marcnino

Here's mine... try changing some of the settings to what I have, and see if it works. Be sure to reboot after you change any of these settings. LANGUAGE=en_US GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-anthy LC_ADDRESS=en_US LC_COLLATE=ja_JP XIM=uim-anthy LC_NAME=en_US LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_TIME=ja_JP LANG=ja_JP LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP LC_CTYPE=ja_JP LC_TELEPHONE=en_US ENC=eucj LC_MONETARY=en_US XIM_PROGRAM=uim-xim LC_PAPER=en_US XMODIFIERS="@im=uim-anthy" Marc...

If you just want to be able to see kanji in a file list, installing the Japanese language package should be all you need to do (I think). If you want to be able to input kanji, it gets a little more complex... you can install the packages that nocturne mentioned (which are more of a 9.x solution), or use packages called XIM, anthy, and SCIM (which are what came with 10). You'll also need to switch locales, I think. Or you can do what I'm doing... wait for 10.1. 10.1 will be using SCIM fully, and you won't have to switch locales or anything. 10.1 will have a lot of advances for those of us who use Asian characters.

Chalk up another one for Opera... it's the best browser out there.

Do you have the "klaptop" package installed? I'm pretty sure that's the one that gives you the taskbar battery monitor, as well as the battery options in the KDE Control Center. Marc...

Thanks for the reply, Wren. Adding the alias did the trick... it's bouncing to my mail client now. Thanks! By the way, I tried the soft_bounce option, and all that did was put the bounced messages in a queue to be retried later... it didn't actually bounce the mail to the proper user. Thanks again!

Hey all, I'm currently running Mandrake 10 Cooker, and I have a small Postfix problem. If I send mail to someone and it gets bounced (if I type in the wrong address, for example), the bounced message goes into /var/spool/postfix. However, a copy of the bounced message doesn't get sent to my e-mail client (KMail). Therefore, I don't know if a message gets bounced unless I check /var/spool/postfix. Does anyone know how to get postfix to send the bounced message to my e-mail client? I tried digging through the config files a bit, but I couldn't spot anything. Can anyone help me out? Thanks! Marc...

I'm using a not-too-dissimilar machine (IBM T20, Savage card), and Mandrake 10 (Cooker) works fine. I'm not sure what your problem is, but if you want me to post any of my configuration stuff, just let me know. Incidentally, here's my "device" section of /etc/X11/XF86Cofig-4 : Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "S3 Inc." BoardName "S3 Savage (generic, sw_cursor)" Driver "savage" VideoRam 8192 Option "DPMS" Marc...

I don't know about a Finale clone, but there are several guitar-oriented software apps for Linux. The best one for you might be KGuitar... it is a pretty robust tablature creation app, and also supports MIDI (if memory serves me). Marc...

I had the same problem once with K3B. It turned out I had a bad CD in the drive, and K3B hung on startup because of it. Make sure you don't have any media in the drive, and try again. If that doesn't work, try updating to the latest version... I'm using the latest version from Cooker with my el-cheapo external USB CD burner, and it works fine. Marc...

I personally can't answer your question, but if nobody else here can either, you should ask the people on the JPilot.org mailing list. They are very helpful, and are experts at getting handhelds to work with Linux. Check them out at: www.jpilot.org Marc...

I noticed the same thing too, in both Mandrake 9.1 and 10... the KDE sound starts, and then makes a static-like skipping sound and cuts out. I disabled the sound completely, and it doesn't bother me anymore! Heh... Marc...

Using localedrake should do it for you. You can use it from the command line, or from System > Configuration > Other > LocaleDrake. If it doesn't give you the option for French, install the french i18n file via rpmdrake. You'll have to log out and log back in for localedrake's changes to go into effect. Marc...

Hey all, I was checking my .xsession-errors file, and the first error message in it is: failed in listen(): Invalid argument I also noticed that if I run apps from the command line, I sometimes get this message. I'm not sure what's causing it. Does anyone here know what the message means, or how I can track down what's causing it? Thanks, Marc...

From what I've heard, some BIOSes are not compatible with acpi or apmd. I know when I tried acpi, it wasn't working right. I grabbed apmd, and it worked. If acpi doesn't do it for you, try downloading apmd (you can get it through the Mandrake Control Center's software install program). Marc...

Yes, Mandrake does have a standby feature. I've used both Mandy 9.1 and 10 on my IBM Thinkpad T20, and standby and resume work fine. There are occasional quirks, like certain services not resuming... but that could just be me. As far as I know, there are two linux programs that can deal with suspend/resume -- apmd (the one I use), and acpi. I'm not real familiar with the differences or their practical usage... my suspend/resume worked automagically. Marc...

Another vote for Opera here... almost any cool feature you like about Mozilla or Konqueror has been done in Opera first (and usually better, in my opinion). I'm a registered user, and couldn't be happier. Marc...

aRTee, as a followup, I found that this command worked for me: service -f alsa Restarting alsa brings back the sound. Now, is there a text file or script I can put this command in? I looked in /etc/sysconfig/suspend, and I have a line that says: RESTART_SERVICES="postfix xntpd xinetd nfs gpm pcmcia irda alsa" But alsa is not getting restarted. I'm thinking that my laptop is not paying attention to /etc/sysconfig/suspend... If I change any settings in that text file, nothing seems to happen. Marc...

aRTee, I disabled apm and tried out your suggestion. "service sound start" didn't do anything, but I did a "service -R" and the sound worked... so now it's just a matter of figuring out which specific service needs restarting. Thanks for the good advice! Now, when you say "you can add the commands in one of the scripts," you wouldn't happen to know which script it would be, would you? I'm still fairly newbie-ish, so I could use all the help I can get! :) coverup, I see what you're saying now, and I think you're right. It does look like maybe X is crashing... Whenever I do a suspend or resume (with apm enabled) I get weird stuff on the screen and it takes a long time... and when I resume, it looks like X is restarting itself, then launching KDE. I tried disabling xscreensaver, but I still get the same problem. What's weird is that *sometimes* KDE will wake up into my last session, giving me a "enter your password to resume" screen. Also, apm doesn't seem to restart all of my services (such as postfix!). While apm worked great in 9.1 (no, I didn't have the same problem), I'm thinking the non-apm suspend and resume option is better... the machine wakes up right where I left off, and all I have to do is restart my sound. Thanks for all the replies! Marc...

coverup, Yeah, I think my BIOS is apm compatible, since it worked with 9.2, and acpi (which I just tested) didn't. I wonder why Mandrake 10 didn't install apm though... When KDE restarts, I'm not prompted to log in again... it just starts the session completely over (with the KDE "starting services" splash screen). Any open windows won't be there... it'll be a fresh new KDE session. That said, I don't have any crash problems with suspend/resume.

coverup, Yeah, I think my BIOS is apm compatible, since it worked with 9.2, and acpi (which I just tested) didn't. I wonder why Mandrake 10 didn't install apm though... When KDE restarts, I'm not prompted to log in again... it just starts the session completely over (with the KDE "starting services" splash screen). Any open windows won't be there... it'll be a fresh new KDE session. That said, I don't have any crash problems with suspend/resume.

coverup, I checked using "service -s" and I do have apm running (but that was only after I installed it). With apm installed, suspending is working... but, when I wake my machine back up, it restarts my KDE session completely! I can't find any way to stop this, so I might try out acpi and see what happens. To answer your question, my IBM T20 is a few years old (not sure how old exactly, got it second hand), and I'm running Mandy 10 Cooker with the 2.6 kernel. LiquidZoo, I'll check my BIOS, but I think you may be right... it must be built in on a hardware level. Marc...

LiquidZoo, I looked in MCC, and it turns out I didn't have either apm or acpi installed! But yet the laptop will still suspend and resume... weird. I'm think I'll install apm and see what happens, as apm worked well for me in Mandrake 9.1. coverup, Yes, etc/sysconfig/suspend was what I was looking for. It had a "restart sound" option that was set to "no"... I changed it to yes, and it still doens't work, but that's probably because I don't have apm or acpi installed. iphitus, Thanks for the advice. Unloading and reloading works, but it seems to mess up my alsa-mixer settings.

Thanks for the reply, LiquidZoo. I did a locate for apm, and there's nothing... I guess I'm using acpi as well (never really knew... Mandrake set it up automagically). How does one edit acpi settings? I only see a couple of text files in /etc/acpi/events, and they don't really have much information to them. Thanks, Marc...

Hey all, I have an IBM Thinkpad T20 that I'm currently running Mandrake 10 on. Suspending (Fn-F4) the computer works fine... it goes to sleep, and wakes back up when I tell it to. However, when it wakes back up, the sound system doesn't work anymore. In Mandrake 9.1, I remember there was an apmd text file that you could edit, and tell which services to revive or restart after a suspend. I can't find the same thing in Mandrake 10! Does anyone know how I can edit suspend properties? Marc...

Thanks for the replies. It didn't take much convincing... I just got done switching to Cooker. A lot of packages were installed, and after a sanity reboot (yes, those old Windows habits die hard, what can I say), everything seems to be running just like before... which is a good sign, right? :D I'm sure the little differences will reveal themselves in the future, but for now, it seems all good. Thanks for the good advice. Qchem, I find that I'm constantly messing around with any version of Linux, stable or no... maybe that's just my nature... heh. LiquidZoo, thankfully I'm not too afraid of the CLI, although you have to use it more often in Linux than I think one should. But the more I use Linux, the more I appreciate the power of the CLI. Thanks again... Marc...