Re: [newbie] Getting Xine to play .avi files
On Monday 11 April 2005 09:38 am, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I just upgraded to 10.1 and I am still having trouble getting xine to play avi files. I have been having this problem since 9.0. Can anyone tell me what settings I need to verify or change to get this to work? Right now when I double click on the .avi file xine launces and then it gives me an unrecognizable fuzzy picture that is majority blue color and without sound. Thanks for any help. Do you have avifile installed? Last one I saw was avifile-0.7-0.7* HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:14 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So I set the append line in lilo to noapic nolapic and on boot with the device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable. HTH Oh man, if I would read and not jump.. any chance you went to console and typed in as su mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk ? or look in MCC and see what harddrake calls the device. HTH Thanks, Dennis, but I do not understand quite well what you mean. Yes, if I run the command mount /media/usbdisk then, I can use my flash disk. Paul Right, this seems to be the way 10.1 works. It must first have a removable drive mounted and then it will allow it to be read. 10.2 has changed this and works much better for hotplugging. 10.2 should be out in a few days now. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Thursday 07 April 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So I set the append line in lilo to noapic nolapic and on boot with the device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Friday 08 April 2005 09:52 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So I set the append line in lilo to noapic nolapic and on boot with the device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable. HTH Oh man, if I would read and not jump.. any chance you went to console and typed in as su mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk ? or look in MCC and see what harddrake calls the device. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:06 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 08:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error I lost track of this thread, Aron did you try booting 10.2 from the second CD? This was all 10.1 as I have not been able to burn 10.2 successfully due to the size of the iso (699.8 Mb ) cannot be put on a 700 Mb disk Ah, ok, let me ask : how old is your burner? Seems like some of the older burners had trouble when going past 650mb cause that is what the old CDs were limited to. Or was this one of my weird dreams, must remember medications. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:17 pm, Elwyn York wrote: Can anyone speculate here roughly when Mandrake 10.2 will be ready for end user (ie me). It is, apparently, sometime the beginning of April (er, now! :) ) ready for cooker. Oh, and can someone explain what cooker is please?? (reference to Linux, not the kitchen... Google doesn't like me this morning!) Thanks Elwyn Supposed to be released on the 6th, but they have not hit a date yet so it will be soon after.Cooker is the incubator that they develop the next OS release. It is very much cutting edge and could as easy as not have bugs in individual packages. Once they decide that all of the packages that are going to go in the next release have been decided on then the developers start concentrating on bugs. A good stable release will evolve after about the 2nd or third update in my experience and that may be 2 to 5 weeks after the official release. ( opinion expressed here is not necessarily based on scientific fact or analysis, It is just a opion.) HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 10:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Everyone is intitled to their own opinion. Even if it is wrong. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 08:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun just has to be had. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:06 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 Apr 2005 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strangely, if you look at his website he has taken the trouble to include linux links and he has written about it at some length, although I'm afraid I don't read his language. Look for him in the archives, then look at the date. Anne I couldn't resist the temptation to send my annual joke... IIRC last year caught about the same number of people in the net, difference is for me anyway is this year I was one of them. Old, retired and lost track of what day it was. That is my story and I'm sticken' to it. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error I lost track of this thread, Aron did you try booting 10.2 from the second CD? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xmms and sound
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:27 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Any ideas why I can't get any sound out of xmms but realplayer, totem, and the system sounds work fine? TIA Paul Have you tried resetting it to the arts output plugin? or one of the others say alsa plugin if that is what you are running. Left click on the + sign in the upper left corner of the x multimedia system box and then choose prefernces. Look for the long bar that says Alsa or OSS or ArTs and change it by clicking on it. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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 do I...
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 07:32 pm, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello, how can I unsubscribe from the list? Regards, Fernando Gómez. P.S. Sorry that I didn't include in the subject something like How do I unsubscribe, because when I did, the email server thought it was a command or something and returned me an error message =S ... == Registered Linux User 381647. Usuario Registrado de Linux 381647 http://counter.li.org look at the maillists site where you first subscribed it will tell you how to unsub. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was once there. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. Count me in there. It is a valuable place to hold all Mandrake related issues, just kinda rough getting around. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. If you will be doing a fresh install, don't worry about this one. Lilo has always provided a Windows entry - IRC even if it finds just a fat32 partition table *without* M$ installed. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. just /, /home and one for swap (3 total) I like to set up with / , /home, /usr, swap as a minimum. Most of the time I add /var as well. /usr should be a large partition as well as /home, and / can be about 800mb up to 1gb if you load very many kernels. The reason I do the /usr is because that is where a lot of stuff goes that gets changed in the next upgrade and I have found minimal conflicts when that gets reformatted and /home is saved intact. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:10 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to get a Wireless G card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found the cardbus slot! As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' 'G' enabled networks with speeds up to 54Mbps, so this is preferred to either 'B' or 'A' cards. Even so, I'd still prefer one that can use Linux native drivers and has no need of the ndiswrapper package. I'm running KDE 3.4 on ML - Limited Edition 2005 (read as Cooker) with a 2.6.11-6mdksmp kernel on an HP ZD7000 laptop with a 3.2Ghz Full P4 (with Hyper-Threading, of course!), and 512MB's of Ram. Theoretically, that should do the trick if I can find a good card for it. I'd appreciate it if someone could also suggest the right wireless packages for setting up the card. That's probably asking a lot, but what the heck,...it's worth a try! TIA. I picked up an Orinoco Gold OEM card on E-bay for 29 bucks plus shipping. It worked with the madwifi package installed and then I used kwifimanager I think it was to see what connection strength was. I can give you a URL for the guy I bought it from on ebay, he has all sorts and some with antenna connectors and antennas. He has them on buy it now so it is not an auction but a quick purchase. I will post the URL if you like. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Wlan pcmcia cards, cardbus cards
Oh what the heck, here is the URL that I used to get my wireless card. I am not affiliated nor otherwise connected with this company or persons. Hope this helps someone. http://stores.ebay.com/DataAlliance_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What prevents me from moving to Suse92
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 11:20 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I don't want to start a flame war, but I just want you to know, that there is ONE thing that prevents me from moving to Suse92. As you know, I've dualbooted my notebook with Suse92 now. And actually I like it very much. You can say that it's kind of Ahhh.. Woooww.. However, after a couple of weeks of observation, there is one thing that keeps me using Mdk, that is THIS LIST. Sure, I've joined the Suse's list too, but, the feelings aren't just the same. I guess I've helplessly given my loyalty to Mdk. :) P.S. The KDE3.4 on mdk10.1 also contributes to it. I agree, Suse is pretty good, but this list and the familiarity I have with Mandrake Linux keeps me here. It is an mail list without borders. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Missing file using Wine
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:18 pm, Cameron MacDonald wrote: I'm trying to use a text/graphics database program for automotive waveforms called Aeswave. Since it is for Windows I'm using Wine to run it. I had no trouble installing it (Thank you , Wine!), but when I run Aeswave, it tells me I'm missing ddeml.dll. I found a ddeml.dll.so in /usr/lib/wine, and copied it to file:/home/cam/.wine/drive_c/aeswave, but that didn't do squat. Being a true newbie, I'm not sure where this file should go, or what the .so means. Thanks in advance for any help. Cameron- - - -trying to close the Windows in my life I am not sure what .so means either, but I do know that it is part of the Wine package and should be seen by your program. Somewhere a link is missing? Sorry not much help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia.
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:54 am, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, While the primary reason that I do not get a broadband Link is that I'm too cheap (poor), a strong second is the best thing about more bandwidth is getting streaming vid, and it's been my experience that Linux has problems with web video. Is this impression outdated? -- JHM It is outdated to the extent that linux does very well with most formats exit of course Windows Media Player. I can't get that to play anything but audio. Could just be me not knowing how though. Flashplayer and Quicktime both work as they have linux versions. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM problem
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 11:58 am, Aron Smith wrote: my cdrom will not load a data program eg: linux distro it will however find and play music . has anyone ever had this happen to them? Aron, try right clicking the cdrom icon and see if it shows mount or unmount when you have a data cd in it. If mount click on that and mayhap it will read ok? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum
On Thursday 17 March 2005 01:46 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:57 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Nicole I am using a Best Data V.92 External on a dual boot Mandrake 10.0 and WinXP. It wasn't terribly expensive - about US$40 I think I'm surprised guys. I thought nobody still use dial up modem in USA or any other western country. You watch video streaming of CNN on the net right? Modem dialup is still very common in US also. Many rural areas with low density population still do not have cable or dsl. Wireless is coming into it's own in the boondocks though. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? Thanks for the reply. Yep, that k3b-dvd is the one I ment. So that must not be the problem. I am at a loss, all the k3b problems, I use it with CD and DVD and have not had a problem ever. (knock on wood). -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Sunday 13 March 2005 06:13 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:31 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: You know, I've found that occasionally something will monkey with fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab as soon as I get everything working, so I can refer back to it when things go south. (The fstab backup created at changes isn't reliable, because sometimes I don't notice that stuff isn't working for a while, and several changes may have been made). K3b seems to be a big offender (as you have found out). Also, turn off harddrake--you can always turn it back on when new hardware is added. And sometimes, things seem to happen for no good reason that I can determine. I thought that I might be the only one, but I guess not. These are the fstab lines for my CD's with Mdk9.2, no scsi emulation on the reader. If there was, it might make cdrom2 /dev/scd1. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 One thing I know, if you unplug a usb device, and don't reboot when you plug it back in, a second mount point for the same device will be added (my camera does this continuously), and it drives me nuts! Anyone know how to stop this? And finally, I quit using K3b. I have a lot less problems with Eroaster because it doesn't continually lose my devices. I don't have any DVD writers, though, just CDRWs, so I don't know if Eroaster even works with DVDRW. e Hi Erylon, thanks for the reply. Well, see...it was a working setup that I had. Then the problem with my /home occurred and I had to reinstall. I thought I put everything back the way I had it before, but its obvious that I must not have. I use Gcombust here, like it a lot - it works fine with my setup. It does not support DVDs though. K3b did, until now, after the reinstall. So I guess I'll just keep playing with it. :-) There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] New HP laptop with NTFS Partition and trying to dual boot
I have a new HP zv5360us laptop, NTFS partition with Windows XP on it. When I try to install Mandrake 10.1 It refuses to resize the windows partition. Am I going about this wrong. I know linux will run on it as pclinuxonline cd runs ok. I just can't get an xfs partition set up. Any ideas? TIA, Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New HP laptop with NTFS Partition and trying to dual boot
On Thursday 10 March 2005 06:13 am, Mr. Geek wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: I have a new HP zv5360us laptop, NTFS partition with Windows XP on it. When I try to install Mandrake 10.1 It refuses to resize the windows partition. Am I going about this wrong. I know linux will run on it as pclinuxonline cd runs ok. I just can't get an xfs partition set up. Any ideas? TIA, Dennis M. linux user #180842 Dennis; I have the HP ZD7000 laptop, so I have an idea of what you're going through. Your laptop should have included a set of CD's from HP which include WindowsXP. I tried setting mine up the same way you're doing, but it was a major PITA to do, and I wasn't very happy with the final results. Assuming that you don't want to have any more hassles with Windows than you're rightfully entitled to (Grin!), I'd strongly recommend that you save whatever data might be important and start from scratch. If you didn't receive the CD pack with your laptop, you should be able to burn a copy of the stored Rescue Images that are currently on the hard drive, and I would suggest you burn a copy of them a.s.a.p.! Since you don't know what might happen with the laptop down the road, it would be a smart idea to have a copy of the WindowsXP images in case your hard drive dies on you. After several attempts to get my unit working to my satisfaction, I re-partitioned my hard drive, losing Windows in the process. Starting with a fresh installation of our favourite OS, I installed Mandrake as my second OS by creating a blank partition (roughly 10GB's) as the first partition and leaving it alone, then I continued with a normal Mandrake setup. When I got to the section of the Mandrake install concerning Lilo, I had it install itself to the Master Boot Record on /hda. The / (root) partition was set to 6 GB's (ReiserFS), then came a Swap partition (about 800 MB's), and a /home partition of 2 GB's was also set as ReiserFS. Even taking into account the fact that my laptop has an 80 Gb drive, I left my Mandrake partitions that small. The remainder of the hard drive was left blank (for the time being). Many of the big PC companies (HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM, etc.) like to provide you with Quick Restore CD's or images (stored on your harddrive), but in many cases those images are specially modified images that include Windows and any third-party software that they've arranged to include. These aren't the pre-installation versions like you'd find on a retail CD. They're a post-installation version which was created by HP or whoever. In essence, they perform a full install of Windows, MS Office or MS Works, etc., on one master hard drive, then they create an image of that master install and copy it to thousands of PC's or laptops. Those Quick-Restore images are similar to a Norton Ghost image and when you use them, they're designed to use the first partition of the drive. In most cases, the first partition is actually the entire drive, so they essentially try to install themselves across that first partition. However, if your hard drive is already partitioned, they only use which ever partition is first on the drive. Getting back to my partitions, this means that the 10GB blank partition that I created at the front of the drive is the one that the Quick-Restore CD's will see, so it installs itself to that partition. Once you've finished installing Windows to that first partition, either using a Quick-Restore CD or by doing a normal install of Windows, the hard part is done. Since the restore image was originally setup using NTFS, that first partition is automatically formatted as NTFS. If your CD's include a normal (and not a Quick-Restore image) version of Windows, you'll see that the default or suggested formatting is also NTFS. Remember to leave the remaining unused space on your hard drive alone for the time being. We'll get back to that in a bit. The nice thing is that the restore or full install methods won't do anything to your Master Boot Record, since Windows detects that the Master Boot Record is already in use. Lilo is already installed there. That means that the next time you boot the laptop, Lilo will still be there, and will only show you the Mandrake-Linux option. No problem. That's exactly what should be there. Once you've booted back into Linux, start up your Mandrake Control Center (a.k.a. MCC), and add the 10Gb Windows partition by creating a mount point for it. You're not obligated to use the Mandrake default mount-point, so feel free to be creative. Just don't mount it inside the /root home folder! Now, the last partition. My HP laptop came with an 80GB drive. Since Microsoft is trying to deter people from using FAT32 partitions with WindowsXP, they've Windows so that it won't format a FAT32 partition that's larger than 32GB's. Windows still accesses FAT32 partitions or drives that are larger than 32GB's with no hassle whatsoever
Re: [newbie] New HP laptop with NTFS Partition and trying to dual boot
On Thursday 10 March 2005 06:13 am, Mr. Geek wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: I have a new HP zv5360us laptop, NTFS partition with Windows XP on it. When I try to install Mandrake 10.1 It refuses to resize the windows partition. Am I going about this wrong. I know linux will run on it as pclinuxonline cd runs ok. I just can't get an xfs partition set up. Any ideas? TIA, Dennis M. linux user #180842 Dennis; I have the HP ZD7000 laptop, so I have an idea of what you're going through. Your laptop should have included a set of CD's from HP which include WindowsXP. I tried setting mine up the same way you're doing, but it was a major PITA to do, and I wasn't very happy with the final results. Assuming that you don't want to have any more hassles with Windows than you're rightfully entitled to (Grin!), I'd strongly recommend that you save whatever data might be important and start from scratch. If you didn't receive the CD pack with your laptop, you should be able to burn a copy of the stored Rescue Images that are currently on the hard drive, and I would suggest you burn a copy of them a.s.a.p.! Since you don't know what might happen with the laptop down the road, it would be a smart idea to have a copy of the WindowsXP images in case your hard drive dies on you. After several attempts to get my unit working to my satisfaction, I re-partitioned my hard drive, losing Windows in the process. Starting with a fresh installation of our favourite OS, I installed Mandrake as my second OS by creating a blank partition (roughly 10GB's) as the first partition and leaving it alone, then I continued with a normal Mandrake setup. When I got to the section of the Mandrake install concerning Lilo, I had it install itself to the Master Boot Record on /hda. The / (root) partition was set to 6 GB's (ReiserFS), then came a Swap partition (about 800 MB's), and a /home partition of 2 GB's was also set as ReiserFS. Even taking into account the fact that my laptop has an 80 Gb drive, I left my Mandrake partitions that small. The remainder of the hard drive was left blank (for the time being). Many of the big PC companies (HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM, etc.) like to provide you with Quick Restore CD's or images (stored on your harddrive), but in many cases those images are specially modified images that include Windows and any third-party software that they've arranged to include. These aren't the pre-installation versions like you'd find on a retail CD. They're a post-installation version which was created by HP or whoever. In essence, they perform a full install of Windows, MS Office or MS Works, etc., on one master hard drive, then they create an image of that master install and copy it to thousands of PC's or laptops. Those Quick-Restore images are similar to a Norton Ghost image and when you use them, they're designed to use the first partition of the drive. In most cases, the first partition is actually the entire drive, so they essentially try to install themselves across that first partition. However, if your hard drive is already partitioned, they only use which ever partition is first on the drive. Getting back to my partitions, this means that the 10GB blank partition that I created at the front of the drive is the one that the Quick-Restore CD's will see, so it installs itself to that partition. Once you've finished installing Windows to that first partition, either using a Quick-Restore CD or by doing a normal install of Windows, the hard part is done. Since the restore image was originally setup using NTFS, that first partition is automatically formatted as NTFS. If your CD's include a normal (and not a Quick-Restore image) version of Windows, you'll see that the default or suggested formatting is also NTFS. Remember to leave the remaining unused space on your hard drive alone for the time being. We'll get back to that in a bit. The nice thing is that the restore or full install methods won't do anything to your Master Boot Record, since Windows detects that the Master Boot Record is already in use. Lilo is already installed there. That means that the next time you boot the laptop, Lilo will still be there, and will only show you the Mandrake-Linux option. No problem. That's exactly what should be there. Once you've booted back into Linux, start up your Mandrake Control Center (a.k.a. MCC), and add the 10Gb Windows partition by creating a mount point for it. You're not obligated to use the Mandrake default mount-point, so feel free to be creative. Just don't mount it inside the /root home folder! Now, the last partition. My HP laptop came with an 80GB drive. Since Microsoft is trying to deter people from using FAT32 partitions with WindowsXP, they've Windows so that it won't format a FAT32 partition that's larger than 32GB's. Windows still accesses FAT32 partitions or drives that are larger than 32GB's with no hassle whatsoever
Re: [newbie] Migrating W2K web to MDK 9.1
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 03:15 pm, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: Misko, it has been a while since I did this, but, you should be able to take all of the html pages, such as index.html, page1xx.html etc and all .png, .gif, .jpg, etc save them to a CD or DVD and then install them all in /var/www/html. Then start httpd and Apache should pick them up and bingo you are back on the internet with your web page. Just as an aside though , Dennis, do you mean that web folders structure should remain the same as if it was under Windows? For example, I have some specific folders with pictures made by Picasa software (that makes a kind of a slide show). I also have some FrontPage-made series of slides that also reside in some specific directories. Should I just transfer all that stuff in /var/www/html ? Yes the html code of the webpage that calls for those directories should still work. You could put it in a test computer and run Quanta to call up the index page and see if all of the webpage works. if you used MS FrontPage to do the web site, it will not conform to the W3C standards. Some browsers may not render it properly. It is not to bad to fix if you use Quanta+ and revise some of the html a bit. HTH Ok, will try to do that and report on results. Misko I do to much by trial and error myself but it should all work properly if Apache knows where to look for the files. If the web page html was looking for the slides on a directory outside of that server or some place other than the var directory you might have to change the code to look in the correct place for the img or href= files. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Migrating W2K web to MDK 9.1
On Sunday 06 March 2005 04:15 pm, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, I want to migrate my company's intranet web site from Windows platform to Linux. At the moment I run that web on a W2k server and administer it from a W2k client (using MS FrontPage for editing HTM pages and Visual InterDev for ASP). I authenticate my users with a logon.asp page that looks into MS SQL Server database (on the same W2k server) having credentials of my users. What I want to do is to migrate that web server to MDK 9.1 platform that is already installed on the other disk (described in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html). The next step would be to switch editing that web server by using the client box (also having MDK 9.1 installed as the alternate OS). And, btw, I am not going to upgrade Mdk 9.1 with something newer, don't ask me why. So, what I am wondering now is: - Is it possible to run some Linux tool or something that is capable to 'import' the whole web site from Windows disk (both disks are SCSI disks of the same size) and to make the new Apache site operational quickly? If not, what would be the suitable solution (I wouldn't mind to keep W2k site there for a while, at least for a transitional period of time, until I get some proficiency of administering sites under Linux). - Are there some MDK 9.1 'from-the-box' editing tools for HTM(L) and ASP pages that I may use for remote web server administration and editing the content from my MDK 9.1 client box? If not, what would you suggest to look for? Btw, I run Mozilla 1.7.x under both Win and Lin environments - as the email client and web browser - but I don't have any idea about its Composer quality. - What to use instead of SQL Server - capable to authenticate the users in the similar manner as described above? Of course, instead of the ASP login pages, some other mechanism may be used. Regards, Misko Misko, it has been a while since I did this, but, you should be able to take all of the html pages, such as index.html, page1xx.html etc and all .png, .gif, .jpg, etc save them to a CD or DVD and then install them all in /var/www/html. Then start httpd and Apache should pick them up and bingo you are back on the internet with your web page. Just as an aside though , if you used MS FrontPage to do the web site, it will not conform to the W3C standards. Some browsers may not render it properly. It is not to bad to fix if you use Quanta+ and revise some of the html a bit. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
On Sunday 06 March 2005 04:23 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: After a lot of struggling with alsamixer and other programs, I was able to get sound from 3 computers. I was all happy until I decided to listen to a CD. No sound. I have looked everywhere I can see and see no problem. Also, when one goes to configure your desktop-sound-sound system, there is a button to test MIDI. Nothing happens if I press there. I suspect the only sound I can produce is Wav sound. Any help to allow me to listen to my music will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard. Teilhard, is the CDROM or DVD player the device that has the sound cable jumpered to the Motherboard or Sound Card? I do not get a sound when I test midi either but can still listen to CD audio. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE
On Thursday 03 March 2005 02:33 pm, Phlod wrote: Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. After searching through the list archive, I couldn't find an answer to my question, so I thought I'd ask here. Please excuse me if this has been answered already. Anyway, what I want to know is, how much of a pain is upgrading to KDE 3.3, and what the best/most painless way to go about it? I have the thracs.rpms repository added. Is it really as simple as 'init 3', and 'urpmi kdebase-3.3.3-20'?? I've also heard people suggest adding the cooker repository and upgrading that way, but I'm rather leery of doing that, since I don't *really* want to run an unstable distro, no matter how stable it actually is. Also, if I do the kdebase upgrade, and still have older parts of KDE installed (Kopete, amaroK, etc.), will it blow up, or just run them until I upgrade those parts too? Sorry about multiple questions here, but I'm trying to avoid having to re-install, (which would be my kneejerk reaction if the KDE upgrade doesn't work). --Phlod Is there some specific reason you want to upgrade? I find the current stable version to be quite adequate. At any rate, doing an upgrade from kde may be a problem from what I have read on various forums. It seems to depend on the level of expertise and time to do all the dependencies. But, if someone like PLF or ESLRAHC site has them built for Mandrake 10.1 then give it a go. Anyone else want to jump in here? It only hurts when you laugh. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk and Nvidia don't work
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:45 pm, RickSisler wrote: Dennis Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone had a problem with getting the Nvidia drivers to work with the -24 kernel? I can not get an install on this and it does not give a real reason in the logs. Does anyone know of a solution? TIA snip Hi Dennis, I had to add these with the 6629 driver, --kernel-name=2.6.8.1-24mdk --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk If this helps and it builds, as smiley suggests, make sure the nvidia is in your /etc/modprobe.preload config file. the club CD's or DVD. May help someday. Thanks, to Rick, the addition of --kernel-name=** did the trick. I was adding --kernel-source-path but not getting anywhere. Now I have the NVIDIA logo pop up and ut2003 plays once again. Thanks for the key and to all who gave input. Life is good, just don't weaken. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 11:20 pm, Dennis wrote: To scan both my Linux System and Windows.. --- Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #382526 - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1 Dennis wrote: Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1? What are you looking for? Something runs under Linux to scan your Windows partition, or something for a mail server to scan email attachments? Or are you looking for something to scan your Linux system? 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 download clamav using urpmi. Works well for me. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk and Nvidia don't work
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:52 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 28, 2005 22:13, Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone had a problem with getting the Nvidia drivers to work with the -24 kernel? I can not get an install on this and it does not give a real reason in the logs. This is the installer log print ... I've gotten the 6629 NVidia driver working fine with the -24 kernel with a GeForce FX 5200 board on my new computer. And I had the hand-patched 6111 NVidia driver (see list archives for details) working with the -12 kernel and a TNT 64 board on my old computer. But I can't get the TNT 64 board to work with the -24 kernel, with either the hand-patched 6111 or the (unpatched) 6629 NVidia driver. Either one installs fine, and X comes up fine, but any attempt to start an OpenGl program results in a Segmentation Fault. I haven't made any great effort to resolve this, just went back to the nv driver. Sorry I can't be more help. Huh, now the -12 kernel and/or 6111 driver will not work either. Same error message. I have been all over the internet looking for answers and tried them all. Thanks for everyone's suggestions, but no soap. Guess it's time to clean house and try again. I have really no sense when it comes to installing kernels side by side. Up Up and away. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Monday 28 February 2005 07:37 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 05:32 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Maybe I am being unecessarily negative about linux. But it does seem that one has to work inordinately hard to achivee some basic functions. I have reverted to Kmail simply because I can't get links to browser to open from Tbird. It seems this may a Tbird problem rather than Mandrake or linux. Nonetheless - fixes suggested, other than command line, which is beyond me as a newbie, don't work. I guess of course, that it's possible that I am entering text incorrectly. At the moment I understand why linux has the reputation that it has. I *do* appreciate all the help I've had. Wondering about going back to windows Oh, don't do that. Judging by the questions you have asked you seem much more competent in linux than I am, and I'm going to stick it out. Even though I've managed to break it so badly I've reinstalled from disk FOUR times so far this year LOL LOL some more... and just this last time learned I can cache the damn rpms and not have to go through this a-hole of a downloading hell every time for my updates. I feel really stupid here. Do you have any linux books? I have two and ordered a third and although I can only absorb like a page a day, maybe if I have a book in every room I will read more of it ;-) I won't say I've learned any CL beyond the most basic mv, cp and rm, but I find it helps to practice, and to have the directory you're playing with open in the GUI as well as in the Console. That way you can see what's happening. ;-) Other than that I play a lot of KBounce and KBreakout and surf and email and not much else yet. I have a couple of (very disorganized) text files of notes tips so on I've collected I'd be glad to email you if you like. (It'll add to the confusion) and if it's any consolation KMail is the only mailer that so far has done everything I've asked of it. Julie (in Kentucky) I agree with Julie, don't give up. You are much more competent than I was when I started with Linux in 1998. (I think). I am not a computer guru, geek (well a wannabe maybe) or programmer and have to wear a name tag to remember my own name, but I have progressed to the point where I don't ask questions unless I absolutely exhaust all my references and googles. And I love it. I laugh in the face of viruses and snear at worms and have shaken the dust from my feet in leaving MS. Oh, wait I'm getting carried away again. I preach to anyone who will listen about linux. Sorry, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk and Nvidia don't work
Has anyone had a problem with getting the Nvidia drivers to work with the -24
kernel? I can not get an install on this and it does not give a real reason
in the logs. This is the installer log print
option status:
license pre-accepted: false
update : false
force update: false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
no precompiled interface: false
no ncurses color: false
query latest driver ver : false
OpenGL header files : false
no questions: false
silent : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
force tls : (not specified)
force compat32 tls : (not specified)
X install prefix: /usr/X11R6
OpenGL install prefix : /usr
compat32 install prefix : (not specified)
installer install prefix: /usr
utility install prefix : /usr
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point: /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /root/tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
- License accepted.
- There appears to already be a driver installed on your system (version:
1.0-
6629). As part of installing this driver (version: 1.0-6629), the existing
driver will be uninstalled. Are you sure you want to continue? ('no' will
a
bort installation) (Answer: Yes)
- No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you
li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel
f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
- No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
- Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk'
- Performing CC test with CC=cc.
ERROR: If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure
you either have configured kernel sources matching your
kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed
on your system.
If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure
you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel
installed on your system. If you specified a separate
output directory using either the KBUILD_OUTPUT or
the O KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this
directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with
the appropriate nvidia-installer command line option.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
Does anyone know of a solution? TIA
--
Dennis M. linux user #180842
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Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:30 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm sure there will be a way in the command line, and going through Rute but in the meantime if anyone can help me shut it down I'd be very glad thanks. You can also put your mouse pointer on a empty space on the tbird and hit ctl-alt-esc and a skull and crossbones appears, then just hit enter and voila! gone. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mouse
On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:53 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I need a new mouse and have to say I am becoming very confused about linux compatibility. Currently using a MS trackball one which works using PS2 but it is driving me mad as the ball gets so dirty and sticks all the time. I want to try optical. A4 NB30 optical mouse (USB) was recommended in a local store so I bought it home to try it out but mandrake seems to hate it! If I attempt to boot with it plugged in the boot stalls. If I boot then attempt to run hardDrak to see if it will detect, again it stalls. Same thing if I go to Control Centre and Hardware. It is a nice light little mouse so would be good to get it going. Is it likely to be too hard for a newbie? Thanks Rosemary I have been reading the vim tutorial and practising a little so beginning to get some clues I hope! Rosemary, an easy way if you can not run without the system hanging, is to put the DVD or CD1 into your device whichever it may be and boot from the cd or dvd. Choose the install and then upgrade and let it run without choosing anything but continue up to the last screen with all the configure buttons choose the mouse button and select universal ps/2 or usb mouse and then finish out of the upgrade. Take out the CD/DVD and it should boot with the mouse functioning. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] which word processor
On Sunday 20 February 2005 08:51 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've written a couple of letter in Open Office just lately, and have to say I'm disappointed with the formatting. Open Office seems to do some strange things after using bullet points. It doesn't allow me to go back to original margins. What other word processors do people use and recommend. Thanks Rosemary Rosemary, in my OO.org if I click on the bullets icon on the tool bar after hitting enter to start a new paragraph, the bullet that it creates at the empty paragraph dissapears and normal paragraphing continues. Does that make sense? HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommendations on external hard drive, please
On Friday 18 February 2005 05:05 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'm looking for an external USB hard drive with 80 GB and Mandrake compatible. The MDK hardware list seems a little outdated and not very informative. And I know to avoid Western Digital ones. Recommendations ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I have an Acomdata external that works well. Only thing is I have to remount it every time I boot up the comp. Have not figured out why it does not mount automatically. Anyway I see in harddrake that it has a Samsung harddrive. Mine is a 120gig. I would think that any of the usb externals should work at the plug in. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommendations on external hard drive, please
On Friday 18 February 2005 10:49 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 17:31, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 05:05 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'm looking for an external USB hard drive with 80 GB and Mandrake compatible. The MDK hardware list seems a little outdated and not very informative. And I know to avoid Western Digital ones. Recommendations ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I have an Acomdata external that works well. Only thing is I have to remount it every time I boot up the comp. Have not figured out why it does not mount automatically. Anyway I see in harddrake that it has a Samsung harddrive. Mine is a 120gig. I would think that any of the usb externals should work at the plug in. HTH Thanks, Dennis. Unfortunately Acomdata isn't available here in Denmark, but Samsung is. And I don't care if I have to mount it manually (my USB subsystem is severely broken anyway, so I'm used to it). Going to Copenhagen over the weekend, so maybe I can dig one up in a specialized store - I don't trust those giant Computer Mart's for anything linux related. Thanks for the advice, Dennis. Kaj Haulrich. Oh, I forgot to tell you that I also have a maxtor hd that I put in one of those store bought enclosures and it also works very well. So if nothing else you can get an empty harddrive enclosure and a new 80g hd and roll your own so to speak. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux
On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:36 am, Michael Hahn wrote: From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you try choosing a static address just to eliminate any issue with the DHCP server? Pick a unique address on the same subnet as the router. There should not be any need to alter your router configuration. It will not care if you use a static address. With a static address can you 'ping' the router? (ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the router. Ctl C will stop the pings) Ok, setup the static IP address, tried to ping the router, and got this message: connect: Network is unreachable Double check to make sure shorewall firewall is off in MCC? I.E. everything box is checked. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux
On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:10 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:36 am, Michael Hahn wrote: From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you try choosing a static address just to eliminate any issue with the DHCP server? Pick a unique address on the same subnet as the router. There should not be any need to alter your router configuration. It will not care if you use a static address. With a static address can you 'ping' the router? (ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the router. Ctl C will stop the pings) Ok, setup the static IP address, tried to ping the router, and got this message: connect: Network is unreachable Double check to make sure shorewall firewall is off in MCC? I.E. everything box is checked. Oh, and also a firewall on any windows machines seems to be a problem for each machine that has it. So temporarily turn them off? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux
On Thursday 17 February 2005 12:41 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:10 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:36 am, Michael Hahn wrote: From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you try choosing a static address just to eliminate any issue with the DHCP server? Pick a unique address on the same subnet as the router. There should not be any need to alter your router configuration. It will not care if you use a static address. With a static address can you 'ping' the router? (ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the router. Ctl C will stop the pings) Ok, setup the static IP address, tried to ping the router, and got this message: connect: Network is unreachable Double check to make sure shorewall firewall is off in MCC? I.E. everything box is checked. Oh, and also a firewall on any windows machines seems to be a problem for each machine that has it. So temporarily turn them off? You shouldn't need to turn off any firewalls. Before you get carried away here, lets do some basic troubleshooting. First, run lsmod | grep 8139 to see is one of the 8139 modules is loaded and working. With 2 NICs using this driver, you should have seen eth0 and eth1 in ifconfig. But with firewire also showing up as a NIC in some setups, the output of ifconfig does not mean the correct module is loading. The Network is unreachable message indicates that the network setup isn't correct. You should always be able to ping the router from any machine connected to it. (It is possible to turn it off on a full router, but the ones used as firewalls for DLS/cable usualy don't offer that.) Now, there are two drivers that work with the RTL8139 NIC, depending on the one you have. So if the driver isn't working, we can try the other one. They are 8139cp and 8139too. Both will work with DHCP, and that is the preferred way to set up the one connected to the router when it is configured to be a DHCP derver. The one that is not connected will need some special consideration later. Depending on how it will be used, or if it isn't used at all, we may want to configure it with a static IP, and make it not to be enabled. The other complication with 2 NICs is determining witch one is eth0, and eth1. You can wast a lot of time troubleshooting things when you are working with the one that is not connected to the router, when you thing you are working with the one that is. Another thing that wil help is to run ifconfig -a, as this will show the interfaces that are down, as well as the ones that are up. Mikkel Your right, I was thinking of a problem connecting to the internet even though the nic is working. My bad. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy 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 Rosemary, it is not telling you to write the config file, it is saying that it has written the config file for you. Now if you want a file like ksetiwatch for instance, all you do is type as su a command urpmi ksetiwatch and if you have that file on one of your urpmi mirrors it will start download, HTH. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:46 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Rosemary, it is not telling you to write the config file, it is saying that it has written the config file for you. Now if you want a file like ksetiwatch for instance, all you do is type as su a command urpmi ksetiwatch and if you have that file on one of your urpmi mirrors it will start download, HTH. Yes it does thank you. I looked for an explanation of urpmi worked (googled) but got sites with mirrors without explanation. I had hoped I would learn by doing! So thanks for the explanation - it clarifies things for me. Thanks Rosemary Your welcome, after I sent it I thought it was either to simple or to harsh sounding, and I did not mean for it to be either. Once you get the hang of all this you will find that it is much more satisfying because you have control and can do as you want with your computer and know why things work like they do. Course I have been at this since 98 or 99 and still don't know a thimble full. I'm not in a computer related field either. So, learn from now till then and still find more to learn. Ya gotta love it. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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 Saturday 12 February 2005 10:05 am, Michel Leunen wrote: Hi, When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: $ konqueror webbrowsing konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/kde3/khtml_kget.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13KToggleAction15setCheckedStateERK8KGuiItem What's going wrong here? Michel Michel, what version are you using? if it is 10.1 have you done the latest updates including bugfixes and normal updates as well as security? And do you have any cooker sources for update mirrors? I seem to recall having the same problem and got it resolved by doing the latest update to the kde-xxx files. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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 Saturday 12 February 2005 01:35 pm, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:34:22 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget? urpmi gwget or gwget2 Thanks, JoeHill. Could you please tell me where from can one get the rpm for gwget? Regards, Paul It is in contrib if you have a urpmi source set up for the contrib rpms, just do the su passwd and urpmi gwget. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners
On Sunday 06 February 2005 11:01 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Hugh Dixon Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 3:38 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners Hi, I'm looking to get a DVD burner, and am having trouble sourcing things from the Mandrake hardware compatibility list. Does anyone know how up to date this list is? Am I correct to think that anything that conforms to the IDE spec should be OK? Does anyone have stories of things to avoid? Thanks, Hugh Dixon Oops. Just saw the current thread about dual layer DVDs. - sorry. Anyone got anything to add about any other DVD burners? Thx, Hugh plextor dvd burners work out of the box and are exceptionally quiet. My 2cents. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:40 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Hey, bud, when you get back in your office, could you remember to *never* set an out-of-office auto-reply for an account you use on a mailing list? Many thanks! I rang their contact number this morning, they can't switch it off as it is company policy to have this switched on and they cannot touch his mail system. If it's getting a problem then you can either bounce back, perhaps to the admin. Ignore it until he gets back or get the admin here to disable his mail. Cheers, Elwyn If it's a big problem, i can unsub the address. He'll get a note saying he was unsubbed. But he'll still see this HUGE thread with his name in it. :) eric eric, I don't feel it was a big problem, I only received the out of office reply one time. Not worth unsubbing him. IMHO -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 install problem
On Sunday 30 January 2005 03:45 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: Just installed 10.1 Official on a compac preserio. The installation video appeared normal during installation, but when I rebooted I just got a black screen. How does one even begin to solve that kind of problem? Mike Put the first CD in and reboot, then choose the upgrade 10.1 and let it go to the last screen, then choose screen resolution and try resetting to a lower color setting like 16bpp or less, run a test and see if you get the rainbow. If so you will have a useable config and you can go to finish. and reboot. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution fails to install
On Friday 28 January 2005 09:11 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Trying to install Evloution, unable to install: Due to unsatisfied libgnutls.so.11 Is there something I can do to solve this? Thanks, Andy If you go here : http://rpmfind.net/ type in the libgnutls.so.11 and then click search it will bring up the main lib file that that piece is in. Chances are it is on your disks but you can also urpmi that lib. I find this a good way to discover where .so. files live. Maybe someone has a better method? HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:27 pm, Mike Chalmers wrote: From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:33:27 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:03, Mike Chalmers wrote: Thank you both. I went to the web site ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main / , that Derek recomended. I tried to install several of the 2.6.8 kernel's and I get this message- Some package requested cannot be installed: kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied bootloader-utils[= 1.9]) do you agree ? I then tried to install one of the 2.4 kernels and it installed fine. So I do not know what to do? From, Mike Chalmers This is what I meant when I said the kernel might require other packages. This kernel was built for Mandrake 10.1, and because of differences in the two releases it is asking for a package not available in 10.0. I would not recommend trying to install the bootloader-utils package. That will very likely demand other packages ad infinitum. So if you want a newer kernel, then I think you are restricted to either compiling your own, or upgrading to Mdk 10.1 BTW: That 2.4 kernel you installed will now be your default kernel. Your 2.6.3 kernel will be an option in the Lilo menu. You can uninstall the kernel with the Software Uninstall GUI. 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 Alright, I installed Mandrake 10.1. Does it use XFree 86? If so what version? If not what does it use? From, Mike Chalmers _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ It uses xorgx11 I think it is called. It is basically xfree86 but a branch that uses the original GNU license. XFree86 changed their license and made it a bit of a problem as far as free and open source folks are concerned. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:51 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated. Maybe in a few months I'll get some knowledge and patience. Read and read and read but still don't understand. Andy Andy, do you want thunderbird, the mail client or firefox, the web browser? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OCR software?
On Friday 21 January 2005 03:23 pm, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I want to scan french text with my HP psc 1350 multi fonction device. I have Xsane installed. It works great for scanning pictures but the text reconition is bad. Is there a solution under linux? Thank you Christophe Using KDE here and kooka seems to work very well for me using OCR. Resolution setting is important but I have scanned documents and been able to go to revisions without having to do any corrections at all. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sorting out fstab
On Thursday 20 January 2005 07:25 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 12:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: At least you're not alone. Some time ago there was a thread about the ghost in the machine. It turned out the culprit was supermount. This devil have plagued us for years now. In 10.1 is worse than ever, if I may have a say. To me it seems that this ghost has a will of its own, randomly changing /etc/fstab. For example my fstab changes in unpredictable ways whenever I insert a floppy, an USB device like a mp3 player, a scanner or a camera. More often than not I have to edit fstab by hand in order to get things right again, but the ghost returns after a short while. I guess this is the penalty we have to pay for using an otherwise fine distro. It's funny how supermount drives some people mad, yet I've never had a problem, with any version of Mdk that I've used. I do admit, though, that I prefer automount for removable devices. Anne, I envy you. Could you please tell me how ? -- Eventually post your fstab ? On my system it looks like supermount, devfs, autofs, usbfs and udev are in a never ending dogfight. Depending on who's the top dog at any given moment, my system reacts accordingly. In a henhouse at least you know who's in charge... Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I thought that I read somewhere that devfs and udev should not be running at the same time. One should place devfs=no or off (something of the sort) if it is showing as one of the services. Somebody jump in here if you know about this device conflict. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 03:16 pm, J. David Boyd wrote: My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap space rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap space? Is there some easy way, or am I going to need to get some kind of partition editor, and start moving things around? Any idea of the consequences of NOT resizing my swap space, but leaving it at 500M? Thanks for any ideas, Dave I have 768 on this machine and have never seen it access swap. It probably does when I'm not looking but when I have a bunch of stuff up and running and check it does not have any swap being used. So long story short, don't bother, you don't need the extra. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] tuxgames
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 03:50 pm, Siposs Attila wrote: Greetings, do mdk-packages of tuxcart and/or tuxrace and trophy exist somewhere? my 4 years old son love them. I only started to use mdk a few days ago. Ati look here, is this the one? http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=tuxracesubmit=Search+...system=arch= You can get tuxkart from one of the Mandrake club urpmi mirrors or possible from PLF rpms. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter
On Sunday 16 January 2005 01:27 pm, Elwyn wrote: Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... I have gone for Gkrellm and it seems to the job and a few others as well :) Cheers Elwyn You have your reply to: set to yourself not newbie. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
On Saturday 15 January 2005 02:23 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? My broadband ISP, Road Runner, is a cable operation. The following site, http://www.rr.com/flash/;, is its home page and can be set by me to reflect the exact local news, local weather, and global headlines in which I am interested. Under Windows, I can use Tools/Options/General/Home Page/Use Current Page to open my browser to Road Runner's home page whenever I start Mozilla-Firefox or any other browser. MY question is: Is there a SIMPLE (meaning non-programming) KDE/GUI method, similar to Windows, to configure Konqueror to open to Road runner's home page whenever I start Konqueror? I do not understand programming, and at my age I don't want to have to start to learn it now. I would like to stop using Windows and I thought KDE/GUI would allow me to continue using my computer without trying to understand written commands, etc. That is the main reason I chose Mandrake. Is it possible to do what I want in Linux and specifically in Mandrake 10.1? Thank you, Andy BTW I am beginning to think I like Konqueror better than Firefox. It's appearance is cleaner, less clutter, and it is a lot faster. Also, the Road Runner start page using Windows has better fonts than when using Konqueror. I am not certain but I think the fonts in RR start page using Windows is Sans while the font when using Mandrake KDE is definitely different and much harder for me to use. Also the contrast is poor. I don't understand why this is true for Road Runner's home page under KDE - because other sites I open while using Konqueror are OK. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Andy you can go into settingsconfigure Konquerorbehaviorand put in the URL of the home page you want where it has URL and a blank for fill in. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Success Once only
On Saturday 15 January 2005 06:34 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Well, Dennis, the instructions you gave DID work, but for only one time. After a complete shut down, I attempted something I never did before. At the KDE 3.2 flash screen, I clicked on the globe icon and went directly to the start page I have been trying to get. However, I tried to recreate that success five more times and could not recreate it once. I tried only restarting and booting from a totally shut down system. Couldn't recreate that success. Don't know why. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Yankovich Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 5:09 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: RE: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? I did what Dennis suggested and it did not work. My result was a bit different from Elwyn's (below). I just go to the page titled congratulations for choosing Mandrakelinux!- Konqueror. Has anyone been successful using Björn Olsson's method? Thanks for all your suggestions, Andy Elwyn wrote: I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Björn Olsson Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:23 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olss that is a puzzle. I am trying to recreate the problem and now can not get past the Mandrake welcome page. Looks like something needs editing for a perminent fix. I am looking for the file now. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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 beta3
On Friday 14 January 2005 08:11 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On January 14, 2005 08:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: For those interested, AmaroK released a 3rd beta of the 1.2 release. You'll need the libtunepimp and libmusicbrainz packages also to get the Muscibrainz support. Unfortunately, I only have packages for 10.1 available because I hosed my 10.0 build environment by accident. Then again, if you are still running 10.1, you probably shouldn't be beta testing software :) More info here: http://amarok.kde.org Packages here: http://www.gkmewb.com/amarok/10.1 Thanks Greg, but im getting unknown host on thus url. Regards, Dan Gordon Drop the 10.1 on the end and then choose that folder once the site opens up. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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:-Problem with CUPS
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:21 am, Alan Dunford wrote: et wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:10 am, Alan Dunford wrote: Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: Hi, Here we have an annoying problem getting CUPS/Windows to print. The setup is a Linux box running Mandrake 10.0 Official and a Windows box running XP Home edition. The printer on the Windows box is an old Canon BJC250 which is not a problem in itself. Now CUPS on the Linux box of course appears to be set up correctly with the Windows IP address recognised as also is the Canon printer. When I sent a test page to the Windows machine I get a message that the page has been sent BUT there is no such message in the Window print queue. The in-built Windows firewall is off. Print from the Windows machine itself is ok and the problem therefore seems to lie between my Linux box and the Windows machine. Any ideas please as I am rapidly losing what is left of my hair. :-) does the linux box /etc/hosts, /etc/host.allow and /etc/hosts.deny and windows box c:\hosts files correctly name the other box? Also check /etc/cups/client.conf, particularly for # ServerName: the hostname of your server. By default CUPS will use the # hostname of the system or the value of the CUPS_SERVER environment # variable. ONLY ONE SERVER NAME MAY BE SPECIFIED AT A TIME. To use # more than one server you must use a local scheduler with browsing # and possibly polling. # #ServerName myhost.domain.com Put the windows box name into that line, if it's not already there. Anne Thanks to both for the above comments. The changes suggested have now been made/checked with no improvement. The appropriate lines are shown below:- router is the gateway connected to my cable modem windows is the box running XP and is the print server linux runs my CUPS server and is my main workstation server is a backup machine on the network foxsys is the domain /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhost 192.168.0.1router.foxsysrouter 192.168.0.2windows.foxsyswindows 192.168.0.3linux.foxsys linux 192.168.0.4server.foxsysserver /etc/hosts.allow 127.0.0.1localhost 192.168.0.1router.foxsysrouter 192.168.0.2windows.foxsyswindows 192.168.0.3linux.foxsyslinux 192.168.0.4server.foxsysserver /etc/hosts.deny (blank) /etc/cups/client.conf # # ServerName: the hostname of your server. By default CUPS will use the # hostname of the system or the value of the CUPS_SERVER environment # variable. ONLY ONE SERVER NAME MAY BE SPECIFIED AT A TIME. To use # more than one server you must use a local scheduler with browsing # and possibly polling. # ServerName 192.168.0.2windows.foxsys Windows c:\system32\hosts contains the line:- 192.168.0.3 linux.foxsys #linux My one doubt is the entry in /etc/cups/client.conf which I _think_ is ok but should this have the entry ServerName ahead of the IP address etc? So you can see I am still at a loss to explain the cause of the problem - any further thoughts would, of course, be welcome - the alternative I face is either reconnecting the printer or putting another one on the linux box. Thanks again for any further ideas. :-[ did you do a service network restart on the linux boxes and a reboot on the windows boxes? Thanks both for your comments - have rebooted windows and restarted the network also with no change, Ed. Will edit the lines in the various conf files, Anne. Onward and upward - one way I suppose to spend a winter's morning (or maybe week). :-) Just by the way for some unaccountable reason, mail server would not accept a normal reply to and bounced my earlier reply - will try again. - this is a new message. Regards If you have a firewall running on the linux box turn it off and try printing. If that works you may need to open port 631 on the firewall config? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from kmail
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 23:28, Dennis Myers wrote: I did some updates for bugs and security and now I can not print from konqueror or kmail. The error message is: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: Error while reading filter description for true. Empty command line received. Has anyone an idea where this filter description is and what the empty command line should be? TIA This has been an annoyance for ages, but it's nothing more than an annoyance once you know what's happening. For some reason printing (I think it's kprinter that does it) can leave behind a filter that should be removed, IMO. Anyway, the cure is to open the property box beside the bar that shows your printer name - the one that shows all details about printer setup - and there should be a tab (rightmost on mine) for filters. Delete the filter there, and it will print again. Of course it will happen frequently - at least it does if I use kprinter, which is the default for kde apps. Setting Mozilla to print through xpp gives me access to the printers without leaving the filter behind. HTH Anne Thanks for the reply Anne. I did not find any filters there. However, once I set up HPwebjet again (it also disappeared when I updated) the whole set up works again. So I conclude that there is another filter somewhere having to do with the Hpwebjet program. I am still looking. I will note your solution for future reference. Thanks again -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 02:57 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 11, 2005 18:22, Dan Gordon wrote: ... Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and follow the instructions its very easy. http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Regards, Dan Gordon That web site has been dead for some weeks now. Try this instead: Looks like it is back up now. I used it just today. http://urpmi.borgnet.us/ Seems to do the same thing. I don't remember the club source being there before, but when I tried it, it seemed to be semi-permanently broken (that is, addmedia configures the source, but every attempt to use urpmi after that complains about it). Other than that, no problems. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Printing from kmail
I did some updates for bugs and security and now I can not print from konqueror or kmail. The error message is: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: Error while reading filter description for true. Empty command line received. Has anyone an idea where this filter description is and what the empty command line should be? TIA -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Watching DVDs with Caffeine and Totem not working
On Monday 10 January 2005 01:26 pm, Rhein Christophe wrote: My problem is that I can only watch Type 2 PAL region... Even with lib DVDCSS2 installed... And all my other DVDs work fine with MDK 9.2. Is there something wrong with the packages or the preferences of Caffeine? Christophe Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 23:27, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I have a other problem with MDK 10.1. I can not watch DVDs with Totem and Caffeine. I have installed libdvdcss2 but with no success. Is there something to modify in the configuration? Thank you Christophe I've just finished burning a DVD and went to try it out with kaffeine or totem - - neither would play it, but xine played it perfectly. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB4bJckFAvMr/nNX8RAietAJ99BWHgX7Kh5BqOL4wwrCdNExONTgCePsYy H/Se3gdKmENdlbLeS1Lm7uE= =hB4n -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 I use tvtime to watch DVDs, have not been able to get kaffeine to do it as yet. MPlayer works ok also. Do you have v4l2 installed? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Watching DVDs with Caffeine and Totem not working
On Monday 10 January 2005 01:26 pm, Rhein Christophe wrote: My problem is that I can only watch Type 2 PAL region... Even with lib DVDCSS2 installed... And all my other DVDs work fine with MDK 9.2. Is there something wrong with the packages or the preferences of Caffeine? Christophe Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 23:27, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I have a other problem with MDK 10.1. I can not watch DVDs with Totem and Caffeine. I have installed libdvdcss2 but with no success. Is there something to modify in the configuration? Thank you Christophe I've just finished burning a DVD and went to try it out with kaffeine or totem - - neither would play it, but xine played it perfectly. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB4bJckFAvMr/nNX8RAietAJ99BWHgX7Kh5BqOL4wwrCdNExONTgCePsYy H/Se3gdKmENdlbLeS1Lm7uE= =hB4n -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 Oh rats, I just tried kaffeine and it worked just dandy. Go figure. So I am not sure what the problem is other than if you have a dvdrom and a dvd-rw both, be sure that the player is trying to read the correct device. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Knights a' crashing
On Friday 10 January 2003 08:40 pm, greg wrote: Hi guys. I'm new to the list and relaitivly new to Linux, so please be patient with me. I installed the chess program Knights via rpmdrake. When I attempt to start it. (with either the menu or in a terminal) it immediatly crashes, (signal 11 SIGSEGV)). Any ideas why? Hi Greg, sometimes it has to do with a developement package that is not installed but I am not sure what it would be in this case. I will have a look at knights and see what I can find. Mean time you might want to set your date and time to this year cause you are showing 1/10/03 and 840pm on your headers. Your message went all the way to the top of my mail which has date as decending order to current day. Anyone else with a notion as to why the knights keep falling off their horses? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Knights a' crashing
On Friday 10 January 2003 08:40 pm, greg wrote: Hi guys. I'm new to the list and relaitivly new to Linux, so please be patient with me. I installed the chess program Knights via rpmdrake. When I attempt to start it. (with either the menu or in a terminal) it immediatly crashes, (signal 11 SIGSEGV)). Any ideas why? I installed with urpmi and it set up and ran out of the box for me. How did you install it? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ISO's
On Friday 07 January 2005 12:55 am, Noel McG. wrote: - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISO's On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:01 am, Noel McG. wrote: Can someone please help me with what I'm sure is a very basic query. For the first time I have downloaded an Iso [Ipcop]. However I cannot seem to find out what to do next ie. burn it as an ordinary CD. I have Roxio WinOnCD 3.8 as the software for a Plextor drive. This is on a Win machine as I have no CD writer on my Linux box. When I try to 'look for' the Ipcop Iso file, which is on the desktop, I can see it and drag it into the working window. However when I try to write I am told that it is Raw Data and that I should not proceed. If I do write it it ends up as either another copy of the Iso or a load of rubbish. Other sessions with this software are stored as ISO files on the HDD with no trouble and can be retrieved,written etc. without any bother. What I seem to need is basic instructions or software advice. Many thanks for any advice. N. Noel, in roxio the is a drop down from the top tool bar filerecord cd from image .click on that and you will get a new recording box. This will do what you want. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Dennis, The file menu does not show a 'record cd from image', however there is a 'Make CD image file'. I thought that this was to put an image on the HDD for multiple copies. ? --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hmmm, must be a different version than what my wife has on her comp. However, did you click on it and have a new gui box pop up with some burn options, like burn speed and multisessions disk etc? If so it will want a blank CD and not a file location to burn to. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ISO's
On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:01 am, Noel McG. wrote: Can someone please help me with what I'm sure is a very basic query. For the first time I have downloaded an Iso [Ipcop]. However I cannot seem to find out what to do next ie. burn it as an ordinary CD. I have Roxio WinOnCD 3.8 as the software for a Plextor drive. This is on a Win machine as I have no CD writer on my Linux box. When I try to 'look for' the Ipcop Iso file, which is on the desktop, I can see it and drag it into the working window. However when I try to write I am told that it is Raw Data and that I should not proceed. If I do write it it ends up as either another copy of the Iso or a load of rubbish. Other sessions with this software are stored as ISO files on the HDD with no trouble and can be retrieved,written etc. without any bother. What I seem to need is basic instructions or software advice. Many thanks for any advice. N. Noel, in roxio the is a drop down from the top tool bar filerecord cd from image .click on that and you will get a new recording box. This will do what you want. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] adding new features to 10.2
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:42 am, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, What is the process for requesting new features to be included in the upcoming release? Is there a place to add suggestions? Thanks Bill W. Take a look in cooker wiki at http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrakelinux102 there is a ideas bar waiting for you. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:03 pm, Amy wrote: Hey everyone, thanks for the responses so far! Dennis, did you realize you sent your reply directly to me, and not the list? I'll forward it to the list for everyone else to read though, so don't worry about it, it'll end up in the archives. The card I have is a gforce ti4200, and it is an AGP card. I was not aware of the issues with having a card in the pci slot right next to the agp slot, but I know that's not the problem... since when I put this motherboard in, there was another pci slot compared to what was on the old motherboard, so I used the pci slots that lined up with the slots on the back of the computer I'd already removed, which left the pci slot next to the agp slot open. I do know that there are nvidia drivers I can try, but I'm at a loss as to ~how~ I can, since I don't have a video output to look at to select anything. Is there a way to offer the nvidia drivers to my computer without needing to see anything on the monitor? Like something I can set up with a boot disk or something? Preferably something I can safely set up from my dad's windows computer (we're not sure how secure his computer is, and haven't had time to fix it yet) because I really really don't want to have to remove all the hardware and put the old stuff back in. Just so you know why I don't want to mess with removing the new hardware and putting the old hardware back in, it is because when I put all the new hardware in last night, that was the first time I did a hardware installation that significant without someone hovering over my shoulder to watch me through the process. I did have a friend on the phone, who was able to help me with a couple of small things I didn't know myself, but he wasn't familiar with the motherboard himself. I would rather not have to pull stuff out and put stuff back in a bajillion times. Also, I haven't had a chance to try the windows boot disk, to make sure that the video card does indeed work, and it is in fact a drivers issue, but I will do that when I get home from work tonight. I didn't have the chance to do it before work today, and had to go to sleep last night. Ug. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast I noticed that I forgot to change the reply to just as I hit the send button. Some times I just can't pay attention. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:03 pm, Amy wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:22:56 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, That card should work. Anyone have a problem with a ti card? So, do you have midnight commander or vi or vim installed. Do you get the text screen? Sometimes the kernel source needs to be installed to get Nvidia to work. So if you pop the CD1 disk in and choose upgrade instead of install and let it run through to the end you can check if your card was correctly detected by doing the configure on resolution or monitor can't recall which is shown. Sometimes a missing file will be installed in the update also. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Still can't get your replies to go to the list, can ya? ;) You know, no matter how much people make a fuss about the reply-to setting, technically one should be in the habit of hitting reply-to all for mailing lists, since that's how it was originally suppose to work. However, I'm not going to get into that debate with this crowd, you're all nice, but you're stubborn. ;) Anyhow, I quoted your message this time, so it's included in the archives now. ^_^ Next time you reply, it'll make it to the list, yes? Three's a charm after all. See, the problem is, I don't get ~anything~ in the way of video output... I was hoping it's just a driver issue, but I'm starting to think it's probably not, the more I hear from people. I'm still at work, but when I get hope, I will toss the win98 boot disk in and see if the video card wants to work with that. If it doesn't, then I'll probably just go get a new card, or at least take advantage of the one someone else offered me when I mentioned what was going on. If anyone else has any ideas, or has experience with this particular card, I'd appreciate any thoughts as to what's going on. Thanks! ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast No problem, I think it went to the list last time. However, if you get no video output at all, not even a bios listing on start up, then it has to be the card or a connection. Let us know how the windows boot disk goes. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Pls disregard
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:21 pm, Glenn wrote: My bonehead hosting service unjustifiably suspended my account, and I want to make sure that I didn't get dropped from the list, due to a bounce. I haven't gotten anything since yesterday, and I'm missing you folks g. Glenn OK, I'm disregarding this email but glad you missed us and glad you got back on line. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. Good news indeed! Add it to the TWiki HardwareCompatibility page? Anne Ok, do I need to sign up again? Last time I tried going on it kept asking for a user name and password? I will add to the twiki. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. On 2 Jan 2005 at 11:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 512 is pretty small. But have a look at Mandrake Mini. With a little pick and choose you might get a usable system on that small a drive. Small...ha I remember when I had to pay an extra 200 US for a 400mb drive as opposed to the standard 250mb drive. Time flies . HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:28, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy New Year everyone. Good news indeed! Add it to the TWiki HardwareCompatibility page? Anne Ok, do I need to sign up again? Last time I tried going on it kept asking for a user name and password? I will add to the twiki. There was a problem when we tried to run the newest version. We've had to revert to the older one, and that problem has disappeared. If you have signed up since Nov.13th you will not have to sign up again. There's the usual login to edit a page, of course. Anne OK, it is in there. And the sign up did remember me this time. Happy New Year. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox problem
On Saturday 01 January 2005 06:51 am, Aron Smith wrote: when I do a urpmi likr so --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# urpmi --auto-select -a To satisfy dependencies, the following package is going to be installed (23 MB): mozilla-firefox-1.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) y installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mozilla-firefox-1.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm unable to install package /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mozilla-firefox-1.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# --- -- anybody had this problem before? Sometimes you get that if there is not enough room left on the partition. do a df from console and see how much space you have? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox problem
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:20 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 07:54 am, Dennis Myers wrote: seems to be plenty of space - [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 5.8G 2.0G 3.5G 37% / /dev/hda6 107G 5.5G 102G 6% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ Ok, then I would set up and try a different source. Sometimes I have a problem with one mirror and try a different one and all is well. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox 1.0
On Friday 31 December 2004 09:28 pm, Chris wrote: Just finished installing Firefox 1.0, but have a question about the way its setup to be ran. There is a script in ~/firefox-installer called firefox, so I have my menu setup to execute it from that folder. Does that sound correct or not? It runs with no errors or crashes, at least not yet. Happy New Year, from the midwest US. Yes that is the way I have mine set to run from the icon on the kicker. No problems. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi problem
On Thursday 30 December 2004 07:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto-select -auto to work. Yesterday after I entered that command the computer never gave me the prompt back even after 6 hours. Anybody know how I can straighten this out? Thanks for your help! Eric Jackson Try urpmi auto-select -a and see if that works. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] torrents
On Monday 27 December 2004 01:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What has happened to our torrent sites? I can not connect to peers. What do we use now that has the excellent resume upon lost connections etc? Without something us dialuppers haven't a snow balls chance. I would like something I could kill the connection then resume the next night before I hit the hay. Will Azureus work for you? It seems quite capable of resuming bittorrent downloads. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] No hdlists found during installation
On Monday 27 December 2004 10:38 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just tried to do a clean install of 10.1 official. The installation gets as far as the partioning section with no problem. However no matter if I choose Use existing partitions or Erase entire disc, I get an error message saying, An error occured. No hdlsts found. Basically, it then gives me the same partioning options I had before. Any ideas what the problem might be or how I can fix this? Eric Jackson Eric, did you run an md5sum on the .iso, it sounds like a bad disk. Any other errors show up. Try a text install and see what error messages occur? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures when trying to update via Rpmdrake.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been updating 10.1 OE via the rpmdrake tool with no problems till now. On several packages I am now getting bad signature errors. For example:- The following packages have bad signatures: kdebase-common-3.2.3-134.3.101mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Unable to read rpm file) Is this telling me the rpm file is screwed? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve Goodey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com No, it just means the package sig is not there or you don't have the signature key. I have used all of the packages and no problems. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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 call Firefox from command-line (after installing)
On Friday 17 December 2004 04:45 am, Edward Wijaya wrote: Hi, I have just installed Firefox into my Mdk 10.1 and the it is stored under /usr/share/firefox. However I can't access Firefox from command line (also no shown) in menu. I've tried this command: export PATH:$PATH:/usr/share/firefox but won't work (gives not valid identifier error). How can I enable it? Thanks so much beforehand. Regards, Edward WIJAYA SINGAPORE You might try calling ./firefox-installer/firefox . HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Reply to settings?
Kenneth wrote: Testing... I'm using my ISP mail now. I think, I've got it right now. RickSisler wrote: snip No Kenneth, it's still set This is the headers from your post: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kenneth Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:26:02 -0500 (EST) snip 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 Looks good from here. Reply to is newbie. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.
On Friday 10 December 2004 06:25 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 06:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 05:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 04:54, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: SNIP Hmm.. I tried out the new 6629 version of the Nvidia driver today. It compiles OK, but when it starts the splash screen does not go away. I had to revert to the 6111 driver again. derek Derek, I reverted to the 6111 driver, applied your patch, followed your instructions, and it worked like a charm this time. I can finally play tuxkart and tuxracer (Woohoo!) I noticed that your nvidia page is still retired (fortunately, I had printed it out previously). Seems like it's still needed, so perhaps you can pull it out of retirement. Also, it seems clear the 6629 driver is broken. You might want to make a note of that on your page. Thanks for the help, Done and done. Thanks for the alert. derek Ok, I take it back. Since I did the last update I can not get UT2003 to run. I get an error of : Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. Does anyone know what might fix this? The problem looks like it is in the Xlibrary but I don't code so don't know what it means. TIA for any help. After a bit of a wait it also popped up with: OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. I have no clue. Clueless in Omaha Now that is too weird, I checked and my NV 6629 driver was not there anymore. I would get the Nvidia splash screen so thought that the driver was there from when I originally did the install. No, it was gone. Now with a fresh install of the 6629 driver ut2003 (not the demo the full version) runs like it should. So once again I would have to say that the driver is not totally broken. YMMV -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Manrake 10.1 Official-Powerpack
Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I have downloaded Mandrake Linux 10.1-official-Powerpack which consist of 6 CDs. It may be a foolish question, but I am not really sure if it is something extra which enhances Mandrake 10.1 Official and should be installed after Mandrake 10.1 Official has been installed, or it is a more complete version of Mandrake 10.1 Official ? Regards, Danesh Danesh, the extra CDs are additional packages and some of the commercial packages that have licenses attached to them. You can see what is available beyond what is already installed by going to Mandrake Control Center software Managementinstallall packages_alphabetical. This gives a complete list of the remaining CD s packages. If you use a terminal type in mcc without the quotes and it will start by asking for your root password. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
John Bowden wrote: Hi got Mandrake on my 1800 and I'm getting ready to install on my new 2600. Does any one know if the Pinnacle PC TV pic card can work in mandrake? It didnot work in mandrake 9 but it did detect the card. It said it had a SA something chip, can't quite remember but I know it was not a BTU chip. Any advice on compatible cards? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Leadtek wintv cards seem to work well. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TV tuner cards (was: Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
On Saturday 11 December 2004 08:21 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Any advice on compatible cards? Leadtek wintv cards seem to work well. Hauppauge WinTV or Leadtek WinFast ? it would be great if everybody with a tv card made a few updates on Wiki Main HardwareCompatibility TvTuners: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TvTuners currently i find it difficult to buy one, as the ads are rosy and the fullscreen picture quality often bad ? also how much cpu does realtime encoding to mpeg4 need ? does someone use a card doing this in the chip ? are the external usb2 cards better ? why does the Mandrakelinux Hardware Database contain no TV cards at all ? http://linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 kind regards philippe -- see also: Video Hardware Issues and Compatibility http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/VideoHI OOPs, your right Leadtek WinFast TV card. It uses the bt878 with a bttv module. also shows as other multimedia devices with: Pinnacle PCTV Sat DVB PCI (based on the Bt878 PCI bridge). Don't know if that helps anyone, but there it is. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.
On Friday 10 December 2004 05:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 04:54, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: SNIP Hmm.. I tried out the new 6629 version of the Nvidia driver today. It compiles OK, but when it starts the splash screen does not go away. I had to revert to the 6111 driver again. derek Derek, I reverted to the 6111 driver, applied your patch, followed your instructions, and it worked like a charm this time. I can finally play tuxkart and tuxracer (Woohoo!) I noticed that your nvidia page is still retired (fortunately, I had printed it out previously). Seems like it's still needed, so perhaps you can pull it out of retirement. Also, it seems clear the 6629 driver is broken. You might want to make a note of that on your page. Thanks for the help, Done and done. Thanks for the alert. derek Not totally broken, I have been using the 6629 driver for some time now. It works well. I had to delete the older driver first however. Not sure that was the fix but UT2003 runs like a charm. As always YMMV. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.
On Friday 10 December 2004 05:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 04:54, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: SNIP Hmm.. I tried out the new 6629 version of the Nvidia driver today. It compiles OK, but when it starts the splash screen does not go away. I had to revert to the 6111 driver again. derek Derek, I reverted to the 6111 driver, applied your patch, followed your instructions, and it worked like a charm this time. I can finally play tuxkart and tuxracer (Woohoo!) I noticed that your nvidia page is still retired (fortunately, I had printed it out previously). Seems like it's still needed, so perhaps you can pull it out of retirement. Also, it seems clear the 6629 driver is broken. You might want to make a note of that on your page. Thanks for the help, Done and done. Thanks for the alert. derek Ok, I take it back. Since I did the last update I can not get UT2003 to run. I get an error of : Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. Does anyone know what might fix this? The problem looks like it is in the Xlibrary but I don't code so don't know what it means. TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.
On Friday 10 December 2004 06:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 05:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 04:54, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: SNIP Hmm.. I tried out the new 6629 version of the Nvidia driver today. It compiles OK, but when it starts the splash screen does not go away. I had to revert to the 6111 driver again. derek Derek, I reverted to the 6111 driver, applied your patch, followed your instructions, and it worked like a charm this time. I can finally play tuxkart and tuxracer (Woohoo!) I noticed that your nvidia page is still retired (fortunately, I had printed it out previously). Seems like it's still needed, so perhaps you can pull it out of retirement. Also, it seems clear the 6629 driver is broken. You might want to make a note of that on your page. Thanks for the help, Done and done. Thanks for the alert. derek Ok, I take it back. Since I did the last update I can not get UT2003 to run. I get an error of : Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. Does anyone know what might fix this? The problem looks like it is in the Xlibrary but I don't code so don't know what it means. TIA for any help. After a bit of a wait it also popped up with: OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. I have no clue. Clueless in Omaha -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:13 am, Danesh Daroui wrote: No its Mandrake 10.1 Community, Is Mandrake 10.1 Official more stable ? Personally, I stopped running the community versions. I only upgrade to the Official ones. They seem to be more stable and functional. To me anyway. Ya'll can run what you want. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Just to let you know, the Community releases are not totally stable. They put them out to allow a much broader spectrum of hardware to test on. Then the comments a bugs found are included in Official release. Official had one big update even then, to fix some pesky bugs. 10.1 Official is very stable on my computers, Three of them are running it. All are Athlon cpu's with various other hardware. Try 10.1 and you should be good to go. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)
On Thursday 02 December 2004 03:26 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:10, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:57, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Now, my daughter uses her Windows box completely disconnected from everything. When she wants something from the net, she uses her account on my Mandrake box and transport it via floppy or CD to her box. (Maybe a USB memory stick could come in handy here ?) Sounds like a good reason to get samba up and running on your Mdk box;) Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow her Windows box contact with anything outside her room. BTW : Do you know a USB memory stick (about 512 MB) that works with Linux ? Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* PNY seem to work well, I have one formatted in fat32 and it will work on all my machines. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 03:40 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware compatibility on the Mandrake site. BTW, when will 10.1 official be available for us cheap bastards? I thought it was going to be made available at the end of November ... Todd newegg had the plextor DVD+- RW for about $90 with a $30 rebate. It works like a dream and is darn near silent when it operates. Smth! -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Buying a 10.1 set?
On Friday 26 November 2004 04:50 pm, Peter Davis wrote: I want all the Powerpack CDs, with all the associated software, etc. Where can I buy this? The only place I've seen it is on linux-mandrake.com, and the price is only listed in Euros. Is there someplace in the U.S. to get this? Thanks, -pd You can buy it on line and it will convert to dollars, shipping is from a distributor in the US I think. Follow the purchase dialogue and you will see that it comes up with what country you are in and so on. Good luck. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Manuals?
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:10 pm, Scott Manning wrote: I am having more toruble than I thought with MDK10 and I was thinking that getting the box set with the manuals might be a big help. Does anyone have the box manuals? Are they very helpful or like most manuals these days refer you to the how-tos or mandrakeclub? Maybe the best thing is to get a Mandrake Club membership? Thanks in advance Scotty Scotty, the boxed sets are just now shipping out. May be a few days before anyone has manuals -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 08:14 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 07:05 pm, JoeHill wrote: ...that may cause more problems than it solves ;-) Ryely i cna se nwo thsi si colo Regdars Gan Dordon Whooo! it is not the gasses it is the drink you be drinken -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
