takes 128MB smart media cards. I used to look around on the net for others that might be using it under linux and I found one person with a project that never really made it very far. Rio seems to have some kind of kernel support, but that's the only one I've seen for linux. My 'brainstorm' was that since my smart media card is removeable, I would just plug a card reader into the computer and transfer files like you would a floppy for example. I've got that plugged into my imac for now because I already had a card reader that worked on it and I didn't feel like buying another one that was linux ready. Anyway, my suggestion is this; before you buy, find out what kind of media it uses and if you can spend $20 on a linux type media reader for it - it's easier than using that screwy software that comes bundled anyway. Another note; quite a few mp3 players are shipping with hard drives now - one in particular which I can't remember the name of, doubles as an external usb hard drive. Just make an entry in /etc/fstab and you should be able to transfer files just like any other external drive. Take a look around CompUSA (or any computer store for that matter) and you'll see what I'm talking about. Mike On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Mark wrote: As I am thinking of buying one and don't want to waste my money on one that won't work in linux. Does anyone know which portable MP3 MD players work in mandrake? There seems to be a lack of information about which ones work. As far as I can find not many r compatible. I was thinking of maybe a Sony MD player (MZN707S) or Iriver MP3 (IFP-180). As far as I can find out none of the recent models work as they need specific drivers built into the kernel for the device which are not available yet. In other words they aren't simply plug play usb devices. Any help or suggestion will be appreciated. Mark -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel recompile
That's what I figured. It's running 'make modules' right now and I didn't delete the /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION directory this time so we'll see what happens. I was trying to follow the directions word for word last time and I keep writing down every step - this time it's GOT to work! Mike On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't really delete lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION, and is not necessary if you're changing the EXTRAVERSION flag. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel recompile
Success Thanks everyone for your help - I've finally learned how to recompile my kernel Ya-hoo!!! The only problem I had on the last round was that lilo choked because make install chose to long of a name for the label tag in lilo.conf. I fixed that and everything else went great! Thanks again everyone! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] proftpd mandrake 8.2
Hello all, I haven't updated my server to mdk 9 yet, but I've just discovered a problem with proftpd in 8.2. I don't use /var/ftp very often but I know when I installed it, it worked. Now when I try to get there from another computer, I can't see anything in the directory. I tried making sure that the proftpd.conf file said all the right stuff and that the correct permissions and ownership are set on the files. I'm able to ftp into user directories from the local lan but not the /var/ftp directory. Well, I can get there, but it doesn't list any files. I tried doing service proftpd restart and it shows that stopping fails and starting is ok. I get the same output even several times in a row. I tried doing service proftpd status and it comes back with: proftpd dead but pid file exists. Any ideas? I'm confused because if proftpd is dead, how come I can ftp into user directories? And if it's not really dead, then what's going on to keep it from showing the ftp directory? What other files could infect that service? thanks for any advice, mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to workin linux????
You know, I noticed this thread but thought it was for something else (duh!) Anyway, I'm using an MA401 wireless card right now on my thinkpad and it's worked on mandrake 8.2 as well as mandrake 9.0 right from install. I also installed slackware 8.1 a couple of weeks ago to try it out and it worked in there just as well. I used the same card in my old toshiba laptop. Could it be that there is something else wrong? Maybe a bad card? I just plug mine in to the pcmcia slot and boot the computer and do the install - the card is recognized and it installs with no problem. Again, it's a Netgear MA401. Mike Friday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: I've tried linux-wlan-ng-pre4/5/6 and I still can't get my wireless card to work. It's a Netgear MA401. I followed the directions in the README file and added alias wlan0 prism2_cs to /etc/modules.conf but I can't get the beast to work! The default install did not associate the card with the AP even though the README file assured me that it would associate to any nearby AP. lsmod shows that the drivers (prism2_cs and p80211) were installed. After configuring the appropriate files in /etc/wlan plus /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, the card still will not associate with the AP even though I do have the correct SSID in the config files. Plus, the nameserver info that I entered into /etc/pcmcia/network.opts never got written to /etc/resolv.conf nor did wlan0 get configured with an IP address. But, I was able to assign an IP address to wlan0 with Linuxconf (I know, this isn't the right way to do it). I tried to get the card to work using a file and with instructions, on how to use the orinoco driver, that someone had provided and that didn't get it going either. The card works when booted into Windows 2000. So, I have to ask: why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work under linux? Mandrake Linux 9.0. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Blanker
Check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and comment out the line under Section 'Device': Option DPMS Mike 1:04pm, Greg S mused: Hi, Could someone please tell me how to disable the console blanker. I have tried the following: setterm -blank 0 echo -e \33[9;0] These do not work. I am using a laptop running KDE and Mandrake Version 9. I have also tried disabling power management again without success. Thanks in advance Greg _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail MSN -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to workin linux????
Yesterday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: I'm glad to hear that someone was able to get it to work with the default ML install. I wasn't so lucky. I have finally managed to get it to work after 3 fresh installs of ML 9 plus I had to d/l and install the orinoco drivers... Well, what might be the case is that both my laptops just happen to be linux compatible. Not that I planned it that way - I just REALLY got lucky. BTW, why isn't there a .../pcmcia-3.x.x directory in ML 8.2 and 9.0 like there was in ML 8.1? Also, according to the PCMCIA-HOWTO, there's suppose to be a utility script called probe in a /cardmgr directory to help in determining the PCIC - I can't find the utility or the directory. Actually I did find a script named probe but it had something to do with NetCat. In /sbin there are a couple binaries (cardctl and cardmgr) which both have man pages you can read - I'm not sure about the other stuff you ask. Again, my laptops both detected my card AND installed the correct drivers with both mdk 8.2 and mdk 9.0. There's a previous post which talks about 16 bit vs. 32 bit pcmcia cards - maybe it's the brand of laptop and how it interacts with card and not the operating system? With this kind of trouble, I can see why Linux hasn't made it into the mainstream (as far as the desktop market goes). People always say this when they have a problem. First, you need to remember that ALL hardware on the shelf today is made with Microsoft in mind - period. Not one manufacturer of video cards, sound, mainboards, etc... makes a product with ONLY linux in mind - most give linux a mere after thought if any at all - MAYBE posting drivers on their website (never in the box though) if at all. With that in mind, can you imagine how difficult it is to build an operating system which would support EVERYTHNING out of the box? Think about this: Most hardware manufacturers won't even give up the specs of their proprietary hardware so that someone else can write a linux driver for it - let alone write one for you. They wouldn't even consider releasing the product without windows drivers - usually multiple versions of windows. Before you get all upset about the state of linux, think about that. Most windows users get confused about how to change their desktop wallpaper; on linux, you've GOT to plan ahead. Make sure you've got not only comptatible hardware, but that you understand COMPLETELY what's soldered in your case. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to workin linux????
I'm not quite up on all the pcmcia stuff, I've only started using laptops in the last 6 months and at that, I've both times managed to get pretty compatible hardware. I understand what you're talking about with those dongles - what a stupid idea! I've got a regular pcmcia eth card and a modem which both use those weak little wires with those crappy little connectors. Those have been ripped out more than once when one of the kids tripped over the wire - that's why I went wireless to begin with. I noticed also that there are several different specs for the cardbus. Though since I've started using laptops, I've noticed that almost EVERYTHING is non-standard. When I installed a 128MB stick of ram in my toshiba, it required a razor blade, some electric tape and some tricky manuevering to enlarge the case enough so that it would fit. I would say that of all hardware, the one I would least want to work on would be compaq. If their pc's are any comparison, I've worked on a few of those and they are no joy. Mike Thursday, James Sparenberg mused: I may maybe not have run across something that has a lot to do with the problem and the fact that some have the problem some don't. I've been know for my ability to lose dongles for quite some time. With dongles being almost as expensive as the full pcmcia nic I just keep buying new nic's ... So today ... when I did it again. I bit the bullet and bought a dongle free nic. Same manf as my other nic and it didn't work... took it backchanged model still doesn't work. Guess what the problem turns out to be! The new dongle free nics are 32 bit my dongled nics where always 16 bit. EVEN though the website says my laptop supports 32 bit nics it turns out that not all versions (there where 7!) of this model have 32 bit support... sheesh. (called compaq) Could it be that these wireless cards are 32 bit cardbus and the laptop isn't? In the windows world the drivers apparently cheat and run the 32 bit card as if it was 16 bit. But here it doesn't work. (didn't in NT either but compaq claims XP would.. like I care.) Just a thought. James -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] html front end to pine?
Hello, My son is in 1st grade and he uses the computer quite a bit in school. His teacher asked if I could provide him with an email address which he could use to send and receive email from school. That's not a problem, I can setup an account on our server for him. I use a program called putty.exe when I'm accessing our server from outside on a windows based computer and it allows me to ssh in and have a terminal just as though I were sitting right at my desk - he could use that; the school is pretty picky when it comes to putting software on their computers though. I would like to make an html front-end to access the mail program (or pine) something similar to yahoo or hotmail but without all the crappy ads and weird email you get on those. I know I can come up with something, but I was wondering if someone had already designed something similar to what I'm talking about? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to workin linux????
WHAT??? With that fact-filled email, I just don't know where to start! Seriously though, you haven't listed anything about what kind of laptop you're using or what the problem was. The only thing I know is that you seem to want mandrake team to fix a problem which you give only vague details about. I think that if you follow this thread though, you'll see one post about possibly incompatible cardbus architecture (16 / 32 bit). I don't know much about that, but the first place I would check is weather your laptop is supported under Mandrake. mike 9:02pm, jarmo mused: Me too Started just 9.0 installation and it stops just in the beginning when trying to determine PCMCIA stuff.Had same problem with 8.2.Made questions here hoping that someone from Mandrake team would pay tension about issue.. Seems not...Anyway I have orinoco silver card and wavelan pci adapter.. I think that's the messy one..In MDK 8.0 installation worked OK... In 8.2 I had to take off card and adapter to manage install os.Now it seems to be same...I took them away and installation go's fine... There is only huge job to get pcmcia workin...Have to use pcmcia-cs package and recompile kernel without part of pcmcia stuff...But managed in 8.2 so why not 9.0. So if someone from TEAM reads this,pse try to find correction to installation according pcmcia. By the way using amd xp-1700+ 512M ram 2x40G hd ati radeon all in wonder And as said with a little bit extra job all works fine.. Jarmo -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to workin linux????
Sunday, jarmo mused: On Sunday 17 November 2002 19:30, Michael Holt wrote: WHAT??? With that fact-filled email, I just don't know where to start! Seriously though, you haven't listed anything about what kind of laptop Man Don't blow your head off... No, I don't really see that happening any time soon. (??) If you'd read better you'd figure that this is not a laptop.. Pse read again... My bad, I think of wireless as a mobile solution - but my previous post still stands. You offered no real details about your situation except to say that you wanted a fix for your problem. Just naming a couple of components (orinoco silver / wavelan pci adapter) doesn't really tell much ;-). As said with my orinoco silver card and wavelan pci adapter etc... I can get it working...but MDK's installation does notNot big deal...eh? Jarmo I see a few people have already given some suggestions - so I'll leave it at that. Have fun - Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] html front end to pine?
Sunday, David Guntner mused: Michael Holt grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [...] I would like to make an html front-end to access the mail program (or pine) something similar to yahoo or hotmail but without all the crappy ads and weird email you get on those. I know I can come up with something, but I was wondering if someone had already designed something similar to what I'm talking about? Have you looked into Squirrelmail? As web-based mail interfaces go, it's pretty nice, and allows you to set up POP3 access to your other mailboxes out there on the net, so it could do what you want. http://www.squirrelmail.org --Dave Cool, I think I'm going to use this package. I wasn't aware there are so many packages out there that do this type of work. And thanks to everyone else who answered this post - very helpful! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] linux_logo on thinkpad
Hey all, I just noticed something interesting the other day and can't seem to find the answer for it. I have a thinkpad 600e that I use for most of my day to day work and I just started thinking about the possibility of upgrading to a faster notebook. Then I realized, I don't even remember what type of cpu I have in THIS notebook. Anyhoo, I tried looking at /proc/cpuinfo and found something interesting - it reports my processor as a 92MHz pentium 2. I checked my bios and found that it is actually a 366MHz - why the difference? Does it have something to do with being a mobile processor? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux_logo on thinkpad
Ahh, thank you! That was it. I plugged it in and rebooted - there it was - 363.965MHz. Thanks everyone for the suggestions! Bye the way, I was half asleep when I wrote the original post so forgive me for the subject line having little to do with the message; my brain was shorting out! :-) Mike 12:33pm, James Sparenberg mused: Gratuitous Snipping Action Notice that the MHz is correct. But your model 600 is olde rhtan mine, so Tom may be right about your being underclocked. Did you check the CPU info while on battery? Some Laptops have tried the fantastic concept of slowing the CPU to lengthen batter life while on battery. Could this be what happened? My laptop reports speed correctly (ok 498.85mhz not 500 but close enough) This also fits with Tom's statement about underclocking. James -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
And on the subject of fast machines - I have a dual athlon 1900+ system - does UT2003 have the ability to use smp? I'm really annoyed that q3a only enables smp for windows machines - they note some 'bug' that made them decide to disable it in the linux version - I wish they would have just fixed the 'bug'! Anyway, that was one of the reasons I built the dual system, better game action! Mike 12:14am, Ronald J. Hall mused: On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:44 am, you wrote: You need to be running a very fast machine with the proprietary nVIDIA drivers (as well as an nVIDIA video card) and lots of memory and disk space. BTW, it works great as long as you have a very fast machine. Just out of curiosity, what r u calling a fast machine? We installed the demo on my sons computer: Duron 850mhz 256 megs ram Nvidia 32 meg Geforce 2 and it works fine. Nowadays, a computer isn't fast to me unless its 2.0 ghz or faster. :-) -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
Miark, you say it slows down in heated game play - is that single player or network? Could it be network related? Just a thought. Mike Yesterday, Miark mused: :-) Yes, I got the splash screen. I know when the nVidia drivers aren't working becuase TuxRacer is simply unplayable. But it's a-rockin' right now. By the way, here's my relevant system info: 1.1GHz Athlon, 1.0 GB RAM, and GeForce 4MX 460. How close, in actuality, should the performance be between playing in Winsux and Linux? Is it possible that my XFree needs a tweak? Might UT need to be called up with special parameters? Is it possible that UT2003 is not using the nVidia drivers despite the fact they're there? I doubt this last one because the play is smooth until it's in the middle of really heated play. Miark -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] video Streaming with Mozilla
I *think* mplayer handles that correctly. I seem to remember being able to watch something not too long ago with that stream type using mplayer. Mike Yesterday, villoing mused: Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on Mozilla. When I tried to watch something on www.fabchannel.com, I get this message: this page contains information type (application/x-mplayer2)... rgds ... -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] console questions
Hey all, ok, I'm starting to get more and more into using the console since I've been discovering how much faster it moves on my 366Mhz laptop :-) I've learned how to suspend jobs and put them in fg / bg; is it possible to start a console-based mp3 player and then, say, open vi and write or open pine and read email? Thing is, when I hit '^z' to leave the mp3 player, the sound stops too. I would like to leave the sound on and then do something else in the foreground. Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netgear MA401 - ongoing saga
That is so odd. I have never had to take even a second glance at my MA401 card - yet it seems over the past couple of weeks that quite a number of people are complaining about it. Could it possibly be that the hardware is not functioning correctly (bad card)? Mike 2:59pm, stefmit mused: [gratuitous snipping action] One more wierd thing: before having switched to orinoco_cs and the appropriate hermes.conf, iwconfig used to report the MA401 as Prism I, not II?!? TIA, Stef -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] console questions
Duh!! Thanks - I used '^z' to suspend the mp3 player but forgot that it was - well - SUSPENDED! Thanks again, Mike Saturday, KevinO mused: Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, Thing is, when I hit '^z' to leave the mp3 player, the sound stops too. I would like to leave the sound on and then do something else in the foreground. After you do the CTRL-z, type bg and the 'job' will continue in the background. Type fg and you can bring the job back into the foreground again. - -- KevinO Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ut2003
Hey all, Has anyone installed ut2003? I'm stumped - I've just spent the last two days trying to install but after about 6 or 7 hours, it goes into this loop where it keeps creating the same folder within it self ( it creates a folder called scorched earth and populates it with some files then under that directory it creates scorched earth then populates it with the same files as the last and keeps on going like that until I hit ^c to stop it) I've tried turning supermount completely off and stopping devfs in my lilo.conf file (just a wild guess) and I'm going to retry it to see how far it gets. Until then though, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm stumped. Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ut2003
OH MY GOSH I finally got it! I can't believe the hoops I had to jump through to get it working. The box I installed it on is running the smp kernel which *may* have made a difference (but shouldn't have), I disabled supermount and devfs, I wasn't able to run the installer from within 'X', it had to be done from the command line, and finally, I had to run the installer like so: ./linux_installer.sh instead of sh linux_installer.sh or it would complain about glibc 2.1 and exit the install. There was NO documentation on the box nor within and very little on the web - for being commercial software, I think epic could have done quite a bit better than that... 3 DAYS to install that game!!! Thanks for the suggestions, Mike On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:36:39 +0100 From: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ut2003 I have the whole ut2003 runing fine in my Mandrake 9.0 with Geforce4 Pentium III. I had to dissable the buggy supermount, open two konsole, put the third cd-rom in the second cd-drive and I used the other console to mount the next cds in the first cd-driver. If you need more help I could explain it you in more detail. El Jue 16 Ene 2003 03:00, Ronald J. Hall escribió: On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:54 am, Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, Has anyone installed ut2003? I'm stumped - I've just spent the last two days trying to install but after about 6 or 7 hours, it goes into this loop where it keeps creating the same folder within it self ( it creates a folder called scorched earth and populates it with some files then under that directory it creates scorched earth then populates it with the same files as the last and keeps on going like that until I hit ^c to stop it) I've tried turning supermount completely off and stopping devfs in my lilo.conf file (just a wild guess) and I'm going to retry it to see how far it gets. Until then though, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm stumped. Thanks, Mike Mike, is that the demo or the full game? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ut2003
Full - but I have it running now - FINALLY! Now for nvidia to patch their last 4191 drivers and I'll be a happy camper! Thanks, Mike On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:00:03 -0500 From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ut2003 On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:54 am, Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, Has anyone installed ut2003? I'm stumped - I've just spent the last two days trying to install but after about 6 or 7 hours, it goes into this loop where it keeps creating the same folder within it self ( it creates a folder called scorched earth and populates it with some files then under that directory it creates scorched earth then populates it with the same files as the last and keeps on going like that until I hit ^c to stop it) I've tried turning supermount completely off and stopping devfs in my lilo.conf file (just a wild guess) and I'm going to retry it to see how far it gets. Until then though, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm stumped. Thanks, Mike Mike, is that the demo or the full game? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] drakbackup
Hey all, I've been trying to use drakbackup with both cdr's and rw's but I get FATAL: Does not appear to be recordable media! with both. I'm able to burn a disk with cdrecord - just drakbackup fails. Any suggestions? Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] drakbackup
5:42pm, civileme mused: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0 DO NOT USE CDRW media for this either--most of it is 650 and there are MANY supposed CDRW drives which will not work with CDRW media of the more modern flavor or insist on trying to treat all the CDRW media as 700Mb capacity. Civileme Is this something mdk specific or is it just a feature not available to the linux community yet? RW's have been out so long, I just assumed that the technology had been stablized by now. Thanks Civileme! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] drakbackup
9:07pm, civileme mused: Umm, I just moved the Acer Drive to my son's computer (he uses the unmentionable system in its latest incarnation) and it behaves the same--choking on CDRW disks, so I imagine it is unresolved hardware issues with the druive hardware and the brand of media (one style did not throttle the drive) So it aint even linux-specific Just one of those things that you never know til you test. I have a Wearnes 4x2x24 that works acceptably and a no-name that does 700Mb media perfectly either CD-R or CDRW, but won't touch 650s at all and it is rated 40x12x48 (and that one made me a religious buyer of very cheap CD-Rs cause backing up a 40G disk using it is not a wasted day) as to the quality of drakbackup, I cannot speak because I have been using scdbackup since 1999, but I do know that it works better with supermount disabled. (MOF, with supermount enabled, I can crash the kernel with a dd from CD to floppy). That might be the mandrake specific issue you seek. Civileme Well I guess that about does it then - I'm off to check out scd. Nothing ever seems to be simple these days :-) Thanks for the replies! Mike p.s. I know someone who can perform an exorcism on your son's computer if you like! :-) -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] drakbackup
Wednesday, civileme mused: The employer was too cheap to give me a separate workstation, so it was my six years of work that was lost. For the same reason, it was risky to try restoring from tape though I had always done one file a month. Anyway, the tapes were stretched and dirty and the drive was unusable. I have been burning CDs since that time, even when the burns were at 1X. Civileme Oooh! I think I would have to smack that employer around a little! Well, back from my original post - I googled around for some other ideas and end up with a simple bash script that I adjusted to fit my own needs and then did crontab -e for 3:45 am every morning. I don't have more than 300 megs total that I'm backing up, it's just the configs, web, email, etc... that takes time to get back. Anything else (mp3's, digital photos, programs, etc... I put on cdr's. This stuff goes on cd/rw: #!/bin/bash DATA=/home /var CONFIG=/etc set $(date) tar -cvf /mnt/backup/data/df$2$3.tgz $DATA tar -cvf /mnt/backup/data/cf$2$3.tgz $CONFIG mkisofs -o /tmp/backup.iso /mnt/backup/* cdrecord -v blank=fast dev=0,2,0 speed=2 -eject /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /mnt/backup/data/* rm -f /mnt/backup/config/* So far, this seems to be doing great! I often stay up late and fall asleep at the keyboard, so all I have to do is make sure I've switched disks in the morning and I never lose anything important. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT - sound embedded in jpg
Hey, Sorry for the OT, but I just received an email for a product called 'soundpix' which allows you to embed sound in a standard jpeg. I thought that sounded cool, but I don't want to buy the software and then realize all I had to do was download a gimp plugin or something else that simple. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - sound embedded in jpg
Cool - I might try the mpeg / avi idea; sounds like a pretty good alternative! Mike Hi This seems to be a very proprietary format. Supposely they have plans for support for multiple desktop platforms. But I doubt they ever will support linux. They have a plugin for IE. To create files for the soundpix format you have to buy the software, that is obvious. Can not see that Mplayer has any support for this either. I would guess to embedde sound i jpeg files and maintain standards, they fill the metadata of the jpeg with encoded sound. For the program you only supply a jpeg and a wav file. With an example file it might not be difficult to make a player for the fileformat. If you are able to get example files you could try to preceede the mplayer developers or some other multimedia developers for the linuxplatform. For the same effect you could make an avi or mpeg file with the same picture throughout the whole file. For testing if you have windows installed you can teste the soundpix sampler http://www.zdnet.com.au/downloads/pc/swinfo/0,236746,9597669,00.htm Regards Torstein Michael Holt wrote: Hey, Sorry for the OT, but I just received an email for a product called 'soundpix' which allows you to embed sound in a standard jpeg. I thought that sounded cool, but I don't want to buy the software and then realize all I had to do was download a gimp plugin or something else that simple. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Streaming MP3-wav conversion problem
This is a script I use for batch conversion; works on one or more mp3's. If this doesn't work, maybe there is a problem with the xmms plugin you mentioned? #!/bin/bash # allmp3wav for i in *.mp3; do echo $i tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e s/mp3/wav/) mpg123 -b 1 -s -r 44100 $i | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - $tgt done mike I am trying to convert a streaming MP3 file to a wav file for editing in Audacity. The mp3 stream was caught by XMMS with the MPEG Layer 1/2/3 plugin. XMMS and Noatun play it prefectly, so I bet that I can convert it to a wav file somehow. I have tried lame, bladeenc, and mpg123 to try to either output it as a wav, raw, or standard output (so I could pipe it back to an encoder to rebuild the mp3 into something converable). Here is the output from lame showing the problem it is having with the bitstream, variable frequency, and the number of channels. Any ideas? $ lame --decode incoming/KEXPraw.mp3 input: incoming/KEXPraw.mp3 (48 kHz, 2 channels, MPEG-1 Layer III) output: incoming/KEXPraw.mp3.wav (16 bit, Microsoft WAVE) skipping initial 1105 samples (encoder+decoder delay) Frame# 1/289994 452 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 2/289994 356 kbps L R bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 3/289994 452 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 4/289994 388 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 5/289994 448 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 6/289994 128 kbps LMSR ibitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 7/289994 416 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Error: sample frequency has changed in MP3 file - not supported Frame# 8/289994 160 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... . . . Frame# 137/289994 193 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Error: number of channels has changed in MP3 file - not supported Error: sample frequency has changed in MP3 file - not supported Frame# 138/289994 299 kbps fatal error. MAXFRAMESIZE not large enough. Segmentation fault -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] script help
Hey, I'm looking for some help on my little backup script for my server. I'm not a real savvy scripter so please bare with me :) I googled around awhile back and put together a bu script that has served my purpose well until now. It's just a few lines as you will see and I use it with cron to make a cdrw every morning at 3am. Now the info on my server is starting to outgrow just on cdrw (jpgs and such) so I would like to know how I can modify my script to be able to exclude either certain files or directories. I imagine that sed would be involved, but I don't completely understand that tool so I'm hoping that someone might be able to give me some pointers and maybe even explain how the code will work in that setting. Well, here's what I've got now: #!/bin/bash # # create daily backup of essential files # DATA=/var CONFIG=/etc # set $(date) # # daily full backup: # tar -cvf /mnt/backup/data/df$2$3.tgz $DATA # tar -cvf /mnt/backup/config/cf$2$3.tgz $CONFIG # # make iso image and burn it to disk: mkisofs -o /tmp/backup.iso /mnt/backup/* # cdrecord -v blank=fast dev=0,2,0 speed=2 -eject /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /mnt/backup/data/* rm -f /mnt/backup/config/* In this setting, I can just add all the directories that I want to back up, but it would be much simpler to add just the parent directories and then exclude *.jpg for example or maybe a whole child directory. Thanks a bunch for any help! Mike -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
HaywireMac mused: How would one configure Apache so that anyone using IE would be met with a nice friendly message that they are not welcome? This is REALLY easy. Here´s a link to read all about: http://www.devin.com/ieblock_howto.shtml Server side includes are probably the easiest way to do it; no need to even mess with apache (other than setting up the ability to use ssi´s. It´s been a common practice ever since the browser plugin wars. You write one page for the rest of the world and then a specific page for ie. You have to save your pages as .shtml and then make apache aware that you´re using shtml. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
Jack Coates mused: [snip] look at how little the growth is for XP, .NET extensions, all that hype. Win98 is being abandoned, but for Linux and Win2000. And look at the huge increase in Mozilla on Windows. That´s pretty cool! Maybe a trend? It´s amazing how many people I run into nowadays who´ve at least tried linux compared to a couple of years ago when no one knew what it was. Just about 5 years ago I was an m$ advocate and balked at mozilla - times sure change :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] thinkpad buttons; how to enable them?
Kwan Lowe mused: It depends a lot on your particular window manager, but here is a start: Run xev in a terminal window to determine what the keycode settings are for the extra keys. Use these to populate your local .Xmodmap file to look like: keycode 146 = XF86Mail keycode 147 = XF86Search What about those usb keypads that you can attach to a laptop? Has anyone tried one under linux? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??
Rob Blomquist mused: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? Rob -- I´ve got a boot image for you if you like -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??
Rob Blomquist mused: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? Rob -- Hey Rob, I didn't hear back from you whether you wanted that file or not? I'll be home around 6:30 - 7:00 tonight - let me know, k? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen¨ Heb. 11:1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] msec???
Ok, I´ve read all the posts I could find and it looks like no one has had any luck with msec? I´ve been doing fine forever at ´high´ security; now a friend from work is dogging me about making things more secure. Since he´s an m$ guy, I want to prove how much better *nix can do things and so I am off and ready to make that server of mine so secure that you can´t get ANYTHING done! Well, I´ve succeeded! I can´t get anything done! Ok, sorry ´bout that; now here´s my problem: When I go to msec level 4 - I can´t login to squirrelmail, use ssh, use ftp - I´m just about completely locked out. I´ve tried commenting out the line msec put in /etc/hosts.deny denying all, but it gets overwritten. I read a post about using chattr +i, but I´m using xfs so that´s no good. I tried adding ´authorize_services (all)´, but that didn´t help. I would really like to have secure level 4 or maybe even 5, but I need to be able to use my computer and I don´t know how to manually set the same environments without using msec. What can I do to fix this mess? I want the wheel group, etc. Thanks in advance! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don´t... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec???
Jack Coates mused: Start by read the /usr/share/msec/perm.* files, then apply changes to /etc/security/perm.local. Next, did you know that all the msec stuff is in script? Read it, quite enlightening. /usr/sbin/msec is the wrapper that figures out what to do, then calls python and bash scripts that live in /usr/share/msec. msec.py is the really powerful one. Look out for password aging, for instance :-) The bad news is that IIRC some of this stuff is dependent on kernel patches like GRSecurity, and so msec is toggling kernel flags that can only be touched during bootup. Cool, Thanks Jack -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don´t... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec???
Bryan Phinney mused: Msec level 4 denies everything by default. Therefore, you must explicitly allow the things that you want to allow in the hosts.allow file. This will override the hosts.deny file so that anything that is not allowed is denied. I had the same problem with my web server, once you understand that the default behavior is to deny, it makes perfect sense. Yeah, that makes sense. I was reading different posts on HOW to allow things though, and trying to find which way would stick which was confusing. I put ´All: All´ in my allow file just so I can make it work and I found a sample allow file on the web that I´m going to play with when I get home from work today. Since you´re running a web server, would you mind posting a copy of yours? (/etc/hosts.allow file, that is). I´ve got kind of an ´all-in-one´ type of server - I don´t really have the resources to split things up. I´m running apache, webmail (postfix, squirrelmail, etc), samba, ftp, ssh, blah; just pretty much everything - on the same box. It would be nice to setup a firewall (other than port fowarding on my router), get msec all hardened up, and make everything all secure - but I think I have too many things going to do that. Anyway, all suggestions excepted :) Thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don´t... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec???
Wow! Thanks for all the help Bryan! I´m going to go through the list and see what I can start implementing. Yeah, I do have a hardware router with port forwarding setup. I´m going to start playing with those other tools you mentioned. Thanks again -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don´t... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] msec level 4
Good morning, I´ve got another msec question. I was working on a different computer on my lan and hadn´t put it´s id in my hosts file on my server yet. I was lazy and didn´t feel like getting on a system which had access (for ssh that is) so I was trying different toys to see which had access. I couldn´t get on user accounts using ftp, or ssh, etc, but then I tried telnet and got right in. I though, ´hmm, that´s odd...´ I´m also able to get in using my domain name - which I´m not able to do using ssh. I´m confused; why can I telnet get right in but ssh is blocked? I know the obvious answer - remove telnet from the server - but I would like more information about this before removing the symptom. Thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨For we are God´s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.¨ Eph. 2:10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec level 4
Bill Mullen mused: I don't run telnet (naturally g), but I'd guess that access to it is probably controlled by xinetd, rather than by /etc/hosts.allow. If that's the case, you'll have an /etc/xinetd.d/telnet[d] file where this sort of thing can be configured. After you've made any changes to that file, the xinetd service would need to be restarted, for those changes to take. Actually, I was just playing with my linux box earlier and found that I can indeed ssh into the server. When I had the trouble, I had been running Windows 2000 from the same box. Some background... I have several small hdd´s that a friend gave me (4G) which I use to configure different systems on so that I can get familiar with them. I loaded win2k on such a drive and put it in a pull out bay and booted the system. I just used the same static ip that the regular system uses ´cause I didn´t want to add another host to my server. This was fine except that the machine name was different. I added that to the hosts file on the server. Anyway, I assume that my original problem must have been that I didn´t identify the Windows box the same as the linux box (ip, machine name, fqdn). As far as the telnet-server - done ;) I actually hadn´t realized that I had the server part installed -- doh! Be sure to urpme telnet-server sometime soon, though! ;) HTH! Yes! It does! Thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨For we are God´s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.¨ Eph. 2:10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec level 4
Bryan Phinney mused: I would guess that something is either not configured correctly, you have installed some software that has changed the default settings, or you are hitting a different machine than you think you are hitting. I have tried this on my web server which is also set to msec level 4 and it does NOT work. Telnet connections are refused, just like SSH was initially until I opened that up using hosts.allow. It is possible that you have altered your hosts.deny file and the cron job that is supposed to change it back simply hasn't run yet, but it should get around to it. However, default at msec level 4 is to create a hosts.deny file that denies all. Until you explicitly allow connections in hosts.allow or remove hosts.deny, it should be refusing all connections. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Hmm... I´m going to have to do some more playing around. I´ll let you know what I broke ;) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨For we are God´s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.¨ Eph. 2:10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl
Daniel Anderson mused: Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless connection is not reliable. I had a Verizon dialup account once for about three years, with no problems, until one day I could no longer connect to the mail servers unless I used windows. Are any of you using Verizon dsl, and if so are there any problems with using Linux? Thanks, Dan Not a problem here. I've been using Verizon for like 3-4 years without any problems to speak of. I use a hardware router and run a server, etc. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] more msec questions
Hi ... me again :/ I'm at msec 4, which defaults to 6 days on password aging. I've used drakconf to set password aging to several different numbers and I've tried setting my changes in level.local - no good, still stays at 6 days. I've also tried restarting all services and even reboot the machine - still not happening. Thanks for any suggestions... -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] more msec questions
Michael Holt mused: Hi ... me again :/ I'm at msec 4, which defaults to 6 days on password aging. I've used drakconf to set password aging to several different numbers and I've tried setting my changes in level.local - no good, still stays at 6 days. I've also tried restarting all services and even reboot the machine - still not happening. Thanks for any suggestions... I'll answer my own post... I did chage -M on the individual users and it seems to have stuck; why wouldn't that work through my previous methods? thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] movies, jpegs, etc
Hey all, M$ has a somewhat new program called 'moviemaker' which you can download for free for winxp. I would like to know if there is something comparible for linux. I was asked if I could help with some video production at my church and they want to use Adobe Premier. As always, I would like to introduce as much opensource as possible. I haven't done much video editing, and what I have done was on Windows, several years ago. I would like something that could handle both jpeg compilation like moviemaker and also something that could do video transitions with effects similar to premier. Being able to make photos 'shatter' into the next photo or have like a 'page-flip' effect. Same with the video; maybe being able to 'twist' the video and merge into other footage. Any suggestions? Things I've looked at already are: cinelerra kino mjpeg filmgimp As I've said, I don't have much video editing experience; if one of the programs I've already mentioned does what I've asked, feel free to point that out :) Thanks! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] pc doesn't shutdown
I haven't had my pc shutdown all the way for quite some time. I was using mdk9 then 9.1 and now 9.2 and I've just gotten used to it. I just upgraded to 9.2 though, and noticed that when I shutdown the machine, it actually powered all the way off; instead of just stopping at the end and waiting for me to turn it off. That was on an upgrade type install from 9.1 to 9.2. For other reasons, I did a reinstall of 9.2, wiping the old partitions to start out fresh. Now I'm back to having to hit the power button to turn the machine off. I know this is vague, but any ideas where to look? Now it's going to bug me. The machine is an Asus a7m266-d dual athlon board. I haven't done any of the bios updates because they don't offer any improvements that I could tell. Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
How can I start / stop the gpilotd manually? I want it to get started when the machine boots but I'd like to be able to shut it off manually. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc
James Sparenberg mused: There was/is one that was by many considered to be studio quality called broadcast 2000 You can find the files here http://www.tux.org/pub/packages/orphaned/broadcast2000/ in source form and If you go to rpmfind or rpm.pbone.net you might find a src rpm as well. James Thanks James, I d/l'd it and am going to start playing with it now. I'm curious though; cinelerra is supposed to be the replacement for bcast2k and I googled around for bcast; do you know why they stopped supporting bcast? Thanks again -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
Jack Coates mused: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:58, Michael Holt wrote: How can I start / stop the gpilotd manually? I want it to get started when the machine boots but I'd like to be able to shut it off manually. In a terminal, type pkill gpilotd AAA!!! DUH!! I'm sorry I'm very distracted this morning :/ Ok, killing the thing isn't really a problem - starting it when the machine boots would be nice. :) I got a little frustrated trying to find the actual 'gpilotd' on/off button. I'd like to be able to run the gpilotd as an init script, but I don't know where it lives. I did some googling around but had no luck. Anyway, thanks Jack! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
Artemio mused: I may not be right, but this can be something connected with ACPI. If in /etc/lilo.conf for main linux image you have acpi=off in append string - try to change it to acpi=on and say lilo to re-install the loader. Or, if you have acpi=on try to set it to off. Hey, awesome! I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic for kicks. By the way, which is it? ACPI or APCI? Or are they two different things? Thanks though, it works now! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
Jack Coates mused: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:42, Michael Holt wrote: Jack Coates mused: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:58, Michael Holt wrote: How can I start / stop the gpilotd manually? I want it to get started when the machine boots but I'd like to be able to shut it off manually. In a terminal, type pkill gpilotd AAA!!! DUH!! I'm sorry I'm very distracted this morning :/ Ok, killing the thing isn't really a problem - starting it when the machine boots would be nice. :) I got a little frustrated trying to find the actual 'gpilotd' on/off button. I'd like to be able to run the gpilotd as an init script, but I don't know where it lives. I did some googling around but had no luck. Anyway, thanks Jack! NP :-) if you've got a sessions-capable window manager, your configger will have some sort of a start these programs tool. Otherwise, put an executable script into ~/Desktop/Autostart/ and call it from there. If you go that route, look our for how you edit the script -- Anything in the folder will be executed, including ~ backup files. It's not so much that I can't start the program; the start program is 'gpilotd-control-applet'. The thing is, I just want to put my visor in it's cradle and hit the sync button - I've been using jpilot, but you have to hit the button on the cradle then click the sync button on jpilot and sometimes that doesn't work and if you don't hurry, it times out and you have to start over on the series of clicks and button pushes. Gnome-pilot is supposed to have the gpilotd (daemon) which runs in the background. Now once you've started it via the applet / dialog (which also brings up a dialog box asking you to confirm the device and settings), you can hit the cradle button to sync and it works great. The problem is that I don't leave this machine on, so I don't want to have to manually start that applet each time and even if it does start automatically, I still need to hit the 'ok' button each time. I just want it to start silently in the background. I can't seem to find any documentation that covers what I want it to do. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
Tim Sawchuck mused: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:48:46 -0800 (PST) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: Artemio mused: I may not be right, but this can be something connected with ACPI. If in /etc/lilo.conf for main linux image you have acpi=off in append string - try to change it to acpi=on and say lilo to re-install the loader. Or, if you have acpi=on try to set it to off. Hey, awesome! I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic for kicks. By the way, which is it? ACPI or APCI? Or are they two different Two *very* different things! Thanks to Google: ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) www.acpi.info/ The 82093AA I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (IOAPIC) provides multi-processor interrupt management www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/290566.htm Tim hehe, I thought that was just a type-o! :) thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:57, Jack Coates wrote: no it isn't, that's the control panel applet, which happens to start gpilotd for you if it isn't already running. Just run gpilotd from a startup script. Ok, if I do 'which gpilotd' it's nowhere to be found. If I do 'gpilotd' from the command, I get --bash command not found. In fact, if you do 'gpiltab' you get: gpilotd-control-applet gpilotd-session-wrapper gpilot-install-file The actual 'gpilotd' seems to be buried somewhere. I tried doing 'vi gpilotd-control-applet' just to see if I could see what is happening, but it wasn't very helpful for me. you're lucky that it works at all, gnome-pilot is one finicky pile of junk -- er, fine piece of software. :-) :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:13, Artemio wrote: Hey, awesome! I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic for kicks. So - did it work? Yeah, and I removed the noapic line because evidently, I don't need it! :) The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface APIC = Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller ...dictd at localhost port 2628 :-P Yes and thank you for that too! I'm getting rug-burn on my nose now :) I'm off to see if I can find some other stupid question to ask now! Thanks again :) -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
