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I was just going to post about urpmi --auto --autoselect: not to hijack the thread, but when I issue that command (as root) I now get: ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0 Installation failed, some files are missing: ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/libfreetype6-2.1.7-4plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/mplayer-gui-1.0-0.pre4.7plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/mplayer-1.0-0.pre4.7plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/gtk-gnutella-0.93.4-1plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/libxvid4-1.0.1-1plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/libMagick5.5.7-5.5.7.15-6plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/ImageMagick-5.5.7.15-6plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/libfaad2_0-2.0-4plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/xanim-codecs-1.0-3plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/liblame0-3.96-1plf.i586.rpm ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/libfreetype6-devel-2.1.7-4plf.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0/./i586/libfreetype6-2.1.7-4plf.i586.rpm ...retrieving failed: curl: (9) Couldn't cd to pub Not sure what it means, but it's obviously related to PLF. Seems that every time I have tried adding PLF to my sources it broke something. Am I doing something wrong? did whatever PLF mirror I was using disappear? what does "You may want to update your urpmi database" mean?

There is a windows utility taht allows you to read/write linux partitions. can't remember the name offhand, google for it. I think it's got ext2 in the name. see here for a driver that read ext2 from windows: http://ashedel.chat.ru/ext2fsnt/ if you'd rather not do drivers, here's an application: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

your title is misleading. The problem is not that you can't run the .sh file, you have some version conflicts in your installation. unfortunately I'm not sure how to figure those out and solve them.

I'm sure the question has come up before but Ican't seem to find it: I'm currently running mdk 10 OE (PowerPack) and have decided to re-install because I swapped out hte motherboard with a different model and I'm seeing some "weirdness" that I think is related to "leftover" config from the previous motherboard (the new board is an entirely different model, different chipset). I have ISO copies of all the CDs in in my home directory (so that urpmi never again ask me to insert a CD), so I thought that maybe I could re-install from there instead of digging out my CDs (or at worse reburn them from the ISOs) and install from slow CDs. Also, during the re-install I don't intend to nuke the /home partition (especially if I'm unstalling from ISOs in that partition!). Are ther ethings that I should delete from there before I do the re-install? I want to keep my KDS settings but I think I would rather "start over" with some applications like firefox, so I think I should delete .mozilla before the re-install. I will back up my /etc directory befoer the re-install just in case. Anything else I should back up to be safe?

That's funny: I just subscribed to your mandrakemag, saw the article, then came to post a link to it in this thread only to find that the author himself hangs around here. Is there a way to have the back issues mailed to me? I'm a GMail user and would like to keep all issues in the same place (my GMail account) and in the same format.

can you open alsamixer (instead of alsamixergui)?

did you try: su <enter your root password> updatedb locate firefox-bin the "updatedb" step might take a while. locate firefox-bin should hsow you where the firefox "executable" is located, for example if the answer is /home/axel_2078/firefox/firefox-bin you should then be able to type: cd /home//home/axel_2078/firefox firefox and that should laucnh firefox. if this doesn't work, replace "locate firefox-bin" with "locate firefox" and psot the results here.

I've seen lots of questions about bittorrent on this board, in fact maybe this post should make it in the FAQ. Note DarkElve pointed out that he had another post on bittorrent in the GUI, so I grabbed some of the info from his posted and added it here, so some of the credit goes to him too. *** What is Bittorrent? *** Bittorrent is a distributed P2P file sharing client, used for "swarming [big] downloads across unreliable networks". When you download a file using Bittorrent, you also provide the parts you already downloaded for others to upload. You have to provide just as much upload as you've downloaded, so that everyone gets treated on an equal basis. Advantages: you can get extremely high download rates and the file gets constantly checked for errors, so it will be extremely unlikely you will end up with a broken download. A 200MB-file could very well be finished within a couple of hours. Disadvantages: This is mostly used for the newer/newest stuff, so chances are after a while you won't find previous versions of a file/series because everyone already downloaded it. This is why Bittorrent is mostly used for getting the latest movie/anime from the net. Also a lot of Linux ISO's are available. More info: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ *** END *** One way to retrieve bit torrents is to use a GUI based client, like the default btdownloadgui.py or something more fancy like Azureus. (if this post gets stickied in the FAQ, I'll volunteer to add details about gui based downloading). I wanted a way to start and control torrent downloads remotely (understand "from work") over ssh, so I looked at the command line version of bittorrent. This worked well however the torrent would abort if I closed the ssh session, or I wouldn't have access to the session once I got home, so I looked into the "screen" command. Combining the two provided a solution that perfectly met my needs and I'm outlining it here. First you need to install the bittorrent command line clients: urpmi bittorrent You may also have to install Python, although it came installed with my Mandrake10 Powerpack so I didn;t go through that step. The bittorent package provides 2 python scripts: btdownloadheadless.py and btdownloadcurses.py. You can also install bittorrent-gui (urpmi bittorrentgui) to install the script downloadgui.py which is what gets launched by default when you click on a .torrent file in your browser and provides a very basic gui interface (basically the same as with the default client under Windows) btdownloadheadless.py outputs results periodically in the console (every .5s by default!) btdownloadcurses.py uses the curses library to "redraw" the current status of the download using characters. btdownloadcurses.py suits my style best, so it is what I will be using here, although you can use the same recipe for btdownloadheadless. First try out btdownloadcurses on the command line (either the console or an ssh session) to see what it does. locate the URL to a torrent file, say http:/this_is_a_url/MyTestTorrent.torrent and simply type btdownloadcurses.py http:/this_is_a_url/MyTestTorrent.torrent You should see something like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | file: MyTestTorrent | | size: 527,543,812 (503.1 MB) | | dest: /home/papaschtroumpf/torrents/MyTestTorrent | | progress: ###_______________________________________________________________ | | status: finishing in 5:08:28 (5.8%) | | speed: 44.2 KB/s down - 67.3 KB/s up | | totals: 29.4 MB down - 55.0 MB up | | error(s): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ since we're running over ssh, there is no need to update the screen so often, it just consumes a bunch of bandwidth, so we could start over by adding the --display_interval command line argument, for example to update the screen only every 5s: btdownloadcurses.py --display_interval 5 http:/this_is_a_url/MyTestTorrent.torrent There are lots of other command line options but the defaults appear to work for me. For details on command line options type "man bittorrentgui". This seems to work in mdk 10 (OE at leat) but the man page is not available with all bittorrent rpms so if you don't have it, check out http://annys.eines.info/cgi-bin/man/man2ht...rent-downloader or use google and search for man btdownloadcurses (the command line options are the same for the 3 python scripts) In particular you may be interested in the --saveas option to rename the file downlaoded and the --limit_upload_rate option if you don't want the torrent to consume all of your available bandwidth. If you close your console or terminate your ssh session, the torrent will stop downloading because the script will stop. You can always restart where you left off by re-issuing the command above, but there is a better way: Enters the screen command. Basically it allows you to "detach" a screen from the window you started it in, and re-attach it later to the same window or another one. Simply use "screen" in front of the previous command: screen btdownloadcurses.py --display_interval 5 http:/this_is_a_url/MyTestTorrent.torrent You shouln't see any difference from running it without the screen command. Now press "Ctrl-A" followed by "d": this is the magic key combination to detach btdownloadcurses.py from the current window: the program hasn't stopped, it simply stopped using the console or ssh window. close your window or you ssh session. If you simply close the ssh or console window without detaching first, the detach operation still occurs automagically. Now open a new console or ssh session. Type screen -r this is the command to re-attach the detached screen to your current console: you now see you torrent download is still in progress and has been downloading "behind the scenes". If you have started several torrents as detached screens, you can type screen -ls to list the detached screens available on your machine. Then type screen -d -r the_screen_name where the_screen_name is one of the names listed by the previous command that you want to re-attach. There is much more to the screen command, so refer to its (huge) man page if you need more details. There are lots more magic key pressed than "Ctrl-A d", for example "Ctrl-A K" kills the current scren altogether. The key commands can also be remapped if you like. Finally, it's a lot of typing anda lot to remember so rather than type everything every time, I created an alias in my ~/.bashrc file: alias gettorrent='screen btdownloadcurses.py --display_interval 5'; then I can just type gettorrent http:/this_is_a_url/MyTestTorrent.torrent at the command line (and since I generally get the URL through cut and paste, it's very little typing). Note that I have ran into torrents that use a "compact" tracker. bittorrent-3.3 which is installed with mdk 10.0 doesn't support the compact trackers. Google for bittorrent-3.4.2-1mdk and bittorrent-gui-3.4.2-1mdk packages or above. Hope you found this tip useful.

cool, but I think I'll wait till the official version comes out. By the way is there a "roadmap" for future releases?

I assume it's designed for Gnome? I also assume that it should work under KDE?

Just FYI, the post I was thinking of is this one: http://forum.goteamspeak.com/showthread.php?t=9658 specifically: I figured I'd throw it on since other people may stumble on this thread to solve this probelm, even though it appears it's not waht's hailing you. Also for reference, here's a good help page on the Sound Blaster products under linux: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=emu10k1 especially http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=SbLiveMixerControls

Thats very admirable of you. :o Me, i up grade purely for selfish reasons. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mdk is already optimized for Pentium and above processors, so even out of the box it's more efficient than stuff designed to run any any old i386. I used to recompile some stuff when I was running Red Hat on a K6 400MHz by making sure the compiler option were ideal for the K6 architectur It took forever to compile but the speed gain was noticeable (especially in KDE) although once in a while a package would crash, probably because the code was poorly written and made assumptions that the optimizations broke. Now running mdk on an AMD 2700+, I don't think the speed gain is worth my time to optimize, and I still feel that there is a slightly higher risk of instability.

I've been using K3B and it generally works great (the UI is very similar to Nero Burning ROM which I use on my windows machine, so that's a bonus), however I keep havinga problem where once in a while it'll tell me that the CD was burned successfully 1s after starting, even though as far as I can tell it did nothing. This may not be a K3B issue since it's mostly a user interface to drive the slew of command line based programs that are used to burn CDs, but I sometimes find myself transferring a file over to my windows machine to burn in there rather than deal with a K3B failure again. Once it fails it gerenally takes a full reboot of the machine to fix the problem.

no parallel port on my printer :P I'm thinking about doing a full re-install though: I swapped the motherboard a few weeks ago without doing a full re-install and it might explain the wrong usb type issue (the previous board was based on a SiS chipset, not VIA). There are other worrysome symptoms too: lsmod shows that both via-agp and sis-agp are installed.

can't comment on the cost of surround sound but believe me, itmakes a difference in this game. you hear things skittering behind you...

if I do an lsmod I see "usbcore 99132 4 hid,usblp,ohci-hcd" Trying to read up on USB, it seems that VIA based boards should use the UHCI and not OHCI driver (by the way I lied in my post above, it turns out my motherboard is based on the KT266A). why did Mandrake install the OHCI driver then?

I had only grep'd for uppercase USB inside of dmesg. If I do a case insensitive grep, here's waht I get: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver This all looks to me like there is no problem. What am I missing? Do I need to add an entry to usbdevfs in my fstab file? if so, what would it look like?

installed it and it tells me it can't open /proc/bus/usb/devices (which it can't because it's not there) so MAndrake didn't properly detct/setup my USB hardware and ports I thought everything was fine becase the hardware wizard sees 2 VT82C586B USB controllers, and the following appears in dmesg: ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver so I'm not sure what the issue is. Just to be sure, usbview works with the 2.6.3 kernels right? usbview tells me to check that USN is compiled into the kernel (I assume it is in the 2.6.3-7mdk kernel), to make sure the proper modules are loaded (what are the proper modules? how do I know if they're loaded? what aren't they automatically?) and to make sure that usbdevfs is mounted (should ther ebe an entry in my fstab? because there is no usb entry there). who said linux was plug and play again? Edit: I tried plugging a USB thumb drive in the usb port and I don't see it getting automounted to the deskop like it did on a different motherboard. My motherboard is a Shuttle AK35GT2 (KT333 based) motherboard.

I'm trying to connec t my USB printer (Samsung ML1710 laser) to my mdk 10 OE box. when I try autodetecting in cups, it tells me it found a printer on the parallel port even though nothing is plugged in the parallel port. If I manually enter /dev/usb/lp0 it doesn't work either. I know that particular model of printer is supported by CUPS (it' in the list of printers), So maybe it's just a connectivity issue. Is ther a way to list the USB devices connected to my machine so that I at least know mdk is seeing the printer? The only thing in /dev/usb is "hid"

I'm using MDK 10 OE so the problem mus tbe somewhere else. I have a Sound Blaster Live! sound card, which "input" does the digital audio get piped to?

Is there a way to have the CD sound be piped directly to the PCI bus (like the "enable digital playback on this device" under Windows XP)? I swapped out my graphic card and I don;t have the right kind of analog adapter to connect my CD-ROM drive to the sounds card.

I hope you have suround sound And don't forget to turn the lights out...

Did you try the forums at www.teamspeak.org? You didn;t say what card you have but there are "recipes" in the forums vfor a lot of cards. I couldn't get my soundblaster 5.1 working with teamspeak until I found a post that said: go to alsamixer, then do x, do z, enbale y, .... and now it works fine. In particular you need to toggle the capture flag for the right entry, set the mic volume, but the part that I hadn't figured out on my own was an entry called AC97 or something like that.

The Unreal Tournament series runs on linux. they're not free but I bet you can find a used copy of UT2003 for a few bucks. Unfortunately my gaming machine will be windows based for the forseable future...

OK, can you guys justify your choices? I can see using a command line / headless / curses based client if you like to do things from the command line and have a "set and forget" download. Also great for starting/monitoring a downlaod remotely (like from work over ssh :o ) Azureus is more "intrusive" because it is a full windowed app, but that means that everything is point and click and you can display all kind of fancy info and the settings are well explained in a GUI setting window. I've been using azureus because it has a basically zero learning curve, but I'm thinking about learning the command line based ones so that I can do downloads from ssh without worrying about firing up VNC.