On Thursday 11 January 2007 12:12, stuart bell wrote:
On 11/01/07, JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I want to install a wireless LAN card, but I'm having a problem with thr
drivers.
Salamander or BitZipper will, I think, open .cab files.
What card/chip is it? Maybe one
Hi All,
This new wireless card, as gotten me pulling my hair out bigtime.
I cant get it to run either with the Linux drivers, or even with ndiswrapper.
The chipset is the Texas Instruments TNETW1130(ACX111).
In ndiswrapper, I have given it the windows drivers it needs (tnet1130.inf and
Hi All,
The wireless card eventually got installed I had to format reinstall
though, before it would think about working!
Anyway, now, I appear to have broken KDE!
I've lost the top bar on the windows ie, the bar with the close, minimise
and maximise buttons and I cant figure
Hi All,
I'm in the process of downloading a DVD image, that is in .mdf format.
any clues as to what I can use to either convert it to .iso or is there
something that will handle the burning in it's current format?
I have never encountered one of these before, and I'm curious!
Cheers,
James
On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:43, ET wrote:
these are ISO image files created by 'alcohol 120'
I just burned one last night,
for me,
K3B tools burn DVD ISO , then either type the absolute file path and
name, or when selecting the file in the browse-gui, make sure you have
all files and
Hi All,
I took the advice of you guys, and plumped for a Geforce FX5200, as opposed to
the ATI that I was considering.
However...
I'm trying to install the drivers, and the install program keeps asking for
kernel source, or kernel-devel packages, and it fails if they aren't there.
I've
On Thursday 28 December 2006 19:13, Christopher Taylor wrote:
James,
Hawkwind sent me this link
http://linuxfordummies.org/index.php?topic=431.0 when I was having
kernel/kernel-source issues. I was also trying to install video
drivers. It helped a lot. There is also a howto for the nvidia
Hi All,
I've just gotten my first DVD Burner
I'm having some serious speed issues with K3B.
The burner is 18x capable, and the media I currently have, is 8x compatible.
However, I burned a data CD last night, and only managed 4x, and I'm now in
the process of burning the 2007 .iso, and
Hi All,
I'm looking at getting a new Graphics card. I'm currently on a 3dfx Voodoo3,
which is ok, but there are a few games that use OpenGL, that just wont play
correctly under Linux.
Are there any particular cards to avoid with Mandriva? (ie with driver issues
etc).
I'm looking at a Connect3D
On Monday 04 December 2006 21:40, JRH wrote:
Anyway, have to work out a way of changing the permissions now, as all
images that are coming are accessible as root only...
Easily solved!!
Opened Konqueror as root, and went to /dev/ and altered permissions to
parport0 so that others could read
in HardDrake at all, I open up xsane, and all
it will see, is my TV card, no scanner.
For info, the scanner is a UMAX Astra 1220P Parallell port affair.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
JRH
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Quoting Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote:
There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up
xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner.
For info, the scanner is a UMAX Astra 1220P Parallell port
affair.
Is the port enabled
On Monday 04 December 2006 21:30, Dennis Myers wrote:
On Monday 04 December 2006 15:18, Miark wrote:
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote:
There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up
xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner.
For info
On Monday 04 December 2006 21:21, JRH wrote:
Quoting Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote:
There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up
xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner.
For info, the scanner is a UMAX Astra
Think I have cracked it!
Opened xsane as root, and managed to get a successful scan!!
Although the command line threw up this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su root
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jrh]# xsane
[umax_pp_low] PS2registerRead: found 0x20 expected 0x0 (umax_pp_low.c:7554)
[umax_pp_low] Warning
Hi all,
I've just been given a TV tuner card!
It's showing in HardDrake, as a Pinnacle PCTV Sat DVB PCI (based on the Bt878
PCI bridge), and has the bt878 module loaded, so it's looking good as far as
drivers and it actually working are concerned.
The next question:
What software do I need
On Sunday 03 December 2006 15:57, Dennis Myers wrote:
just go into the mcc software installer and in the top search box, type
tv and change the selection box (from names) next to it to say
descriptions and hit search, that should bring up all the TV applications
might also try freevo
Hi All,
I got myself a USB cordless VOIP phone.
I'd like to try and get it up and running on Linux... it runs ok on my Windows
partition, but I'd like to try and get it running here, as I tend to spend
all my time in Linux.
Anyway, this is what Harddrake is reporting:
Identification
Vendor:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:53, Anthony Irven Scott wrote:
Hi All,
After upgrading from Mandriva 2006 to Mandriva 2007, a little question mark
? in an orange circle appears on my systray. It states, Service
configuration problems. Please check logs and send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Where
On Friday 20 October 2006 03:11, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:46:37 +
JRH wrote:
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:46:37 +
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4
BTW: Your sundial needs adjusting
Charles
Duly done Charles
For some reason, my time/date is not picking up
On Thursday 19 October 2006 01:18, Charles A Edwards wrote:
Well, you can always
# urpmi mlocate
That will remove slocate and install mlocate
run # updatedb and you are good to go.
Just use the command locate
I started using it a couple of months ago.
It's faster than slocate and uses
Hi all,
I can view Windows Media files, with Mplayer, no problems.
However, there are a couple of streaming sites that are written for Internet
Exploiter, that use the embedded Windows Media Player...
I just get a large grey square, and no video, and cant find a way to open the
link in
for me too...
still getting the same problem!
JRH
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Hi Y'all,
A bit of a rant this one I suppose.
I paid for a years subscription to mdvonline, back in July this year. With the
release of 2007, It now wont connect, or do something! It tells me that it
has successfully uploaded my settings etc, but when it goes to check updates,
tells me
Hi all,
I'm trying to creat a default slocate database, using the updatedb command.
In previous versions, I usually just typed in updatedb as root, and it got on
with it.
Now, with 2007, I type the command, and I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jrh]# updatedb
/usr/bin/slocate: option requires
I've had no real negative side effects, either with a clean install, or
upgrading from 2006.
I had a Java and Flash issue if you recall a while back, but the Java issue
was me forgetting how to configure Konqueror, and the flash eventually sorted
itself out! Occasionally it wont work, but a
Hi All,
I've just purchased one of the above phones.
The ad says it's Windows Mac compatible
Does anyone know if MDV 2007 will support such a thing?
Previous releases of MDK/MDV have been fairly good at supporting USB stuff,
such as webcams etc, so I've taken a bit of a gamble really,
On Monday 09 October 2006 20:31, John Wilson wrote:
I don't know if anyone has had any but why not just plug it in and see
what happens? :)
ttfn
John
Oh, I will do, dont worry! and it'll probably end in much hair tearing!!
Just wanted to get half an idea of how much screaming that I'm
Hi All,
Are there any easyurpmi sites that contain 2007 official sources yet?
easyurpmi.zarb.org did have 2007 sources for about half a day last week,
before they disappeared... and now it is down, and has been since last night.
I managed to set my sources the hard way, but going into ftp
: executing /etc/menu.d/icewm
/etc/menu.d/icewm: line 9: /home/jrh/.icewm/menu: No such file or directory
writing to /home/jrh/.icewm/menu
/etc/menu.d/icewm: line 14: /home/jrh/.icewm/menu: No such file or directory
run-parts: /etc/menu.d/icewm exited with return code 1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
Any
with my screen looking like I'm running Win95 on an old 486!
JRH
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On Saturday 07 October 2006 11:08, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
boot into xcfe then into MCC turn off your 3D and accelerated options reset
the monitor to flatscreen 1024x768 @60 hz
then log out and reboot
HTH
Ok, so now I'm showing my intelligence level. I only been using
Mandrake/MDV for 4
On Saturday 07 October 2006 17:17, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
On Saturday 07 October 2006 02:52 am, JRH wrote:
On Saturday 07 October 2006 11:08, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
boot into xcfe then into MCC turn off your 3D and accelerated options
reset the monitor to flatscreen 1024x768 @60 hz
Is on the mirrors!
Just updated my URPMI sources, and I'm going to upgrade at least until
the .iso's are out, and I can do a clean install.
Although, forgive me if I have asked this before, but what is the command to
do this? I want to only upgrade the packages that I currently have
Sent an email over 90 minutes ago to the list... and haven't had it come back
yet!
James
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Is on the mirrors!
Just updated my URPMI sources, and I'm going to upgrade at least until
the .iso's are out, and I can do a clean install.
Although, forgive me if I have asked this before, but what is the command to
do this? I want to only upgrade the packages that I currently have
Anybody!
Can you tell me the command to type, so that I can shutdown after a specified
number of minutes?
I want to keep going for 3 hours, while a download finishes!
Cheers,
James
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On Friday 29 September 2006 20:14, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
medium updates uses an invalid list file:
mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method
Aahh...
That would explain why I am getting that answer myself Ron
I'll give it a couple of days, and try and update my
Hi All,
I had Flashplayer working on Konqueror previously, but have just done a
complete format and reinstall, and now I cant remember how to get it running
again!
I have installed flashplayer to $home/.mozilla, and it works fine with
Firefox.
I have set Konqueror to look in /home/jrh
Hi All,
I just installed 2007 community on a spare box, and I'm getting queer login
behaviour, with both KDM GDM.
I've had issues with KDM on another box running 2007CE, but solved them with a
switch to GDM.
However, on this particular box, I'm getting to the login screen, and entering
the
On Monday 18 September 2006 18:32, John Wilson wrote:
Just a quick update..
Pulled the ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-kernel packages down from one of
the cooker mirrors installed, and done a quick modprobe
ndiswrapper
Now seeing my wireless card, and is now fully
On Friday 15 September 2006 18:06, JRH wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 18:00, Christopher Taylor wrote:
Have you tried to see if there is a native driver instead of the wrapper.
I found that the wireless card I have now works under 2007 without the
wrapper when I needed the wrapper
Hi All,
A bit self-inflicted this one!
I have got 2007 up and running, no problems.
I began to play, and have set my machine up for graphical boot, and obviously I
have had to enable framebuffer to do such a thing.
Now, when I try to login, I have no keyboard input. I tap the keys, but no
, telling me that the
ndiswrapper module could not be loaded...
If I run modprobe ndiswrapper, I get this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jrh]# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper
(/lib/modules/2.6.12-25mdk/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko.gz):
Operation not permitted
[EMAIL
On Friday 15 September 2006 18:00, Christopher Taylor wrote:
Have you tried to see if there is a native driver instead of the wrapper.
I found that the wireless card I have now works under 2007 without the
wrapper when I needed the wrapper in 2006.
Hi Chris,
In 2006, it would give me a list
On Friday 15 September 2006 18:00, Christopher Taylor wrote:
Have you tried to see if there is a native driver instead of the wrapper.
I found that the wireless card I have now works under 2007 without the
wrapper when I needed the wrapper in 2006.
I think the problem may be lack of
Hi Y'all,
Has anybody any idea when the official edition of 2007 is going to hit the
mirrors?
Was supposed to be September, wasn't it?
Cheers,
James
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On Wednesday 13 Sep 2006 19:37, Ian wrote:
http://distrowatch.com/3687
Enjoy...
Thanks for that Ian
But I don't have a DVD burner :-)
Anyway, I am trying to do a network install of 2007 Community. I have
downloaded the boot.iso from ftp.proxad.net, burned it to CD, booted up,
On Wednesday 13 Sep 2006 20:29, Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:14:37 +0100
JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The last network install I did, was 2005LE, and that went without a
hitch I tried the same method with 2006, and had no success in
the end having to download the 3 CD
On Wednesday 13 Sep 2006 20:32, JRH wrote:
If you're up for some fun, change your mirrors to cooker
and update. I just did two boxes last weekend. One was
flawless and the other was a pita, but successful. YMMV
but it's not dull.
Lee
Sorry Lee,
Misread that bit
Ok, I'll give
Hi All,
I've just done a complete format and reinstall, owing to a brief flirtation
with FC5 (it's crap, don't bother!).
2 issues:
Every time I open Kmail up, I now get an email Welcome to Mandriva Linux,
and no matter how many times I bin it, then it comes back up every time I
open
On Tuesday 05 Sep 2006 15:57, JRH wrote:
I cant seem to be able to move my Konqueror homepage away from the
Mandriva start page. I like to start with Google (as generally, I'll have a
flash of inspiration, and go online to look for info). I've set the
home URL to google, but to no avail
Hi All,
according to Mandrivaonline, I still have 5 packages out of date.
I have updated all the others, but I cant seem to find the last 5 on any
mirrors anywhere. When I google the filenames, I get to the relevant FTP
directory, and try to download... I get an error message telling me file
Hi All,
Had a bit of a mishap with 2k6 earlier.
Went to boot up, and I got the message that superblock was missing or
corrupted, run e2fsck etc etc, and tried to do that, but with no joy.
I then put in the install disc, and selected upgrade, just to see if any
files were damaged, and hey
Hi All,
I've finally tired of azureus hogging my bandwidth and slowing my machine...
So, I decided to install BitTorrent instead, which I urpmi'd down
Trouble is... I cant work out how to run it!
I've done the usual update-menus -v and it doesn't show in my start menu,
and typing the
On Wednesday 23 Aug 2006 21:37, Christopher Taylor wrote:
Isn't there a bittorrent gui that needs to be installed also?
Looking in the BT folder, in /usr/lib/python, there is a file GUI.py.
Try and execute it, and it gives all kinds of crap about pango syntax
errors.
I've just pulled the
On Wednesday 23 Aug 2006 21:40, JRH wrote:
On Wednesday 23 Aug 2006 21:37, Christopher Taylor wrote:
Isn't there a bittorrent gui that needs to be installed also?
Looking in the BT folder, in /usr/lib/python, there is a file GUI.py.
Try and execute it, and it gives all kinds of crap about
Hi All,
I need to update my .bash_profile to include my JRE.
I used to have it, but have recently done a complete format, and forgot to
back it up
Can anyone tell me what I need to be writing?
Cheers,
James
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Hi All,
I got mandrakeonline installed, and it's being a real pain in the butt at
present
It has decided that I have 15 packages outdated, and that I really ought to
update them...
I'm trying to, I click on install updates, the gurpmi window opens up, and
then proceeds to tell me that
On Wednesday 09 Aug 2006 17:46, Christopher Taylor wrote:
I may be mistaken, but I believe that you may not have the files installed
the have been updated. Therefore you do not have anything to update.
Hi Christopher,
That was one of my thoughts however I have just uploaded my current
On Wednesday 09 Aug 2006 18:02, Christopher Taylor wrote:
From time to time I simply use the cli and do:
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select
Many people put this in a file and setup a cron job to have it executed
once a day/week/month/etc. The system stays up to date easily and
maintenance
On Sunday 06 Aug 2006 13:01, Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:37:52 +0100
JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone tell me the command to automatically update the packages that
I have to 2007 spec? If it's that simple?
I have my 2006 CD's here, just in case it goes pear shaped
On Sunday 06 August 2006 13:25, ET wrote:
sounds like _my_ idea of a fun weekend, (beats the hell out of
installing a new motor in a car, imho, ymmv) be sure to let us all know
how it goes.
Well, it's on, and up and running!
The only issues I have relate to Hotplug/HAL not loading on
Hi All,
This is more hardware related than anything else.
I have just been given a PC with a dead PSU.
The CPU is an AMD Socket 462, but I have no idea of the speed, as I cant power
it up at present to check, and I dont want to go to too much effort, if it's
a dinosaur!
There are no
Hi Y'all,
I just gone over to 2006 on another machine on our home network.
I'm trying to change the homepage in Konqueror to something different to the
default
I've changed the URL in the section where I thin it should be, but still it
stays at the Mandriva default any ideas?
On Monday 24 Jul 2006 23:20, ET wrote:
just how much have you tried with nolapic and noapic in the append to
the kernel (when you start and it asks hit enmter to install or f1 for
other options, hit f1 and type; linux noapic nolapic without the quotes)
Ah!
Never tried that before.!!
Hi Guys,
I just bought myself a subscription to MandrakeOnline, for updates etc.
It's telling me I have 83 updates pending, and is showing a red exclamation
mark.
However, when I click to install updates, it asks for my root password, which
I duly enter, and it hangs for a bit, and no
Hi guys,
I'm trying to do a maiden Linux install on a Dell Dimension 2400, and for some
reason, cannot get a normal resolution install GUI, just the low
resolution.
Now, as you can appreciate, this is a pain in the rear with no mouse, as I
want to do an install tailored to the needs of the
Further to my last post, I'm getting an error now, that I just cannot get
past!
I'm getting partitioned, and it looks for available packages. Then I get tjis
error:
GetAndSaveFile (/mnt/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.installation CD1 (cdrom1).cz):
No such file or directory.
It does this with both 2k5
Hi Gang,
I have a slight problem.
I have an on board ethernet card, eth0, something called sit0 and my wireless
card, wlan0.
Since I have enabled the Ethernet card, it's has totally ruined my Wireless
settings (my primary method of connecting to the net).
Every time I start up, I have to
Hi All,
Whenever I have done an install, the mdkonline icon always appears in the
system tray, and up until now, I have never successfully managed to register
an account, so I have always ended up taking it off.
Tonight, I have URPMI'd it down, and horror of horrors, it has worked... I
have
Hi All,
I'm trying to set up printing to a remote computer, on our home network.
The machine in question, is running Wndows XP (not ideal, I know, but it's not
my machine!), and the printer is being shown as shared.
Problem being, Printerdrake is just not detecting it on remote machines.
For
On Thursday 13 Jul 2006 12:46, Dan LaBine wrote:
If you're running the Home version, you may still need to add the users,
but I can't say for sure.
Hi Dan,
Yes, it's running Home... the standard Dell version, with the dreaded SP2.
I'll have a poke about with the other box, and see what I can
Hi All,
I'm using Kmail, and it would seem that whoever gets one of my emails with
Outlook Express, is being asked to download Arabic Text Support to view the
email.
Now, if this was me, it would be annoying to say the least, and it has now
gotten to the stage whereby my membership of one
On Sunday 02 Jul 2006 20:46, Ian wrote:
On Sunday 02 Jul 2006 20:36, JRH wrote:
Hi All,
I'm using Kmail, and it would seem that whoever gets one of my emails
with Outlook Express, is being asked to download Arabic Text Support to
view the email.
Now, if this was me, it would
Hi All,
I've been trying to burn an audio CD, using K3B.
As usual, it's hung halfway through writing, and my CD Burner is still active, and wont eject the CD.
I've killed K3B through Ksysguard, but 2 instances of cdrecord are still running with PID 5668 5669.
I've tried 5 times to kill via
On Thursday 22 Jun 2006 16:27, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
For processes that won't die with a regular kill, go to the command line
and do:
kill -9 pid...
A regular kill asks the process to shut itself down, but if it's hung, it
wont' respond. The -9 option tells the system to shut the
Hi All,
I have a problem with my taskbar.
When I minimise a window (on KDE), it's just disappearing, and not showing as
minimised in the bottom taskbar. Thus, getting it back is a nightmare!
No doubt I have altered a setting inadvertantly, but what? and how do I
correct it?
Any
to open Kmail:
KMail could not create the folder '$HOME/.Mail'
Please make sure you can view and modify the content of the folder /home/jrh/
Eh??
I have checked all permissions, and they are fine and as they should be.
I have moved the existing .Mail folder elsewhere, so it's chances of
causing
.
Can
you create any other file or directory within your home directory?
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Hi Ron,
Yes... that's the puzzling thing!
I can make new folders and copy stuff into the folder /home/jrh/ and all
subfolders with no problems
I'll have a quick look at userdrake, and see what I am
Hi All,
I have recently URPMI'd up to LE 2005.
I have a problem now, that Kmail wont pick up on spamassassin. It finds
bogofilter and GMX filter, but will not find SA. Yes, it is installed.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
JRH
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