[expert] Stateful inspection firewall.
Hi guys, I have a semi OT question about packet filter firewalls. Up till now, I have used linux IPCHAINS and IPTABLES firewalls were one was required, and never had a problem... I just got hold of a DLINK DSL504 and set it up with a mixture of NAT and portforwarding.. all of which went fine. Then I did the usual thing when setting up a firewall, I set the firewall to block everything, and then enabled the usual suspects, SSH, SMTP, HTTPD, HTTPS, and so on. which were all portforwarded to two linux boxes on the inside net.. Unfortunatly, when enabled, the firewall blocked all NAT traffic as well... so with the firewall on, I can't do anything at all.. but my web sites still get access, and my mail server works.. Does anyone have any experiance with router firmware firewalls and what I can do to get NAT working without opening the whole thing up?? I have linux IPTABLES filters setup on the linux machines as well, but I want external port scans to show the ports as dropping all packets to closed ports, not closed as they are now. Since that end of things is done by the router, that is where I have to tackle it. Anyone know anything that would be useful here?? (There is no MASQ setting in the routers firewall config. :-) regards Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] evolution 1.2 question
Jack, still don't see any posts by me, so forward it to the list if it may help others. I will try un- and re-subscribing to expert... :-/ On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 18:35, Jack Coates wrote: thanks for the tip, found the area and started a) watching what happens while I use the Evolution account editor b) trying to edit it manually. In either case, Evolution rewrites the field with the default value as soon as it gets a chance to do so. I've even tried deleting the account and recreating it, no soap. It's pretty frustrating; I suppose I could delete the entire config.xmldb and start over, but it would be a huge pain and at this rate I don't see how it would fix things. As you are using Evolution 1.2.4 apparently, have you tried closing Evolution and running killev to completely force Evo and all its background tasks to quit? # killev FYI: For 1.3 (beta), current 1.4RC1 (aka 1.3.92) and all forthcoming Evolution versions this is: # evolution-1.3 --force-shutdown (The '-1.3' part will only be temporarily of course...) Maybe you should try removing stale /tmp/*jack* files and directories. jack sure is meant to be your user name. An additional frustration is that Ximian's made it very difficult to report problems on their site; having bought the Ximian Connector which a) doesn't work and b) started this whole mess (uninstallled with no effect), I'd think that I could at least get a login to ask questions on their support site. I'd think wrong. I really don't suspect Connector to start those problems, as long as that account is not related to the MS server... Reporting bugs is easy, assuming you are used to bugzilla: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/ You can ask a lot of knowledgeable folks on the Evolution mailing list: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution Maybe you wanna give the 1.4RC1 a try (1.3.92) with Gnome 2 integration. Works really stable for me since previous beta versions. (Beware: I'm not sure, if Connector works with 1.3.x versions again. Previous versions were not yet supported.) You can get Evolution 1.3.92 via Red Carpet (easy download, subscribe to Evolution beta channel). Grab Red Carpet from: http://ximian.com/products/redcarpet/ Red Carpet direct download, just install red-carpet-* and rcd-* from http://www-files.ximian.com/red-carpet/mandrake-91-i586/ or grab all desired Evolution 1.3.92 packages from ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution-beta/mandrake-91-i586/ (make sure to grab the libgnomecanvas RPM, as they fix dnd bugs). A lot of info and links, HTH... karsten -- Davision - Atelier fuer Gestaltung / Internet / Multimedia UNIX / Linux Netzwerke und Schulungen - www.linux-campus.de Telefon 06151/17865 Fax 06151/178659 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Stateful inspection firewall.
I'd ask d-link, but IIRC some of these commercial products are set up so that they won't portforward to a NAT'd address, or will only portforward to a single NAT, or won't portforward at all but instead make you put the server on a DMZ cable, which is naked to the world. Idea being to make you buy more public IPs, go to business class service provision, pay more money, be less likely to run a server. On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 07:35, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I have a semi OT question about packet filter firewalls. Up till now, I have used linux IPCHAINS and IPTABLES firewalls were one was required, and never had a problem... I just got hold of a DLINK DSL504 and set it up with a mixture of NAT and portforwarding.. all of which went fine. Then I did the usual thing when setting up a firewall, I set the firewall to block everything, and then enabled the usual suspects, SSH, SMTP, HTTPD, HTTPS, and so on. which were all portforwarded to two linux boxes on the inside net.. Unfortunatly, when enabled, the firewall blocked all NAT traffic as well... so with the firewall on, I can't do anything at all.. but my web sites still get access, and my mail server works.. Does anyone have any experiance with router firmware firewalls and what I can do to get NAT working without opening the whole thing up?? I have linux IPTABLES filters setup on the linux machines as well, but I want external port scans to show the ports as dropping all packets to closed ports, not closed as they are now. Since that end of things is done by the router, that is where I have to tackle it. Anyone know anything that would be useful here?? (There is no MASQ setting in the routers firewall config. :-) regards Franki __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An observation about Winex 3
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 08:33, Patrick Mayer wrote: Good day everyone, After getting my hand on the new version of Winex 3, I have observed that it is much slower than it's predecessor, especially when run on Mandrake 9.1. On remedy to this is not to use the pre-built RPM and compile from CVS instead: I saw a TWO-FOLD increase in display performance afterwards. It is really worth it, even if there were some minor problems associated the compilation (mostly library dependencies that were easily soled using urpmi (tm)). Patrick, I brought up this very issue early on in the Transgaming forums, and thru email. This was with version 1.0 or something similar. I was told that recompilation for the processor would not result in significantly greater performance. I felt that this was wrong, but never bothered to download the CVS version. So I am glad that you posted the results from your experimentation. At this point Transgaming should be made aware of this fact and that *they* should be the ones releasing an athlon (or similar) rpm. I think they actually may already be aware of the performance increase, but for some reason (probably regarding the issue of support) they do not want to compile for other than i386. BTW, what moniker do you go by on Transgaming? One last small problem that I had to solve was that Winex whined about being unable to find the libntdll.so library. A quick search provided it's location: /usr/local/lib, which was not added to /etc/ld.so.conf when doing the make install. Manual modification of the file was therefore required, followed by ldconfig. Problem solved :) Time to get back to my Panzer General 2 campaign ;) I'm still waiting on Morrowind. :( --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ 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] Stateful inspection firewall.
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 07:35, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I have a semi OT question about packet filter firewalls. Up till now, I have used linux IPCHAINS and IPTABLES firewalls were one was required, and never had a problem... I just got hold of a DLINK DSL504 and set it up with a mixture of NAT and portforwarding.. all of which went fine. Then I did the usual thing when setting up a firewall, I set the firewall to block everything, and then enabled the usual suspects, SSH, SMTP, HTTPD, HTTPS, and so on. which were all portforwarded to two linux boxes on the inside net.. Unfortunatly, when enabled, the firewall blocked all NAT traffic as well... so with the firewall on, I can't do anything at all.. but my web sites still get access, and my mail server works.. Does anyone have any experiance with router firmware firewalls and what I can do to get NAT working without opening the whole thing up?? I've got a D-Link 713P here that is working just fine... Question, is it outbound or inbound traffic that is getting blocked? If it is outbound then I've got a page that falls under the title Packet Filter. The Default here was to block all outbound except special rules from specific boxes. Then a button at the bottom to do the same for inbound. Filtering can either be done in general or by mac address. James I have linux IPTABLES filters setup on the linux machines as well, but I want external port scans to show the ports as dropping all packets to closed ports, not closed as they are now. Since that end of things is done by the router, that is where I have to tackle it. Anyone know anything that would be useful here?? (There is no MASQ setting in the routers firewall config. :-) regards Franki __ 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
[expert] mplayer wierdness
Hello Recently my mplayer installation began acting strangely. It starts in fullscreen mode no matter what settings I give it and the control interface opens only on desktop 2. The control interface only displays partially and is unusable. Mandrake 9.0 KDE 3.01 mplayer 0.90-10plf mplayer-gui-0.90.10plf mplayer-skins-1.3-3mdk mplayer-fonts-1.0-3plf Latest video drivers for geforce3 from nVidia's site It has been working fine and I have not made any changes that I can remember. All my other apps seem to be OK Any idea as to where to look for the problem? Thanks Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created
hello again :) a) its connected to a motherboard connector b) not a problem, harddisk is detected by cmos c) settings are correct (been messing with computers all my life ;) the entry in lilo.conf was like this: append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet i removed this hdc=ide-scsi. this had one effect, that during boot-up a message appears, telling me that hdc was added. so far so good. this dows not happen with lilo.conf in its original state. the diealog asks me whether i wnat to run the config tool, okay. then i have a listing of the partitions on hda, the partitions on hdb, but no trace of hdc (even though it just announced to me that it had discovered the same) unfortunately it doesn't change anything on the situation afterwards. in can see hdc in the detected hardware listing of mandrake control center (even with hdc=ide-scsi in lilo.conf), but thats about it. can't see it in diskdrake, can't open it with fdisk... /dev/hdc simply doesn't exist. thanks for your help! greetings, le stu On Wednesday 28 May 2003 01:16, bascule wrote: the fellow below being me:) hi! adding ide hard disks should be straightforward assuming that a) it's not connected to a seperate io card but to a motherboard connector b) your cmos settings are ok - note, i've known some os's detect drives that are not shown in cmos, winxp for one and i think maybe linux too, c) you have your slave/master settings correct for your new drive, for a disk plus cdrom on the same channel i suggest making the disk master and the cdrom slave (which you seem to have if the cdrom is /dev/hdd), - note, some hard disks have different settings for master-alone and master-with-slave, i'm surprised that harddrake didn't detect the new disk and offer to run the config tool, have you tried running it within mandrake? run mandrake control centre and go to hardwarehardware list, is your new disk listed there? if so run the config tool which will be diskdrake, this will write your /etc/fstab (without which the new drive won't be mounted at start up and won't show up in file managers) and, i would have thought, set lilo.conf to rights too, though i can't be sure 'bout that come back if this doesn't help bascule On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:53 am, elPunishar wrote: hi all, i wrote to this mailing list some time ago. i had this problem that i could not add a new harddisk to my system. the answer of the fellow below had me confident that my problem was solved.. temporarily i just replaced an existing harddisk with the new one. that worked okay. but now i want to replace one of my cd-roms with the new harddisk (as i tried in the beginning, when my problems started) it seems, removing hdc=ide-scsi from lilo.conf doesn't quite do the trick. (i rerun lilo and rebooted of course) is there anything else that i have to switch for a harddisk to be accepted on a former scsi emulated cd-rom slot ? (ide bus) tnx greetings, le stu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] change mouse sensitivity?
can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Stateful inspection firewall.
Mr James Sparenberg did say: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 07:35, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I have a semi OT question about packet filter firewalls. Up till now, I have used linux IPCHAINS and IPTABLES firewalls were one was required, and never had a problem... I just got hold of a DLINK DSL504 and set it up with a mixture of NAT and portforwarding.. all of which went fine. Then I did the usual thing when setting up a firewall, I set the firewall to block everything, and then enabled the usual suspects, SSH, SMTP, HTTPD, HTTPS, and so on. which were all portforwarded to two linux boxes on the inside net.. Unfortunatly, when enabled, the firewall blocked all NAT traffic as well... so with the firewall on, I can't do anything at all.. but my web sites still get access, and my mail server works.. Does anyone have any experiance with router firmware firewalls and what I can do to get NAT working without opening the whole thing up?? I've got a D-Link 713P here that is working just fine... Question, is it outbound or inbound traffic that is getting blocked? If it is outbound then I've got a page that falls under the title Packet Filter. The Default here was to block all outbound except special rules from specific boxes. Then a button at the bottom to do the same for inbound. Filtering can either be done in general or by mac address. James Jamies, I have a suspecion that you have alot more options then I do... I got around it for now by portforwarding whole ranges of ports to a non existant internal IP... So I have stealth, and NAT, but I don't like doing it this way, somehow its just not need. I have emailed the filter table to Dlink tech support, so hopefully someone there will know. regards Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] grsec
How do I manipulate grsec? I've set up Mozilla's Bonsai system which requires the cvs server to execute a perl script on every check in, but it fails because grsec says I'm not a trusted user. --chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Lockups in LM91
Peeps, There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 users that have been experiencing similar things. There have been other system lockups, but I viewed them as anomalies at the time, and did not take notice of the circumstances at those times. However the last lockup was recent enough that I still had my ears pricked up. There were several applications open at the same time, several of which usually work without incident together. Evolution, Eterms (3), mplayer (CLI mode), xclock, qmail, Enlightenment, chronyd, esd, and kdm. The other app that I do not usually run was drakconf. I was composing an email in Evo, and drakconf had been open for perhaps 30 seconds. At the end of that 30 secs the cursor disappeared from Evo's composer window, and the system went unresponsive. Although E was still showing a desktop and the cursor could move about the screen, mouse clicking did nothing, as did ctrl-alt-backspace or cntrl-alt-del. No go with cntrl-alt-f1 thru 6 either. In the end the only recourse was the reset switch. The filesystem btw is XFS, and no problem with recovery this time. However I did not experience troubles of this sort under 8.2, so let me knock the hardware suggestions in the head right off the bat. According to LM82 the HW is immaculate (and has not changed); in addition, all LM91 updates have been applied. Has anyone else experienced similar situations or is my situation unique? --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Suggestions for a log analyzer. (?)
I'm trying to find something that's more sophisticated than the log search tool in Drakconf. Does anyone have ideas about a decent and well performing log analyzer. Maybe even something that may already be in the distro or packaged on Mandrakeclub...basically something that someone has had good personal experience with and that they like alot. Any ideas. ? --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
i have no - pheripherals - mouse in control center. i only have - hardware - MouseDrake and there are absolutely no options for the mouse... the only thing i can chose is WHAT mouse. concerning the harddisk, i don't know if i tried the harddisk alone.. think i did, but i'll try that again to be sure (but anyway, this can't be true.. this is a nightmare) On Wednesday 28 May 2003 20:26, Tru64 User wrote: Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
No- he really did mean: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse That's where the settings you need are are- not in Mandrake Control Center. Robert C. On Wednesday 28 May 2003 17:16, elPunishar wrote: i have no - pheripherals - mouse in control center. i only have - hardware - MouseDrake and there are absolutely no options for the mouse... the only thing i can chose is WHAT mouse. concerning the harddisk, i don't know if i tried the harddisk alone.. think i did, but i'll try that again to be sure (but anyway, this can't be true.. this is a nightmare) On Wednesday 28 May 2003 20:26, Tru64 User wrote: Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Unable to find the Postscript driver when setting up printer in MDK9.1
Hello all, I'm trying to set up a generic postscript printer via the KDE print system and CUPS. To do this, I go into the KDE control center, select peripherals and then printers. After getting into administrator mode, I'm allowed to add a printer. Everything goes great until I get to the point where I'm asked what kind of printer I have. I want to just choose the Postscript printer option, but every time I do, I get the error message Unable to find the Postscript driver. This is totally baffling to me. I can pick the generic manufacturer and pick the generic postscript driver from there, so I know a generic postscript driver exists on my system. I also have a postscript.ppd.gz file in /usr/share/cups/model which is where I think the default postscript ppd should be. I've updated everything on my system from the mandrake update and made sure I had ghostscript foomatic and every other print support library I know of installed, but still no luck. Google hasn't been much help either. Does anyone here know what's going on? David btw: yes, I know I can set printers up via the Mandrake control center, I just think the KDE interface is much nicer... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
okay, and where do i find KDE control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 21:42, Robert Crawford wrote: No- he really did mean: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse That's where the settings you need are are- not in Mandrake Control Center. Robert C. On Wednesday 28 May 2003 17:16, elPunishar wrote: i have no - pheripherals - mouse in control center. i only have - hardware - MouseDrake and there are absolutely no options for the mouse... the only thing i can chose is WHAT mouse. concerning the harddisk, i don't know if i tried the harddisk alone.. think i did, but i'll try that again to be sure (but anyway, this can't be true.. this is a nightmare) On Wednesday 28 May 2003 20:26, Tru64 User wrote: Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:16, elPunishar wrote:
i have no
- pheripherals - mouse
in control center. i only have
- hardware - MouseDrake
Just use xset then. It has the advantage of working out of kde too.
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[expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working
Hi, I've come across something that I haven't seen before, but my RPM binary doesn't seem to work. If I try to install or upgrade any RPMs, it just sits and doesn't do anything. rpm -qa, rpm --help, and rpm --version work, but that's it. I tried rpm --list to see if the last rpm installed might have done something, but that doesn't work either. Any ideas on what might be up or how to fix this? Mandrake 8.2 Thanks, /rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 22:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Peeps, There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 users that have been experiencing similar things. There have been other system lockups, but I viewed them as anomalies at the time, and did not take notice of the circumstances at those times. However the last lockup was recent enough that I still had my ears pricked up. There were several applications open at the same time, several of which usually work without incident together. Evolution, Eterms (3), mplayer (CLI mode), xclock, qmail, Enlightenment, chronyd, esd, and kdm. The other app that I do not usually run was drakconf. I was composing an email in Evo, and drakconf had been open for perhaps 30 seconds. At the end of that 30 secs the cursor disappeared from Evo's composer window, and the system went unresponsive. Although E was still showing a desktop and the cursor could move about the screen, mouse clicking did nothing, as did ctrl-alt-backspace or cntrl-alt-del. No go with cntrl-alt-f1 thru 6 either. In the end the only recourse was the reset switch. The filesystem btw is XFS, and no problem with recovery this time. However I did not experience troubles of this sort under 8.2, so let me knock the hardware suggestions in the head right off the bat. According to LM82 the HW is immaculate (and has not changed); in addition, all LM91 updates have been applied. Has anyone else experienced similar situations or is my situation unique? --LX Not quiet the way you describe it. I was happy enough using RC2 awaiting 9.1 final. Recently (last week) I upgraded which wasn't a big deal as I kept everything updated anyway. I have had a few lock ups which I blamed on my kyrosII video card and the powerVR patches which are actually meant to be for mdk8.2, nothing like that before though! In general I've a feeling the whole install is less stable i.e. locks up for no apparent reason---it just doesn't feel right. My gui works a little more stable since I use the non-fb boot option so I'll keep a lookout for error messages as of now. So actually my gut feeling says: XFree86-4! Anyway, I'm not upgrading any of my other machines before I'm sure though. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
Kstart menuConfigurationcontrol center (NOT Mandrake Control Center). HTH, Jason elPunishar wrote: okay, and where do i find KDE control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 21:42, Robert Crawford wrote: No- he really did mean: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse That's where the settings you need are are- not in Mandrake Control Center. Robert C. On Wednesday 28 May 2003 17:16, elPunishar wrote: i have no - pheripherals - mouse in control center. i only have - hardware - MouseDrake and there are absolutely no options for the mouse... the only thing i can chose is WHAT mouse. concerning the harddisk, i don't know if i tried the harddisk alone.. think i did, but i'll try that again to be sure (but anyway, this can't be true.. this is a nightmare) On Wednesday 28 May 2003 20:26, Tru64 User wrote: Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com 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
Re: [expert] OT - sound embedded in jpg
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
Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 July 2003 04:39 pm, Rick Salsa wrote: Hi, I've come across something that I haven't seen before, but my RPM binary doesn't seem to work. If I try to install or upgrade any RPMs, it just sits and doesn't do anything. rpm -qa, rpm --help, and rpm --version work, but that's it. I tried rpm --list to see if the last rpm installed might have done something, but that doesn't work either. Any ideas on what might be up or how to fix this? Mandrake 8.2 Did you do anything with RPM before it croaked? In my experience, you can break rpm if you make a slip and do a rpm -qa and hit enter, then hit Ctrl-C to stop it (it will otherwise go through the entire list of your installed rpms). Doing the Ctrl-C often leads to what you are experiencing, and I imagine similar actions of stopping rpm from doing something it is in the middle of. Me thinks you will need to delete your current rpm database and then do an rpm --rebuilddb. praedor - -- I'm jealous of the Iraqis. I wish someone would liberate the United States of America from its unelected dictator - --Marc Perkel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1TD8aKr9sJYeTxgRAgxyAJ95dOzgCgR1OvpyNjB2oWc7zFrYjgCgsIDB tswnGiRf45bsdHaqtSh++j8= =a7SY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates Sent: May 28, 2003 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doing the Ctrl-C often leads to what you are experiencing, and I imagine similar actions of stopping rpm from doing something it is in the middle of. I think that was it! Me thinks you will need to delete your current rpm database and then do an rpm --rebuilddb. I'll try that. I've never had to delete my rpm database before. Where would I find that? /rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
horray, tnx! :) On Wednesday 28 May 2003 22:49, Jason wrote: Kstart menuConfigurationcontrol center (NOT Mandrake Control Center). HTH, Jason elPunishar wrote: okay, and where do i find KDE control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 21:42, Robert Crawford wrote: No- he really did mean: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse That's where the settings you need are are- not in Mandrake Control Center. Robert C. On Wednesday 28 May 2003 17:16, elPunishar wrote: i have no - pheripherals - mouse in control center. i only have - hardware - MouseDrake and there are absolutely no options for the mouse... the only thing i can chose is WHAT mouse. concerning the harddisk, i don't know if i tried the harddisk alone.. think i did, but i'll try that again to be sure (but anyway, this can't be true.. this is a nightmare) On Wednesday 28 May 2003 20:26, Tru64 User wrote: Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com 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
Re: [expert] Suggestions for a log analyzer. (?)
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:13, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm trying to find something that's more sophisticated than the log search tool in Drakconf. Does anyone have ideas about a decent and well performing log analyzer. Maybe even something that may already be in the distro or packaged on Mandrakeclub...basically something that someone has had good personal experience with and that they like alot. Any ideas. ? --LX depends what you want it to do... colortail is popular, so is swatch. There's a glogview or something on gpsdrive.com. But, what do you want? webalizer for syslog? A correlation engine? SQL-based logging and a query interface? Or just pretty formatting? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working
Rick Salsa wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates Sent: May 28, 2003 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doing the Ctrl-C often leads to what you are experiencing, and I imagine similar actions of stopping rpm from doing something it is in the middle of. I think that was it! Me thinks you will need to delete your current rpm database and then do an rpm --rebuilddb. I'll try that. I've never had to delete my rpm database before. Where would I find that? /rick rpm -ql rpm [..] /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 /var/lib/rpm/__db.004 These __db.00* files seem to be lock files that can get left behind when an rpm process is exited uncleanly. The popular fix to try first, when no rpm process is running, is: rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* rpm --rebuilddb Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:43 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 22:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Peeps, There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 users that have been experiencing similar things. [...] Has anyone else experienced similar situations or is my situation unique? --LX Not quiet the way you describe it. I was happy enough using RC2 awaiting 9.1 final. Recently (last week) I upgraded which wasn't a big deal as I kept everything updated anyway. I have had a few lock ups which I blamed on my kyrosII video card and the powerVR patches which are actually meant to be for mdk8.2, nothing like that before though! [...] Good luck, HarM It's the peril of being at the leading edge of software development really. Anyway, my own experience is that when trying to get a usb printer installed and operating I was getting freeze after freeze, not always in the same place. I've also had crashes when accessing the net (dial-up) and d/l'ing files while examining other files through Konqueror. Irritating. regards Daryl -- It's been a business doing pleasure with you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Installation issues, AGAIN!@*^#$^*#@$()#$*_%$^t
I am installing 9.1 on an existing system, similar issues encountered on the 8.2 installation (weren't these resolved yet?). Anyway the mdkkdm installation issue I get, and reconfigured it for kde. My problems are: 1. Installer did NOT recognize the S3 Video Controller (is this a BAD Video Card?). 2. The KDE Desktop never launched for the root user. There's nothing here but a Red Screen and glimpes of some types of windows underneath. The actual desktop Never comes up. 3. The Installer indicates that it will get the latest updates, why the heck is this not working yet? Ideas, suggestions, comments (please send Flames to /dev/null!). Any information and assistance is appreciated. -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technologies, Inc. - Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Database, Internet and Unix Systems Consultant Founding Board of Directors, Pittsburgh FBI - Infragard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installation issues, AGAIN!@*^#$^*#@$()#$*_%$^t
On September 1993 plus 3556 days Albert E. Whale wrote: I am installing 9.1 on an existing system, similar issues encountered on the 8.2 installation (weren't these resolved yet?). Anyway the mdkkdm installation issue I get, and reconfigured it for kde. My problems are: 1. Installer did NOT recognize the S3 Video Controller (is this a BAD Video Card?). S3= Sucks...only thing worse in my experience is Trident...those things suck planets through capillary straws. 3. The Installer indicates that it will get the latest updates, why the heck is this not working yet? It's a matter of mirrors, I think, not really of the installer not working. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 03:16 pm, elPunishar wrote: i have no - pheripherals - mouse in control center. i only have - hardware - MouseDrake and there are absolutely no options for the mouse... the only thing i can chose is WHAT mouse. concerning the harddisk, i don't know if i tried the harddisk alone.. think i did, but i'll try that again to be sure (but anyway, this can't be true.. this is a nightmare) On Wednesday 28 May 2003 20:26, Tru64 User wrote: Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? The easiest way is to right click the desktop - Run Command - then type kcontrol in the text box. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
For all: If you're a kde fan, the best way is to drag (as user) the kcontrol icon in /usr/bin to the panel creating an instant one click shortcut, and then you have an instant access to the entire kde control center window, where it's all available to do anything you want in kde configuration. When I stumbled on this insight, linux life in kde became much easier. Robert Crawford Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kernel: i8253 too high?
I had a tail -f going on my syslog, and I noticed an entry which said: kernel: i8253 too high! Resetting (not 100% sure of the number, but it was close to that) That was the final entry on the screen. Everything else had stopped. Even my main console wouldn't respond when I moved the mouse and I had to hit the reset button to reboot. Anyone know what this message means? And maybe what can be done to keep it from showing up again? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Win4Lin version 3 problem on Mdk 9.1
Hi, I installed my copy of win4lin 3 on mdk 9.1 and though everything works fine, I can't seem to be able to use the Windows Update through ie. Has anyone encountered this situation before? I'm hoping that I won't have to upgrade to version 5, for the little that I need Windows for, I'd rather not spend extra money. :) Thanks in advance for any advice and help Gerard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91
I have found LM91 rock solid, and I have installed it on quite a number of different types of PCs, about the only things I dislike with Mandrake 9.1 is the way it runs depmod -a on every bootup and the Zeroconf stuff, both very easy to fix.. About the Zeroconf stuff it was causing 3 second freezes now and again in Evolution and making Mandrake operate like a slug. To Fix the depmod -a stuff comment out lines 491 to 508 in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (Umm that could be a little differnet in yours) That will speed up your bootup.. Considerably -- At least if your still locking up you won't have to wait too long for the reboots ;) Now the Zeroconf stuff, and the freezes are usually caused by a program tmdns, just run the command rpm -e tmdns after you have completed this process, just check your /etc/hosts file and the /etc/resolv.conf file making sure that the continence is correct, if the continence of your /etc/hosts file is not correct that will cause lockups.. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 06:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Peeps, There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 users that have been experiencing similar things. There have been other system lockups, but I viewed them as anomalies at the time, and did not take notice of the circumstances at those times. However the last lockup was recent enough that I still had my ears pricked up. There were several applications open at the same time, several of which usually work without incident together. Evolution, Eterms (3), mplayer (CLI mode), xclock, qmail, Enlightenment, chronyd, esd, and kdm. The other app that I do not usually run was drakconf. I was composing an email in Evo, and drakconf had been open for perhaps 30 seconds. At the end of that 30 secs the cursor disappeared from Evo's composer window, and the system went unresponsive. Although E was still showing a desktop and the cursor could move about the screen, mouse clicking did nothing, as did ctrl-alt-backspace or cntrl-alt-del. No go with cntrl-alt-f1 thru 6 either. In the end the only recourse was the reset switch. The filesystem btw is XFS, and no problem with recovery this time. However I did not experience troubles of this sort under 8.2, so let me knock the hardware suggestions in the head right off the bat. According to LM82 the HW is immaculate (and has not changed); in addition, all LM91 updates have been applied. Has anyone else experienced similar situations or is my situation unique? --LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installation issues, AGAIN!@*^#$^*#@$()#$*_%$^t
Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3556 days Albert E. Whale wrote: I am installing 9.1 on an existing system, similar issues encountered on the 8.2 installation (weren't these resolved yet?). Anyway the mdkkdm installation issue I get, and reconfigured it for kde. My problems are: 1. Installer did NOT recognize the S3 Video Controller (is this a BAD Video Card?). S3= Sucks...only thing worse in my experience is Trident...those things suck planets through capillary straws. Thanks, that MAY Explain a little on my frustration. I'll get another Video card to replace it. This however does not explain the KDE Desktop Issue, any other sugestions? 3. The Installer indicates that it will get the latest updates, why the heck is this not working yet? It's a matter of mirrors, I think, not really of the installer not working. Vox -- Albert E. Whale, CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Founding Board of Directors of Pittsburgh FBI - InfraGard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working
Thanks Rolf!! That was it!! /rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installation issues, AGAIN!@*^#$^*#@$()#$*_%$^t
On September 1993 plus 3556 days Albert E. Whale wrote: Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3556 days Albert E. Whale wrote: I am installing 9.1 on an existing system, similar issues encountered on the 8.2 installation (weren't these resolved yet?). Anyway the mdkkdm installation issue I get, and reconfigured it for kde. My problems are: 1. Installer did NOT recognize the S3 Video Controller (is this a BAD Video Card?). S3= Sucks...only thing worse in my experience is Trident...those things suck planets through capillary straws. Thanks, that MAY Explain a little on my frustration. I'll get another Video card to replace it. I like NVidia cards...matrox is good...probably ATI, if their driver is good (I wouldn't bet on it, based on their history). This however does not explain the KDE Desktop Issue, any other sugestions? No clue about that at all...haven't touched KDE in many years. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Installation issues, AGAIN!@*^#$^*#@$()#$*_%$^t
3. The Installer indicates that it will get the latest updates, why the heck is this not working yet? It's a matter of mirrors, I think, not really of the installer not working. Yeah, updating during installation has not worked for me on 9.1, but it works fine thru the software update gui that you can go to directly or thru mandrake control center. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Wed, 28 May 2003 09:59 pm, elPunishar wrote, and deciphered as being: okay, and where do i find KDE control center ? The big K in the panel, then Configuration, then Control Panel. -- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
** charlie (Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2003 12:54) On Wed, 28 May 2003 09:59 pm, elPunishar wrote: okay, and where do i find KDE control center ? The big K in the panel, then Configuration, then Control Panel. In case you haven't realized yet: KDE doesn't have a Control Panel anymore. Open the menue, go to Configuration KDE Attached Devices Mouse Chose the Tab Advanced (I have German menues so I'm not sure about the correct names) At least that's how it looks in my KDE 3.1 on Mandrale 9.1 wobo -- Public GnuPG key available at http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
In case you haven't realized yet: KDE doesn't have a Control Panel anymore. It does on 9.1 kcontrol at the command line if you cant find it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:07, elPunishar wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? They hid it ... it's right above the Mandrake Control Center on the menu and just says control center... OR from a term window type kcontrol. James On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? __ 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
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 12:26, Tru64 User wrote: Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Not really it is in the kde control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com __ 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
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:30, eric huff wrote: In case you haven't realized yet: KDE doesn't have a Control Panel anymore. It does on 9.1 kcontrol at the command line if you cant find it. They hid it wobo, but I swear it is there. (in English anyway.) Just curious in the menu under configuration What is the link immediately above and below Mandrake Control Center? (In English there is nothing below... but you never now when translating.) James __ 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
RE: [expert] Stateful inspection firewall.
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 12:06, Frankie wrote: Mr James Sparenberg did say: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 07:35, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I have a semi OT question about packet filter firewalls. Up till now, I have used linux IPCHAINS and IPTABLES firewalls were one was required, and never had a problem... I just got hold of a DLINK DSL504 and set it up with a mixture of NAT and portforwarding.. all of which went fine. Then I did the usual thing when setting up a firewall, I set the firewall to block everything, and then enabled the usual suspects, SSH, SMTP, HTTPD, HTTPS, and so on. which were all portforwarded to two linux boxes on the inside net.. Unfortunatly, when enabled, the firewall blocked all NAT traffic as well... so with the firewall on, I can't do anything at all.. but my web sites still get access, and my mail server works.. Does anyone have any experiance with router firmware firewalls and what I can do to get NAT working without opening the whole thing up?? I've got a D-Link 713P here that is working just fine... Question, is it outbound or inbound traffic that is getting blocked? If it is outbound then I've got a page that falls under the title Packet Filter. The Default here was to block all outbound except special rules from specific boxes. Then a button at the bottom to do the same for inbound. Filtering can either be done in general or by mac address. James Jamies, I have a suspecion that you have alot more options then I do... I got around it for now by portforwarding whole ranges of ports to a non existant internal IP... So I have stealth, and NAT, but I don't like doing it this way, somehow its just not need. I have emailed the filter table to Dlink tech support, so hopefully someone there will know. regards Franki Sounds like it... I had to deal with a Linksys today that gave us similar fits. It couldn't port forward say port 2200 to port 22 on an internal IP number ... so I had to make the internal Linux box listen to 2200 and 22 then forward 2200 to 2200+ internal IP... that worked AAA! James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - sound embedded in jpg
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:49, Torstein Dybdahl wrote: 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: Weird thought... I wonder if you could embed a sound the same way you embed a text file in a jpeg. James 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installation issues, AGAIN!@*^#$^*#@$()#$*_%$^t
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 21:18, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3556 days Albert E. Whale wrote: Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3556 days Albert E. Whale wrote: I am installing 9.1 on an existing system, similar issues encountered on the 8.2 installation (weren't these resolved yet?). Anyway the mdkkdm installation issue I get, and reconfigured it for kde. My problems are: 1. Installer did NOT recognize the S3 Video Controller (is this a BAD Video Card?). S3= Sucks...only thing worse in my experience is Trident...those things suck planets through capillary straws. One point ... in Tridents favor.. they are the only one who does VESA compliance IN hardware not software. Made our life so much easier in my previous life doing video conferencing. Thanks, that MAY Explain a little on my frustration. I'll get another Video card to replace it. I like NVidia cards...matrox is good...probably ATI, if their driver is good (I wouldn't bet on it, based on their history). I'm trying now to write up how I got DRI working on my Radeon Mobility chipset... Note ATI has been very co-operative in giving info out. But the XFree people have been very slow in using this info. ati.2 rpm + gatos is the starting point. This however does not explain the KDE Desktop Issue, any other sugestions? No clue about that at all...haven't touched KDE in many years. KDE + SuperKaramba finally got me away from ICEwm. (say goodby to kicker.) Vox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel: i8253 too high?
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:43, David Guntner wrote: I had a tail -f going on my syslog, and I noticed an entry which said: kernel: i8253 too high! Resetting (not 100% sure of the number, but it was close to that) That was the final entry on the screen. Everything else had stopped. Even my main console wouldn't respond when I moved the mouse and I had to hit the reset button to reboot. Anyone know what this message means? And maybe what can be done to keep it from showing up again? --Dave Is this a laptop? i82365 is a pcmcia chipset is why I'm asking. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] spamassassin kmail
Could someone either help me to get spamassassin working with kmail or direct me to somewhere where I can find some direction? Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Thursday, May 29, 2003 04:15 AM Don't get even -- get odd! Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:58 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:30, eric huff wrote: In case you haven't realized yet: KDE doesn't have a Control Panel anymore. It does on 9.1 kcontrol at the command line if you cant find it. They hid it wobo, but I swear it is there. (in English anyway.) Just curious in the menu under configuration What is the link immediately above and below Mandrake Control Center? (In English there is nothing below... but you never now when translating.) K Configuration - bottom one is mcc, next up is control centre, i.e. kde control centre. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Thursday 29 May 2003 H:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:58 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:30, eric huff wrote: In case you haven't realized yet: KDE doesn't have a Control Panel anymore. It does on 9.1 kcontrol at the command line if you cant find it. They hid it wobo, but I swear it is there. (in English anyway.) Just curious in the menu under configuration What is the link immediately above and below Mandrake Control Center? (In English there is nothing below... but you never now when translating.) K Configuration - bottom one is mcc, next up is control centre, i.e. kde control centre. Anne Or the long way K what to do Administer your system Configure Kde Peripherals Mouse Advanced Tab Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can't Get 9.0 to Use 1280x1024
I have a 17 monitor that does 1280x768 just fine in windoze, but I haven't had any luck figuring out how to change XF86Config-4 to get Linux to do it using the same ET6x00 video card. Can someone please point me to how to figure this out? -- I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. President Thomas Jefferson Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.2 impressions?
On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:24, Robert Crawford wrote: I've been struggling with Texstar's 3.1.2 for a week, and have Umm.. i've been trying to get 3.1.2 for about four days now.. Is it just me/my connection/location or is ibiblio SEVERELY busy? i'm getting speeds ranging from 0.8 KB/s to an impressive and amazing 5 KB/s... :o? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.2 impressions?
29 2003 13:39 Damian Gatabria : Umm.. i've been trying to get 3.1.2 for about four days now.. Is it just me/my connection/location or is ibiblio SEVERELY busy? i'm getting speeds ranging from 0.8 KB/s to an impressive and amazing 5 KB/s... haven't you ever been on 14k4 dialup, have you? :-D -- cu, crz (happily using most current cvs snapshots of almost everything, including KDE) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91
On Wednesday May 28 2003 09:05 pm, Mark Williamson wrote: Now the Zeroconf stuff, and the freezes are usually caused by a program tmdns, just run the command rpm -e tmdns after you have completed this process, just check your /etc/hosts file and the /etc/resolv.conf file making sure that the continence is correct, if the continence of your /etc/hosts file is not correct that will cause lockups.. Cheers Mark For tmdns, I just went to MCC, System Services and stopped it from running. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel: i8253 too high?
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:43, David Guntner wrote: kernel: i8253 too high! Resetting (not 100% sure of the number, but it was close to that) That was the final entry on the screen. Everything else had stopped. Even my main console wouldn't respond when I moved the mouse and I had to hit the reset button to reboot. Anyone know what this message means? And maybe what can be done to keep it from showing up again? Is this a laptop? i82365 is a pcmcia chipset is why I'm asking. Nope. It's a Gigabyte motherboard inside a tower case. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Win4Lin version 3 problem on Mdk 9.1
If your windows is 98, forget it, I think M$ is not supporting it anymore. On 28 May 2003, Gerard Godin wrote: Hi, I installed my copy of win4lin 3 on mdk 9.1 and though everything works fine, I can't seem to be able to use the Windows Update through ie. Has anyone encountered this situation before? I'm hoping that I won't have to upgrade to version 5, for the little that I need Windows for, I'd rather not spend extra money. :) Thanks in advance for any advice and help Gerard -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Win4Lin version 3 problem on Mdk 9.1
On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:20 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: If your windows is 98, forget it, I think M$ is not supporting it anymore. I have 98SE and I thought they were supporting it through June anyway. That's okay for me. I only use it for a few apps so I don't have to reboot to my Win2k partition just to do a simple task. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
