From james at grayonline.id.au Sun May 1 07:09:20 2005 From: james at grayonline.id.au (James Gray) Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 17:09:20 +1000 Subject: Big Problem with Apt-Get In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200505011709.23989.james@grayonline.id.au> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:05 pm, Dave - wrote: > Appreciate the help guys but nothing seems to work. I've tried every type > of removal, purge, update, upgrade, force, etc. I'm about ready to > reformat and reinstall kubuntu. It maybe did have something to do with > the marillet sources I added. Thanks to the Unofficial Hoary guide. :-( > Basically my sources.list consisted of all Hoarys including universe and > multiverse plus the three marillets. > > Searched everywhere online for hours and hours. Oh, well. So any more > suggestions on how to prevent something like this from happening again? > I'm not new to linux but this is my first debian-based distro. Thanks. > > Dave You may have a corrupted download. Which means two options: 1. Purge (clean) the package cache to force apt to download the package again. ie, "sudo apt-get clean ; apt-get upgrade". However, this will remove ALL previously downloaded packages - worst case scenario; you need to download stuff again if you intend "reinstalling" a package you already have. 2. Go to /var/cache/apt/archives and delete the offending package(s) deb file. Then simply redo the operation you attempted in the first place "sudo apt-get upgrade". If both fail, then you may need to remove packages then try the upgrade again and then reinstall the packages you removed. I had this problem last week with kdelibs - the "upgraded" version was trying to over write a file from kdenetwork. So I "apt-get remove kdenetwork" then "apt-get upgrade" - this installed kdelibs without errors or "forcing", then simply "apt-get install kdenetwork". Problem solved. apt with deb's is MUCH better than basically every RPM-based system I've used (SuSE/RedHat/Fedora/Mandriva - not starting a holy war, just recounting my experience). That said, sometimes you need to work around slightly broken packages doing a remove-upgrade-reinstall cycle (like I described above with kdelibs). Good luck with it all :) Cheers, James -- The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful -- Frederick Locker-Lampson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From edulix at gmail.com Sun May 1 08:22:38 2005 From: edulix at gmail.com (Eduardo Robles Elvira) Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 10:22:38 +0200 Subject: Problems installing Koffice 1.4 beta 1 kubuntu's debs Message-ID: <200505011022.38868.edulix@gmail.com> Hi ! I've tried to install the new Koffice beta 1 debs in my Kubuntu, but I get: ----------- Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 94927 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace koffice-libs 1:1.3.5-2ubuntu1 (using .../koffice-libs_1%3a1.3.91-0ubuntu0.2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement koffice-libs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/koffice-libs_1%3a1.3.91-0ubuntu0.2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libkdchart.so.0.0.0', which is also in package kchart dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/koffice-libs_1%3a1.3.91-0ubuntu0.2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ----------- And a apt-get -f install doesn't solve the problerm at all (in fact that output was copy&pasted from apt-get -f install). Anyone have a clue about how to solve the problem ? Thanks in advance, Edulix. From pjb at operamail.com Sun May 1 09:03:42 2005 From: pjb at operamail.com (Peter Barnes) Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 09:03:42 +0000 Subject: Wrong mail list link on Kubuntu site? Message-ID: <20050501090342.6F0EF416118@ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com> I notice that on the "Announcing Kubuntu" site http://www.kubuntu.org.uk/hoary-release.php under "Feedback and Helping" the URL given for the mail list is the Ubuntu one. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users Should it not be the Kubuntu URL? http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users Peter http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users Peter -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze From richard.jenkins at internode.on.net Sun May 1 13:39:14 2005 From: richard.jenkins at internode.on.net (Irena and Richard Jenkins) Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 23:39:14 +1000 Subject: CUPS Server ... Message-ID: <200505012339.14912.richard.jenkins@internode.on.net> Hello there... My first real hiccup with this Kubuntu distribution is that my CUPS server doesn't want to work. I've entered the printer details ... and tried to make a test page ... but nothing gets to the machine. I've tried bringing up the server ... and I get an error message saying that no driver can be found (does that mean the daemon is no longer running?). I've watched the passage of jobs ... and they get queued ... and the printer is there accepting jobs and then after a short break ... the printer is 'stopped' ... and the jobs get queued indefinitely. I've noted the same problem on two ppc machines ... one running a linux-friendly laserjet 5L ... through a usb to parallel cable ... and the other a newer HP psc2410 multipurpose printer. Have others noted that CUPS is a fragile daemon? I shall check the dmesg ... to confirm that it starts up at boot up time ... but it should then stay up (I think) ... until I shut it down. Any ideas anyone??? Richard -- -- Irena & Richard Jenkins Canberra, AUSTRALIA =================================================================== From markus.joschko at gmail.com Sun May 1 16:53:55 2005 From: markus.joschko at gmail.com (Markus Joschko) Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 18:53:55 +0200 Subject: Hplip Message-ID: <776de98505050109536b3f82ce@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, as I have a USB HP printer I would be really interested in getting hplip. Currently it conflicts with hpijs. Do you there is a chance that there will be a new version of hpijs before octobre or must I wait so long to install hplip? Thanks, Markus From bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk Sun May 1 20:30:09 2005 From: bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk (Bobby Singh) Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 21:30:09 +0100 (BST) Subject: If i can't use the internet and my sound card is'nt detected...... Message-ID: <20050501203009.13641.qmail@web26504.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello, I recently installed Kubuntu. First every time i log in it says can't open a file for my sound. So i have no sound so no music. Then when i try to go on the interent you have the browser opening but nothing. I tried manual configure but still nothing. I have broadband through a belkin ethernet modem-router. ANY IDEADS Thanks Bob Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com From richard.jenkins at internode.on.net Mon May 2 04:46:47 2005 From: richard.jenkins at internode.on.net (Irena and Richard Jenkins) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 14:46:47 +1000 Subject: CUPS - Printing Problems Solved Message-ID: <200505021446.47597.richard.jenkins@internode.on.net> Just a note to say that my printing problems resolved themeselves when I attached the printer direct to the computer rather than via the spare usb slot on the keyboard and/or the powered usb 4-port bub.Cheers Richard -- -- Irena & Richard Jenkins Canberra, AUSTRALIA =================================================================== From auspex at pointerstop.ca Mon May 2 12:20:16 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 09:20:16 -0300 Subject: Adding non-ubuntu packages In-Reply-To: References: <200504291657.22345.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <200504291747.33722.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <200505020920.16332.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Friday 29 April 2005 20:02, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > Derek Broughton dedi ki: > > On Friday 29 April 2005 17:30, John wrote: > >> On Friday 29 April 2005 20:57, Derek Broughton wrote: > >>> Is there a way to either add the debian repository to > >>> /etc/apt/sources.list and have it not generally checked, or to use an > >>> alternate source list when I want to get something from another > >>> repository? > > Admittedly I've used Debian only for servers and been quite conservative > with repos until recently (until Kanotix64 and Kubuntu). I'm still trying > to catch up with good repo juggling and pinning practices. :) > > That said, I guess a good way could be mixing all the repos with such a > pinning that only packages missing in the official repos would be fetched > from unofficial ones. Yes. That's what I've done, now, thanks. My main sources are breezy - main, restricted, universe & multivers. Then, at a lower priority Debian unstable. Finally, just "mambo" from Debian experimental. > Such a pinning would also allow bold mixing of incompatible repos and save > quite a few hairs and sleeping hours in exchange of a relatively minor > inconvenience. Good trade-off, I'd say. Now, if only I knew how to do such > pinning... :) I should have mentioned that in the last post: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html It's hardly exhaustive, but the previous docs I'd read hadn't made much sense. This does. -- derek From a.mufatti at tin.it Mon May 2 16:38:55 2005 From: a.mufatti at tin.it (*aLeX*) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:38:55 +0200 Subject: locales Message-ID: <200505021838.55815.a.mufatti@tin.it> Hi all! I've installed kubuntu and I have a little problem. I can't see letters with accents. I changed the default locale (it_IT.UTF-8) to see if I can have some improvement but I have none. Now my configuration is: [pippo ~]$ locale LANG=it_IT at euro LC_CTYPE="it_IT at euro" LC_NUMERIC="it_IT at euro" LC_TIME="it_IT at euro" LC_COLLATE="it_IT at euro" LC_MONETARY="it_IT at euro" LC_MESSAGES="it_IT at euro" LC_PAPER="it_IT at euro" LC_NAME="it_IT at euro" LC_ADDRESS="it_IT at euro" LC_TELEPHONE="it_IT at euro" LC_MEASUREMENT="it_IT at euro" LC_IDENTIFICATION="it_IT at euro" LC_ALL= [pippo ~]$ set | grep LAN LANG=it_IT at euro LANGUAGE=it_IT [pippo ~]$ cat /etc/locale.gen it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8 it_IT ISO-8859-1 it_IT.UTF-8 at euro UTF-8 it_IT at euro ISO-8859-15 Can you tell me how to change them to avoid my problem? Thanks -- *aLeX* ICQ# 75096847 Linux user# 203979 From ar018 at yahoo.com Mon May 2 18:15:48 2005 From: ar018 at yahoo.com (Abdullah Ramazanoglu) Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 21:15:48 +0300 Subject: Adding non-ubuntu packages References: <200504291657.22345.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <200504291747.33722.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <200505020920.16332.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: Derek Broughton dedi ki: > On Friday 29 April 2005 20:02, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: >> Derek Broughton dedi ki: --8<-- >> That said, I guess a good way could be mixing all the repos with such a >> pinning that only packages missing in the official repos would be >> fetched from unofficial ones. > > Yes. That's what I've done, now, thanks. My main sources are breezy - > main, restricted, universe & multivers. Then, at a lower priority Debian > unstable. Finally, just "mambo" from Debian experimental. Did you pin official repos to 1000? Have you tested it out? I asked because I'm also trying to do the same thing, but I've some concerns. I'm in the process of adapting Ubuntuguide to Kubuntu. Ubuntuguide liberally uses external repos without pinning and I'm trying to improve it, but I'm a bit confused. In apt_preferences(5) it says, "Subject to dependency constraints, apt-get selects the version with the highest priority for installation. The confusing bit is the "Subject to dependency constraints" part. As far as I understood, pin values between 100-999 affect version/repo selection when the version is not forced. E.g. if I install just "foo", then the version/repo will be selected according to the pinning rules. But if I install foo-1.2 explicitly, then explicit version (or distro, section, etc) requirement overrides moderate pinning (100-999), according to the same man page. But what happens if I install just "foo" (without version) which depends on bar-3.4 (explicit version) in turn? Will bar-3.4 override moderate pinning due to indirectly explicit version specification? Looks like so. In this circumstance, I can't use pin values less than 1000 to pin official repos, as <1000 will only work for the original package I asked for, but it won't work for the dependencies with explicit versions. That is, a dependency package could still be fetched from an unofficial repo whilst an older version already existing in an official repo. This is because with explicit version specification, a package satisfying the dependency will possibly be found *only* in some external repo, so it will be fetched from there no matter how low a priority it has got (except it's <100 and the corresponding official package is already installed). OTOH, what I really expected was that apt-get would reject installing an "official package" (which is both not installed and older than the external one) from an external repo and thus reject the main/parent request (foo). Neither can I use greater than 1000 for official repos, because various official repos could get into a racing condition then. Documentations I've read[*] make no differentiation between >1000 values (same with <0 values). It just says any value >1000 will have downgrade power. For example, hoary and hoary-updates will have different versions of the same package: Whilst hoary-updates is trying to upgrade it, hoary would be trying to downgrade it. I don't know whether there's also a hierarchy for >1000 pin values (so that e.g. hoary-updates:1100 and hoary:1050 would work as expected), but it's not mentioned in the documents. Otherwise having more than 1 repo with >1000 pin values ought to be prohibited (no mention of that in the docs, either). That leaves me with the "hopeful" 1000. According to http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin "1000 : The effect is the same as priority 1001, except that apt will refuse to downgrade an installed version..." So it looks like as if 1000 is the special value I've been looking for, which is not overridable (just like >1000), so that no unofficial package can override an official one. Yet, which doesn't override (downgrade) already installed packages (just like 101-999), so that several official repos, all pinned to 1000, can get along together. Too much guesswork... I need either various dry-run experiments on a sandbox (reverse eng. as last resort), or some docs with complete details (can't find any), or an apt guru shedding some light on this (hope, hope :) I wonder: Did I get the rules right in the first place? Is my resolution correct? Otherwise, how can I include many repos, possibly some incompatible ones too, without worrying about system's integrity? I.e. how can I group official and unofficial repos into two main groups, each having isolated prioritization within themselves, and give higher priority to the "official" group against the "unofficial" one, *regardless* of cross-group version maths? The bottom line is, how can I throw-in lots of external repos, and yet make sure that I will get *only* the "extra" packages (the ones missing in official repos) from them? [*] Docs I've read (hopefully not without really understanding! :) apt.conf(5) apt-get(8) apt_preferences(5) sources.list(5) apt-howto http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html http://www.debian-tr.org/?q=debian-apt-pinning (Turkish, similar) Thanks and best regards, -- Abdullah Ramazanoglu aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm From jbyrne at frontbridge.com Mon May 2 22:45:34 2005 From: jbyrne at frontbridge.com (Jonathan Byrne) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 15:45:34 -0700 Subject: If i can't use the internet and my sound card is'nt detected...... In-Reply-To: <20050501203009.13641.qmail@web26504.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20050501203009.13641.qmail@web26504.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200505021545.34389.jbyrne@frontbridge.com> On Sunday 01 May 2005 13:30, Bobby Singh wrote: > Then when i try to go on the interent you have the > browser opening but nothing. I tried manual configure > but still nothing. I have broadband through a belkin > ethernet modem-router. Hi Bob, Here are some commands that will give us information that will help troubleshoot your problem: Please open a terminal window (konsole is the default one in KDE) and type each of these commands ifconfig cat /etc/resolv.conf ifconfig will show the current configuration of your network interfaces, and cat /etc/resolv.conf will show what's in your resolv.conf file, which should contain (at least) the IP addresses of the nameservers that your system should be using. If there is no IP address and no nameserver information, it may be the case that you aren't getting an IP address via DHCP from the Belkin. HTH, Jonathan --- Jonathan Byrne Manager, Spam Analysis FrontBridge Technologies, Inc. FrontBridge introduces Message Archive and Secure Email. Get leading Enterprise Message Security services from FrontBridge. www.frontbridge.com. From jbyrne at frontbridge.com Mon May 2 23:06:45 2005 From: jbyrne at frontbridge.com (Jonathan Byrne) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 16:06:45 -0700 Subject: Intel 845 In-Reply-To: <200504300002.12612.tristan@silesia.linux.org.pl> References: <200504300002.12612.tristan@silesia.linux.org.pl> Message-ID: <200505021606.45098.jbyrne@frontbridge.com> On Friday 29 April 2005 15:02, Tristan wrote: > I've installed kubuntu on pc with Intel 845 and now 640x480 is the > best what I can set :( There is only this resolution in options. Is > it possible to use kubuntu on this hardware? I have a Dell Optiplex SX280 with an Intel chipset and have this in my xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "i915" Driver "i810" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" VideoRam 32768 Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection You may need to manually set the amount of memory to get X to recognize it. Also, check your BIOS settings. On this (and my previous workstation, an Optiplex SX260) it was necessary to go into the BIOS and change the video RAM setting from 1 meg to 8 meg. The Windows drivers don't need this (I got 1280 x 1024 X 32 bit) in XP even with the BIOS reporting 1 meg of video RAM. HTH, Jonathan -- Jonathan Byrne Manager, Spam Analysis FrontBridge Technologies, Inc. FrontBridge introduces Message Archive and Secure Email. Get leading Enterprise Message Security services from FrontBridge. www.frontbridge.com. From auspex at pointerstop.ca Tue May 3 12:11:16 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 09:11:16 -0300 Subject: Adding non-ubuntu packages In-Reply-To: References: <200504291657.22345.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <200505020920.16332.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <200505030911.17144.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Monday 02 May 2005 15:15, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > > Derek Broughton dedi ki: > > > > Yes.  That's what I've done, now, thanks.  My main sources are breezy - > > main, restricted, universe & multivers.  Then, at a lower priority Debian > > unstable. Finally, just "mambo" from Debian experimental. > > Did you pin official repos to 1000? Have you tested it out? I asked because > I'm also trying to do the same thing, but I've some concerns. You seem to have the same concerns I did last time I tried this. The apt documentation is _too_ detailed and overwhelming. I just used this simple ruleset: derek at othello:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=breezy Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 650 Package: mambo Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 550 Breezy is Ubuntu, unstable and experimental are Debian. I haven't been using it long enough to see any problems. -- derek From jbyrne at frontbridge.com Tue May 3 17:06:15 2005 From: jbyrne at frontbridge.com (Jonathan Byrne) Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 10:06:15 -0700 Subject: If i can't use the internet and my sound card is'nt detected...... In-Reply-To: <20050503000523.92353.qmail@web26503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20050503000523.92353.qmail@web26503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200505031006.15126.jbyrne@frontbridge.com> On Monday 02 May 2005 17:05, Bobby Singh wrote: > I have tryed your commands and i have 'search belkin' > with the nameserver up on the terminal. I take it that means your resolv.conf looks something like this: search belkin nameserver 192.168.1.1 The IP address of your nameserver is probably different, I'm just using 192.168.1.1 because it's a commonly used non-global IP address used by some broadband routers as their internal host address. > '/lib/modules/2.6.1.8.1-12mdk/modules.dep no such file > FATAL ERROR' Ouch. Houston, we have a problem :p > Could it be that bootloader is loading mandrake kernal > modules rather than kubuntus very own Yes, which means that it's probably trying to boot a Mandrake kernel, too. Please also post your menu.lst (or grub.conf, I don't recall which name Mandrake uses) to the list as well. Something sounds misconfigured there. You can find that file in /boot/grub. The correct settings depend on how your disk(s) is/are partitioned and where you installed Kubuntu, so please also post your /etc/fstab to the list so we can sort it all out. > (kubuntu MBR stops you from accessing other > partitions). Since when? My experience with (K)Ubuntu installers is that they detect and automatically install into menu.lst all other OSes on the system (or at least, other Linux distros and Windows XP). Snippet from the Kubuntu install on my workstation (note that these settings probably won't work for you, since your disk is almost certainly partitioned differently than mine): title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-386 root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash initrd /initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386 savedefault boot title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-386 (recovery mode) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/sda5 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386 savedefault boot title Ubuntu, kernel memtest86+ root (hd0,2) kernel /memtest86+.bin savedefault boot HTH, Jonathan FrontBridge introduces Message Archive and Secure Email. Get leading Enterprise Message Security services from FrontBridge. www.frontbridge.com. From netmaxd at yahoo.ca Tue May 3 17:40:45 2005 From: netmaxd at yahoo.ca (netmaxd) Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 17:40:45 +0000 Subject: webcam Logitech Express ? Message-ID: <4277B79D.2010800@yahoo.ca> Hello Could you say to me or I could find the procedure complete (installation of the sources included) to install a webcam Logitech Usb Express. Thank you netmaxd http://manuxlinux.freezee.org From ftp at atalos.com Wed May 4 18:53:31 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 20:53:31 +0200 Subject: moving "kontact" settings In-Reply-To: <3a30d83e0503301202b5722de@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <3a30d83e0503301202b5722de@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505042053.31417.ftp@atalos.com> Hi there, if I want to preserve/backup the filter and account settings in "kontact" how can I do that? Thanks George From john at nosuitsit.com Wed May 4 19:50:08 2005 From: john at nosuitsit.com (John) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 20:50:08 +0100 Subject: moving "kontact" settings In-Reply-To: <200505042053.31417.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <3a30d83e0503301202b5722de@mail.gmail.com> <200505042053.31417.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <200505042050.08450.john@nosuitsit.com> On Wednesday 04 May 2005 19:53, FTP wrote: > if I want to preserve/backup the filter and account settings in "kontact" > how can I do that? My Kontact KMail info is stored in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc You can open this file up in any text editor and check that the initial part is all about your user info and the filters are listed separately underneath. John From sarava at verizon.net Wed May 4 21:23:30 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (sara vasquez) Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 17:23:30 -0400 Subject: USB flash drive Message-ID: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> Ok so I am back to kubuntu after trying gnome and xfce but now whe I plug my usb flash drive I don't get it to automatically go to the desktop how do I get it back that was one of the things i loved about kubuntu. From Adrian.H at auston.edu.sg Thu May 5 02:19:12 2005 From: Adrian.H at auston.edu.sg (Adrian Hicks) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:19:12 +0800 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> Message-ID: <200505051019.13270.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> Hi Sara. Did you install extra packages beyond the CD? I installed quite a few from restricted and unvierse, which installed quite a few KDE packages as dependencies, & had two big changes (that I noticed, could be others). Firstly my KDE config was screwed up; had to delete the .kde dir in my home dir & restart KDE before I got a panel & menus etc. Along with that the panel icons etc. had changed to more default stuff. And I had the same problem as you; no more USB stick. Seems with what I did some KDE components were changed for the worse. Only thing is I installed a lot of stuff so don't know what package affects mounting of the USB stick in KDE. I'm still digging, though don't have a lot of time to mess with it. Adrian Hicks On Thu, 5 May 2005 05:23 am, sara vasquez wrote: > Ok so I am back to kubuntu after trying gnome and xfce but now whe I > plug my usb flash drive I don't get it to automatically go to the > desktop how do I get it back that was one of the things i loved about > kubuntu. From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 5 03:06:33 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (sara vasquez) Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 23:06:33 -0400 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <200505051019.13270.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> <200505051019.13270.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> Message-ID: <42798DB9.9060002@verizon.net> Adrian Hicks wrote: >Hi Sara. > >Did you install extra packages beyond the CD? > >I installed quite a few from restricted and unvierse, which installed quite >a few KDE packages as dependencies, & had two big changes (that I noticed, >could be others). Firstly my KDE config was screwed up; had to delete >the .kde dir in my home dir & restart KDE before I got a panel & menus >etc. Along with that the panel icons etc. had changed to more default >stuff. > >And I had the same problem as you; no more USB stick. Seems with what I >did some KDE components were changed for the worse. Only thing is I >installed a lot of stuff so don't know what package affects mounting of >the USB stick in KDE. > >I'm still digging, though don't have a lot of time to mess with it. > > >Adrian Hicks > > >On Thu, 5 May 2005 05:23 am, sara vasquez wrote: > > >>Ok so I am back to kubuntu after trying gnome and xfce but now whe I >>plug my usb flash drive I don't get it to automatically go to the >>desktop how do I get it back that was one of the things i loved about >>kubuntu. >> >> > > > So I am able to go to konqueror and acess my flash i just don't get it automatically on my desktop.so my system finds my flash-drive is just the automatic desktop placement that i don't have From Adrian.H at auston.edu.sg Thu May 5 04:27:58 2005 From: Adrian.H at auston.edu.sg (Adrian Hicks) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:27:58 +0800 Subject: Upgrade changes config & no USB stick any more In-Reply-To: <20050429064830.GN14569@muse.19inch.net> References: <200504291146.49262.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> <20050429064830.GN14569@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505051227.58729.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> Hi list. This is re. a previous post; see below. I've done a reinstall & some testing, & have narrowed the lack of USB stick mounting to 2 files (hopefully this is all). Did the following: * Installed kubuntu hoary from scratch, with an Internet connection in place * Did apt-get upgrade & checked the list of packages (10 in all) but did not allow the upgrade * Chose a likely candidate to test (kdelibs-bin) & installed it along with its dependency (kdelibs4). * Noted that it suggested the perl-suid package After installing the two files (kdelibs-bin & kdelibs4) the following has changed: * On login I had to do the basic KDE config that all new users get * The panel changed; no more drawer with home etc. * Desktop colours changed * No links anywhere in the menus for Konqueror file manager * Inserting a USB stick no longer does anything, ie. doesn't mount and doesn't put an icon on the desktop * Logout screen changed (no more icons on the buttons) I then installed kdelibs-data (which had a problem because it contains a file that is in another package). This didn't help the problem. And installed the recommended perl-suid package. Also nothing fixed. Noted that Admin mode in Control Center is still working. It wasn't working after installing a load of stuff from Universe (see previous post below). Do kubuntu developers read this list? If so here's a complaint. Never in all the time I've used it has an upgrade on Debian changed any part of my desktop configuration. What's happening with kubuntu that these changes happen? Adrian Hicks > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:46:48AM +0800, Adrian Hicks wrote: > > 1. USB stick etc. > > After the basic CD install, inserting a USB stick produced a nice icon > > on the desktop, worked nicely. > > > > After adding software from restricted & universe the automount of the > > USB stick no longer works. I have noticed, however, that it works ok > > in GNOME which was installed with some prog's. Now in KDE nothing > > happens at all; no mount or mountpoint etc. (nothing in /media) and > > obviously no USB icon on the desktop. > > > > 2. sudo re. Admin mode in Control Centre > > And along with the USB problem (and some changes in the layout of the > > panel when I installed stuff) I can no longer use my password to > > config items in Control Center that need Administrator mode. > > > Jonathan Riddell From peter.shillan at gmail.com Thu May 5 07:54:59 2005 From: peter.shillan at gmail.com (Peter Shillan) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 08:54:59 +0100 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <42798DB9.9060002@verizon.net> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> <200505051019.13270.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> <42798DB9.9060002@verizon.net> Message-ID: Hi Sara, Hope you are well - you are still very nice and polite! :-) On 5/5/05, sara vasquez wrote: > So I am able to go to konqueror and acess my flash i just don't get it > automatically on my desktop.so my system finds my flash-drive is just > the automatic desktop placement that i don't have I looked at this a long time ago, so things might have moved on, but... This probably has to do with the modules you have loaded. I had to add a couple of modules to /etc/modules. Unfortunately, I am at work and don't have my Kubuntu PC handy but I think the modules were: usb-storage ide-scsi If you try a: sudo modprobe you should find them (I think). You should then add them to /etc/modules and either reboot or try restarting the hotplug system: sudo /etc/init.d/hotplug restart with the USB drive *UNPLUGGED*. When you plug it in, you click the Konqueror icon on the panel, browse the 'Storage Media' group and it should be there. Ubuntu popped an icon on the desktop but Kubuntu doesn't do that. You must browse to the device instead. Be aware that if you want to unplug the device later, you should 'stop' it first. This can be done through Konqueror by right-clicking the device under 'Storage Media' and using the menu option. If you are still having problems: - unplug the device - plug the device back in - run the command: dmesg | tail - send the output of dmesg | tail This will let us see what your system is trying to do when the device is plugged in. Best regards, Peter. From ftp at atalos.com Thu May 5 09:25:49 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:25:49 +0200 Subject: moving "kontact" settings In-Reply-To: <200505042050.08450.john@nosuitsit.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200505042053.31417.ftp@atalos.com> <200505042050.08450.john@nosuitsit.com> Message-ID: <200505051125.49342.ftp@atalos.com> thanks for the tip! Also, if I store the POP3 mail accounts passwords localy, where are they saved? Thanks for your help George On Wednesday 04 May 2005 21:50, John wrote: > On Wednesday 04 May 2005 19:53, FTP wrote: > > if I want to preserve/backup the filter and account settings in "kontact" > > how can I do that? > > My Kontact KMail info is stored in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc > > You can open this file up in any text editor and check that the initial > part is all about your user info and the filters are listed separately > underneath. > > John From ftp at atalos.com Thu May 5 11:29:45 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 13:29:45 +0200 Subject: scanner Benq 3300U problems In-Reply-To: <200505042050.08450.john@nosuitsit.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200505042053.31417.ftp@atalos.com> <200505042050.08450.john@nosuitsit.com> Message-ID: <200505051329.46036.ftp@atalos.com> Hi there, I have a rather weird situation. I try to connect a Benq 3300U scanner and when I start kooka I do get a message: snapscan:libusb:001:003 Acer FlatbedScanner22 but then the application displays the notification that "No scanner was found" Now, with Xsane I get the following: Failed to open device `snapscan:libusb:001:003': Invalid argument Any help on that? Thanks George From jgomezdans at gmail.com Thu May 5 11:44:24 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:44:24 +0100 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> Message-ID: <91d2184305050504442a289559@mail.gmail.com> On 5/4/05, sara vasquez wrote: > Ok so I am back to kubuntu after trying gnome and xfce but now whe I > plug my usb flash drive I don't get it to automatically go to the > desktop how do I get it back that was one of the things i loved about > kubuntu. If you click on the desktop with the right mouse button, you can configure some option that's called something like "Device Options", and you can click there to add your USB drive. Sorry for the vagueness, but I'm not in Kubuntu at the moment, and don't know the exact score for this. But you will see a list of devices (mounted CD, unmounted CD...). Make sure you click on the ones you want to appear magically when inserted (I gather it might be "Unmounted USB" or somesuch). If you look on the mailing list archives, I got this suggestion a few weeks ago, with a more verbose description of what to do. Good luck! José From jochen at jochenskulj.de Thu May 5 12:05:44 2005 From: jochen at jochenskulj.de (Jochen Skulj) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 14:05:44 +0200 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <42798DB9.9060002@verizon.net> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> <200505051019.13270.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> <42798DB9.9060002@verizon.net> Message-ID: <200505051405.55017.jochen@jochenskulj.de> > >On Thu, 5 May 2005 05:23 am, sara vasquez wrote: > >>Ok so I am back to kubuntu after trying gnome and xfce but now whe I > >>plug my usb flash drive I don't get it to automatically go to the > >>desktop how do I get it back that was one of the things i loved about > >>kubuntu. > > So I am able to go to konqueror and acess my flash i just don't get it > automatically on my desktop.so my system finds my flash-drive is just > the automatic desktop placement that i don't have Have you checked your settings in the KDE Control Center? If you choose 'Desktp' => 'Behavior' and open the tab 'Device Icons' you are able to configure which device should automatically appear on your desktop. Maybe these settings were messed up by some upgrades problems. (I remember having similar problems because of a failed upgrade of kdelibs-data, something like that) Jochen -- Jochen Skulj http://www.jochenskulj.de GPG Key-ID: 0x37B2F0B8 Finger Print: F239 5D8D 97CD F91F 9D08 AE94 AA3B 1ED5 37B2 F0B8 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From claydoh at claydoh.com Thu May 5 12:36:43 2005 From: claydoh at claydoh.com (Clay Weber) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 08:36:43 -0400 Subject: scanner Benq 3300U problems In-Reply-To: <200505051329.46036.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200505042053.31417.ftp@atalos.com> <200505042050.08450.john@nosuitsit.com> <200505051329.46036.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <427A135B.3040200@claydoh.com> Look here: http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ for directions on setting up the path to the required firmware file. It looks like you need a file called u222v067.bin which will be found on your scanner's driver disc. Then you will need to place the file somewhere: sudo mkdir /usr/share/sane/snapscan (this is similar to the path that my mustek (gt68xx based) scanner uses) then copy the firmware file : sudo cp u222v067.bin /usr/share/sane/snapscan Now we need to edit the config file to point it to the firmware: sudo kwrite /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf edit the line "firmware /path/to/your/firmware/file.bin" to read "firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u222v067.bin" This should get you going I hope! FTP wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a rather weird situation. > > I try to connect a Benq 3300U scanner and when I start kooka I do get a > message: > > snapscan:libusb:001:003 Acer FlatbedScanner22 > > but then the application displays the notification that "No scanner was found" > > Now, with Xsane I get the following: > > Failed to open device `snapscan:libusb:001:003': Invalid argument > > Any help on that? > > Thanks > > George > From ftp at atalos.com Thu May 5 13:00:10 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:00:10 +0200 Subject: scanner Benq 3300U problems In-Reply-To: <427A135B.3040200@claydoh.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200505051329.46036.ftp@atalos.com> <427A135B.3040200@claydoh.com> Message-ID: <200505051500.10257.ftp@atalos.com> I'll do so and thanks for the guidelines but there is one strange thing. The PC I'm using kubuntu, it did run withXP before and when using the kubuntu live CD, it was NO problem to recognize the scanner and perform a scanning as well!!! Why is that? Thanks for your support George On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:36, Clay Weber wrote: > Look here: http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ > for directions on setting up the path to the required firmware file. > > It looks like you need a file called u222v067.bin which will be found on > your scanner's driver disc. Then you will need to place the file somewhere: > > sudo mkdir /usr/share/sane/snapscan > (this is similar to the path that my mustek (gt68xx based) scanner uses) > > then copy the firmware file : > > sudo cp u222v067.bin /usr/share/sane/snapscan > > Now we need to edit the config file to point it to the firmware: > > sudo kwrite /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf > > edit the line "firmware /path/to/your/firmware/file.bin" > to read "firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u222v067.bin" > > This should get you going I hope! > > FTP wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have a rather weird situation. > > > > I try to connect a Benq 3300U scanner and when I start kooka I do get a > > message: > > > > snapscan:libusb:001:003 Acer FlatbedScanner22 > > > > but then the application displays the notification that "No scanner was > > found" > > > > Now, with Xsane I get the following: > > > > Failed to open device `snapscan:libusb:001:003': Invalid argument > > > > Any help on that? > > > > Thanks > > > > George From ftp at atalos.com Thu May 5 13:30:32 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:30:32 +0200 Subject: scanner Benq 3300U problems In-Reply-To: <427A135B.3040200@claydoh.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200505051329.46036.ftp@atalos.com> <427A135B.3040200@claydoh.com> Message-ID: <200505051530.32820.ftp@atalos.com> I did try all that and then, when xsane starts, after a while I get "Error during device I/O"! Any hint? Thanks George On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:36, Clay Weber wrote: > Look here: http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ > for directions on setting up the path to the required firmware file. > > It looks like you need a file called u222v067.bin which will be found on > your scanner's driver disc. Then you will need to place the file somewhere: > > sudo mkdir /usr/share/sane/snapscan > (this is similar to the path that my mustek (gt68xx based) scanner uses) > > then copy the firmware file : > > sudo cp u222v067.bin /usr/share/sane/snapscan > > Now we need to edit the config file to point it to the firmware: > > sudo kwrite /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf > > edit the line "firmware /path/to/your/firmware/file.bin" > to read "firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u222v067.bin" > > This should get you going I hope! > > FTP wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have a rather weird situation. > > > > I try to connect a Benq 3300U scanner and when I start kooka I do get a > > message: > > > > snapscan:libusb:001:003 Acer FlatbedScanner22 > > > > but then the application displays the notification that "No scanner was > > found" > > > > Now, with Xsane I get the following: > > > > Failed to open device `snapscan:libusb:001:003': Invalid argument > > > > Any help on that? > > > > Thanks > > > > George From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 5 14:46:36 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (sara vasquez) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 10:46:36 -0400 Subject: USB flash drive(problem solved thanks to all) In-Reply-To: <200505051405.55017.jochen@jochenskulj.de> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> <200505051019.13270.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> <42798DB9.9060002@verizon.net> <200505051405.55017.jochen@jochenskulj.de> Message-ID: <427A31CC.5050702@verizon.net> Jochen Skulj wrote: >>>On Thu, 5 May 2005 05:23 am, sara vasquez wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Ok so I am back to kubuntu after trying gnome and xfce but now whe I >>>>plug my usb flash drive I don't get it to automatically go to the >>>>desktop how do I get it back that was one of the things i loved about >>>>kubuntu. >>>> >>>> >>So I am able to go to konqueror and acess my flash i just don't get it >>automatically on my desktop.so my system finds my flash-drive is just >>the automatic desktop placement that i don't have >> >> > >Have you checked your settings in the KDE Control Center? If you choose >'Desktp' => 'Behavior' and open the tab 'Device Icons' you are able to >configure which device should automatically appear on your desktop. Maybe >these settings were messed up by some upgrades problems. (I remember having >similar problems because of a failed upgrade of kdelibs-data, something like >that) > >Jochen > > From dlorr at worldnet.att.net Thu May 5 10:26:27 2005 From: dlorr at worldnet.att.net (Dale) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 06:26:27 -0400 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> Message-ID: <4279F4D3.9010500@worldnet.att.net> sara vasquez wrote: > Ok so I am back to kubuntu after trying gnome and xfce but now whe I > plug my usb flash drive I don't get it to automatically go to the > desktop how do I get it back that was one of the things i loved about > kubuntu. > Agreed. I can't see my iPod Shuffle anymore. When I first launched KUbuntu, I had an icon that said "Dale's iPod". I thought that was spiffy. I can still get to the iPod, but no more spiffy icon. Oh, yeah, and if I use a USB extension cord, it's hit and miss as to whether I see the iPod at all. I find that curious.... dale From gunnyman at gmail.com Thu May 5 15:10:58 2005 From: gunnyman at gmail.com (Gunny Wallen) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:10:58 -0400 Subject: Show Desktop icon ? In-Reply-To: <42722CA4.7070702@takas.lt> References: <42722CA4.7070702@takas.lt> Message-ID: <6ab2a5a0050505081016ec2ff5@mail.gmail.com> right click on the taskbar, choose add to panel/special button/Desktop Access. On 4/29/05, Donatas wrote: > Where in Kubuntu could I find the Show Desktop icon? Or, how do I make > one? I don't see it after the default install. > > Donatas > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From r.heave at chello.nl Thu May 5 15:23:01 2005 From: r.heave at chello.nl (Rudi Heave) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 17:23:01 +0200 Subject: Show desktop icon? Message-ID: <200505051723.01939.r.heave@chello.nl> Richt clik on the panel > Add to panel>Special button. From ziogelis77 at takas.lt Thu May 5 15:36:01 2005 From: ziogelis77 at takas.lt (Donatas Glodenis) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 18:36:01 +0300 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <200505051405.55017.jochen@jochenskulj.de> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> <42798DB9.9060002@verizon.net> <200505051405.55017.jochen@jochenskulj.de> Message-ID: <200505051836.02147.ziogelis77@takas.lt> Ketvirtadienis 05 Gegužės 2005 15:05, Jochen Skulj rašė: > > So I am able to go to konqueror and acess my flash i just don't get it > > automatically on my desktop.so my system finds my flash-drive is just > > the automatic desktop placement that i don't have > > Have you checked your settings in the KDE Control Center? If you choose > 'Desktp' => 'Behavior' and open the tab 'Device Icons' you are able to > configure which device should automatically appear on your desktop. Maybe > these settings were messed up by some upgrades problems. (I remember having > similar problems because of a failed upgrade of kdelibs-data, something > like that) I had the same problem, and this worked for me. Thank you. Donatas From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 5 17:03:49 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (sara vasquez) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:03:49 -0400 Subject: radio and problems with the mplayer plugin Message-ID: <427A51F5.3020103@verizon.net> i am wondering if any aplication that came with KDE allow me to play any radio station and how. also I am having problems with the mplayer plug in whem I go to movies.com and try to watch a movie clip I use the windows media player and then I can hear the clip, but cannot see it. maybe someone had the same proble. I must say I am just about to have averything working. once again thaks for all of your replies in advance From auspex at pointerstop.ca Thu May 5 17:15:44 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:15:44 -0300 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <91d2184305050504442a289559@mail.gmail.com> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> <91d2184305050504442a289559@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505051415.45001.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Thursday 05 May 2005 08:44, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > > If you click on the desktop with the right mouse button, you can > configure some option that's called something like "Device Options", > and you can click there to add your USB drive. Sorry for the > vagueness, but I'm not in Kubuntu at the moment, and don't know the > exact score for this. But you will see a list of devices (mounted CD, > unmounted CD...). Make sure you click on the ones you want to appear > magically when inserted (I gather it might be "Unmounted USB" or > somesuch). Ah, but the problem would be with the upgraded packages (I suspect picking up non-ubuntu binaries). I've just done three kubuntu installs today, trying to get things working the way I want (that is, to have the kubuntu stuff I want and still have all the important stuff from my old Debian install), and I lost those icons in the first two - probably because I ended up reinstalling old debian KDE packages instead of new ubuntu ones. The specific selections in this dialog that you need are "(Unm)ounted removable medium", and they didn't exist in the Debian sid packages. -- derek From bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk Thu May 5 18:46:40 2005 From: bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk (Bobby Singh) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 19:46:40 +0100 (BST) Subject: Show Desktop icon ? In-Reply-To: 6667 Message-ID: <20050505184640.99183.qmail@web26505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello, You get kubuntu on a different CD or download. Its a KDE version of Ubuntu. In Ubuntu you can use apt-get aplications for kde and install. (however i am not an expert in ubuntu or apt-get commands). Cheers Bob --- Donatas wrote: > Where in Kubuntu could I find the Show Desktop icon? > Or, how do I make > one? I don't see it after the default install. > > Donatas > > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - want a free and easy way to contact your friends online? http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com From ar018 at yahoo.com Thu May 5 18:46:36 2005 From: ar018 at yahoo.com (Abdullah Ramazanoglu) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:46:36 +0300 Subject: What happened to the repos? Message-ID: I've a basically pristine Kubuntu 5.04. In sources.list only hoary-updates, hoary-security, universe and multiverse added on top of stock sources.list. And only package additions are kommander, xine, mplayer, ksensors and kmymoney (maybe a few more but I don't remember). Until recently there was no consistency problem in apt, but now I want to install quanta : ============================================================== root at kubuntu54:~ # apt-get install quanta Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kaffeine: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1) but 2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu13 is to be installed Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0) but 2.2.3-4ubuntu7 is to be installed Depends: libidn11 (>= 0.5.13) but 0.5.2-3 is to be installed quanta: Depends: libcvsservice0 (>= 4:3.1.95-0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kfilereplace but it is not going to be installed Depends: klinkstatus but it is not going to be installed Depends: quanta-data (= 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu2.2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: tidy but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). ============================================================== So... ============================================================== root at kubuntu54:~ # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kaffeine kubuntu-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 13 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 3576kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. ============================================================== ...it wants to remove kubuntu-desktop. What gives? -- Abdullah Ramazanoglu aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm From ar018 at yahoo.com Thu May 5 19:08:36 2005 From: ar018 at yahoo.com (Abdullah Ramazanoglu) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 22:08:36 +0300 Subject: What happened to the repos? References: Message-ID: Abdullah Ramazanoglu dedi ki: --8<-- > ...it wants to remove kubuntu-desktop. What gives? False alarm. I had tried to install kaffeine from Breezy without success and forgot about it. It remained in unpacked/not installed condition with libc6 >= 2.3.4-1 requirement. Uninstalled and reinstalled kaffeine and kubuntu-desktop and it seems all OK now. Best regards, -- Abdullah Ramazanoglu aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm From ftp at atalos.com Thu May 5 20:03:52 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:03:52 +0200 Subject: kernel scanner module In-Reply-To: <200505051530.32820.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <427A135B.3040200@claydoh.com> <200505051530.32820.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <200505052203.52910.ftp@atalos.com> how can I check if I have installed a kernel scanner module? Thanks From tristan at silesia.linux.org.pl Thu May 5 20:17:01 2005 From: tristan at silesia.linux.org.pl (Tristan) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:17:01 +0200 Subject: Polish fonts In-Reply-To: <200504300005.42559.tristan@silesia.linux.org.pl> References: <200504300005.42559.tristan@silesia.linux.org.pl> Message-ID: <200505052217.01400.tristan@silesia.linux.org.pl> Hallo, > there are no polish fonts in kubuntu. I've installed it and I have got > polish KDE but no polish fonts. There are only rectangles in place of > polish characters. What should I do to fix it? Nobody can help me? I've installed x-fonts and fonty and still nothing. :( I've also set locales to iso-8859-2 instead UTF. -- Tristan (Przemysław Adam Śmiejek) Silesian Linux User Group tel.: (48) 601-835-262 ; GG: 650579 44-178 Przyszowice; Makoszowska 21 Jabber: tristan at jabber.bnet.pl From claydoh at claydoh.com Thu May 5 20:29:47 2005 From: claydoh at claydoh.com (Clay Weber) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 16:29:47 -0400 Subject: kernel scanner module In-Reply-To: <200505052203.52910.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <427A135B.3040200@claydoh.com> <200505051530.32820.ftp@atalos.com> <200505052203.52910.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <427A823B.5000203@claydoh.com> FTP wrote: > how can I check if I have installed a kernel scanner module? > > Thanks > the command "lsmod' will show your modules. We don't use the "scanner" kernel module as libusb is being used instead of a kernel module in 2.6 kernels. A search on libusb in the ubuntu forums gave a number of hits with more info, but not sure if any are useful for your scanner. Mine works fine :( (but is a different type anyway). From ftp at atalos.com Thu May 5 21:34:16 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 23:34:16 +0200 Subject: scanner Benq 3300U problems [SOLVED] In-Reply-To: <200505051500.10257.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <427A135B.3040200@claydoh.com> <200505051500.10257.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <200505052334.16591.ftp@atalos.com> just for the archives: The Benq 3300U is using the following firmware: u176v046.bin after adjusting the entry in the /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf everything worked fine. Also, please notice taht every change I was making, in order to have it implemented I had to re-power the scanner! On Thursday 05 May 2005 15:00, FTP wrote: > I'll do so and thanks for the guidelines but there is one strange thing. > > The PC I'm using kubuntu, it did run withXP before and when using the > kubuntu live CD, it was NO problem to recognize the scanner and perform a > scanning as well!!! Why is that? > > Thanks for your support > > George > > On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:36, Clay Weber wrote: > > Look here: http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ > > for directions on setting up the path to the required firmware file. > > > > It looks like you need a file called u222v067.bin which will be found on > > your scanner's driver disc. Then you will need to place the file > > somewhere: > > > > sudo mkdir /usr/share/sane/snapscan > > (this is similar to the path that my mustek (gt68xx based) scanner uses) > > > > then copy the firmware file : > > > > sudo cp u222v067.bin /usr/share/sane/snapscan > > > > Now we need to edit the config file to point it to the firmware: > > > > sudo kwrite /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf > > > > edit the line "firmware /path/to/your/firmware/file.bin" > > to read "firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u222v067.bin" > > > > This should get you going I hope! > > > > FTP wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I have a rather weird situation. > > > > > > I try to connect a Benq 3300U scanner and when I start kooka I do get a > > > message: > > > > > > snapscan:libusb:001:003 Acer FlatbedScanner22 > > > > > > but then the application displays the notification that "No scanner was > > > found" > > > > > > Now, with Xsane I get the following: > > > > > > Failed to open device `snapscan:libusb:001:003': Invalid argument > > > > > > Any help on that? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > George From bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk Thu May 5 21:36:56 2005 From: bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk (Bobby Singh) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:36:56 +0100 (BST) Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED Kubuntu (i think) (have a laugh on me, go on) In-Reply-To: 6667 Message-ID: <20050505213656.74553.qmail@web26508.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello, Remember me (see past post bad booting into kubuntu with no internet and sound). Well I took a deep breath and re-installed kubuntu but with its own boot-loader on MBR (last time i did this with ubuntu i lost access to all my partitions). Now i can get XP, Mandrake and kubuntu. Why not do this the first time?? I normally boot things myself in mandrake as it is my main distro and config it there. Other distro's (like ubuntu) normally stop me booting other partitions. So i play safe. (yes for all thoose proper linux users chuckling and laughing at this. it was all stupid, however in the process i have learnt a lot 'under the hood' stuff on boot-loaders, the kernal, masks, configs etc etc) Without doubt kubuntu has excellent 'eye candy'. Well then for all thoose kubuntu/ubuntu users confirm the hype. Tell me whats so good about it? What about the lesser stuff, its best cd-burner, sercurity (firewall and anti-virus), apt-get commands etc etc. I do have some points: - I am now using Konqueror but normally use Firefox. Its not default kubuntu. But i am getting use to Konqueror. Before i import my bookmarks is it ok to use it. Is it just as secure as firefox and bug free. - I have a FAT32 partition for my files to use between different OS and distros. In kubunntu how do i open thoose partitions, i can't mount them or open them, i get error. (in mandrake you just have them to click). Cheers Bob PS; Just some 'blue-sky' thinking for thoose of you. There is a something. I had mandrake in lilo with XP. When installing kubuntu it used grub. Grub is booting all my partitions but in mandrake it thinks its still in lilo and can't config anything in there. Is grub sitting nicely on lilo. That recipe mix bound to end in disaster. Looks like something bad is about to happen and 1 day i may loose everything. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com From sarava at verizon.net Fri May 6 02:47:11 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (sara vasquez) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 22:47:11 -0400 Subject: rpm packages Message-ID: <427ADAAF.9080007@verizon.net> I remeber reading somewher that I could use rpm packages using some kind of alien command I don't know if anyone has any ideia of what I am talking about. sara From senectus at gmail.com Fri May 6 02:54:53 2005 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:54:53 +0800 Subject: rpm packages In-Reply-To: <427ADAAF.9080007@verizon.net> References: <427ADAAF.9080007@verizon.net> Message-ID: The application is called "alien" and from memory it turns .rpm packages into .tgz then you can install it manually.. however an "apt-cache search alien" gives me: alien - install non-native packages with dpkg and alien --help gives: alien --help Usage: alien [options] file [...] file [...] Package file or files to convert. -d, --to-deb Generate a Debian deb package (default). Enables these options: --patch= Specify patch file to use instead of automatically looking for patch in /var/lib/alien. --nopatch Do not use patches. --anypatch Use even old version os patches. --single Like --generate, but do not create .orig directory. --fixperms Munge/fix permissions and owners. --test Test generated packages with lintian. -r, --to-rpm Generate a Red Hat rpm package. --to-slp Generate a Stampede slp package. -l, --to-lsb Generate a LSB package. -t, --to-tgz Generate a Slackware tgz package. Enables these options: --description= Specify package description. --version= Specify package version. -p, --to-pkg Generate a Solaris pkg package. -i, --install Install generated package. -g, --generate Unpack, but do not generate a new package. -c, --scripts Include scripts in package. -v, --verbose Display each command alien runs. --veryverbose Be verbose, and also display output of run commands. -k, --keep-version Do not change version of generated package. -h, --help Display this help message. -V, --version Display alien's version number. On 5/6/05, sara vasquez wrote: > I remeber reading somewher that I could use rpm packages using some kind > of alien command I don't know if anyone has any ideia of what I am > talking about. > sara > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > -- Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 Our OS who art in CPU, LINUX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! http://www.modmeup.net From waldbie at verizon.net Fri May 6 03:50:36 2005 From: waldbie at verizon.net (Carl) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 23:50:36 -0400 Subject: USB flash drive In-Reply-To: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> References: <42793D52.6080700@verizon.net> Message-ID: <200505052350.36185.waldbie@verizon.net> On Wednesday 04 May 2005 5:23 pm, sara vasquez wrote: > Ok so I am back to kubuntu after trying gnome and xfce but now whe I > plug my usb flash drive I don't get it to automatically go to the > desktop how do I get it back that was one of the things i loved about > kubuntu. I had noticed how that worked under Gnome back in Warty, but not under KDE at the time. I cobbled together my own hotplug script, which works pretty well, though I never did get it to successfully remove the desktop icon when my flashdrive was unplugged. For those who are interested, this is what I did: At the konsole: $ lsusb Take note of the output. Now plug in your flash drive and issue the command again. There should be an extra line that corresponds to your USB device. There may even be a description that identifies it. There is an ID number for the device in the format ####:####. You need to record that ID number for later. Now you should have a directory called /etc/hotplug/usb. It may or may not already have some stuff in there. I needed two add two files to hook my drive into the hotplug system. The first is a file that you call something like "flashdrive.usermap", and the second is a matching script that would just be called "flashdrive" (substitute "ipod", "pendrive", or whatever). The flashdrive.usermap file should contain a line like this: flashdrive 0x0000 0x05dc 0x0080 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00000000 The first field is the name of the other file (the script file). The second field is just zeroes. The 3rd and 4th fields match the pieces of the ID you copied down before. In thi example, my usb drive had an ID 05dc:0080. The "0x" prefixes on each number is notation to indicate these numbers are hexidecimal numbers (base 16). The rest of the fields are just zeroes. Now the second file is a script you write to do something when the hotplug system detects your device going in or out of the usb port. I wrote the following little script, which creates a device icon on my desktop: ---------- start script "flashdrive" --------------------- #!/bin/bash #If the USB device is not plugged in (e.g. during bootup), then skip trying to perform an action. if [ -z "$(lsusb | grep 05dc:0080)" ]; then #usb device ID goes here. exit 0 fi if [ "$ACTION" = "add" ]; then #Sleep until the device becomes available. while [ ! -e /dev/sdb1 ]; do sleep 1 done #Make the mount point and mount if it does not exist. mkdir -p /media/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 #Create the desktop icons on each user's desktop. for desktop in /home/*/Desktop do cat > "$desktop/USB Drive.desktop" << DRIVEFILE [Desktop Entry] Dev=/dev/sdb1 Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=hdd_mount MountPoint=/media/sdb1 ReadOnly=false Type=FSDevice UnmountIcon=hdd_unmount DRIVEFILE done fi ---------end script "flashdrive" ------------ The 5th line in the script reads: if [ -z "$(lsusb | grep 05dc:0080)" ]; then #usb device ID goes here. And you need to replace the 05dc:0080 with your device ID. This part of the script makes sure the device is actually plugged in before trying to do anything else-- the hotplug system fires it when you boot up, even though the drive isn't plugged in, so you need to ignore it or you could end up hanging for a while. The next part of the script just makes a mount point and mounts the drive. You may need to tweak this if your device is not mounted on /dev/sdb1. The last part of the script creates the device icon file on your desktop. Not exactly the most elegant solution in the world, but DYI folks may want to give it a try. Maybe someone will come up with something better that doesn't require hard coding in the specific device IDs... Anyway, hope that is some help. Carl Waldbieser From martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk Fri May 6 06:45:55 2005 From: martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk (Martin J Hooper) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 07:45:55 +0100 Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED Kubuntu (i think) (have a laugh on me, go on) In-Reply-To: <20050505213656.74553.qmail@web26508.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20050505213656.74553.qmail@web26508.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Bobby Singh wrote: > I do have some points: > - I am now using Konqueror but normally use Firefox. > Its not default kubuntu. But i am getting use to > Konqueror. Before i import my bookmarks is it ok to > use it. Is it just as secure as firefox and bug free. > - I have a FAT32 partition for my files to use between > different OS and distros. In kubunntu how do i open > thoose partitions, i can't mount them or open them, i > get error. (in mandrake you just have them to click). In a terminal type "sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox" without the quotes which will install Firefox for you. From ziogelis77 at takas.lt Fri May 6 06:52:15 2005 From: ziogelis77 at takas.lt (Donatas) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 09:52:15 +0300 Subject: rpm packages In-Reply-To: References: <427ADAAF.9080007@verizon.net> Message-ID: <427B141F.2070001@takas.lt> Senectus . wrote: > The application is called "alien" and from memory it turns .rpm > packages into .tgz > then you can install it manually.. You can surely convert rpm's to debs with alien with a command like: alien -d xxxx.rpm where xxxx.rpm is an rpm package. You will get a deb package. In some cases it works fine, in others the program thus installed is screwed up. I installed successfully fglrx driver and skype with the help of alien (both programs now have prebuilt debs). But I tried to do that for Nvu with variating success - I succeded in older versions, but could see no menus in NVu0.8 (if I remember correctly) Donatas From bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk Fri May 6 11:21:16 2005 From: bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk (Bobby Singh) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:21:16 +0100 (BST) Subject: Kubuntu how to mount partitions and use them Message-ID: <20050506112116.58541.qmail@web26507.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello I have installed kubuntu so far impressed but: I have a FAT32 partition for my files to use between different OS and distros. In kubunntu how do i open thoose partitions and use them, i can't mount them or open them, i get error. (in mandrake you just have them to click). How do i use and open other partitions. Thanks Bob ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com From svloon at xs4all.nl Fri May 6 11:30:31 2005 From: svloon at xs4all.nl (Sander van Loon) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 13:30:31 +0200 Subject: Kubuntu how to mount partitions and use them In-Reply-To: <20050506112116.58541.qmail@web26507.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20050506112116.58541.qmail@web26507.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200505061330.31853.svloon@xs4all.nl> http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ Read section "Windows". But you could have found this yourself, with some googling. On Friday 06 May 2005 13:21, Bobby Singh wrote: > Hello > > I have installed kubuntu so far impressed but: > > I have a FAT32 partition for my files to use between > different OS and distros. In kubunntu how do i open > thoose partitions and use them, i can't mount them or > open them, i get error. (in mandrake you just have > them to click). > > How do i use and open other partitions. > > Thanks > > Bob > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday > snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com From auspex at pointerstop.ca Fri May 6 00:52:28 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:52:28 -0300 Subject: Upgrade changes config & no USB stick any more In-Reply-To: <200505051227.58729.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> References: <200504291146.49262.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> <20050429064830.GN14569@muse.19inch.net> <200505051227.58729.Adrian.H@auston.edu.sg> Message-ID: <200505052152.28447.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Thursday 05 May 2005 01:27, Adrian Hicks wrote: > Do kubuntu developers read this list?  If so here's a complaint.  Never in > all the time I've used it has an upgrade on Debian changed any part of my > desktop configuration.  What's happening with kubuntu that these changes > happen? Oh, please. Debian is notorious for b0rking your desktop settings when you do a KDE upgrade. It happened when I upgraded from KDE 1 to KDE 2. It happened when I upgraded from KDE 2 to KDE 3. It happened when I upgraded from KDE 3.1 to KDE 3.2. Upgrading from 3.3 (sid) to 3.4 (hoary) was easy (though I'll admit, I don't have a clue if USB sticks worked after that, because I didn't have any USB storage devices at the time). -- derek From svloon at xs4all.nl Fri May 6 14:25:24 2005 From: svloon at xs4all.nl (Sander van Loon) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:25:24 +0200 Subject: can't switch Logitech Dual Optical to 800 cpi Message-ID: <200505061625.24299.svloon@xs4all.nl> I already posted a bug report at bugs.kde.org: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105189 Unfortunately the next KDE release is probably still a few months away. Meanwhile, can anyone tell me how to fix this permission problem? From svloon at xs4all.nl Fri May 6 14:48:41 2005 From: svloon at xs4all.nl (Sander van Loon) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:48:41 +0200 Subject: sound in KDE doesn't work anymore, AC-3 does work though Message-ID: <200505061648.41777.svloon@xs4all.nl> Ok, something very weird happened. Let's begin with my hardware, I have a Soundblaster Audigy Player soundcard and a Creative Desktop Theatre DTT 2500 Digital 5.1 speakerset. After I installed Kubuntu a month or so ago, all I had to do was unmute the "Audigy Digital/Analog Output Jack" switch in KMix (because in every Linux distro I've ever used it was muted by default, but is done intentionally by ALSA I heard) and then the sound would work. And it has been working ever since I installed Kubuntu, until yesterday. I was watching a video file with AC-3 sound in Kaffeine. After that I opened another video file without AC-3. But I didn't hear sound anymore. I opened amaroK to check if it was Kaffeine-specific, but amaroK gave me no sound either. I started a game, Enemy Territory, but sound didn't work there either. I rebooted to Windows XP and I noticed that the sound was working fine in Windows XP, so it isn't my hardware. I rebooted to Kubuntu again, but still the sound didn't work, except when I opened a video file with AC-3 again, then I would get sound. I checked everything in the mixer, but I didn't notice any abnormalities, nothing is muted... very weird, and I have no idea what to do. Can anyone help me with this? If not, can anyone tell me how to "reset" the sound system and it's configuration files, maybe it will return to normal then? From auspex at pointerstop.ca Fri May 6 16:29:32 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 13:29:32 -0300 Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED Kubuntu (i think) (have a laugh on me, go on) In-Reply-To: References: <20050505213656.74553.qmail@web26508.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200505061329.32962.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Friday 06 May 2005 03:45, Martin J Hooper wrote: > Bobby Singh wrote: > > I do have some points: > > - I am now using Konqueror but normally use Firefox. > > Its not default kubuntu. But i am getting use to > > Konqueror. Before i import my bookmarks is it ok to > > use it. Is it just as secure as firefox and bug free. > > - I have a FAT32 partition for my files to use between > > different OS and distros. In kubunntu how do i open > > thoose partitions, i can't mount them or open them, i > > get error. (in mandrake you just have them to click). > > In a terminal type "sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox" without the > quotes which will install Firefox for you. That hardly fixes the problem. In fact, I would hope firefox has no more privilege to do that than konqueror. If you define the partition in /etc/fstab with the "user" option, e.g.: /dev/sda1 /windows vfat user,noauto 0 0 it can be mounted by anybody. Probably you could do it with udev, somehow, too; since it appears no different on my system from an actual hotplugged USB storage partition. -- derek From franka at svpal.org Fri May 6 22:47:09 2005 From: franka at svpal.org (Frank Arnold) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 15:47:09 -0700 Subject: Printer help needed Message-ID: <1115419629.7455.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> OK, I need help. Trying to print using an older Epson Stylus Color 600 printer that has worked well with Fedora and several other distributions of Linux. Now I am running the latest Ubuntu and while it says it will print, northing does print at all. LSMOD gives: parport 33480 2 parport_pc,lp and escputil gives nothing at all. Don't know what else to try except a reinstall and have already done DAT once for anode reason. I am very happy with the distro but I gotta be able to print! Any help, advice, etc. greatly appreciated. Frank Arnold Third Street Community Center San Jose, California USA From ftp at atalos.com Fri May 6 23:12:44 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 01:12:44 +0200 Subject: write to NTFS In-Reply-To: <200505051125.49342.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200505042050.08450.john@nosuitsit.com> <200505051125.49342.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <200505070112.44575.ftp@atalos.com> Hi there, when mounting a USB NTFS formatted HD, I'm only able to read but write on it! I thought that kernel 2.6 does support writing operation on NTFS - or not? Thanks George From jgomezdans at gmail.com Fri May 6 23:13:54 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 00:13:54 +0100 Subject: Printer help needed In-Reply-To: <1115419629.7455.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1115419629.7455.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <91d2184305050616132ca62b77@mail.gmail.com> On 5/6/05, Frank Arnold wrote: > OK, I need help. > Trying to print using an older Epson Stylus Color 600 printer that has > worked well with Fedora and several other distributions of Linux. > Now I am running the latest Ubuntu and while it says it will print, > northing does print at all. LSMOD gives: > parport 33480 2 parport_pc,lp > and escputil gives nothing at all. OK, without more details, it's hard to give you a definite answer. But if you start the KDE's Control Centre->Peripherals->Printers, you can then Add a Printer. A little wizard-like window will appear, and you will be able to select the connection (parallel port presumably), and the driver from a list. That will configure CUPS, the printer server on your Linux box. Such a common printer is well supported and should work without re-installing or anything. Give that a go, and see if it works, j From gunnyman at gmail.com Sat May 7 00:53:32 2005 From: gunnyman at gmail.com (Gunny Wallen) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 20:53:32 -0400 Subject: write to NTFS In-Reply-To: <200505070112.44575.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200505042050.08450.john@nosuitsit.com> <200505051125.49342.ftp@atalos.com> <200505070112.44575.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <6ab2a5a005050617534561d2cf@mail.gmail.com> you need to install Captive NTFS. It's very experimental and may bork your data. NTFS writing is not supported by the 2.6 kernel. On 5/6/05, FTP wrote: > Hi there, > > when mounting a USB NTFS formatted HD, I'm only able to read but write on it! > I thought that kernel 2.6 does support writing operation on NTFS - or not? > > Thanks > > George > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From franka at svpal.org Sat May 7 05:21:52 2005 From: franka at svpal.org (Frank Arnold) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 22:21:52 -0700 Subject: Printer help needed In-Reply-To: <91d2184305050616132ca62b77@mail.gmail.com> References: <1115419629.7455.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <91d2184305050616132ca62b77@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505062221.52966.franka@svpal.org> Thanks, Jose. I should have noted that I did just that and it did recognize the printer, even lists it when I try to print from Firefox or OO.ORG. Nothing more happens however. Frank On Friday 06 May 2005 04:13 pm, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > On 5/6/05, Frank Arnold wrote: > > OK, I need help. > > Trying to print using an older Epson Stylus Color 600 printer that has > > worked well with Fedora and several other distributions of Linux. > > Now I am running the latest Ubuntu and while it says it will print, > > northing does print at all. LSMOD gives: > > parport 33480 2 parport_pc,lp > > and escputil gives nothing at all. > > OK, without more details, it's hard to give you a definite answer. But > if you start the KDE's Control Centre->Peripherals->Printers, you can > then Add a Printer. A little wizard-like window will appear, and you > will be able to select the connection (parallel port presumably), and > the driver from a list. That will configure CUPS, the printer server > on your Linux box. > > Such a common printer is well supported and should work without > re-installing or anything. Give that a go, and see if it works, > j From haolm208325 at tom.com Sat May 7 08:17:43 2005 From: haolm208325 at tom.com (hao) Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:17:43 +0800 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: kubuntu-users，您好！ 致 礼！ hao haolm208325 at tom.com From jr at jriddell.org Sat May 7 17:39:39 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 18:39:39 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Wrong mail list link on Kubuntu site? In-Reply-To: <20050501090342.6F0EF416118@ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050501090342.6F0EF416118@ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <20050507173939.GG14569@muse.19inch.net> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:03:42AM +0000, Peter Barnes wrote: > I notice that on the "Announcing Kubuntu" site > http://www.kubuntu.org.uk/hoary-release.php > under "Feedback and Helping" the URL given for the mail list is the Ubuntu one. > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users > > Should it not be the Kubuntu URL? > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users Thanks, fixed. Jonathan From skimitar at velocitynet.com.au Sun May 8 12:47:34 2005 From: skimitar at velocitynet.com.au (Jon Hale) Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 22:47:34 +1000 Subject: Printer help needed In-Reply-To: <200505062221.52966.franka@svpal.org> References: <1115419629.7455.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <91d2184305050616132ca62b77@mail.gmail.com> <200505062221.52966.franka@svpal.org> Message-ID: <200505082247.35124.skimitar@velocitynet.com.au> I had the same problem, and I found that the default permissions on the printer needed to be changed every time I boot. I need to do a `chmod o=rw /dev/usb/lp0` before I can get any output. I'm sure that there is a better way to fix this, but I just added the above command to a startup script which works fine (if the printer is present at boot). Jon On Sat, 7 May 2005 03:21 pm, Frank Arnold wrote: > Thanks, Jose. I should have noted that I did just that > and it did recognize the printer, even lists it when I try to > print from Firefox or OO.ORG. Nothing more happens however. > Frank > From franka at svpal.org Sun May 8 18:40:14 2005 From: franka at svpal.org (Frank Arnold) Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 11:40:14 -0700 Subject: Printer help needed In-Reply-To: <200505082247.35124.skimitar@velocitynet.com.au> References: <1115419629.7455.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200505062221.52966.franka@svpal.org> <200505082247.35124.skimitar@velocitynet.com.au> Message-ID: <200505081140.14752.franka@svpal.org> Thanks, I'll give It a try and report back. Frank On Sunday 08 May 2005 05:47 am, Jon Hale wrote: > I had the same problem, and I found that the default permissions on the > printer needed to be changed every time I boot. I need to do a > `chmod o=rw /dev/usb/lp0` before I can get any output. > > I'm sure that there is a better way to fix this, but I just added the above > command to a startup script which works fine (if the printer is present at > boot). > > Jon > > On Sat, 7 May 2005 03:21 pm, Frank Arnold wrote: > > Thanks, Jose. I should have noted that I did just that > > and it did recognize the printer, even lists it when I try to > > print from Firefox or OO.ORG. Nothing more happens however. > > Frank From james at grayonline.id.au Mon May 9 01:28:46 2005 From: james at grayonline.id.au (James Gray) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 11:28:46 +1000 Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED Kubuntu (i think) (have a laugh on me, go on) In-Reply-To: <200505061329.32962.auspex@pointerstop.ca> References: <20050505213656.74553.qmail@web26508.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200505061329.32962.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <200505091128.49917.james@grayonline.id.au> On Sat, 7 May 2005 02:29 am, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2005 03:45, Martin J Hooper wrote: > > Bobby Singh wrote: > > > I do have some points: > > > - I am now using Konqueror but normally use Firefox. > > > Its not default kubuntu. But i am getting use to > > > Konqueror. Before i import my bookmarks is it ok to > > > use it. Is it just as secure as firefox and bug free. > > > - I have a FAT32 partition for my files to use between > > > different OS and distros. **snipped** > > In a terminal type "sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox" without the > > quotes which will install Firefox for you. > > That hardly fixes the problem. In fact, I would hope firefox has no more > privilege to do that than konqueror. I think you'll find Martin was replying to the first part of the question about Konqeror vs Firefox. The instructions he gave were how to install FIrefox which has *nothing* to do with mounting anything. Read the entire message before hitting the reply button eh? James -- What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five-cent bagel. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Is it just as secure as firefox and bug free. > > > > - I have a FAT32 partition for my files to use between > > > > different OS and distros. > > **snipped** > > > > In a terminal type "sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox" without the > > > quotes which will install Firefox for you. > > > > That hardly fixes the problem. In fact, I would hope firefox has no more > > privilege to do that than konqueror. > > I think you'll find Martin was replying to the first part of the question > about Konqeror vs Firefox. The instructions he gave were how to install > FIrefox which has *nothing* to do with mounting anything. Read the entire > message before hitting the reply button eh? Who are you telling to *read*? Where you have written "snipped" is what _Martin_ snipped. That was the part that had ANY relevance to his response. I read exactly what he wrote, but it was nothing to do with what he quoted. Martin needs to learn to quote. And you need to chill out and learn to be a little more polite. -- derek From auspex at pointerstop.ca Mon May 9 12:52:55 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 09:52:55 -0300 Subject: Firewall In-Reply-To: <001101c55465$d94d0260$1508a8c0@twin> References: <001101c55465$d94d0260$1508a8c0@twin> Message-ID: <200505090952.55113.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Monday 09 May 2005 04:07, Thomas Theron wrote: > I am looking to install a firewall. But I need firestarter. Can this be > downloaded? But where????? You don't "need" firestarter - I personally prefer Guarddog. What you need is iptables, and you likely want some GUI to make configuring iptables a little easier. There's also shorewall, knetfilter, kmyfirewall, fireflier and firehol, that I know of. All of them available either from ubuntu or debian. -- derek From ar018 at yahoo.com Mon May 9 16:40:15 2005 From: ar018 at yahoo.com (Abdullah Ramazanoglu) Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:40:15 +0300 Subject: Polish fonts References: <200504300005.42559.tristan@silesia.linux.org.pl> Message-ID: Tristan dedi ki: > there are no polish fonts in kubuntu. I've installed it and I have got > polish KDE but no polish fonts. There are only rectangles in place of > polish characters. What should I do to fix it? Assuming you've already installed kde-i18n-pl, as per http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=113602&postcount=10 could you try out Verdana in kcontrol? Best regards, -- Abdullah Ramazanoglu aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm From franka at svpal.org Mon May 9 18:04:20 2005 From: franka at svpal.org (Frank Arnold) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 11:04:20 -0700 Subject: Printer help needed In-Reply-To: <200505082247.35124.skimitar@velocitynet.com.au> References: <1115419629.7455.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200505062221.52966.franka@svpal.org> <200505082247.35124.skimitar@velocitynet.com.au> Message-ID: <200505091104.20823.franka@svpal.org> Well, I tried it and what I get is the error message: "No such file or directory." So I did a Find (K) for "lp0" which reports it under /dev and it is reported as "inaccessible" Looks to me like it has not been installed properly. So is there anything like kudzu (Red Hat and Fedora) in Ubuntu that I could use to configure the printer? Thanks again. Frank On Sunday 08 May 2005 05:47 am, Jon Hale wrote: > I had the same problem, and I found that the default permissions on the > printer needed to be changed every time I boot. I need to do a > `chmod o=rw /dev/usb/lp0` before I can get any output. > > I'm sure that there is a better way to fix this, but I just added the above > command to a startup script which works fine (if the printer is present at > boot). > > Jon > > On Sat, 7 May 2005 03:21 pm, Frank Arnold wrote: > > Thanks, Jose. I should have noted that I did just that > > and it did recognize the printer, even lists it when I try to > > print from Firefox or OO.ORG. Nothing more happens however. > > Frank From wroseland at woh.rr.com Fri May 6 01:22:56 2005 From: wroseland at woh.rr.com (Winton Roseland) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:22:56 -0400 Subject: Ubuntu to Kubuntu Message-ID: <427AC6F0.5020409@woh.rr.com> I installed Ubuntu 2 days ago overwriting my Debian Stable install. I want to switch to KDE so I followed the instructions to use synaptic. I get the KDE login but then I switch back to gnome. The default-display-manager references kdm. My gnome logout screen has changed to just allow a logout and then I must do a shutdown. There are some kde accessories in my Accessories menu. Any ideas on what is wrong? Thanks, Winton From rick_c_bryant at comcast.net Fri May 6 06:02:43 2005 From: rick_c_bryant at comcast.net (Rick Bryant) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 00:02:43 -0600 Subject: Linksys wireless wusb11 ver 3.0 not recognized Message-ID: I cannot figure out how to get Kubuntu to recognize my Linksys wireless wusb11 ver 3.0 network adapter. I'm totally new to linux and this is the first distro that I've installed to my hard drive after trying many live cds. There was a nice Intro to linux guide that I found at The Linux Documentation Project's website that I've just started using, but in the mean time I would love be able to use the internet in Kubuntu. 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Cheap flights - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/flights/ Bargain holidays - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/holidays/ From ar018 at yahoo.com Mon May 9 18:45:25 2005 From: ar018 at yahoo.com (Abdullah Ramazanoglu) Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 21:45:25 +0300 Subject: Dial Up Internet in Kubuntu References: <9474ced905050902267f00d1c9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Stephen Garton dedi ki: --8<-- > I have tried configuring kppp, but it refuses (an error with pppd, I > don't understand why). If anyone knows of a tutorial somewhere I can read > to configure kppp properly, that would be a suitable route for me! Setuid setting of pppd and kppp? Please see kppp help (the help button on the main kppp window) on setuid considerations. Or, summarily you would: sudo chmod ug+s /usr/bin/kppp sudo chmod ug+s /usr/sbin/pppd HTH & B/R -- Abdullah Ramazanoglu aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm From auspex at pointerstop.ca Mon May 9 19:15:33 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 16:15:33 -0300 Subject: Ubuntu to Kubuntu In-Reply-To: <427AC6F0.5020409@woh.rr.com> References: <427AC6F0.5020409@woh.rr.com> Message-ID: <200505091615.33818.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Thursday 05 May 2005 22:22, Winton Roseland wrote: > I installed Ubuntu 2 days ago overwriting my Debian Stable install. I > want to switch to KDE so I followed the instructions to use synaptic. I > get the KDE login but then I switch back to gnome. The > default-display-manager references kdm. My gnome logout screen has > changed to just allow a logout and then I must do a shutdown. There are > some kde accessories in my Accessories menu. Any ideas on what is wrong? The advice you got... Synaptic is nothing to do with kubuntu. You need to install kubuntu-desktop. -- derek From jochen at jochenskulj.de Mon May 9 19:26:34 2005 From: jochen at jochenskulj.de (Jochen Skulj) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:26:34 +0200 Subject: Ubuntu to Kubuntu In-Reply-To: <427AC6F0.5020409@woh.rr.com> References: <427AC6F0.5020409@woh.rr.com> Message-ID: <200505092126.43601.jochen@jochenskulj.de> > I installed Ubuntu 2 days ago overwriting my Debian Stable install. I > want to switch to KDE so I followed the instructions to use synaptic. I > get the KDE login but then I switch back to gnome. The > default-display-manager references kdm. My gnome logout screen has > changed to just allow a logout and then I must do a shutdown. There are > some kde accessories in my Accessories menu. Any ideas on what is wrong? That all sounds pretty normal to me. Maybe you just have to change the session type when you login with kdm the first time. Normally kdm performs a login with your last session type which may in your case be GNOME. So you have just to choose KDE as session type once to login into KDE. Besides this, it's normal to have mixed menus when you have both KDE and GNOME installed and it's also normal to have limited logout options if your desktop environment and your session manager are different - that means if you use kdm with GNOME or gdm with KDE. Jochen -- Jochen Skulj http://www.jochenskulj.de GPG Key-ID: 0x37B2F0B8 Finger Print: F239 5D8D 97CD F91F 9D08 AE94 AA3B 1ED5 37B2 F0B8 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From support at bigriverinfotech.com Mon May 9 20:45:20 2005 From: support at bigriverinfotech.com (Raymond) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:45:20 +0000 Subject: Kubuntu slapd.conf parms Message-ID: <200505092045.20683.support@bigriverinfotech.com> New to Kubuntu. Using current version. Installed slapd from Kynaptic. Don't understand the @param@ in the slapd.conf file. Appear unique to debian / ubuntu / kubuntu . Where are the variable definitions located? Thanks in advance. Raymond From sarava at verizon.net Tue May 10 01:23:44 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 21:23:44 -0400 Subject: backports Message-ID: <42800D20.8050705@verizon.net> I toko off my kubuntu 64 and installed a kubuntu for 32 bit, but i am having problems installing mplayer it tells me that backport is down. are backports down or maybe I have someting wrong. Again thnaks in advanced. From jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com Tue May 10 01:41:18 2005 From: jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com (Jeff Waugh) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:41:18 +1000 Subject: Does Kubuntu have what it takes to become the ultimate KDE distro? In-Reply-To: <8bef8e8705041612396459acce@mail.gmail.com> References: <8bef8e8705041612396459acce@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050510014118.GP9422@localhost.localdomain> > If Kubuntu is just going to be an afterthought to the ubuntu maybe I > should look elsewhere. Look at the registration date for kubuntu.org to see whether Kubuntu was an afterthought. :-) - Jeff (release manager of GNOME, cheering on Kubuntu from the sidelines) -- GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st http://2005.guadec.org/ "You know, it's not that unusual, even in Hollywood, for brothers to work together. Heard of the Warner brothers?" - Ethan Coen From auspex at pointerstop.ca Tue May 10 12:23:27 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:23:27 -0300 Subject: Does Kubuntu have what it takes to become the ultimate KDE distro? In-Reply-To: <20050510014118.GP9422@localhost.localdomain> References: <8bef8e8705041612396459acce@mail.gmail.com> <20050510014118.GP9422@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <200505100923.27519.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Monday 09 May 2005 22:41, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > If Kubuntu is just going to be an afterthought to the ubuntu maybe I > > should look elsewhere. > > Look at the registration date for kubuntu.org to see whether Kubuntu was an > afterthought. :-) > > - Jeff (release manager of GNOME, cheering on Kubuntu from the sidelines) Since Ubuntu _is_ primarily using Gnome, it's nice to see such encouragement from the dark side :-) I figure if kubuntu (or, for that matter, Ubuntu) ever fails, I can always fall back to any other Debian distro. Meanwhile, I'll support kubuntu and try to ensure it doesn't fail! -- derek From peter.shillan at gmail.com Tue May 10 12:44:42 2005 From: peter.shillan at gmail.com (Peter Shillan) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:44:42 +0100 Subject: Does Kubuntu have what it takes to become the ultimate KDE distro? In-Reply-To: <20050510014118.GP9422@localhost.localdomain> References: <8bef8e8705041612396459acce@mail.gmail.com> <20050510014118.GP9422@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: Hi folks, On 5/10/05, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > If Kubuntu is just going to be an afterthought to the ubuntu maybe I > > should look elsewhere. A great many distributions build on other ones. Ubuntu builds on Debian. Kubuntu builds on Ubuntu. Kubuntu is no more an 'afterthought' than any other distribution. It is, like all the open distros, a great effort by a group of people all of whom in this case want a Debian based distro with a faster release cycle and for it to come with a well tested KDE desktop. Whether it is the 'ultimate' KDE distro kind of misses the point. Debian has a huge number of virtues going for it. Ubuntu addresses some of it's shortcomings (release cycle especially). Ubuntu has focused on GNOME because, I would imagine, that most businesses using desktop Linux would favour a GNOME solution. Linux is about choice though and we have a great bunch of guys verifying and testing KDE for us. They have the same release cycle as Ubuntu, not a few weeks later when they can be bothered, and this shows the level of commitment. There is no such thing as the ultimate KDE distro in the same way as there is no such thing as the ultimate distro or the ultimate Linux text editor... we all pick what works best for us. Kubuntu is proving to be a very solid choice though and it does that while staying current with KDE. It works for me! You should choose what works for you. Cheers, Peter. From ftp at atalos.com Tue May 10 14:31:03 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 16:31:03 +0200 Subject: DVDs rip In-Reply-To: <200504040856.11144.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <8bef8e8705040213501c6ef46f@mail.gmail.com> <200504040856.11144.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <200505101631.03386.ftp@atalos.com> Hi you debian gurus! what would you suggest to use to rip DVDs and convert them to Xvid coded avi files? In windows I used DVDx but I couldn't find something similar in the packages! Thanks From jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com Tue May 10 14:35:06 2005 From: jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com (Jeff Waugh) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:35:06 +1000 Subject: Does Kubuntu have what it takes to become the ultimate KDE distro? In-Reply-To: References: <8bef8e8705041612396459acce@mail.gmail.com> <20050510014118.GP9422@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <20050510143506.GR9422@localhost.localdomain> > Hi folks, > > On 5/10/05, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > If Kubuntu is just going to be an afterthought to the ubuntu maybe I > > > should look elsewhere. [ Keep in mind that this quotage is incorrect. :-) ] - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st http://2005.guadec.org/ "Having strings in a language seems to be a case of premature optimization." - Paul Graham From jgomezdans at gmail.com Tue May 10 14:45:44 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:45:44 +0100 Subject: DVDs rip In-Reply-To: <200505101631.03386.ftp@atalos.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <8bef8e8705040213501c6ef46f@mail.gmail.com> <200504040856.11144.ftp@atalos.com> <200505101631.03386.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <91d21843050510074525d952c8@mail.gmail.com> Hi there, On 5/10/05, FTP wrote: > what would you suggest to use to rip DVDs and convert them to Xvid coded avi > files? It's either a manual toolchain with mencoder/transcode and several others, or a GUI wrapper onto that, dvd::rip. I belive the latter is available for ubuntu. From jgomezdans at gmail.com Tue May 10 14:51:17 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:51:17 +0100 Subject: DVDs rip In-Reply-To: <91d21843050510074525d952c8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <8bef8e8705040213501c6ef46f@mail.gmail.com> <200504040856.11144.ftp@atalos.com> <200505101631.03386.ftp@atalos.com> <91d21843050510074525d952c8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <91d218430505100751178f9610@mail.gmail.com> Me again! On 5/10/05, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > It's either a manual toolchain with mencoder/transcode and several > others, or a GUI wrapper onto that, dvd::rip. I belive the latter is > available for ubuntu. Since this is Kubuntu-land, and therefore much partial to KDE, let me just mention that DVD Rip-O-Matic wrote: > It's either a manual toolchain with mencoder/transcode and several > others, or a GUI wrapper onto that, dvd::rip. I belive the latter is > available for ubuntu. Since this is Kubuntu-land, and very much partial to KDE apps, let me just introduce DVD Rip-O-Matic . Haven't tried it, but will be doing so shortly. Phwoarrr!!! Sexy!!! Jose From ftp at atalos.com Tue May 10 16:05:20 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:05:20 +0200 Subject: DVDs rip In-Reply-To: <91d21843050510074525d952c8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200505101631.03386.ftp@atalos.com> <91d21843050510074525d952c8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505101805.20744.ftp@atalos.com> there is no package for kubuntu available :-( On Tuesday 10 May 2005 16:45, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > Hi there, > > On 5/10/05, FTP wrote: > > what would you suggest to use to rip DVDs and convert them to Xvid coded > > avi files? > > It's either a manual toolchain with mencoder/transcode and several > others, or a GUI wrapper onto that, dvd::rip. I belive the latter is > available for ubuntu. From chobersdeert at yahoo.com Tue May 10 19:48:09 2005 From: chobersdeert at yahoo.com (Steve Eisenberg) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: No sound on IMs. Message-ID: <20050510194809.70210.qmail@web50907.mail.yahoo.com> Is there a setting I can use to bring sound to Yahoo! and AIM IMs like on *cough* Windows? Thanks, Steve NH Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html From sanderant at gmail.com Wed May 11 04:24:04 2005 From: sanderant at gmail.com (Alexander Antoniades) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 04:24:04 +0000 Subject: Does Kubuntu have what it takes to become the ultimate KDE distro? In-Reply-To: References: <8bef8e8705041612396459acce@mail.gmail.com> <20050510014118.GP9422@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <8bef8e8705051021243efbaa18@mail.gmail.com> Hey, On 5/10/05, Peter Shillan wrote: > A great many distributions build on other ones. Ubuntu builds on > Debian. Kubuntu builds on Ubuntu. Kubuntu is no more an > 'afterthought' than any other distribution. It is, like all the open > distros, a great effort by a group of people all of whom in this case > want a Debian based distro with a faster release cycle and for it to > come with a well tested KDE desktop. Yeah, I don't know how well the back and forth is between kubuntu and Debian main is at this point. According to someone I talked to on #debian-kde there currently isn't much (any?) sharing between kubuntu and Debian. I think they're trying to work it out and from all I've read ubuntu is going out of their way to not leech off of Debian like other distros. > Whether it is the 'ultimate' KDE distro kind of misses the point. > Debian has a huge number of virtues going for it. Ubuntu addresses > some of it's shortcomings (release cycle especially). Ubuntu has > focused on GNOME because, I would imagine, that most businesses using > desktop Linux would favour a GNOME solution. Linux is about choice > though and we have a great bunch of guys verifying and testing KDE for > us. Well, I would question your assertion that businesses (i.e. companies looking to roll out Linux desktops) favor either KDE or Gnome at this point. >From what I've seen one reason commercial Linux distributions choose Gnome over KDE is to escape being dependant on Trolltech, although obviously there many other factors. > There is no such thing as the ultimate KDE distro in the same way as > there is no such thing as the ultimate distro or the ultimate Linux > text editor... we all pick what works best for us. Kubuntu is proving > to be a very solid choice though and it does that while staying > current with KDE. It works for me! You should choose what works for > you. Oh I agree, realistically there is no ultimate distro, it's all open to debate. To me though, a polished KDE distro with Debian package management would be the ultimate KDE distro, which was what I meant to say. I've been really happy with Hoary and KDE 3.4, Linux, for me at least, is getting to point where I can see it being genuinely useful to regular people as alternative to Windows, which is really exciting. What I was trying to get out of the list, in a very clumsy fashion it turns out, was Canonical's dedication to Kubuntu, since that will clearly be a factor going forward. Specifically will Canonical hire KDE developers or obligate to making an up-to-date KDE part of it's releases? From my recollection on the users mailing list initially it was KDE would be part available, but not necessarily supported. Then it seemed the Kubuntu came into being and great developers like John and Chris Halls were working on it, but Chris is no longer a Canonical employee and John Riddell doesn't work for Canonical either. Kubuntu appears to be a project that is of interest to Canonical and has these great stats like being #24 on distrowatch, 40% of the torrent downloads, etc. Then hopefully Canonical will take definitive steps to assure its development, and assure those of us that use it it will continue. If it's a project that may or may not succeed based on any volunteers it may attract and Canonical will provide web hosting, and miscellaneous help, that's OK, but I don't see it as any sort of a guarantee. This isn't volunteer organization like Debian, this is a company assigning the resources and paying salaries. If they're promsing some level of support then let us know, if not so be it, but I for one would like to know. Sander From james at grayonline.id.au Wed May 11 08:14:30 2005 From: james at grayonline.id.au (James Gray) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:14:30 +1000 Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED Kubuntu (i think) (have a laugh on me, go on) In-Reply-To: <200505091128.49917.james@grayonline.id.au> References: <20050505213656.74553.qmail@web26508.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200505061329.32962.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <200505091128.49917.james@grayonline.id.au> Message-ID: <200505111814.33961.james@grayonline.id.au> On Mon, 9 May 2005 11:28 am, James Gray wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2005 02:29 am, Derek Broughton wrote: > > On Friday 06 May 2005 03:45, Martin J Hooper wrote: > > > Bobby Singh wrote: > > > > I do have some points: > > > > - I am now using Konqueror but normally use Firefox. > > > > Its not default kubuntu. But i am getting use to > > > > Konqueror. Before i import my bookmarks is it ok to > > > > use it. Is it just as secure as firefox and bug free. > > > > - I have a FAT32 partition for my files to use between > > > > different OS and distros. > > **snipped** > > > > In a terminal type "sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox" without the > > > quotes which will install Firefox for you. > > > > That hardly fixes the problem. In fact, I would hope firefox has no > > more privilege to do that than konqueror. > > I think you'll find Martin was replying to the first part of the question > about Konqeror vs Firefox. The instructions he gave were how to install > FIrefox which has *nothing* to do with mounting anything. Read the > entire message before hitting the reply button eh? > > James Apologies to all, especially Derek. This was not intended to go to the list. 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I belive > > the latter is available for ubuntu. From jason at jeetkunedomaster.net Wed May 11 12:55:47 2005 From: jason at jeetkunedomaster.net (Jason Straight) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 08:55:47 -0400 Subject: No sound on IMs. In-Reply-To: <20050510194809.70210.qmail@web50907.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050510194809.70210.qmail@web50907.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200505110855.48046.jason@jeetkunedomaster.net> On Tuesday 10 May 2005 15:48, Steve Eisenberg wrote: > Is there a setting I can use to bring sound to Yahoo! > and AIM IMs like on *cough* Windows? > > Thanks, > > Steve > NH > > > > Yahoo! Mail > Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: > http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html Which IM software are you using? -- | Ubuntu Linux | www.ubuntulinux.org | | Kubuntu | www.kubuntu.org From jochen.wurster at gmx.net Wed May 11 16:35:54 2005 From: jochen.wurster at gmx.net (Jochen Wurster) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:35:54 +0200 Subject: Admin GUI Message-ID: <200505111835.54706.jochen.wurster@gmx.net> Hi, on http://ubuntuguide.org i can find entries like the one below. Is there a GUI to change the kubuntu configuration? Or do i have to change config files? --> Q: How to configure network connections? 1. Read General Notes 2. System -> Administration -> Networking 3. Network settings Connections Tab -> Select "Ethernet connection" -> Properties Connection -> This device is configured (Checked) Connection Settings -> Configuration: Select "DHCP/Static IP address" DNS Tab -> DNS Servers -> Add/Delete <-- Bye Jochen From sebas at kde.nl Wed May 11 18:16:44 2005 From: sebas at kde.nl (Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?=) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:16:44 +0200 Subject: Admin GUI In-Reply-To: <200505111835.54706.jochen.wurster@gmx.net> References: <200505111835.54706.jochen.wurster@gmx.net> Message-ID: <200505112016.44433.sebas@kde.nl> On Wednesday 11 May 2005 18:35, Jochen Wurster wrote: > on http://ubuntuguide.org i can find entries like the one below. Is > there a GUI to change the kubuntu configuration? Or do i have to > change config files? > Q: How to configure network connections? > 3. Network settings Something like the Control Center module "Internet & Network" -> "Network Settings"? sebas -- http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I don't know what weapons World War Three will be fought with, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Well worth a bookmark. raingod wrote: >Hi, > ># apt-cache show dvdrip|grep Filename >Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/dvdrip_0.52.3-0.2_i386.deb >Filename: pool/multiverse/v/video-dvdrip/dvdrip_0.52.2-0.0_i386.deb > >It is available, but you have to update your apt/sources.list: > >deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main >deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse >deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse > >kedd 10 május 2005 18.05 dátummal FTP ezt írta: > > >>there is no package for kubuntu available :-( >> >>On Tuesday 10 May 2005 16:45, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: >> >> >>>Hi there, >>> >>>On 5/10/05, FTP wrote: >>> >>> >>>>what would you suggest to use to rip DVDs and convert them to >>>>Xvid coded avi files? >>>> >>>> >>>It's either a manual toolchain with mencoder/transcode and >>>several others, or a GUI wrapper onto that, dvd::rip. I belive >>>the latter is available for ubuntu. >>> >>> > > > From tristan at silesia.linux.org.pl Wed May 11 20:12:49 2005 From: tristan at silesia.linux.org.pl (Tristan) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:12:49 +0200 Subject: Intel 845 In-Reply-To: <200504301012.32418.bill.christiansen@paradise.net.nz> References: <200504300002.12612.tristan@silesia.linux.org.pl> <200504301012.32418.bill.christiansen@paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: <200505112212.49817.tristan@silesia.linux.org.pl> Kłaniam się, w odpowiedzi na pismo z dnia: sobota, 30 kwietnia 2005 00:12 wysłane na adres: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com podpisane: Bill Christiansen > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:02, Tristan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've installed kubuntu on pc with Intel 845 and now 640x480 is the best > > what I can set :( There is only this resolution in options. Is it > > possible to use kubuntu on this hardware? > > run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver xorg in a terminal. Just press enter to > OK the current settings until you get to the monitor settings. You can > reconfigure driver, refresh rates, resolution and color depth. After that > do a ctrl + alt + bksp to restart the xserver. I've tried, but there is stil only 640x480 :( -- Tristan (Przemysław Adam Śmiejek) Silesian Linux User Group tel.: (48) 601-835-262 ; GG: 650579 44-178 Przyszowice; Makoszowska 21 Jabber: tristan at jabber.bnet.pl From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 12 01:21:01 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:21:01 -0400 Subject: Kaffeine Message-ID: <4282AF7D.8090506@verizon.net> So I finally have the sound working, but sometimes my kafeine player would crash I found this thread at the ubuntu forums http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27670 but I am wondering if anyone else has tried and how to do it, Also since i am new i don't know how to do the dpkg -i thing do i just type the name of the dowload afterwrds. From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 12 01:41:12 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:41:12 -0400 Subject: why kubuntu is eating my memory Message-ID: <4282B438.8010607@verizon.net> when I run sudo free -m I get the following total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 504 496 7 0 16 314 -/+ buffers/cache: Swap 956 0 956 Does that mean that i only have 7 M of memory left I am only runnig mozilla and KDE. that can't be and if that is the case is there a way to fix it. From sebas at kde.nl Thu May 12 02:34:40 2005 From: sebas at kde.nl (Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?=) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 04:34:40 +0200 Subject: why kubuntu is eating my memory In-Reply-To: <4282B438.8010607@verizon.net> References: <4282B438.8010607@verizon.net> Message-ID: <200505120434.40203.sebas@kde.nl> Hi Sara, On Thursday 12 May 2005 03:41, Sara Vasquez wrote: > when I run sudo free -m I get the following > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 504 496 7 0 16 314 ^^^^^ ^^^^^ actually used + caches amount of cached mem > -/+ buffers/cache: Strange enough, these figures are missing here, however, they can be derived from the other figures. > Swap 956 0 956 ^^^^ not swap space actually used > Does that mean that i only have 7 M of memory left I am only runnig > mozilla and KDE. that can't be and if that is the case is there a way > to fix it. It means that your memory is in use, but the biggest part of it (314MB) is caches which can easily be freed but are kept in memory to increase performance (disk is slow, as long as the memory would be empty otherwise, keeping it as cache is a good thing since re-reading it from disk would cost far more time than just using the cached data). So actually you have about 320MB of memory left, but it's mostly used to cache data (which is good! Why should your OS not use it, if it's there ...). As soon as some application needs more memory it will free caches, which does hardly cost any effort / time. Also the fact that your swap space is not utilized is a sign that your amount of memory is high enough and that everything fits in there easily. 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However, you should make sure that YOU are happy trusting the provider of the package, and that it isn't going to damage your installation. I read the reports on the forum, and felt bold enough to take the chance, as the original kaffeine package would hang, using 100% CPU if I tried to quit it. This updated version seems to have fixed this problem for me. -- Ian From roel_schouten at hotmail.com Thu May 12 06:29:08 2005 From: roel_schouten at hotmail.com (Roel Schouten) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:29:08 +0200 Subject: Kuser & Konqueror crash Message-ID: Hey all, I'm having trouble in Kubuntu with both Kuser and Konqueror (file management mode). E.g. Kuser crashes when I activate a new user and it's generally pretty unstable. The latter goes for Konqueror to. Any experiences (or even better: fixes) anyone? Thanks, Roel _________________________________________________________________ Log på MSN Messenger direkte på nettet http://webmessenger.msn.com/ From senectus at gmail.com Thu May 12 06:39:06 2005 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:39:06 +0800 Subject: Kuser & Konqueror crash In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 5/12/05, Roel Schouten wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm having trouble in Kubuntu with both Kuser and Konqueror (file management > mode). > E.g. Kuser crashes when I activate a new user and it's generally pretty > unstable. The latter goes for Konqueror to. > > Any experiences (or even better: fixes) anyone? > I just finished reading up heaps on this subject (general instability of KDE ) on the forums. One solution that I've just implamented and am waiting to see if it works is to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add in: Option "RenderAccel" "false" -- Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 Our OS who art in CPU, LINUX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! http://www.modmeup.net From roel_schouten at hotmail.com Thu May 12 07:19:21 2005 From: roel_schouten at hotmail.com (Roel Schouten) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:19:21 +0200 Subject: Kuser & Konqueror crash In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >On 5/12/05, Roel Schouten wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I'm having trouble in Kubuntu with both Kuser and Konqueror (file >management > > mode). > > E.g. Kuser crashes when I activate a new user and it's generally pretty > > unstable. The latter goes for Konqueror to. > > > > Any experiences (or even better: fixes) anyone? > > >I just finished reading up heaps on this subject (general instability >of KDE ) on the forums. >One solution that I've just implamented and am waiting to see if it >works is to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add in: >Option "RenderAccel" "false" I added the Option to the Device section - unfortunately this did not help. _________________________________________________________________ Find masser af gode tilbud på MSN Shopping http://shopping.msn.dk/ From senectus at gmail.com Thu May 12 07:23:55 2005 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 15:23:55 +0800 Subject: Kuser & Konqueror crash In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 5/12/05, Roel Schouten wrote: > > I added the Option to the Device section - unfortunately this did not help. (just checking..) You did restart X didn't you? (ctrl-alt-backspace) -- Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 Our OS who art in CPU, LINUX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! http://www.modmeup.net From roel_schouten at hotmail.com Thu May 12 07:36:52 2005 From: roel_schouten at hotmail.com (Roel Schouten) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:36:52 +0200 Subject: Kuser & Konqueror crash In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > > > > I added the Option to the Device section - unfortunately this did not >help. > (just checking..) You did restart X didn't you? (ctrl-alt-backspace) Yes, I did - I actually restarted my machine ;-) _________________________________________________________________ Log på MSN Messenger direkte fra nettet http://webmessenger.msn.com/ From ziogelis77 at takas.lt Thu May 12 07:42:13 2005 From: ziogelis77 at takas.lt (Donatas G.) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:42:13 +0300 Subject: Kaffeine In-Reply-To: <4282F3D5.3070407@themagictree.co.uk> References: <4282AF7D.8090506@verizon.net> <4282F3D5.3070407@themagictree.co.uk> Message-ID: <200505121042.14009.ziogelis77@takas.lt> 2005 m. Gegužės 12 d., Ketvirtadienis 09:12, Ian Rose rašė: > This will install the replacement kaffeine package. However, you should > make sure that YOU are happy trusting the provider of the package, and > that it isn't going to damage your installation. I read the reports on > the forum, and felt bold enough to take the chance, as the original > kaffeine package would hang, using 100% CPU if I tried to quit it. This > updated version seems to have fixed this problem for me. I installed it as well, and it seems to work much better than the default ubuntu package. -- Donatas Glodenis http://dgvirtual.kikilis.evs.lt From senectus at gmail.com Thu May 12 08:13:16 2005 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:13:16 +0800 Subject: Kuser & Konqueror crash In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 5/12/05, Roel Schouten wrote: > > > > > > I added the Option to the Device section - unfortunately this did not > >help. > > (just checking..) You did restart X didn't you? (ctrl-alt-backspace) > > Yes, I did - I actually restarted my machine ;-) > Well I just had mine crash again as well.. By all reports it's a fairly major bug and many people are experiencing it so I think we'll see a fix before too long. -- Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 Our OS who art in CPU, LINUX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! http://www.modmeup.net From ndbecker2 at gmail.com Thu May 12 15:57:22 2005 From: ndbecker2 at gmail.com (Neal Becker) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:57:22 -0400 Subject: torrent x86_64 DVD connection refused Message-ID: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/hoary/kubuntu-5.04-dvd-amd64.iso.torrent These errors occurred during execution: error(s):[11:56:50] Problem connecting to tracker - What's wrong? From ar018 at yahoo.com Thu May 12 16:31:47 2005 From: ar018 at yahoo.com (Abdullah Ramazanoglu) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 19:31:47 +0300 Subject: Kuser & Konqueror crash References: Message-ID: Roel Schouten dedi ki: --8<-- > E.g. Kuser crashes when I activate a new user and it's generally pretty > unstable. The latter goes for Konqueror to. One solution to Konqueror stability is using only one instance of it with web browser profile. For file manager, just open another tab, along with other web tabs. It worked for me. Best regards, -- Abdullah Ramazanoglu aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm From jochen.wurster at gmx.net Thu May 12 18:28:18 2005 From: jochen.wurster at gmx.net (Jochen Wurster) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 20:28:18 +0200 Subject: kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 15 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200505122028.18284.jochen.wurster@gmx.net> On Thursday 12 May 2005 09:25, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > On Wednesday 11 May 2005 18:35, Jochen Wurster wrote: > > on http://ubuntuguide.org i can find entries like the one below. Is > > there a GUI to change the kubuntu configuration? Or do i have to > > change config files? > > > > Q: How to configure network connections? > > > > 3. Network settings > > Something like the Control Center module "Internet & Network" -> > "Network Settings"? > > sebas > Thanks From davmor2 at hotmail.com Thu May 12 21:23:44 2005 From: davmor2 at hotmail.com (David Morley) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:23:44 +0000 Subject: torrent x86-64 bit Message-ID: try using bittornado instead it is an available pakage and it just seems to work in both Kubuntu and Ubuntu with which I had problems with others From ndbecker2 at gmail.com Fri May 13 11:18:24 2005 From: ndbecker2 at gmail.com (Neal Becker) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 07:18:24 -0400 Subject: torrent x86-64 bit References: Message-ID: David Morley wrote: > try using bittornado instead it is an available pakage and it just seems > to work in both Kubuntu and Ubuntu with which I had problems with others Same result. Connection refused. From mike.hudson at gmail.com Fri May 13 15:11:01 2005 From: mike.hudson at gmail.com (Mike Hudson) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:11:01 -0700 Subject: torrent x86-64 bit In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7e56fc640505130811501df149@mail.gmail.com> Try saving the .torrent file to your local hard disk with whatever browser you are already using, and pointing any torrent program to that file. Do you have to use an HTTP proxy in your web browser to get on the 'net? If so, you may need to configure your torrent client of choice to go through that proxy server when downloading torrent files, or always use a .torrent file on your local computer. If this is the problem, your upstream provider is selectively blocking your traffic, and they may try to block BitTorrent traffic as well. On 5/13/05, Neal Becker wrote: > David Morley wrote: > > > try using bittornado instead it is an available pakage and it just seems > > to work in both Kubuntu and Ubuntu with which I had problems with others > > Same result. Connection refused. > > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From ziogelis77 at takas.lt Fri May 13 15:21:22 2005 From: ziogelis77 at takas.lt (Donatas G.) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:21:22 +0300 Subject: torrent x86-64 bit In-Reply-To: <7e56fc640505130811501df149@mail.gmail.com> References: <7e56fc640505130811501df149@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505131821.23053.ziogelis77@takas.lt> 2005 m. Gegužės 13 d., Penktadienis 18:11, Mike Hudson rašė: > Do you have to use an HTTP proxy in your web browser to get on the > 'net? If so, you may need to configure your torrent client of choice > to go through that proxy server when downloading torrent files, or > always use a .torrent file on your local computer. I doubt that. there must be a problem with the torrent server, whatever it is, at ubuntu project. I have the same problem - tried to download the i386 install cd via bittorrent. Succeeded to download about one third of it, but the next (yesterday) day I tried to resume, and I could not get it to work, with exactly the same mistake. I tried to do download the .torrent file again and start it all over again, with no success. I used Lithuanian mirror and qtorrent program. -- Donatas Glodenis http://dgvirtual.kikilis.evs.lt From ndbecker2 at gmail.com Fri May 13 17:19:00 2005 From: ndbecker2 at gmail.com (Neal Becker) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 13:19:00 -0400 Subject: torrent x86-64 bit References: <7e56fc640505130811501df149@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Mike Hudson wrote: > Try saving the .torrent file to your local hard disk with whatever > browser you are already using, and pointing any torrent program to > that file. > > Do you have to use an HTTP proxy in your web browser to get on the > 'net? If so, you may need to configure your torrent client of choice > to go through that proxy server when downloading torrent files, or > always use a .torrent file on your local computer. > > If this is the problem, your upstream provider is selectively blocking > your traffic, and they may try to block BitTorrent traffic as well. > No, it's not a problem on my end. I can d/l other torrents OK. No proxy. From joesavona at gmail.com Fri May 13 21:36:24 2005 From: joesavona at gmail.com (Joe Savona) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:36:24 -0700 Subject: problem installing ruby qt bindings Message-ID: <90ba42ab0505131436723582a7@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I'm new to the list. I noticed some posts in the archives from last month about people using Ruby Qt and KDE bindings with Kubuntu 5.04, but couldn't find anything about how to actually install these bindings. They aren't in the (K)Ubuntu repositories, and I've had trouble compiling korundum/qtruby (even after resolving all the dependencies listed with ./configure). Does anyone know an easy way to get the bindings installed? Thank you very much for the help (and aplogies if I'm repeating an old question), Joe From miche1 at earthlink.net Fri May 13 23:41:23 2005 From: miche1 at earthlink.net (PattiMichelle) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:41:23 -0700 Subject: Dualboot install on Win2K and MacG3? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <42853B23.7080600@earthlink.net> Hi: I want to try kubunto on a Win2000 box (600MHz pentium) and a Mac G3. Is Kubuntu smart enough to resize the master partitions and co-install itself dual-boot? I guess I could use Partition Tragic to resize the partition on the Win2000 machine THEN install, but I can't figure out how to install it on the mac... THANKS PattiMichelle > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at technolalia.org Sat May 14 01:12:33 2005 From: john at technolalia.org (John Levin) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 02:12:33 +0100 Subject: Dualboot install on Win2K and MacG3? In-Reply-To: <42853B23.7080600@earthlink.net> References: <42853B23.7080600@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4fa1d6341db3d759d212ed562b319752@technolalia.org> On 14 May 2005, at 00:41, PattiMichelle wrote: > Hi:  I want to try kubunto on a Win2000 box (600MHz pentium) and a Mac > G3.  Is Kubuntu smart enough to resize the master partitions and > co-install itself dual-boot?  I guess I could use Partition Tragic to > resize the partition on the Win2000 machine THEN install, but I can't > figure out how to install it on the mac... > THANKS > PattiMichelle > For New World Macs running OS X, you have to wipe the disk, partition (using the Mac OS X Disk Utility) and re-install OS X. A pain I know, but HFS+ (the file system OS X uses) isn't resizeable as yet. (I think there are some commercial OS X apps that can do this, but haven't tried them myself.) Don't know about macs running OS 9. The vast majority of G3 Macs are 'New World' - the only ones that are problematical are the beige G3s. It is possible to install kubuntu on those: see http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/InstallOnOldWorldMacs HTH John From thioctus at gmail.com Sat May 14 17:49:55 2005 From: thioctus at gmail.com (Dave -) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 10:49:55 -0700 Subject: Big Problem with Apt-Get In-Reply-To: <200505011709.23989.james@grayonline.id.au> References: <200505011709.23989.james@grayonline.id.au> Message-ID: Hi James, and all Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately nothing worked. But I'm not very experienced with debian package management yet. Ultimately I saved the data from my home folder and reformated/reinstalled ubuntu then apt-geted kubuntu desktop. Everything is working great so far. I added universe and multiverse to everything but will no longer install any unofficial repositories, just in case. Good day Everyone On 5/1/05, James Gray wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:05 pm, Dave - wrote: > > Appreciate the help guys but nothing seems to work. I've tried every > type > > of removal, purge, update, upgrade, force, etc. I'm about ready to > > reformat and reinstall kubuntu. It maybe did have something to do with > > the marillet sources I added. Thanks to the Unofficial Hoary guide. :-( > > Basically my sources.list consisted of all Hoarys including universe and > > multiverse plus the three marillets. > > > > Searched everywhere online for hours and hours. Oh, well. So any more > > suggestions on how to prevent something like this from happening again? > > I'm not new to linux but this is my first debian-based distro. Thanks. > > > > Dave > > You may have a corrupted download. Which means two options: > > 1. Purge (clean) the package cache to force apt to download the package > again. ie, "sudo apt-get clean ; apt-get upgrade". However, this will > remove ALL previously downloaded packages - worst case scenario; you need > to download stuff again if you intend "reinstalling" a package you already > have. > > 2. Go to /var/cache/apt/archives and delete the offending package(s) deb > file. Then simply redo the operation you attempted in the first place > "sudo apt-get upgrade". > > If both fail, then you may need to remove packages then try the upgrade > again and then reinstall the packages you removed. I had this problem last > week with kdelibs - the "upgraded" version was trying to over write a file > from kdenetwork. So I "apt-get remove kdenetwork" then "apt-get upgrade" - > this installed kdelibs without errors or "forcing", then simply "apt-get > install kdenetwork". Problem solved. > > apt with deb's is MUCH better than basically every RPM-based system I've > used (SuSE/RedHat/Fedora/Mandriva - not starting a holy war, just > recounting my experience). That said, sometimes you need to work around > slightly broken packages doing a remove-upgrade-reinstall cycle (like I > described above with kdelibs). > > Good luck with it all :) > > Cheers, > > James > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thioctus at gmail.com Sat May 14 18:14:26 2005 From: thioctus at gmail.com (Dave -) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 11:14:26 -0700 Subject: DVDs rip In-Reply-To: <91d218430505100751178f9610@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <8bef8e8705040213501c6ef46f@mail.gmail.com> <200504040856.11144.ftp@atalos.com> <200505101631.03386.ftp@atalos.com> <91d21843050510074525d952c8@mail.gmail.com> <91d218430505100751178f9610@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks for the link to DVDRipOMatic Jose. Totally forgot about it. I'll let everyone know how it works for me. On windows I use DVDShrink and DVDDecrypter. Highly recommended. I've been running them in both wine/crossover (with a small modification) or vmware running winxp guest. On a related note: Is there any type of linux equivalent of AutoGK for converting tv show mpeg2s to xvid? Been looking around but not much luck. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jgomezdans at gmail.com Sat May 14 19:37:01 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 20:37:01 +0100 Subject: DVDs rip In-Reply-To: References: <20050330194817.12EBB1FCBB@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <8bef8e8705040213501c6ef46f@mail.gmail.com> <200504040856.11144.ftp@atalos.com> <200505101631.03386.ftp@atalos.com> <91d21843050510074525d952c8@mail.gmail.com> <91d218430505100751178f9610@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <91d218430505141237ff5fbf7@mail.gmail.com> Hi Dave, On 5/14/05, Dave - wrote: > Thanks for the link to DVDRipOMatic Jose. Totally forgot about it. I'll let > everyone know how it works for me. On windows I use DVDShrink and Itś an awesome piece of software, considering it's just a simple shell script. Shows the power of KDE. To me at least :))) > On a related note: Is there any type of linux equivalent of AutoGK for > converting tv show mpeg2s to xvid? Been looking around but not much luck. I don't know about windows programs, but to convert from mpeg2 to xvid, you can use mencoder. You already have it installed (I think), and there's a HOWTO (gentoo-oriented, but helpful) here: . I don't know of any graphical front end other than Konverter and kmenc15 . Best luck! Jose From sarava at verizon.net Sat May 14 19:47:08 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:47:08 -0400 Subject: konference Message-ID: <428655BC.10501@verizon.net> I am trying to install the konference plugin to kopete, but when I follow te instruction I get a message saying that I don't have gcc, when I checked on sysnpatic I do have it . anybody has any idea what could be wrong. This is not the only program that gives me the same error, everytime i try to compile somtehing Iget the same error. sara From jr at jriddell.org Sat May 14 20:47:24 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 21:47:24 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Uninstalling gnome In-Reply-To: <423DFDE7.7030509@theboulets.net> References: <423DFDE7.7030509@theboulets.net> Message-ID: <20050514204724.GI21196@muse.19inch.net> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:49:11PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote: > What's the best way to uninstall gnome? I don't want to uninstall all > gtk apps (like synaptic) but just the core gnome stuff. apt-get remove libgtk2.0-0 should do it. Jonathan Riddell From jr at jriddell.org Sat May 14 21:31:35 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 22:31:35 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] URL for a working x86_64 ISO?? In-Reply-To: <200503221851.27369.james@grayonline.id.au> References: <200503221851.27369.james@grayonline.id.au> Message-ID: <20050514213135.GN21196@muse.19inch.net> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:51:10PM +1100, James Gray wrote: > I've only got so much bandwidth allocated and I'm quickly eating that > downloading dud kubuntu x86_64 images. # so far have all yielded the same > result: can't continue due to kernel version and mosule mis-match. You can rsync between iso images to save bandwidth. Jonathan Riddell From trygvebw at gmail.com Sun May 15 08:21:32 2005 From: trygvebw at gmail.com (trygvebw) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:21:32 +0200 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Uninstalling gnome In-Reply-To: <20050514204724.GI21196@muse.19inch.net> References: <423DFDE7.7030509@theboulets.net> <20050514204724.GI21196@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: That'll uninstall Synaptic and other non-GNOME GTK+ programs too. To remove gnome run: "sudo apt-get remove libgnome2-0". trygvebw On 5/14/05, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:49:11PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote: > > What's the best way to uninstall gnome? I don't want to uninstall all > > gtk apps (like synaptic) but just the core gnome stuff. > > apt-get remove libgtk2.0-0 > > should do it. > > Jonathan Riddell > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jr at jriddell.org Sun May 15 09:01:52 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:01:52 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] konference In-Reply-To: <428655BC.10501@verizon.net> References: <428655BC.10501@verizon.net> Message-ID: <20050515090152.GU21196@muse.19inch.net> On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 03:47:08PM -0400, Sara Vasquez wrote: > I am trying to install the konference plugin to kopete, but when I > follow te instruction I get a message saying that I don't have gcc, when > I checked on sysnpatic I do have it . anybody has any idea what could be > wrong. This is not the only program that gives me the same error, > everytime i try to compile somtehing Iget the same error. Where can I download konference? Do you have g++ installed? Jonathan Riddell From ftp at atalos.com Sun May 15 09:12:57 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:12:57 +0200 Subject: restoring old sessions Message-ID: <200505151112.57431.ftp@atalos.com> Hi, when I restart my kubuntu (5.04) box I would like not to have my previous sessions restored! How can I do that? I would like to start with a 'clear' Desktop! Thanks George From jr at jriddell.org Sun May 15 09:38:26 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:38:26 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] restoring old sessions In-Reply-To: <200505151112.57431.ftp@atalos.com> References: <200505151112.57431.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <20050515093826.GW21196@muse.19inch.net> On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:12:57AM +0200, FTP wrote: > Hi, > > when I restart my kubuntu (5.04) box I would like not to have my previous > sessions restored! How can I do that? I would like to start with a 'clear' > Desktop! KControl -> KDE Components -> Session Manager. Jonathan From ftp at atalos.com Sun May 15 09:46:01 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:46:01 +0200 Subject: [kubuntu-users] restoring old sessions In-Reply-To: <20050515093826.GW21196@muse.19inch.net> References: <200505151112.57431.ftp@atalos.com> <20050515093826.GW21196@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505151146.01313.ftp@atalos.com> Thank you George On Sunday 15 May 2005 11:38, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:12:57AM +0200, FTP wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when I restart my kubuntu (5.04) box I would like not to have my previous > > sessions restored! How can I do that? I would like to start with a > > 'clear' Desktop! > > KControl -> KDE Components -> Session Manager. > > Jonathan From jason at jeetkunedomaster.net Sun May 15 11:28:32 2005 From: jason at jeetkunedomaster.net (Jason Straight) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 07:28:32 -0400 Subject: Kaffeine In-Reply-To: <200505121042.14009.ziogelis77@takas.lt> References: <4282AF7D.8090506@verizon.net> <4282F3D5.3070407@themagictree.co.uk> <200505121042.14009.ziogelis77@takas.lt> Message-ID: <200505150728.33057.jason@jeetkunedomaster.net> On Thursday 12 May 2005 03:42, Donatas G. wrote: > 2005 m. Gegužės 12 d., Ketvirtadienis 09:12, Ian Rose rašė: > > This will install the replacement kaffeine package. However, you should > > make sure that YOU are happy trusting the provider of the package, and > > that it isn't going to damage your installation. I read the reports on > > the forum, and felt bold enough to take the chance, as the original > > kaffeine package would hang, using 100% CPU if I tried to quit it. This > > updated version seems to have fixed this problem for me. > > I installed it as well, and it seems to work much better than the default > ubuntu package. Yeah, so why can't this be included in updates for kubuntu? -- | Ubuntu Linux | www.ubuntulinux.org | | Kubuntu | www.kubuntu.org From jr at jriddell.org Sun May 15 12:03:58 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:03:58 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Kmail Problem In-Reply-To: <200504021107.48234.lilo-@gmx.ch> References: <200504021107.48234.lilo-@gmx.ch> Message-ID: <20050515120358.GB21196@muse.19inch.net> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:07:47AM +0200, Raphael Brunner wrote: > I have after an Update from KDE 3.2 to 3.4 a problem with KMail. My > Email-Address is "lilo- at gmx.ch" > If I try to change the settings of kmail (Identity - E-Mailaddress) in the > Window of Name, Organisation and Mail-Address, then Kmail say: Your > Mail-Address is not correct like test at kde.org or something so. If I try > "lilo-e at gmx.ch", then it works, but it isn't my korrect Adress. I don't no, > what I should do. I've reported this upstream. http://bugs.kde.org/105705 Jonathan Riddell From jr at jriddell.org Sun May 15 12:44:32 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:44:32 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Re: [kubuntu-users] Kmail Problem In-Reply-To: <20050515120358.GB21196@muse.19inch.net> References: <200504021107.48234.lilo-@gmx.ch> <20050515120358.GB21196@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <20050515124432.GH21196@muse.19inch.net> On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:03:58PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:07:47AM +0200, Raphael Brunner wrote: > > I have after an Update from KDE 3.2 to 3.4 a problem with KMail. My > > Email-Address is "lilo- at gmx.ch" > > If I try to change the settings of kmail (Identity - E-Mailaddress) in the > > Window of Name, Organisation and Mail-Address, then Kmail say: Your > > Mail-Address is not correct like test at kde.org or something so. If I try > > "lilo-e at gmx.ch", then it works, but it isn't my korrect Adress. I don't no, > > what I should do. > > I've reported this upstream. > > http://bugs.kde.org/105705 Fixed now, please check it out from subversion to make sure it works. Jonathan Riddell From ian at themagictree.co.uk Sun May 15 13:31:28 2005 From: ian at themagictree.co.uk (Ian Rose) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:31:28 +0100 Subject: Kaffeine In-Reply-To: <200505150728.33057.jason@jeetkunedomaster.net> References: <4282AF7D.8090506@verizon.net> <4282F3D5.3070407@themagictree.co.uk> <200505121042.14009.ziogelis77@takas.lt> <200505150728.33057.jason@jeetkunedomaster.net> Message-ID: <42874F30.5070100@themagictree.co.uk> Jason Straight wrote: >On Thursday 12 May 2005 03:42, Donatas G. wrote: > > >>2005 m. Gegužės 12 d., Ketvirtadienis 09:12, Ian Rose rašė: >> >> >>>This will install the replacement kaffeine package. However, you should >>>make sure that YOU are happy trusting the provider of the package, and >>>that it isn't going to damage your installation. I read the reports on >>>the forum, and felt bold enough to take the chance, as the original >>>kaffeine package would hang, using 100% CPU if I tried to quit it. This >>>updated version seems to have fixed this problem for me. >>> >>> >>I installed it as well, and it seems to work much better than the default >>ubuntu package. >> >> > >Yeah, so why can't this be included in updates for kubuntu? > > > > My understanding (and I may be wrong), is that official updates are for security fixes only, not bugfixes or (as in this case) version upgrades. My assumption is that the idea is to keep each release version-fixed so as to keep the release stable, and the development efforts tightly focused on the next release date. I can understand that, although a bit of flexibility for some of the bigger bugs would be nice too. I know I would love to have Firefox 1.04, and not just the backported security fixes into the official 1.02, as I can't install any extensions using the official Ubuntu Firefox at the moment. From marcio_homem at yahoo.com.br Sun May 15 14:05:03 2005 From: marcio_homem at yahoo.com.br (marcio_homem at yahoo.com.br) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:05:03 -0300 Subject: Kaffeine and amaroK problem with i18n In-Reply-To: <20050515120358.GB21196@muse.19inch.net> References: <200504021107.48234.lilo-@gmx.ch> <20050515120358.GB21196@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505151105.03778.marcio_homem@yahoo.com.br> Why the amaroK and Kaffeine packages dont have the pt_BR translations? I'm using Kubuntu, with the kde-i18n-ptbr package installed, and the amaroK and Kaffeine is still in English. The debian packages of those apps have this translation, and now i'm using those packages. Thanks (and sorry about the bad english :)) Márcio Homem From jr at jriddell.org Sun May 15 15:29:07 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 16:29:07 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] An observation: Konqueror sometimes uses 100% CPU on the ubuntu wiki In-Reply-To: <200504110333.54492.frederik@dannemare.net> References: <200504110333.54492.frederik@dannemare.net> Message-ID: <20050515152907.GM21196@muse.19inch.net> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:33:54AM +0200, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > e.g. login and editing pages makes Konqi use 100% CPU here. Often I have > to press the Login button a second time before Konqi will take me past > the login "process" (during which 100% CPU is being used). > > Come to think of it, I think I've seen this behavior on other sites > (with Konqi 3.4.0) as well when filling out forms. There's an entry for it in bugs.kde.org http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102925 Jonathan Riddell From frederik at dannemare.net Sun May 15 17:47:17 2005 From: frederik at dannemare.net (Frederik Dannemare) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 19:47:17 +0200 Subject: [kubuntu-users] An observation: Konqueror sometimes uses 100% CPU on the ubuntu wiki In-Reply-To: <20050515152907.GM21196@muse.19inch.net> References: <200504110333.54492.frederik@dannemare.net> <20050515152907.GM21196@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505151947.18000.frederik@dannemare.net> On Sunday 15 May 2005 17:29, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:33:54AM +0200, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > > e.g. login and editing pages makes Konqi use 100% CPU here. Often I > > have to press the Login button a second time before Konqi will take > > me past the login "process" (during which 100% CPU is being used). > > > > Come to think of it, I think I've seen this behavior on other sites > > (with Konqi 3.4.0) as well when filling out forms. > > There's an entry for it in bugs.kde.org > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102925 Thanks for the pointer. I threw some votes after it. Best regards, -- Frederik Dannemare | http://sentinel.dk | http://linuxworlddomination.dk http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Frederik+Dannemare http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FrederikDannemare Key fingerprint = 30CF 7AD3 17D9 1A63 A730 ECA6 0D4C 2C97 9D9A 238E From jr at jriddell.org Sun May 15 20:00:15 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 21:00:15 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Making a deb file from source code In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20050515200015.GX21196@muse.19inch.net> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:03:22AM +0100, Martin J Hooper wrote: > I have just downloaded compiled and installed a kde style from > kde-look.org and was wondering how easy it is to make a deb package from > the source code. > > Can anyone point me towards a step by step tutorial on how to do it? We also now have https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuPackagingGuide You need to add a debian directory with a rules file and a control file then run debuild. Easy :) Ask on #kubuntu-devel if you need any help. Jonathan Riddell From jr at jriddell.org Sun May 15 21:28:03 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 22:28:03 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Whats this and can we use it? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20050515212803.GZ21196@muse.19inch.net> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:59:38PM +0800, Senectus . wrote: > Also is it worth it? > >From the "mandriva" site: > Up to 10% greater KDE performance thanks to compilation with the > 'fvisibility' option > > http://www.mandriva.com/products/limited-edition It's a feature of GCC 4. We will be converting to GCC 4 this coming week in Breezy so it will use vibility. Jonathan Riddell From Efwkub at aol.com Sun May 15 22:57:10 2005 From: Efwkub at aol.com (Efwkub at aol.com) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 18:57:10 EDT Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet Message-ID: <110.49d6206d.2fb92dc6@aol.com> Hi I decided to try to learn to use Linux this year. Research indicated that hardware compatibility might be an issue so to try to avoid problems I chose an HP nx5000 as these have been sold with SUSE on them (in parts of the world other than the UK, where I am). Then bought SUSE as it should work on the laptop, and comes with support, was well established, widely used, plenty of info about. Unfortunately never got SUSE 9.2 Pro to load and run reliably (I gave up on SUSE help after some time. They tried, and they made various sensible suggestions but they were slow and uninspired, they missed some points that were obvious even to me, and had me do un-necessary work). Second choice Kubuntu (not Ubuntu because I have made a start at learning my way round KDE). Still problems. Thus the finger of suspicion starts to move towards the laptop, though apart from any amount of hassle with Linux it has given no other indication of being faulty and - apologies - it will be partly my lack of knowledge, but there are some problems and items I would welcome comments on. Please note that I appreciate all the work that has gone into K/ubuntu (as I do with SUSE). But if I had not been trained by MS to think of software as something very problematic and troublesome which never works properly, and never works at all for long without all sorts of knowledge and fiddling, rebooting and reloading I would soon have rejected Linux, and a lot of time and effort has not got me far with it yet. I can see that Linux is at least designed to work, at least people are trying to make it work, and care about it working. Once I have completed a project to make some space I plan to get one or two more PC’s to run Linux on in case a lot of the problems I have had are the fault of the laptop. Also I now consider that just as with Windows it is best to have several PC’s if you wish to have one that works. As with Windows, I shall have a system of removable hard drive cartridges, so that I can have two or more separate installations per PC. I am hoping that thereafter I shall have one or more working systems reliably present, and will be able to move on to sorting out a broadband ISP and learning to use apt-get and all that. And focus more on learning to use applications. (I had a cunning plan to use the second drive (in the laptop’s multibay) as an alternative booting drive for when the installation on the main hard drive didn’t work. Kubuntu switched to using Lilo, then stuck at the CUPS stage (as above) then there was "filesystem not clean" and "problem installing, one or more packages failed to install" so I plan now only to use alternative hard drives in the laptop’s main hard drive bay.) There are several points below. Some are more in the way of observations, but if anyone is kind enough to respond to any of the questions perhaps it would be best to start a fresh thread per topic? I have searched about before asking for help and if I have missed something more apologies, by all means please refer me to existing url’s, documents, etc. Regards, Edward Fowler-Wright 1. Having used Windows for many years I am fanatical about backing up. I thus bought an Advanced Port Replicator. I have a second hard drive in the MultiBay in the laptop, and the DVD drive and a floppy drive in the APR. (This post-dates my SUSE problems, I used the standard setup with that). Kubuntu is not good at recognising the floppy drive. It is better at handling an external USB floppy on one of the USB 2 ports. I tend to end up with several floppy icons, sda to (e.g.) sdg, one of them being the ext USB, the rest the APR one. I can’ t always get to them, especially the one in the APR. Currently in /media I have 9 entries: "External Floppy Drive". When loading Kubuntu it is best not to have a floppy in the drive or it may spin the floppy continuously, until I eject the disk. Another problem is that on loading a floppy disk it may be spun continuously but is not mounted. On one occasion a "1.5M Removable Media" was claimed to exist. But usually I can eventually get to one or other floppy. 2. Kubuntu sometimes stops when loading, at the stage "Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd". I can then force the laptop to switch off but that leads to "file system not clean". Or I can use SysRq keys, but in view of various items below I lack confidence that Kubuntu has installed properly. (Though I lack this in any event). 3. Once I got as far as being told to take the CD out, then got a blank screen with no response to mouse or keyboard. Eventually I forced the laptop to switch off. Then on again, to get Grub error 17. I didn’t try to sort this because if the installation process doesn’t go smoothly I prefer to do it again as I am suspicious that there may be hidden imperfections. 4. When Kubuntu does load OK and then starts up for the first time, or when I start the PC from cold thereafter (warm re-starts are sometimes OK) the startup procedure goes quite quickly until I enter log on details. Then, often, the PC shows the screen which is two tones of blue, divided by a wavy horizontal line, with the Kubuntu logo and name but nothing else (after my name, and "Initialising system services" has gone). About 10 minutes after this the screen goes to blank as if a black screensaver, unless mouse or keyboard input has prevented this. If the blank screen appears mouse or keyboard input does not clear it. Either way after a total of about 20 minutes there is the short bit of music and the taskbar and kicker appear, all appears normal and correct (i.e. other than as set out below, and please note I haven’t tried everything yet). If I take it that starting the PC may be a 25 minute process this is not a particular problem, but it affects my confidence in the system, especially as there are other problems. Before I knew that it would eventually complete starting up I used Ctrl Alt Backspace. Or Ctrl Alt F1 to get a terminal screen. 5. On one occasion Kubuntu did not recognise a FAT 32 partition on hdc so I tried to make an entry in fstab. I described the file system as "FAT 32" having seen this when partitioning. Various efforts failed, only on a later loading did I see in fstab that I should have written "VFAT". Might be useful if, as the documentation develops, this is noted somewhere. 6. When I use the command runlevel, just after starting Kubuntu (i.e. without having made any changes to it myself), I get the report: N 2 Is this right? 7. Ctrl + Esc gets me KDE System Guard. Unfortunately Ithis never works, I get a failure warning sound along with the message "Connection to local host has been lost". This has been the case every time I have loaded Kubuntu. 8. If I try to set up a new user I may get "Root login is not allowed". 9. I have a similar problem to Stroller’s "Re: KDE su & Control Centre". Things are not greyed out for me, but i get sent round in a circle if I try to get into Administrator Mode. I get a screen in the right pane offering the options in the left pane. I choose Login manager, in which there is Administrator Mode… 10. If I try to open KPPP I am told that "/etc/resolv.conf is missing or can’ t be read. Ask system administrator to create it with appropriate read and write permissions." What type of file should I create, would an OOo text file be suitable? and what permissions, please. Hopefully after doing this KPPP will recognise the modem. 11. Often, in Konsole or using a terminal mode screen I try to move around the directory tree. E.g: /X/Y/Z I try to cd from Y to Z but am told "No such file or directory". But I know it’s there. I can see it in Konqueror. Answer is to go back to X, then can cd two levels at once, straight to Z from X. 12. After years of Windows one thing that does work well for me is Windows Explorer, configured how I like it. I am used to the keystrokes and can move files about easily and rapidly. I have made good progress with Konqueror, and would be grateful for any assistance. I have a View Profile I have developed, but so far I have to work my way into the menus and select it every time I open Konqueror. It would be great to open it, just as I want it, with a keystroke. Hopefully I can organise a shortcut etc. in KDE menu editor myself, but what would the command be to get it to open with my View Profile please? And is it possible to have Directory Tree View but get rid of the Navigation Panel? 13. A solution to 12. above would sort Konqueror being opened maximised. Is there a way to get other KDE apps to open maximised? 14. When working in a terminal is there a command that works like "cls" in MS-DOS or should I just close the one I have and open another? 15. Control Centre, Peripherals, Mouse: Sometimes (some of the times I load Kubuntu) this won’t load, I get endless "loading". Have to minimise the window then right click and kill it. 16. Control Centre, Screen saver. Blank screen, Test. Works OK save that mouse movement doesn’t clear the screensaver. 17. I set up a root password, having got used to that way of working. I can still then use the first user’s password (i.e. as entered when Kubuntu was loaded) for Administrator Mode. I appreciate the choices made re sudo etc, but would like to eliminate the initial privileged user. Open KUser, I get something like "DCOP communications error (KUser). Error setting up inter process communications for KDE. Authentication Rejected… Reason none of the authentication protocols specified are supported. Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running". This leaves me thinking that there is more than one basic problem with the operating suystem installation. I press OK, and am surprised to see KUser then start. I emove the first user, then add another, with the same details, taking on the home folder. Close KUser, then KUser won’t re-start. (Nor will Konqueror - think it is reinstall time again.) 18. In Storage I see the various drives. Looking at the Properties for the DVD drive it is referred to as scd0 with Location / (media). Using Konqueror to show what is in / or what is in media, there is no scd0. Could someone explain the notation / (media) means please. To end on a positive note - Only had a few quick looks at it but so far OOo 1.1 Writer doesn’t freeze and chuck me out with Kubuntu, it quite often did with SUSE. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ar018 at yahoo.com Mon May 16 01:33:21 2005 From: ar018 at yahoo.com (Abdullah Ramazanoglu) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 04:33:21 +0300 Subject: Announcing KUDOS project and Kubuntu FAQ Message-ID: It's hosted at http://kudos.berlios.de/ KUDOS stands for "Kubuntu is a User-friendly Desktop OS". The project's aim matches its name :) Kubuntu FAQ is basically an adaptation of Ubuntu Guide to Kubuntu, with some additions & modifications. It's still in a very early stage, so please cross check with other documentations on K/Ubuntu (and feedback the errors you've found, thanks :) Best regards -- Abdullah Ramazanoglu aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm From ziogelis77 at takas.lt Mon May 16 05:04:33 2005 From: ziogelis77 at takas.lt (Donatas G.) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 08:04:33 +0300 Subject: Kaffeine In-Reply-To: <42874F30.5070100@themagictree.co.uk> References: <4282AF7D.8090506@verizon.net> <200505150728.33057.jason@jeetkunedomaster.net> <42874F30.5070100@themagictree.co.uk> Message-ID: <200505160804.33192.ziogelis77@takas.lt> 2005 m. Gegužės 15 d., Sekmadienis 16:31, Ian Rose rašė: > I know I > would love to have Firefox 1.04, and not just the backported security > fixes into the official 1.02, as I can't install any extensions using > the official Ubuntu Firefox at the moment. Yes to that! Did you check the backports project? They have a hoary section, and could perhaps do such things. http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/ -- Donatas Glodenis http://dgvirtual.kikilis.evs.lt From andreweq at gmail.com Mon May 16 08:14:32 2005 From: andreweq at gmail.com (AndrewEQ) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 01:14:32 -0700 Subject: Getting previous digest issues... Message-ID: Hi Y'all, could someone plse send me all the previous issues of the KUbuntu-users Digest from Vol 1. issue 1 up to Vol 3. issue 49 ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ftp at atalos.com Mon May 16 08:22:17 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:22:17 +0200 Subject: konqueror Java plugin Message-ID: <200505161022.17978.ftp@atalos.com> Hi, how can I link/include the Java plugin which comes with the jdk1503 in my Konqueror browser? Thanks George From jr at jriddell.org Mon May 16 09:15:27 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:15:27 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] konqueror Java plugin In-Reply-To: <200505161022.17978.ftp@atalos.com> References: <200505161022.17978.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <20050516091526.GG21196@muse.19inch.net> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:22:17AM +0200, FTP wrote: > how can I link/include the Java plugin which comes with the jdk1503 in my > Konqueror browser? Konqueror uses the `java` command itself rather than any plugin. Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Java & JavaScript -> Enable Java Globally Jonathan Riddell From jr at jriddell.org Mon May 16 09:16:27 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:16:27 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Getting previous digest issues... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20050516091627.GH21196@muse.19inch.net> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:14:32AM -0700, AndrewEQ wrote: > > Hi Y'all, could someone plse send me all the previous issues of the > KUbuntu-users Digest from Vol 1. issue 1 up to Vol 3. issue 49 ? Archives are available at http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/ Jonathan Riddell From ftp at atalos.com Mon May 16 09:39:16 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:39:16 +0200 Subject: [kubuntu-users] konqueror Java plugin In-Reply-To: <20050516091526.GG21196@muse.19inch.net> References: <200505161022.17978.ftp@atalos.com> <20050516091526.GG21196@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505161139.16255.ftp@atalos.com> Thanks for your reply. Please allow me to add to your correct answer (in case other users have the same question!) that the java path has also to point to the right place where Java is installed! Actually in my case that was the problem and Konqueror didn't work. Thanks for your quick support George On Monday 16 May 2005 11:15, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:22:17AM +0200, FTP wrote: > > how can I link/include the Java plugin which comes with the jdk1503 in my > > Konqueror browser? > > Konqueror uses the `java` command itself rather than any plugin. > Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Java & JavaScript -> Enable Java > Globally > > Jonathan Riddell From auspex at pointerstop.ca Mon May 16 13:15:45 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:15:45 -0300 Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet In-Reply-To: <110.49d6206d.2fb92dc6@aol.com> References: <110.49d6206d.2fb92dc6@aol.com> Message-ID: <200505161015.46076.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Sunday 15 May 2005 19:57, Efwkub at aol.com wrote: Ack! Edward, I don't want you to get the feeling nobody cares, but 18 questions is pretty overwhelming for one email. I'll try to give it a shot, anyway. > 1. ... Kubuntu is not good at recognising the floppy drive. I'm not sure if there's a question there or not, but since I haven't installed kubuntu on a machine with a floppy, I've never seen the problem > 2. Kubuntu sometimes stops when loading, at the stage "Restarting Common > Unix Printing System: cupsd". I can then force the laptop to switch off but > that leads to "file system not clean". Or I can use SysRq keys, but in view > of various items below I lack confidence that Kubuntu has installed > properly. (Though I lack this in any event). I'm not sure where you are in the install process. Are you actually still in the installer (I wouldn't have thought Cups would be started until after you boot)? If you've been through the Ubuntu installer, and rebooted once, then this is probably some sort of timeout problem on the print system. I'd just rename /etc/init.d/cupsys temporarily (that takes it out of the startup sequence). > > 3. Once I got as far as being told to take the CD out, then got a blank > screen with no response to mouse or keyboard. Eventually I forced the > laptop to switch off. Then on again, to get Grub error 17. Seems predictable. > > 4. ...Either way after a total > of about 20 minutes there is the short bit of music and the taskbar and > kicker appear, all appears normal and correct (i.e. other than as set out > below, and please note I haven’t tried everything yet). If I take it that > starting the PC may be a 25 minute process this is not a particular > problem, but it affects my confidence in the system, especially as there It's definitely _not_ normal. > 5. On one occasion Kubuntu did not recognise a FAT 32 partition on hdc so > I tried to make an entry in fstab. I described the file system as "FAT 32" Should be "vfat", which it would be if you'd told the partitioning tool you had a windows partition there - since the alternative would be to tell the installer to just use the whole disk, I'd have to guess you left the Windows partition marked as "do not use" in the installer. "man" is your friend. "man fstab" would have told you what the valid values are, though neither fstab or mount seem to actually tell you what a vfat partition IS. > 6. When I use the command runlevel, just after starting Kubuntu (i.e. > without having made any changes to it myself), I get the report: N 2 > Is this right? I haven't a clue :-) What do you mean by the "command runlevel"? > > 7. Ctrl + Esc gets me KDE System Guard. Unfortunately Ithis never works, I > get a failure warning sound along with the message "Connection to local > host has been lost". This has been the case every time I have loaded > Kubuntu. How are you trying? From the K menu, or from a console? > 8. If I try to set up a new user I may get "Root login is not allowed". It's right. Kubuntu has NO root login. You can either use KUser from your K menu, or "sudo useradd" or "sudo -i" from a console. > > 9. I have a similar problem to Stroller’s "Re: KDE su & Control Centre". > Things are not greyed out for me, but i get sent round in a circle if I try > to get into Administrator Mode. I get a screen in the right pane offering > the options in the left pane. I choose Login manager, in which there is > Administrator Mode… That seem to be fixed in later versions, but use "kdesu kcontrol" to get into the control center in Administrator mode. > > 10. If I try to open KPPP I am told that "/etc/resolv.conf is missing or > can’ t be read. Ask system administrator to create it with appropriate read > and write permissions." What type of file should I create, would an OOo > text file be suitable? and what permissions, please. Hopefully after doing > this KPPP will recognise the modem. ..."or can't be read". I'd suspect that the use is not a member of "dip" or "dialout" groups. > > 11. Often, in Konsole or using a terminal mode screen I try to move around > the directory tree. E.g: /X/Y/Z I try to cd from Y to Z but am told "No > such file or directory". But I know it’s there. I can see it in Konqueror. > Answer is to go back to X, then can cd two levels at once, straight to Z > from X. You'd do better to give us the exact commands you're using. This works... (in fact, just like in windows). > > 12. After years of Windows one thing that does work well for me is Windows > Explorer, configured how I like it. I am used to the keystrokes and can > move files about easily and rapidly... Basically, you can configure _every_ keystroke. Your best bet to figure out what the commands would be would be to open the K menu, navigate to the option you want to copy, right-click on it and choose "edit menu". I can't help you with 13-16 - either I've never felt a need to change the system defaults, or I've done it once and forgotten how :-( > 17. I set up a root password, having got used to that way of working. I > can still then use the first user’s password (i.e. as entered when Kubuntu > was loaded) for Administrator Mode. I appreciate the choices made re sudo > etc, but would like to eliminate the initial privileged user. Open KUser, I I'm not even going to go there. I think it's wrong, the kubuntu developers obviously thought it was wrong, and I really think you're far better off learning the new method. > 18. In Storage I see the various drives. Looking at the Properties for the > DVD drive it is referred to as scd0 with Location / (media). Using > Konqueror to show what is in / or what is in media, there is no scd0. Could > someone explain the notation / (media) means please. What's "Storage"? I'd think you're in "Control Center" but I don't see it. Basically there is a folder /media, which (normally) contains entries only for known devices. On my system it gets an entry for /media/scd0 when I click on the "Unmounted" CD rom icon on my desktop. If you don't have one of those, right click on the Desktop, select "Configure Desktop"; "Behaviour"; "Device Icons"; "Show Device Icons"; and select anything that you think you're likely to have attached to your system. You really seem to have a problem system - 25 minutes to start isn't reasonable under any circumstances - but I'd suggest you try asking any further questions one at a time, in their own threads. -- derek From jko at bsn1.net Sun May 15 22:10:41 2005 From: jko at bsn1.net (jeff) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 15:10:41 -0700 Subject: apt & sudo question In-Reply-To: References: <200505011709.23989.james@grayonline.id.au> Message-ID: <20050515151041.3f1dec88.jko@bsn1.net> Hi all, I'm trying to move from Mandrake to debian using Kubuntu as the base install. So far, Kubuntu intalls ok and looks easy to setup. Does anyone know answers to the following questions? 1. How does one eliminate sudo and the root password. I've tried to work with sudo using "sudo -s" and I've edited the "passwd" and "shadow" password files to elimiate all passwords. The edits work on other distributions but not on Kubuntu. Also, using sudo is a waste of time. This computer does not have any security needs. 2. I need to install a large number of development tools that don't change very often. They are available at the debian archive but it is a pain to use apt-get with this slow modem. Can I simply order a dvd snapshot of the debian archive and tell apt-get to use it? The dvd's at www.budgetlinuxcds.com are quite inexpensive and they have a debian snapshot with the needed files. Sorry, if the sudo question has been answered already, the archives has some discussion but it did not seem to answer the question. all the best, jeff http://members.save-net.com/jko%40save-net.com/asm/ From jr at jriddell.org Mon May 16 15:04:14 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:04:14 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Problems installing Koffice 1.4 beta 1 kubuntu's debs In-Reply-To: <200505011022.38868.edulix@gmail.com> References: <200505011022.38868.edulix@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050516150414.GZ21196@muse.19inch.net> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:22:38AM +0200, Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote: > Hi ! > > I've tried to install the new Koffice beta 1 debs in my Kubuntu, but I get: > > ----------- > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 94927 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace koffice-libs 1:1.3.5-2ubuntu1 > (using .../koffice-libs_1%3a1.3.91-0ubuntu0.2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement koffice-libs ... > dpkg: error > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/koffice-libs_1%3a1.3.91-0ubuntu0.2_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libkdchart.so.0.0.0', which is also in package > kchart What package were you trying to install to get this? Did you have any of koffice installed prior to installing 1.4? Jonathan Riddell From auspex at pointerstop.ca Mon May 16 16:55:10 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:55:10 -0300 Subject: apt & sudo question In-Reply-To: <20050515151041.3f1dec88.jko@bsn1.net> References: <20050515151041.3f1dec88.jko@bsn1.net> Message-ID: <200505161355.10687.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Sunday 15 May 2005 19:10, jeff wrote: > > 1. How does one eliminate sudo and the root password. I've > tried to work with sudo using "sudo -s" and I've edited > the "passwd" and "shadow" password files to elimiate all > passwords. The edits work on other distributions but not > on Kubuntu. Also, using sudo is a waste of time. This > computer does not have any security needs. You've lost me. "sudo" eliminates the need for a root passwd. "passwd" would be the correct way to eliminate passwords. I shudder to think what might happen when you go editing the password files. How can your computer not have any security needs? It's apparently on the Internet. QED. "sudo" isn't a waste of time, since you _must_ be root to execute a great many tools. The only way around regular use of sudo is to actually log in as root. That's a quick way to discover exactly how much you need security. > 2. I need to install a large number of development tools that > don't change very often. They are available at the debian > archive but it is a pain to use apt-get with this slow modem. > Can I simply order a dvd snapshot of the debian archive and > tell apt-get to use it? The dvd's at www.budgetlinuxcds.com > are quite inexpensive and they have a debian snapshot with > the needed files. Absolutely. I've never actually used DVD snapshots, but I would expect it to be identical to using a CD: My sources.list contains (on one line): deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 5.04 _Hoary Hedgehog_ - Release i386 (20050407)]/ hoary main restricted Which should be similar for the CD/DVD for any Debian-based distro. -- derek From edulix at gmail.com Mon May 16 17:20:43 2005 From: edulix at gmail.com (Eduardo Robles Elvira) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 19:20:43 +0200 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Problems installing Koffice 1.4 beta 1 kubuntu's debs [fixed] Message-ID: <200505161920.43481.edulix@gmail.com> > What package were you trying to install to get this?  Did you have any > of koffice installed prior to installing 1.4? > >Jonathan Riddell As a temporal solution to fix the apt mess, I commented the line: deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/koffice-1.4-beta1/kubuntu ./ which was the one I was using to get the koffice packages. Then did an sudo apt-get -f install and it fixed apt, although it removed the whole koffice 1.3 installation I had. That was some weeks ago.. Yesterday I uncommented the kofifce repository line and did an apot-get update, and tried luck doing an apt-get install koffice. It worked ! No install problems anymore ;-). Cheers, Edulix. From amu at ubuntu.com Mon May 16 17:43:10 2005 From: amu at ubuntu.com (Andreas Mueller) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 19:43:10 +0200 Subject: apt & sudo question In-Reply-To: <20050515151041.3f1dec88.jko@bsn1.net> References: <200505011709.23989.james@grayonline.id.au> <20050515151041.3f1dec88.jko@bsn1.net> Message-ID: <20050516174310.GA2544@amu.debian.net> On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:10:41PM -0700, jeff wrote: > 2. I need to install a large number of development tools that > don't change very often. They are available at the debian > archive but it is a pain to use apt-get with this slow modem. > Can I simply order a dvd snapshot of the debian archive and > tell apt-get to use it? The dvd's at www.budgetlinuxcds.com > are quite inexpensive and they have a debian snapshot with > the needed files. I'm not sure if you know, what you're doing, or you try to do. If you installed Kubuntu, you need a Kubuntu DVD. Kubuntu is also Debian based, means, this is a forc from Debian, we changed depends, use other libs and so on, that Kubuntu matches for us. The DVD your're looking for it's a Debian pure, in this case useless. Kubuntu use KDE 3.4 while Debian use KDE 3.3 Cheers, amu -- The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to carry them, and sometimes three. -- Alexandre Dumas From jr at jriddell.org Mon May 16 20:44:31 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 21:44:31 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Kaffeine and amaroK problem with i18n In-Reply-To: <200505151105.03778.marcio_homem@yahoo.com.br> References: <200504021107.48234.lilo-@gmx.ch> <20050515120358.GB21196@muse.19inch.net> <200505151105.03778.marcio_homem@yahoo.com.br> Message-ID: <20050516204431.GQ21196@muse.19inch.net> On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:05:03AM -0300, marcio_homem at yahoo.com.br wrote: > Why the amaroK and Kaffeine packages dont have the pt_BR translations? I'm > using Kubuntu, with the kde-i18n-ptbr package installed, and the amaroK and > Kaffeine is still in English. The debian packages of those apps have this > translation, and now i'm using those packages. Please report this to bugzilla.ubuntu.com. Thanks Jonathan Riddell From sarava at verizon.net Mon May 16 22:36:47 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:36:47 -0400 Subject: printer stoped working Message-ID: <4289207F.5020408@verizon.net> my printer just stoped taking jobs when i go to the printing manager and checked at the state: Stopped (accepting jobs) sny idea why and how i can fix it. From sarava at verizon.net Mon May 16 22:39:01 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:39:01 -0400 Subject: addition to last e-mail Message-ID: <42892105.4040606@verizon.net> i mean my printer is not working the print jobs are in ququed all the time. I have an HP photosmart 7450. thnaks for all replies. From waldbie at verizon.net Mon May 16 23:26:06 2005 From: waldbie at verizon.net (Carl) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 19:26:06 -0400 Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet In-Reply-To: <200505161015.46076.auspex@pointerstop.ca> References: <110.49d6206d.2fb92dc6@aol.com> <200505161015.46076.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <200505161926.06872.waldbie@verizon.net> On Monday 16 May 2005 9:15 am, Derek Broughton wrote: > > 6.  When I use the command runlevel, just after starting Kubuntu (i.e. > > without having made any changes to it myself), I get the report: N 2 > > Is this right? > > I haven't a clue :-):-)  What do you mean by the "command runlevel"? I think he means: $ runlevel It tells you the current SysV runlevel you are running at. If you come from a Red Hat/Mandrake background, Ubuntu's default runlevel of 2 is a bit confusing, since in those distros, runlevel 5 boots to the GUI and runlevel 3 boots to the console. I believe that in Kubuntu and Ubuntu, runlevels 2-5 are all identical (0-6 are special just like in other distros). The man pages for runlevel are probably more accurate than my memory, though. Carl Waldbieser From Efwkub at aol.com Mon May 16 23:41:57 2005 From: Efwkub at aol.com (Efwkub at aol.com) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 19:41:57 EDT Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet Message-ID: <20e.1173dec.2fba89c5@aol.com> Many thanks to cjbottaro for the suggestion which I'll hold in reserve for now. I plan to try SUSE again when I have a second PC to experiment with, but if I can't get SUSE working on that I will try FC3 And even more thanks to Derek for taking a lot of trouble I agree that one thread per issue would be best henceforth. The problem I faced was that there was an element of background and, as you saw, comment, and it seemed to make more sense for this only to appear once. I'll reload Kubuntu and chew on your kind responses, and perhaps in due course come back re a couple of things Thanks again, Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jko at bsn1.net Mon May 16 22:50:00 2005 From: jko at bsn1.net (jeff) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:50:00 -0700 Subject: apt & sudo question In-Reply-To: <20050516174310.GA2544@amu.debian.net> References: <200505011709.23989.james@grayonline.id.au> <20050515151041.3f1dec88.jko@bsn1.net> <20050516174310.GA2544@amu.debian.net> Message-ID: <20050516155000.51f7af35.jko@bsn1.net> On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:43:10 +0200 Andreas Mueller wrote: > I'm not sure if you know, what you're doing, or you try to do. > If you installed Kubuntu, you need a Kubuntu DVD. Kubuntu is also > Debian based, means, this is a forc from Debian, we changed depends, > use other libs and so on, that Kubuntu matches for us. The DVD your're > looking for it's a Debian pure, in this case useless. Kubuntu use > KDE 3.4 while Debian use KDE 3.3 Hi Andreas, I've got a Kubuntu CD which is a great distribution but many development tools are missing. Most of the tools need standard libraries and don't care about KDE or other modifications to Kubuntu. For example, I use the "insight" debugger and the only distribution that puts it thier dvd is Suse. Anyway, my fantasy is to install Kubuntu and then load about 200 megabytes of development tools from another source (possibly a standard debian archive on dvd). The debian/Kubuntu world is new to me and I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. People talk about apt but there are other installers the work with .deb files? all the best, jeff From jko at bsn1.net Mon May 16 22:35:57 2005 From: jko at bsn1.net (jeff) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:35:57 -0700 Subject: apt & sudo question In-Reply-To: <200505161355.10687.auspex@pointerstop.ca> References: <20050515151041.3f1dec88.jko@bsn1.net> <200505161355.10687.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <20050516153557.7c4263a1.jko@bsn1.net> On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:55:10 -0300 Derek Broughton wrote: > You've lost me. "sudo" eliminates the need for a root passwd. With my current setup sudo asks for "user" password at least once after booting and then allows root access. What I want is access to root without the need for any passwords. Possibly there is a way to do this with sudo? > I shudder to think what might > happen when you go editing the password files. I edit the password files quite often. The fields are separated by ":" and eliminating the second value will eliminate the use of passwords on most systems. I believe this is the default state before any passwords are entered. This works on RedHat, Mandrake, and Suse. I've heard it also works on standard debian. > How can your computer not > have any security needs? It's apparently on the Internet. Well.. we do dial up the net for batch transfers of email but in the last 15+ years, there have not been any problems with security. In any case, the need for security is decided by individual users, and if they are not interested or worried then no need for security exists. > "sudo" isn't a waste of time, since you _must_ be root to execute a > great many tools. Yes, many of my system control scripts switch to root for various reasons and some programs need root access. The standard way to handle this is give programs root access permissions but that isn't of interest. > 2. I need to install a large number of development tools that > > don't change very often. They are available at the debian > > archive but it is a pain to use apt-get with this slow modem. > > Can I simply order a dvd snapshot of the debian archive and > > tell apt-get to use it? The dvd's at www.budgetlinuxcds.com > > are quite inexpensive and they have a debian snapshot with > > the needed files. > > Absolutely. I've never actually used DVD snapshots, but I would expect it to > be identical to using a CD: > > My sources.list contains (on one line): > deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 5.04 _Hoary Hedgehog_ - Release i386 (20050407)]/ hoary > main restricted Ah.. thanks. That sounds like the answer. Is the source list in a file that can be edited? all the best, jeff From saevion at gmail.com Tue May 17 00:42:56 2005 From: saevion at gmail.com (saev) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 20:42:56 -0400 Subject: apt & sudo question In-Reply-To: <20050516153557.7c4263a1.jko@bsn1.net> References: <200505161355.10687.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <20050516153557.7c4263a1.jko@bsn1.net> Message-ID: <200505162042.56606.saevion@gmail.com> On Monday 16 May 2005 06:35 pm, jeff wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:55:10 -0300 > > Derek Broughton wrote: > > You've lost me. "sudo" eliminates the need for a root passwd. > > With my current setup sudo asks for "user" password at least once > after booting and then allows root access. What I want is access > to root without the need for any passwords. Possibly there is a > way to do this with sudo? i think that you are looking for something like http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#usesudowithoutpasswordprompt From cliff1976 at gmail.com Mon May 16 04:25:04 2005 From: cliff1976 at gmail.com (cliff1976) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 06:25:04 +0200 Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <58e4f218050515212572ee73b@mail.gmail.com> > > From: Efwkub at aol.com > Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet 14. When working in a terminal is there a command that works like "cls" in > MS-DOS or should I just close the one I have and open another? Sorry I can't help with more points in your list - I'm new to Linux myself. The command you want for point #14 is "clear". --Cliff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Network settings Connections Tab -> Select "Ethernet connection" -> Properties Connection -> This device is configured (Checked) Connection Settings -> Configuration: Select "DHCP/Static IP address" DNS Tab -> DNS Servers -> Add/Delete <-- Bye Jochen From kpkp at gmx.net Tue May 10 14:30:02 2005 From: kpkp at gmx.net (GV) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 16:30:02 +0200 Subject: DVD rip In-Reply-To: <200505090952.55113.auspex@pointerstop.ca> References: <001101c55465$d94d0260$1508a8c0@twin> <200505090952.55113.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <200505101630.02586.kpkp@gmx.net> Hi you debian gurus! what would you suggest to use to rip DVDs and convert them to Xvid coded avi files? In windows I used DVDx but I couldn't find something similar in the packages! Thanks From lfutrell at intrex.net Tue May 10 14:10:41 2005 From: lfutrell at intrex.net (Lewis Futrell) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:10:41 -0400 Subject: Dial Up Internet in Kubuntu In-Reply-To: <9474ced905050902267f00d1c9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050510141018.8EBC2ABCA@mailserv1.intrex.net> From: Stephen Garton [mailto:sheepeatingtaz at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 5:27 AM To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Dial Up Internet in Kubuntu Hi There Everyone, I'm fairly new to Linux, and very new to Kubuntu, and have an issue I hope someone can help me with: I am using a dial-up connection, with Tesco.net. I can setup the connection with pppconfig fine, so pon/poff works. I would like to be able to see some sort of indication of my transfer speed so when I use apt-get or K[insert pagake manager name here, I forget what it is!] I check that it is infact downloading the packages. I have read about a program called ModemLights that works with pon/poff. Is this available via apt-get. I have tried configuring kppp, but it refuses (an error with pppd, I don't understand why). If anyone knows of a tutorial somewhere I can read to configure kppp properly, that would be a suitable route for me! Thanks in advance. -- Steve Garton http://sheepeatingtaz.blogspot.com There are a few things you can try with KPPP. 1st and foremost, check your /etc/ppp/peers/kppp-options file. Uncomment the noauth option. The error message you are getting is probably KPPP trying to authorize your internet connection. Most internet services, at least in the US, do not authenticate. A few other options that has helped me were the following options: relpacedefaultroute - this will replace the default Ethernet internet route with the dialup one. This is especially handy if you are going to use static name servers. There is also a problem with /etc/resolv.conf getting overwritten after about 2-5 minutes which kills any nameserver you are using for your ISP.. 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From auspex at pointerstop.ca Tue May 17 12:19:47 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:19:47 -0300 Subject: apt & sudo question In-Reply-To: <20050516153557.7c4263a1.jko@bsn1.net> References: <200505161355.10687.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <20050516153557.7c4263a1.jko@bsn1.net> Message-ID: <200505170919.47696.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Monday 16 May 2005 19:35, jeff wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:55:10 -0300 > > Derek Broughton wrote: > > You've lost me. "sudo" eliminates the need for a root passwd. > > With my current setup sudo asks for "user" password at least once > after booting and then allows root access. What I want is access > to root without the need for any passwords. Possibly there is a > way to do this with sudo? Sorry. I'm not going there. You are entitled to do silly things if you want, but I don't have to help you. Security exists for a reason - because people have a tendency to do things they shouldn't. > > > I shudder to think what might > > happen when you go editing the password files. > > I edit the password files quite often. The fields are separated > by ":" and eliminating the second value will eliminate the use > of passwords on most systems. I believe this is the default state > before any passwords are entered. This works on RedHat, Mandrake, > and Suse. I've heard it also works on standard debian. Yeah, it works. But if you accidentally delete one of those delimiters while deleting passwords, you could end up unable to access your system. It's much safer to stick with the tools provided for modifying those files (e.g., adduser, useradd, usermod, kuser, etc). > > > How can your computer not > > have any security needs? It's apparently on the Internet. > > Well.. we do dial up the net for batch transfers of email but in > the last 15+ years, there have not been any problems with security. > In any case, the need for security is decided by individual > users, and if they are not interested or worried then no need for > security exists. You're absolutely correct, but I maintain that it would be stupidity on my part to help you do something like this. On your own head be it. In the same time, _I've_ never had a problem with security either, but I take precautions to try to keep it that way. > > > "sudo" isn't a waste of time, since you _must_ be root to execute a > > great many tools. > > Yes, many of my system control scripts switch to root for various > reasons and some programs need root access. The standard way to > handle this is give programs root access permissions but that isn't > of interest. Again, you've lost me. If you won't use "sudo" and you won't suid root, your only option is to log into the root account - sudo would be simpler. > > Absolutely. I've never actually used DVD snapshots, but I would expect > > it to be identical to using a CD: > > > > My sources.list contains (on one line): > > deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 5.04 _Hoary Hedgehog_ - Release i386 (20050407)]/ > > hoary main restricted > > Ah.. thanks. That sounds like the answer. Is the source list in > a file that can be edited? Yes - /etc/apt/sources.list. Though, I'd agree with the other poster who pointed out that there's no guarantee of a smooth upgrade from Kubuntu to Sarge. -- derek From auspex at pointerstop.ca Tue May 17 12:28:08 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:28:08 -0300 Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet In-Reply-To: <200505161926.06872.waldbie@verizon.net> References: <110.49d6206d.2fb92dc6@aol.com> <200505161015.46076.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <200505161926.06872.waldbie@verizon.net> Message-ID: <200505170928.08211.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Monday 16 May 2005 20:26, Carl wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2005 9:15 am, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > 6.  When I use the command runlevel, just after starting Kubuntu (i.e. > > > without having made any changes to it myself), I get the report: N 2 > > > Is this right? > > > > I haven't a clue :-):-)  What do you mean by the "command runlevel"? > > I think he means: > > $ runlevel Oh, of course he did :-) For some reason I just couldn't separate those two words - by "command runlevel" I thought he must mean a runlevel that had no X, like single-user mode. -- derek From jko at bsn1.net Tue May 17 21:34:57 2005 From: jko at bsn1.net (jeff) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:34:57 -0700 Subject: apt & sudo question In-Reply-To: <200505162042.56606.saevion@gmail.com> References: <200505161355.10687.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <20050516153557.7c4263a1.jko@bsn1.net> <200505162042.56606.saevion@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050517143457.2595cde9.jko@bsn1.net> On Mon, 16 May 2005 20:42:56 -0400 saev wrote: > i think that you are looking for something like > http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#usesudowithoutpasswordprompt Thanks saev, The FAQ and other files at www.ubuntuguide.org answered my question and more. This is a great site and is probably the best place to refer people with problems. all the best, jeff From Efwkub at aol.com Tue May 17 23:09:19 2005 From: Efwkub at aol.com (Efwkub at aol.com) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:09:19 EDT Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet Message-ID: <155.50de6db4.2fbbd39f@aol.com> Many thanks to Carl for clarifying things re runlevel And thank you Cliff for telling me about the command "clear" ******************** Not asking for help on the following, but a couple of suggestions for K / Ubuntu This evening I loaded Kubuntu (5.04) on just the laptop in its standard state (i.e. no Advanced Port replicator) so with the main hard drive, and a DVD in the laptop's MultiBay. Also an external USB floppy drive plugged in. All seems to go well, I don't see anything worrying in the messages flashing up the screen and I don't get the long delay after "Initialising system services". I see that I have mis-typed the PC's name, so perhaps I will reload Kubuntu and get this right - so I can play about first... Try to open KUser, it won't - nothing appears DVD drive and floppy drive mount OK and can be read from. I set a root password Open KUser and I am invited to run as root Enter my root password, but am told this is incorrect. So enter the first user's password, and this works Delete the first user Add a couple of ordinary users Close KUser Alt + F2 and try for konsole: "KDEInit could not launch 'konsole' ditto for konqueror Use mouse on Kicker then Help. Get bouncing icon, after a time this stops, no Help (Coming from the Windows world... ) Perhaps a re-boot may help... Do this, and the Log on box shows the name of the first user, who was supposedly deleted First user's password doesn't get me anywhere So I try one of the ordinary users, and progress, but am shown a warning that includes "Informational - arlsmessage... ...Error while initialising the sound driver..." (Never had this message, or any sound problem, before) OK I've broken it and I'm to blame, I take responsibility, I knew I was pushing my luck, I planned to reload it, I wanted to see if I could have a "standard" setup with root, and ordinary users I am optimistic that the laptop will work (quite / ) well when I reload it. And when I do I will set a root password but leave the first user alone. But I mention all this in case it will assist the general development of K/Ubuntu, since it is aimed at a wide audience including the less experienced. (And please note that many of us who are new to Linux do read a lot of the stuff, but there is a lot of it to read and to some extent one needs to try things while studying) Perhaps consideration should be given to: 1. If deleting the first user will cause damage let alone kill the system perhaps KUser should warn us first 2. If KUser shows that a user has been deleted then as it is relevant re security, shouldn't that user have been well and truly deleted? (The first user's name was there after the re-start) 3. And, perhaps, a less ambiguous message in KUser than "run as root" though fair enough we are encouraged just to "sudo" (Any unix purists scoffing at the concept of making Linux idiot-proof please remember this was in a KDE application a graphical environment for us inadequates who can't yet use a command line for everything) Thanks again to all those who have done so much work to get to where we are Edward FW -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ian at eugeneweb.com Wed May 18 04:10:17 2005 From: ian at eugeneweb.com (ian) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:10:17 -0700 Subject: firefox upgrade required? Message-ID: <428AC029.7070900@eugeneweb.com> I'm trying to load some themes and extensions into firefox, and it says I need to upgrade?!? I'm running the version of firefox that came with ubuntu (1.0.2) and their page says I need the newer version to even get themes (1.0.4). This isn't available in the apt repositores, and mozilla only offers a .tar.gz file which, as I understand it, would create conflicts with apt package management, or at the very least a complete duplicate copy of firefox. How long untill this will be available in the ubuntu repositories? and will someone please slap mozilla upside the head for causing such an inconvinience over a minor version change! The page sounds like something from windows update "in order to keep your computer safe when using the internet.... blah blah" From ziogelis77 at takas.lt Wed May 18 05:43:41 2005 From: ziogelis77 at takas.lt (Donatas G.) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 08:43:41 +0300 Subject: kaddressbook problem: contacts disappearing Message-ID: <200505180843.41469.ziogelis77@takas.lt> Does anyone else encounter this problem with kaddressbook: Once I edit a contact in the kaddressbook checking more than one category for it, the contact disappears from the active view. When I open the addressbook file, I see the contact, but I don't see it in kaddressbook any longer. Then I add the contact again and try to assign more than one category, and it disappears again. Another instance, when contacts disappear, is if I want to edit more than one contact at a time. In that case one of the two contacts disappear. In the file /home/ziogelis77/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf I see all the instances of the contact added.... with or without the multiple categories, though. Also kmail refuses to add this contact anew saying it already exists in the addressbook. Here are the instances of the contact: ======================================== BEGIN:VCARD CATEGORIES:Kompiuteristai,Šeima CLASS:PUBLIC EMAIL;TYPE=PREF:a_glodenyte at xxx.lt EMAIL:Agne.Glodenyte at xxx.lt FN:Agnė Glodenytė N:Glodenytė;Agnė;;; REV:2005-05-18T08:16:42Z UID:xEuOnxYQdy VERSION:3.0 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD CATEGORIES:Šeima CLASS:PUBLIC EMAIL;TYPE=PREF:Agne.Glodenyte at xxx.lt EMAIL:a_glodenyte at yahoo.com FN:Agnė Glodenytė N:Glodenytė;Agnė;;; NAME:Agnė Glodenytė REV:2005-05-18T08:17:31Z UID:JBNbJFinN3 VERSION:3.0 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD ADR;TYPE=work:;;Good work;;;;Prancūzij a CATEGORIES:Šeima CLASS:PUBLIC EMAIL;TYPE=PREF:Agne.Glodenyte at xxx.lt EMAIL:a_glodenyte at xxx.lt FN:Agnė Glodenytė N:Glodenytė;Agnė;;; NAME:Agnė Glodenytė REV:2005-05-13T10:33:26Z TEL;TYPE=WORK:+33 (0) 340 21 5521 TEL;TYPE=CELL:+33 (0)  6767 42372 UID:LJxwjADiWy VERSION:3.0 END:VCARD ======================================== Any ideas? I am using Kontact 1.1 with KDE 3.4.0 on a Debian (Kubuntu Hoary 5.4) machine. -- Donatas Glodenis http://dgvirtual.kikilis.evs.lt From ian at themagictree.co.uk Wed May 18 06:37:17 2005 From: ian at themagictree.co.uk (Ian Rose) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:37:17 +0100 Subject: firefox upgrade required? In-Reply-To: <428AC029.7070900@eugeneweb.com> References: <428AC029.7070900@eugeneweb.com> Message-ID: <428AE29D.3080308@themagictree.co.uk> ian wrote: >I'm trying to load some themes and extensions into firefox, and it says >I need to upgrade?!? I'm running the version of firefox that came with >ubuntu (1.0.2) and their page says I need the newer version to even get >themes (1.0.4). This isn't available in the apt repositores, and >mozilla only offers a .tar.gz file which, as I understand it, would >create conflicts with apt package management, or at the very least a >complete duplicate copy of firefox. > >How long untill this will be available in the ubuntu repositories? and >will someone please slap mozilla upside the head for causing such an >inconvinience over a minor version change! The page sounds like >something from windows update "in order to keep your computer safe when >using the internet.... blah blah" > > > If I understand correctly, the security fixes from 1.0.4 have been patched into the official Ubuntu 1.0.2 version as security updates, but there won't be an official 1.0.4 in Hoary. The problem arises because the Mozilla site only checks the raw version number, and so doesn't recognise that you have a fully patched browser. There are three solutions: 1) Tell mozilla.org about it, and see if they correct their version checker. 2) go to http://backports.ubuntuforums.org - there is an unofficial backported version of 1.0.4 there 3) Cheat! type "about:config" in the address bar of Firefox, and "vendor" in the filter. Locate the string "general.useragent.vendorSub", and change it to "1.0.4". Mozilla have been told about this situation, and yes, the version checker is a bit rough and ready, but to be fair they are putting security in their browser higher than user convenience, and while their implementation is a bit flaky (especially for Ubuntu users), their priorities are spot-on. From auspex at pointerstop.ca Wed May 18 12:42:43 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:42:43 -0300 Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet In-Reply-To: <155.50de6db4.2fbbd39f@aol.com> References: <155.50de6db4.2fbbd39f@aol.com> Message-ID: <200505180942.43524.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 20:09, Efwkub at aol.com wrote: > > Try to open KUser, it won't - nothing appears When that happens (in any program) it's best to try running it from an x-term (eg, konsole) which will likely tell you exactly why. > I set a root password Please don't do that. Ubuntu isn't intended to have one, and you're just opening yourself to the following confusion: > Open KUser and I am invited to run as root > Enter my root password, but am told this is incorrect. > So enter the first user's password, and this works Of course. Kubuntu doesn't have a root password, and has modified kdesu to work like gksu and sudo, and ask for _your_ password not root's (there was a time when the actual prompt said to enter "root's" password, so you could be running this version - I'm pretty sure the official Hoary release fixed this). > Delete the first user Totally bypassing the intent of creating a superuser not known as 'root'. > Add a couple of ordinary users > Close KUser > Alt + F2 and try for konsole: "KDEInit could not launch 'konsole' > ditto for konqueror > Use mouse on Kicker then Help. Get bouncing icon, after a time this stops, > no Help Aren't you already logged in as the user you just deleted? Do you expect to be able to do anything now? Feedback could be better, but I've worked with at least a dozen different operating systems over the years, and I don't recall any that had reasonably predictable behaviour after you deleted the user from which you were logged in. > (Coming from the Windows world... ) Perhaps a re-boot may help... > Do this, and the Log on box shows the name of the first user, who was > supposedly deleted KDM is set to show the last logged-in user. That can be changed. It's still right. > First user's password doesn't get me anywhere Of course. Since you deleted him... > So I try one of the ordinary users, and progress, but am shown a warning > that includes > "Informational - arlsmessage... ...Error while initialising the sound > driver..." Normal. Most users aren't added to the appropriate group for sound (I keep meaning to check what that is and _make_ it a default). > OK I've broken it and I'm to blame, I take responsibility, I knew I was > pushing my luck, I planned to reload it, I wanted to see if I could have a > "standard" setup with root, and ordinary users You can, but you're twisting Ubuntu into a mode it wasn't intended to use, and you're even doing that wrong, so you get what you expect. > I am optimistic that the laptop will work (quite / ) well when I reload it. > And when I do I will set a root password but leave the first user alone. Why???? I just don't understand this need - especially from Windows users who have never had a 'root' in the first place - to twist Ubuntu's intent. There is exactly one reason why you might _need_ a root password, and I have yet to see anybody mention it. > > Perhaps consideration should be given to: > > 1. If deleting the first user will cause damage let alone kill the system > perhaps KUser should warn us first It probably should - I don't believe it would let you delete "root", and so it shouldn't let you delete the only user that can perform root functions. File a bug report. > > 2. If KUser shows that a user has been deleted then as it is relevant re > security, shouldn't that user have been well and truly deleted? > (The first user's name was there after the re-start) It _was_ "well and truly deleted", and I don't see any problem there. > > 3. And, perhaps, a less ambiguous message in KUser than "run as root" > though fair enough we are encouraged just to "sudo" Suggestions? In the XP world (if it's even possible) it would be "run as administrator", but that wouldn't clarify anything for unix users. In any case, I don't consider that the "message". It's the window title, and in either KDE or Windows I don't pay much attention to window titles. Perhaps I'm unusual. The prompt message is "Enter your password" (on the current, Breezy, version), which is pretty unambiguous. > > (Any unix purists scoffing at the concept of making Linux idiot-proof > please remember this was in a KDE application a graphical environment for > us inadequates who can't yet use a command line for everything) I would at least hope we won't find any of those here. I'm pretty sure that type of unix purist doesn't install KDE :-) > > Thanks again to all those who have done so much work to get to where we are Yeah, from me too. It can't be said too often :-) -- derek From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 19 00:55:51 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:55:51 -0400 Subject: k3b mp3 Message-ID: <428BE417.9020909@verizon.net> hey: I remember reading somewhere instructions on how to enable k3b to play mp3, but i can't find it. I don't know if anyone could help me whre the instructions are. thanks From Efwkub at aol.com Thu May 19 03:05:56 2005 From: Efwkub at aol.com (Efwkub at aol.com) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:05:56 EDT Subject: Regrettably, Win 98SE for a while yet Message-ID: <19f.34129d72.2fbd5c94@aol.com> Thanks Derek for more time and trouble The tip about trying to open something by command line if it won't open from the GUI so I get information on why it won't start is useful and noted > Why???? I just don't understand this need - especially from Windows > users who have never had a 'root' in the first place - to twist Ubuntu's > intent. There is exactly one reason why you might _need_ a root > password, and I have yet to see anybody mention it. I am suitably admonished re root / sudo etc. and will get in line henceforth But purely by way of explaining the psychology underlying the drive to be able to be root, i.e. not trying to justify it, argue back or start (repeat!) a debate: As a newcomer to Linux obviously one has a lot to discover and get used to. Especially if the Windows was just 9x and with no networking. While trying to get to grips with all this one is often blocked if one is not root. (Or sudo) And, if one has arrived at Ubuntu via another type of Linux, one has picked up the picture of there being ordinary users, and root. So when trying to explore (the OS as opposed to the apps) on one's own, unconnected, not used for work, probably going to reload it soon, no confidential files on it, PC, the thought occurs, depending on the particular task, why not do so as root? (The more work I put into an installation the less I shall want to risk spoiling it) Thus the explanation is (was) an effort to minimize complications by keeping things consistent. By setting up Kubuntu to use existing knowledge, avoiding a variation with regard to commands. Doing things the same way I did and may do again with SUSE and perhaps other sorts of Linux "Tout comprener, c'est tout pardonner" "With every gain there is loss, with every loss there is gain" Cheers, Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joao_verissimo at clix.pt Thu May 19 04:52:20 2005 From: joao_verissimo at clix.pt (Joao Verissimo) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 05:52:20 +0100 Subject: k3b mp3 Message-ID: <20050519045220.29421.qmail@maboque.srv.clix.pt> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From martinjh_linux at blueyonder.co.uk Thu May 19 05:05:40 2005 From: martinjh_linux at blueyonder.co.uk (Martin J Hooper) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:05:40 +0100 Subject: KDM and kubuntu-default-settings Message-ID: Is there a way of installing KDM without having the dependency on kubuntu-default-settings? I would prefer the default KDE settings to start of with. I'm not too keen on the way the kubuntu-default-settings has konq opening windows in new tabs all the time... From ian at themagictree.co.uk Thu May 19 06:35:04 2005 From: ian at themagictree.co.uk (Ian Rose) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 07:35:04 +0100 Subject: k3b mp3 In-Reply-To: <20050519045220.29421.qmail@maboque.srv.clix.pt> References: <20050519045220.29421.qmail@maboque.srv.clix.pt> Message-ID: <428C3398.6000009@themagictree.co.uk> Joao Verissimo wrote: >Hi. > >Do you mean amaroK, or some other media player? Because K3b burns CD's. > >For ubuntu, you can find instructions on enabling MP3 playing in these sites: > >http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats > >http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#codecs > >I guess it should be the same in Kubuntu. But somehow my Kubuntu is able to play MP3's out of the box, without installing anything (using amaroK). > >Is this normal? > >Joao >---------------------- MENSAGEM ORIGINAL ---------------------- > hey: >I remember reading somewhere instructions on how to enable k3b to play >mp3, but i can't find it. I don't know if anyone could help me whre the >instructions are. >thanks > > > I think k3b uses the MAD libraries to decode mp3's before burning them as tracks on an audio cd. If you make sure libmad0 is installed, it should work. In k3b you should look in Settings>Configure k3b>Plugins and confirm that the "K3B MAD Decoder" is present after installing libmad0. Hope this helps. From jgomezdans at gmail.com Thu May 19 10:30:17 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:30:17 +0100 Subject: k3b mp3 In-Reply-To: <428C3398.6000009@themagictree.co.uk> References: <20050519045220.29421.qmail@maboque.srv.clix.pt> <428C3398.6000009@themagictree.co.uk> Message-ID: <91d21843050519033015db57fe@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On 5/19/05, Ian Rose wrote: > I think k3b uses the MAD libraries to decode mp3's before burning them > as tracks on an audio cd. If you make sure libmad0 is installed, it > should work. In k3b you should look in Settings>Configure k3b>Plugins > and confirm that the "K3B MAD Decoder" is present after installing libmad0. In the past, kubuntu's k3b plugins packaged didn't come with the libmad plugin. I don't know whether this has been solved or not. Jose From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 19 12:27:19 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:27:19 -0400 Subject: k3b mp3 In-Reply-To: <20050519045220.29421.qmail@maboque.srv.clix.pt> References: <20050519045220.29421.qmail@maboque.srv.clix.pt> Message-ID: <428C8627.20804@verizon.net> Joao Verissimo wrote: >Hi. > >Do you mean amaroK, or some other media player? Because K3b burns CD's. > >For ubuntu, you can find instructions on enabling MP3 playing in these sites: > >http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats > >http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#codecs > >I guess it should be the same in Kubuntu. But somehow my Kubuntu is able to play MP3's out of the box, without installing anything (using amaroK). > >Is this normal? > >Joao >---------------------- MENSAGEM ORIGINAL ---------------------- > hey: >I remember reading somewhere instructions on how to enable k3b to play >mp3, but i can't find it. I don't know if anyone could help me whre the >instructions are. >thanks > > > Hey thanks to all but now I am wondering how to inverse t how to I convert from audio files to mp3. From jgomezdans at gmail.com Thu May 19 12:35:31 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:35:31 +0100 Subject: k3b mp3 In-Reply-To: <428C8627.20804@verizon.net> References: <20050519045220.29421.qmail@maboque.srv.clix.pt> <428C8627.20804@verizon.net> Message-ID: <91d2184305051905355a75a5ee@mail.gmail.com> Hi, > Hey thanks to all but now I am wondering how to inverse t how to I > convert from audio files to mp3. Open konqueror, and enter the location audiocd:/ (or go to the system navigator and navigate to Storage->Audio CD). It will open a directory which shows a number of subdirectories, Ogg, flac, mp3... Copy the desired format to wherever you want it and it will start ripping. Control Centre has the ripping options (bitrates and the like). Jose From jgomezdans at gmail.com Thu May 19 17:16:36 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:16:36 +0100 Subject: Kopete not connecting to MSN? Message-ID: <91d2184305051910166bcab642@mail.gmail.com> Hi! Today, kopete could not connect to my MSN account. It claims that my password in wrong. I have kopete 3.4.0-0ubuntu2. Jose From i at dariospagnolo.org Thu May 19 18:08:02 2005 From: i at dariospagnolo.org (Dario Spagnolo) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:08:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Kopete not connecting to MSN? Message-ID: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> > Hi! > Today, kopete could not connect to my MSN account. It claims that my password in wrong. I have kopete 3.4.0-0ubuntu2. > Jose Same thing here. Maybe MS has changed MSN protocol again ? Dario P.S. I don't run Ubuntu and my Kopete is Debian's 3.4.0-pre1 (I think) From radix at creativa.cl Thu May 19 18:26:32 2005 From: radix at creativa.cl (Matias Fernandez) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:26:32 -0400 Subject: Kopete not connecting to MSN? In-Reply-To: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> References: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> Message-ID: <1116527192.14293.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Same here, but amsn connects fine. El jue, 19-05-2005 a las 20:08 +0200, Dario Spagnolo escribió: > > Hi! > > Today, kopete could not connect to my MSN account. It claims that my > password in wrong. I have kopete 3.4.0-0ubuntu2. > > Jose > > Same thing here. Maybe MS has changed MSN protocol again ? > > Dario > > P.S. I don't run Ubuntu and my Kopete is Debian's 3.4.0-pre1 (I think) > > > > -- Matias Fernandez -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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[...] To get it working, you have to compile Kopete from the subversion repository see http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+SVN The stable branch should work Or wait KDE 3.4.1 which is planed in less than one week. [...] For thoses who can't upgrade kopete, and still want to use MSN with it, I've wrote a document which tell how to use Jabber transports under Kopete. http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+Jabber+Transport " From liz at kandew.com Thu May 19 19:05:26 2005 From: liz at kandew.com (Liz Young) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:05:26 -0700 Subject: KDE 3.4.1 (was Kopete not connecting...) In-Reply-To: <33002.82.228.233.154.1116527797.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> References: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> <200505192027.22937.frode@lnix.net> <33002.82.228.233.154.1116527797.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> Message-ID: <200505191205.27031.liz@kandew.com> Hi, On Thursday 19 May 2005 11:36 am, Dario Spagnolo wrote: > Or wait KDE 3.4.1 which is planed in less than one week. Can anyone say if this will be available via apt in Hoary, or just Breezy? From amu at ubuntu.com Thu May 19 19:45:51 2005 From: amu at ubuntu.com (Andreas Mueller) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:45:51 +0200 Subject: KDE 3.4.1 (was Kopete not connecting...) In-Reply-To: <200505191205.27031.liz@kandew.com> References: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> <33002.82.228.233.154.1116527797.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> <200505191205.27031.liz@kandew.com> Message-ID: <200505192145.55816.amu@ubuntu.com> On Thursday 19 May 2005 21:05, Liz Young wrote: Cheers Liz, > On Thursday 19 May 2005 11:36 am, Dario Spagnolo wrote: > > Or wait KDE 3.4.1 which is planed in less than one week. > > Can anyone say if this will be available via apt in Hoary, or just Breezy? ... just Breezy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I did all of that and installed it, yet MOL still didn't work. I manually copied the /usr/src/modules/mol directory to the /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-powerpc directory and that did the trick. Now that I am using 2.6.12-rc4 though, I can't run MOL. I would recompile the kernel module, but I do not know where/what files make up the kernel-headers, and where to put them. I tried simply copying the mol directory from 2.6.10-5-powerpc to 2.6.12-rc4 but that didn't work. Does MOL have some kind of rc file somewhere that tells it where to look for the kernel module, that could be "hardwired" to the new directory, or the old one for that matter? --Mike S From sarava at verizon.net Fri May 20 03:02:12 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:02:12 -0400 Subject: kde network Message-ID: <428D5334.5090109@verizon.net> Hey: I am trying to set up a home netwrok, when I try to configure samba i go to control center--> Internet and netwrok--> Samba I try to go into administrator mode. I type my pasword, but it doesn't let me chang eany of the settings. I am just wondering how i can acces the control center with root priviledges. Once again thanks for al your help i really aprecited it From dlw3 at tds.net Fri May 20 04:57:31 2005 From: dlw3 at tds.net (Don) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:57:31 -0700 Subject: grub Message-ID: <1116565051.26469.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Installed ubunto-5.04 with MDK 10.2 and W98. Want MDK 10.2 as default distro. Install chose ubunto. Always used lilo. Where do I find grub and how do I change it? /dev/hda W98 /dev/hdb1 MDK 10.1 /dev/hdb6 ubunto /dev/hdb7 fedora (not installed yet) TIA Don From jochen at jochenskulj.de Fri May 20 05:25:52 2005 From: jochen at jochenskulj.de (Jochen Skulj) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 07:25:52 +0200 Subject: grub In-Reply-To: <1116565051.26469.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1116565051.26469.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <428D74E0.6090204@jochenskulj.de> Hi, > Installed ubunto-5.04 with MDK 10.2 and W98. > Want MDK 10.2 as default distro. > Install chose ubunto. > Always used lilo. > Where do I find grub and how do I change it? Take a look at /boot/grub/menu.lst There is a default entry: ## default num # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering # starts from 0, and # the entry number 0 is the default if # the command is not used. # # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, # the default entry # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'. default 0 Jochen -- Jochen Skulj http://www.jochenskulj.de GPG Key-ID: 0x37B2F0B8 Finger Print: F239 5D8D 97CD F91F 9D08 AE94 AA3B 1ED5 37B2 F0B8 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 256 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From svloon at xs4all.nl Fri May 20 08:09:20 2005 From: svloon at xs4all.nl (Sander van Loon) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:09:20 +0200 Subject: kde network In-Reply-To: <428D5334.5090109@verizon.net> References: <428D5334.5090109@verizon.net> Message-ID: <200505201009.21227.svloon@xs4all.nl> In a terminal, type: kdesu kcontrol And give your password. The kdesu approach works for other applications as well. BTW, it's quite easy to set up home networks in KDE. I have a dual boot with Windows XP. In Windows XP I had already set up a network with another WXP PC in my house. When I installed Kubuntu it detected automatically that I already had set up a Windows network, and I could browse shared dirs on the other PC immediatly. Adding a printer connected to that other Windows XP PC for use in Kubuntu also was quite easy in Kubuntu, I didn't need to edit any scary configuration files :) . Ok, maybe this rant isn't very useful for you, but I just wanted to say that I'm happy with KDE because of this convenience. On Friday 20 May 2005 05:02, Sara Vasquez wrote: > Hey: > I am trying to set up a home netwrok, when I try to configure samba i go > to control center--> Internet and netwrok--> Samba > I try to go into administrator mode. I type my pasword, but it doesn't > let me chang eany of the settings. I am just wondering how i can acces > the control center with root priviledges. Once again thanks for al your > help i really aprecited it From lilo- at gmx.ch Fri May 20 08:50:31 2005 From: lilo- at gmx.ch (Raphael Brunner) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:50:31 +0200 Subject: Why don't Shortcuts work anymore in KDE 3.4 In-Reply-To: <200505201009.21227.svloon@xs4all.nl> References: <428D5334.5090109@verizon.net> <200505201009.21227.svloon@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <200505201050.31402.lilo-@gmx.ch> Hello Kubuntu Users! I have a question. Whats going wrong with my settings if I can't no more switch between Applications in KDE 3.4 (Kubuntu Breezy) with ALT+TAB? If I change the Settings in Kcontrol (Regionaleinstellungen -> Tastenkürzel) it's not possible to define a combination with TAB. There's no change. Has anyone a good idea what's happen? And how to fix it? Or has anyone the same problem? Greetings and thanks from Raphael From sebas at kde.nl Fri May 20 10:57:36 2005 From: sebas at kde.nl (Sebastian =?utf-8?q?K=C3=BCgler?=) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:57:36 +0200 Subject: KDE 3.4.1 (was Kopete not connecting...) In-Reply-To: <200505192145.55816.amu@ubuntu.com> References: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> <200505191205.27031.liz@kandew.com> <200505192145.55816.amu@ubuntu.com> Message-ID: <200505201257.37084.sebas@kde.nl> On Thursday 19 May 2005 21:45, Andreas Mueller wrote: > On Thursday 19 May 2005 21:05, Liz Young wrote: > > Cheers Liz, > > > On Thursday 19 May 2005 11:36 am, Dario Spagnolo wrote: > > > Or wait KDE 3.4.1 which is planed in less than one week. > > > > Can anyone say if this will be available via apt in Hoary, or just > > Breezy? > > ... just Breezy Hm, that's bad. This "bug" renders kopete near to unusable for many people (I don't regard using Jabber as a gateway as a serieus option though. It's far from intuitive and requires adding another service to the game. I'd very much appreciate a backported kopete fixed in hoary, many people, especially not-so-experienced users would like to stay with a stable release, that is Hoary. As far as I understand the problem, the fix is: 1) Obvious 2) Independant on other updates 3) Necessary to keep kopete working These 3 qualify for me as bugfixes and would allow for an update in a stable release. So please reconsider backporting the fix to hoary. Thanks in advance, -- sebas - - - - - - - - - - - http://vizZzion.org ====================== Death solves all problems: no man, no problem. - Joseph Stalin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Managing to run Kubuntu in my computer was impossible, it crashed at every login after the first install. One of the problems I found was the one you mention. It warns that the previous version of the file is used by kdenetwork and won't allow the upgrade. It also deletes /etc/kderc that I suppose is needed by the Kubuntu version of KDE. That said, I managed to solve the problem, in a radical way I confess, I decided to install Ubuntu and from there install the needed files to have Kubuntu (remember that Kubuntu is just Ubuntu with KDE instead of Gnome). The process is very simple: 1 - Install Ubuntu. 2 - Run Synaptic, install kdelibs (last version) and upgrade all your packages. 3 - Go to http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ and follow the instructions on how to install Kubuntu from Ubuntu (it's really simple and straigthforward). That's what I did and now the system is rock solid. I guess that many had the same problem with the install CD for Kubuntu 5.04 and just gave up installing it, and that is a shame because it's really a great system. It still has some glitches but minor ones that I suppose will go away with time. Best of lucks, Antonio From jr at jriddell.org Fri May 20 18:16:47 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 19:16:47 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Re: KDE 3.4.1 (was Kopete not connecting...) In-Reply-To: <200505201257.37084.sebas@kde.nl> References: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> <200505191205.27031.liz@kandew.com> <200505192145.55816.amu@ubuntu.com> <200505201257.37084.sebas@kde.nl> Message-ID: <20050520181647.GS23128@muse.19inch.net> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:57:36PM +0200, Sebastian K??gler wrote: > Hm, that's bad. This "bug" renders kopete near to unusable for many people (I > don't regard using Jabber as a gateway as a serieus option though. It's far > from intuitive and requires adding another service to the game. I've uploaded an updated package, but unfortunatly it won't complile until after the c++ transition probably next week. You can get it in the mean time from this apt source: deb http://dev.kubuntu.org.uk/~jr/kubuntu/kdenetwork/ ./ Jonathan Riddell From jgomezdans at gmail.com Fri May 20 20:03:53 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 21:03:53 +0100 Subject: kontact not reminding me of my duties Message-ID: <91d2184305052013035ababb06@mail.gmail.com> Hi! I am concerned that I get no alarms using korganizer. I have attached a screenie of how an appointment looks like. Even though the reminder box is ticked, and the alarm daemon is running, and enabled to notify me of things, it doesn't. Am I missing something? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <20050520181647.GS23128@muse.19inch.net> References: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> <200505201257.37084.sebas@kde.nl> <20050520181647.GS23128@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505210035.28322.frode@lnix.net> fredag 20 mai 2005, 20:16, skrev Jonathan Riddell: [snip] > > You can get it in the mean time from this apt source: > > deb http://dev.kubuntu.org.uk/~jr/kubuntu/kdenetwork/ ./ > > Jonathan Riddell AMD64 users can get the packages at: deb http://frode.kde.no/ubuntu-amd64/ ./ - Frode -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From carloscarnero at gmail.com Sat May 21 00:02:17 2005 From: carloscarnero at gmail.com (Carlos A. Carnero Delgado) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 20:02:17 -0400 Subject: Adding WMV support to kaffeine Message-ID: <2cbf87d0505201702fc6d015@mail.gmail.com> Hello, how do I add Windows Media Video v9 (WMV) to Kaffeine? On Ubuntu's wiki there's nothing that I could apply to kubuntu (I think.) Thanks a lot, Carlos. From gunnyman at gmail.com Sat May 21 00:35:12 2005 From: gunnyman at gmail.com (Gunny Wallen) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 20:35:12 -0400 Subject: Adding WMV support to kaffeine In-Reply-To: <2cbf87d0505201702fc6d015@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cbf87d0505201702fc6d015@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6ab2a5a0050520173525e67586@mail.gmail.com> install the w32codecs pacjkage should do the trick. On 5/20/05, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: > Hello, > > how do I add Windows Media Video v9 (WMV) to Kaffeine? On Ubuntu's > wiki there's nothing that I could apply to kubuntu (I think.) > > Thanks a lot, > Carlos. > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From svloon at xs4all.nl Sat May 21 08:49:05 2005 From: svloon at xs4all.nl (Sander van Loon) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:49:05 +0200 Subject: Adding WMV support to kaffeine In-Reply-To: <6ab2a5a0050520173525e67586@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cbf87d0505201702fc6d015@mail.gmail.com> <6ab2a5a0050520173525e67586@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505211049.05234.svloon@xs4all.nl> If you install w32codecs you will be able to play WMV9, except for WMV streams. See the my bug report: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9862 On Saturday 21 May 2005 02:35, Gunny Wallen wrote: > install the w32codecs pacjkage should do the trick. > > On 5/20/05, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: > > Hello, > > > > how do I add Windows Media Video v9 (WMV) to Kaffeine? On Ubuntu's > > wiki there's nothing that I could apply to kubuntu (I think.) > > > > Thanks a lot, > > Carlos. > > > > -- > > kubuntu-users mailing list > > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users From sebas at kde.nl Sat May 21 10:14:58 2005 From: sebas at kde.nl (Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?=) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 12:14:58 +0200 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Re: KDE 3.4.1 (was Kopete not connecting...) In-Reply-To: <20050520181647.GS23128@muse.19inch.net> References: <32903.82.228.233.154.1116526082.squirrel@mail.digitalriviera.com> <200505201257.37084.sebas@kde.nl> <20050520181647.GS23128@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505211215.22411.sebas@kde.nl> On Friday 20 May 2005 20:16, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:57:36PM +0200, Sebastian K??gler wrote: > > Hm, that's bad. This "bug" renders kopete near to unusable for many > > people (I don't regard using Jabber as a gateway as a serieus option > > though. It's far from intuitive and requires adding another service to > > the game. > > I've uploaded an updated package, but unfortunatly it won't complile > until after the c++ transition probably next week. > > You can get it in the mean time from this apt source: > > deb http://dev.kubuntu.org.uk/~jr/kubuntu/kdenetwork/ ./ The package also works under Hoary here. Many thanks, -- sebas - - - - - - - - - - - http://vizZzion.org ====================== A day without sunshine is like a day without orange juice. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From carney1979 at gmail.com Sat May 21 21:28:34 2005 From: carney1979 at gmail.com (David M. Carney) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 17:28:34 -0400 Subject: KDE Konqueror - AdBlock Howto Message-ID: <200505211728.34388.carney1979@gmail.com> I originally posted this to the Ubuntu-User's list. Someone there suggested I post it on the Kbuntu-User's list. I didn't even know there was a Kbuntu-User's list until then ;-) Here goes: If you like Konqueror, but don't like to see ads on the web pages you visit, try this. 1. Create a text file by cutting and pasting the text from the 2nd link (Mozilla link; see below). Place it somewhere in your home directory. 2. Open Konqueror and go to: Settings >> Configure Konqueror >> Stylesheets. Click on the General tab and then select "Use user-defined stylesheet". Click on the little folder button and select the file you created from step 1 above. Restart Konqueror and most/all the ads should be blocked. Thanks to the following web sites: http://wombat.theartcommunity.org/?p=14 and.... http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/adblock David -- Registered Linux User #297958 http://carney1979.blogspot.com/ From bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk Sat May 21 21:29:08 2005 From: bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk (Bobby Singh) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 22:29:08 +0100 (BST) Subject: LINKS + BACKUP + LEMARK = ??? Message-ID: <20050521212908.93260.qmail@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello, OK here we go................. How can i config KUbuntu so that when I download applications from the Universe Repositories it automatically creates sym-link in K-menu. Applications like Firestarter and kde-games automatically creates links in K-menu. Now when i download applications in KUbuntu. From Universe packages they don't have sym-links in the K-menus unlike other apps like kde games or firefox which automatically creates sym-links in K-menus. I have to search the execute files and manually add them. But some like firestarter require sudo (so i have to manually use the Konsole). With realplayer and firefox you can burn them on a cd for later use. Can you back up other applications like firestarter, frozen bubles, celestia etc and where are the installers. If i installed KUbuntu on a different machine i would like to can put them on. (Am i right that you can't back-up updtaes or lib files like dvd playback). Lexmark printers don't have drivers for Linux and there are no generic drivers for Mandrake or KUbuntu. Lexmark does have 'The lexmark linux pronter driver development kit (LLPDDK). Has anyone used this and made a lexmark printer work? Cheers Bob ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com From ian at eugeneweb.com Sat May 21 21:41:29 2005 From: ian at eugeneweb.com (ian) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:41:29 -0700 Subject: kmix global hotkeys for volume? Message-ID: <428FAB09.6000608@eugeneweb.com> I keep having this urge to bind hotkeys to volume up/down in kmix, is there any way to do this? it seems so obvious, but I don't see a setting for it From carney1979 at gmail.com Sat May 21 21:47:11 2005 From: carney1979 at gmail.com (David M. Carney) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 17:47:11 -0400 Subject: KDE Konqueror - AdBlock Howto In-Reply-To: <200505211728.34388.carney1979@gmail.com> References: <200505211728.34388.carney1979@gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505211747.11699.carney1979@gmail.com> On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:28, David M. Carney wrote: > I originally posted this to the Ubuntu-User's list. Someone there suggested > I post it on the Kbuntu-User's list. I didn't even know there was a > Kbuntu-User's list until then ;-) > > Here goes: > > If you like Konqueror, but don't like to see ads on the web pages you > visit, try this. > > 1. Create a text file by cutting and pasting the text from the 2nd link > (Mozilla link; see below). Place it somewhere in your home directory. > > 2. Open Konqueror and go to: Settings >> Configure Konqueror >> > Stylesheets. Click on the General tab and then select "Use user-defined > stylesheet". Click on the little folder button and select the file you > created from step 1 above. > > Restart Konqueror and most/all the ads should be blocked. > > Thanks to the following web sites: > > http://wombat.theartcommunity.org/?p=14 > > and.... > > http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/adblock > > David > > -- > Registered Linux User #297958 > http://carney1979.blogspot.com/ ...and sorry about the misspelling for Kubuntu. Fixed it. David -- Registered Linux User #297958 http://carney1979.blogspot.com/ From jochen at jochenskulj.de Sun May 22 09:45:07 2005 From: jochen at jochenskulj.de (Jochen Skulj) Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 11:45:07 +0200 Subject: kmix global hotkeys for volume? In-Reply-To: <428FAB09.6000608@eugeneweb.com> References: <428FAB09.6000608@eugeneweb.com> Message-ID: <429054A3.6070506@jochenskulj.de> Hi, > I keep having this urge to bind hotkeys to volume up/down in kmix, is > there any way to do this? it seems so obvious, but I don't see a setting > for it There is no keybinding for this by default, but KDE allows you to create custom keybindings for different applications. Unfortunately I can't give you a detailed description on my own (I use Gnome now), but this link may help you: http://ozzzy.dhis.org/index.php?edit=keys Obviously this wiki entry (scroll down to "__Custom functions__") was written for Mandrake but it might work under Kubuntu. Jochen -- Jochen Skulj http://www.jochenskulj.de GPG Key-ID: 0x37B2F0B8 Finger Print: F239 5D8D 97CD F91F 9D08 AE94 AA3B 1ED5 37B2 F0B8 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 256 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From frode at lnix.net Sun May 22 10:18:22 2005 From: frode at lnix.net (Frode M. =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F8ving?=) Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:18:22 +0200 Subject: kmix global hotkeys for volume? In-Reply-To: <428FAB09.6000608@eugeneweb.com> References: <428FAB09.6000608@eugeneweb.com> Message-ID: <200505221218.27186.frode@lnix.net> lørdag 21 mai 2005, 23:41, skrev ian: > I keep having this urge to bind hotkeys to volume up/down in kmix, is > there any way to do this? it seems so obvious, but I don't see a setting > for it I use the kmix kicker applet to do this. This is translated from Norwegian on the fly, some words might be wrong. 1. Right click on kicker -> add to panel -> Applet -> Mixer 2. You'll get a mixer with all channels on the kicker. Right-click on the volume-bar -> Hide, to remove unwanted channels. I keep Master and PCM only. 3. Choose the channel you'd like hotkeys for, right click on the volume-bar -> setup hotkeys. Hope this helps. - Frode -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm using the NVIDIA OpenGL libs and they are in PIC format, so just give it some time, and those (Xorg?) OpenGL libs you're using will get "fixed" eventually. From senectus at gmail.com Mon May 23 03:28:32 2005 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:28:32 +0800 Subject: Kynaptic vs Synaptic Message-ID: Is it just my imagination or is Kynaptic "quicker" than Synaptic? Not just in starting up etc but in updating databases and other such tricks..? -- Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 Our OS who art in CPU, LINUX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! http://www.modmeup.net From jgomezdans at gmail.com Thu May 19 12:17:33 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:17:33 +0100 Subject: kontact not reminding me of my duties Message-ID: <91d2184305051905171ef3ff24@mail.gmail.com> Hi! I am concerned that I get no alarms using korganizer. I have attached a screenie of how an appointment looks like. Even though the reminder box is ticked, and the alarm daemon is running, and enabled to notify me of things, it doesn't. Am I missing something? Jose -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: organizer.png Type: image/png Size: 100068 bytes Desc: not available URL: From amu at ubuntu.com Mon May 23 12:12:46 2005 From: amu at ubuntu.com (Andreas Mueller) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:12:46 +0200 Subject: kontact not reminding me of my duties In-Reply-To: <91d2184305051905171ef3ff24@mail.gmail.com> References: <91d2184305051905171ef3ff24@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Am 19.05.2005 um 14:17 schrieb Jose Gomez-Dans: your alarm daemon is running? > I am concerned that I get no alarms using korganizer. I have attached > a screenie of how an appointment looks like. Even though the reminder > box is ticked, and the alarm daemon is running, and enabled to notify > me of things, it doesn't. Am I missing something? > Jose Cheers, amu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: Signierter Teil der Nachricht URL: From jr at jriddell.org Mon May 23 12:21:22 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:21:22 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] kontact not reminding me of my duties In-Reply-To: <91d2184305051905171ef3ff24@mail.gmail.com> References: <91d2184305051905171ef3ff24@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050523122122.GO23128@muse.19inch.net> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:17:33PM +0100, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > I am concerned that I get no alarms using korganizer. I have attached > a screenie of how an appointment looks like. Even though the reminder > box is ticked, and the alarm daemon is running, and enabled to notify > me of things, it doesn't. Am I missing something? Works for me. If you right click on the alarm daemon in the system tray is it enabled? Jonathan Riddell From jgomezdans at gmail.com Mon May 23 12:37:06 2005 From: jgomezdans at gmail.com (Jose Gomez-Dans) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:37:06 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] kontact not reminding me of my duties In-Reply-To: <20050523122122.GO23128@muse.19inch.net> References: <91d2184305051905171ef3ff24@mail.gmail.com> <20050523122122.GO23128@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <91d2184305052305375fb629c1@mail.gmail.com> Hi! On 5/23/05, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > me of things, it doesn't. Am I missing something? > > Works for me. > > If you right click on the alarm daemon in the system tray is it > enabled? Yes, it is enabled (right-click on the systray calendar icon with a little bell in front of it). Thanks Jose From support at bigriverinfotech.com Mon May 23 17:05:20 2005 From: support at bigriverinfotech.com (Raymond) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:05:20 +0000 Subject: Kubuntu T-Shirts? Message-ID: <200505231705.20521.support@bigriverinfotech.com> Any Kubuntu t-shirts available? Raymond From sarava at verizon.net Mon May 23 22:46:34 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:46:34 -0400 Subject: A couple of questions? Message-ID: <42925D4A.6010508@verizon.net> I have about two months using linux and so far I am just trilled with it, but I have some questins is there a way to get AMD cool n quiet inlinux. Also at the beginning I just notice at the beggining I get a warning message saying no final line at end of /etc/fstat What that means?? Also do I need cups and Xpring. I am just wondering. Thanks for all your help From sarava at verizon.net Tue May 24 15:30:20 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:30:20 -0400 Subject: clamav Message-ID: <4293488C.5020805@verizon.net> I dowloaded clamav from synaptic and follo the directions from the forums, but after running tghe san it even scanned my windows partition and found 8 infected files i am just wondering how to fix them . thanks From reb68 at bellsouth.net Tue May 24 20:07:10 2005 From: reb68 at bellsouth.net (Richard Barmann) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:07:10 -0400 Subject: Mount Storage Media Message-ID: <200505241607.10619.reb68@bellsouth.net> My C Drive (which is Windows XP) shows up in storage media and I can open it in Kate editor. In trying to download from it (Old Mail, Pictures, etc) it always shows the drie mounted. When I boot up I get an error line. "dev/hda1 on media/windows type NTFS (rw.error=remount-or)" What is the remedy so I can unmount and mount this drive. Thank you. From franka at svpal.org Tue May 24 23:50:58 2005 From: franka at svpal.org (Frank Arnold) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:50:58 -0700 Subject: mplayer question... Message-ID: <200505241650.58660.franka@svpal.org> OK... I have mplayer and plugin up and running fine. Except that it will not recognize WMV files. Does .MPG and .AVI files fine. Anyone got any suggestions or workarounds? Set up Totem? How? Frank Arnold From saevion at gmail.com Wed May 25 00:20:19 2005 From: saevion at gmail.com (saev) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:20:19 -0400 Subject: mplayer question... In-Reply-To: <200505241650.58660.franka@svpal.org> References: <200505241650.58660.franka@svpal.org> Message-ID: <200505242020.19340.saevion@gmail.com> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 07:50 pm, Frank Arnold wrote: > OK... I have mplayer and plugin up and running fine. > Except that it will not recognize WMV files. Does .MPG and > .AVI files fine. Anyone got any suggestions or workarounds? > Set up Totem? How? > Frank Arnold try installing the w32codecs package from the marillat repositories ( ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ ) From amigrave at gmail.com Wed May 25 10:19:24 2005 From: amigrave at gmail.com (Fabien Meghazi) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 12:19:24 +0200 Subject: OT: USB booting the (k)ubuntu Live-CD Message-ID: <7772a2590505250319d26973d@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, I'm about to buy an USB HD case like this : http://www.qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=14214 But I would like to know something. I saw that on modern computer, the bios allow to boot on USB. Is it possible to store the Live-CD on the USB harddrive so I could have a bootable system that will work on any computer I use ? And for older computers that does not allow to boot on USB, is it possible to modify the Live-CD in order to add a grub boot option wich boot the kernel on the cd, then mount an USB mass-storage device as the root partition in order to use the system on the USB mass storage device instead of the Live-CD ? I don't know anything about USB booting so please forgive me if my questions are silly. -- Fabien Meghazi http://www.amigrave.com From auspex at pointerstop.ca Wed May 25 01:23:23 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 22:23:23 -0300 Subject: Mount Storage Media In-Reply-To: <200505241607.10619.reb68@bellsouth.net> References: <200505241607.10619.reb68@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <200505242223.23712.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 17:07, Richard Barmann wrote: > My C Drive (which is Windows XP) shows up in storage media and I can open > it in Kate editor. In trying to download from it (Old Mail, Pictures, etc) > it always shows the drie mounted. When I boot up I get an error line. > "dev/hda1 on media/windows type NTFS (rw.error=remount-or)" > What is the remedy so I can unmount and mount this drive. Thank you. Well, you _can't_ mount NTFS rw, can you? So it looks correct. You've tried to mount RW (the default if it's in fstab) but it remounted it RO (or, as it says, OR), so you still see it when you want to use it. -- derek From auspex at pointerstop.ca Wed May 25 12:31:38 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:31:38 -0300 Subject: OT: USB booting the (k)ubuntu Live-CD In-Reply-To: <7772a2590505250319d26973d@mail.gmail.com> References: <7772a2590505250319d26973d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505250931.38519.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Wednesday 25 May 2005 07:19, Fabien Meghazi wrote: > > Is it possible to store the Live-CD on the USB harddrive so I could > have a bootable system that will work on any computer I use ? Just in case you don't get a better answer, I would have to say I think it _is_ possible ... but I can't tell you exactly how to do it :-( I have a USB drive enclosure which currently holds the drive from my old laptop (which was booting with grub). If I accidentally try to boot with the drive connected to my new laptop, it starts grub on the USB drive. It then fails because grub was configured to boot off /dev/hda and the partition is on /dev/sdb (or possibly /dev/sdc). I think if I just modified the grub configuration I could get it to boot. If you don't get a better answer today, I'll see if I can give it a try tonight. -- derek From amigrave at gmail.com Wed May 25 13:10:08 2005 From: amigrave at gmail.com (Fabien Meghazi) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 15:10:08 +0200 Subject: OT: USB booting the (k)ubuntu Live-CD In-Reply-To: <200505250931.38519.auspex@pointerstop.ca> References: <7772a2590505250319d26973d@mail.gmail.com> <200505250931.38519.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <7772a259050525061038f254e7@mail.gmail.com> > If I accidentally try to boot with the drive connected to my new laptop, it > starts grub on the USB drive. It then fails because grub was configured to > boot off /dev/hda and the partition is on /dev/sdb (or possibly /dev/sdc). I > think if I just modified the grub configuration I could get it to boot. If > you don't get a better answer today, I'll see if I can give it a try tonight. Ok I see, but it seems that in this case we have to know what is the root partition before booting. I wonder if there is a way to have grub dynamically choose the root partition. Eg: we have a drive with grub on the mbr and 3 partition on this drive, let's say that the system is on the 3rd partition, that would be great if we could say to grub's menu.lst to use the 3rd partition of the current device it is running on, so, by example, if the bios was asked to boot on usb and it started to boot using /dev/sdb grub would automatically call the kernel with root=/dev/sdb3 parameter From auspex at pointerstop.ca Wed May 25 14:43:50 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:43:50 -0300 Subject: OT: USB booting the (k)ubuntu Live-CD In-Reply-To: <7772a259050525061038f254e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <7772a2590505250319d26973d@mail.gmail.com> <200505250931.38519.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <7772a259050525061038f254e7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505251143.50241.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Wednesday 25 May 2005 10:10, Fabien Meghazi wrote: > > If I accidentally try to boot with the drive connected to my new laptop, > > it starts grub on the USB drive. It then fails because grub was > > configured to boot off /dev/hda and the partition is on /dev/sdb (or > > possibly /dev/sdc). I think if I just modified the grub configuration I > > could get it to boot. If you don't get a better answer today, I'll see > > if I can give it a try tonight. > > Ok I see, but it seems that in this case we have to know what is the root > partition before booting. I wonder if there is a way to have grub > dynamically choose the root partition. > > Eg: we have a drive with grub on the mbr and 3 partition on this > drive, let's say > that the system is on the 3rd partition, that would be great if we > could say to grub's > menu.lst to use the 3rd partition of the current device it is running on, > so, by example, if the bios was asked to boot on usb and it started to > boot using /dev/sdb grub would automatically call the kernel > with root=/dev/sdb3 parameter It needs to know where to find menu.lst, first... I really don't think it's that big a deal. If you want to boot off usb, you're well advised to have only _one_ device connected as you boot, so plug in the memory stick or USB drive and it should always come up with the same ID. In my case, it could have been sdb or sdc depending on whether I had both my drive and my memory stick connected, and which was inserted first. -- derek From reb68 at bellsouth.net Wed May 25 15:38:34 2005 From: reb68 at bellsouth.net (Richard Barmann) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:38:34 -0400 Subject: Webcam Message-ID: <200505251138.59385.reb68@bellsouth.net> When I installed Ver. 3.4 it did not recognize my web cam. I don't seem tp be able to find the list of devices (camera/printer/scanner) as I could in earlier versions. How can I find this and install it. It was working in Ubuntu with Gnome Messanger. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 26 02:11:19 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:11:19 -0400 Subject: thinking about switching Message-ID: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> Hey I love ubuntu, but I just got an educational copy of Maya 6.5 it sais that I need REdHat or Suse. I would like to know if someone has mange to get it working in ubuntu. I really like ubuntu and would like to keep it. From senectus at gmail.com Thu May 26 05:19:05 2005 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:19:05 +0800 Subject: thinking about switching In-Reply-To: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> References: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> Message-ID: On 5/26/05, Sara Vasquez wrote: > Hey > I love ubuntu, but I just got an educational copy of Maya 6.5 it sais > that I need REdHat or Suse. I would like to know if someone has mange to > get it working in ubuntu. I really like ubuntu and would like to keep it. > What are the specific requirements for it? -- Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 Our OS who art in CPU, LINUX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! http://www.modmeup.net From auspex at pointerstop.ca Thu May 26 12:34:23 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:34:23 -0300 Subject: thinking about switching In-Reply-To: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> References: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> Message-ID: <200505260934.23176.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:11, Sara Vasquez wrote: > Hey > I love ubuntu, but I just got an educational copy of Maya 6.5 it sais > that I need REdHat or Suse. I would like to know if someone has mange to > get it working in ubuntu. I really like ubuntu and would like to keep it. I wouldn't know about Maya, but I installed Oracle 10g a few weeks back, and it also only (supposedly) works in RedHat and a couple of other distros. Fooling the installer into thinking it was RedHat was a simple matter of creating the file /etc/redhat-release and putting one line in it: Red Hat Linux release 2.1 (drupal) However, the first time I installed an Oracle database it had major headaches because it was relying on redhat patched libraries, so you could have the same sort of problem. -- derek From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 26 12:41:59 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:41:59 -0400 Subject: thinking about switching In-Reply-To: References: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> Message-ID: <4295C417.9020407@verizon.net> Senectus . wrote: >On 5/26/05, Sara Vasquez wrote: > > >>Hey >>I love ubuntu, but I just got an educational copy of Maya 6.5 it sais >>that I need REdHat or Suse. I would like to know if someone has mange to >>get it working in ubuntu. I really like ubuntu and would like to keep it. >> >> >> >What are the specific requirements for it? > > > OK I have all the hardware requirements, but I don't know about the operating system this link explain the datails http://www.alias.com/eng/support/maya/qualified_hardware/QUAL/maya_65_linux.html I am new so I don't understand all that they are requesting From edcogburn at hotpop.com Thu May 26 15:07:54 2005 From: edcogburn at hotpop.com (Ed Cogburn) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:07:54 -0400 Subject: thinking about switching References: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> <200505260934.23176.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: Derek Broughton wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:11, Sara Vasquez wrote: >> Hey >> I love ubuntu, but I just got an educational copy of Maya 6.5 it sais >> that I need REdHat or Suse. I would like to know if someone has mange to >> get it working in ubuntu. I really like ubuntu and would like to keep it. > > > However, the first time I installed an Oracle database it had major > headaches because it was relying on redhat patched libraries, so you could > have the same sort of problem. To the OP: FWIW, I think the library issue is bogus too. That note Maya has about non-Redhat distros refers to a glibc function (__cxa_atexit) that's been part of glibc's API since 2.1.something. Its first mentioned in the ChangeLogs around 5 *years* ago, and last mentioned ~3 years ago, so I suspect that warning of theirs has been obsolete for around 3 *years*. All mainstream Linux distros are using a glibc that's less than 3 years old! Yes, I just happen to have the glibc sources unpacked on my system, and did a quick grep on them - however I'm not a libc hacker, so keep in mind that I could just be an idiot pretending to have a clue. :) As Derek said, they could be making certain assumptions that the system library and/or kernel have specific RedHat patches in them, but they don't mention anything like that. My guess is similar to Derek's: if you can fool their installer into thinking its on an "approved" system it will more than likely work. Unfortunately, that "fooling" part could itself get complicated. :( From sarava at verizon.net Thu May 26 15:05:15 2005 From: sarava at verizon.net (Sara Vasquez) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:05:15 -0400 Subject: thinking about switching In-Reply-To: References: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> <200505260934.23176.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <4295E5AB.30801@verizon.net> Ed Cogburn wrote: >Derek Broughton wrote: > > >>On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:11, Sara Vasquez wrote: >> >> >>>Hey >>>I love ubuntu, but I just got an educational copy of Maya 6.5 it sais >>>that I need REdHat or Suse. I would like to know if someone has mange to >>>get it working in ubuntu. I really like ubuntu and would like to keep it. >>> >>> >>However, the first time I installed an Oracle database it had major >>headaches because it was relying on redhat patched libraries, so you could >>have the same sort of problem. >> >> > > >To the OP: FWIW, I think the library issue is bogus too. That note Maya >has about non-Redhat distros refers to a glibc function (__cxa_atexit) >that's been part of glibc's API since 2.1.something. Its first mentioned >in the ChangeLogs around 5 *years* ago, and last mentioned ~3 years ago, so >I suspect that warning of theirs has been obsolete for around 3 *years*. >All mainstream Linux distros are using a glibc that's less than 3 years >old! > >Yes, I just happen to have the glibc sources unpacked on my system, and did >a quick grep on them - however I'm not a libc hacker, so keep in mind that >I could just be an idiot pretending to have a clue. :) > >As Derek said, they could be making certain assumptions that the system >library and/or kernel have specific RedHat patches in them, but they don't >mention anything like that. My guess is similar to Derek's: if you can >fool their installer into thinking its on an "approved" system it will more >than likely work. Unfortunately, that "fooling" part could itself get >complicated. :( > > > > > SO i have someone that is gong to help me getting it install he never tried in debian , but maybe both of us can get it to work I'll let you know after the weekend. thanks to all From joz_mak at yahoo.ca Thu May 26 16:12:26 2005 From: joz_mak at yahoo.ca (j Mak) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:12:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: thinking about switching In-Reply-To: 6667 Message-ID: <20050526161226.83805.qmail@web14624.mail.yahoo.com> Hi Sara I am looking forward hearing about your experience with the installation process; I also have Maya but dont know how to install it on ubuntu. Regards, jozsefmak > > > SO i have someone that is gong to help me getting it > install he never > tried in debian , but maybe both of us can get it to > work I'll let you > know after the weekend. > thanks to all > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca From rsevenic at netscape.net Thu May 26 16:59:44 2005 From: rsevenic at netscape.net (rsevenic at netscape.net) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:59:44 -0400 Subject: intersil prism2 Message-ID: <60064CAE.0DC26400.00A98093@netscape.net> I am a kubuntu newbie. I have successfully installed kubuntu on a toshiba satellite A25-S207 laptop. The only problem on this machine is that I cannot connect to my WAP with the internal intersil prism2 recognized card. It is seen as eth1. Now if I insert a Linksys WPC11 ver.3 pcmcia card, it is recognized as eth2. I can connect with this card. In both cases I use a self-concocted script, using the appropriate interface name in each case (eth1 fails, eth2 succeeds). My guess is that, the problem is one of these options: * hardware is bad * driver is flawed * card is 'misrecognized' and is really something else. Any suggestions? I can send copious printouts etc., but will wait until I see if I strike gold with a user who has successfully surmounted this problem. Regards, Richard, der Alter __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp From auspex at pointerstop.ca Thu May 26 17:07:53 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 14:07:53 -0300 Subject: thinking about switching In-Reply-To: <4295E5AB.30801@verizon.net> References: <42953047.7090808@verizon.net> <4295E5AB.30801@verizon.net> Message-ID: <200505261407.54051.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Thursday 26 May 2005 12:05, Sara Vasquez wrote: > > SO i have someone that is gong to help me getting it install he never > tried in debian , but maybe both of us can get it to work I'll let you > know after the weekend. You really need to learn to google. "Maya linux debian" shows any number of people using it with debian. http://tinyurl.com/7heg2 looks pretty complete. I'm not too sure about step (3) "remove lesstif" - that's likely to cause problems of its own (removing anything you've already installed that needs motif). You really want to replace lesstif with openmotif. -- derek From cramos at gmail.com Thu May 26 18:34:25 2005 From: cramos at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar_Ramos?=) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:34:25 +0200 Subject: Problem updating kde!! Message-ID: <53eaf73005052611346de275cb@mail.gmail.com> When I will dist-update, I have problem!!! why? The following packages will be REMOVED: akregator amarok amarok-arts ark artsbuilder dcoprss digikam gwenview juk k3b k3blibs kaddressbook kaffeine kalarm kamera kappfinder karm kate kaudiocreator kcalc kcharselect kcontrol kcron kde-style-lipstik kdeadmin kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdegraphics kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork kdenetwork-filesharing kdenetwork-kfile-plugins kdepasswd kdepim kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdepim-wizards kdeprint kdesktop kdeutils kdm kfind kfloppy kgamma kghostview kgpg khelpcenter kicker kitchensync klaptopdaemon klipper kmail kmailcvt kmenuedit kmilo kmix kmrml knewsticker knode knotes kolourpaint konq-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konserve konsole konsolekalendar kontact konversation kooka kopete korganizer kpager kpdf kpersonalizer kpf kpilot kppp krdc kregexpeditor krfb kscd kscreensaver ksim ksmserver ksnapshot ksplash ksvg ksync ktnef kubuntu-default-settings kuser kwalletmanager kwifimanager kwin libarts1 libarts1-xine libdbus-qt-1-1 libkcal2a libkcddb1 libkdepim1 libkexif1 libkgantt0 libkipi0 libkleopatra0a libkonq4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1 libksieve0 libktnef1 libmimelib1a libmusicbrainz4 libopenexr2 libqt3c102-mt librss1 libtag1 libtunepimp2 networkstatus openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org2-kde secpolicy The following NEW packages will be installed: libarts1c2 libedit2 libmusicbrainz4c2 libopenexr2c2 libqt3-mt libtag1c2 libtunepimp2c2 The following packages have been kept back: aspell-en python2.4-id3lib The following packages will be upgraded: akode arts bash imagemagick libarts1-audiofile libmagick6 libtunepimp-bin logrotate openssh-client pinentry-qt zip From jr at jriddell.org Thu May 26 18:39:09 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:39:09 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Problem updating kde!! In-Reply-To: <53eaf73005052611346de275cb@mail.gmail.com> References: <53eaf73005052611346de275cb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050526183909.GV23128@muse.19inch.net> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:34:25PM +0200, C?sar Ramos wrote: > When I will dist-update, I have problem!!! why? > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > akregator amarok amarok-arts ark artsbuilder dcoprss digikam gwenview juk > etc Because you're using breezy which is currently in the middle of a large c++ transition. It should have settled down by next week, in the mean time best not to use breezy on anything too important. Jonathan Riddell From auspex at pointerstop.ca Fri May 27 00:18:01 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:18:01 -0300 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Problem updating kde!! In-Reply-To: <20050526183909.GV23128@muse.19inch.net> References: <53eaf73005052611346de275cb@mail.gmail.com> <20050526183909.GV23128@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505262118.01436.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Thursday 26 May 2005 15:39, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:34:25PM +0200, C?sar Ramos wrote: > > When I will dist-update, I have problem!!! why? > > > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > akregator amarok amarok-arts ark artsbuilder dcoprss digikam gwenview > > juk etc > > Because you're using breezy which is currently in the middle of a > large c++ transition. > > It should have settled down by next week, in the mean time best not to > use breezy on anything too important. And note, he didn't even have to ask you _what_ release you were using (or what command you really issued). Please don't use dist-upgrade indiscriminately. Breezy isn't supposed to be stable, and there will always be times like this that things will break with a dist-upgrade. I do "aptitude update; aptitude --download-only dist-upgrade", daily (because I have a fast pipe) in a cron job. Then later I'll do "aptitude dist-upgrade" and if it tells me it wants to remove anything that looks important, I cancel and do an upgrade, instead. Upgrade will update anything that can be safely done without removing anything else or installing anything new. If the dist-upgrade showed new packages would be installed, I might try installing them, too, but only if I have too much time on my hands. -- derek From reb68 at bellsouth.net Fri May 27 10:25:41 2005 From: reb68 at bellsouth.net (Richard Barmann) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 06:25:41 -0400 Subject: How to install webcam Message-ID: <200505270625.59799.reb68@bellsouth.net> I have not been able to install the Logitec Cam in this version. I am very new so I need help in the steps. Any asistance is appreciated. Thank you. Dick Barmann -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you. >Dick Barmann > > Installation webcam Labtec (Logitech express) 1) Firstly, to update your Kubuntu with Kudos (How to add extra repositories? ) http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kf1.html#h2add (My Kernel in Kubuntu is 2.6.10-5.386) 1) with Synaptic, install: linux-source-2.6.10 2) install: linux-headers-2.6.10-5-386 3) install: 'qc-usb-source' et 'qc-usb-utils' 4) install: 'gcc', 'xawtv', 'v4l-conf', 'libpt-plugins-v4l' 5) In windows terminal, write: sudo konqueror 6) in /etc/src, with 'ark' , to extract the contents from 'qc-usb-modules.tar.gz' in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.10-5.386 7) windows terminal, go in the file: cd /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.10-5.386/modules and write: sudo ./quickcam.sh 8) if all this master key well, has the end have gives: modprobe quickcam Edit file 'modules' who is in /etc and to write: modprobe quickcam (this for the initialization of the webcam to the start of the PC) From auspex at pointerstop.ca Fri May 27 14:38:27 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:38:27 -0300 Subject: KDE menus Message-ID: <200505271138.27250.auspex@pointerstop.ca> I'm struggling to understand Kubuntu, KDE & XDG and how it all interacts to create the K menu. These look normal: derek at othello:~$ kde-config --path xdgdata-apps /home/derek/.local/share/applications/:/usr/share/applications/ derek at othello:~$ kde-config --path xdgconf-menu /home/derek/.config/menus/:/etc/xdg/menus/ However, there are many KDE utilities that have no menu entries (e.g., kappfinder), and reinstalling still doesn't create one, even though it apparently should. Then when I installed CrossOver office, I couldn't get the CrossOver menu entries either. From what little I understand of XDG, they should be there. Does Kubuntu actually suppress menus? If so, how can I stop it? All those , , and tags in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu are pretty confusing, and I suspect somehow it's in there. -- derek From jr at jriddell.org Fri May 27 15:19:52 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:19:52 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] KDE menus In-Reply-To: <200505271138.27250.auspex@pointerstop.ca> References: <200505271138.27250.auspex@pointerstop.ca> Message-ID: <20050527151952.GA23128@muse.19inch.net> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:38:27AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > I'm struggling to understand Kubuntu, KDE & XDG and how it all interacts to > create the K menu. > > These look normal: > derek at othello:~$ kde-config --path xdgdata-apps > /home/derek/.local/share/applications/:/usr/share/applications/ > derek at othello:~$ kde-config --path xdgconf-menu > /home/derek/.config/menus/:/etc/xdg/menus/ That's all correct. The root file has been moved to /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu from /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to stop clashes with Gnome. > However, there are many KDE utilities that have no menu entries (e.g., > kappfinder), and reinstalling still doesn't create one, even though it > apparently should. If you look in /usr/share/applications/kde/kappfinder.desktop You'll see I added Hidden=true which has been added to various .desktop files to keep the menu simple. Actually it should be NoDisplay=true, that'll be fixed for breezy. > Then when I installed CrossOver office, I couldn't get the CrossOver menu > entries either. Where does it install it's .desktop files and what does the Categories= field say? Jonathan Riddell From auspex at pointerstop.ca Fri May 27 16:17:12 2005 From: auspex at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:17:12 -0300 Subject: [kubuntu-users] KDE menus In-Reply-To: <20050527151952.GA23128@muse.19inch.net> References: <200505271138.27250.auspex@pointerstop.ca> <20050527151952.GA23128@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505271317.12721.auspex@pointerstop.ca> On Friday 27 May 2005 12:19, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:38:27AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > However, there are many KDE utilities that have no menu entries (e.g., > > kappfinder), and reinstalling still doesn't create one, even though it > > apparently should. > > If you look in > > /usr/share/applications/kde/kappfinder.desktop > > You'll see I added > > Hidden=true > > which has been added to various .desktop files to keep the menu > simple. I've got nothing against keeping the menu simple, but there needs to be a reasonably simple way to get these desktop files _back_ into the menu if you want them. The reason I was looking for kappfinder was specifically to see if it could help with this - and afaict, it can't. It's silly that I can add X apps to the menu with kappfinder, but I can't add KDE apps! > Actually it should be NoDisplay=true, that'll be fixed for breezy. > > > Then when I installed CrossOver office, I couldn't get the CrossOver menu > > entries either. > > Where does it install it's .desktop files and what does the > Categories= field say? No categories - which I suspect is the problem, but there needs to be a way for legacy apps to get into the menu. If I'm right about this, it would seem that the default /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu needs to have an entry somewhere with Legacy, right? In both /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged and ~/.config/menus/applications-merged there is a cxlegacy.menu file, which contains: Applications /home/derek/cxoffice/support/xdg-legacy-menus which also looks right. The xdg-legacy-menus directory contains two directories, which in turn contain other directories or .desktop files - which seems to be exactly what a should have. -- derek From franka at svpal.org Fri May 27 19:32:06 2005 From: franka at svpal.org (Frank Arnold) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:32:06 -0700 Subject: Ubuntu Live CD Message-ID: <200505271232.07082.franka@svpal.org> So what happened to the Ubuntdu Live CD ISO? I wanted to show it to a fiend but the download turned out to be the install CD Frank Arnold From trygvebw at gmail.com Fri May 27 19:45:49 2005 From: trygvebw at gmail.com (trygvebw) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 21:45:49 +0200 Subject: Ubuntu Live CD In-Reply-To: <200505271232.07082.franka@svpal.org> References: <200505271232.07082.franka@svpal.org> Message-ID: What, are you sure? Remember that the LiveCD also has a debian-installer process to set it up. trygvebw On 5/27/05, Frank Arnold wrote: > > So what happened to the Ubuntdu Live CD ISO? > I wanted to show it to a fiend but the download turned out > to be the install CD > Frank Arnold > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Using non-local time zone: Europe/London 14:24:06 Could not open the calendar databases. 14:24:06 The conduit vcal-conduit could not be executed. 14:24:06 [Conduit abbrowser_conduit] 14:24:06 Unable to open the addressbook databases on the handheld. 14:24:06 The conduit abbrowser_conduit could not be executed. 14:24:06 [Conduit todo-conduit] 14:24:06 Syncing with standard calendar resource. 14:24:06 Using non-local time zone: Europe/London 14:24:06 Could not open the calendar databases. 14:24:06 The conduit todo-conduit could not be executed. 14:24:07 [Conduit sysinfo_conduit] 14:24:15 Backing up: MailDB 14:24:15 Backup of MailDB failed. 14:24:15 Backing up: MemoDB 14:24:16 Backup of MemoDB failed. 14:24:16 Backing up: ConnectionMgrDB 14:24:16 Backup of ConnectionMgrDB failed. 14:24:17 Backing up: NetworkDB 14:24:17 Backup of NetworkDB failed. 14:24:18 Backing up: npadDB 14:24:18 Backup of npadDB failed. 14:24:18 Backing up: PhoneRegistryDB 14:24:19 Backup of PhoneRegistryDB failed. Nothing is copied to the PC or Palm. Any ideas why the conduits and backups are failing? Thanks From liz at kandew.com Sat May 28 17:22:20 2005 From: liz at kandew.com (Liz Young) Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 10:22:20 -0700 Subject: Kontact Settings>Show Extension Bar problem Message-ID: <200505281022.20981.liz@kandew.com> Hi, I'm seeking confirmation of this problem on Hoary: Choosing the Distribution List editor in Kontact/Contacts works the first time with Settings>Show Extension Bar. After switching to Mail, and then back to Contacts, the Show Extension Bar list is empty. I can recreate this on every (re)launch of Kontact. I managed to hang Kontact completely while testing this problem (not every time), and fixed that by removing kontactrc and restarting. Launched from konsole shows this repeatedly until killed: QButton::setState() / setOn: (unnamed) Only toggle buttons may be switched I tried to recreate outside of Kontact, and hit another snag where Kmail Tools>Addressbook does nothing, and I have to launch it separately but once it's up Kaddressbook Settings>Show Extension Bar works as expected. I looked on b.k.o, and there are similar issues (nothing exact). Maybe it's fixed in 3.4.1? -Liz From liz at kandew.com Sun May 29 00:18:11 2005 From: liz at kandew.com (Liz Young) Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 17:18:11 -0700 Subject: Kontact Settings>Show Extension Bar problem In-Reply-To: <200505281022.20981.liz@kandew.com> References: <200505281022.20981.liz@kandew.com> Message-ID: <200505281718.11933.liz@kandew.com> Bad form, replying to myself... On Saturday 28 May 2005 10:22 am, Liz Young wrote: > I looked on b.k.o, and there are similar issues (nothing exact). http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103438 Sorry for the noise. -Liz From svloon at xs4all.nl Sun May 29 19:54:23 2005 From: svloon at xs4all.nl (Sander van Loon) Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 21:54:23 +0200 Subject: converting mp3/ogg into wav In-Reply-To: <200505281331.15551.ftp@atalos.com> References: <200505281331.15551.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <200505292154.23964.svloon@xs4all.nl> Google for the sound editor Audicity. I'm not sure if it can do that but I suspect it can. On Saturday 28 May 2005 13:31, FTP wrote: > Hi, > > any good suggestion about a tool that converts mp3/ogg back to wav? > > Thanks > > George From ftp at atalos.com Sun May 29 20:33:33 2005 From: ftp at atalos.com (FTP) Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 22:33:33 +0200 Subject: converting mp3/ogg into wav In-Reply-To: <200505292154.23964.svloon@xs4all.nl> References: <200505281331.15551.ftp@atalos.com> <200505292154.23964.svloon@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <200505292233.33674.ftp@atalos.com> Indeed! Thanks George On Sunday 29 May 2005 21:54, Sander van Loon wrote: > Google for the sound editor Audicity. I'm not sure if it can do that but I > suspect it can. > > On Saturday 28 May 2005 13:31, FTP wrote: > > Hi, > > > > any good suggestion about a tool that converts mp3/ogg back to wav? > > > > Thanks > > > > George From sebas at kde.nl Sun May 29 21:38:23 2005 From: sebas at kde.nl (Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?=) Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 23:38:23 +0200 Subject: converting mp3/ogg into wav In-Reply-To: <200505281331.15551.ftp@atalos.com> References: <200505281331.15551.ftp@atalos.com> Message-ID: <200505292338.28620.sebas@kde.nl> On Saturday 28 May 2005 13:31, FTP wrote: > any good suggestion about a tool that converts mp3/ogg back to wav? Xmms can do that, just choose "Disk Writer Plugin" as output plugin and specify the filename via "Configure". 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To script a whole directory into wav's you might want to try something like this (untested off-the-top-of-my-head hack): for MP3 in `ls -d *.mp3` do WAV=`echo $MP3|sed s/\.mp3$//` echo "Converting $MP3 -> $WAV.wav" mpg321 -w $WAV.wav $MP3 done This script assumes it is running in the same directory as the mp3's and your mp3 collection all have extensions with ".mp3" (ie lower case). Play with the WAV=`....` if your filenames aren't output properly :) Cheers, James -- Too much of everything is just enough. -- Bob Wier -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From info at callacd.com Mon May 30 09:10:45 2005 From: info at callacd.com (Michael Wagner) Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 11:10:45 +0200 Subject: Ubuntu Live CD In-Reply-To: References: <200505271232.07082.franka@svpal.org> Message-ID: <429AD895.9030004@callacd.com> trygvebw schrieb: > What, are you sure? Remember that the LiveCD also has a debian-installer > process to set it up. > > trygvebw > > On 5/27/05, *Frank Arnold* > > wrote: > > So what happened to the Ubuntdu Live CD ISO? > I wanted to show it to a fiend but the download turned out > to be the install CD > Frank Arnold > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > > Hi, Just curious: Can I start the the real installation process from a live cd? Like the various knoppix installers? Thanks Michael From carney1979 at gmail.com Tue May 31 02:08:33 2005 From: carney1979 at gmail.com (David M. Carney) Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 22:08:33 -0400 Subject: Trash Message-ID: <200505302208.33727.carney1979@gmail.com> Is it possible to have a trashcan on my desktop instead of as an applet on the panel? David -- Registered Linux User #297958 http://carney1979.blogspot.com/ From hrumland at telusplanet.net Tue May 31 04:17:23 2005 From: hrumland at telusplanet.net (hrumland at telusplanet.net) Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 22:17:23 -0600 Subject: kcore file 1GB HD space (need help) !! Message-ID: <200505302217.23641.hrumland@telusplanet.net> Hi everyone, I have discovered recently that I have a kcore file on Kubuntu with a file size of 1 GB in my /proc file system. I realized that for a while the harddrive was constantly writing and that the harddrive space decreased rapidly. This happend also in UBUNTU once resulting in filling up the harddrive space to 95% with bad results. Now I need to know how I can delete this file from the proc file system and how I can make sure that this is not any more happen as this is the result of a crash core dump ???? Can anybody help ?? Thanks in advanced Holger From martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk Tue May 31 06:05:44 2005 From: martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk (Martin J Hooper) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 07:05:44 +0100 Subject: kcore file 1GB HD space (need help) !! In-Reply-To: <200505302217.23641.hrumland@telusplanet.net> References: <200505302217.23641.hrumland@telusplanet.net> Message-ID: hrumland at telusplanet.net wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have discovered recently that I have a kcore file on Kubuntu with a file > size of 1 GB in my /proc file system. I realized that for a while the > harddrive was constantly writing and that the harddrive space decreased > rapidly. This happend also in UBUNTU once resulting in filling up the > harddrive space to 95% with bad results. Now I need to know how I can delete > this file from the proc file system and how I can make sure that this is not > any more happen as this is the result of a crash core dump ???? > > Can anybody help ?? > > Thanks in advanced > > Holger > I wouldn't worry about it actually. The /proc filesystem's contents are in memory instead of actually on the hard disc. Hope thats right! Am I right there? From hig at nic.fi Tue May 31 06:20:31 2005 From: hig at nic.fi (hig at nic.fi) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:20:31 +0300 (EEST) Subject: remove me from your mailinglist Message-ID: <10620067.1117520431879.JavaMail.hig@nic.fi> I have Suse now, so remove my name from your list Thanks hig at nic.fi Higgins Jari Hikipää From senectus at gmail.com Tue May 31 06:23:44 2005 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:23:44 +0800 Subject: remove me from your mailinglist In-Reply-To: <10620067.1117520431879.JavaMail.hig@nic.fi> References: <10620067.1117520431879.JavaMail.hig@nic.fi> Message-ID: We can't do that, it's up to you to do that here: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users Enjoy your Suse and when you back you'll be welcome again ;-) On 5/31/05, hig at nic.fi wrote: > > I have Suse now, so remove my name from your list > > Thanks > > hig at nic.fi > Higgins > Jari Hikipää > > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > -- Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 Our OS who art in CPU, LINUX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! http://www.modmeup.net From opi at cyb3r.org Tue May 31 07:35:36 2005 From: opi at cyb3r.org (Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:35:36 +0200 Subject: remove me from your mailinglist In-Reply-To: <10620067.1117520431879.JavaMail.hig@nic.fi> References: <10620067.1117520431879.JavaMail.hig@nic.fi> Message-ID: <200505310935.36487.opi@cyb3r.org> On Tuesday 31 of May 2005 08:20, hig at nic.fi wrote: > I have Suse now, so remove my name from your list Good luck with SuSE. But we didn't subscribe you to the list. You did. Look at the bottom of the posts. There's a magic URL there. -- Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, http://bronikowski.com From brutuli at yahoo.it Tue May 31 08:59:03 2005 From: brutuli at yahoo.it (Alessandro Puiatti) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:59:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: intersil prism2 Message-ID: <20050531085903.20583.qmail@web26909.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Dear Richards, I don't see any problem in the name of the network card, it could be wlan0 or eth1, that means that the ethernet card is eth0, or another else. I need to know what are the answers at these commands: iwconfig iwlist eth1 scan ifconfig Could you send me what are the printout of these commands on the konsol? Probably you have to run iwlist with sudo or like root. Bye Alessandro rsevenic at netscape.net wrote: >I am a kubuntu newbie. I have successfully installed kubuntu on a toshiba satellite A25-S207 laptop. The only problem on this machine is that I cannot connect to my WAP with the internal intersil prism2 recognized card. It is seen as eth1. > >Now if I insert a Linksys WPC11 ver.3 pcmcia card, it is recognized as eth2. I can connect with this card. > >In both cases I use a self-concocted script, using the appropriate interface name in each case (eth1 fails, eth2 succeeds). My guess is that, the problem is one of these options: >* hardware is bad >* driver is flawed >* card is 'misrecognized' and is really something else. > >Any suggestions? I can send copious printouts etc., but will wait until I see if I strike gold with a user who has successfully surmounted this problem. > >Regards, >Richard, der Alter > > >__________________________________________________________________ >Switch to Netscape Internet Service. >As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register > >Netscape. Just the Net You Need. > >New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer >Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. >Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp > ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.beta.messenger.yahoo.com From jr at jriddell.org Tue May 31 09:40:58 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:40:58 +0100 Subject: [kubuntu-users] Re: kcore file 1GB HD space (need help) !! In-Reply-To: References: <200505302217.23641.hrumland@telusplanet.net> Message-ID: <20050531094058.GK23128@muse.19inch.net> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 07:05:44AM +0100, Martin J Hooper wrote: > hrumland at telusplanet.net wrote: > >Hi everyone, > >I have discovered recently that I have a kcore file on Kubuntu with a file > >size of 1 GB in my /proc file system. I realized that for a while the > >harddrive was constantly writing and that the harddrive space decreased > >rapidly. This happend also in UBUNTU once resulting in filling up the > >harddrive space to 95% with bad results. Now I need to know how I can > >delete this file from the proc file system and how I can make sure that > >this is not any more happen as this is the result of a crash core dump ???? > > I wouldn't worry about it actually. The /proc filesystem's contents are > in memory instead of actually on the hard disc. > > Hope thats right! Am I right there? Yes, /proc/kcore is a way of accessing your computer's memory, if you have a 1GB file there it means you are lucky enough to have a machine with 1GB of memory. I takes up no space on the hard disk. Jonathan Riddell From jr at jriddell.org Tue May 31 15:08:46 2005 From: jr at jriddell.org (Jonathan Riddell) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:08:46 +0100 Subject: KDE 3.4.1 packages Message-ID: <20050531150846.GU23128@muse.19inch.net> KDE 3.4.1 packages are available for hoary from this deb source (edit /etc/apt/sources.list) deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu hoary-updates main At time of writing most of the mirrors have not updated so you can use the master server at deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu hoary-updates main but it may well be slow/overloaded. You can also get packages of KOffice 1.4 beta from deb http://download.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.4-beta1/kubuntu ./ Jonathan Riddell From carney1979 at gmail.com Tue May 31 15:45:19 2005 From: carney1979 at gmail.com (David M. Carney) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 11:45:19 -0400 Subject: KDE 3.4.1 packages In-Reply-To: <20050531150846.GU23128@muse.19inch.net> References: <20050531150846.GU23128@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <200505311145.20018.carney1979@gmail.com> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:08, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > KDE 3.4.1 packages are available for hoary from this deb source (edit > /etc/apt/sources.list) > > deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu hoary-updates main > > At time of writing most of the mirrors have not updated so you can use > the master server at > > deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu hoary-updates main > > but it may well be slow/overloaded. > > > You can also get packages of KOffice 1.4 beta from > > deb http://download.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.4-beta1/kubuntu ./ > > Jonathan Riddell ...waiting anxiously to hear if this breaks anyone's Kubuntu.... David -- Registered Linux User #297958 http://carney1979.blogspot.com/ From opi at cyb3r.org Tue May 31 16:09:57 2005 From: opi at cyb3r.org (Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:09:57 +0200 Subject: KDE 3.4.1 packages In-Reply-To: <200505311145.20018.carney1979@gmail.com> References: <20050531150846.GU23128@muse.19inch.net> <200505311145.20018.carney1979@gmail.com> Message-ID: <200505311810.01248.opi@cyb3r.org> On Tuesday 31 of May 2005 17:45, David M. Carney wrote: > ...waiting anxiously to hear if this breaks anyone's Kubuntu.... I just noticed it! Apt-geting. :-) -- Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, http://bronikowski.com Monkey see, monkey do. Rather be dead than cool. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Then to Control Center > Desktop > Panels > Menus tab > Edit K Menu Where, in (Internet > ) Konqueror I changed the command from kfmclient openProfile Web Browsing to kfmclient openProfile EFW Then I allocated a keystroke to it (Also been good to move to "Windows Scheme (With Win Key)", in Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Scortcuts, as mentioned in another thread) Thanks again to Derek Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aikurn at gmail.com Tue May 31 20:49:47 2005 From: aikurn at gmail.com (Aikurn) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 22:49:47 +0200 Subject: Trash In-Reply-To: <200505302208.33727.carney1979@gmail.com> References: <200505302208.33727.carney1979@gmail.com> Message-ID: Yes, it is. Go to /home/youruser/Desktop and edit the file trash.desktop. Change the line Hidden=true, for Hidden=false. You may need to restart KDE. P.D: This is my first post to a mailing list, I hope I'm doing it right. L. Hernández 2005/5/31, David M. Carney : > > Is it possible to have a trashcan on my desktop instead of as an applet on > the > panel? > > David > > -- > Registered Linux User #297958 > http://carney1979.blogspot.com/ > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Australian mirrors here (each on one line - watch the wrap): deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/kde/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu hoary-updates main deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/KDE/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu hoary-updates main There's probably others but these have good bandwidth and update regularly. Pacific.net.au appears to be fully synchronised (from a casual browse). However Aarnet are NOT ready (right now) for "apt-get" yet. My guess is the master KDE distribution point is being hammered. Cheers, James -- QOTD: "It's a cold bowl of chili, when love don't work out." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Roel. >From: Jonathan Riddell >Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:08:46 +0100 > >KDE 3.4.1 packages are available for hoary from this deb source (edit >/etc/apt/sources.list) > > deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu hoary-updates main > >At time of writing most of the mirrors have not updated so you can use >the master server at > > deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu hoary-updates main > >but it may well be slow/overloaded. > > >You can also get packages of KOffice 1.4 beta from > > deb http://download.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.4-beta1/kubuntu ./ > >Jonathan Riddell > >-- >kubuntu-users mailing list >kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com >http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users _________________________________________________________________ Log på MSN Messenger direkte fra nettet http://webmessenger.msn.com/ From yann.boete at grupoantolin.com Fri May 27 08:04:06 2005 From: yann.boete at grupoantolin.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6ete_Yann?=) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:04:06 +0200 Subject: kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 36 Message-ID: Sara Vasquez wrote >Hey >I love ubuntu, but I just got an educational copy of Maya 6.5 it sais >that I need REdHat or Suse. I would like to know if someone has mange >to get it working in ubuntu. I really like ubuntu and would like to >keep it. I looked at http://www.alias.com/eng/support/maya/qualified_hardware/QUAL/maya_65_linux.html And it does seem that maya provides all libraries needed. Maybe you can play with the LDPAT variable environment. You can indicate a different libraries path instead of the standard one (look at http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html for more explanation) AFAIK, liking with library without a lot of care must be hazardous (program crash). Especially with non C library like the libstdc++. Each compiler, moreover, and some time each version of compiler write the libstc++ in a different way. And if your programme compiled with on version of g++ tried to load a C++ object in a libstd++ compiled with another version, it may cause a program crash. Sorry for my bad English, but French people doesn't be famous for their foreign language skill. -- Yann Boëté From tobias at karmabits.net Sun May 29 19:23:05 2005 From: tobias at karmabits.net (Tobias Eichert) Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 21:23:05 +0200 Subject: A general question regarding KDE releases Message-ID: Hello folks, regarding this thread http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2005-May/000810.html it seems that KDE 3.4.1 will only be available in Breezy - is it because of the major GCC transition? Will there be minor KDE updates (maybe a KDE "4.0.1" for Breezy when it's final) once the C++ ABI is more or less 'stable'? As minor releases are usually bugfix releases wouldn't it make sense to include them in Kubuntu's official releases? Well, lots of questions. :) Could you please CC me as I'm currently not subscribed to this list. Thanks and keep up the good work, Tobias From kpkp at gmx.net Sun May 29 20:30:13 2005 From: kpkp at gmx.net (GV) Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 22:30:13 +0200 Subject: converting mp3/ogg into wav In-Reply-To: <200505292154.23964.svloon@xs4all.nl> References: <200505281331.15551.ftp@atalos.com> <200505292154.23964.svloon@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <200505292230.13304.kpkp@gmx.net> damn right! I totally forgot Audacity. You are right! Thanks George On Sunday 29 May 2005 21:54, Sander van Loon wrote: > Google for the sound editor Audicity. I'm not sure if it can do that but I > suspect it can. > > On Saturday 28 May 2005 13:31, FTP wrote: > > Hi, > > > > any good suggestion about a tool that converts mp3/ogg back to wav? > > > > Thanks > > > > George