Have had 9.1 installed on several machines for months working fine.
One had a harddrive problem this last week, so just got a new drive
and reinstalled 9.1 then did most updates. When I tried to shutdown
the machine, however, umount failed for the partition I have /home on.
Get a device busy
Upgraded openssh packages due to security issue, but then found
that sftp no longer worked in Konqueror. Problem is on client side--not
on server side (confirmed by downgrading packes on client machine).
sftp does work from the command line, but I notice it now prints out transfer
stats to the
On Saturday 05 April 2003 02:38 am, Frederic Soulier wrote:
Hi
I've been following this thread about icons for removable devices but
I'm quite puzzled by the way it looks on my box (installed with 9.1 from
scratch, not upgraded from 9.0 so there is no leftover).
In my /home//Desktop
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:02 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:40, Norman Carver wrote:
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:22 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:52, Norman Carver wrote:
Thanks, but 9.1 does not work the same as 9.0. In particular, you
Thanks, but 9.1 does not work the same as 9.0. In particular, you cannot
rename or change these icons (or even delete them).
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 11:51 pm, Norman Carver wrote:
Using KDE with 9.1, I have some questions about the new
On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:15 am, Marc Berenschot wrote:
Norman Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, but 9.1 does not work the same as 9.0. In particular, you
cannot rename or change these icons (or even delete them).
You can 'delete' them with KDE control center, under LookNFeel
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:22 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:52, Norman Carver wrote:
Thanks, but 9.1 does not work the same as 9.0. In particular, you cannot
rename or change these icons (or even delete them).
Go into /home/you/Desktop You'll find the files
On Thursday 03 April 2003 04:52 pm, Miark wrote:
Dave,
Your hdc and hdd are not harddrives, they're your CD drive and tape drive,
which have DMA turned off by default. The command you're looking for
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd
For some strange reason, though the boot messages
Using KDE with 9.1, I have some questions about the new approach for
automatically creating desktop icons for removable devices. I don't care for
how this shows up on my desktop--with each drive having 3 lines of text like:
CD-ROM
mounted on /mnt
/cdrom2
This takes up a lot of space
I believe this is what you will see if the floppy drive goes bad.
I have a bad one in a machine at work--I will see what the message
is tomorrow.
On Thursday 23 May 2002 08:31 pm, you wrote:
Thanks for the reply, however this has recently occurred on an application
which was in service for
I had not yet switched to MDK 8.2, but a disk failure made me go for it a few
days ago. All had seemed fine--I was getting things set up the way I wanted
them. Then, tonight, I found that the filesystems on Zip disks are being
corrupted when I try to delete files (works fine for reading and
from the console without problem...
The error just puzzles me:
Error: Message size 1936943199 too big from server
Any idea?
Thanks in advance.
--
---
Norman Carver
Associate Professor Phone: (618
I have a motherboard with the new VIA vt8233a chip (which supports UDMA133).
This chip is not recognized by the the Mandrake 8.2 kernel code, so I have
only very slow disk access. I have gotten ahold of the 2.4.18 kernel patch
that should allow this chip to be recognized. However, I am
Do you have the latest version of the reader?
I got the lastest from adobe.com. It fixed the
problems I was having with some files. I believe
they were the same as what you are encountering.
Norm
Leopold Palomo wrote:
Hi list,
I have realize that with the same pdf file, I have
Wondered whether anyone has installed MDK 7.2
on a Dell Inspiron 8000. A friend just got one
and the install didn't "just work." So before we
spend lots of time fussing around, I thought I would
ask here whether anyone already knows the "secrets!"
Machine has ATI Mobility graphics card and
I have gotten somewhat tired of dealing with
my AWE 64 ISA PNP sound card (plus want to use
digital connections), so because Staples has the
Live MP3+5.1 on sale for $80, I decided to get one.
I gather that MDK 7.2 is supposed to support this
card, but I was interested in getting more info from
Zelck, Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After my fresh 7.2 install, which didn't go smooth but succeeded at last, I
have this anoying cdrom problem.
Using data cds is no problem and even supermount works perfectly.
The trouble starts when I want to use a cd-player (kscd in my case, the only
one
Michael Powell PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
After doing an expert/workstation install low security of 7.2
I have the following problems. I remeber seeing these in expert/cooker,
but didn't save them.
first I have GIANT fonts in everything. checking KDEconf I reset all
fonts
to helvica.
Aaron M. Hirsch:
I have recently installed 7.2 on a couple of boxes at work, possibly 20
in the near future if I can correct this problem. I am unable to use
any of the inet/inetd/xinetd services, such as telnet, ftp, rsh
I do have inet/inetd/xinetd in the startup services, and have
Two more things I forgot to mention with regards to this problem:
e things I forgot to mention with regards to this problem:
The CUPS logo does not completely/properly appear for
me on this page. So it would be useful to find out if
that is not the case for those reporting the page as working
Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 09 November 2000 06:45 pm, you wrote:
Internal (atapi) Zip drives appear not to work properly
in MDK 7.2 with supermount (as the installation sets them
up).
I have not yet seen this problem. I use mine for file backups and have never
Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~I have about 9GB of unused space since I uninstalled Be. My home
directory
:~its own partition. Do you think it would hurt my Mandrake if I used is as
:~my home in Debian. I have a backup of it on a seperate partition, and a
:~compressed backup on a CD,
I have done two installs of 7.2 on two machines, and
have encountered several problems (e.g., printer setup
during install never produces working printing).
However, I now have a rather serious problem with fonts
in KDE on one install, and wondered if anyone might have
a suggestion
Here's
Right--if you have your IDE drives set up to use LBA mode then
the 1024 "limit" is not an issue for LILO (older version).
It is only if you are not using LBA that you need to worry
about this.
Norm
Ron Stodden wrote:
Mark Weaver wrote:
This is just a basic partition map for large drives,
Tom Brinkman wrote:
But will they accept and convert OS/2 and Win icons? I thought I tried and
they did not?
If you take any .gif file and reduce it to 64x64 and change
it to an .xpm, you can then use it as a KDE icon.
And you can use xv to convert gif or bmp files to xpm format.
Pelon wrote:
You're correct Steve. I think you're remembering
the old "Templates" folder. You can find it at
~/.kde/Templates and
/usr/share/apps/kfm/Templates.
And you can still right click in the file manger
to get the Template listing. But with mdk7.0 you
also could get this list by
Steve Browne wrote:
Create a folder called, say, NewApps. Open the folder. Now you can
create an icon-link for an application, within the folder. Then move
the app to the Desktop. I don't know why the procedure was changed.
All you have to do is go into ~/Desktop and create them there.
Norm
I have an interesting problem with Netscape
(4.73 from MDK 7.1). I had gv set up as the
application to call for Postscript documents
(gv %s), but was fooling around trying to get
Netscape to handle gzipped Postscript where the
mime type shows as gzip rather than postscript
(application/x-gzip
I just used the auto update to update several
packages on my 7.1. However, when I got back
into the updates again later to do more packages,
all of the packges were again listed--including
the ones that I had already updated. Querying
rpm seems to show that they have been updated.
Why isn't the
Jens Benecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to get an IDE zip running on our server. It's for people who
want to copy stuff off the server onto a removable media and take it with
them. I use supermount to mount the thing:
/zip /zipsupermount
Did you enable supermount during the install?
I have been talking with civilme and others about my
cd-rw and tried disabling supermount so I could just
manually mount the cd with different file systems.
Guess what, caused the CD-RW to quit functioning.
Re-enabling supermount got it working
Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dmesg
cat /proc/pci
lspcidrake
cat /etc/fstab (AFTER you try installing 7.1 again)
And I am very curious also why /dev/scd0 would work. CDRWs are
normally assigned /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1 Could THAT
be it? Is your CDRW acting like ONLY a CD-R?
Thanks to all those that responded (both on the
list and privately)!
I agree that the M$ keyboards feel fairly good,
but I want a normal keyboard because I switch
around from time to time. When I end up on one
of the split-hand M$ keyboards I can barely type.
Don't want to end up that way with
I cannot seem to get KSCD to load CDDB info under MDK 7.1.
Anyone have it working?
With the default, I get an "error getting cddb entry"
message when inserting a new CD. However, when I try
to update the servers list, I get an "unable to get
cddb server list" message. (It does not help that
Hey I just found this at buy.com:
IBM 101 ENHANCED AT KEYBOARD 101 KEYS ($68.95)
Your keyboard is your direct line of communication with your PC.
It can affect your comfort, productivity, and even the quality
or your work. That's why it's important to select a keyboard carefully.
Evaluate all
I am planning on gradually migrating most of my work
from a Sun Ultra 5 to a Dell 850 P-III, but one of the
things that I find annoying is how much better the Sun
keyboard is. I am talking here about feel mainly--the
keys feel smooth with good touch feedback and they are
quiet. The Dell
I am confused about supermount vs. automount/autofs.
They seem very similar by looking at the man pages,
but apparently they are different. Right? The install
of 7.1 has autofs as a possible service to start, and
I guess that I was confused about it vs. supermount so
left it checked to start.
Recent install of 7.1 on new Dell 850 with an
LG CD-RW (www.lge.pl) and Sound Blaster 64v PCI
(detected as ES1371).
Haven't tried burning any CDs yet, but CD-RW works
fine as CDROM and sound is working.
Having one problem though: neither KSCD nor GTCD
are able to affect volume when playing
I wrote:
...
Did an mdk7.1 install on the problem machine and
chose XFree 3.3.6 instead since the owner wanted
less problems. Ho, ho. However, when the machine
boots mdk, it hangs when X is starting.
...
Remembered that we could use the install CD to do
a "rescue" boot. Found that XFree
We have two brand new Dell machines here that
are identical except for mouses and monitors.
I installed 7.1 and chose to try XFree 4 and
everything worked fine. The other machine we
have had nothing but problems with trying to install
Linux (neither the COL2.4 nor RH6.2 graphical
installs
Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new
Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there is
a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me (and
probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of the
Just installed MDK 7.1 on a new Dell T850.
Generally went well...but, of course, there
are a few issues (e.g., sound!).
One is accessing the internal zip drive (atapi).
MDK configured this to use supermount (with desktop icon).
Access is no problem--stuck in disk and clicked on icon.
Just tried to look at how to edit the KDE menus in 7.1.
Appears to not be possible! Tried both of the following:
1.) K | Panel | Edit Menus
Does nothing
2.) right-click on K | Properties
get the message: The menu editor is not installed.
Now I know that a
...
There is something about the kpppload file that's screwing up the rest
...
As I recall (from earlier today), kpppload was the point at which I was
instructed to switch to the 2nd cdrom--the "ext" one---during the install.
(I did a "development" install with all packages.) The packages are
how do I quickly delete a whole directory and everything it contains from
the command line.
...
#rm -r puts me in "do you really want to do this?" hell.
re-alias rm so it isn't set to that stupid/annoying/etc. rm -i!!!
Norm
Laurent Duperval:
I have 1299 cylinders. As far as I can see, only 1268 are used. The rest was
supposed to be allocated to my swap. Fo some reason, it's not. Is it because
the second partition is an NTFS partition and because of that partition 5
should be of the same type? Here's the
Laurent:
Well, I don't know about others but it sure was enlightening to me. Now I
have to make a decision:
Fiddle with the partition tables using partition magic to try and set things
straight or reinstall the whole thing. I think I'll be going with option B.
My swap space is too large
In my two MDK 7.0 installs on desktop machines,
kcmlaptop is automatically started. I would like
to eliminate it (since it takes up 2% of 200+MB mem.).
I have poked around a bit, but cannot determine where
it is being started. Anyone know?
Thanks,
Norm Carver
From: Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 16:30 -0600, Norman Carver wrote:
Any idea what is going on?? Since my friend has to
use W98 frequently, he is not too thrilled about having
to remember to always turn his printer off between the
boots.
I'll put
Hey, here's an even stranger finding on the
W98-mdk/usb-parallel Epson printer saga:
If you have both the usb and parallel cables
connected to the Epson, but you only use the
usb associated printer in W98 to print, then
parallel port printing works fine when you switch
to Linux. However, if you
Turns out I spoke too soon about the problems
with the Epson 900 printer being solved.
The simultaneous usb-parallel connection was
not the problem after all.
After going into Win98 (again after printing was
working fine in Linux) printing again does not work.
There is simply no response from
Having set up mdk 7.0-2 on my two PCs and having had
few problems (except for incomplete network setup on one),
I agreed to help a colleague set it up on his PC.
Unfortunately, we have had nothing but problems.
We have resolved the same network issue that I had
(this is obviously a bug in the
Printer is now working via parallel port. Problem
appeared to be due to having both the usb and parallel
cables attached to the printer. Win98 has no problem
with this with the Epson, but Linux appears to--no
output as I mentioned in earlier post. While we had tried
disconnecting this cable
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