Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:54, OOzy wrote: How can I link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer so I work with same directory when I switch between the two operating systems? I really would wish you'd not post in Outlook Express format, mate...text will do...please change that in your preferences if you're going to continue to post in Outlook Express - or get a different email client like Mozilla Thunderbird...it's truly annoying... stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 16:02:48 up 3 days, 22:30, 2 users, load average: 0.53, 0.30, 0.21 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products She sighed again. She was familiar with the syndrome. They *said* they wanted a soulmate and helpmeet but sooner or later the list would include a skin like silk and a chest fit for a herd of cows. (Jingo) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where is everybody's (users) htdocs (www)
If you are referring to a users personal html directory, it is not made automatically, you have to (the user) make a directory called public_html/ in their home directory. Once this is done, you will just have to enter the following into a browser to view the users specific page, www.server.tld/~username Thats how I understand your question. -- Marc Hultquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computerkit Systems (Pty) Ltd http://www.cks.co.za (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11 312 1408 (C) +27 82 563 2861 Quote: Chances are that if you do something that required two hands, your brain should be notified in advance Confidentiality Notice: The above message and all attachments may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copy or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter delete the material from your computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the view of the entity transmitting the message. Computerkit Retail Systems (Pty) Ltd hereby distances itself from and accepts no liability in respect of the unauthorised use of its e-mail facility or the sending of e-mail communications for other than strictly business purposes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer
I have to admit, posting in the Outlook format is annoying. Maybe as was reccomended use the Mozilla mail client for windows. If you are trying to link to your linux htdocs folder when in windows ? That is going to be a problem, the only way I know would to be or to use vmware, and well I don't think its possible to get vmware for free. And well I am NOT someone to use illegal software. If I am mistaken, but I understand it that you want to link from within windows to your htdocs in linux.. ? Maybe try searching freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net ? -- Marc Hultquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computerkit Systems (Pty) Ltd http://www.cks.co.za (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11 312 1408 (C) +27 82 563 2861 Quote: Chances are that if you do something that required two hands, your brain should be notified in advance Confidentiality Notice: The above message and all attachments may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copy or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter delete the material from your computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the view of the entity transmitting the message. Computerkit Retail Systems (Pty) Ltd hereby distances itself from and accepts no liability in respect of the unauthorised use of its e-mail facility or the sending of e-mail communications for other than strictly business purposes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where is everybody's (users) htdocs (www)
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Marc Hultquist wrote: If you are referring to a users personal html directory, it is not made automatically, you have to (the user) make a directory called public_html/ in their home directory. Once this is done, you will just have to enter the following into a browser to view the users specific page, www.server.tld/~username Thats how I understand your question. and thats after you have allowed public_html access in the apache httpd.conf file. chipo --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #353653 Cell: +27 73 501 8813 Tel: +27 21 685 4050 ext 228 Fax: +27 21 650 3465 URL: http://www.unix.za.net/~chipo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, OOzy wrote: How can I link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer so I work with same directory when I switch between the two operating systems? why dont you mount your windows partition (if its FAT32) under /mnt/windows. create a directory called htdocs in there then create a link from yr htdocs on linux to the windows one. hope this works. i remember it worked for me some time ago --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #353653 Cell: +27 73 501 8813 Tel: +27 21 685 4050 ext 228 Fax: +27 21 650 3465 URL: http://www.unix.za.net/~chipo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to connect to DSL
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 04:51, Edward See wrote: Hi list, A pleasant day to you all. I'm rather new to linux. We had setup a mandrake linux as proxy server with static IP to a DSL connection. I had done the following: Network Card Configuration: ifconfig eth0 222.126.25.250 netmask 255.255.255.248 up for the static IP (as provided by ISP) eth1 is for the LAN and working okay by pinging. Configuration Files: /etc/sysconfig/network GATEWAY=222.126.25.249 GATEWATDEV=eth0 /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 203.172.11.26 nameserver 203.172.11.25as provided by ISP I can ping the GATEWAY IP, the static IP and the local LAN PCs. I cannot ping the nameservers issuing nslookup www.yahoo.com failed to return IP address. What am I missing? Thanks Edward See from the Philippines You do not need both GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV If you do not have a router, then you do not need a GATEWAY statement. 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] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the samecomputer
How about now? It is all text... BR - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the samecomputer On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:54, OOzy wrote: How can I link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer so I work with same directory when I switch between the two operating systems? I really would wish you'd not post in Outlook Express format, mate...text will do...please change that in your preferences if you're going to continue to post in Outlook Express - or get a different email client like Mozilla Thunderbird...it's truly annoying... stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 16:02:48 up 3 days, 22:30, 2 users, load average: 0.53, 0.30, 0.21 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products She sighed again. She was familiar with the syndrome. They *said* they wanted a soulmate and helpmeet but sooner or later the list would include a skin like silk and a chest fit for a herd of cows. (Jingo) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer
Yes, the directory is already mounted as /mnt/win_c/apache/htdocs. I just want to link this to my public_html. So when I open a browser in Linux (127.0.0.1) it automatically opens the my win htdocs. BR - Original Message - From: Chipo Hamayobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, OOzy wrote: How can I link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer so I work with same directory when I switch between the two operating systems? why dont you mount your windows partition (if its FAT32) under /mnt/windows. create a directory called htdocs in there then create a link from yr htdocs on linux to the windows one. hope this works. i remember it worked for me some time ago --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #353653 Cell: +27 73 501 8813 Tel: +27 21 685 4050 ext 228 Fax: +27 21 650 3465 URL: http://www.unix.za.net/~chipo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, OOzy wrote: Yes, the directory is already mounted as /mnt/win_c/apache/htdocs. I just want to link this to my public_html. So when I open a browser in Linux (127.0.0.1) it automatically opens the my win htdocs. just configure your apache httpd.conf file in windows so that the document root is c:/apache/htdocs. then link your ~/public_html directory to /mnt/win_c/apache/htdocs. this should work. chipo --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #353653 Cell: +27 73 501 8813 Tel: +27 21 685 4050 ext 228 Fax: +27 21 650 3465 URL: http://www.unix.za.net/~chipo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Another Sound Issue (with 10.0 Official)...
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 23:47, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I've been following the other sound problem threads and can't solve this little problem. Here is the situation: Hardware: Abit nv7-133r, nVidia GeForce3 ti200, 512MB RAM, nforce chipset, Athlon XP1500+ Distribution: Mandrake 10.0 Official Problem: NO SOUND (AUAUAUAGGHHH!) I get the following error when running XMMS, etc. (no matter which sound plugin I use). Couldn't open audio Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly You hae the correct output plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard I start up MCC and go to the hardware section. It lists my sound card as an nForce MCP Audio Processing Unit (Dolby Digital) (which is correct). The driver is the i810_Audio driver (which is correct). It states, Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA_ for your sound card (Nvidia Corporation|nForce Audio Code Interface). Your card currently use the OSS i810_audio driver (default driver for your card is i810_audio) Is this a problem between OSS and ALSA? If so, how do I change/fix it? Which is better? Below my sig is the output from the troubleshooting commands in MCC. Thanks a bunch! Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 When I run the following Sound Trouble Shooting commands from the MCC this is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] quickbeam]# lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO unknown : Nvidia Corporation|nForce MCP Audio Processing Unit (Dolby Digital) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:10de device:01b0 subv:10de subd:0c11) i810_audio : Nvidia Corporation|nForce Audio Codec Interface [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:10de device:01b1 subv:147b subd:) [EMAIL PROTECTED] quickbeam]# grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio [EMAIL PROTECTED] quickbeam]# /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by ipaq 11092 0 usbserial 29232 1 ipaq nls_cp437 5568 6 smbfs 62872 7 agpgart31016 0 nvidia 2068232 12 isofs 33912 0 zlib_inflate 22656 1 isofs sg 38044 0 st 38616 0 sr_mod 17028 0 sd_mod 16832 0 scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod md5 3872 1 ipv6 232352 8 i810_audio 31860 1 ac97_codec 17804 1 i810_audio soundcore 9248 2 i810_audio af_packet 20520 0 raw 7616 1 ide-floppy 18752 0 ide-tape 34864 0 ide-cd 40548 0 cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd floppy 59444 0 8139too23712 0 mii 4992 1 8139too forcedeth 14304 0 nls_iso8859-1 3904 9 nls_cp850 4736 3 vfat 13760 3 fat45120 1 vfat supermount 37876 1 ehci-hcd 24196 0 joydev 10240 0 tsdev 7168 0 evdev 9504 0 usbmouse5216 0 hid53312 0 uhci-hcd 29104 0 ohci-hcd 18692 0 usbcore99132 9 ipaq,usbserial,ehci-hcd,usbmouse,hid,uhci-hcd,ohci-hcd rtc11576 0 ext3 110408 2 jbd54328 1 ext3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] quickbeam]# /sbin/chkconfig --list sound sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off [EMAIL PROTECTED] quickbeam]# /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa alsa0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off [EMAIL PROTECTED] quickbeam]# aumix -q vol 90, 90 pcm 67, 67 speaker 67, 67 line 67, 67, P mic 0, 0, P cd 67, 67, R igain 67, 67, P line1 67, 67, P phin 67, 67, P phout 67, 67 video 67, 67, P [EMAIL PROTECTED] quickbeam]# /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/dsp quickbeam 26933 f artsd I would first check if artsd is working correctly. You can configure/test it under System - configuration - KDE - Sound - soundsystem. If that's OK make sure xmms uses the arts output plugin. It's in the xmms-arts rpm package. 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] Electronic libraries
Anyone know whether Linux has the equivelant of elibrary or EText Reader ? Is there a Linux app(s) to work with the elibrary/EText Reader setup like there are in windblows ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Unable to connect to DSL
thanks derek for that fast response. I did as you're told but still nslookup www.yahoo.com cant respond. It said : can't find server name for address 203.172.11.26: No response from server truly ED -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to connect to DSL On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 04:51, Edward See wrote: Hi list, A pleasant day to you all. I'm rather new to linux. We had setup a mandrake linux as proxy server with static IP to a DSL connection. I had done the following: Network Card Configuration: ifconfig eth0 222.126.25.250 netmask 255.255.255.248 up for the static IP (as provided by ISP) eth1 is for the LAN and working okay by pinging. Configuration Files: /etc/sysconfig/network GATEWAY=222.126.25.249 GATEWATDEV=eth0 /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 203.172.11.26 nameserver 203.172.11.25as provided by ISP I can ping the GATEWAY IP, the static IP and the local LAN PCs. I cannot ping the nameservers issuing nslookup www.yahoo.com failed to return IP address. What am I missing? Thanks Edward See from the Philippines You do not need both GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV If you do not have a router, then you do not need a GATEWAY statement. 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
[newbie] Capture Screen
Hi all, How to capture screen from Mandrake10 Installation and from command line. Thx, before. Makacih, Budhi mbUdh Astiyadi Ulujami - Indonesia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Capture Screen
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 05:28 am, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: Hi all, How to capture screen from Mandrake10 Installation and from command line. Thx, before. Makacih, Budhi mbUdh Astiyadi Ulujami - Indonesia ksnapshot -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Capture Screen
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 05:28, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: Hi all, How to capture screen from Mandrake10 Installation and from command line. Thx, before. Makacih, From command line: import your_image.png Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MAC
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:00:38 -0700 Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:42 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Can someone tell me where/how to get my 10/100 card's MAC address? I can see all of them on the router status screen, but I have the hostnames so screwed up I'm not sure which machine is which ip. I'm medium dumb now but some of this dates from when I was just clueless. Lee /sbin/ifconfig | grep HWaddr -- Alan Thanks Alan and Brant. Now I change my hostnames one by one and organization begins. 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] Jerry-riging unsupported motherboard
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 22:39, Eric Scott wrote:
Yo,
I have a box with an ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard that I assembled
myself. {The computer, not the motherboard ;-)} I'm almost positive
that ASUS doesn't have linux drivers for this product, and I don't
really need them terribly, as everything I really use that box for is
local. Right now I don't even have linux installed on it, but I'm about
to put it back on; I know a while back I mentioned something about my MB
and somebody wrote back with a procedure to get the on-board ports
running, I.E. the ethernet port... and my USB gives me troubles too. At
the time I was brand-new to Linux, and I'm still quite novice, but I'd
like to take a shot. If anybody knows what I can do to get this specific
hardware running, I'd be very grateful.
I need really basic stuff, like type this command then type this,
not extract that or set this.
Thanx,
ES
PS: The last two or three messages I posted I got a message returned
error... but they still got through. Anybody know why it seems to think
I'm not getting through when I am?
Thanx
You are very unlikely to need special drivers for your mobo. This aint
like
Windows. Just install linux and it will sort itself out
There are some mobos, where all you devices may not be correctly
recognised.
If that happens to you come back and many willing people will work you
through
it.
Whatever your previous experence was Linux changes so fast it is likely to
be
completely different now. Give it a go. You have nothing to lose but your
chains.
derek
--
www.jennings.homelinux.net
http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
Linux runs almost flawlessly on this Mobo... save when I kill it trying
to get it to run happily alongside Windows... I'm reinstalling Linux on
this comp alongside Windows XP. What doesn't work under linux is the
integrated Ethernet port on my mobo, which I really need now. I forgot
that with 9.1 everybody is alot happier when u install Linux, THEN
Windows. Whelp, I just deleted the ol' Windows 2000 Server that I
almost never use, and replaced it with Linux. Of course the remaining
Windows XP decided (as usual) that it didn't like things that way. So I
backed up my important files to Linux... and after nearly killing the
Linux bootloader (which had the newly deleted Windows XP on it), I have
a semi-working Linux installation alongside an emtpy partition that the
stupid windows installer seems to think isn't compatable with windows,
before it even tries to Format.
Clear as mud? good. What I hope to do is get the Ethernet up under
Linux, which refuses to open mandrake control center and most other
programs (I'm lucky it runs at all. I reinstalled without reformatting
the linux partition to revive the hda6 (X-windows) partition so
bootloader wouldn't commoit suicide when trying to load hda6 as an
option, if u follow). With Ethernet up I can backup to my ol' Pentium
Box which has, happily, Windows 2000 and MK LInux 9.1, and start from
scratch on the box in question.
If you managed to follow all that, the point is I need ethernet to
backup about 250MB worth of data to another computer on said mobo. I
could put in my old CD burner on this box, but being a novice to Linux
and with mandrake control center offline (I'm not exactly sure why),
I'm not sure I could get the buring software to work.
Thanx,
ES
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Re: [newbie] Title of 8.2 disks?
On Monday 07 Jun 2004 21:20, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I'm a fairly novice Linux user, though I've used Mandrake, RedHat, and YellowDog limitedly over the last couple years. I have Mandrake 9.1 installed on this particular box, but I have a program or two that I want to install from my ol' Mandrake 8.2 CD's. I prefer to use Mandrake's software installations utility, as I don't know the name of the RPM that I'm trying to install and it would take a lifetime to find it by browsing/searching the disks. :-P Being new to Linux, I don't know how to find the title of a given CD. Mandrake's control center wants me to enter the disk name into the library thingy for me to be able to install from the 8.2 disks. Anywho, the point is, I want to install to 9.1 from 8.2 disks with the control center installation utility. Got any help? Thanx, Eric Scott Sets of Mandrake 10 Official (four disks) are available from Linux Emporium for £10 including postage - next day delivery is what I got myself. http://www.chygwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/lbc-announce Not worth considering older versions at those prices. Best of luck -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB Flashdrive
Hi all, I have a ScanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB USB flash drive. How can I install/mount it. Thx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:54:48 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a ScanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB USB flash drive. How can I install/mount it. On 10.0, when I put a memory card in a card reader, Mandrake automatically mounts if for me - I don't have to do anything. Check /mnt/removable - that seems to be the default location. Thx -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive
I have LM9.2. On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:19, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:54:48 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a ScanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB USB flash drive. How can I install/mount it. On 10.0, when I put a memory card in a card reader, Mandrake automatically mounts if for me - I don't have to do anything. Check /mnt/removable - that seems to be the default location. Thx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Good Rich Office
What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR 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 Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 1:45 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 07:27 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: snip www.sysinternals.com give away a screensaver that gives authentic blue screens (with the right modules and other data listed) and then shows the reboot followed by a checkdisk with massive hard disk errors and another blue screen and so on. Great fun. Unfortunately it only runs on Windows. Let's see if I have this straight. A guy writes a program that actually runs on Windows, but all it does is simulate a Windows crash. My mind is boggled. I have to lay down in a dark room for a while. As a final joke, moving the mouse doesn't exit the screensaver, you have to hit a key. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:51, OOzy wrote: What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR Open Office. Or it's 'richer' relative Sun Office at USD 80 -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 02:01 pm, PM wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:51, OOzy wrote: What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR Open Office. Or it's 'richer' relative Sun Office at USD 80 either is better at reading MS word formats than MS word is. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problems installing libstdc++ library?
Hello Folks, First off, I'm running the latest and greatest Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official. I seem to be experiencing difficulty getting a library installed in /usr/lib. I downloaded AIM 1.5 for Linux and I cannot install it because I have an older libstdc++ libary in /usr/lib. When I try to install the AIM RPM package, I get a message saying this: aim-1.5.286-1.i386 cannot be installed due to unsatisfied libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2). Apparently I have an older version of this library. I tried downloading this version of the library and the system refuses to let me download directly to /usr/lib saying access is denied. What can I do about this and how do I get the new library installed? Please help. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 installing libstdc++ library?
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:28 -0400, Jason Wilson wrote: Hello Folks, First off, I'm running the latest and greatest Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official. I seem to be experiencing difficulty getting a library installed in /usr/lib. I downloaded AIM 1.5 for Linux and I cannot install it because I have an older libstdc++ libary in /usr/lib. When I try to install the AIM RPM package, I get a message saying this: aim-1.5.286-1.i386 cannot be installed due to unsatisfied libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2). Apparently I have an older version of this library. I tried downloading this version of the library and the system refuses to let me download directly to /usr/lib saying access is denied. What can I do about this and how do I get the new library installed? Please help. Any help is greatly appreciated. Why are you installing AIM? That version came out like 5 years ago and hasn't been update since. Install Gaim which is still being actively developed on and also looks nicer than AIM's client. 'urpmi gaim' will install it for you John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 9 16:51:09 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Sic transit gloria Monday! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office
Definately Open Office. KOffice is good to, but it can only import from MS, not export (At least the versions I've used) Cheers, ES - Original Message - From: PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:51, OOzy wrote: What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR Open Office. Or it's 'richer' relative Sun Office at USD 80 -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?
Yo, I recently backed up some stuff from on Lintel/Wintel hybrid box to another by putting the hard disk from the first computer into the second, copying about 250MB of data to the second HD, and then removing it. As I semi expected, my Mandrake Linux 9.1 OS went haywire when it realized that it's new secondary HD had dissapeared again. I've since reformatted the HD from the first computer, so I can't just plug it back in and get Linux to boot on the second computer. What can I do? I have files backed up on the second computer's Linux system, so I can't just reinstall. If I upgrade overtop of the current linux, as the installer lets u do, will it solve the issue? I get an error during boot about hdd, basically telling me that it just might not exist. (Duh, I took it out.) But it won't boot past that. Any help? I'm novice to Linux, so please be basic. Thanx, ES PS: Anybody who's been following my previous posts, I FINALLY got the first comp's drive reinstalled with Windows XP and Linux happilly side by side... but I still need these backup files from the second comp, which has Windows 2000 and Linux side by side. ES PSS: I know everything points to it, but I don't live in the UK!! I live in the US, I just have a British email address and surname. :-P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 21:51, OOzy wrote: What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR Open Office is very similar to MS Office. It has 90% of the same functinality, it can read and write MS Office format files, and can write to pdf files too. Unless you are a power MS Word user, you will find Open Office is a complete replacement for MSWord. Abiword is much faster and lighter than Open Office. It can read most MS Word documents, but cannot write them. Kword is similar to Abiword. It is a little slower, but is integrated into the KDE environment. Like Abiword it can read MS format, but cannot write it 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] Problems installing libstdc++ library?
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 22:28, Jason Wilson wrote: Hello Folks, First off, I'm running the latest and greatest Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official. I seem to be experiencing difficulty getting a library installed in /usr/lib. I downloaded AIM 1.5 for Linux and I cannot install it because I have an older libstdc++ libary in /usr/lib. When I try to install the AIM RPM package, I get a message saying this: aim-1.5.286-1.i386 cannot be installed due to unsatisfied libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2). Apparently I have an older version of this library. I tried downloading this version of the library and the system refuses to let me download directly to /usr/lib saying access is denied. What can I do about this and how do I get the new library installed? Please help. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] First thing for newbies to learn is . Use URPMI to install software If you try to install RPM packages built for other distros you will *very Quickly* fall into dependency hell. Virtually any package you might be interested in is available as a Mandrake Linux RPM package installable using urpmi. Urpmi sorts out all these dependency issues for you. To learn about urpmi read the section on the Twiki in my signature. urpmi uses software repositories where you can download literally thousands of packages. As it happens AIM is not one of them. One reason AIM is not available as a Mandrake package is because compared to other alternatives it is shite. If you want AOL instant messenger compatibility install gaim or kopete using your Software install GUI. They are miles better than AIM. If you try to get around the dependency issue by trying to upgrade libstdc you will almost certainly break your system. (I have been there. I have the T-shirt) 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] Good Rich Office
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 06:51, OOzy wrote: What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR OpenOffice, AbiWord, KWord, Kwrite. If you've installed MDK, you've got everything except for AbiWord and that's easily installed. stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 10:58:57 up 4 days, 17:26, 2 users, load average: 0.77, 0.75, 0.47 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products I'm hungry, time to eat lunch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 04:32 pm, OOzy wrote: I have LM9.2. On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:19, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:54:48 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a ScanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB USB flash drive. How can I install/mount it. On 10.0, when I put a memory card in a card reader, Mandrake automatically mounts if for me - I don't have to do anything. Check /mnt/removable - that seems to be the default location. Thx In console: $su $password $modprobe usb-storage $mount -t vfat /dev/sg1 /some_directory -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?
Eric Scott wrote: Yo, I recently backed up some stuff from on Lintel/Wintel hybrid box to another by putting the hard disk from the first computer into the second, copying about 250MB of data to the second HD, and then removing it. As I semi expected, my Mandrake Linux 9.1 OS went haywire when it realized that it's new secondary HD had dissapeared again. I've since reformatted the HD from the first computer, so I can't just plug it back in and get Linux to boot on the second computer. What can I do? I have files backed up on the second computer's Linux system, so I can't just reinstall. If I upgrade overtop of the current linux, as the installer lets u do, will it solve the issue? I get an error during boot about hdd, basically telling me that it just might not exist. (Duh, I took it out.) But it won't boot past that. Any help? I'm novice to Linux, so please be basic. Thanx, ES I would try booting with the failsafe boot option. Then edit /etc/fstab and remove any references to the second hard drive. Then reboot as normal. If failsafe doesn't boot, try booting off the install CD in the rescue mode. Or do like I do - have a bookable Linux CD that gives you a stand-alone Linux system that runs off the CD. 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] USB Flashdrive
OOzy wrote: Hi all, I have a ScanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB USB flash drive. How can I install/mount it. Thx It should show up as /mnt/removable - at least the 3 different brands I have all do. Or show up as /mnt/removable1, /mnt/removable2, etc if I use more then one during a secession. This is on 9.2 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
[newbie] KPPP
Hi all, I'm using Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1 When using KPPP, after about 10 days, it has taken up over 60% of memory. I have to use KDE system guard to kill the process because it slows the computer down so much. Then restart KPPP for the next 10 day cycle. How do I stop this??? TIA Shaz 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 installing libstdc++ library?
Derek, Your explanation is MUCH appreciated. I thank you. This AIM package that I downloaded was for Mandrake 7.2 but then again, that was a long time ago. I didn't realize that there were other instant messaging programs that were far better. I am now using Gaim and am very happy with it. And how would I use urpmi? Again, thanks for pointing a few things out. Another stupid question out of the way. :-) Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 09 June 2004 06:44 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 22:28, Jason Wilson wrote: Hello Folks, First off, I'm running the latest and greatest Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official. I seem to be experiencing difficulty getting a library installed in /usr/lib. I downloaded AIM 1.5 for Linux and I cannot install it because I have an older libstdc++ libary in /usr/lib. When I try to install the AIM RPM package, I get a message saying this: aim-1.5.286-1.i386 cannot be installed due to unsatisfied libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2). Apparently I have an older version of this library. I tried downloading this version of the library and the system refuses to let me download directly to /usr/lib saying access is denied. What can I do about this and how do I get the new library installed? Please help. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] First thing for newbies to learn is . Use URPMI to install software If you try to install RPM packages built for other distros you will *very Quickly* fall into dependency hell. Virtually any package you might be interested in is available as a Mandrake Linux RPM package installable using urpmi. Urpmi sorts out all these dependency issues for you. To learn about urpmi read the section on the Twiki in my signature. urpmi uses software repositories where you can download literally thousands of packages. As it happens AIM is not one of them. One reason AIM is not available as a Mandrake package is because compared to other alternatives it is shite. If you want AOL instant messenger compatibility install gaim or kopete using your Software install GUI. They are miles better than AIM. If you try to get around the dependency issue by trying to upgrade libstdc you will almost certainly break your system. (I have been there. I have the T-shirt) derek 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 installing libstdc++ library?
Another interesting thing is this: executing grep urpmi gives me nothing. I don't think it's actually installed on my system. What then? Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 09 June 2004 06:44 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 22:28, Jason Wilson wrote: Hello Folks, First off, I'm running the latest and greatest Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official. I seem to be experiencing difficulty getting a library installed in /usr/lib. I downloaded AIM 1.5 for Linux and I cannot install it because I have an older libstdc++ libary in /usr/lib. When I try to install the AIM RPM package, I get a message saying this: aim-1.5.286-1.i386 cannot be installed due to unsatisfied libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2). Apparently I have an older version of this library. I tried downloading this version of the library and the system refuses to let me download directly to /usr/lib saying access is denied. What can I do about this and how do I get the new library installed? Please help. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] First thing for newbies to learn is . Use URPMI to install software If you try to install RPM packages built for other distros you will *very Quickly* fall into dependency hell. Virtually any package you might be interested in is available as a Mandrake Linux RPM package installable using urpmi. Urpmi sorts out all these dependency issues for you. To learn about urpmi read the section on the Twiki in my signature. urpmi uses software repositories where you can download literally thousands of packages. As it happens AIM is not one of them. One reason AIM is not available as a Mandrake package is because compared to other alternatives it is shite. If you want AOL instant messenger compatibility install gaim or kopete using your Software install GUI. They are miles better than AIM. If you try to get around the dependency issue by trying to upgrade libstdc you will almost certainly break your system. (I have been there. I have the T-shirt) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] *.iso.bin??
When starting 10.0 up, I got the no init found - try passing init= option to kernel Last time I booted everything was fine and there were no problems during shutdown. After searching and finding several solutions with no follow up by the original poster, I decided to try what sounded like the best advice... download RIP-7.9, burn to disc and use gpart which the poster said solved his identical problem. So now I have the file but I have three questions: 1. If I am on the right track, how do I burn this .iso to a CD - the properties say it's a .iso.bin file. Easy CD Creator doesn't see it as an .iso and I'm not finding any info on *.iso.bin files with google. 2. Does anyone think I might be on the wrong track? 3. If so, what do I do to determine what's gone wrong? Any pointers?? 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 installing libstdc++ library?
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:08 -0400, Jason Wilson wrote: Derek, Your explanation is MUCH appreciated. I thank you. This AIM package that I downloaded was for Mandrake 7.2 but then again, that was a long time ago. I didn't realize that there were other instant messaging programs that were far better. I am now using Gaim and am very happy with it. And how would I use urpmi? urpmi is a command line tool that you would use in a terminal. The terminal is in K Menu - System - Terminals - Konsole. Once you have loaded this, then you can type the command 'su'. This will ask you for a password. Type in you root password that you made when you installed Mandrake. Then, you can type 'urpmi program name' which will install the program, if it is in the urpmi database. Or, if you've downloaded an RPM from the internet, then you can type 'urpmi /path/to/downloadedRPM' which will install it. HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 9 21:48:05 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. -- Evan Davis 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 installing libstdc++ library?
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:15 -0400, Jason Wilson wrote: Another interesting thing is this: executing grep urpmi gives me nothing. I don't think it's actually installed on my system. What then? If you want to check to see if something is installed on your system, you can open a terminal, and type 'rpm -qa | grep package name', or in this case: 'rpm -qa | grep urpmi'. HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 9 21:52:37 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KPPP
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 12:08, shaz wrote: Hi all, I'm using Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1 When using KPPP, after about 10 days, it has taken up over 60% of memory. I have to use KDE system guard to kill the process because it slows the computer down so much. Then restart KPPP for the next 10 day cycle. How do I stop this??? TIA Shaz Use wvdial instead. stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 13:02:52 up 4 days, 19:30, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.60, 0.55 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] XMMS - Couldn't open audio
quick one for you (I think) I like to listen to my .ogg files with XMMS while at work. Trouble is about 10 times a day I get the following error message: Couldn't open audio Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly You have the correct output plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard I assume that since it all worked fine 5 seconds before the error message, and then agin once I dismiss it, the first two are OK, which leaves No other program is blocking the soundcard Is it possible to raise the priority of XMMS so that it blocks other programs from using the sound card and not vica-versa. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Unable to connect to DSL
ifconfig eth0 222.126.25.250 netmask 255.255.255.248 up for the static IP (as provided by ISP) eth1 is for the LAN and working okay by pinging. Configuration Files: /etc/sysconfig/network GATEWAY=222.126.25.249 GATEWATDEV=eth0 /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 203.172.11.26 nameserver 203.172.11.25as provided by ISP I can ping the GATEWAY IP, the static IP and the local LAN PCs. I cannot ping the nameservers issuing nslookup www.yahoo.com failed to return IP address. What am I missing? Thanks Edward See from the Philippines You do not need both GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV If you do not have a router, then you do not need a GATEWAY statement. derek Can you show us the output of the route -n and ifconfig commands? The error message you are getting is saying that a reverse lookup of your nameserver address is failing. I suspect that your default route may be wrong, but it could be other problems... Mikkel Hi Mikkel, in /etc/sysconfig/network GATEWAY=222.126.25.249 but route -n showed 222.126.25.248 thanks EdSee route -n Destination Gateway Genmask FlagMetric Ref Use Iface 222.126.25.248 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 u 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.20.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 u 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0 lo ifconfig eth0 Link encap: EthernetHWAddr 00:04:75:E7:14:72 inet addr : 222.126.25.250 Bcast: 222.126.25.255 Mask: 255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1 Rx packets:12 errors:0dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Tx packets:4errors:0dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 collisions:0txqueuelen: 100 Rx bytes: 998 Tx bytes: 240 Interrupt:5 Base address: 0xe800 eth1 Link encap: EthernetHWAddr 00:04:75:E7:14:72 inet addr : 192.168.20.1Bcast: 192.168.20.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1 Rx packets:16205errors:0dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0 Tx packets:10599errors:0dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 collisions:0txqueuelen: 100 Rx bytes: 1810729 Tx bytes: 1154602 Interrupt:10Base address: 0xec00 lo Link encap: Local loopback inet addr: 127.0.0.1Mask: 255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 16436 Metric: 1 Rx packets:2errors:0dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Tx packets:2errors:0dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 collisions:0txqueuelen: 0 Rx bytes: 196 Tx bytes: 196 Interrupt:10Base address: 0xec00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS - Couldn't open audio
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 11:02 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: quick one for you (I think) I like to listen to my .ogg files with XMMS while at work. Trouble is about 10 times a day I get the following error message: Couldn't open audio Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly You have the correct output plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard I assume that since it all worked fine 5 seconds before the error message, and then agin once I dismiss it, the first two are OK, which leaves No other program is blocking the soundcard Is it possible to raise the priority of XMMS so that it blocks other programs from using the sound card and not vica-versa. -Aidan Assuming you are in KDE, arts probably has taken control of the soundcard to play a system sound and it has not timed out yet, and xmms is set to use the alsa output plugin. There are two ways to deal with this 1) set xmms to use the arts output plugin in the preferences or 2) lower the timeout on arts from the default of 50 seconds to something more sane, like 1 second. The biggest problem with setting xmms to use the arts output plugin is that all system sounds will be mixed with the music, which is annoying to me because I listen through headphones. Although if you choose 2 and reduce the timeout for arts, all the system sounds that tried to play during the time xmms was controlloing the soundcard will play immediately when you quit xmms. Alao, please unset your reply-to when posting to the list because it screws up list addressing. Replies get sent to you instead of the list. Since your from and reply-to are the same, the reply-to entry is redundant and unecessary anyway. it should relaly only be used when you want replies to go somewhere other than the address the message was sent from. For instance, when I send aout a policy memo at work that I know is going to be unpopular, I set the reply to on the message to my secretary, so she gets to deal with all the unhappy grumbling I caused and I can go on reading my WSJ in bliss. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS - Couldn't open audio
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 11:02 +0800, Aidan Holmes wrote: quick one for you (I think) I like to listen to my .ogg files with XMMS while at work. Trouble is about 10 times a day I get the following error message: Couldn't open audio Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly You have the correct output plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard I assume that since it all worked fine 5 seconds before the error message, and then agin once I dismiss it, the first two are OK, which leaves No other program is blocking the soundcard Is it possible to raise the priority of XMMS so that it blocks other programs from using the sound card and not vica-versa. -Aidan Do you have any other programs that may be sending sounds to the soundcard, such as Gaim login/logout sounds? I had that problem once. I'm not sure if setting a higher priority on XMMS would erase the message, but see 'man nice'. There is an option in the XMMS configuration to set XMMS to have realtime priority. If none of the above work, try using a soundserver such as ESD (Gnome) or artsd (KDE), and then setting XMMS's output plugin to whatever you started. HTH, John Drouhard P.S. Please remove your reply-to setting. It's not normally necessary and messes people up when using mailing lists. Thanks! Wed Jun 9 22:20:10 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] *.iso.bin??
Curt, try renaming it to .iso (take the .bin off) and you should be able to burn it with anything Curt wrote: When starting 10.0 up, I got the "no init found - try passing init= option to kernel" Last time I booted everything was fine and there were no problems during shutdown. After searching and finding several "solutions" with no follow up by the original poster, I decided to try what sounded like the best advice... download RIP-7.9, burn to disc and use gpart which the poster said solved his identical problem. So now I have the file but I have three questions: 1. If I am on the right track, how do I burn this .iso to a CD - the properties say it's a .iso.bin file. Easy CD Creator doesn't see it as an .iso and I'm not finding any info on *.iso.bin files with google. 2. Does anyone think I might be on the wrong track? 3. If so, what do I do to determine what's gone wrong? Any pointers?? 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 Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:26:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is: where are the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of Well, in this case, it should have deposited 'draksound' and some other files on your system. su to root, type 'draksound ' in a console, and you should then be able to set your card up. 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] *.iso.bin??
How did you do the initial installation? If you used discs then simply insert the first one again and select 'Repair' or 'Rescue' and follow the prompts. Don't forget to make a emergency startup disc this time, happen you have a floppy drive. Frank Paul Harradine wrote: Curt, try renaming it to .iso (take the .bin off) and you should be able to burn it with anything Curt wrote: When starting 10.0 up, I got the no init found - try passing init= option to kernel Last time I booted everything was fine and there were no problems during shutdown. After searching and finding several solutions with no follow up by the original poster, I decided to try what sounded like the best advice... download RIP-7.9, burn to disc and use gpart which the poster said solved his identical problem. So now I have the file but I have three questions: 1. If I am on the right track, how do I burn this .iso to a CD - the properties say it's a .iso.bin file. Easy CD Creator doesn't see it as an .iso and I'm not finding any info on *.iso.bin files with google. 2. Does anyone think I might be on the wrong track? 3. If so, what do I do to determine what's gone wrong? Any pointers?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Palm sync software
Can anyone recommend a good palm sync program that will work with my Palm m130? Preferably something I can snag through urpmi, because I seem to run into problems every time I try to install something downloaded from somewhere else, and I hate having to bug my friend to walk me through the process of fixing whatever I screwed up. Also, keep in mind, I recently switched from Windows (about a month or so ago), so I'm still very much learning what the heck I'm doing here. Luckily my friend (aka. tech support, poor guy but he volunteered) has been very patient with me, and I seem to be getting my feet here. So, the simpler to set up and use, the better. If it makes any difference, I do need to make sure I can do the following with my sync software: I need to be able to install programs to my palm (I need to update my BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, for those not familiar with the SF bay area) planner due to schedule and rate changes), otherwise about the only thing I need to be able to do is backup the information stored in my palm. Thanks in advance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Palm sync software
Depends on what desktop you use. KDE has KPilot (rpm is kdepim-kpilot) which works either stand-alone or allows you to integrate into KDE PIM applications. Gnome has GPilot (rpm gnome-pilot) and Evolution integration (rpm evolution-pilot). For other desktops, there's JPilot which is purely stand-alone. John. On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:42, Amy wrote: Can anyone recommend a good palm sync program that will work with my Palm m130? Preferably something I can snag through urpmi, because I seem to run into problems every time I try to install something downloaded from somewhere else, and I hate having to bug my friend to walk me through the process of fixing whatever I screwed up. Also, keep in mind, I recently switched from Windows (about a month or so ago), so I'm still very much learning what the heck I'm doing here. Luckily my friend (aka. tech support, poor guy but he volunteered) has been very patient with me, and I seem to be getting my feet here. So, the simpler to set up and use, the better. If it makes any difference, I do need to make sure I can do the following with my sync software: I need to be able to install programs to my palm (I need to update my BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, for those not familiar with the SF bay area) planner due to schedule and rate changes), otherwise about the only thing I need to be able to do is backup the information stored in my palm. Thanks in advance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office
Le June 9, 2004 05:01 pm, PM a écrit : On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:51, OOzy wrote: What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR Open Office. Or it's 'richer' relative Sun Office at USD 80 Free if you are a student or a teacher .. see the license. (look for staroffice 7 education) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS - Couldn't open audio
Greg and John, Alao, please unset your reply-to when posting to the list because it screws up list addressing. thanks for your advice and the heads up on the reply to address. While I now use Linux as my primary OS, I'm still very much experimenting. I have just changed my email program (Again!) to Kontact (Kmail), and had trouble configuring things at first. So I filled in every possible field I knew the answer to untill it worked!!! Reply to address has now been removed from my accounts and I've hit apply so hopefully this message won't be a nuissance aswell. I'll try the new sound settings as soon as I get the chance and I'll let you know how I go. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] NFS server = how?
Gentle folks, I tried to make a network installation of Mdk 9.1 from a Windows 2000 Server mashine, running haneWin NFS server 1.1.29 and I get the following error: Error: That NFS volume does not seem to contain the Mandrake Linux distribution. ok and with Alt-F4: 4NFS Warning: Mount version older than kernel That is what I get when trying to use NFS network installation. Btw, the same Windows 2000 box is very ok for FTP and HTTP installations of Linux, but now I can not use these because on the target box I do not have enough RAM for FTP or HTTP types of setup (don't ask me why). Looks that the target box recognizes the NFS server at the first moment, but something goes wrong then. Any idea? Misko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
