Just install the DrakFont RPM from the 7.1 distro. :-)
Otherwise, you have to copy TTF files (ensuring the extension is
lowercase), then run ttmkfdir, etc, as described in several different
tutorials written much more clearly than I write. I've grabbed the
DrakFont RPM and am using it on a 7.0-
The disk is referred to often as the "Extras" disk, the ISO is merely
EXT, but the install refers to it as Extension. Notice the EXT that
seems to be common throughout? :-)
On 19 Jun, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
>> You're really making this more difficult than necessary. All you need
>> is the fi
Running imwheel is not the problem, just running it after root has.
If I boot the GUI as root, it automatically runs imwheel (haven't found
the specific location to make it stop that yet), and when I leave the
windowmanager, it leaves the pid file in /tmp. With the pid file
there, imwheel won't
OK, maybe someone can help me before I resort to downgrading back to
Mandrake 7.0-2...
I upgraded to 7.1 from 7.0-2, everything went fine yada yada yada.
Now, Canvas and Toppage will no longer run. TopPage doesn't even give
an error, it just starts then dies. I assumed a WINE problem, so I
uni
I'm running the latest (0.9.17) release, and the RPM is available at
the home of Gaim. I believe that is www.marko.net/gaim
On 2 Jun, Alan N. wrote:
> Jesse McDonnell wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, John Kofinas wrote:
>>
>> > > AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim user
Last night, I was able to connect to AIM via Gaim without a problem,
even held a conversation or two. This morning, I get a "no
configuration" error which makes no sense. So, I try the old TiK
client, officially released by AOL a while back. No joy there either,
it connects and then disconnects
I've tested both drives with the -c and -d options manually, and the
drives work just fine and dandy. The read-ahead options tend to cause
problems, though. Regardless, they DO get reset back to the default
16-bit, no-DMA settings by the time the bootup is finished. As soon as
I login and check
Hmm, shouldn't there be a -k in the list of options? My understanding
of hdparm is that, without the -k, the settings may not stick. I know
on my system, I get the "Starting Hard Drive optimisations for /dev/hda"
(and hdb) messages at boottime, but if I run hdparm to check the
settings later, th
OK, I have read all I can find at the LICQ.org site, and the programmer
seems to have a short fuse so I hesitate to write to him directly.
I've been using LICQ 0.81 for a month or so, and then had a problem
with my hard drive requiring a new installation. Now, when I install
LICQ, with all the Q
Alexander-
Yeah, pretty much EVERYBODY has the same problem. Netscape doesn't
handle Java very well. Nearly everyone I know of that uses Linux turns
off Java support in Netscape to avoid having to kill the rogue process
every 30 minutes or so.
On 10 May, Alexander Feigl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I hav
Due to differences in the basic composition of CD-R and CD-RW disks, a
CD-RW will not register in a standard CD player, nor in many CD-ROM
drives. You'll need to burn it to a CD-R to use it outside your
computer.
BTW, when I first do something different with CD burning, I always burn
a CDRW to t
You can't mount an audio CD, so that's not a problem. Here's the
series of steps I take to use XMMS with CDs. Hope it's easy to follow:
Open Playlist, and say "New List" to clear out anything that might be
in the way.
Choose Dir + (add Directory), then move to the /mnt/cdrom and hit OK.
Up po
I've noticed an odd message in my /var/log/maillog file recently, that
I don't recall seeing last week or so. I've changed nothing in my mail
setup since then, and the IP it is showing if for the VMWare internal
network, so I don't understand why it's in there. Any ideas? Here's
the line that p
n /usr/lib, that contains
> the binary "login", which will be needed no matter whether you allow
> inbound telnet or not.
>
> Russ
>
> Gary Bunker wrote:
>
>> Of course the client and server are separate packages. However,
>> telnetd is the telnet Da
Of course the client and server are separate packages. However,
telnetd is the telnet Daemon, and is therefore part of the SERVER. You
don't need a daemon for a client.
On 30 Apr, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote:
>>
>> But then how come I have telnetd but don't have telnet
Do you mean that you are completely unwilling to pay for any of the
software you use?
On 28 Apr, Ron Stodden wrote:
> John Murphy wrote:
>
>> The whole thing is worth the effort it's a pretty nice program. Does it all
>> from creating web pages, text art, animation, then uploads it for you to yo
I use xntpd and have no problems, no cron jobs to maintain, etc. I
just have it run at boot, with a few public timeservers in the
xntpd.conf file. Keeps the clock perfectly synchronized, even during
the change to Daylight Savings Time. It seems to me the rdate/hwclock
combo is a bit of a kludge
I believe the XO= and fs-1= files are merely lock files. When I've
used VNC for example, it will place an X1= or X2= file in the .X11-unix
directory, depending on which X Display it is set for. Of course, I
might be wrong, but that seems to be the case.
The discussion about the /tmp directory t
I use Sendmail on a similar system as he mentioned, and I have to force
some mail to be routed via my ISP's SMTP server, for exactly that
reason. So far, I've had to create "Domain Routing" rules for AOL,
Compuserve, Earthlink and Adobe (whatever), as well as a local ISP in
Minnesota. Oddly, I c
The reason Unix systems don't like numbers for names is because the
name is just an alias for a number that Unix assigns internally. Take
a look at the /etc/passwd file for example. Here's an example line
from my box:
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:
This means that the user "nobody" is actually UserID
Traditionally, Unix and Unix-like systems (VMS, Linux, BSD, etc) don't
like usernames that start with a numeral. I don't believe that has
changed in Linux, but I may be wrong.
On 20 Apr, duncan wrote:
> I need to be able to add a user that is a number
>
> When I try I get the following results.
e to send this information to the maintainer of the sb64
> kernel driver. Maybe it's possible to change same thing and avoid all of this
> problems. The question it's that there are three know person in the world
> without any connection that have the same problem.
>
> Wha
It's all magic...
I went into Netscape's preferences, and erased the PNG MIME types
completely. After I restarted Netscape, the PNGs that gave me fits
before work.
It's all a miracle, and it makes no sense unless Plugger took control
of files that it is actually incapable of displaying.
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I've noticed the same problems with PNG files in Netscape (using 4.72
currently) and Plugger. I've not found a way around it, yet. The
files will load sometimes, and other times not. Mozilla handles all
the different flavors of PNG without a problem, but it has plenty of
other problems that mak
If you use Linuxconf to setup your sendmail configuration (heresy to
CLI zealots, I know), it is quite simple to configure. Once it is set
up you just tell your email MUA to use localhost as the SMTP server.
Odds are, you'll have to tweak the config files quite a bit, so if you
aren't on a dedic
I have an AWE64 also, so I'm familiar with your card.
The explosion is the sound that the startup script throws at the
soundcard, and I'm not sure how to kill it either.
The second issue: volume control. If you set your volume as you want
it with the console program aumix and then save it, you
Well, I just added a symlink while not in Gnome, to the directory
/home/andy/.gnome-desktop and when I started Gnome it was there, so
maybe you need to restart Gnome to activate changes, if you haven't
already tried that.
On 11 Apr, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> I'm trying to put files and folders ont
> Again, I have another problem. How could I use the CD-RW and the
> CD-ROM in the same machine ? Both are IDE driven. So, what's
> suspicious to me. If I want to burn CDs I have to recompile my
> kernel without the IDE-CD support and with the SCSI generic and
> SCSI-emulation support (among other
Oooh! It worked! Thanks heaps and heaps, Matt. Now I can just pipe a
playlist to the cdrecorder. I knew Linux could do something this
complex without too much heartache. Thanks for figuring it out for me,
since I'm such a numbskull. :-)
On 4 Apr, Matt Stegman wrote:
> OK, this works for me
We've already discussed that putting quotes around it won't
work due to the IFS definition problem.
Understand?
Gary
At 01:49 PM 4/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> That's because the "for ... in ...; do ...; done" command
interprets any
> white space as separators - and,
Matt, that was a great explanation, but it still didn't seem to do the
trick. Now, using the IFS redefinition you gave, I get the entire
playlist sent to mpg123 as one filename, as far as I can tell from the
output I get. Here's my screen dump for you to ponder. I think I'll
just end up using m
Nope, that doesn't work. Tried that this morning, and two problems
occured. The playlist is no longer a playlist, since neither XMMS nor
MPG123 can play songs from it. And, it still doesn't fix the parsing
problem that "for I etc..." had. I end up with unrecognized filenames,
or (when just ech
OK, that was a brainiac move on my part. Didn't realize the importance
of the apostrophe direction in your post. HOWEVER, upon doing it
correctly, I end up with a different problem. If the files listed in
the M3U playlist include spaces, it chokes. Without spaces, no
problem. So, still no ele
That was my immediate assumption, but it gives me the error "cat
playlist.m3u no such file" although I can see the file and can "cat" it
normally. So, there must be some other magic...
On 1 Apr, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> Ahhh!!!
>
> for I in `cat playlist.m3u`; do mpg123 --cdr -s "$I" | cdrec
I guess I was less than clear. I want to make a CD that I can play
anywhere, not an archive of MP3 files. I'm very familiar with putting
data CDs together in Linux (as well as that other OS), and I've made
several audio CDs in Linux now, but I either have to explicitly spell
out each track on th
I've been burning CDs via Windows for a couple years, and with Linux
for about 1 year. I've made Data and Audio CDs, but one thing I would
like to be able to do I've been unable to find info regarding.
I'd like to take a playlist of MP3s and use it as the input for the
recording process. If I r
Here's the pointer section for my XF86Config, which works quite well
with my MS Intellimouse:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol"IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
I usually load imwheel on boot, since so many programs don't listen for
buttons 4 and 5. Works reliably for
stall setup all by itself. Check out Sun's java
page for the full info.
On 15 Mar, chunnuan chen wrote:
> How did you configure JRE 1.2.2 for Netscape? I thought Nescape came with
> its own JVM.
>
> Chunnuan
>
> Gary Bunker wrote:
>
>> I've downloaded and inst
e access to it, I do not know yet how
> staroffice would handle the file access permissions. However that was
> not the main point. Staroffice is not a GPL product and you made certain
> agreements when you installed it. If you do not want to keep that
> agreement that is personal to yo
I've downloaded and installed the JRE 1.2.2 setup from Sun, and it
works great in Netscape. When I tried to set up StarOffice to use
Java, it recognized that the environment existed, even pulled up the
class library titles, but when I load a webpage that actually contains
Java, the program says t
If you save your data files under your /home/user directory, with the
appropriate permissions (the defaults work well), how could anyone have
access to your files?
On 14 Mar, Tom Berkley wrote:
> better read your staroffice license. unless you have a multiuser
> license, you have to install it fo
That's odd, from the original Linux-specific web page, it links to the
same program, but doesn't give the option of an RPM. How peculiar.
Thanks for satisfying my curiosity, Seve.
On 14 Mar, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> You should find the RPM here.
>
>
>http://proforma.real.com/real/player/playe
On 13 Mar, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> [sher@adsl-77-232-213 sher]$ rpm -e
> RealPlayer7 failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> [sher@adsl-77-232-213 sher]$
Looks like you should have been root? Oh,well, water under the bridge
now.
> N
You can leave them on at boot, just change the umask to 0. The umask
permissions are exactly inverted from the normal chmod permissions,
which throws most people off. For instance, if you want to allow no
writes or reads to the drive (don't know why you would), the umask
would be 777. If you wa
On 13 Mar, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> The new RealPlayer7 Beta is here with all the plugins is here.
>
> Warning: There are two versions, an rpm for RedHat ALONE (it WON'T work
> on Mandrake 7) and one for the rest of us. It looks great.
They must have updated the site between the time you went and
OK, I'm an idiot. I just spent about 30 minutes trying to decipher
manpages and other documentation that explained the difference in Unix
between System and Hardware clocks. I get it now.
Of course, now I have to change my cron job to update the Hardware
Clock instead of the System clock, the
Maybe I'm confused about the concept of a "software" clock. Since I'm
coming from a background of VMS and Windows, the machines I've used
only have one clock. I understand using offsets, but let's assume I
have my hardware clock set to local time, rather than GMT, set my TZ
variable correctly, e
On 12 Mar, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>> Well, if you're root, just use rdate -s time.nist.gov (or whatever
>> server you use).
>>
> Yes. But it doesn't update the HARDWARE clock. Axalon was good enough
> to tell me -- hwclock is the command I was looking for. Doh! :-)
Well, if you're root, just use rdate -s time.nist.gov (or whatever
server you use).
On 11 Mar, John Aldrich wrote:
> I used to know this command, but I haven't used it in awhile and it
> now escapes me...
> After I use RDATE to set the software clock, what's the command to
> write the changes to
At 04:45 PM 3/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
Never looked at postilion... how is it in
comparison to pine (which is
what i use)?
Well, Postilion tries to be like NeXT's old mail program, so it's got
gigantic icons and layers of folders to store messages (which works great
with procmail). One thing I've
How about any MUA if used with fetchmail? I use Postilion personally,
but KMail or anything else that can read local mail boxes works well.
Also, KMail can access multiple accounts internally, so you don't even
need to use fetchmail if it scares you.
> Vern wrote:
>
> I'm back to using Micro$h
Disregard last. Author of GKrellM has created a new RPM that removes
the dependency problems I noticed. *sigh*
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http://andysocial.com
Put it in the Autostart folder if you're using KDE (which it sounds
like you are).
On 9 Mar, Mage Grimau wrote:
> Following directions I got from mandrakeuser.org, I am
> able to get my wheel mouse to work correctly under X
> excEPT i have to open konsole and type "imwheel -k" at
> the start of
Has anyone gotten GKrellm to work under Mandrake 7.0?
If I attempt to use the tarball of gkrellm, 'make' stops with this
output:
gcc -Wall -O2 `gtk-config --cflags` `imlib-config --cflags-gdk` -c main.c -o
main.o
gcc -Wall -O2 `gtk-config --cflags` `imlib-config --cflags-gdk` -c apm.c
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] NS 4.72 USA version problems
>
>
>> Gary Bunker wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Nil Carborundum Illegitimi
>>
>> Now there's a line I haven't heard in a while
>>
>>
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Nil Carborundum Illegitimi
http://andysocial.com
OK, here's a kludge, but it worked.
As you may remember, I was having the dreaded multiple-window closure
problem in Netscape, and using the latest 'clean' tarball from Netscape
to install from started it.
Since I was having fewer problems with the Mandrake 7.0 RPMs of 4.70
than with the tarball
I have completely wiped all the Mandrake-specific stuff for Netscape
from the system, including the shell script that once resided at
/usr/bin/netscape, because I could not upgrade to the 128-bit version
of Netscape and use that script without reprogramming and I'm no
programmer.
I have no script
I've nuked the Netscape RPMs that came with Mandrake 7 in order to use
the US-crypto version (can't find an RPM for it anywhere).
Now, it closes all windows when it should close one. This is not an
"all the time" thing, but often enough to make me want to kill
Netscape's programmers.
I've tried
I found it on rpmfind.net which is where I find almost everything not
WindowMaker-related. :-)
On 3 Mar, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
>
> I don't have mmv on my system or anywhere on the Mandrake 7.0 install
> disk.
>
> Do you know where I can it? Sounds cool . . .
>
---
Nil Car
No, that most definitely does NOT work. That was what I tried first,
then a horrible attempt at a while loop. I like mmv but now I'm trying
to remember how I did it under AIX/Xenix years ago...
On 3 Mar, Robert Binkley wrote:
>
> mv *.BMP *.bmp
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Nil Carborundum Illegitimi
htt
I used to know how to do this, but now my brain is full.
How can I change the case, or extension of a lot of files at once. For
example, I have a directory of BMPs that a friend sent from his digital
camera (yeah, I know, bad format, but it's not me). I want to make
them all bmp instead of BMP
I know, I know, Java on Netscape for Unix bites. BUT, say I wanted to
test it out. I've uninstalled the 4.70 NS files (both common and
communicator) from my system and installed the tarball from Netscape of
the 128-bit version. Call me silly, but if I'm entitle to good crypto,
I'm gonna use it.
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