Daveleh

Hi,

Kmack said:

I have same result on my 3.0.5a Konqueror browser.  Not able to input on front page, but can after hitting the login button and going to second page.

Oh well, it's good to know that it's not me :-)

and mtweidmann said:

I'm running KDE 3.1rc5 and it works fine.  Must be a problem they fixed between versions.  If you don't feel like manually updating KDE you could just wait for MDK 9.1 to come out.

That doesn't bother me but I only have a 56K connection so I'll wait till it's out on Linux Format DVD, either KDE3.1 or ML9.1 :-)

Thanks both of you for replying

Hi DragonMage,

you said:

Hmmm.. runs fine with me with my KDE 3.1 konqueror.. What version of KDE are you using?

ML 9.0, KDE 3.0.4

Hi everyone,

I have come across a problem with Konqueror and was wondering whether or not anyone else experienced the same.

My home page is set as uk.my.yahoo.com. When the main page loads there is a section on the left hand side where you enter your login and password in order to access your personal settings.

Now, in all the other browsers that I have tried, Mozilla, Galeon and Phoenix, this works ok but in Konqueror when I click into either of the text boxes nothing appears when I type. However if I click on the Sign In button I get taken to a new page which gives me the option to register or to try signing in again. Here I can enter text into the boxes and subsequently login.

Is this something that I am doing wrong or need to set up somewhere in Konqueror or is it a bug that I need to submit?

Thanks in advance

I have always believed that it is nice to recive praise where due so I would just like to record my appreciation to all the people involved in producing Open Source software and in particular to the people involve with the development on Mandrake Linux.

Hi DragonMage,

you said:

What kind of gamepad is it? USB? Gameport?

 

I think it can still work as a 4 button gamepad if you configure the kernel module correctly. Gamepad unfortunately is one of the weak links in linux hardware support. You need to do a lot of experimentation with loading the kernel modules to make it work, maybe read a lot about the joystick how-to or something.

It's a serial game/joystick port model. I'm not yet up to the stage of configuring the kernel so I guess I'll just have to leave it for now.

Thanks anyway

Does anyone know whether or not it is possible to get a Maxfire G08 Gamepad working under ML9.0 with KDE3 ?

Hi Yankee,

you said:

I have a Fuji Finepix 2400 Zoom that did work when I first installed Mandrake 9.0.  All I did was plug it in and up popped an icon on the KDE desktop named dynamic_mnt_camera and it worked great.  After running Mandrake Update or after I messed something else up in the last week it didn't pop up an icon no more.

 

Here is how I fixed it.  I read this thread and  made a folder called /mnt/camera and opened a console and typed:

 

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

Yes, this was how I got my Fuji4800Z to work in ML8.2 but when I upgraded to ML9 I also had to change to a fuji401. When I type the mount command as listed above I get informed that /dev/sda1 doesn't exist so I can't mount it to mnt/camera or anywhere else.

This is also a problem with ML8.2. I suppose I will have to wait for the next ML update and see if that works. In the meantime I use Win98 to download my pics.

Hey give a try to program called digikam. You can find rpm for 9.0. Try google search. My camera was also (hp318) only mountable as harddrive(vfat) until i downloaded digikam.

Thanks for replying 8)

I'll check out that program to see if it works.

In the meantime I have done some more investigation.

I have installed a basic win98 setup on a spare drive so I'm now dual booting. Both my camera and the card reader work on this system, in either usb port. So I know all that is ok.

Back in ML9.0. With the camera plugged in but turned off when I go to proc/bus/usb/devices I can see two entries, one for the usb hub and one for my usb mouse.

With the camera turned on I see three entries one for each of the above and a third for usb mass-storage device. So obviously something is being seen. I just can't see any means to access the pictures on the card. :?

Card Reader:

You say that both 8.2 and 9.0 detected the card reader.  Did they create a dev entry?  (/dev/sda1 on my machine)..

No. This was the way that my old camera worked but I can't get anything with these two items. Also with my old camera sda1 was shown as a hard drive mount point in MCC. Nothing at all with these two.

The only way I knew that the mass storage device was identified was because it was displayed in the knmenu as listed previously.

Create a directory to mount the card in:

mkdir /mnt/memory_card

 

Then mount the device:

mount /dev/sda* /mnt/memory_card

 

That should allow you to see the contents of the card.

This was the wasy I got my old camera working but again, nothing with these two

Camera:

Even if Linux has no drivers for your camera it should detect it on the USB bus.  If it doesn't find it at all, it would suggested a dodge connection.  Try booting with and without the camera connected.  Plus try riggling around with the camera.

I've got a spare HD so I'm going to install Win98 on it and see if everything works ok that way. I know everything works on another PC with win2K, so if it doesn't I'll check the USB ports....although the usb mouse works fine in both of them.

Ho Hum . . . Thanks for replying anyway

OK, here's some further info. Perhaps someone out there may be able to decipher whats happening before I resort to re installing Win98.

Over the weekend I have done the following:

I have re installed ML8.2 and ML9.0, both versions with the camera disconnected. Once they were loaded I plugged the camera cradle into the USB port and turned the camera on. I then waited for 10 mins. Nothing seemed to happen. I couldn't locate any means to view the pics on the card. When I went to Kmenu/Configure/KDE/Information/USB I could see the USB Hub and the USB mouse listed but nothing else. I also tried this without the camera cradle with the same effect.

I then reinstalled both systems, this time with the camera plugged in and turned on during the installation process. ML8.2 reported that it was loading the driver for scsi/disk card usb-storage and then continued installing correctly. ML9.0 reported that it was loading the driver for disk/scsi/hardware_raid card usb-storage and then hung. After ten minutes I turned the computer off. When I was in ML8.2 I went to Kmenu/Configure/KDE/Information/USB again. This time I could see entries for USB Hub, USB mouse and USB mass storage - manufacturer Fuji Film. Still can't find a way to view the card contents.

I then bought a seperate card reader and installed the OS's again. Both reported that they were loading the same drivers as the last paragraph but this time they both carried on installing correctly. The Kmenu/Configure/KDE/Information/USB shows the mass storage device in both setups but I still cannot find any means to view the card contents.

Any ideas anyone?

What am I missing or failing to do or what do I need to do correctly?

All help appreciated.

Dave Le Huray

Guernsey, Channel Islands

Just a quick thought, but have you tried the /mnt/camera option in Konqueror? If your camera is supported by gphoto (which it presumably was in 8.2) - then it might work. 

 

This may cut down the likely culprits...

 

 

HTH

 

Dutch

No go, as i said earlier I now have a new camera because the old one, which worked, got lost.

Thanks anyway

A couple of things you could try:

- Try different USB ports.

- Try plugging in the device after you've booted.  Wait a few minutes then check /dev again.  (Its takes a while for it to update).

- Make sure your camera doesn't have some daft download setting.

OK, thanks I'll try this weekend and will post to this forum if I get lucky :)

The one I've got is called " ZiO! " and theres versions for most versions of memory card.  (Mines for SmartMedia)  Its USB and I just plugged it in, MDK automatically created a dev entry for it and made an icon on my desktop.

Hmm, any idea why that doesn't work with the camera plugged in. All that I get is that certain applications won't start, MCC, hardDrake, Removable Media icon. They all try to start and the egg timer goes round and round in the kicker panel but then they all just stop. Take the camera away and they are all fine. Also I have no entry in /dev for sda1. Is it possible to put it in manually?

Does your camera have removable memory cards? If so you can get USB card readers which are fairly cheap. I found it was mcuh easier to setup this up under Linux than my camera.

 

Just out of interest, is there any particular reader that you recommend and also what's the procedure for setting one up ? I don't want to have to pay extra for something else that won't work when I can get around the situation by reinstalling Win98 on a secon drive and having a dual boot system. Not the way I'd really like to go but I want to get this camera working. This is the reason I left the Amiga :(

Does your camera have removable memory cards?  If so you can get USB card readers which are fairly cheap.  I found it was mcuh easier to setup this up under Linux than my camera.

Thanks for replying.

Yes it does have removable memory. It uses smartmedia. But my original camera installed a dream and they use the same principle, at least I think they do.

I'v come across another problem now, might be related might not. I can't get drakconf to launch.

I have clicked on MCC on the desktop, typed drakconf in a terminal and entered drakconf in the 'run command' box from the k menu. Each time I get asked for root password and then a small text box appears that says 'loading please wait'. A short while later the text in this box disappears, the frame remains, and then nothing.

I'm going to try to re install ML8.2 to see if that gets the camera to work, I've got a mondoarchive backup.

Hi,

When I had ML8.2 insytalled I set up a usb digital camera by following the instructions from Linux Format no 19, as here http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?o...mode=typesearch . The camera was a Fuji Finepix 4800Z. I say was because whilst on holiday recently it was lost.

Since then I have upgraded to ML9.0 and have had a replacement camera, Fuji Finepix 401. However I cannot get the camera to setup at all.

The old camera, in 8.2, was identified as /dev/sda1 and when I went to MCC i was able to see it as a hard drive with a vfat partition.

In 9.0 /dev/sdax doesn't exist, nor can I see it in MCC as a harddrive.

The steps I followed, and the responses I get, are below:

The instructions said:

run ps x | grep usb, this resulted in:

[root@localhost dave]# ps x | grep usb

2438 ? SW 0:00 [usb-storage-0]

2556 pts/1 S 0:00 grep usb

then run modprobe usb-storage, this resulted in:

[root@localhost dave]# modprobe usb-storage

[root@localhost dave]#

then run less /proc/bus/usb/devices, this resulted in:

[root@localhost dave]# less /proc/bus/usb/devices

T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2

B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0

D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1

P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00

S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub

S: SerialNumber=d400

C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA

I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub

E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms

T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0

D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1

P: Vendor=04cb ProdID=0114 Rev=10.00

S: Product=USB Mass Storage

S: SerialNumber=Y-370^^^^^020909XFPX0004005599

C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA

I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=05 Prot=00 Driver=(none)

E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms

E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms

E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=1ms

then to run less /proc/modules, this resulted in:

[root@localhost dave]# less /proc/modules

ide-floppy 13316 0 (autoclean)

sd_mod 11788 0 (autoclean) (unused)

usb-storage 51952 0

floppy 49340 0 (autoclean)

lp 6720 0

parport_pc 21672 1

parport 23936 1 [lp parport_pc]

i810 59396 13

agpgart 31840 7 (autoclean)

i810_audio 21352 0

soundcore 3780 0 [i810_audio]

ac97_codec 9928 0 [i810_audio]

ppp_async 7456 0 (unused)

ppp_generic 20064 0 [ppp_async]

slhc 5072 0 [ppp_generic]

ipt_state 568 20 (autoclean)

ipt_REJECT 2744 4 (autoclean)

ipt_limit 856 6 (autoclean)

ipt_LOG 3384 6 (autoclean)

ip_conntrack_ftp 3952 0 (unused)

ip_conntrack 18400 2 [ipt_state ip_conntrack_ftp]

iptable_filter 1644 1 (autoclean)

ip_tables 11672 5 [ipt_state ipt_REJECT ipt_limit ipt_LOG iptable_filter]

af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean)

supermount 14340 1 (autoclean)

nls_iso8859-15 3356 1 (autoclean)

isofs 25652 1 (autoclean)

inflate_fs 17892 0 (autoclean) [isofs]

vfat 9588 0 (autoclean)

fat 31864 0 (autoclean) [vfat]

sr_mod 15096 2 (autoclean)

ide-cd 28712 0

cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]

ide-scsi 8212 1

scsi_mod 90372 4 [sd_mod usb-storage sr_mod ide-scsi]

usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused)

usbcore 58304 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci]

rtc 6560 0 (autoclean)

ext3 74004 5

jbd 38452 5 [ext3]

Then I ran mkdr /mnt/camera followed by mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

but I keep getting errors.

Have I missed anything or do I need to do something else to get sdax recognised?

Any help will be gratefully received.

It appears that there is no such thing as a Shockwave player for Linux.

 

Is this true?

I thought the Shockwave plugins for Netscape, Mozilla and Galeon etc handled this. Or am I wrong ?

I'm using M 9.0 and can't figure out how install the short cut icon on my desk top for the mozzila dial up menu .

 

 

 

Thanks, Tom

Do you mean Kppp - Dialup from the Networking entry from the K menu.

If so then with the menu place the mouse pointer over Kppp - Dialup and hold down the Left Mouse Button (LMB). Now move the mouse off the menu and onto the desktop, whilst still holding down the LMB - this is called drag & drop. When you release the button a shortcut for Kppp will be dropped into place. You can now reposition this shortcut anywhere on the desktop by using drag & drop again.

Hope that helps

:? I can't get disconnected from the internet without unpluging the phone line!

:(  

 

Thanks , Tom

The way that I do this is as follows:

When you connected via Kppp, you will have clicked on a button in the bottom right hand corner labeled 'Connect'. Once Kppp has started it drops down out of site into the kicker. When you want to close down, click on the Kppp entry to bring it back onto the screen and in the bottom right hand corner you will find the button is now labelled 'Disconnect'. Just click on this and your modem will 'do as it says on the tin':-)

Hope that helps

Hi bvc,

you said:

I use to get "file mozilla.cpp: line xxx" whenever I'd try to rebuild mozilla and galeon from .src. When you installed galeon 1.2.6 did you install a new mozilla? This has always been a must for me. I download galeon, mozilla and all the necessary mozilla libs into a folder I created, and install from there, all at the same time. Works everytime!

Thanks for the tip. I tried that, I reinstalled Moz1.1 and Galeon1.2.6 and even Netscape7pre release 1 but all to no avail, I still get the error mesage. When I tried running Galeon from the Kmenu I was able to submit a bug report when it crashed, hopefully this will sort it out.

Thanks again

Dave Le H

Good evening,

I have recently installed Galeon 1.2.6 from the December Linux Format DVD and am experiencing the following problem.

If I try to launch the program from the Kmenu or the taskbar at the bottom of the screen it starts to load and then stops.

If I launch the program from a shell terminal I get the following error message:

** CRITICAL **: file mozilla.cpp: line 134 (gboolean mozilla_preference_set (con

st char *, const char *)): assertion `new_value != NULL' failed.

and then Galeon starts OK.

Has anyone any ideas what I need to do to fix this problem ?

I have both a Mozilla and a Mozilla-1.1 directory in /usr/libs with Mozilla 1.1 launching when Mozilla is called and I have Netscape 7 Pre release 1 installed in /usr/local/netscape.

I am running ML8.2 with KDE2.2 on a Celeron 500 with 398Mb RAM, DVD & CDRW.

Any help appreciated

Hi all,

I have yet to find a finance package on Linux that suits my needs.

As a minimum I expect the package to update regular payments, such as standing orders, direct debits etc, automatically. So far all the packages I have tried either issue a warning that a regular payment needs manually updating or don't even do that.

The last program that I was able to use that did this was UltraAccounts on the Amiga. If anyone knows of a linux package that can do this that I may have overlooked please let me know.

Hi itti,

you said:

if you disable supermount you have to mount the drives manually for the contents to be displayed

mount /mnt/cdrom

Ah, silly me, why didn't I realise that :roll:

Hi BVC,

you said:

When you go to mcc>MountPoints>?cdrom?>tick Options, click O.K., it then list

user

supermount

noauto

 

Did you select user, and noauto? and unselect supermount? This is all that's required to turn off supermount.

Hmm, I tried this and it didn't work :(

I have a DVD and a CDRW both of which were initially setup with supermount and seem to be working fine. When I followed the instruction above, checking both user and noauto and unchecking supermount, whenever I click on the respective desktop icon konqueror opens but nothing is displayed and the stsus bar says 0 file 0 directories. As soon as I revert back to unchecking user and noauto and checking supermount the contents display correctly.

Hi DragonMage,

you said:

The logs are located in /var/log directory. You should check and delete some of the older logs. There are many people suddenly finding their / directory full and finding out they have a gazillion gig of wasted space in their log directory.

Thanks for that. I'll check it out :)