Re: [expert] Linuxconf+Harddrive+Netscape4.61
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Andrew Edwards wrote: I just did an install of Mandrake 6.0 and there are three things I can't resolve: 1. I used linuxconf in Redhat 6.0 to dial out with my external isdn modem (ifup ifdown) but in Mandrake linuxconf seems to connect but doesn't create the new route. I check make "default route" in the ppp configuration but it still does not resolve the problem. I have to use kppp to dial out. Maybe a linuxconf bug, have you tryed setting it up in netcfg? 2. My Harddrive access light stays lit but I don't hear the heads moving. I did a reinstall thinking this was autofs working it's magic but I still get the harddrive light that stays on. Should I be worried! I wouldn't be, mine never comes on. And yes it's pluged in and i've tested it with a battery, even cliped the lag off and switched polarity. and the blasted light never comes on. 3. Are there any issues between Mandrake 6.0 and Netscape 4.61..Whenever I try to access my email through an Outlook Web Access page Netscape just quits. I'll get to the page and type in my login info (usernamepasswaord) but once I hit enter, Netscape just quits. Some people have reported better luck useing the OK button opposed to pushing enter, but as Jean-Michel says the libc5 is a lot more stable. Thanks in advance! Andrew
Re: [expert] [Fwd: [OSS] 'man' Security Announcement]]
Axalon wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s). it's Suse specific, we don't have this bug. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Chmouel Thanks Chmouel I was wondering what's got to do with Mandrake or Red Hat anyway besides its relevant to kernel-2.3.10 and not 2.2.x ,M6 its using 2.2.9-27 Sergio, Um 1 thing.. man-2.3.10 not kernel- ;) and we're still not effected ooops... you're right, man-2.3.10 Sergio
Re: [expert] mount does not honor mode= on Joliet CDROM ?
Axalon wrote: I am just noticeing my cd the rpms don't have execbit in the first place. Do you mean, on a Linux installation cd, or on some JOLIET cd you made yourself ? If it's a linux cd, that's okay, because it has RockRidge extensions, and the permissions _are_ stored correctly on the cd. Besides, if the cd has RockRidge extensions, the mode= keyword is not valid (or ignored) as per the man page. Now, if it is a Joliet cd _without_ RockRidge (you can have the two, but not with Windows-based mastering software), this is _not_ the case for me: I always get xx--- (674, notice the exec bit for the group) on ALL files ... I make my cd's at my work-place, and have to use Windows-based software, so I use Joliet to be able at least to keep correct file names ... seems tobe the problem is in the joliet code, i suspect the permissions are correct before it changes the root on/of the fs Could be, did you find something specific ? Thanks anyway. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
Re: [expert] (no subject)
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Jim Adams wrote: Sorry guys if I opened a stinky can o' worms. But I really would like to know what has been substituted for /opt/kde? /usr Oh yes, BTW, what the heck is a "MOC". On this side of the Atlantic it is a type of leisure shoe. What does it have tro do with Linux and or KDE? /usr/bin/moc is a part of the Qt libraries. It creates a .moc file, which is a kind of preprocessor output for the header file, containing Qt definitions. LLaP bero
Re: [expert] mount does not honor mode= on Joliet CDROM ?
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: Axalon wrote: I am just noticeing my cd the rpms don't have execbit in the first place. Do you mean, on a Linux installation cd, or on some JOLIET cd you made yourself ? The Venus cd, i had forgotten you created your own. If it's a linux cd, that's okay, because it has RockRidge extensions, and the permissions _are_ stored correctly on the cd. Besides, if the cd has RockRidge extensions, the mode= keyword is not valid (or ignored) as per the man page. Now, if it is a Joliet cd _without_ RockRidge (you can have the two, but not with Windows-based mastering software), this is _not_ the case for me: I always get xx--- (674, notice the exec bit for the group) on ALL files ... I make my cd's at my work-place, and have to use Windows-based software, so I use Joliet to be able at least to keep correct file names ... I have seen windows software that could create anonymous rockridge, might have been nero not real sure of the name, might be of help. seems tobe the problem is in the joliet code, i suspect the permissions are correct before it changes the root on/of the fs Could be, did you find something specific ? Haven't investigated as of yet, i had actualy forgoten/overlooked the joliet extension till just prior the moment i typed it. Thanks anyway. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
Re: [expert] mount does not honor mode= on Joliet CDROM ?
Axalon wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: Axalon wrote: I am just noticeing my cd the rpms don't have execbit in the first place. Do you mean, on a Linux installation cd, or on some JOLIET cd you made yourself ? The Venus cd, i had forgotten you created your own. The Venus CD (which BTW I also have) is RockRidge only, not Joliet (AFAIK) and you're right, permissions are okay on that one. I should also have expressed it as joliet-ONLY in the thread title. I make my cd's at my work-place, and have to use Windows-based software, so I use Joliet to be able at least to keep correct file names ... I have seen windows software that could create anonymous rockridge, might have been nero not real sure of the name, might be of help. Could be, but it really doesn't say on their Web site. Besides, as I am using my company's cd-writer and software to burn my own cd's, I cannot very well choose the software ... (if I could, I'd use Linux and cdrecord ... sigh !!!) I'll have a good look at the joliet/vfat code, maybe I can find something. Anyway, IMHO, it's still a bug, because one can have very good reasons to want to _force_ the mode, and as the mode= keyword exists, it _should not_ be ignored even if the specific FS can't do it. At the very least, it should return some code or message ... Thanks anyway. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
[expert] Problems with XFree86
Hi, I%ve just upgraded my system to Mandrake 6.0 from Mandrake 5.3. I%m having problems with the XFree86 settings. I have a NEC 2V monitor and a Diamond Stealth 64 (S3_765). In the left corner I see all distortioned, like a small mirror from top to bottom. I%ve never have had that problems with the previous Mandrake. Any idea ?, please help!. Thanks in advance, Jorge Carminati. P.S.: I%ve played also with xvidtune but without succes.
[expert] Problem since update kdebase
Hi, Since i update the kdebase-###-final-11mdk the X font server's broken ./xfs stopfailed ./xfs startfailed Any idea ?
[expert] X Video Problems
I'm trying to get X running on my home-brewed AMDK6-2 system. Motherboard is a SiS M598 with built-in 8MB AGP 2D/3D accelerator and built-in audio. Linux Mandrake 6.0 installs fine. I tried using one of the SiS video adapter types and just a got a mess in X. Switched to SVGA server, configured for 1024x768, and I'm getting an X display but it's "squished" (for lack of a better word). It seems like the resolution switch after startx is causing problems with the monitor. It's an old Apple Multiple Scan multi-sync monitor with a PC-style cable adapter. I believe it's the 1705 (Shadow Mask tube, definitely not the Trinitron that was in the Multiple Scan 17). Anyway, the Apple Spec database lists 1024x768 as a supported Macintosh resolution, but only lists 800x600 as max resolution for EVGA. Could this be the problem? Should I configure for 800x600 only? However, 1024x768 works just find in Windows 98. Also, is there an X server that directly supports the video chipset on the SiS M598 motherboard? Lastly, should I expect the built-in audio on the board to work, or is it a lost cause? Any help would be appreciated. sanford
[expert] genhdlist
forget my earlier post i found genhdlist and ran it on my updates already. is there anything else that i need to do before i burn a cd.
Re: [expert] genhdlist
genhdlist is a script in the misc/src/install directory of the distribution.
Run it from the root of your distribution (ie the directory with RedHat,
misc, and Mandrake directories in, with the single argument '.' --
'misc/src/install/genhdlist .'
Before you burn a cd, make sure that the files in and under the
Mandrake/instimage directory have x (execute) permission set ('chmod -R +x
Mandrake/instimage').
Use the '-r' flag if you use mkisofs.
Read http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/bootable_cd.html for more info, or see
the page linked from the Mandrake FAQ.
Brook Humphrey wrote:
i have updated some of the files for my mandrake 6.0 and i wan't to burn
a cdrom ho do i regenerate the hdlist. i saw a post on this once before
that said to use genhdlist. but i'm not sure how to do this or where to
find genhdlist. i've tried man genhdlist but the entry doesn't exist.
also exactly what rpm is genhdlist in so i can track it down.
[expert] Keeping up to date on development rpms
I recently switched to Mandrake from RedHat 6.0/Rawhide. I used a utility called freshrpms to keep up to date with Rawhide. Unfortunately, it appears that because of Mandrake's naming convention (names ending in -NNNmdk.rpm) freshrpms doesn't work. Is there another utility people use? -Tom
[expert] Severe Modem/Parallel Zip Drive problems.
First things first, please don't tell me I have a "winmodem" or something like that without reading the whole message. Also, sorry for the length of the message, but I've had this problem for a while and I really need it fixed or Linux on my system will be completely useless. The two best methods I have for getting new packages and such to my box are out of commission and I can't read email or otherwise communicate with other netizens from my Linux install. Also, since this machine was also acting as a gateway for my other box... but enough whining. Basically, I get nothing when I try to use minicom to talk to the modem. I try "at" and I get no "ok" or anything else for that matter. I'm pretty sure I'm talking to the right serial port. Regardless, I've tried ttyS0-4 and since I only really have one Also, KPPP just tells me that the "modem is busy". The other problem is that when I try to 'modprobe ppa' to get my Zip drive working I get a "device or resource busy" error. As far as I can tell, setserial reports the right settings for the serial port for the modem and the 'modprobe ppa' in RH 5.2 at least, reports searching the right addresses for where the device should be. (I'm getting my ideas for what "right" is by looking at what Win '95 reports for the devices.) Both devices still work in Win '95. I've had RH 5.0 and 5.2 installed on this machine without seeing these problems. It first cropped up when I tried to install Mandrake 6.0 just to check it out. I then tried RH 6.0 and got the same problem. I figured it was just a 6.0 (or maybe a kernel 2.2) based thing so I tried re-installing RH 5.2. Well, the problem is still there. I'm completely clueless at this point as to what could have changed in between having a working RH 5.2 system and now not being able to get RH 5.2 to work. (I.E. no new hardware since 5.2 was working.) I find it hard to believe that installing Mandrake 6.0 could have actually *caused* this. BTW, each Linux OS install was from scratch -- that is, ext2fs partitions on hdb and the swap on hda were ditched and then re-created each time. That is one reason for the hda ext2fs partition. It holds /home and /etc data and such that I need. I usually mount it as /backup or something similar. Any ideas? Here's all the additional information I can think to give out: Dell Dimension PC 300 MHz PII On-board Yamaha OPLSA3 sound (overridden) One serial port Add-on boards Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT AGP Sound Blaster AWE 64 Linksys EtherLink 10-baseT PCI card (NE2000 PCI-compatible) Internal devices Default (not sure of brand) 6.4Gb Hard drive (hda) Western Digital 8Gb hard drive (hdb) 3.5" floppy drive Sony ATAPI Cd-Rom drive HP 8110i CD-RW drive External devices MS Intellimouse MS Natural Keyboard **Parallel Port ZIP drive (old, needs ppa, not imm) **Zoom 56K modem OSs Win '95 -- On two hda partitions and one partition on hdb RH 5.2 or 6.0 or Mandrake 6.0 -- On hdb in several partitions and the swap and one extra partition (not usually mounted) on hda. ** These two are the only things that don't work. Even the X Server works (although I have to upgrade in RH 5.2 to get a Riva TNT-compatible SVGA server). ~Mike
[expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit
Greetings. I have what seems to me to be a rather serious complaint/bug. I recently installed Mandrake 6.0. Shortly thereafter I started noticing hard disk problems that I couldn't explain, including filesystem corruption and I/O errors. I've had no problems with my disks before this. I eventually tracked down the problem to this code in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: # Optimisation of Hard drive. if [ -x /sbin/hdparm ];then LIST_HD=$(grep '^hd.*' /var/log/dmesg|\ grep -ivE '(CD.*ROM|FLOPPY|TAPE|STATUS)'|cut -d: -f1|sort|uniq) for i in $LIST_HD;do action "Starting Hard Drive optimisations for $i" \ hdparm -q -c1 -q -A1 -q -m16 -q -d1 /dev/$i done fi I moved hdparm from /sbin so this wouldn't run. The errors stopped and I've had no HD problems since. I don't know which setting was causing problems but the hdparm man page says this for the m switch: Some drives claim to support multiple mode, but lose data at some settings. Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in massive filesystem corruption. Given this warning, these settings seems like strange and bad defaults. At least I should be able to turn off these optimizations without having to move the hdparm executable, and I'd argue that rc.sysinit shouldn't be trying to optimize my hard disk at all since it doesn't know what it's dealing with. If I were a Linux newbie I'd probably never have figured out what was going on. Comments? Regards, -Tom PS. The latest initscripts rpm (4.23-1) in mandrake-devel still has these.
Re: [expert] Location of KDE files in Mv6.0 and Mandrake HomePage Gripe.
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Also, I don't know if you are the guy who controls the Mandrake-Answers page but it is very hard to find off of the main Mandrake page. Can someone put a link to it there in a place that makes sense. Maybe under documentation. I tried finding it last night and it took me forever and I'd found it once before. Think how newbies must feel. The Mandrake answers section should definately be under documentation and the netscape FAQ along with others should be under the FAQ's section of the main page. No, I'm not the author, it's Tom Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I'm just translating and putting the german version on my homepage. Npw that you are writing it...I never saw the Mandrake Answers mentioned on the Mandrake website. It should be somewhere under support. At least that's where I would look if I needed it. I guess Gael Duval maintains the Mdr website. Seems like he is occupied with other work though. wobo -- Linux Mandrake's Home: http://www.linux-mandrake.com Mandrake Answers(English): http://aolmfaq.tsx.org/faq.html Mandrake Answers(Deutsch): http://people.frankfurt.netsurf.de/wobo ## LLaP (Linux Lovers are Perfect!) #
Re: [expert] Location of KDE files in Mv6.0 and Mandrake HomePage Gripe.
Gael Duval wrote: The Netscape FAQ is available from http://www.leeloo.org/nsfaq/ - it has been linked from our support page since a few hours only. This document is now available in German too as a part of the german edition of Mandrake Answers (URL see signature)... if anybody cares... I definitely agree that the documentation section should be improved (it will be), but you know, each we modify a bit of information on the english Mandrake site, we should repercute the modification on all translated websites, it's a really big challenge (anyone interested in improving the system? ;)) I sent some comment on that to you per private mail. wobo -- Linux Mandrake's Home: http://www.linux-mandrake.com Mandrake Answers(English): http://aolmfaq.tsx.org/faq.html Mandrake Answers(DE): http://people.frankfurt.netsurf.de/wobo ## LLaP (Linux Lovers are Perfect!) #
[expert] VNC
Check this link out folks. It is a very good program. If you network this could be for you if you don't still may work for you. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ James J. Capone
Re: [expert] Severe Modem/Parallel Zip Drive problems.
If this is a pci/isa machine, make sure the IRQ you are reserving for the modem is available to legacy (isa) boards, if this is an isa modem, not a pci modem. you do this in the bios settings. otherwise, I'm not sure. bug On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mike Abney wrote: First things first, please don't tell me I have a "winmodem" or something like that without reading the whole message. Also, sorry for the length of the message, but I've had this problem for a while and I really need it fixed or Linux on my system will be completely useless. The two best methods I have for getting new packages and such to my box are out of commission and I can't read email or otherwise communicate with other netizens from my Linux install. Also, since this machine was also acting as a gateway for my other box... but enough whining. Basically, I get nothing when I try to use minicom to talk to the modem. I try "at" and I get no "ok" or anything else for that matter. I'm pretty sure I'm talking to the right serial port. Regardless, I've tried ttyS0-4 and since I only really have one Also, KPPP just tells me that the "modem is busy". The other problem is that when I try to 'modprobe ppa' to get my Zip drive working I get a "device or resource busy" error.
Re: [expert] rasterman
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Arandir wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: mike montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Heres a blurb I copied off of slashdot. page, Raster will soon join Mandrake as an Well mandrake is not our society it's the guy who make enlightenment with Raster. If Mandrake made Mandrake, we'd all have to wear our hair long and our hats backwards... -- Arandir... ___ http://www.meer.net/~arandir/ Thats by far the most ignorant sterotypeing i've heard all week. Please keep your predjudices to yourself. If we removed all code produced by people with long hair you'd have no operateing system and definatly no applications to run on it. Linux is coded by many people from all walks of life, odd's are you would have a different opinion of Geof were you to have never seen any pictures of him of seen him at a confrence. Axalon, webmaster for Mentaly Murdered, Denvers Thrashingest Deatmetal band.
[expert] re Severe Modem/Parallel Zip Drive problems
Okay more zip drive problems. Go look at the mailing list archive. I gave a really long answer to the zip drive problem not too long ago. Read that and see if it answers your question about zip drives.
Re: [expert] VNC
Yes, this is a great program for whatever operating system you use. I use it to access several machine that I need to use at work NT Server, win95 system, win98 system, linux mandrake system, mac, that way I can sit at one place and do support calls for almost any operating system problem our customer can come up with. we have a customer ( a water treatment plant) that has a winCE device, they are using it and a rf network card to access another computer that controlles all the valves and has all the line monitors for the whole plant, with this they can be in a remote building with the winCE device and change the operation and see the results onscreen as they work. they used to have a person at the computer and one that was going thru the buildings looking at gauges etc. then he would radio back to change a valve setting - it took several calls and they sometimes misunderstood before they would get a valve adjusted corectly. "James J. Capone" wrote: Check this link out folks. It is a very good program. If you network this could be for you if you don't still may work for you. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ James J. Capone
Re: [expert] rasterman
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Axalon wrote: If Mandrake made Mandrake, we'd all have to wear our hair long and our hats backwards... -- Arandir... ___ http://www.meer.net/~arandir/ Thats by far the most ignorant sterotypeing i've heard all week. Please keep your predjudices to yourself. If we removed all code produced by people with long hair you'd have no operateing system and definatly no applications to run on it. Linux is coded by many people from all walks of life, odd's are you would have a different opinion of Geof were you to have never seen any pictures of him of seen him at a confrence. Axalon, webmaster for Mentaly Murdered, Denvers Thrashingest Deatmetal band. I'm sorry if I have offended you. My post was meant in jest, but apparently the internet is becoming too p.c. Having met Geoff in person, I can say that he wears his hair and hat with pride! My hair just frizzes out, and if I wear a hat, it only makes it worse. -- Arandir... ___ http://www.meer.net/~arandir/
Re: [expert] VNC
That is a really good program. I remember embedding it on a Linux satellite router so people could use the X-based configuration tool... all they had to do is point a browser at http://10.0.0.1:5800 and the nice VNC java applet would start in the browser. What's even more interesting, it works on about any platform, and it's open source. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, James J. Capone wrote: Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:16:23 -0400 From: "James J. Capone" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VNC Check this link out folks. It is a very good program. If you network this could be for you if you don't still may work for you. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ James J. Capone
