Electraglider

In a nutshell, I'm running Mandriva 2007 on one machine with Kmymoney and KDE. I have a stand alone networked hard drive I use for backups and other things. I also have a completely different machine I use for testing out other distros. I recently installed Ubuntu on the test machine and also installed Kmymoney using the add/remove applications that came with Ubuntu. Everything works fine. However, I would like to save my Kmymoney file to the network drive and be able to access if from either machine. Here's the deal, I am able to save the file to the networked drive from the Mandriva box by doing a "save as", browsing to the drive and save it. That works. Now when I try to open the file from the Ubuntu machine using Kmymoney, I can't browse to the network drive let alone the file. I can, however, browse to the network drive from the Ubuntu machine using File Browser. I have placed an icon on the desktop of the Ubuntu machine for easy access to the network drive. I can copy the file from the network drive to my home folder on the Ubuntu machine and open it from there with Kmymoney. Now I understand Kmymoney is essentially a KDE app and Ubuntu is Gnome, but Kmymoney is supposed to work just fine with Gnome. In fact, except for not being able to browse the network drive from Kmymoney everything does work just fine. My question is this, is my inability to browse the network drive with Kmymoney from GDE a compatibility issue, or is there something I need to do? I don't recall there being anything I needed to do for the Mandriva box using KDE except mounting the drive. The drive seemingly is mounted on the Ubuntu machine through the file browser. Any thoughts? Addendum: I installed Kubuntu and then Kmymoney and that worked...

I got it!!! I ended up installing Beryl. Which was giving me fits at first. It would keep shutting down and I would lose my window decorations but finally I updated my URPMI sources and found a couple of Beryl apps I didn't have installed. I went ahead and installed them and then things started happening. I am also using the 9631 Nvidia drivers, which so far seem to be working fine. Those drivers showed up in one of the URPMI sources. I don't know which ones. I have in my sources, among other things, plf nonfree and plf nonfree backports. What I needed may have been in there. Sorry, I don't have a tendancy to document everything I do. I generally use the shotgun approach which unfortunately leaves me at a loss sometimes as to what I just did that either worked or screwed everything up completely. Another thing I did which seemed to be the final push to iron things out was to google beryl. I found the project website and there is a very informative wiki on the subject which gives the config file changes to implement. The link to that site is http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Main_Page . Thanks to all who responded

Thanks Dex, I'll give that a shot............ Moments later, after a reinstall of the driver that gave the AIGLX option... No go, the ctrl+Alt+left\right arrows just toggled between my virtual desktops I have enabled. Could be handy anyway. Thanks for the tip Dex.

Okay, then I suppose there is a very real possibility my hardware doesnt' support the 3d feature or the driver I am using doesn't support the 3d desktop feature with my hardware. But zibi1981, let me ask you this, if you decide you don't want to work with a 3d cube of your desktop, how do you turn it off? Tell me that :huh: :dry:

I did all of the above and as I said, if I select XGL I get nothing but a bluescreen and an animated cursor. When I select AIGLX, restart x and login everything looks fine but I can't tell by looking if 3D features are enabled. I mean it just boots up to a regular desktop. If I go to MCC and drak3d it shows 3d desktop enabled and AIGLX is selected. Should it just boot to a 3d cube desktop or is there a keystroke combination to activate it? What is the indication that 3D desktop is enabled? Is there a welcome screen that says "WELCOME TO 3D DESKTOP!"? I mean glxgears works. Is that how I can tell? If so then maybe my installation just doesn't like the cube.... :unsure: Thanks for the response. I may just have to live with it as is.. It sounds and from what I've been able to see on the web it looks cool...

I have an NV18 GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x card running on an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ with 512 meg ram. I have downloaded and installed the Nvidia 9631 driver and everything seems to be fine. I have 3d desktop enabled and AIGLX selected. I have tried selecting Xgl but all I get with that is a blue screen with the little animation swirling around. While it's fun to watch it's not very gratifying. In addition I am running Mandriva 2007 free version and while and I can't say it was the easiest install, it wasn't any worse than 2006 which was easier than Windoze 2000. I have installed the drivers from PLF as recommended in another post on this board and I followed the install process to the letter. It seemed to work but when I went to the 3d enable page in MCC AIGLX was unselectable and it was defaulted to Xgl. So I said what the hell, selected it, restarted x and was rewarded once again with the bluescreen, swirly cursor thingy. On the good side, I now know how to get out of that without too much pain. Now, with the 9631 driver I can run glxgears and I have done the thing with running it from a terminal and it shows all the frame rate stuff. I have also run <glxinfo | grep direct> and it returns (direct rendering: Yes). I keep reading that my xorg.conf file should have "load glx" lines removed but when I do that glxgears does not run." Since it seems to matter, here's the pertinent sections of my xorg.conf file. My XF86config file is the same. # File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713) Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corp." BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" EndSection # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Nov 9 17:55:20 PST 2006 Section "Module" Load "glx" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" Option "RENDER" "Enable" EndSection So anyway, is there something else needed to get the 3d cube on the desktop to render? I noticed there was another posting today for which there hadn't been any replies for the same issue. I have tried all kinds of searches to find a solution to this issue and most of what I have found is " Install the drivers according thus and such procedure, log out, restart x and voila! So far everything but Voila! Any takers? Thanks

Or, you could do like me and go to Help in Firefox, select search for updates in the drop down menu and when it says do you want to install the update, or whatever it says, just say yes. I have LE2005 and while I believe my version of FF was a bit newer than the one you are saying you have, the upgrade went flawlessly and I am now surfing with the latest and greatest FF. No worries.

Thanks Crash, That's just the sort of information I was looking for. You're right, I have run into RPM hell and I have just ordered the free version of 2006 on CD. I do have the older version of GNUcash that came with LE2005 and made a token effort to use it. But when I discovered the newer version was out I decided to try and get that one before I made an all out effort to incorporate it into my already extensive Quicken accounts. That's when I discovered LE2005 was no longer supported and decided to see if I could get 2006 upgraded easier to run the new version of GNUcash. Further, I kinda figured GNUcash 2.0.1 was more of a feature upgrade rather than cosmetic. At any rate, in the process of attempting to upgrade my LE2005, I am learning a lot about Linux and it is giving me reason to spend time here at Mandrivausers. My 2006 should be here by the weekend and after I get that installed I'll be back to trying to get GNUcash2.0.1 installed. As a long time user of GNUcash, you might want to standby because I expect I'll be posting some more issues. Thanks again.

Long time time no post. Thanks to Aussiejohn I have a copy of LE2005. Thanks to a power surge my wife lost her computer and I had to donate my Linux box with a windose loaded hard drive. I finally have my linux box back and I have discovered in the meantime there is a newer version of GNUcash out. I have downloaded it but I find it requires dependencies I can't seem to acquire through updating my distribution packages nor direct downloading. Am I looking at the prospect of updating my LE2005 to 2006 or later? I have discovered in the process of trying to update that 10.2 or LE2005, whatever you want, is no longer supported. The only place I found the updates was at http://mandrake.mirrors.pair.com/Mandrakel....2/main_updates. Notice the OLD in the URL or you would if the whole thing showed up. Anyway, after getting that to work using the console method logged in as root I still have been unable to install GNUcash 2.0.1. Manually installing the dependancies would be prohibtively time consuming.Anybody have any recomendations or suggestions besides scrapping Linux and sticking with Windose and Quicken? Actually, I don't intend to scrap Linux. I like it. I just want to be able to use it productively. I'll use it other ways in any case.

Okay, I have my Linux box running 2005LE working with my modem and set up as the shared internet connection for the network. Now, does anyone know if there is a way to have the client computers on the network dial out on the shared connection remotely? Right now, the other two computers on the network are running Windows. One XP and One Win2k.

Having the same problem myself I stumbled across this site. http://www.devidal.tv/~chris/winmodems/pci_list.html Maybe it will help.

First of all I would like to thank all of you who helped me through my Linux growing pains over the last couple of weeks. You saved me lots of time and even helped to preserve what is left of my hair. That being said and now that I have my MDK Linux box up and running like a Swiss watch, I have a project in mind that I would like to get some input from you networking gurus out there. I hope this is the right place to put this. I am currently running a small home network with three machines and a couple of printers. My wife's computer, being an WinXP machine, is the ICS gateway using a dialup and the other machines are the clients. duh.. Anyway, we have software running on both our machines that lets us know when we have an incoming call and who is calling. The computer actually dialed in is the only one that gets the incoming call notificatiion right now. That way if we are online we can answer the phone when it rings.....or not. What I would like to do is set up a linux machine, I have a couple of other computers not being used right now, that would act as the ICS gateway through a dialup just like my wife's computer is currently but I would also like to incorporate a router and firewall to cover all computers on the network. I would also like to be able to administer the gateway computer remotely using one of the other computers on the network thereby eliminating the need for another mouse, monitor and keyboard. That's the easy part. On top of that, I would like to be able to dial out on the gateway computer from any computer on the network and also terminate the connection from any other computer on the network. And finally, as if that weren't enough, I would like any and all computers on the network to get notified when there is an incoming call allowing the user to terminate the dialup connection and answer the phone. Does anyone know if the software to do all this is available for Linux and if so what would it be? I'm hoping that most of the software to do this is already bundled with my 2005LE. If you have any questions for clarification of my intentions, please feel free to post them here.

I downloded Firefox 1.5 and based on the comments of one user who said that he used ARK to extract the TAR file I followed suit. That, I must say works very well. I must also say that my Firefox was functionaing as advertised with no problems. Until I decided to re-arrange the folders it had extracted to. Once I made the adjustments to where the startup icon pointed to Firefox would open up two tabs and take forever to load either page. I went to the Firefox forum site and discovered that for some reason another website had been entered into the URL window for my home page. After fixing that everything is back to normal and working fine. I said all that to say this...In searching for the solution to my multiple tabs opening up issue I read a lot of posts on the Firefox forum from people that were haveing all sorts of problems with FF 1.5. In fact I got the impression that they were very unhappy. I didn't read any of them in detail, only skimmed them to see if the issues were similar to the porblem I was having. But one thing I did notice was that just about every one of them was running windose in one iteration or another. I've got my 2005 LE all up and running and i am now running Firefox, as stated above and last night I loaded up Thunderbird and the are all running without a hitch....for the most part.

I am comfortable using CLI, but I prefer the GUI as I am not familiar with all the commands and I am basically lazy. I do plan on getting more familier with the commands as time goes by.

I'll check these sites out the first chance I get.

Thanks aioshin, ...but I didn't forget. I just didn't know. So I tried it and it worked after a fashion. Now the folder I had pointed to in the smb.confg file is in accessible but everything in my regular user home folder is accessable including the folder I had pointed to in the smb.confg file. Pretty interesting. Further, I wasn't even asked for a user name and passward. go figure.

yes Well, as long as the little firefox is still there, I guess I better give it a try.

New member, new user, new....well just new. Except for windoze. Been doin' that for awhile and well it's just time for a change. So, with regards to this post, my Mandriva 2005LE, courtesy of AussieJohn, came bundled with Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2. After having perused these forums looking for answers concerning the non-functioning or slowness of another version of Firefox, I configured this version accordingly and it is working unbelievably well. Even as a client on a NAT gateway, the server of which is my wife's XP box. Not to mention that we are sharing a dialup connection. Anyway, I have been using Firefox version 1.0.6 on my Win2K box and I really like it, especially the little fox logo wrapped around the globe. My question is, does the 1.5 version continue with the little fox logo and if so, is it worth the effort to upgrade when I have a perfectly good working version now? Even though it has the lame dinosaur looking logo in the upper left hand corner it still works just fine.

Addendum, Okay, I have mounted hdb1 in my home folder using MCC, I can see it in my home folder and I can see all the folders and files contained within. Further, the folder I wish to access across my network has the regular user, that's me, with full ownership. When right clicking on the folder in my home directory that I have full ownership of I get the following error: An error occurred while trying to share folder '/home/lyle/hdb1/Electraglider'. Make sure that the Perl script 'fileshareset' is set suid root. I am using konqueror and when I start konq as root I get the " you can't share a folder that is not in your home directory" error... So whad do I do now????

Thanks aioshin, You seemed to have grasped exactly what I am attempting to do. On your suggestion I changed ownership of the folder I had already set up on the /mnt/hdb1 directory but upon attempting to share it I was again informed I couldn't unless it was in my home directory. So I went ahead and edited my smb.conf file thusly: [Electraglider Backup] comment = Network backup path = /mnt/hdb1/Electraglider valid users = lyle public = yes writable = yes printable = no create mask = 0765 ..and was immediately rewarded with viewing the folder "Electraglider" in my nethood on the win2k machine. However, and there is always one of those, :o upon attempting to acces that share folder I was presented with a login prompt for user name and password in which I entered my user name and password. That didn't work so I tried root user name and password and that didn't work either. So, I'm about 2/3's of the way there. Should I put down everyone or everybody or all users or something to that affect on the valid users line? I'm thinking that it may be due to the fact that I haven't actually shared the folder yet. Should I now mount the folder, (and how do I do that without mounting the whole hard drive?) in my home folder? :unsure: Thanks also to lavaeolus for taking the time to read and reply to my post. If I upgrade to 2006 I'll keep the suggestions in mind.

Hello all, Thanks to AussieJohn I am now running 2005LE vice 10.1 and it is running smoothly. However, I have a question...Up until now I have been using a spare computer running Win2k to back up data files from my main computer which is running Win2K. Now I am going to be using my new Linux box in the same capacity. Among other things. This computer has 2 hardrives, one of which was formatted when I installed Linux with three partitions. The other one is a 40 gig hard drive which I have mounted to /mnt/hdb1. I would like to share this drive across my home network so I can access it from my main Win2K computer and back up my files. It seems, however, that I can't share the drive unless it is in my home directory so I mounted it there but then I couldn't share it because of something to do with the fileshareset not being set suid root. I searched this board for everything I could pertaining to the issue but I could find nothing that quite fit the situation. I did have the network set up such that I could see all of my shared drives on the win2K machine from the Linux box using smb: and Konqueror and I tried to backup the data files using the backup utility in the MCC. That worked but I couldn't get it to backup to the folder I had created for it. The backup file went into the parent directory of the folder I was trying to back up to. Moving the backup file to the folder I had created for it didn't work. sometime during the process of trying to get it all to work the way I wanted it to work I lost all the file sharing capability I had. I guess basically what I need to know is, how do I share a second hard drive so that it can be accesed across the network from other machines? If I mount it at /mnt/hdb1 I can't share it unless it is in my home directory. If I mount it in my home directory I can't share it because of some application permissions. I checked the permissions for fileshareset and it is user:root, group:root.

Thanks everybody for your input. Sorry about the long winded intro but once I got statrted I couldn't stop. Besides, you all know how hard it is to decide where to begin. Thanks very much too AussieJohn for your offer. I'm short on time at the moment but I'll get back you on that. I'll take all the comments made herein to heart. E'glider

Hi everybody, Long time Windose user, brand newbie Linux user here. Unless you count thinking about using Linux, in which case I’m a long time almost Linux user. Somwhere buried in the following post is an actual technical “help me” question. As with many current and potential Linux users, my main reason for holding off on running Linux until now has been Quicken. My whole financial life is on Quicken, for good or bad. I recently decided to start checking into Linux compatible financial software again and came across a couple that sounded promising and in the search I also stumbled across Crossover Office and the WINE project. Now I finally feel I have the means whereby I can leave the windose world behind and venture into something new. I chose Mandriva for several reasons, one of which was the inclusion of GnuCash, giving me the opportunity to check that out without having to download something else. There were other reasons beside that but that is neither here nor there. I’m sure there are other distros out there as good or better that also include GnuCash. But I digress. After having made my decision as to which distro I should use I found a decent price on the download version of Mandriva 10.1 on CD through some outfit called Edmunds something or other. The arrival of which I waited for with bated breath. I bought the CD’s for the simple reason that I’m on a dialup. Need I say more? My first venture into the Linux world wasn’t pretty. I was running a Compaq Presario of ancient vintage and questionable lineage, that I had been using for a backup computer for my main computer. Backup in the sense that I was backing up files to it. It was loaded with win2k and I figured if it could run that it sure as hell should be able to run Linux. Well, to make a long story short, I got it up and running much to my satisfaction but, I had to load it with the text install because the graphics hardware could not handle even the basic vgalo install. That took me roughly 3 hours one evening after work.I did the best I could and answered all the questions. When I got to the video graphics driver part I was favorably impressed with the fact that my driver was on the list. After reboot, everything worked as advertised and I had an immediate sense of inherent operating system stability. Don’t ask me why. Probably psychological, or just psycho. I’m not using that computer anymore. The very next day I was relating my venture into the Linux world to a friend of mine who informed me that, had he known I was interested in Linux he would have given me a system that he had been playing with a few years back using Red Hat. Only he had just given it all away. However, he did have a computer he had inherited from his brother that he didn’t know what to do with and would I like that? So….whew, this is getting longer than I thought…. Anyway, the computer turned out to be an AMD Duron 800 MHZ with 128 Megs Ram, 40 gig HD and a Diamond Stealth III with 16 MB Ram video card. Aha! Now I had something. So out went the Compaq and in came the AMD. I loaded up Mandriva and it took only about 20 minutes or so using the GUI install, to be looking at my new KDE desktop. I bought another 256 Meg of RAM and now it’s great. So what’s the problem you ask? And, “it’s about time” you add. Actually, now…. nothing. I had to reinstall the whole thing all over again to fix it. But I was thinking that maybe someone else out there has had the same thing happen and found another way to fix it besides reinstalling the whole thing again. I did search this board in a vain attempt to see if someone had posted something similar and either through my lack of search criteria or no one actually had the problem, I never found it. So here it is. After I had gotten everything loaded nicely and it was ticking along like a Swiss watch, I decided to see what was available as far as personal desktop configuration and eye candy. You know, backgrounds, screen savers fonts etc. etc. To the best of my recollection I was playing around with the different desktop themes when all of a sudden I got an application crash warning about something called ksplash and that I should contact the programmer about a bug. Further, there was a tab that said backtrace so I clicked on it. Oh s__t!!!! what’s all this stuff? Anyway, not having a clue as to what just happened, I closed the debugger down and that’s when I noticed that all my KDE desktop and menu icons were wiped out. Upon further experimentation I discovered that there were certain applications that would slow the system to a crawl. Specifically, Konqueror and certain text editors. Maybe all of them I don’t know. On the good side, I learned in a hurry about some of the troubleshooting techniques available to me. And I found this forum. To continue, I discovered that the Gnome desktop was unaffected but the applications would still slow the system to a crawl. You know how the mouse just jumps in little spurts when you move it as the CPU gets time to move it? Upon starting the Gnome system monitor and running one of the offending apps, it was apparent that X was using all the CPU resources in an attempt to open the application, or whatever it was trying to do. In pursuing the problem further I ran across lots of other things, one of which was that every time I booted up I would get the crash warning about ksplash. I found out what ksplash was and found out how to keep it from starting. I no longer got the crash warning and the bug report but I didn’t get my desktop back and the system continued to crawl upon trying to open the aforementioned apps. Apparently the damage had already been done. Except for that I was able to move around pretty much as usual. So, here I am with a freshly installed system but I’m a bit gun shy about poking around with settings and configurations. I am thinking about preventing the splash screen from coming up again and maybe heading off a repeat of the last incident. Has this happened to anybody else out there? If so, were you able to fix it? And does anybody know if commenting out the ksplash line in the startkde file would prevent it from happening in the first place? Sorry about the long winded preamble to my issue but I thought I should give it a little background rather than just jumping right in there with a HELP!!!!! I’m a Linux newbie dummy and could somebody please take pity on me?