illogic-al

oooh. kingshosting looks nice. i'll look at it even harder after i leave school :)

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RPM-03: synthesis.hdlist.cz and hdlist.cz

It seems that many people dont know this but when adding sources to urpmi's list you have two choices.

You can either use a file called hdlist.cz which contains a list of all the rpm files which should be on the mirror. In addition to this it also contains information on these rpms, such as descriptions of the programs and files it contains.

synthesis.hdlist.cz on the other hand is a much slimmer, less bandwidth intensive alternative. If you have dialup access or downloading hdlist.cz just takes too much time for you then synthesis.hdlist.cz is for you. The synthesis also contains info on which rpms should be on the mirror, but is doesn't have other information which saves a lot of space, leading to it's smaller size and hence smaller toll on your bandwidth IN TURN leading to faster download times for our broadband challenged users. whew! That was a mouthful.

The hdlist file usually (relatively) located in the ../base/ directory whereas the synthesis file usually in the same directory as the rpms, i.e. ( ./ relatively speaking). As a matter of fact if you provide no hdlist location when adding urpmi sources, urpmi will automatically attempt to download a synthesis.hdlist.cz file.

One final word of wisdom from our resident sage bvc, if synthesis.hdlist.cz is used urpmf is useless and can not help in resolving rpm dependencies. Google will be all you have left. Well that and the forum.

If this or any other "perl"'s of linuxly wisdom have helped you or your grandmother, please consider giving back to our fine community... Adopt a scad!

the key words there are really goodthere are GUI's. but in my opinion not really good.

Konqueror has cervisia which is a kpart. it can be installed by urpmi'ing the kdesdk rpm IIRC.

it's good. but not really good. CVS is easy and the gentoo tutorials make it even easy. Just read 'em.

Xmms is my favourite, but Noatun the KDE media player is also quite good in my experience.  There was once an attempt to port Winamp to Linux but I don't know what came of that.

it came and it went. They moved on to winamp 5 and AFAIK ditched the linux port.

raid drivers for the kernel? :huh:

juK

xmms

zinf?

ahh. i'm back and i'm ok. got rid of firebird on win and just went w/ moz. here's the link i was tryin to give yah http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml

I use KDE but only until GNOME catches up.  Using a linux app that isn't based completely on 'free oss' worrys me...  who knows when or if the owners of those 'loaned libraries' will decide they want a piece of the action and ask for royalities?  After all, we can't expect everyone to be as kind to the OSS community as Sun was when they donated the StarOffice code (but not the name) so development in the OS community coule continue under a different name while they turned it into a 'corporate' product...

 

Sooo...  as much as I may like KDE (for now) my site is set on GNOME...  i cant' wait till they have some apps that rival KOOKA, K3B and a few others that I find to be 'best of class' for their functionality..

that's been taken care of a long time. absolutely no chance of that happening. BTW

KDE. IT ROCKS!!!!!!!!

good tutorials about cvs? i know one:

it's @ gentoo.org but i can't post it cause my frickkinh POS browser on this POS OS WONT WORK!Q!@Q!!!!!!!!

as with anything else nothin's totally secure. far as i know though (i set up a bot for us in #musb) Eggdrop only dies if some modules you loaded messes up stuff. The default eggdrop is pretty secure and can be made even harder by wafting through the jungle that is its config file.

i've noticed that not all coooker mirrors are created equal and some need aren't always as update as they should be causing problems w/ urpmi. you're best bet. ISO

How do you full install Mandrake 9.2?

 

By full install I mean install all the packages on all 3 cd's.

 

Even if I select all the categories on the "choose your packages" screen, it doesn't install all the packages, and only uses cd1.

 

So, how do I force it to install ALL the packages on ALL 3 cd's?

 

Thanks.

 

-Artem

that's odd even if it doesn't install ALL packages on the disc if you check every category all three disks should be used. Are you sure something isn't wrong with your disks?

During the install (if you haven't done it already) if it looks like a package gets stuck you can check by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F4 (or is it F3?). That will bring up a console which will show you exactly whaT IS being installed. If errors occur you'll see something like error : blah blah. If it is complaining about your disk and has input/output errors after 5 minutes. I'd say the cd is bad and suggest using another one (although you can probably get away with MDk installing).

I still stopped with no p2p client to download mp3s

did you add plf to your urpmi sources?

after doing that all you'll have to do id type apollon in rpmdrake and urpmi will take care of the rest.

i'm sure it will. thanks for posting back with your solution.

if you want to build apollon you'll have to have libgift-devel installed.

But you might as well just add a plf source to your urpmi sources and install the rpm. Believe me it works, and it works well! i'm use the gift and fasttrack plugins i got from plf too. its great. ah well to add plf sources check out the FAQ's http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4551

enjoy!

We are talking about antialising for 3D graphisc not for fonts

 

  If your using kde it's pretty easy to autostart a script. Post back if this applies and I'll go into details.

 

Yes! i'm using KDE. what should I do?

 

And, if you know, where should I put export lines to start with X?

 

thanks!

autostart is a directory for KDE where you put stuff to start it automatically.

the directory is in

~/.kde/Autostart/

where ~ is the path to your home directory. if you type

cd ~/.kde/Autostart/

you'll be taken directly to the directory.

if you just paste

~/.kde/Autostart/

into konqueror's address bar and hit the Go button you'll be taken there directly.

doesn't splash=off in /etc/lilo.conf work.

there are also options in /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash

i'm confused. what type of antialiasing? for fonts? if so yyou can enable that in KDE without messing around with your card's settings. if it's some other type do clue me in.

dunno bout dhcp, i have static lines. drakconnect does the job fine. have you tried it yet?

Hi,

Those of you who know the workaround for this,please ignore this mail. This is directed at newbies (like me) who are still struggling to get sound on the above mentioned card using ALSA. Firstly, this card is not supported under ALSA (as it uses the emu10k1x chipset). Following a thread in another forum, here is what I did :

 

1. Look below your mouse and keyboard slots. If you are using a dimension desktop, you will find a small black raised cover.

2. Pry it open with a knife. Dell has tried to hide the connectors for the onboard sound using that black patch.

3. Exorcise the system, i.e, remove the soundblaster card from the system. Enable the onboard sound in BIOS.

4. Now, when you install (I have Mandrake 9.1) linux, your onboard soundcard should get detected. My onboard soundcard uses the intel8x0 chipset, which is supported under ALSA!!

5. What you hear is what you see :D

 

If somebody managed to get sound without removing the soundblaster card, please let me know.

 

This was posted in some other thread at a different linux forum. Somehow, even now there are so many postings regarding this topic in numerous linux forums. From personal experience, I know it can be irritating to have no sound on your system. So, I hope this mail helps.

 

Regards,

 

jeeves

sorry to break this to you man, but this is currently impossible w/ alsa drivers. You can get sound w/ commercial (you pay money) OSS drivers from opensound.com. Just pray that you don't also have onboard sound from an ECS k7s5a like me as well cuz then you're doubly screwed, like me.

No, I cannot boot into Linux, that's what I have been saying. You see, before booting into W2K or Linux (or floppy or whatever), I get the booting interface. I choose linux, then there is a booting "time" graphic. When the "time" graphic is complete (the bar fills up), there's where the problem begins.

 

I assume that the next step would be to login, but my screens go black. That is the problem.

 

I apologize if I was not clear.

ok, do this. when you get to the time graphic hit [Esc] button and then watch the screen and tell us if any Errors pop up

I appreciate your suggestions, but I cannot get to a console since I cannot boot into linux. AS a result, I cannot run XFdrake for the same reason.

 

I am not sure if this is right, so please correct me if I can still run a terminal even though I am unable to boot into linux...

how can you not boot into linux? maybe you mean you can't boot into X which is the graphical system for linux. do you see a login screen asking for username and password? if you do then your in linux. You would log in as root there and then type in XFdrake

I'd love to post such config file, but how do I get to it?

in a console/terminal type

cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ./

That should copy this file into the directory you are currently in, which if you just opened up a terminal will be your home directory /home/your_username

Also you can try running XFdrake as root at the console too. this may fix your problem.

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GQ-07: How to Connect to IRC

Setting up

We'll be using X-Chat2, with all it's anti-aliased, clean looking goodness as the GUI client we use to connect. If you have X-Chat 1.x you can choose to upgrade or just figure it out. It shouldn't be that hard. Otherwise to get it just type in

urpmi xchat

at the console while logged in as root.

• When you start up xchat 2 for the first time you'll be greeted with a window that has a list of names.
  
• Since most open source projects are located on Freenode, scroll down, locate it on the list, then highlight/click on/select it.
  
  

There should be an Edit mode checkbox near the bottom. Click on it. This will allow you to do various things. You can:

• add channels which you frequently visit so that xchat connects to them on startup.
  
• add commands which you want to run on startup always, such as nickserv identification, if/once you register a nickname.
  
• choose a nickname, secondary nickname (in case someone has your's already) and real name (should you choose to divulge this info).
  
  
• also choose whether or not you want to see the box at startup. If no, when you start xchat you'll connect to the last server you were connected to before closing.
  N.B. Server does not = chat room. You'll only join chatrooms in the autostart list, you will not join the rooms you were in last upon reconnecting. It would be a nice feature though.
  

For now, just choose a nickname, alternative (in case someone already has it) and Connect.

For those who want to use CLI app for IRC irssi seems to be the app of choice around here. To get it type in

urpmi irssi

as root in a console. Once you've got irssi installed log out of root and in your console type

irssi

to start it up for the first time.

the command

/server add -auto freenode irc.freenode.net:6667

will add and automatically connect to freenode.

Chatting in IRC

Now you need to do a couple of IRC commands to join a channel (chat room) and start talking. I'll give you a couple to get you started but for a comprehensive list try here or search on Google for IRC commands.

• Once connected to freenode (or any other server) type /list in the text input box to get a list of all the available channels.
  
• Once you see one you like type /join #name_of_channel to join. e.g. to join our chatroom on IRC you'd type
  

  /join #musb

  
  To join #musb while in irssi you can either use the join command above or you can do

  /channel add -auto #musb freenode

  
  Also you can do

  /save

  to save your settings for each time irssi is opened. This will ensure that you are automatically connected to freenode and #musb whenever you start irssi.
  

Now you're in a channel and ready to chat, query and cajole.

Once you're ready to leave the channel type /part #name_of_channel to leave just that channel. You don't have to be in that actual channel to leave. As long as you are in a channel that is one the same server (e.g. freenode) as the one you're trying to leave it will work.

If you want to quit both channel and server at the same time just use /quit and that'll do the job.

Miscellaneous IRC commands

Once you're connected to IRC there are other commands at your disposal

/who #musb

gives you information on everyone in #musb.

the /me command makes it seem as if you're speaking in the third person or as if you thoughts are transmagically being transmitted to everyone in the channel.

/me is crazy

will like something like *illogic-al is crazy

A little known IRC fact fact newbies is that the @ before the names of some people means that they are channel ops. That means that they possess powers of cyber life and death. Don't mess with these people. ;-p

/whois Tomm

You get some info about Tomm or whatever nickname you entered.

/whois yournick

This is some info others see about you.

/nick newnick

Changes your nick to "newnick"

/msg Tomm hi there.

Only Tomm sees your message (you don't need to be on the same channel for this to work).

/ping #musb

Gives information on the delay (round-trip) between you and everybody on #musb.

/ping Tomm

Gives information on the delay (round-trip) between you and just Tomm.

/dcc chat MaryN

This sends MaryN a request for a dcc chat session. MaryN types /dcc chat yournick to complete the connection. DCC chat is faster (lag free) and more secure than /msg.

/msg =MaryN Hi there!

Once a DCC connection has been established, use the /msg =nick message format to exchange messages (note the = sign). DCC does not go through servers, so it are unaffected by server lag, net splits, etc.

/quit good night!

You quit IRC completely, with the parting comment so that others see "*** Signoff: yournick (good night!)".

This is a basic list, but will help in the begining and always try /help to see what's available in your client. 8)

[Credits]

Additional information pointed out by Liquidzoo and provided by cybrjackle. Info on how to connect using irssi from LiquidZoo.

[References]

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=8704

http://irchelp.org/