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Hi, Can you help? When I go into mandriva control centre, I can see my webcam under hardware and there is a "video0" created in /dev but when I try to watch the video from my webcam using the software "camorama", i just get a grey screen. do you know what I need to do? also, is there any way i can test the integrated microphone in my camera? thanks in advance for the help Paul

ok, i removed the installation that i had done from the downloaded iso and installed it by urpmi instead. everything works now! i guess the rule is "always use urpmi when you can"! thanks for the help paul

thanks for the help :) this is what i get with those commands you suggested: [paulo@hosts-137-205-164-93 ~]$ man latex No manual entry for latex [paulo@hosts-137-205-164-93 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep tex perl-Locale-gettext-1.05-1mdk html2text-1.3.2a-3mdk texinfo-4.8-1mdk php-gettext-5.0.4-1mdk aumix-text-2.8-12mdk gettext-base-0.14.5-2mdk [paulo@hosts-137-205-164-93 ~]$ latex -version bash: latex: command not found this seems to me like it hasn't installed properly.... i am running mandriva 2006 and i installed latex from a downloaded iso. I installed it on both my work and home computers and i get the same problem on both. I didn't know you could urpmi latex.... i'll give that a try thanks again

hi, I have just installed latex on my computer, but I can't seem to run latex on my files. I have tried directly from the command line and by using the "Tex" tab in Emacs but in both cases the following error is returned: [paulo@hosts-137-205-164-93 ~]$ latex try bash: latex: command not found can you help? thanks very much in advance

awesome! i'll give that a try :) thanks very much!

i'm sorry, i don't understand what you mean by "not started my ftp service yet"... does that mean that i have not got an ftp server installed? if that is the case, which ftp package should i install? as for the ssh, i want to be able to transfer files from my windows computer at work onto my linux home computer, and windows doesn't do ssh (or my computer doesn't in any case). i am intrigued though about what you say about "shtp", how does that work with ssh? is it a command you run while logged in remotely? sorry to keep bothering you but this is really helpful for me..... below i have pasted what the netstat command says when i'm root user: tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:32769 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2049 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:10026 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:820 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5335 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:860 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:7741 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 137.205.109.177:33416 66.102.11.19:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 137.205.109.177:55177 66.249.93.104:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 137.205.109.177:45418 207.46.0.88:1863 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 137.205.109.177:34950 66.249.93.99:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 :::6000 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN thanks again for the help paul

thanks for the help, this is what i get when i run the "netstat -an | grep tcp" command... i don't see any "21" anywhere: could that be my problem? tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:32769 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2049 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:10026 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:820 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5335 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:860 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:7741 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LIST EN tcp 0 0 137.205.109.177:48451 64.111.105.170:80 ESTA BLISHED tcp 1 0 137.205.109.177:33175 83.245.15.165:80 CLOS E_WAIT tcp 0 0 137.205.109.177:33174 83.245.15.165:80 TIME _WAIT tcp 1 0 137.205.109.177:33176 83.245.15.165:80 CLOS E_WAIT tcp 0 0 137.205.109.177:48395 216.239.59.147:80 ESTA BLISHED tcp 0 0 137.205.109.177:48396 216.239.59.147:80 ESTA BLISHED tcp 0 0 :::6000 :::* LIST EN tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LIST any more ideas? thanks very much Paul

no, i'm not looking for any particular model, just one that has got a microphone and that works with linux. is there one that you can recommend? thanks! paul

hi, i have recently installed mandriva 2006 on my computer, i had 10.1 before. I use ftp to transfer files onto this computer and with 10.1 it worked fine. However, since I upgraded, it no longer works. This is the message i get when i try to ftp onto this computer from my apple laptop: ftp: connect: Connection refused i have gone through the guide in this forum for opening up the firewall for incoming ftp connections and i have also tried changing the firewall settings in the mandriva control centre. even turning the firewall off doesn't help. I have authorised ping response and that works fine. Any ideas as to what the problem might be? Some additional information; i don't know if it's of any relevance : * i think that when i installed mandrake 10.1 i set the security to "low", but when i installed mandriva i chose the "high" security level * i'm also having trouble with ssh, again i opened up the ssh ports but when i try and log in via my laptop i get a weird (and very long) error message telling me that the hostname has changed or something, and that someone is doing some "man in the middle" hacking on me... i'm really stumped, can you help? thanks very much paul

does this mean that any of the philips webcams are compatible? or is it only a particular model? thanks for the help Paul

ok, is there any reason I need to keep any space on /usr ? could I not just put it all in /home? thanks again Paul

ok, so it seems that having my hard drive mounted under /usr is a bad idea? i am going to install mandriva 2006 soon: how do you recommend i set up my partitions. at the moment (this is from memory) i have 10 Gb: root 1Gb: swap 50 Gb: /usr thanks again for the help. Paul

thanks for the help guys. About getting into the /usr folder: i think i may have done things wrong when i installed mandrake on my computer. I set up one root partition (/) and another partition mounted in /usr (which it had as the default option for a second partition). so what it is is that I have basically got my whole hard disk space in /usr. When i log into KDE, I log is as "paulo" (which is not root obviously) and that means that i can't write files into my /usr drive unless i change the permissions each time for the user "paulo". I am the only user on my computer so i don't think that giving the user "paulo" access to that folder should be a problem, seeing as i can access the folder anyway as i know the root password. Could you explain what problems there might be with this? Is there some way i can log into KDE as root? Have you got any tips as to how i can sort this out, or how i should set up my partitions? again, thanks very much for all the help. Paul

ok, thanks, i'll give that a try. :) i'm not sure what you mean by creating a custom security level though. do i not need to worry about that? thanks for the help Paul

hi, I keep having to change the ownership and permissions for my /usr folder using chmod and chown. I have no problem changing these but they keep resetting back to their default values. I think this happens every time i log out and into KDE. Is there any way I can perminently change the ownership of my /usr folder? thanks for the help :)