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See this discussion: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...t=ext3+resiz%2A
Apparently resizing an ext3 partition is very risky. I've tried with diskdrake, but it won't do it at all.
What you can do is use the space for creating new partitions, say for /usr, /var, /tmp
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There is a new freetype2, but texstar nor plf have made a bytecode-enabled version yet, so I decided to make my own. Here's how:
1) Get the src rpm from the mandrake cooker.
2) As root, do rpm -i freetype2-2.1.4-4mdk.src.rpm
3) cd to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS
4) Edit the first line of the spec file to read %define build_plf 1
5) Do rpmbuild -bb freetype2.spec
6) Watch it build.
7) Look for the rpm in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586
8) Do the usual rpm update or install.
It seems to have worked for me: no errors. My fonts look good, but I haven't seen any dramatic improvements yet. Fonts in mozilla (1.4, texstar) are still crap though...
And don't forget about the Patent Issues.
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That's exactly what I thought, but it didn't do the trick. In the browser it works: I click on a file, and it opens the right application. But not in moz-mail: I click on the attachment, and it asks me which application to open it with, or else save it.
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I'm trying to get mozilla (1.4, on mandrake 9.1) to open up a kind of mail attachments of an unofficial mime-type with a particular application. I can set the mime-type for the browser, and it works fine, but that makes no difference for the attachments. It keeps asking which app I want to use.
Does anyone know whether this is possible, and if so how?
TIA
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To follow-up myself: because Bastille does not support mandrake9.1. I'm using firestarter now, and setting it up was very easy.
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CrashDamage wrote:
The best is Bastille. Easy setup, and more than just a firewall, though it's good for that. Bastille isn't just a flavor of frontend for iptables, it's a complete system tightening tool that will even teach you something while you set it up. Very cool. I consider it one of the Linux utilities I won't do without.Bastille sounds very interesting. Does anyone know why there are no mandrake rpm's available? You would expect it in contrib.
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So James, are you saying that if you use the ordinary freetype2 packages instead of the bytecode enabled ones from texstar or plf, all your fonts look better?
I've had trouble with the fonts in Mozilla-1.4 too. The mozilla you download from mozilla-org displays some fonts anti-aliased, and not others. The one from texstar does all fonts anti-aliased, but they look terrible: too thick and the italic fonts 'dance'. With older versions of mozilla you could play around with the unix.js file in pref and change the truetype and freetype settings, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. Does anyone know what's up with that?
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You'd better do what he says. It's quick, has lots of new features including pdf-export, has improved ms-office filters, the gui looks good without the need for changing ui fonts etc, and it hasn't faltered yet in the time i've used it and the beta2 before it.
Go on, take it back.
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I had the opposite problem: I couldn't get my logitech wheel-mouse installed with the ps/2 adapter, so I ended up using the usb. But maybe I should try again.
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I might give moz plugger a try, but I would still be interested to know why the blank screen appears. It only happens with some helper apps, as Germ says. Not with xmms, for instance.
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Hi everyone,
I've set up xpdf as helper app in mozilla (1.3.1, in LM9.1). I don't need anything more fancy than that at the moment. It works, but: clicking on a .pdf link will first open a blank mozilla screen, then the download manager, and only then xpdf. Is there a way to get rid of that blank screen?
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Do you mean 1.0.3 or 1.1?
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OpenOffice files are xml-based, but they're also compressed using zip. I didn't know that either, but now I know why they're so much smaller than ms-office files. So when you open one in emacs or vi, it's not readable, except for the bits describing the subdirectories (layout, content, styles, etc).
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Just fixed it with a windows program called Advanced Zip Repair. OpenOffice saves its documents as zip-files, and there was a bad crc.
Does anyone know of a linux alternative for Advanced Xip Repair?
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Hello everyone,
I hope someone can help me with this one. I have a .sxw file that I cannot open anymore: it gives a read error. I can open it in emacs. Is there a way to make it readable again for OOo?
I have mandrake linux 9.0, OOo1.0.1. I suspect it may have gone bad during a ftp transaction to work. It may also have to do with the fact that at work I use windows, with OOo1.0.2, and the file goes back and forth a lot.
Please help! (I have no other copy anymore, after I stupidly overwrote it with the bad one.)
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I also always get the one about changing ownership of /tmp/.ICE-unix, on 8.1 as well as 9.0. I have no idea what it's about, but it does not affect the stability of the system.
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I've found out that /etc/ppp/ip-up runs after the connection is established, but it is executable by everyone, so that can't be the problem.
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Hello all,
I have a purple alcatel speedtouch, and it actually works, but I want to run it as user. I suid pppd, modem_run, pppoa3, and resolv.conf. It does in fact connect, and I get my ip-addresses, but then the message SIOCADDRT: operation not permitted. I remain connected, but I can't email or surf.
So apparently there's a program that needs to run after the connection is established, and it can only be run as root, so I need to suid that one too, but I have no idea what it is.
Can anyone help?
TIA
derxen
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Fixed it myself. I checked out Appendix C of NVIDIA's readme, and checked for conflicting libraries. After removing them, everything is loaded fine.
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Yes, it's another NVIDIA question! I installed the NVIDIA driver (3123) from the tarball (I'll use the src rpm's next time, I promise), but with only partial success. The glx-module seems to be loaded, then gets unloaded immediately. Below is the relevant part of the XFree86 log. I have checked all the usual problems, but the XF86config-4 looks good (nvidia instead of nv, load glx at the right place, etc), and /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so points to libglx.so.1.0.3123.
The nvidia driver gets loaded normally, as well as all the rest.
I have mdk9.0
Can anyone help me out?
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from /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" (glx)
(WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(EE) Failed to load module "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" (once-only module, 1)
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If anyone still wants to know: mozilla 1.2.1 does not have the regular crashes/failing to start that moz1.1 had. And I haven't come across other problems either.
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Andrew brown wrote such a macro. His website is at: www.darwinwars.com.
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Strange, I didn't have that problem when I installed icewm on mdk9.0. I can't help you, but if you get no help here, the icewm mailing list is very helpful and active. You'll find the address on the icewm homepage.
Btw: icepref is not ideal for recent versions of ice, because it doesn't address all the options available in those. And manually editing the preferences file might seem a drag, but it's not hard.
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The main reason I use mozilla as a browser, and not phoenix or galeon, is that I use the mail client as well. Otherwise I'ld use galeon, and I've heard a lot of good things about phoenix as well.
I installed moz1.2.1 in /usr/local last night, leaving the old moz1.1 in place, and it picked up my profile without problems and has been working well.
Paul: why would you want more than one moz session anyway, instead of just multiple windows?
Ump: no, there were no java processes either, ubless by chance there was a java program running at the same time.
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Increse current linux partition size...
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I can't say whether it would work or not. The message from diskdrake seems to imply it's no problem, but it might still get confused by the fact that the old and new partition have the same name. Someone with more detailed knowledge of partitioning should comment on that. In any case, if you can you should definitely make a back up, at least of the data/settings/etc most important to you. And it is still a good idea to split the root partition and create a /usr partition and perhaps more.
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