linux_learner

i lost my xine visualizations after doing a cold boot. i cant find them any where. if someone knows how to get it back, please help.

rockybalboa

it may not be a problem with FF. to be sure, please test it in other browsers. it could be your system is not resolving DNS properly, which could be related to /etc/hosts or the firewall (iptables). i have heard of mozilla having this problem. so checking both is a good idea.

i've been using firefox and thunderbird for just a few days now. i absolutely love it. IE and OE dont hold a candle to it. the new opera has built into the browser the email client and a irc client. i could see opera giving firefox a run for its money (so to speak). i love how i can add search engines and other plugins into firefox and make it as powerfull as i want (believe me i have added almost every search engine out there). firefox could use some work on the themes though. i do enjoy the noia theme.

just released the ISO's for public consumption yesterday :)

 

Mandrake Club members (such as myself ;) ) have had them for a few weeks, and the cd's have been available for purchase from the store for a few days.

so we eat the iso's? :o

just messing with ya

i have been waiting anxiously for these iso's and downloaded them yesterday. hopefully i'll get to install them today (we need a prayer emoticon) :prayer:

some other good firewalls are: firestarter http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/ firestarter is a gui firewall. guarddog http://freshmeat.net/projects/guarddog/ guarddog is another gui firewall. arno's firewall http://rocky.molphys.leidenuniv.nl/ arno's firewall is an iptables script. ipkungfu http://www.linuxkungfu.org/ another iptables script.

check with the mandrake security site. there is also a linux security site.

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/

both will keep you apprised of the security updates. you can verrify the patches there with your system by doing rpm -qa <filename>

this will be a short tip, as its insanely simple.

i am new to firefox, just downloaded it a few days ago. thought i'd add a few search engines to it. it was a no go. it wasnt until i pulled up konqueror and tried to save the plugin manually that i found out why. permissions. i quickly went to the /.../firefox/searchplugins dir and chmod 777 it. once that was done, it worked like a dream.

just incase someone was having trouble with the search plugins like i was, i thought i'd share this. after all #mozillazine was no help.

if its a usb drive, then its under /mnt. ps2 mice should automatically be detected and configured correctly. if not, then make sure you know your make and model of your mouse and select that in mousedrake.

you will find your devices, however, located in /dev. some argue that using an editor is the best way. it is more precise. gui is easier though.

basically mousedrake should take care of ya, if you select the make and model right. keep in mind to use the TEST feature first. and if worst comes to worst, you can always delete that configuration file and start over. reinstalling wont solve it. this isnt windows, dont think of it as windows. take it one step at a time, and take time to adjust and learn. there is an awfull lot to learn.

ps aux displays the processes that are running. it is a command line tool. by using | (pipe) and grep (filter) you can narrow down the search of running processes, so that the command looks like

ps aux | grep artsd

if when you run

ps aux | grep artsd

you get an out put of

username   4875  0.0  0.3  1832  624 pts/5    S    17:12   0:00 grep artsd

then artsd is not running. it just displayed the search for artsd.

kaicool, if you want help, dont come off like you did on John

wow I am a noob but not an idiot, what do you think I have been doing, what do you think I have been selecting...

now on to your next question.

anyone got any ideas on how to get all the feature of an Asus A7n8x delux to work? Like sound perhaps

your sound is

Audio  RealtekR ALC650 6CH w/built in HP amplifier

Integrated APU(Audio Processor Unit) SoundStorm?/ DolbyR Digital (AC-3) Encoder

now since we've established this much, lets make sure your sound isnt muted. KAMix, KMix, QAMix, etc... any of these would work to unmute the sound. next check and make sure artsd is loaded.

ps aux | grep artsd

username   4875  0.0  0.3  1832  624 pts/5    S    17:12   0:00 grep artsd

does not mean artsd is loaded.

next time you wanna chew one of us out for assisting you, you wont get the help. :deal:

more than likely your xfree86config file is totally corrupted. i have seen this before, since it has happened to me. what i had to do was delete the xfree86config file and use XFdrake to rebuild the file.

i to have had an unpleasant experience with mandrakesoft. i was charged correctly, and i did get mandrake (eventually). so i understand what your saying. but we must always look at the facts. be objective. (with the exception of M$(kill M$!! down with M$!!)).

ilottl

glad to see you got the modem working. my post was more directed at the sound.

often times /dev/dsp is softlinked with /dev/null. this is because of artsd. pull up shell and run

ps aux | grep artsd

if you see only

username    435  0.0  0.3  1832  628 pts/6    S    08:15   0:00 grep artsd

then artsd is NOT running. the proper output would be

username   9632  0.0  0.3 11216  632 ?        S    May17   0:10 /opt/kde3/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f
username    435  0.0  0.3  1832  628 pts/6    S    08:15   0:00 grep artsd

notice how it listed both, the actualy service (more accurately called "daemon") and the search that was performed.

again, if you DO NOT have artsd running, you can hit ALT-F2 (its just like the run box in windows) and type artsd. then check and make sure you are not muted. mandrake mutes the sound by default.

jgutty

i second tyme's and john's notion of you rereading this entire thread. my post will make this 27 posts in this thread.

just a quick summry

Quick update on the payment problems with Mandrakesoft

 

1. Natexis, our payment platform provider, is responsible for the software bug that essentially multiplied the amount due by 100 for some orders.

4. At no point, was the wrongfully debited amount credited to Mandrakesoft, we always received only the correct amount (which partly explains why it took us some time to notice the problem).

6. Natexis tells us that they have contacted Visa and your bank on Monday the 17th. They will credit the amount wrongfully debited from the customer account, then will debit again the correct amount. This process should happen ?within one or two days?.

Some of our customers who paid by credit card during the month of May have recently encountered problems. We realized the problem before the week end and have done our best to fix it. We identified that the problem was not with our system but with our payment platform provider, Natexis.

 

This morning, Monday May 17, Natexis informed us that they had identified the problem. A software bug on their side caused the amount to be debited to be multiplied by 100 (by interpreting cents as dollars). Over the month of May, 261 Mandrakesoft customers were affected. Natexis confirms that the problem has been fixed and that the platform is now functioning correctly, so we have reopened our standard payment platform.

 

Natexis is notifying the banks today. So, if you were affected by this problem, your bank will be informed today of the problem and it will be fixed.

and a quote from the original post

I gladly joined Mandrake Club for the regular price of $66 US dollars

and from the q&a of mandrake club

Q: What are Club Benefits ?

Club members do receive certain privileges and benefits.

 

    * A full access to large selection of software for Mandrake Linux, including the RPMs of proprietary software normally only available in retail packs. These applications applications include easy-to-use web browser plugins, Java, powerful commercial applications and demo versions, software drivers, and lots more...

    * Special download mirror list exclusively for Club members. If a mirror is broken, please mail the webmaster with as much details as possible. Thanks :-)

    * Club members can request and vote on new software packages with the volunteer-run RPM voting system. Hundreds of great applications are now available for the PC and PPC versions of Mandrake Linux.

    * Special discounts on third-party products and services. Past promotions have included TransGaming Kohan games, Hancom Office, Yopy, Win4Lin, CrossOver Office and many others...

    * Special discounts for products and services at MandrakeStore (see below)

    * Multilingual discussion forums and multilingual articles

    * A huge database of all the software packages that are currently available for the Mandrake Linux distribution.

      More than 50,000 RPM packages -- over 100GBs of software (and still growing) -- is now available for all versions of Mandrake Linux!!!

    * Full access to MandrakeSoft's e-learning platform which provides comprehensive courses about Linux and Open Source software, plus quizzes to validate your knowledge.

    * Early access to Mandrake Linux manuals and technical documentation through a unique online system that collects users' & developers' comments & suggestions to ensure the best possible level of expertise. Please share your experience !

    * New versions of flagship softwares such as KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla and more are available in advance to Club members.

 

 

And more to come !!!

http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?si...mode=nocomments

so yes, you are mistaken and do owe an appology.

i would bet you get a real quick BSOD. the error code is probably 0x0000000024. if so then the NTFS.DRV loaded twice on bootup. this is what happened to me, except i wasnt playing with the partitions. basically the NTFS filesystem is hosed. the only fix is fdisk and reinstall. before going that dramatical though, pull out the XP pro cd and go into the recovery console and see if the recovery console will read the windows partition. if it can, run chkdsk -r and -f. then run fixmbr. that might work (if your lucky). otherwise get a livecd and see if linux can read the filesystem.

i have had this problem before. make sure artsd is loaded. in kde hit alt-f2 and type "artsd" (no quotes) and then hit enter. to check and see if artsd is loaded pull up shell (konsole) and type "ps aux | grep artsd" (no quotes).

the sound is more likely associated with the modem than the video card. winmodems typically include the sound card or something like that. the modem isnt remembering to activate the driver on boot up. to activate the drive its "modprobe" whatever the module is. (for me it was modprobe pctel and modprob ptserial).

a clean install probably will not help. its better to fix the problems you have.

now thats just pathetic. but then when i heard linus wasnt the father of linux, i knew that was bogus. whats sad is the news bought this guys report as credible.

thank you Andy Tanenbaum for setting the record straight officially.

The only reason I turn on Windows (and I have three computers with Windows XP on them) is that I have to use it to write in a similar file format as stuff at work. That's it.

thats it? what about open office?

if you buy a windows OS for $99, thats all you get. just the OS. XP came with "word pad". no office. the "firewall" in XP, i wouldnt trust. the cd burning in XP doesnt do iso's. its a verry limited burner. no antivirus. just the OS. if you buy all this stuff, the prices add up and fast. cd burning software.....$50. macaffee or norton suites ......$100 (aproximately). firewall......$50. Microsoft Office......$500.

linux on the other hand, includes all this standard. even on the download edition. the reason the packs are so expensive are a few reasons. 1) product support. 2) manuals. 3) comercial software (like vmware. granted vmware is a demo, but vmware runs $300).

btw XP at $99 is XP home edition upgrade. the XP home edition full, is $199. the difference between the two? upgrade requires you to have a previous version of windows. if its on the harddrive, fine you can use that. but, what happens if you need to format and reinstall? the upgrade will ask for a previous version of windows and the manufacturers restore cd's wont work.

kiacool i have had this problem before. although i was in mandrake at the time. X just did not want to restart. the problem turned out that some how my x configuration file got corrupted. i had to delete it, then run XFdrake. linux is cap sensitive.

icestorm thats gonna have to do with configuring X. i believe in mandrake its XFdrake from the command line. do this after your video driver is installed. make sure you know your video card (every last detail), your monitor, and your mouse. it will let you test the configuration.

LiquidZoo there are no 10.0 OE iso's on any mirror at this time. maybe if your a club member things might be different. that i dunno.

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3

Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for i586 and higher

United States

# ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distr...icial/10.0/i586 (Pennsylvania)

# ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distri...icial/10.0/i586 (North Carolina)

notice there is no iso in this. the mandrake site only has the rpm's. you'd have to download the rpm's and make your own iso.

i wouldnt at all be surpised if it was the video card. i have seen this happen before.

IceStorm

lilo can be particular about its labels. remember "KISS". try just naming it "windows" or "windowsxp" or windowsxppro". i wouldnt be at all surprised if it was something that simple.

i used to have a contract with MSN (shudders at the memories). kppp worked fine. you DO NOT need the software to make it work, even in windows. all you need are the dial up numbers your goin to connect to.