Re: [newbie] Strange boot options
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 11:06 pm, Brian Meadows wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:58:06 +0100, Derek wrote: On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 22:37, brian wrote: snip So most of those I understand, but anyone know what the numeric entries represent? Second question - 9.1 ran just fine on this PC (600 MHz PIII, 512 MB of memory) but once I'd installed 10.0 I noticed a lot of disk thrashing going on. I ran up KDE system guard (Im using the version of KDE which came with 10.0, and that's the only desktop I've installed) to find that I'd only got a couple of megs of memory free, which explains the thrashing, Linux uses all unused memory as a disc cache. It is perfectly normal for memory usage to be 100% After all unused memory is 'wasted' memory. Hmm. And a hard disk which is being *constantly* accessed is a hard disk that is likely to have a short lifespan - assuming you're not running server-class drives, which I'm not on my Linux box. I wouldn't have noticed the memory usage had it not been for the disk thrashing. ... Thanks for the info, but I'm still not convinced. If this constant disk access really is normal for a Linux system, I'm going to buy shares in some hard drive manufacturers! You're right in that it shouldn't be constantly thrashing the disk, but Derek is correct that most of memory is always used for disk caching, so it isn't obvious. Try: $ top and give it the commands: fuOu Check the nFLT column (page fault count.) With an uptime of 1 3/4 days I have X at 19k, and several desktop (xfce) processes at 1-3k. Anything increasing constantly might be a problem. I'm using 9.2 with 320M of memory. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop choice
Thanks to all that responded. Be looking into the references. -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange boot options
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 11:06 pm, Brian Meadows wrote: ... Thanks for the info, but I'm still not convinced. If this constant disk access really is normal for a Linux system, I'm going to buy shares in some hard drive manufacturers! The Ext3 file system will cause disc activity every 5 seconds as it updates the journal. So there will always be activity, but you described 'thrashing' which is not to be expected unless you are short of memory. If this is the case using a lighter window manager than KDE could be beneficial. It is to be expected to have a lot of disc activity shortly after the system starts as it performs it daily maintenance jobs. These jobs include compressing and archiving log files, indexing manual pages, and running security checks. These jobs normally run at 4a.m. but if your computer is powered off overnight they run after power on (So long as the anacron package is installed) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Scrollwheel dead
Op Sat, 5 Jun 2004 10:28:00 +0200 schreef Paul: Excuse me Generic ps2 wheelmouse. Okay, got that solved too. I ran mousedrake outside X, selected the generic mouse with wheel and things are fine now. Paul -- Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with USB modem
On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 07:13, Sergey Boyarchik wrote: USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz, Have you tried entering the full filename into google in this format? USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz if that file is anywhere on the web, google should pick it up! JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10CE Microsoft: Which Virus Would You Like to Catch Today? Registered Linux User #340061 12:17:42 up 2:50, 0 users, load average: 0.54, 0.52, 0.52 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with USB modem
On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 07:13, Sergey Boyarchik wrote: Hi! I have same problems to instoll my Dynamode USB modem on Mandrake 9.2. I now, that need file USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz, for it, but I can't find it. Can You help me? Maybe You Try this page: http://www.startux.org/index.php?article=1571visual=2 JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10CE Microsoft: Which Virus Would You Like to Catch Today? Registered Linux User #340061 12:20:04 up 2:52, 0 users, load average: 0.65, 0.58, 0.54 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with USB modem
Op Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:18:43 +0100 schreef James Hill: On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 07:13, Sergey Boyarchik wrote: USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz, Have you tried entering the full filename into google in this format? USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz if that file is anywhere on the web, google should pick it up! I gave that a shot for him too. It shows up in 2 mailing lists and a link shows. The link is a dead end though. Even USB-APL tar.gz does not give anything more. Paul -- Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWrite
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:28:11 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 June 2004 09:08, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip When I change mine to OpenOffice.org 1.0, it stays that way for that session, but when I close oo, then open a new session, the default is again Microsoft Word. My solution is to keep the darn program on it's own desktop for my work, but I've had to work on behavior modification somewhat (no easy task for this hardhead) to either avoid opening oo with a click on a file or change the default after the new session is open. Like I said earlier, it's not a major issue. Just an annoyance, but the list was quiet and I thought maybe an answer would pop up. Thanks Robin and Kaj and others for your input. /snip Hmm not much help so far. Only thing I can think of is a permission issue : are you sure that the program can write to its configuration files ? - I remember having this problem in an earlier version of OO - or was it Star Office ?. Try checking the ownership and write-permissions in the OO directory. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * I'll go there next, but I thought I tested this by changing other defaults. First I guess I have to find the individual .config file for that parameter. Sounds like more of a pita than the problem. Lee Hi Lee Sorry to come in late on this one, I hang out on the OOo lists a bit. You could try installing version 1.1.1, or the current .rc3 of 1.1.2 which are available from the OOo site. You would have to download the tarball, but it is a very easy install. I have 1.1.1 running on a MD 10 setup with no trouble. Have you tried (I presume the option is available in the MD install) running repair from the install directory? That sometimes seems to sort out things like file associations. HTH Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: open office 626- becomes -626
Eric Huff wrote: Anybody know which autocorrect feature is causeing 626- to convert to -626 in a table in open office writer? I searched around, but no luck. Thanks, eric Hi Eric Try right-clicking on the table cell and choose number format. You will probably find something you can change to what you want there. Alternatively Tools-Options-Text Document-Table on top right there is a box labelled Number Recognition this should be unchecked. HTH Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWrite
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 21:34:46 +1000 Russell Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:28:11 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 June 2004 09:08, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip When I change mine to OpenOffice.org 1.0, it stays that way for that session, but when I close oo, then open a new session, the default is again Microsoft Word. My solution is to keep the darn program on it's own desktop for my work, but I've had to work on behavior modification somewhat (no easy task for this hardhead) to either avoid opening oo witha click on a file or change the default after the new sessionis open. Like I said earlier, it's not a major issue. Just an annoyance,but the list was quiet and I thought maybe an answer would popup. Thanks Robin and Kaj and others for your input. /snip Hmm not much help so far. Only thing I can think of is a permission issue : are you sure that the program can write to its configuration files ? - I remember having this problem in an earlier version of OO - or was it Star Office ?. Try checking the ownership and write-permissions in the OO directory. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * I'll go there next, but I thought I tested this by changing other defaults. First I guess I have to find the individual .config file for that parameter. Sounds like more of a pita than the problem. Lee Hi Lee Sorry to come in late on this one, I hang out on the OOo lists a bit. You could try installing version 1.1.1, or the current .rc3 of 1.1.2 which are available from the OOo site. You would have to download the tarball, but it is a very easy install. I have 1.1.1 running on a MD 10 setup with no trouble. Have you tried (I presume the option is available in the MD install) running repair from the install directory? That sometimes seems to sort out things like file associations. HTH Russell Sure did run repair first off. I considered the newer oo, but will wait for the rpm from mdk. Box is rpm only right now and I haven't managed to bork it since my 9.2 install (4 times total). Thanks for the input. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd/cdrw
Ok, flame if you want.I haven't rtfm'ed. I'm switching my cdrom in the laptop, Dell 1100 w/ 10.0mdk this afternoon to a dvd/cdrw. I have every confidence that config will go aces. XCDroast has worked well for me in 9.2 for burning. But here we break new ground. What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. BTW, anyone need a Dell (actual brand unknown at this point) cdrom? I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and Xine will work fine. Get the plugins from PLF though so that you can get past the CSS encryption. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 and USB pens
On Saturday 05 June 2004 03:06, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 04 June 2004 07:27 am, Richard Gelling wrote: Hi I at present am running Suse 9.1 on my desktop PC. I am having a few problems with it, which I don't seem to be able to solve. So I am hoping to install Mandrake 10 Powerpack which I have ordered form Amazon. I was wondering if anyone has had problems with USB pen drives with Mandrake using the 2.6 kernel. Under Suse it either isn't recognised or it locks the machine up completely. I have tried two makes of USB pen drive and both have the same result. I have also had the same problem with two different PCs both running Suse. This USB pen worked fine with Suse 9.0 and Slackware 9.1, so I think the drive is ok. I think it something to do with the new submount facility in the 2.6 kernel. Also even with modifying the fstab file to do away with the submount on my floppy drive I can only write to it as root, I have changed the permissions etc. and have changed the fstab to what it was under Suse 9.0. So I was wondering before I wipe my Hard drive again, could someone tell me if they have had problems with USB Pen drives under Mandrake 10 ( 2.6 kernel ) and if they have been able to use the floppy drive as a normal user? Also the only way to burn DVD's with K3b on Suse 9.1 is to umount the drive manually from the command line first before starting K3b up, and then mounting it again to use the disc. Which is a bit long winded (like this post!). I have installed Mandrake community on a laptop, but didn't get chance to try the pen drive out. But I was impressed with the difference in speed between Mandrake and Suse. So hopefully this problem doesn't occur with Mandrake. Thanks a lot Richard G. My comp will not boot if a usb ext HD or a pen drive is attached. The HP printer does not seem to be a problem. Once booted does your USB pen work? On Suse It either gives a blank screen or locks the PC up completely, and that's with two different makes of pen drive. Both worked fine under Suse 9.0, Unfortunately I have got a lot of downloads on my hard drive, so a reinstall is a bit of a bind, but if I knew the USB and floppy worked fine with Mandrake 10, I would bite the bullet and wipe my drive. Richard G. -- Registered Linux User: 256848 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Dell C400 laptop
Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :) -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dell C400 laptop
From: Mike Coppins Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :) Mdk10oe installed on my Dell C840 perfectly. It actually went smoother than my upgrade to XP (I dual boot). Good Luck...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: -What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have -paid attention. I use Mplayer and Kaffeine. -I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a -movie on a laptop. sigh - -Lee During the summer, when its slow at work, I watch DVDs... :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:06:08 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and Xine will work fine. Get the plugins from PLF though so that you can get past the CSS encryption. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I am overwhelmed. I took out the old drive, with instructions provided by the vender, plugged in the new drive, booted, ran automatic config prog (said ok), started kde, put in a dvd, and the movie came on the screen. I'm beginning to see why the newbie list is down to 100 a week instead of 100 a day. Noatun or somesuch started, so fiddling is in order, but I can't imagine that happening just a short time ago. Then I took out the dvd and put in an old 9.2 disk. The drive immediately mounted. I clicked on the new icon and konq jumped up with the directory. I closed the directory and took the disk out. Drive unmounted and icon went back to iconland. Makes me want to change something else. Right now. I do have a free CDRom drive available if anyone needs one. It's a Samsung cd-Master Model SN-124, very low mileage. If nobody wants it, I'll put in the closet with years of yesterday stuff waiting for somebody to break one before it's obsolete. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dell C400 laptop
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 14:09:07 +0100 Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :) -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ I'm ready to give rave notices to the mdk crew for 10.0 on a Dell 1100. Have no idea where yours compares, but I have all good to report on this one. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Network adaptor card
Hi I have a D-Link DGE-550T network card installed. When i boot up i get an error message that eth0 is not present delaying inialization. It uses the dl2k driver. The D-LINK drivers on the web site are for the 2.4 kernel :-( Once up i have to manually run the hardware config tool each time to get the card working. I have tried modprobe dl2k, does not help. Card works fine on knoppix and slax on bootup. Any ideas ? -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Saturday 05 June 2004 06:06 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: - -I am overwhelmed. I took out the old drive, with instructions -provided by the vender, plugged in the new drive, booted, ran -automatic config prog (said ok), started kde, put in a dvd, and the -movie came on the screen. Lee, if you don't mind me being curious (and considering I've got the 1100 too) how much did it cost you to get the DVD/CDRW combo for it? Thanks! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: open office 626- becomes -626
Anybody know which autocorrect feature is causeing 626- to convert to -626 in a table in open office writer? I went to turn off autocorrection for that column and stumbled on the answer: highlite the column, rmb, then turn off number recognition. -- 1974 Valiant 4-door, 318 1999 Dakota -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: open office 626- becomes -626
Anybody know which autocorrect feature is causeing 626- to convert to -626 in a table in open office writer? Try right-clicking on the table cell and choose number format. You will probably find something you can change to what you want there. It's listed as Number Recognition there, too. Alternatively Tools-Options-Text Document-Table on top right there is a box labelled Number Recognition this should be unchecked. Ahhh. Thanks. I haven't used oo for much more than opening doc files. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:06 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:06:08 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and Xine will work fine. Get the plugins from PLF though so that you can get past the CSS encryption. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I am overwhelmed. I took out the old drive, with instructions provided by the vender, plugged in the new drive, booted, ran automatic config prog (said ok), started kde, put in a dvd, and the movie came on the screen. I'm beginning to see why the newbie list is down to 100 a week instead of 100 a day. Noatun or somesuch started, so fiddling is in order, but I can't imagine that happening just a short time ago. Then I took out the dvd and put in an old 9.2 disk. The drive immediately mounted. I clicked on the new icon and konq jumped up with the directory. I closed the directory and took the disk out. Drive unmounted and icon went back to iconland. Makes me want to change something else. Right now. I do have a free CDRom drive available if anyone needs one. It's a Samsung cd-Master Model SN-124, very low mileage. If nobody wants it, I'll put in the closet with years of yesterday stuff waiting for somebody to break one before it's obsolete. Lee DVDroms are _very_expensive_ in my experience. My old CDrom drive expired, so I replaced it with a Teac DVDrom, $36. Then $400 of DVD's later .. ; Then I also need to replace a perfectly good 17 CRT monitor (15.8 viewable), with a $650 19.3 viewable LCD monitor ;))) Then I replaced a perfectly good VCR with a $100 DVD/Vcr player for the TV, an bought a surround sound speaker system for the TV. Similar to the one I already had for the computer. All in all I reckon that damn $36 CDrom to DVDrom replacement cost me well over $1,200. I just gave the old stuff to friends or Goodwill. Seriously tho I usealias dvdp1='mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0' I also have dvdp2,3,4,5,6... to view other tracks on the DVD. This is all with PLF-mdk versions of mplayerhttp://plf.zarb.org/ Currently mplayer-1.0-0.pre4.5plf Main reason I advocate usin mplayer on the CL is because, unlike GUI's, contrast, brightness, tint, color levels, sound volume are instantly adjustable on-the-fly right from the keyboard. Just tap 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, or 9-0. Some DVD's start, the sound is goin, but the screen is completely black. Tapping the 'f' key twice immediately restores full screen video. Plus no damn GUI window frame. Just tap the Space-bar to pause, arrow keys (- or -) will goback or advance the movie. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound
Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Jun 5 12:10:49 EDT 2004 12:10:49 up 1 day, 17:13, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. -- Tennessee Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
Dan Gordon wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Also check under services that alsa is running and under harddrake that you have choosen the right driver. -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] colors when logged in
I have a question...I am using linux on two diff servers...mandrake on one and sorcery linux on another one. I have the same .bashrc file for both and I am not sure as to why the colors will work on mandrake but not on sorcery linux...any ideas? What other info do you need from me to let me know what you think I need to do. Andrew -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sound
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
Dan Gordon wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Also check under services that alsa is running and under harddrake that you have choosen the right driver. -- Marek Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] colors when logged in
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:25:54 -0500 xsturm disseminated the following: and I am not sure as to why the colors will work on mandrake but not on sorcery linux...any ideas? Perhaps, and this is just a guess, in 'Sorcery Linux' (new one to me...), there is a global bashrc which is overriding your user's .bashrc. Look at /etc/bashrc and see if it shows entries for what you are trying to change, which is, I'm assuming, the colour of your bash prompt. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 13:35:09 up 2 days, 23:56, 5 users, load average: 2.34, 1.93, 1.47 +++ The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death. -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. They should actually both work try the alternate one. -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mozilla-Firefox does'nt work
Hello, I have: mdk10 off, P4 1.8,kernel: 2.6.3-13,kde3.2 I downloaded mozilla-firefox from contrib, and installed with urpmi but it does not start when I execute on terminal window, runing from menu is same. I would thank if sombody could help robi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop choice - REPORT
Hi, Here are some snippets from various mail lists that I asked for a laptop choice. I had good responses. Trust this may be of help to some.. ** I'm dual-booting win XP and various Linux distros using FAT32, getting online and burning CDs on a Dell Inspiron 8500 and am very happy with it. ** My DELL Latitude C840 installed Mdk10 without any problems. Runs great. ** Yes, I have a T41 that works great with 10.0. ** If I was realistic I would use a Dell Inspiron 9100.. I have always bought dell laptops and never had any problems with running *nix on them. If I was dreaming then http://www.go-l.com/laptops/hollywood_gold/features/index.htm Would win hands down ;-) ** I would also go for the Dell option. VERY linux friendly. ** I love my IBM Thinkpad X31. It does very well with SuSE 9.1 on it. ** I got my laptop from http://www.powernotebooks.com/ and have been pleased with it. I'm running SuSE 9.0 Professional. ** These websites should give you a better approach: http://www.tuxmobil.org http://www.linux-laptop.net/ ** Have a look on www.linux-on-laptops.com ** My elcheapo Dell 1100 works fine on 10.0. ** I have a Compaq Presario that works like a champ with ML10. ** As everyone knows, all decent laptops are made by Tadpole... http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/ (No alphabook anymore though :-( ) ** Here are some sites that might help: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://tuxmobil.org/ ** I love the IBM T41 to death. I'm so happy with it that I'd buy another 10 if I had the money. You can see more info at http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=2072693storeId=1catalogId=-840langId=-1 ** Of course you can avoid the whole ACPI mess if you can find a laptop with a working Linux APM implementation. The Toshiba laptops are always a good start (just make sure your laptop works with the toshiba utilities). Some of my Toshiba links: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/installinfo.htm http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/index.html http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/ http://www.linux-laptop.net/ I'd say the two most important things to watch out for on a laptop: (a) Power Management Check ACPI or APM support, Suspend to disk, support for the fans / battery monitoring. Check whether the motherboard chipset has I2C and/or SMBus support. Watch out for IBM Thinkpads and I2C problems. (b) Display Card Avoid Trident like the plague. Also avoid SiS, etc. Make sure your display card works with Linux and that it has X support with an accelerated driver. Be wary of the latest display chipsets (e.g. Intel 8xx chipsets, etc). Watch out for cards without onboard display memory, e.g. Intel's chipsets. If the cards memory is shared with the system memory, make sure that the BIOS supports a mode where you can select at least as much display memory as you require to display an entire framebuffer + maintain some page tables. 1MB is not enough! If you can choose a decent display card. That means one of two: - ATI Radeon series - NVidia (anything) With the ATI cards, check if Tungsten Graphics supports the drivers. They wrote the whole Radeon driver + support code. If they don't support it and/or the display chipset haven't been around for 12 months or so, you're in for a nasty surprise or two. ** Make sure that the one you chose has ACPI working. ACPI is a total mess - every laptop bios has a different implementation, and it's almost impossible to fix it yourself. Check here: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/index.html If your laptop has ACPI broken, you fix it by linking a custom DSDT table into your kernel. If there is a fixed one available for your model it's great, but if there isn't you're on your own. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ACPI is the interface to battery status, fan status, temperature, lid switch, power switch, etc. ** I'm ready to give rave notices to the mdk crew for 10.0 on a Dell 1100. Have no idea where yours compares, but I have all good to report on this one. ** Thanks to every one involved. Regards -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Acrobat weblinks and Linux
Erylon Hines wrote: Is there a way to configure Mozilla to open a link embedded in a *.pdf. If I click on such a link I get a pop-up box offering to configure my browser, but when I point to the mozilla executable I get another box that says unsupported browser and telling me to install a browser that is supported. It looks as though my choices are only Netscape or IE. Any thoughts? e. I am on the wrong machine to check it right now, but there is a section where you can define external programs for different mime types, and define helper applications. I would start there. I can do some checking later, if you still have problems. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop choice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Acer 1350, with 9.2, can't get the winmodem to work, because I don't have the kernel source. Depending on the winmodem, you may not need the kernel source. There are RPMs out with the modules compiled for different kernels, as well as modules that are set up to work with kernel familys, instead of different kernels. I am using a winmodem on my Thinkpad with a stock kernel, and a driver from an add-on RPM. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost partition - invaluable data - pls help!
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I've just got a bad night. I accidentally fdisked my hdd partitions containing years of data (lots of hot japanese, awesome techrepublic articles, exotic downloaded programs, saved games, etc), in all about 38GB. Is there any way I can recover the partition, or at least the data? They are on NTFS partition. Any clue is much appreciated. Thanks. Take a look on Freshmeat http://www.freshmeat.net for partition recovery tools. You should be able to find a CD or floppy distribution with the tools to do the recovery. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:02:58AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh It's for if you don't want to pay $7.95 for the lame hotel porn. Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost partition - invaluable data - pls help!
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I've just got a bad night. I accidentally fdisked my hdd partitions containing years of data (lots of hot japanese, awesome techrepublic articles, exotic downloaded programs, saved games, etc), in all about 38GB. Is there any way I can recover the partition, or at least the data? They are on NTFS partition. Any clue is much appreciated. Thanks. Some people here recommended this program to me: http://www.cgsecurity.org/?testdisk.html It did not help me since the problems I had turned out to be from another nature, but this could certainly help you. Paul -- Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sound
On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable (optical or coaxial)? HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] bugy as comunity
Same problems arising with off as with comunity, mozilla firefox does not start. Konqueror frozes on some webpages somtimes whole kde hangs. So i dont know what a hell were developers doing? I am really thinking to switch to another distro. hello robi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bugy as comunity
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 robi wrote: Same problems arising with off as with comunity, mozilla firefox does not start. Konqueror frozes on some webpages somtimes whole kde hangs. So i dont know what a hell were developers doing? I am really thinking to switch to another distro. hello robi Easy Tex. Is anyone else having the same problems? It works fine for me, and I let it run 24/7 and actively use it around 16 hours a day. - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --- Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ 17:30:00 up 12 days, 15:35, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.69, 0.83 - --- Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAwjv6Dpzwx2t8E5gRAoGfAJ9BSxFDSAZpYDzFj9i5WLTQJD1FNwCcD0oA YqaomTWSKKuz3OV/jwAwBjA= =8ZpC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of the time, it picked up audigy instead, which resulted in no sound. This means an adjusment (or several) in mcc and/or draksound to get it to use the right driver. Secondly, if you use kmix as I do, and have 10.0 Community, be aware that the volume slider isn't where you'd expect it to be. This threw me at first. You may need to bump up the 3D slider raher the master or pcm sliders. Also, I've had better luck having sound work (on boot!) with Thomas Backlund's kernels, available at http://www.iki.fi or installable via your contrib sources. Teilhard. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Keys not working
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 19:08, chris wrote: On Thursday 03 June 2004 23:30, SME Admin wrote: On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 19:34, chris wrote: I recently installed 10.0 Official, and I now find that the Delete key often doesn't work, and neither does the auto-repeat function. I cannot discern a pattern to this: sometime I boot up and they work, the next time they don't. Sometimes they will work as root, but not as myself. This affects both the console 'windows' as well as Kde functions. Chris Have you tried another keyboard in case it is a faulty keyboard? I confess I hadn't thought of that! It seems unlikely, partly as it's a quality Cherry keyboard that isn't too old, but the problem affects both the Delete and Del keys, and the auto-repeat affects all keys. But something to look in to. Chris Do not rule it out :( I have had such a thing. Turned out to not want to work every time it was cool wherever the computer was! How picky can you get! Oh, and it was running Windows as well :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ghostscript error
I just installed MDK 10.0 and have an anoying problem. Several programs can't print, aparently due to an error in ghostscript. rpm -q reports that the current version installed is ghostscript-7.07-14mdk. Here's what happens when I try to start ghostscript from the command line: $ ghostscript ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-11-19) Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Unrecoverable error: limitcheck in token Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- CHR32 --nostringval-- This is all way over my head. Although I've been using Linux for over 5 years, I have never had to troubleshood this program, and have no idea what's wrong, or what to do about it. Can anyone help? I need to print some documents right away! Help! -- Mit freundlichen Gren, Russ. Visit my nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ The Behne Family Genealogy Project: http://www.usgenealogy.net/members/rwbehne/ --=[Russell's Quotes 1]=-- Happy that Nation, --fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting. =[Russell's Quotes 2]= He that goes far to marry, will either deceive or be deceived. --- http://www.TruthAboutWar.org What is freedom, really? See this great flash presentation: http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. They should actually both work try the alternate one. -- Marek Thanks, I will. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of the time, it picked up audigy instead, which resulted in no sound. This means an adjusment (or several) in mcc and/or draksound to get it to use the right driver. Secondly, if you use kmix as I do, and have 10.0 Community, be aware that the volume slider isn't where you'd expect it to be. This threw me at first. You may need to bump up the 3D slider raher the master or pcm sliders. Also, I've had better luck having sound work (on boot!) with Thomas Backlund's kernels, available at http://www.iki.fi or installable via your contrib sources. Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will keep searching. I didn't find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre. Cordially Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable (optical or coaxial)? HTH, -Frans I do not really know, but I would say it's coaxial, otherwise I would have Cambridge (the make of the Home Theatre) boasting of optical connections in the manual, etc. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dell C400 laptop
On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 01:09, Mike Coppins wrote: Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :) Try these 2 web-sites, which have user install reports: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html Note that many of the dificulties reported on these sites are due to people using laptop-unfriendly distros like Red Hat or Slackware :-) Mandrake is far more laptop-friendly, especially 10OE with kernel 2.6 and its improved ACPI and other harware support. There's many people on the list with Dell laptop experience, so don't hesitate to ask for further help. John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Acrobat weblinks and Linux
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:28 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: | Erylon Hines wrote: | Is there a way to configure Mozilla to open a link embedded in a *.pdf. | If I click on such a link I get a pop-up box offering to configure my | browser, but when I point to the mozilla executable I get another box | that says unsupported browser and telling me to install a browser that | is supported. It looks as though my choices are only Netscape or IE. | | Any thoughts? | | e. | | I am on the wrong machine to check it right now, but there is a section | where you can define external programs for different mime types, and | define helper applications. I would start there. I can do some | checking later, if you still have problems. This is a problem with weblinks inside a pdf document, only. The error message, when I try to configure a browser within Acrobat is: Unsupported Web browser. Either choose a new connection type or obtain a supported browser in order to use Weblink Since Mozilla is of the Netscape family, I had hoped I would have a browser that I can use. The connection types are NCSA and netscape. e | | Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network adaptor card
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 00:09, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi I have a D-Link DGE-550T network card installed. When i boot up i get an error message that eth0 is not present delaying inialization. It uses the dl2k driver. The D-LINK drivers on the web site are for the 2.4 kernel :-( Once up i have to manually run the hardware config tool each time to get the card working. I have tried modprobe dl2k, does not help. Card works fine on knoppix and slax on bootup. Any ideas ? Get the source code for the driver if you ain't already got it and recompile it and see if that does the trick... stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:02 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Ok, flame if you want.I haven't rtfm'ed. I'm switching my cdrom in the laptop, Dell 1100 w/ 10.0mdk this afternoon to a dvd/cdrw. I have every confidence that config will go aces. XCDroast has worked well for me in 9.2 for burning. But here we break new ground. What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. BTW, anyone need a Dell (actual brand unknown at this point) cdrom? I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh Lee Some of us are on solar power and need to conserve power as much as possible, so running a lappy with a DVD rather than a television with a DVD player as well [ combined about 600 watts as opposed to 90 watts ] makes good electrical economic sense. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:50:31 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will keep searching. I didn't draksound is part of drakxtools-newt rpm. mcc is part of drakconf. urpmf 'program' is very nice, it will tell you what rpm has the file, and you don't necessarily even have to have the file present on the drive. find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre. You'd think it would be there, but it's configured separately through draksound. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bugy as comunity
On June 5, 2004 02:32 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: robi wrote: Same problems arising with off as with comunity, mozilla firefox does not start. Konqueror frozes on some webpages somtimes whole kde hangs. So i dont know what a hell were developers doing? I am really thinking to switch to another distro. hello robi Easy Tex. Is anyone else having the same problems? It works fine for me, and I let it run 24/7 and actively use it around 16 hours a day. Not me. It's pretty stable. That said there are web sites that are so badly written that they'll freeze up the most well behaved browsers. Equally I do get to the point where I'll chew up a lot of resources cause I've gotten too lazy to closer browser instances/tabs. Firefox runs fine, Konq is good, Mozilla is it's normal resource hog self. I wish robi would be a little clearer about what the problem is. ttfn John *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft Brazil Decries Government Use of Linux
On June 4, 2004 04:19 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 06:31, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello! I'm laughing my head off here... Here's why: Microsoft Brasil's president, Emilio Umeoka, said that ideology led Brazil's government astray when it decided to adopt Linux's free software in public sector computers. http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7332 By the way, the 5th International Free Software Forum began on Wednesday, the 2nd. And last Friday, our Minister of Culture, singer Gilberto Gil, launched the project Creative Commons in Brazil. This got a bit of play on the well known independant voice of personal computing ZDNet. It all seems like a large whinge from someone afraid of competition. :-) ttfn John *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla-Firefox does'nt work
On June 5, 2004 11:13 am, robi wrote: Hello, I have: mdk10 off, P4 1.8,kernel: 2.6.3-13,kde3.2 I downloaded mozilla-firefox from contrib, and installed with urpmi but it does not start when I execute on terminal window, runing from menu is same. I would thank if sombody could help robi Do you have any log messages or error messages you can share from when you tried to start it from a terminal? Thanks. ttfn John *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Modem detected but not supported
Gurus, I have just installed LM9.2. Everything was flawless except my modem. It was detected but not support. My modem is Conexant (HCF). Can Anyone show me where can I find the driver and how to install it. Best Regards.
