Re: [newbie] turbotax?
On Monday 14 February 2005 07:24 am, Eric Huff wrote: have been playing with bochs, but haven't been able to get XP installed. I guess i'll try to install win98 1st, and see if xp will go in after that. __ after several hours of head-breaking, gave up in despair, but am left with feeling that BOCHS has tremendous potential as 'Virtual Machine' best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] how to format using xfs file system
i need to format a partition from xfs file system. pls help me to do it. partition /dev/hda9 send me the syntex/command... -- ... ts! Preparing today for Linux tomorrow! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] If you play Go
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some of you will remember Femme Fatale. She asks me to pass on to you a url for a distro based on Damn Small Linux which is dedicated to Go. The description says 'Welcome to Hikarunix, the only operating system dedicated to Go. This CD was designed especially for Go players of all levels. Whether you've been playing for decades or have never heard of the game until now, this CD is for you.' If it is of interest to you, go to http://www.hikarunix.org/ Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEGlykFAvMr/nNX8RAkgiAJ9jyDC6DvpIIJOW5jqASMFHg4kdQgCfSYbI 0oy1qRYJOv4/odYt1Cu78bU= =jnVN -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] modem problem (still!)
On Monday 14 February 2005 07:50, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Well - I went a bought an external hardware modem which says it is linux compatible. I have attempted to install several times over but get this message each time, when I test. The system doesn't seem to be connected to the Internet. All the cables, power etc seem to be in place. There was no prompt to install a driver, and I see there isn't one on the CD. Hmm I wonder if I have to get the driver elsewhere? The config wizard selected automatic IP parameters and DNS parameters. Should I change this? I also changed BIOS PlugNPlay setting PCI IDE busmaster to 'enabled'. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Rosemary External serial modems do not need **any** drivers. That is why they are so much better than internal ones. You do not describe how you are trying to install the modem, but all you need to do is plug it in, and then tell your dialler application which serial port the modem is on. If you have plugged the modem in 'com1', then the linux device name will be /dev/ttyS0 , com2 is /dev/ttyS1 You have a choice of dialler applications to use. You can define a dial up connection in Mandrake Control centre, but many users of the KDE desktop prefer to use 'kppp' which is in the 'kdenetwork' package. And Yes, you should use automatic IP (DHCP) and DNS parameters. HTH 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] how to format using xfs file system
On Monday 14 February 2005 08:58, Gentoo Linux User wrote: i need to format a partition from xfs file system. pls help me to do it. partition /dev/hda9 send me the syntex/command... This is the newbie list, so I shall describe the GUI way of doing it. Open MandrakeControl CentreMountPointsPartitions You will see a graphic showing the partitions on your hard drive. Select hda9 unmount it if it is mounted. Delete the partition if it is already defined as another file system type. Define it again using xfs as the file system type. Press 'Format', select a new mount point for your partition, and select 'Done' 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] modem problem (still!)
External serial modems do not need **any** drivers. That is why they are so much better than internal ones. You do not describe how you are trying to install the modem, but all you need to do is plug it in, and then tell your dialler application which serial port the modem is on. If you have plugged the modem in 'com1', then the linux device name will be /dev/ttyS0 , com2 is /dev/ttyS1 You have a choice of dialler applications to use. You can define a dial up connection in Mandrake Control centre, but many users of the KDE desktop prefer to use 'kppp' which is in the 'kdenetwork' package. And Yes, you should use automatic IP (DHCP) and DNS parameters. HTH derek Thanks - I think it should. Will try the kppp, which, from memory I used a few years ago to configure network. Thanks again Rosemary PS Hope my next message is from with Mandrake! 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] modem problem (still!)
Well - I went a bought an external hardware modem which says it is linux compatible. I have attempted to install several times over but get this message each time, when I test. The system doesn't seem to be connected to the Internet. All the cables, power etc seem to be in place. When I installed Mdk 10, I also tested my modem during the installation. I had the same message you had. I ignored it and once the installation completed, I tried to connect (using kppp) and it worked without problem. Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
When I installed Mdk 10, I also tested my modem during the installation. I had the same message you had. I ignored it and once the installation completed, I tried to connect (using kppp) and it worked without problem. Maryse I bought this modem because internal modem too difficult for me to configure, even though various articles said it is possible. So have been trying to ad modem using system configuration, and more latterly kppp. Thought kppp was going to do it, but got the usual your system is not connected message. I suppose there is a way to do this - but very disappointed at present. Rosemary 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] If you play Go
On Monday 14 February 2005 10:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Some of you will remember Femme Fatale. She asks me to pass on to you a url for a distro based on Damn Small Linux which is dedicated to Go. The description says 'Welcome to Hikarunix, the only operating system dedicated to Go. This CD was designed especially for Go players of all levels. Whether you've been playing for decades or have never heard of the game until now, this CD is for you.' If it is of interest to you, go to http://www.hikarunix.org/ Anne Anne, If you're over in Canada right now please give Femme a great hug from me I hope she's well ? Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: unsupported scanner
On Monday 14 February 2005 01:50, you wrote: No, scanners use *sane* (Scanner Access Now Easy) as a backend. You'll have to install that in order to scan. Furthermore, look here to see if your scanner is supported : http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl Then, urpmi Charles' xsane xsane-gimp Enjoy Kaj Haulrich. Checked that page and scanner is unsupported. Does this mean I will never get it going, or just that it would be a fiddle to do it? Thanks Rosemary What scanner would that be ? - Sometimes one can select a related model of the same make and get it running. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* 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: unsupported scanner
e can select a related model of the same make and get it running. Canon 3000F - and I had wondered about using related driver. Cheers Rosemary 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] If you play Go
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 09:49, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 14 February 2005 10:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Some of you will remember Femme Fatale. She asks me to pass on to you a url for a distro based on Damn Small Linux which is dedicated to Go. The description says 'Welcome to Hikarunix, the only operating system dedicated to Go. This CD was designed especially for Go players of all levels. Whether you've been playing for decades or have never heard of the game until now, this CD is for you.' If it is of interest to you, go to http://www.hikarunix.org/ Anne Anne, If you're over in Canada right now please give Femme a great hug from me I hope she's well ? Will do - metaphorically, as my arms don't stretch from England to Canada g Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEHyUkFAvMr/nNX8RAntfAJ4g1bdLVJup4SA0eylM7t6U5pliSgCfdMoh 5DxrOczLe3v+IIcXgObimDk= =+3ic -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] Re: unsupported scanner
On Monday 14 February 2005 11:10, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: e can select a related model of the same make and get it running. Canon 3000F - and I had wondered about using related driver. Cheers Rosemary Seems to be a USB scanner. In your place I would give it a try with xsane. Eventually, try Vuescan from Hamrick Software. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* 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: unsupported scanner
Seems to be a USB scanner. In your place I would give it a try with xsane. Eventually, try Vuescan from Hamrick Software. Yes -it is USB. My priority just now is Internet access, which is proving elusive! Thanks Rosemary Kaj Haulrich. 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] modem problem (still!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 09:41, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: When I installed Mdk 10, I also tested my modem during the installation. I had the same message you had. I ignored it and once the installation completed, I tried to connect (using kppp) and it worked without problem. Maryse I bought this modem because internal modem too difficult for me to configure, even though various articles said it is possible. So have been trying to ad modem using system configuration, and more latterly kppp. Thought kppp was going to do it, but got the usual your system is not connected message. I suppose there is a way to do this - but very disappointed at present. I've never heard of an external modem being problematic, so I'm sure you/we will find the answer. Meanwhile, there is a thread http://dot.kde.org/1108262996/ in which there is the statement 'For those interested, an overview of KPPP including screenshots is available.' I suggest that you visit that thread and ask how to get that overview. It may be helpful to you. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEIAOkFAvMr/nNX8RAubjAJ463ff2n2jBOuowO2Ww09wbvNwRxwCeLV3g pMJrcz1PdQkmi9hD4Qiwpw4= =oV3C -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] modem problem (still!)
I've never heard of an external modem being problematic, so I'm sure you/we will find the answer. Meanwhile, there is a thread http://dot.kde.org/1108262996/ in which there is the statement 'For those interested, an overview of KPPP including screenshots is available.' I suggest that you visit that thread and ask how to get that overview. It may be helpful to you. Anne Yes - the information I read everywhere in linux is: that external hardware modems work fine. I've printed the info from the link you gave me - so here's hoping. I did find a posting in linuxquestions forums though, which mentioned a person having problems with an external modem in Mdk 10.1, which worked fine in 10. Maybe a bug? Don't know enough to comment really. Rosemary - 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] modem problem (still!)
On Monday 14 February 2005 04:41, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I bought this modem because internal modem too difficult for me to configure, even though various articles said it is possible. So have been trying to ad modem using system configuration, and more latterly kppp. Thought kppp was going to do it, but got the usual your system is not connected message. I suppose there is a way to do this - but very disappointed at present. Rosemary, a potential solution that I sometimes take is to create a symbolic link in your dev filesystem to point to the com port and then try to connect. This assumes that a lot of dialer programs use /dev/modem as a shortcut to the modem. So, to experiment, open a command line, su to root and issue this command ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem Then try KPPP again and see if it dials in. If it works, then you know that your modem is on Com1. If it fails, then issue a command ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem and then try again. If that works, then your modem is on Com2. One of those should work. If they do, you can actually setup an entry to automatically create the link for you in the startup scripts so that you don't have to do it every time. You can also try opening up KPPP, choose Configure button and go to the Device tab. From there, change the modem device from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS0 and then click on the Modem tab and click the Query Modem button. That should give you some reponse. Rinse and repeat using the /dev/ttyS1 device as the mdoem device. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 10:57, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've never heard of an external modem being problematic, so I'm sure you/we will find the answer. Meanwhile, there is a thread http://dot.kde.org/1108262996/ in which there is the statement 'For those interested, an overview of KPPP including screenshots is available.' I suggest that you visit that thread and ask how to get that overview. It may be helpful to you. Anne Yes - the information I read everywhere in linux is: that external hardware modems work fine. I've printed the info from the link you gave me - so here's hoping. I did find a posting in linuxquestions forums though, which mentioned a person having problems with an external modem in Mdk 10.1, which worked fine in 10. Maybe a bug? Don't know enough to comment really. What modem is it? What exactly happens when you try to connect? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEIsAkFAvMr/nNX8RAh3dAJ9oqOEi6ZLPJDnSK3nUyfePwbZ6/gCfW9O5 Mq8fEjJB6eBDGNkIWUUWY3A= =R9M+ -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] modem problem (still!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 10:57, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've never heard of an external modem being problematic, so I'm sure you/we will find the answer. Meanwhile, there is a thread http://dot.kde.org/1108262996/ in which there is the statement 'For those interested, an overview of KPPP including screenshots is available.' I suggest that you visit that thread and ask how to get that overview. It may be helpful to you. Anne Yes - the information I read everywhere in linux is: that external hardware modems work fine. I've printed the info from the link you gave me - so here's hoping. I did find a posting in linuxquestions forums though, which mentioned a person having problems with an external modem in Mdk 10.1, which worked fine in 10. Maybe a bug? Don't know enough to comment really. Forgot - never overlook the obvious :-) Does it work in Windows? There is always the odd chance that it's faulty. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEItDkFAvMr/nNX8RAuPjAJsHAcMS0ceYKARsGvFPSbD/2woQtgCfeQg9 Mkz5dJ8UGdW8cz+WDoKqKt0= =Fquf -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
[newbie] Sylpheed
Hi List I have one annoying problem with Sylpheed-Claws after months of usage. When it goes out to retrieve pop mail and the server is not available, it leaves an unable to connect pop-up on whichever desktop I have working, many times under the open work. This leaves Sylpheed disabled. Until I realized what was happening, I killed Sylpheed. Seemed drastic, but apparently didn't hurt anything. Now I search like a kid playing hide-and-seek for the pop-up. Feels silly. I can't find anything in the configuration that allows me to disable the message, or let Sylpheed simply go on to the next task. I really don't care if the messages are irretrievable once in awhile. Any thoughts? Lee -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sylpheed-Claws
Hi List I have one annoying problem with Sylpheed-Claws after months of usage. When it goes out to retrieve pop mail and the server is not available, it leaves an unable to connect pop-up on whichever desktop I have working, many times under the open work. This leaves Sylpheed disabled. Until I realized what was happening, I killed Sylpheed. Seemed drastic, but apparently didn't hurt anything. Now I search like a kid playing hide-and-seek for the pop-up. Feels silly. I can't find anything in the configuration that allows me to disable the message, or let Sylpheed simply go on to the next task. I really don't care if the messages are irretrievable once in awhile. Any thoughts? 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] Sylpheed-Claws
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:41:53 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List I have one annoying problem with Sylpheed-Claws after months of usage. When it goes out to retrieve pop mail and the server is not available, it leaves an unable to connect pop-up on whichever desktop I have working, many times under the open work. This leaves Sylpheed disabled. Until I realized what was happening, I killed Sylpheed. Seemed drastic, but apparently didn't hurt anything. Now I search like a kid playing hide-and-seek for the pop-up. Feels silly. I can't find anything in the configuration that allows me to disable the message, or let Sylpheed simply go on to the next task. I really don't care if the messages are irretrievable once in awhile. I have experienced the same thing with the Windows version of SC, but perhaps an upgrade to 1.0.1 might do the trickI can't remember experiencing it in Linux, you could also post a message to the Sylpheed Claws mailinglist (I do not have the adress though at the top of my head) /ANders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:32 +0100 Michel Leunen disseminated the following: It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I don't like much the XFCE one. ROX! Homepage: http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ It's available thru urpmi (though I prefer to install it as a user in my home dir instead, easier to tweak), along with a lot of goodies to go with it. It's the best file manager on the planet. Ok, I will give it a try. It's not that hard to be better than xffm which is (IMHO) definitely unusable. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
perhaps i missed it in previous threads, but we are talking about an external serial port modem and not an external usb modem? i have read of usb modems that are effectively external winmodems (never actually come across one) bascule On Monday 14 Feb 2005 07:50, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Well - I went a bought an external hardware modem which says it is linux compatible. I have attempted to install several times over but get this message each time, when I test. The system doesn't seem to be connected to the Internet. All the cables, power etc seem to be in place. -- All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. (Pyramids) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
De: Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know it's unlikely that you made the same series of mistakes I did. But perhaps you got some broken packages from some source. You could try the following, after making sure you only have proper Mandrake urpmi sources defined: su urpmi.update -a urpme konqueror urpmi konqueror Thanks, I've done a whole update without any result. Then I tried to uninstall and reinstall konqueror. The problem is there is no package for konqueror. It's part of the kdebase package. Reinstalling it didn't change anything. Thanks anyway Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-Claws
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:28:56 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:41:53 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List I have one annoying problem with Sylpheed-Claws after months of usage. When it goes out to retrieve pop mail and the server is not available, it leaves an unable to connect pop-up on whichever desktop I have working, many times under the open work. This leaves Sylpheed disabled. Until I realized what was happening, I killed Sylpheed. Seemed drastic, but apparently didn't hurt anything. Now I search like a kid playing hide-and-seek for the pop-up. Feels silly. I can't find anything in the configuration that allows me to disable the message, or let Sylpheed simply go on to the next task. I really don't care if the messages are irretrievable once in awhile. I have experienced the same thing with the Windows version of SC, but perhaps an upgrade to 1.0.1 might do the trickI can't remember experiencing it in Linux, you could also post a message to the Sylpheed Claws mailinglist (I do not have the adress though at the top of my head) /ANders I don't know about Claws, but in Sylpheed 1.0.0 you'll find the option under Configuration / Interface. In english it should be called someting like Don't show error dialog. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with FlashGot
Dear All Has somebody here been able to run FlashGot on Mozilla 1.7.5 under Mandrake 10.1? In my case, FlashGot does not work. Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-Claws
Hi I believe its found in Configuration/preferences/receive and there is a check box for don't show error messages. HTH -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Range Rover just keeps getting newer and newer... every day I'm replacing something else that broke! 14:50:25 up 18 days, 18:30, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.05 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] modem problem
Hello to all who have helped. I am actually writing this in linux using web email because can't get kmail/kontact going to send mail! Probably going to be a simple thing I know. Thanks Rosemary This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. 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: Program to download all the files on a http address
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:54:09 -0500, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http address? For instance, consider the following address: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ If you use Firefox, I use an extension called downTHEMall! which works kinda like FlashGet in Winblows. It'll give you a list of downloadable items, and you can check them one-by-one, or specify by extension or type (such as images). Quite handy. I used it today for the very same purpose. Thanks, Miark. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] launch applications in termial
I have downloaded Firefox and need to know how to launch from terminal, as cannot see it anywhere so far. Thanks Rosemary This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] launch applications in termial
On Monday 14 February 2005 14:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded Firefox and need to know how to launch from terminal, as cannot see it anywhere so far. Thanks Rosemary This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. mozilla-firefox in a terminal. Firefox was already on your CDs. If you install the Mandrake RPM package a menu item will appear under Internetbrowsers. If you you did not install the Mandrake package you can create your own menu item with MandrakeControlCentreSystemmenus 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] launch applications in termial
On Monday 14 February 2005 02:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: downloaded Firefox and need to know how to launch from terminal, as cannot see it anywhere so far. _- ~ probably, if you type in the terminat, 'which firefox' , or, 'whereis forefox' . . . it may show you the path to the executable best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-Claws
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:41:53 + Lee Wiggers disseminated the following: Any thoughts? Let Fetchmail do the work of Popping in the background, then import the mail from your local spool? Little more involved than Bjorn's suggestion, but I just really like Fetchmail. :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 10:21:00 up 42 days, 23:02, 8 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00 +++ The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem
I am actually writing this in linux using web email because can't get kmail/kontact going to send mail! Probably going to be a simple thing I know. I remember having that sort of problem too but cannot remember why. Not much help but it was a simple thing marsye Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
Dear All, I have been having a modem configuration problem (with Mandrake 10.1) similar to the one that Rosemary describes, except that I am still trying to configure the internal modem (56K PCI Data/Fax Modem) on my machine (Dell Dimension 3000-Celeron processor 320). I tried Brian Phinney's experiment with 'ln -s /dev/ttyS(n) /dev/modem' and have tried ports up to ttyS7 (the modem is on COM3 according to Windows, so I expected to be able to connect with ttyS2, but I tried all of these just to be sure). I have also visited the site that Anne Wilson recommends below. When I have tried various ports in KPPP and then used Query Modem, I am only able to receive query results for ttyS0, but the results show all of the fields (ATI - ATI7) empty. Finally, I have tried configuring the modem from the installation software. I received the following error message. An unexpected error has happened: Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/bin/perl-install/network/modem.pm line 21. Does this suggest that I should try an external modem? Thanks in advance, Melissa Allen On Feb 14, 2005, at 5:40 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: I've never heard of an external modem being problematic, so I'm sure you/we will find the answer. Meanwhile, there is a thread http://dot.kde.org/1108262996/ in which there is the statement 'For those interested, an overview of KPPP including screenshots is available.' I suggest that you visit that thread and ask how to get that overview. It may be helpful to you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem
M.Schild wrote: I am actually writing this in linux using web email because can't get kmail/kontact going to send mail! Probably going to be a simple thing I know. I remember having that sort of problem too but cannot remember why. Not much help but it was a simple thing marsye Assuming that you have your outgoing smtp server setup correctly, and this server is in hostname form rather than IP address, check that you can ping the server, or in a shell type: telnet the_server_name 25 (Hint: CTRL-] to exit then quit at telnet prompt) this will open a smtp session to your ISP server. If this fails 'unable to find server' etc, it could be a DNS issue, is your /etc/resolv.conf being updated when your modem connects via the dhcp client? If not, find out what the DNS servers are of your ISP and add the entries: nameserver x.x.x.x for each one. Try telnet connect again. Any joy? Also, did you sign up with a diff ISP when you got the modem, if so, you won't be able to connect to the old ISP mailserver as you are now no longer on a trusted network. PS: if you browser is working via hostname lookup on the same machine this is probably not the cause of your problem as the browser needs DNS to resolve web URL's. HTH -- Thanks, 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] cannot launch konqueror
On February 14, 2005 06:09, Michel Leunen wrote: De: Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Thanks, I've done a whole update without any result. Then I tried to uninstall and reinstall konqueror. The problem is there is no package for konqueror. It's part of the kdebase package. Reinstalling it didn't change anything. Thanks anyway Michel Oh, I didn't think of that. Trying to urpme kdebase will probably try to uninstall half the packages on your system, so that's not practical. Have you checked what you have defined for urpmi sources? I don't know if there's a command to list them, but you can see them in the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg. You can even edit this file as root (at the risk of breaking it of course 8^). Maybe somehow you have a source pointed at the wrong version of Mandrake. I think getting the wrong versions of packages can cause errors like the one you saw. I hate to sound like a Windoze user, but you may have to reinstall to fix it. That's what I did, because I broke so many things. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess. - Red Green Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem
On Monday 14 February 2005 10:41, M.Schild wrote: I am actually writing this in linux using web email because can't get kmail/kontact going to send mail! Probably going to be a simple thing I know. I remember having that sort of problem too but cannot remember why. Not much help but it was a simple thing marsye First I have the same issue with one of my boxes so do not feel bad you are not alone with that issue. Second the box in question has a HD drawer system so HD can be interchanged. Currently I have 4 drawers each with a different version of Linux installed. Next, each version of Linux SuSE 9.2, Red Hat 7.3, Mandrake 10.1, and Fedora 3 has the same issue so the issue is independent of distribution. Historically the Red Hat 7.3 system has just set there and worked but it had a strange configuration using 2 HD - one for system and one for data. I need the data HD elsewhere so I had to reconfigure system which caused modem to quit. Somewhere I have notes on solving issue and will solve when time permits but since box is now being used in a LAN that may not be soon. Point issue is a configuration issue of linux not recognizing modem. If I recall correctly you need to change 2 or 3 lines in 2 or 3 configuration files and issues is solved. Changes are simple and not big deal but that is all the help I can provide at this time. Thanks Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 13:15, bascule wrote: perhaps i missed it in previous threads, but we are talking about an external serial port modem and not an external usb modem? i have read of usb modems that are effectively external winmodems (never actually come across one) Rosemary 's is serial, Bascule. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCENg0kFAvMr/nNX8RAi8YAJ9JpUFMO+dMySCrxbXYUxw52Oj3XACglca6 r0B/8Ux6VbObxbbAW2YMc10= =wFXe -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] modem problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 15:41, M.Schild wrote: I am actually writing this in linux using web email because can't get kmail/kontact going to send mail! Probably going to be a simple thing I know. I remember having that sort of problem too but cannot remember why. Not much help but it was a simple thing marsye Marsye, if you can remember *when* you had the problem it may be possible to turn up something in the archives that would help Rosemary. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCENirkFAvMr/nNX8RApBeAJ9l6Cm16m8Rymo97+jhkjYjqC9zdQCeIq2z kwyRg/NIfvHM41Eex5CnXRQ= =LiZq -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] launch applications in termial
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 14:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded Firefox and need to know how to launch from terminal, as cannot see it anywhere so far. Thanks Rosemary To launch anything from a terminal, open konsole (the black screen icon at the bottom of a kde screen is konsole) and simply type the app's name. A few things need to be run from a root console first, to set some options - e.g. XCDRoast - but normally a user konsole is enough. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCENlfkFAvMr/nNX8RAo2mAJ90it6YNvFC4hu2AoRl/fuqPyhkegCfbUbU SNXdq+/RjpxEDc0A5ghXn4Q= =Irf+ -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] launch applications in termial
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 14:49, Derek Jennings wrote: mozilla-firefox Forgot to mention that - if you just type 'mozilla-firefox' it will run in the terminal window, and you will not be able to use that window for anything else. What's worse, if you shut the window the app will close. Adding the '' to the line makes it run in the background, which is what you want most of the time. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCENnMkFAvMr/nNX8RAoncAKCfrswKVAsi1IyE/ALxRTuwpXP/iQCfXUjc agY86Uqb4BbfQKJsss+Y8nE= =bgEL -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] launch applications in termial
Op Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:03:08 + schreef Anne Wilson: mozilla-firefox Forgot to mention that - if you just type 'mozilla-firefox' it will run in the terminal window, and you will not be able to use that window for anything else. What's worse, if you shut the window the app will close. Adding the '' to the line makes it run in the background, which is what you want most of the time. Careful here: just appending behind the command will release the program from the xterm, but when you close the xterm, sometimes the program you just started will also be terminated. Best to prevent that is to run nohup mozilla-firefox That disconnects the program from the xterm entirely. Paul -- Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php 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] modem problem
Marsye, if you can remember *when* you had the problem it may be possible to turn up something in the archives that would help Rosemary. I thought of it but I think it was when I had Mdk 9.1 on my old machine and hadn´t joined the list yet . I sorted it out myself, not really knowing what I was doing ( do I ever) but I seem to remember it was a question of configuration of kppp. Sorry I cannot be of more use Maryse 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 and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Not urgent, actually, as I'm planning on switching from Thunderbird back to Evolution, as it will sync with the Tungsten E I have on the way :-), but I /would/ like to be able to access the mail which I now seem to have no access to; same with Firefox -- I know I can create a new profile there and rebuild what I need, but it'd be nice to have access to the old settings. The scenario is this: Have been running older versions of both TB and FF until today, when I decided to take the two of them out of my urpmi skip.list and allow them to upgrade finally. So, did urpmi, which did its thing, ran each once as root first (since that seemed to be critical with earlier upgrades), then attempted to run as usual. Thunderbird seems to have kept my account settings, and my folder directory even seems to show the proper counts for unread mail, etc., as I had left it before the upgrade, but nothing will show to the right ... neither a message listing nor anything in the preview pane. Similarly, the get mail button seems to do nothing now. Any ideas, other than creating a new profile and starting over? Same with Firefox ... my bookmarks are still there, and my Google toolbar is still there, but I've lost the ability to make profile changes (it warns it couldn't write to the profile and any changes would be lost upon shutting down the program). Any ideas there, again, other than starting over with the new profile? I know that upgrades have been problematic from the get-go, but was hoping they'd ironed things out a bit better by now. Oh, well. Anyway, TIA for any pointers. I've had little luck finding my way around the Mozilla forum/FAQs for this. -- Chuck MATTSEN ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 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 and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Op Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:32:55 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: Same with Firefox ... my bookmarks are still there, and my Google toolbar is still there, but I've lost the ability to make profile changes (it warns it couldn't write to the profile and any changes would be lost upon shutting down the program). Any ideas there, again, other than starting over with the new profile? You say you ran the programs as root at first go. Go and see if something in your home-dir has changed ownership from your ID to root. Perhaps that is where the mishap started? Specifically ownership of ~/.thunderbird and ~/.phoenix are interesting in this respect. Paul -- Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php 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] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:41 +0100, Paul wrote: You say you ran the programs as root at first go. Go and see if something in your home-dir has changed ownership from your ID to root. Perhaps that is where the mishap started? Specifically ownership of ~/.thunderbird and ~/.phoenix are interesting in this respect. Nope, nothing amiss there, near as I can tell. User still owns. Hmmm. Thx. -- Chuck MATTSEN ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Oh, I didn't think of that. Trying to urpme kdebase will probably try to uninstall half the packages on your system, so that's not practical. Yeah, that's the case. I did it and now, my whole kde is completely unusable. It seems it's not the right way to do it. I hate to sound like a Windoze user, but you may have to reinstall to fix it. That's what I did, because I broke so many things. I have gnome and xfce still working :-) Too early to reinstall everything. Michel -- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage. C++Builder, BCC5.5.1 Web site: http://www.leunen.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] left-handed mouse in 10.1
Hi! This question has probably already been answered, and if so, could you please direct me to the post? I tried googling it without any luck. thanks. I'm left handed and in 10.1 the option to switch the mouse buttons is grayed out in the configuration. Is there any way to enable the option? Thanks! JennHi __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
On Monday 14 February 2005 11:02, Melissa Allen wrote: Dear All, I have been having a modem configuration problem (with Mandrake 10.1) similar to the one that Rosemary describes, except that I am still trying to configure the internal modem (56K PCI Data/Fax Modem) on my machine (Dell Dimension 3000-Celeron processor 320). I tried Brian Phinney's experiment with 'ln -s /dev/ttyS(n) /dev/modem' and have tried ports up to ttyS7 (the modem is on COM3 according to Windows, so I expected to be able to connect with ttyS2, but I tried all of these just to be sure). Melissa, my suggestion was strictly applicable to an external serial modem that connects to a hardware port on the computer. It won't work for an internal modem because that is not a real modem. A driver must be loaded to create the com port for an internal card modem. Well, unless it is one of the very old and expensive kinds of internal modems that are real hardware modems. I don't think that they make those kind any more. I have also visited the site that Anne Wilson recommends below. When I have tried various ports in KPPP and then used Query Modem, I am only able to receive query results for ttyS0, but the results show all of the fields (ATI - ATI7) empty. You should try to go to the http://linmodems.org/ site and try to get information about how to install the driver for your particular modem. Given your error, there is no way for me to try to figure out what is wrong. I would need to see the script you are running to see if there is a dependent package that is missing. Or buy an external serial modem for $15 US, which is by far the less troublesome route. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
Hi Rosemary Various people have mad useful suggestions to you regarding your modem setup. The way I normally set up an external serial modem is the following: Use Mandrake Control Centre to add a network connection. Ignore the error about no internet connection. Run kppp and go into the configuration section. Add a dialup account with your login id and the ISP phone number, etc. Go into the device section, and select a device (ttyS0, ttyS1, etc). Go into the modem section, and run query modem. If you get any response, then you have selected the right serial port. Once you have found the right serial port, switch on the modem sound. Go back to the main kppp window and try to connect. If you have set up the modem right, you will hear the sound of the connection being made. Another useful tool for debugging modems is minicom. Use minicom -s to set it up. When you have it running on a particular serial port, type AT and press enter. If it says OK then you are talking to your modem directly. You can also use wvdial to connect to the internet using a dialup modem, but this is more difficult to set up than kppp. good luck Duncan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing programmes
Noel McG. wrote: - Original Message - From: SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing programmes Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the same thing happened. Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to set up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the desktop. Did you cd to the desktop containing the file first ? ie: $ cd ~/Desktop $ tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt $ cd /opt/xamp[TabKey] - There is usually a README file within the uncompressed directory to advise before you continue. $ ./configure ( if required ) $ make ( if required ) Change to root: $ su Password # make install ( if required ) I don't mean to over simplify things believing you are unaware of the procedure, it's just that it is easier to include the lot whilst I got the time. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank I have now got Mambo installed in /var/www/ and Xampp in /opt/. I am not sure if Mambo is working however xampp is and in a terminal window starting xampp brings up this Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.4.11... XAMPP: XAMPP-Apache is already running. XAMPP: XAMPP-MySQL is already running. XAMPP: XAMPP-ProFTPD is already running. XAMPP for Linux started. I am told that I now need to create a database in MySQL for Mambo and run an install script[?] The instructions give '$ mysqladmin -u db_user -p create Mambo', db_user has to be changed to a suitable name for the system.This come up 'no such msql command' I have tried changing to /var/www but still get the same thing. Any thoughts please. Thanks. Can't help you from here Noel, but keep posting you successes because I am about to go this way myself, so will need to learn ~ great timing for this thread for me. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 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 and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Op Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:12:45 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: Specifically ownership of ~/.thunderbird and ~/.phoenix are interesting in this respect. Nope, nothing amiss there, near as I can tell. User still owns. Hmmm. I assume you also checked all the files within the tree(s). Very weird... Paul -- Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php 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] trouble mounting zip drive
On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I guess the driver, or udev, is translating the partition table or something, so that /dev/hdd is what would be /dev/hdd4 in 9.2. I'll have to dig out my USB ZIP drive, and see how that is handled. I suspect that that will still use the /dev/sd?4 for ZIP disks. I am not sure how it would handle a disk that wasn't partitioned yet. It could make partitioning and formating a ZIP disk a problem under Linux! What does fdisk -l /dev/hdd show? Mikkel Here are the partitions. Remember that this was formatted on XP as FAT32. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# fdisk -l /dev/hdd Disk /dev/hdd: 100 MB, 100646912 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 95 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 ? 379950 937327 570754815+ 72 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(379949, 11, 5) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(937326, 59, 3) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd2 ? 82368 1027695 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(82367, 59, 19) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(1027694, 14, 2) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd3 ? 913029 1858355 968014096 79 Unknown Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(913028, 3, 26) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1858354, 20, 25) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd4 ? 1409025 1409052 27749+ d Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(1409024, 0, 1) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(1409051, 6, 11) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Mike Mike, How did you format it in XP? Did you use the ZIP tools to format it, or did you right click on the drive icon, and pick format? Does XP see it as a ZIP drive, or as an IDE floppy drive? The reason I ask is because it is possible to format a ZIP drive without a partition table. When you do that, you get the kind of results from fdisk that you show here, as well as the mounting problems we ran into. It isn't a big problem doing it that way, except that if this is the case, then you will have problems if you try to use a ZIP disk that is formatted the standard way. XP probably will not care... Mikkel I just right clicked and picked FAT32. However, I also used a new IOMEGA disk (right out of the box) which I assume was formated by IOMEGA. When I did fdisk I got the same kind of results. Should I try something else, like obtaining IOMEGA fomatting software (download?). What if I format using mke2fs (ext2), do think all would go back to normal then (what ever that is!). I just would not use the disk in windows. This should not be so damn complicated and difficult!! (oops linux fustration showing). Mike Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake Hosting
Hello all. Maybe this is not exactly the best place for posting this question, but I really need help and I can't find information about it... I have some servers with Mandrake (this is the only relation with the forum's topic) that we're using in our organization. There are some intranet sites hosted there. However, we'd like to extend our site capabilities by pluging those servers into Internet and behave as a hosting server. That is, we want our site to be public to the Internet. However, we'd like to avoid ISPs, so my question is: what do I need to do about it? Where can I get the required information? Thanks a lot. Fernando Gomez. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On February 14, 2005 12:32, Michel Leunen wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Oh, I didn't think of that. Trying to urpme kdebase will probably try to uninstall half the packages on your system, so that's not practical. Yeah, that's the case. I did it and now, my whole kde is completely unusable. It seems it's not the right way to do it. I hate to sound like a Windoze user, but you may have to reinstall to fix it. That's what I did, because I broke so many things. I have gnome and xfce still working :-) Too early to reinstall everything. Michel Okay, if you've already done an urpme kdebase, then double-check that your urpmi sources are correct (make sure you're not pointing at cooker or something like that), and do an urpmi kdebase. Theoretically, that should make all your KDE stuff usable again. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess. - Red Green Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] If you play Go
On Monday 14 February 2005 10:03, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some of you will remember Femme Fatale. She asks me to pass on to you a url for a distro based on Damn Small Linux which is dedicated to Go. The description says 'Welcome to Hikarunix, the only operating system dedicated to Go. This CD was designed especially for Go players of all levels. Whether you've been playing for decades or have never heard of the game until now, this CD is for you.' If it is of interest to you, go to http://www.hikarunix.org/ Anne Downloading now. I don't play Go but this live cd may introduce some Go players to Linux :-) Yes I remember Femme *blush* . I like to give her a virtual hug! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] launch applications in termial
O ~ probably, if you type in the terminat, 'which firefox' , or, 'whereis forefox' . . . it may show you the path to the executable which: no firefox in (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/home/rosemary/bin) Obviously I haven't installed it! - or something ... Rosemary Plain text document attachment (message.footer) 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] launch applications in termial
--- ram. Firefox was already on your CDs. If you install the Mandrake RPM package a menu item will appear under Internetbrowsers. If you you did not install the Mandrake package you can create your own menu item with MandrakeControlCentreSystemmenus I can't find them on the CDs unfortunately. Will have another look. Rosemary derek Plain text document attachment (message.footer) 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] modem problem
Assuming that you have your outgoing smtp server setup correctly, and this server is in hostname form rather than IP address, check that you can ping the server, or in a shell type: telnet the_server_name 25 (Hint: CTRL-] to exit then quit at telnet prompt) this will open a smtp session to your ISP server. If this fails 'unable to find server' etc, it could be a DNS issue, is your /etc/resolv.conf being updated when your modem connects via the dhcp client? If not, find out what the DNS servers are of your ISP and add the entries: nameserver x.x.x.x for each one. Try telnet connect again. Any joy? Also, did you sign up with a diff ISP when you got the modem, if so, you won't be able to connect to the old ISP mailserver as you are now no longer on a trusted network. PS: if you browser is working via hostname lookup on the same machine this is probably not the cause of your problem as the browser needs DNS to resolve web URL's. HTH Thanks - decided to try evolution and seems to be okay so far. Rosemary Plain text document attachment (message.footer) 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] modem problem
Marsye, if you can remember *when* you had the problem it may be possible to turn up something in the archives that would help Rosemary. Anne Thanks - but don't worry I am trying evolution for now, and if can learn it might stay with it. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] launch applications in termial
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 11:36, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: O ~ probably, if you type in the terminat, 'which firefox' , or, 'whereis forefox' . . . it may show you the path to the executable which: no firefox in (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/home/r osemary/bin) Obviously I haven't installed it! - or something ... Rosemary Rosemary, if you've set up your sources using easyurpmi.zarb.org, try, in a root terminal window typing urpmi mozilla-firefox It's my guess that it will come back with the full name of the package and ask if you want to install it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCESoskFAvMr/nNX8RAppnAJwJvuI/G/YeR1I38CQBiFHMq1OChgCff8bY jsZk2EZ6Yzx4HxMRV/Rvqww= =sJsP -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] launch applications in termial
Forgot to mention that - if you just type 'mozilla-firefox' it will run in the terminal window, and you will not be able to use that window for anything else. What's worse, if you shut the window the app will close. Adding the '' to the line makes it run in the background, which is what you want most of the time. Careful here: just appending behind the command will release the program from the xterm, but when you close the xterm, sometimes the program you just started will also be terminated. Best to prevent that is to run nohup mozilla-firefox That disconnects the program from the xterm entirely. Thanks - as it turns out I have not even installed it - so back to the drawing board! Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
Various people have mad useful suggestions to you regarding your modem setup. Thanks for that - I did manage to get it going using kppp but am printing your instructions for filing - might be useful in the future. Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] If you play Go
On Monday 14 February 2005 02:11 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 14 February 2005 10:03, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some of you will remember Femme Fatale. She asks me to pass on to you a url for a distro based on Damn Small Linux which is dedicated to Go. The description says 'Welcome to Hikarunix, the only operating system dedicated to Go. This CD was designed especially for Go players of all levels. Whether you've been playing for decades or have never heard of the game until now, this CD is for you.' If it is of interest to you, go to http://www.hikarunix.org/ Anne Downloading now. I don't play Go but this live cd may introduce some Go players to Linux :-) Yes I remember Femme *blush* . I like to give her a virtual hug! Anyone know how Femnme is doing? -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] launch applications in termial
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:39, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: --- ram. Firefox was already on your CDs. If you install the Mandrake RPM package a menu item will appear under Internetbrowsers. If you you did not install the Mandrake package you can create your own menu item with MandrakeControlCentreSystemmenus I can't find them on the CDs unfortunately. Will have another look. Rosemary No need to search through the CDs. Just open MenuSystemConfigureyourComputerSoftwareinstall and type firefox in the search box. Check the box and click 'Install' Done! (It can take about a minute for the menu item to appear) 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] trouble mounting zip drive
Mike Adolf wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike, How did you format it in XP? Did you use the ZIP tools to format it, or did you right click on the drive icon, and pick format? Does XP see it as a ZIP drive, or as an IDE floppy drive? The reason I ask is because it is possible to format a ZIP drive without a partition table. When you do that, you get the kind of results from fdisk that you show here, as well as the mounting problems we ran into. It isn't a big problem doing it that way, except that if this is the case, then you will have problems if you try to use a ZIP disk that is formatted the standard way. XP probably will not care... Mikkel I just right clicked and picked FAT32. However, I also used a new IOMEGA disk (right out of the box) which I assume was formated by IOMEGA. When I did fdisk I got the same kind of results. Should I try something else, like obtaining IOMEGA fomatting software (download?). What if I format using mke2fs (ext2), do think all would go back to normal then (what ever that is!). I just would not use the disk in windows. This should not be so damn complicated and difficult!! (oops linux fustration showing). Mike Mike, Don't worry about it. It sound like the driver is doing something for you that I wasn't expecting. In the long run, it will make things less complicated for people. It will make things interesting for people with both 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels, but things are interesting for them anyway. For me, it is just one more difference between 9.2 and 10.1 to remember... 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] Mandrake Hosting
On Monday 14 February 2005 06:32 pm, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello all. Maybe this is not exactly the best place for posting this question, but I really need help and I can't find information about it... I have some servers with Mandrake (this is the only relation with the forum's topic) that we're using in our organization. There are some intranet sites hosted there. However, we'd like to extend our site capabilities by pluging those servers into Internet and behave as a hosting server. That is, we want our site to be public to the Internet. However, we'd like to avoid ISPs, so my question is: what do I need to do about it? Where can I get the required information? Thanks a lot. Fernando Gomez. http://dyndns.org -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.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] amaroK 1.2 final
On Sun February 13 2005 10:56, Greg Meyer wrote: If you are trying to use mysql for the purpose of speed, you may want to try the sqlite again. The devs did some major optimizations of the sqlite engine and it is very fast now. Also, with respect to mysql, you need to create an empty database called amarok first, then load amarok and tell it to use mysql. I thought sqlite was choking on the amount of mp3s I was asking it to read in, so mysql was the alternative. It turns out that might not be the problem, since mysql hasn't been able to do it either since the 2nd beta, and the final merely disappears about 30 secs after it begins re-building the collection, no matter whether I use mysql or sqlite. The main problem for me now, with respect to mysql, is that I can't tell whether it's actually running or not. The service is running, according to MCC, but webmin is not seeing mysql as active, nor startable via mysql start. I think I might need to research mysql a bit further. Glenn -- 16:05:34 up 1 day, 23:40, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Registered Linux user #324360 The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] launch applications in termial
No need to search through the CDs. Just open MenuSystemConfigureyourComputerSoftwareinstall and type firefox in the search box. Check the box and click 'Install' Done! (It can take about a minute for the menu item to appear) Did that and mozilla was installed, and not firefox. But good to have got the hang of doing it. When I tried to do it before wasn't getting quite right. Thanks Rosemary 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 Off-topic
Besides that. Asbestos is illegal and not available to the general public. Kevlar it is. On 11 Feb 2005 at 20:59, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:50:19 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest khakis'. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:58:28 up 40 days, 9:39, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.11 +++ There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. -- Buddha 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 Off-topic
On Monday 14 February 2005 03:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides that. Asbestos is illegal and not available to the general public. Kevlar it is. Kevlar isn't flaer resistent it's basicly plastic fibers Nomex is tho ;-) On 11 Feb 2005 at 20:59, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:50:19 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest khakis'. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:58:28 up 40 days, 9:39, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.11 +++ There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. -- Buddha Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] file recovery tools?
Hi folks, Could any one please tell me a nice file or data recovery tools? I have installed testdisk but I found it 's not very much easy to use. What I want is some kind tools which can, e.g., recovery files deleted unintentionally. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final
On Monday 14 February 2005 06:18 pm, Glenn wrote: Also, with respect to mysql, you need to create an empty database called amarok first, then load amarok and tell it to use mysql. I thought sqlite was choking on the amount of mp3s I was asking it to read in, so mysql was the alternative. It turns out that might not be the problem, since mysql hasn't been able to do it either since the 2nd beta, and the final merely disappears about 30 secs after it begins re-building the collection, no matter whether I use mysql or sqlite. Does it work correctly with a new user? If so, you might try removing or renaming the following files and directories, which will start over and lose all your stats, but might work. Start with removing ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and then restart and see if that helps. It will restore all of the defaults. If that doesn't work, you can remove all the amarok data files by getting rid of this directory: ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok The main problem for me now, with respect to mysql, is that I can't tell whether it's actually running or not. The service is running, according to MCC, but webmin is not seeing mysql as active, nor startable via mysql start. I think I might need to research mysql a bit further. Sounds like you don't have everything you need installed. Can you post the output of 'rpm -qa | grep -i mysql' -- /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] modem problem (still!)
On Feb 14, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Bryan Phinney wrote: Melissa, my suggestion was strictly applicable to an external serial modem that connects to a hardware port on the computer. It won't work for an internal modem because that is not a real modem. A driver must be loaded to create the com port for an internal card modem. Thank you very much for this information! I had no idea... You should try to go to the http://linmodems.org/ site and try to get information about how to install the driver for your particular modem. Given your error, there is no way for me to try to figure out what is wrong. I would need to see the script you are running to see if there is a dependent package that is missing. I have located the download page for the driver for my particular Intel PCI modem and for Mandrake 10 and up. I'll guess that I need the version for the default configured Mandrake 10.0 system, but what is the SMP configured system? Or buy an external serial modem for $15 US, which is by far the less troublesome route. g Just because I might learn something, I'll try installing the driver first. If I can't make it work, I'll go for the external serial modem... Thanks very much for your help (and my apologies for misspelling your name beforeg), Melissa Allen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:26, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Feb 2005 10:57, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've never heard of an external modem being problematic, so I'm sure you/we will find the answer. Meanwhile, there is a thread http://dot.kde.org/1108262996/ in which there is the statement 'For those interested, an overview of KPPP including screenshots is available.' I suggest that you visit that thread and ask how to get that overview. It may be helpful to you. Anne Well - went to this link, and followed instructions, and modem worked immediatley. Despite the fact I had set to ttyS0 it was going to dev/modem (I think). Anyway working now. Thank you very much Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem (still!)
You can also try opening up KPPP, choose Configure button and go to the Device tab. From there, change the modem device from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS0 and then click on the Modem tab and click the Query Modem button. That should give you some reponse. Rinse and repeat using the /dev/ttyS1 device as the mdoem device. This was the problem! Device tab changed to /dev/ttySO and here I am in linux. I did configfure this in the drakX thingie, but obviously didn't work. But great to be up and running anyway. Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RIP Microsoft
Quote: But when was the last time you thought about Microsoft, except in frustration or anger? Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655page=3 We can only hope... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:56:22 up 43 days, 9:37, 8 users, load average: 0.10, 0.11, 0.06 +++ He who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. -- Psalm 15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
Mike, Don't worry about it. It sound like the driver is doing something for you that I wasn't expecting. In the long run, it will make things less complicated for people. It will make things interesting for people with both 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels, but things are interesting for them anyway. For me, it is just one more difference between 9.2 and 10.1 to remember... Mikkel Mikkel Thanks for all your time and help! Mike 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 and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Not urgent, actually, as I'm planning on switching from Thunderbird back to Evolution, as it will sync with the Tungsten E I have on the way :-), but I /would/ like to be able to access the mail which I now seem to have no access to; same with Firefox -- I know I can create a new profile there and rebuild what I need, but it'd be nice to have access to the old settings. The scenario is this: Have been running older versions of both TB and FF until today, when I decided to take the two of them out of my urpmi skip.list and allow them to upgrade finally. So, did urpmi, which did its thing, ran each once as root first (since that seemed to be critical with earlier upgrades), then attempted to run as usual. Thunderbird seems to have kept my account settings, and my folder directory even seems to show the proper counts for unread mail, etc., as I had left it before the upgrade, but nothing will show to the right ... neither a message listing nor anything in the preview pane. Similarly, the get mail button seems to do nothing now. Any ideas, other than creating a new profile and starting over? Same with Firefox ... my bookmarks are still there, and my Google toolbar is still there, but I've lost the ability to make profile changes (it warns it couldn't write to the profile and any changes would be lost upon shutting down the program). Any ideas there, again, other than starting over with the new profile? I know that upgrades have been problematic from the get-go, but was hoping they'd ironed things out a bit better by now. Oh, well. Anyway, TIA for any pointers. I've had little luck finding my way around the Mozilla forum/FAQs for this. You could delete the .slt in your ~/.phoenix/default/ directory and restart Firefox. Sometimes thats corrected some strange happenings for me. I did not lose my settings when deleteing .slt. Restart Firefox and it will create a new .slt with your old settings. May help, I don't know, I don't use the mdk rpm version. Mike 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 and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:05 -0700, mike wrote: Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Same with Firefox ... my bookmarks are still there, and my Google toolbar is still there, but I've lost the ability to make profile changes (it warns it couldn't write to the profile and any changes would be lost upon shutting down the program). Any ideas there, again, other than starting over with the new profile? You could delete the .slt in your ~/.phoenix/default/ directory and restart Firefox. Sometimes thats corrected some strange happenings for me. I did not lose my settings when deleteing .slt. Restart Firefox and it will create a new .slt with your old settings. May help, I don't know, I don't use the mdk rpm version. Thanks, but proved not to be necessary (at least with Firefox; Thunderbird is still borked but, again, I'm migrating to Evolution, anyway, just want to have access to that old mail if I can). With Firefox, what I ended up doing was doing an import of the bookmarks from the old profile; it didn't balk at that at all. Then I simply downloaded and installed the plug-ins I wanted, as I'd likely have had to update them anyway. So, Firefox is fully functional again, and more or less in the state it was prior to the upgrade (with the exception of version changes, of course). That was relatively painless. Thunderbird is proving to be more challenging. I tried copying the mail dirs for safekeeping then a urpme followed by a urpmi, which gave me a functional copy of TB, albeit with a brand new, empty profile. Then tried moving some of the old mail dirs to the new profile, and got *some* of my mail back (Inbox and one other folder with unread mail showed up, but none of the others ... odd). I may end up just calling the old mail a lost cause, unless someone has any other ideas. I'm still trying to find info at the Mozilla-TB forum, but I tend to get lost there and find everything but what I'm looking for. :-) So, it's not in the critical category, but rather in the gee, wouldn't it be great if category now ... still important, but Thx. -- Chuck MATTSEN ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] supposed thunderbird download
I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? Thanks Rosemary 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 and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Thunderbird is proving to be more challenging. I tried copying the mail dirs for safekeeping then a urpme followed by a urpmi, which gave me a functional copy of TB, albeit with a brand new, empty profile. Then tried moving some of the old mail dirs to the new profile, and got *some* of my mail back (Inbox and one other folder with unread mail showed up, but none of the others ... odd). I may end up just calling the old mail a lost cause, unless someone has any other ideas. I'm still trying to find info at the Mozilla-TB forum, but I tend to get lost there and find everything but what I'm looking for. :-) So, it's not in the critical category, but rather in the gee, wouldn't it be great if category now ... still important, but Thx. In mozilla not sure about Tbird but probably the same. Look in ~/.mozilla/default/.slt/Mail/smtp.xxx.xxx/ It lists all my mail folders. You could try [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ locate Mail/smtp and see if that turns up anything. I guess it depends on how good of job urpme does :-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? Thanks Rosemary Which download manager did you use? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] easyurpmi
Hello all, Decided to have a look at this and see if I could figure it out. Now I'm stuck. This is the last few lines of my terminal ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.plf-free.cz] writing list file for medium plf-free examining pubkey file of plf-free... ...imported key caba22ae from pubkey file of plf-free built hdlist synthesis file for medium plf-free found 0 headers in cache removing 0 obsolete headers in cache write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg bash: /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# Can anyone help please - many thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:27, mike wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? Thanks Rosemary Which download manager did you use? Mike The one in mozilla rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] easyurpmi
Rosemary McGillicuddy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all, Decided to have a look at this and see if I could figure it out. Now I'm stuck. This is the last few lines of my terminal ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.plf-free.cz] writing list file for medium plf-free examining pubkey file of plf-free... ...imported key caba22ae from pubkey file of plf-free built hdlist synthesis file for medium plf-free found 0 headers in cache removing 0 obsolete headers in cache write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg bash: /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# Can anyone help please - many thanks Rosemary Hi Rosemary, Were you trying to look at the file ? In order to do that, you can use the less command, type: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# less /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg use the arrow keys to scroll up or down and type q to quit. HTH -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with? -- Why Why Why n°11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 03:45 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? ___ ~ perhaps, it is handy to install : findutils-locate . . . that way, you could command : updatedb and, then, command : locate thunderbird best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 05:00 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Which download manager did you use? Mike The one in mozilla a look at the default settings, might reveal the default destination of downloaded files? best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
~ perhaps, it is handy to install : findutils-locate . . . that way, you could command : updatedb and, then, command : locate thunderbird best rgds _ Okay - I'll do that. Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:27, mike wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? Which download manager did you use? The one in mozilla Rosemary, perhaps it is time you learned the find command. Open a command line window (konsole or Eterm or xterm or rxvt or gnuterm or whatever), and type the following: find /home/rosemary -name \*thunderbird\* -print This will show you the location of anything containing the string thunderbird within your home directory and all its subdirectories. I'm sure there are people who would invoke this command slightly differently, but I'm set in my ways - I started using find on UNIX, so my usage is perhaps archaic. It works, though. regards Duncan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:28, riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 05:00 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Which download manager did you use? Mike The one in mozilla a look at the default settings, might reveal the default destination of downloaded files? best rgds Says it's in /home/rosemary/tmp but I don't see it there. regards Rosemary 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 Hosting
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:32:42 -0800 Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. Maybe this is not exactly the best place for posting this question, but I really need help and I can't find information about it... I have some servers with Mandrake (this is the only relation with the forum's topic) that we're using in our organization. There are some intranet sites hosted there. However, we'd like to extend our site capabilities by pluging those servers into Internet and behave as a hosting server. That is, we want our site to be public to the Internet. However, we'd like to avoid ISPs, so my question is: what do I need to do about it? Where can I get the required information? Thanks a lot. Fernando Gomez. Do you have domainnames or are you planning on registring domainnames for one thing? If so you can always host the domains yourself. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] If you play Go
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 01:51, Heather wrote: omg i'm remembered!!! its only been forever! gods... I was thinking of joining again but I don't even use MDK anymore so really why would I? Plus uh I seem to remember gettin told I talked too much on the list *giggles*. Ah well ty Anne much appreciated. :) *debates idly rejoining... hehe* Heather Message from Aron Smith this morning, asking how you are. Yes, you are remembered, and with affection. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEarekFAvMr/nNX8RAvzlAKCBTQQ5fh9RyYWcUDk8PvNe0jg16gCgiyDM SNoGMGwzKXpbDXK2d7LRqWs= =2/Xf -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] If you play Go
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Feb 2005 22:50, Aron Smith wrote: Anyone know how Femnme is doing? Fine, I think. Same irrepressible humour. She gave up linux for a while when she was in so much pain after her operation, but seems to be tinkering again. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEatVkFAvMr/nNX8RAvKXAJ9DgiokbeptK6qH1uTt9Tm0VKmQogCeK0t+ sSvj2kXSUvXDJ8NYwD21IFA= =bOH6 -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
