RE: [expert] samba probs again
This line is curious. Why is a broadcast ip responding? 192.168.1.255(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Richard Bown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] samba probs again Hi James, unfortunatly , the're installed :( On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 06:11, Richard Bown wrote: Hi, I had to do a complete rebuild of the system here a few weeks ago, my fault , made it unstable wth a mix from cooker. Since then I hav'nt had samba running as I also scapped the windows machine when I installed win4lin. Now I find I need samba to print from win4lin, and smbd just wont run, nmbd does. I uninstalled alll the samba files and reinstalled the slightly later version of 2.2.7, I did'nt try 3.0.0 alpha. From SWAT I can stop and start nmbd but smbd remains not running this keeps appearing in syslog:_ Jul 29 14:04:12 gb7tf nmbd[4665]: [2003/07/29 14:04:12, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756) Jul 29 14:04:12 gb7tf nmbd[4665]: Packet send failed to 192.168.1.255(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted So had a look for libsmb [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# locate libsmb /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libsmb.so /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0 Am I right in guessing that the libs need to be installed, I've looked with MCC for libsmbserver, but nothing. Some pointers in the right direction please Thanks Richard I've got it running in just this situation. The rpms I have installed are samba-client-2.2.7a-9.2mdk samba-server-2.2.7a-9.2mdk samba-common-2.2.7a-9.2mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# rpm -q samba-server-2.2.7a-9.2mdk samba-server-2.2.7a-9.2mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# rpm -q samba-common-2.2.7a-9.2mdk samba-common-2.2.7a-9.2mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# rpm -q samba-client-2.2.7a-9.2mdk samba-client-2.2.7a-9.2mdk Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts
Run strace ymessenger and you will see a large amount of files that are not found, or dirs even. Some are X files. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Ken Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts On Tuesday 22 July 2003 11:26 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:15, Ken Thompson wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Regarding changes in gaim, yes the changes stay as I have set them but to no effect, nothing is changed in the message window, either incoming nor outgoing. Just using the out of the box theme for 9.1 (Keramik, I think).. Another thing that may be related, I'm using the Yahoo Messenger protocol and am also having font problems with ymessenger under 9.1. In fact, that is why I changed to gaim in the first place, the fonts in ymessenger are extremely tiny - totally unreadable and no change can be made to them either. SuSE 8.2 treats Ymessenger the same as Mandrake 9.0 did, it works as advertised. Haven't tried latest gaim on SuSE yet, might be interesting G Strangely enough, ymessenger worked just fine in the first couple of 9.1 betas, XFree 4.2.99, but went totally bonkers after the change to 4.3.x.. There has to be some place that controls the font rendering in these two applications aside from all the rest. The rest of the system is perfectly OK. No font issues at all with any other app's just these two... As for the out of the box theme. It's galaxy. And now I see that we do notice the same things. As for ymessenger. It was built for MDK 8.0. This alone should explain why it doesn't work at all on 9.1. On the other... Seems to be a yahoo thing. James Yeah, I'd about come to that conclusion too. It does seem kinda strange that ymessy works OK on SuSE 8.2, though.. Tried it out and came right back home G.. If I was smart enough to find what SuSE did (or didn't) do I'd try making the changes and see if it would work on MDK. Mandrake kernel: 2.4.21-0.13mdk SuSE kernel: 2.4.20-4GB Both running Xfree 4.3x It's gotten to be kind of a challenge no to find out why if I can... I think it has something to do with the attempts MDK is making at anti-aliased founts. Not sure. Very possible, I see there is a directory under /usr/X11R6 for mandrakefont (or some such), may have a look in there and see what I see. On the other hand, Slacware and Knoppix will show the correct font until the Xserver is restarted then the fonts get tiny again, sometimes running fc-cache will make it show the fonts correctly again, might be a clue.. It doesn't seem to have any affect in MDK. -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts
I have installed gaim, then yesterday install .66. All is fine and well here. Fonts included. Mdk9.1 stock install (mostly) Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:17 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts Regarding changes in gaim, yes the changes stay as I have set them but to no effect, nothing is changed in the message window, either incoming nor outgoing. Just using the out of the box theme for 9.1 (Keramik, I think).. Another thing that may be related, I'm using the Yahoo Messenger protocol and am also having font problems with ymessenger under 9.1. In fact, that is why I changed to gaim in the first place, the fonts in ymessenger are extremely tiny - totally unreadable and no change can be made to them either. SuSE 8.2 treats Ymessenger the same as Mandrake 9.0 did, it works as advertised. Haven't tried latest gaim on SuSE yet, might be interesting G Strangely enough, ymessenger worked just fine in the first couple of 9.1 betas, XFree 4.2.99, but went totally bonkers after the change to 4.3.x.. There has to be some place that controls the font rendering in these two applications aside from all the rest. The rest of the system is perfectly OK. No font issues at all with any other app's just these two... As for the out of the box theme. It's galaxy. And now I see that we do notice the same things. As for ymessenger. It was built for MDK 8.0. This alone should explain why it doesn't work at all on 9.1. On the other... Seems to be a yahoo thing. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer
There is compupic for linux. I just use KDE's konqueror for pic renaming, and storing. There used to be (haven't checked 3.1) to save dir as index.html, thus a web based photo gallery of sorts Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Francisco Alcaraz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer I am very glad with the digital camera I bought on Chrystmas (Fuji Finepix S02 Zoom), I have taken lots of pictures of landscapes, minerals, plant communities and plants (the macro function is runing like a charm). With Mandrake 9.1 a harddrive icon appears on my kde desktop as soon as I connect the camera to the usb port (the first time a line is added to fstab). But I am starting to have too many pictures and I need to organize them. In the windows environment is known the ACD-See package to do that, including look for metadata of the pictures and the possibility to look for one specific picture using keys. I don't use Windows (just in a computer I have a dual bot system with windows98 and Mandrake because my son likes to play some games) but I don't know if there are for linux a similar package to ACD-See. Does anyone know something similar to ACD-See? or could anyone tell me how have organized the pictures? Thanks so much for the help in advance; regards -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 KDE console
Just installed MDK 9.1 on my Toshiba Laptop (P3 600) All was fine, until I rebooted now konsole is totally unresponsive to any keystrokes. Any ideas? Any help appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Lilo conf lines
Did you rerun lilo after editing /etc/lilo.conf ? Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines On Wednesday 12 Mar 2003 10:49 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Mar 2003 6:46 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, so - here we go :) Well blow me down :-) Windows_2 boots! Glad to hear it works :) Joerg - strange things are happening. When you told me to add the new windows stanza, I saved the old file as lilo.conf.March 'just in case'. I then added the stanza to lilo.conf. As I said, it worked. Examining lilo.conf afterwards, I found that the odd mapping lines had disappeared, and I then seemed to have WindowsOriginal stanza and Windows2 stanza identically set up. I then deleted WindowsOriginal, and renamed Windows2 to Windows98. To my surprise, when I get the lilo menu I still see WindowsOriginal and Windows2. I have no idea where it's reading these from. The current lilo.conf is attached. Can you point me at an explanation? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore
Another. So you have 1G or more? I know the stock kernel won't handle mem above 1G. Does the rescue CD get you into linux? The enterprise kernel is what you want for large mem (for mdk provided kernels) Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore On Friday 07 March 2003 05:30 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: :/ I just bought another 512MB DDR PC333 module for my PC and now my linux won't boot anymore. I tried an update from CD, installer doesn't work either. Memory just went through a 3 hours memtest86 and no error found. Windows handles it OK (I have a dual boot with Win2k pro). It just loads lilo, but when selecting linux it goes into a black screen and doesn't react to any commands. The Scroll lock and Caps lock leds are blinking continuously. :( At first I thought my installation is broken and tried to start the linux install from CD again and do an upgrade so it would reinstall the kernel. When starting the installer same problem. It loads the first screen OK, but whatever option for the installer I select it still freezes with those leds blinking. :( I even tried passing mem=1024M as parameter just to make sure, but still no go. :( I thought the current releases of the kernel handled OK up to 1Gig of ram. As far as I remember you needed compiled support in it only for 1G ram. Also as far as I remember having more memory than linux kernel can handle produced no freeze. It just showed and used less than you have. :( Please help. :( Best regards, Adrian I think you need the enterprise kernel with that much memory -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9
I dont know if Kodak changed their standards, but my 4800 works fine in mdk9 with Gphoto2. Jphoto stopped working since I upgraded my java.. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Toshiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9 I have a Kodak DX3900 digital camera but it seems it doesn't work with Mandrake. Any idea? -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] HP JetDirect
You cant telnet to it? Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: tarvid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 10:10 AM To: expert Subject: [expert] HP JetDirect Trying to setup an HP LJ IIIsi with a JetDirect card. The local net is 192.168.0.0. The printer barfs the address 10.10.14.60. I'd like to reset it to 192.168.0.4. The printer is 1000 miles away which makes this more interesting. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
My WD 40G drives always work without a hitch. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 1:10 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way WD has chosen to not follow DMA standards. Linux does rather strict checking and WD doesn't so WD drives can be problematic. James On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 06:28, Lorne wrote: Well it seems that this is more serious than I first thought. I just tried an install to this new WD 180GB drive. Seems there is some limitations to the size of the drive, or the drive is junk. ?? Maybe truly a kernel bug. ? End_request: I/O error, Dev 03:47 (hdb), sector numerous sectors Journal-601, buffer write failed Kernel BUG at prints.c:334! invalid operand: cpu 0 Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've done some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody have any light to shed? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Java
Try: rpm -qa | grep j2 as root. You'll probably have sun's version. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Java J. Grant wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:00, Felix Miata wrote: # rpm -qa | grep ava # OK, what's the secret code to find out what java version is installed? about:plugins in mozilla will tell u all u need Doesn't appear to do anything of the kind. All it reports is what plugins are currently available/installed, not what is required for Mozilla to support web pages that incorporate real Java. -- If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. . . . Proverbs 9:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Browsers HTML
Have you tried changing the browser identification? That works for me a lot of times, though this pages seems to have a lot of java, my java is real bad with both IBM, and Sun versions. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Browsers HTML On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:51, Marek wrote: Hi Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i just get the HTML code on the page and nothing else. I thought this might be one of the plugins so i removed plugger and the rest but get the same effect. Is it just my settings or do others have this as well / This is an example of one of them when i click one of the links. http://www.wits.ac.za/izangoma -- /Marek \\Pawinski.net That site looks fine in Galeon. What browser are you using? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Xine
I get sound on certain files only. The only format I have issues with is mpg files (only some) Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Marek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Xine Hi Anyone got Xine to play avi and asf files on ML 9 ? I get video but no sound. -- Marek __ / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Curious question about KDE
Whatever happened to the ability to hover over a music file and have it play? Also what happened to the icons that when you hovered them changed to an open folder icon? Just curious as I have installed mdk 9 and lost these couple of things from 8.1. Brian D. Klar - CVE Network Engineer WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Can't get Zip drive to work. Can't get LICQ to work, possible permission probs..
I have Licq installed on my v9 box and all runs just fine. I did a fresh install of 9 though. What error do you receive when starting licq from command line? As far as the Zip internal, I have the same problem. If you find the answer to that let me know. I am starting to think it is kernel related, as my SCSI hd wont mount upon boot, but will after system is booted. I get the same error as you, on both the zip, and SCSI hd. I have stumbled a bit further though. Someone on here made mention to not put any entry into /etc/lilo.conf Taking that out, my zip will at least spin up, but Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: J. Grant [mailto:jg-lists;jguk.org] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Can't get Zip drive to work. Can't get LICQ to work, possible permission probs.. Hi Ken, Re: LICQ I'm assuming you are not the Ken Thompson who developed linux and C with Dennis Richie? (I think that was his name) I gave up on Licq and now use micq.org, its very uptodate, workign with the v8 OSCAR protocol, runs from any shell so you can use it from any pc and even works with UTF-8! JG Ken Thompson wrote: Hello all and may I pull my hair out here? For the past week and a bit I've been trying to get my Zip drive and Licq to work. Licq will open and run OK from a root term window but nothing I can do or have done will allow it to run as normal user. I've reduced the security level, removed msec totally (and reinstalled when that made no difference), removed and reinstalled licq from the licq.org's rpm's changed perms on the executable in /usr/bin to rwx for everybody, removed and reinstalled from mdk rpm's and finally reinstalled the entire O/S. Result, same problem throughout. The Zip problem seems to be related, it won't allow me or any user access to the /mnt/zip folder.I've read all I could find and tried all the fixes, disabled supermount, disabled devfs, changed the fstab entry all to no avail. My Zip is an iOmega IDE internal Zip 100 and worked OK with 8.2 and back. During some changes to the mount point and fstab I'd get a bad superblock, or too many mounted file systems type of error, changing back to original configuration results in you don't have permissions to enter /mnt/zip.. These two thing are show stoppers for me and 9.0, anybody able to rescue me before the guy's with the white dinner jackets show up?? Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0
If you figure out how to mount the zip, please let me know as I have posted a similar question here, with no answers. I have tried ide-floppy (which is what 8.1 saw it as) I have tried ide-scsi as well.. Win works it in this box Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Robert Grasso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0 Hello, I am wondering what is happening. I bought a brand-new P4/1.8 GHz/256 MB RAM configuration, but maybe with not enough care ? It was without the Iomega Zip which is an old device. I first installed the OS, configured and tested it; when everything worked (network, sound ...) then I installed the Iomega drive in the box and rebooted. And the Zip was not detected. I am listing below : the symptoms, several tests that I performed, and finally my configuration. 0 - the Iomega Zip is internal, 100 MB capacity 1 - symptoms * harddrake2 does not see the new device * the device is seen by the kernel : in syslog, I get hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive dmesg shows hdc too 2 - tests - the drive itself works ! it was in an old 486 box running RedHat 7.1 : I just mounted the drive back in the 486 and started it : it works, I can mount it and read files on the zip. - my previous box was a P-200 with Mandrake 8.2 and kernel 2.4.18, a SCSI hard disk and another internal 100 MB IDE Iomega Zip : I learned there the ide-scsi configuration. On this P-200 both Iomega Zip work currently, with the ide-scsi driver. - I tried to configure the device by hand, first with the IDE driver, then with the ide-scsi driver: * IDE : declare ide-floppy in /etc/modules, and the corresponding line in /etc/fstab * SCSI, as IDE did not work : declare module ide-scsi in /etc/modules, add hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, and add /dev/sda /mnt/zip ... in /etc/fstab. For both previous points : it's interesting : the kernel goes far enough : for sda for example : sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB well, I don't know if I should bother about the 1GB. Anyhow, the drive is accessed - but when I want to mount it, I get (I did not write it down accurately) wrong fs type, wrong option, bad superblock in each case, IDE or SCSI. 3 - Configuration - the motherboard is from DFI (is this the error ?) www.dfi.com, model NB70-BC or NB71-BC, I cannot guess which of both it is : for NB70-BC, the Intel chipset is 845D, for the other one it's 845E. But Google shows noone using such motherboard in a Linux configuration :-( - the IDE controller, as returned by lspci, is Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05) - there are two IDE connectors, I have the hard drive and a DVD on the first one, the Iomega is alone on the second one, the jumper on Master position. - in the BIOS, the PIO/DMA selection is set to Auto - in the motherboard booklet documentation, they say: PCI Bus Master Controller * Two PCI IDE interfaces * Supports ATA/33, ATA/66 and ATA/100 hard drives * PIO Mode 4 Enhanced IDE (data transfer rate up to 14 MB/sec) * Bus mastering reduces CPU utilisation during disk transfer * Supports ATAPI CD-ROM, LS-120 and ZIP - the DVD is a Pioneer DVD-117 : not really present in the supported hardware list, but it works : one can notice that the installation went very smoothly, but when I logged in the first time, I did not see the drive any more ! I looked around, finally installed myself the driver ide-cd in /etc/modules, then I was able to mount and read CDs. But if I want to do a very large job : such as query all the rpms of an installation CD, I get plenty of errors if supermount is enabled; if it's disabled, there are almost no errors - but I am not sure that there are really no errors at all. If somebody has an idea, it would be nice ! Best regards -- Robert Grasso @home --- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0
Yes this is a new fresh install of 9 Here is the output of your request... [root@mrroboto root]# mount -a mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device With a new entry for the zip in /etc/fstab Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 (937) 169-1081 (on base pager number) (937) 257-0069 ext 1081 (if off base) -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0 On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:06:37 -0400 Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you figure out how to mount the zip, please let me know as I have posted a similar question here, with no answers. I have tried ide-floppy (which is what 8.1 saw it as) I have tried ide-scsi as well.. Win works it in this box Do not use either ide=floppy or ide=scsi. If this is a clean install of 9.0, not an upgrade, edit your /etc/fstab. Remove the existing entry, if any, for your zip and replace it with this: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user 0 0 Use mount -a or reboot your system. Put a disk in the drive, issue mount /mnt/zip and you should be able to access it. Charles --- Oh dear, I think you'll find reality's on the blink again. -- Marvin The Paranoid Android -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0
Here are the results of this example: [root@mrroboto root]# mount -a [root@mrroboto root]# mount /mnt/zip mount: /dev/hdb4 is not a valid block device and it is the same if i use sdb4 This is the slave on the Primary. hda = 40 hd hdb = zip 100 hdc = sony cdrw hdd = toshiba cdrom sda1 = 9.1G Seagate Oddly enough sda1 although set to, will not mount at boot. It will mount fine once booted and all. The SCSI card is Adaptec 2940. mobo = Tyan 2390b Primary is using ATA100 Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0 On Friday 11 October 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: If this is a clean install of 9.0, not an upgrade, edit your /etc/fstab. Remove the existing entry, if any, for your zip and replace it with this: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user 0 0 Use mount -a or reboot your system. Put a disk in the drive, issue mount /mnt/zip and you should be able to access it. Charles Here is my /etc/fstab entry (works fine): /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipvfat nosuid,user,noauto,nodev 0 0 Just another example. BTW, Charles - love Hitchhikers - bet the Heart of Golds' Improbability Drive is powered by Linux! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0
I will try this however when I did the install, all drives were attached to system. /dev/sdb4 exists as does hdb4. [root@mrroboto dev]# ls -al sda4 brw-rw1 root disk 8, 4 Sep 28 14:08 sda4 [root@mrroboto dev]# ls -al sdb4 brw-rw1 root disk 8, 20 Sep 28 14:08 sdb4 [root@mrroboto dev]# ls -al hdb4 brw---1 root disk 3, 68 Sep 28 14:08 hdb4 mcc/mount points ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0 On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:14:43 -0400 Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the output of your request... [root@mrroboto root]# mount -a mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device Go into mcc/mount points and create the device there. If there is no sda4 entry there for your drive the easiest solution is for you to do an Expert/Upgrade install with the drive connected so that the installer can create the device. You will not need to select any pkgs for installation and you can skip the network and printer config. The whole process takes between 10-15 min. Charles --- The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared to the power of the Force. - Darth Vader -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0
I have disabled supermount, it never worked right on my systems. I also do not use devfs for same reasons. So far the help has been good info, but as you no success. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Robert Grasso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0 I hope that these examples will be helpful for MR Klar. In my case, I tried both, with and without supermount, unsuccessfully On Friday 11 October 2002 20:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 October 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: If this is a clean install of 9.0, not an upgrade, edit your /etc/fstab. Remove the existing entry, if any, for your zip and replace it with this: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user 0 0 Use mount -a or reboot your system. Put a disk in the drive, issue mount /mnt/zip and you should be able to access it. Charles Here is my /etc/fstab entry (works fine): /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipvfat nosuid,user,noauto,nodev 0 0 Just another example. BTW, Charles - love Hitchhikers - bet the Heart of Golds' Improbability Drive is powered by Linux! :-) -- Robert Grasso @home --- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0
Sorry, my dmesg is full of UDP packets dropped, as well as TCP packets... This is irratating, how do i keep this from logging in dmesg? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0 On Friday 11 October 2002 02:33 pm, you wrote: Here are the results of this example: [root@mrroboto root]# mount -a [root@mrroboto root]# mount /mnt/zip mount: /dev/hdb4 is not a valid block device and it is the same if i use sdb4 This is the slave on the Primary. hda = 40 hd hdb = zip 100 hdc = sony cdrw hdd = toshiba cdrom sda1 = 9.1G Seagate Okay, so in dmesg (do a dmesg dmesg.txt and read it) your Zip drive is a slave on the first IDE (primary) channel, right? Well, then you would need to set my earlier /etc/fstab example to: /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zipvfat nosuid,user,noauto,nodev 0 0 As su do a mount -a Then right click on your KDE desktop and pick create new floppy (I'm told CD-ROm will work too) device. Fill in the fields, it should find your Zip drive then. BTW, I didn't notice earlier (sorry) do you have supermount disabled as well as the devfs stuff in lilo.conf? I had to do this to get my drives working right under 8.2... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0
I haven't tried mcc, however I have tried linuxconf. No success there I will try when I get home removing hdb from lilo.conf. I don't recall if I have tried that in my attempts tho. Thanks, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0 On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:50:12 -0400 Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mcc/mount points ?? mcc=Mandrake Control Center then select Mount Points where you can graphically set the mount points for your devices and set their attributes. It is supposed to now not be necessary but boot with hdb=ide-scsi in your lilo appends then try accessing the drive with the sda4 fstab listing. I have 5 systems with zip drives, 3 USB and 2 ide, and all work well but of these only 1, a USB, is a clean 9.0 install all the others are updated cookers. Charles --- A homeowner's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a weekend for? -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rpm error
I have downloaded different .src.rpm files and get the same error. [root@mrroboto brian]# rpm --rebuild kover-2.8.7-1tex.src.rpm /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb: No such file or directory What has changed in rpm that I can no longer do such a simple task? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] loss of zip in 9 and scsi upon boot
I have upgraded to 9. Since then, I have found my internal ide zip 100 will not function. It is on Primary as Slave, using ATA100 cable. Secondary is a CD-ROM and a CD-RW. The HD is a WD 40G. I tried to let devfs do it's thing, no luck. I disabled supermount, no luck I never liked either one of these anyway, however did not see any way to turn them off during install. So the error I receive is: mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip mount: /dev/hdb4 is not a valid block device I have tried to edit lilo.conf and change from ide-scsi to ide-floppy. I understand the norm is to be used as ide-floppy, but mdk9 set it up as ide-scsi from install. Also my scsi drive (Seagate) will not mount upon bootup, but manual mounting once up is fine. The card is a Adaptec 2940. The error there is the: wrong fs... maybe too many mounted fs's. Any help appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] loss of ide zip and scsi hd in 9
I have upgraded to 9. Since then, I have found my internal ide zip 100 will not function. It is on Primary as Slave, using ATA100 cable. Secondary is a CD-ROM and a CD-RW. The HD is a WD 40G. I tried to let devfs do it's thing, no luck. I disabled supermount, no luck I never liked either one of these anyway, however did not see any way to turn them off during install. So the error I receive is: mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip mount: /dev/hdb4 is not a valid block device I have tried to edit lilo.conf and change from ide-scsi to ide-floppy. I understand the norm is to be used as ide-floppy, but mdk9 set it up as ide-scsi from install. Also my scsi drive (Seagate) will not mount upon bootup, but manual mounting once up is fine. The card is a Adaptec 2940. The error there is the: wrong fs... maybe too many mounted fs's. Any help appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK9 screensavers
Where did they go. I have a choice of three with KDE. Why was there no option to disable supermount upon installation. Disc 1 will not boot nor read in my Toshiba laptop w/DVD, which is a newer system than my desktop CDR/RW, and it's CDROM too. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 (937) 169-1081 (on base pager number) (937) 257-0069 ext 1081 (if off base) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Linux on a Sun Sparc Machine
There is an old version of Mandrake for Sparc. Thereis an even older version of RH for Sparc. Suse however released for free v 7.3 for Sparc and it runs wonderfully on my Ultra 5. I am going to install it this weekend on my two Sparcstations as well. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 (937) 169-1081 (on base pager number) (937) 257-0069 ext 1081 (if off base) -Original Message- From: ©¿©¬ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Linux on a Sun Sparc Machine Guys, I just want to know if I can run Linux Mandrake or RedHat on a Sun Sparc Machine? Help is very much appreciated. Thank You JGuevarra __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Linux on a Sun Sparc Machine
Did you install Xfree v4.2. It is the first version to have hw support for the sun boxes. I forget off hand which cards are supported though. With 4.2, you should be able to get xinerama going KDE is getting better at the xinerama displays, and it is available for Sparcs. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Roland Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:27 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] Linux on a Sun Sparc Machine I also run Linux (Mandrake) on my Ultra2, and it runs beautifully. I have been trying with NO success to have it run using my two screens (Creator3D and TurboGX+). Is there any way you can help me set this up? -Original Message- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:08 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] Linux on a Sun Sparc Machine There is an old version of Mandrake for Sparc. Thereis an even older version of RH for Sparc. Suse however released for free v 7.3 for Sparc and it runs wonderfully on my Ultra 5. I am going to install it this weekend on my two Sparcstations as well. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 (937) 169-1081 (on base pager number) (937) 257-0069 ext 1081 (if off base) -Original Message- From: ©¿©¬ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Linux on a Sun Sparc Machine Guys, I just want to know if I can run Linux Mandrake or RedHat on a Sun Sparc Machine? Help is very much appreciated. Thank You JGuevarra __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] kde and xinerama question
I have a Matrox G450. All I can say is I dl'ed the Matrox drivers, and powerdesk from their site. Then I had two separate desktops. With a fast config change, I could have xinerama as you stated two monitors merged to one large desktop. KDE is my DE. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Dean S. Messing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] kde and xinerama question Todd Lyons writes :: Dean S. Messing wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:41:23PM -0700 : :: :: subset of them. Also, consideration shd be given to the :: question of Is this a big waste of time?. I mean, if the :: Mdk KDE packages are known to be compiled with xinerama support :: enabled then recompiling them with xinerama support enabled shouldn't :: (in a causal universe) fix my grey out problem. :: :: I am not authoritative of this but it seems to me that the grey out :: problem is a function of the configuration utility, having little to do :: with whether KDE is compiled to support it or not. Just a guess from :: the peanut gallery. :: :: Blue skies... Todd I never consider comments from a Mandrake employee as coming from the Peanut Gallery :-) Configuration utility? For KDE? Tell me more. How do I run it (from the commandline, if possible)? Dean P.S. From stuff I've seen on the web, it does seem to be necessary to have compiled KDE with --enable-xinerama (or some such) but everyone tells me that Mdk comes that way. And, again, I have no idea which packages count with regard to my problem. Do I need to look through the .spec files of all 24 or so KDE packages to make sure they all have xinerama enabled? Surely someone on this list runs both xinerama and KDE. Please help me. (But first read the previous postings in this thread :-) To do so go to http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/expert/2002-07/ and search for xinerama. Thanks. Dean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] M 8.2 Yamaha ISA OPL3-SAx
8.2 uses devfs by default (If it is same as 8.1) perhaps changing your /etc/lilo.conf file's append line to devfs=nomount, and boot. Then the devices will be made in /dev Perhaps kudzu would work for you? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Michal Hrtko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] M 8.2 Yamaha ISA OPL3-SAx Hi all, My Yamaha subj doesn't seem to work under M 8.2 (kernel 2.4.18-6) I've tried to configure it with sndconfig, but it returns an error /dev/audio - an unknown device. What can I do? Under M 8.1 works all the best. Thanks, Michal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....
The use of a repeater may be what you are after. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] OT question sorry but i need salution fast faisal gillani said: well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this question i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardware .. i am here in pakistan where no such high bandwith devices or support exisit .. i was thinking about that thicknet cable but dont know what hardware to get for this .. also are there any wireless hardwares for this senario ? thanks you very much for reading Many switches (not hubs) can be used to extend the distance of CAT5 cable. You'll have to locate them alongthe wire so no segment exceeds the max length. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] winTV nota-t DVB usb
I have a Win/TV /Radio card (PCI). Try running kudzu or MDK Control Center. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Azrael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] winTV nota-t DVB usb I have a winTV nota-t DVB usb and want to use it on linux. Anyone either have info on this.. or know of a mailing list I can contact about it? Many thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] DVD viewing with xine - help needed
Does Ogle not work to you likings? It supports dvd menu navigation as well. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Azrael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] DVD viewing with xine - help needed I have had problems viewing encrypted dvd's with xine - in that I can't do it. I used to be able to a year or so ago.. I have taken backwards steps it seems :) The default mdk 8.2 setup didn't work for me.. couldn't seem to install plugins for it. So I uninstalled and went with the following packages: package libcss-0.1.0-5 is already installed package libdvdcss2-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdcss2-devel-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdnav-0.1.1-0 is already installed package libdvdread-0.9.3-ogle1 is already installed package libdvdread-devel-0.9.3-ogle1 is already installed package libxine0-0.9.10-1 is already installed package libxine0-devel-0.9.10-1 is already installed package w32codec-0.50-1 is already installed package xine-dvdnav-0.9.10-0 is already installed package xine-ui-0.9.10-1 is already installed package xvid-0.20020412-3 is already installed package xvid-devel-0.20020412-3 is already installed I would have thought these would work.. but they did not. So I uninstalled them and went with a suggestion from the newbie list of: xine-0.4.3-fr1.decss.rpm that didn't do the trick for me either. So I am asking here. Can I not use this impressive list of packages above and somehow just enable libcss support? Help? many thanks -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kde3 taskbar wont work
I have Mandrake 8.1 with kde3 installed. All has been fine until a couple of nights ago when I decided to scan some pics with kooka. I had problems with this in 2.x, however tried it. Well my system locked solid, couldn't ssh, telnet, nothing. So after reboot I find that no users have real access to their taskbar icons. You can click one, once that one is running, the taskbar seems locked (nothing but a nice image). I have tried making a new user, same results. What do I do to get kde functioning again. I have deleted relevant items in /tmp. Shutdown system safely. Nothing works All things work if I bring them up in konsole So currently I run kde progs through konsole Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] intel proshare video system 500,
Well the Intel Proshare 500 has a BT848 chip on it, so I would think it could be used as video capture card. Seeing as there is no tuner on the card, it cant do TV. You should be able to do modprobe bttv to get it going. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] intel proshare video system 500, A friend of mine has installed Mandrake 8.2 in his computer, everything has been perfectly configured but he has a Intel Proshare Video System 500 and it was recognized as a tv card !!! I have heard that there are not modules for this card under linux, but in some web pages I have seen that some people has it runing under linux; unfortunately they don't say how!. Does anyone know if this possible? If the answer is yes, were can I find information about the linux installation? Thanks a lot in advance Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.
Isnt mirrordir, or copydir what you are after. File for file you can use diff. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs. Hi List, We are testing a parallel file system in our cluster. So I made a full copy of /home directory to this new FS. However I would like to be sure that all files copied are strictly identical, I mean, is there any command to compare all binary/ascii files between the original and its copy? Many thanks in advance, Cheers, --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Xine error message
Is it possible you need to set the region of the drive then? Doubt that is it though. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Steve Browne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 5:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Xine error message On Mon, 13 May 2002 16:12:17 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 13:22:36 -0600 Steve Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:16:37 +0200, you wrote: Stephen, Are you trying to run an encripted dvd? The plugin for those dvd are not supported by Mandrake, due to the possibitity of legal problems in some countries (e. USA), you can find the appropriates rpms for 8.2 in http://plf.zarb.org/ Also you could find there the rpms for the 0.9.9 xine release, that has been improved and debuged a lot; also some other plugins for xine are there. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) I don't believe it is encrypted (CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, Region 2). Are you saying that the error message xine engine error There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui version 0.9.8'. means that xine can't find the DVD, or is a piece of the software missing? The error you are getting is Not that you receive when trying to play encrypted DVDs. You may not have all the necessary rpms installed. What is the output from: # rpm -qa |grep xine Charles xine-aa-0.9.8-4mdk xine-alsa5-0.9.8-4mdk xine-arts-0.9.8-4mdk xine-dvdnav-0.9.9-1mdk xine-esd-0.9.8-4mdk xine-oss-0.9.8-4mdk xine-plugins-0.9.8-4mdk xine-ui-0.9.8-3mdk xine-ui-aa-0.9.8-3mdk xine-xv-0.9.8-4mdk xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.0-4plf libxine0.9.8-0.9.8-4mdk libxine0.9.8-devel-0.9.8-4mdk Most of these came with the 8.2 download CDs. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] video conferencing
All I have really heard of is gnomemeeting for this area. I would love to find a way to get my Polycom ViaVideo, or even my Picturetel 550, or intel 500 to work under linux though. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Oscar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] video conferencing Hi all, I must to do a budget for a server (up to 12.000 EUR), but it must allow video conferencing. Evidently, I would like to run Linux as OS. Can you please give me some orientation on following points?: - Possibility of using the server for video conferencing. - Adjusting to the indicated budget, mark, model, characteristics recommended for the server. - compatible cameras and software for video conferencing with linux. Software needed. Any recommendation will be welcome. I have got used to the best (linux) and it would't like to have to use windows in the server because the video conference. Thank you, oscar. -- Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 http://counter.li.org/ Windows Free Environment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Xine error message
get decss. Xine will not by default read dvd's without. Perhaps xine-dvdnav will be good enough. I like ogle myself. Anyhow on the bottom of http://xine.sourceforge.net are links to sites that have the progs you need for reading encrypted dvd's Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Steve Browne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Xine error message I'm trying to get xine working in 8.2. I'm not sure it is finding the DVD drive though I have created the appropriate sym links. Xine gives me the following error message: xine engine error There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui version 0.9.8'. Since I've installed 'xine-plugins' I have no idea what this message means. Do you? Thanks, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] X - I give up!! - What's a good video card for 8.2
Pretty much any Matrox card will work beautifully in any flavor of Linux! I have a G-450 (AGP) and love it Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] X - I give up!! - What's a good video card for 8.2 David Rankin wrote: That's it, I've had it, I'm ripping that sucker out by the RAMDAC. Then I'm going to see how far that square frizbee will fly! I've given up trying to sort out the #9 Imagine 128 video problems with X4.2 and X3.3.6 (for now). Why it works under LM7.2 and not under 8.2, we'll never know. Anyway, anybody know a good fast 2D card that does work with LM8.2 that I can find pretty cheap out there? David , I have successfully setup a 2mg pci s3 trio and an 4mg ati 3d rageIIc agp card in Lm 8.2 , but I had to setup xfree86 a second time before I could even see anything. You've probably already read that thread about it not seting itself up completely the first time , right? I have found many , many things that don't work properly yet in 8.2 so I run 8.0 most of the time, because everything is absolutely perfect for me - Your Mileage May(will)Vary. If 7.2 works for you or say even 8.0 why not stick with it? I probably will as I am very disappointed with 8.2 :-( Mike McNeese Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci
As per this ATI link: http://www.ati.com/developer/linux.html this card is only supported by XFree86 crew. According to XFree86's site: http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status6.html#6 You may only get it to somewhat work with v4.2 ATI site states that driver for Radeon's is developmental still. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Mike Rambo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:11 PM To: Mandrake List Subject: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci I have an IBM box (300PL) that has integrated S3 video. My son wants better video so I've obtained a 64MB Radeon 7000 PCI video card. I can't use an AGP card even though the machine has an AGP slot because of the way the case is built - one of those proprietary designs that only a few cards will properly fit. I was surprised to find that the hardware drake didn't detect any hardware changes when the box started up. I finally have the box booting to init 3. When I run XFdrake it finds both video cards now (new Radeon 7000 and the original integrated video) but I cannot find a configuration that'll work. I really only want the Radeon card set up so that's the one I select. It loaded XFree 4.20 the first time I selected the Radeon card but the system displays a scrambled screen and freezes when I try to test the configuration. I skipped the test one time and tried to 'startx' but that also displayed garbage and froze. Can anyone offer advice on how to get this to work? Thanks... -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mpg123 and 8.1
I reinstalled 8.1 using devfs. mpg123 gives the error: audio: No such file or directory I tried to add the -a /dev/sound/dsp, dsp1 with no luck. Anyone have any ideas on this with devfs? I made a link from /dev/sound/dsp, and dsp1, and audio with no luck either. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] xine dvd player
I personally like ogle. I find it plays the best on my piii... Xine is always choppy And ogle supports dvd menus Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Dodd, David J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] xine dvd player I am having a hard time trying to play a dvd on mandrake 8.2. I bring up xine and pull up the files from the dvd player and it will play a small clip but not the whole movie. How do I get the whole movie to play? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Linux irc channel
irc.linux.com There is a #mandrake room there too Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: skidley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Linux irc channel On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:24:36PM -0400, Joel Esler wrote: #linux on irc.dal.net On Monday 15 April 2002 06:37 pm, you wrote: Would some kind soul please post the linux channel and server on irc? I had this info at one time but seem to have misplaced it. Getting old is just a bitch... Dr John The Night Tripper -- Esler, Joel SGT, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Come join us on the undernet in #mandrake, here's the channel url: http://www.mandrakehelp.com I'm skidley (not always there as I have dialup) -- Chad Young Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] popup local chat
hmmm, I could have swore talk broadcast's to win machines. I recall my girlfriend getting a big laugh when I did it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] popup local chat Hi List, I'm wondering if exists a kind of program which allow us to communicate to others terminals (both Windoze and Linux, if possible), something like ICQ does over whole Internet, but in this case only on my network and would be very simple. I mean I would like to broadcast a message to others terminals and a window popup message, or on console, like a 'talk' request, would appear there. If I could keep a chat, even better. BTW, 'talk' is quite close of what I'm looking for, but I don't think it can works with windoze, and I want to broadcast to all terminals, no matter who is there. Maybe something over Samba would do it. Any ideas? Many thanks in advance, --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE3 install fairly well... just a few things to fix
I installed KDE3 last night on my 8.1 box. All in all a good experience. There were some deps I needed to fulfill, probably around 10 or so. KDE3 comes up just fine, as long as you are user. The KDE3 is listed in the kdm login screen dropdown. (I installed KDE3 alongside of KDE2.2.x However I have a few issues. KDE3 isnt an option for login for root. Although when logged in as root, i can run the control center and kde3 is listed. Also my fonts look real bad again. Anti-aliasing is checked (as user) And I get some error about some font xxx-xxx-medium-xxx not being found I get about 4 of those error boxes. Also, some modules arent in control center (user) I get an error box stating I am trying to run an older module, or perhaps it wasnt installed. Sound - Fine, Video - Fine (XF4.1) I didn't delete my .kde dir yet, backed it up though. The icons are real nice in 3, except I don't like the one for Konqueror. Konqueror seems slower to me Any help on the few probs P.S. kfontinstaller seems gone.. is there a new version for kde3? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] recovering files after formatting
There are ways to bring back the data, even after a format. One utility for linux is http://www.r-tt.com/RLinux.shtml DOS unformat will work as long as you didnt unconditional format /u on a FAT16 There is this utility for undeleting https://secure.datarecoveryzone.com/products_ff_undelete.asp for $29 may not be bad Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: J. Craig Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting Hoyt wrote: On Monday 08 April 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: Hi I have mistakenly formatted a partition with some important data in it while installing Mandrake 8.2. The partition is still there with same size, untouched, etc. Any chance I can recover the data? You need to tell us what filesystem you are using. How will knowing the filesystem help? You say the partition is still there, and untouched. Well, my friend, if you have re-formatted the drive, it is not *untouched*. As a matter of fact, it is touched in a big way. Your data is gone, gone, gone. Now if you only deleted the partition by removing boundaries, there is help. It is complicated but you can recover data. J. Craig Woods UNIX SA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console?
You can try typing reset in the console window. That helped me in the past Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Damian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:33 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console? El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 20:10, Bill Kenworthy escribió: Hi, how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console? Occaisionally I get an X crash which leaves the consoles in a weird state. X restarts ok, but all other screens show two copies of whatever console was running on it before (text is in green!) on the top half and the bottom half contains the bottom half of whatever is running in X The only way I have been able to fix it so far is to reboot! And this has happened from early Mandrake versions to currently 8.1, various xfree's, 3 different video cards and two different MB's, but I have never seen it with redhat (though I have far more experiance with mdk these days.) it's strange that you experienced that problems from early versions, i've never heard of such problems before... does it happen while you are running a certain program, or it's a random crash? if it's a program, please tell which one so i'll try it too.. as for the consoles,did you try by opening a program that redraws on the whole screen, like mc ? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Destination Host Unreachable
You may want to check /etc/sysconfig/network. Look at the gatewaydev= line. I have a modem and nic, and for some reason Mandrake 8.1 wants to change this to eth0 even though I need to have it ppp0. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Albert E. Whale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Destination Host Unreachable Actually, I cannot ping outside of the box using either of the interfaces. Yes, I've set my Gateways, and the Default Route. Your problem sounds more like an Internet Connection Sharing problem. My problem is FOOBAR! ngn wrote: M...It seems that we have the same problem that yours. We cannot route betweeen two ethernet cards. - Original Message - From: Albert E. Whale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: [expert] Destination Host Unreachable I just completed the Installation of LM 8.1 on a Server which has run LM for 5 Years. The Interfaces in use are eth0: 3cSoOHO100-TX Hurricane - Module: 3c59x eth1: 3c905B Cyclone - module: 3c59x As I test out the Network interfaces, there appears to a communications problem with the Network. Hmmm, 2 hours ago, this server was working. Right now I am gatewayed via another LM 8.1 Server with two 3c905B controller cards using module 3c59x. Is there a problem with the Hurricane Ethernet Cards and 2.4.8? -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake?
In 8.1, I just added to the append line devfs=nomount reran lilo, did a complete shutdown, not restart. When the system started up, I had all my /dev/ links. My SCSI scanner works now as does CDRW, and TV card Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake? On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:46:29 +0200 jarmo kettunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: It turns out that even if I could figure out just how to disable devfs I'm not sure it would matter now at this point. The only thing keeping me from torching this system right now is the fact that it's beta software and beta by definition means it has bugs. I would like to be able to have my /dev links free of devfs though. Now that I've meant the guy I can safely say I don't like him. Hi I had troubles with devfs and I got rid of them by compiling kernel without devfs support. I just wonder why experimental things has to take as default in MDK. Is it so big job make a documentation about new things,what people might trylater? Jarmo I can certainly relate to that. And I've started to configure the kernel to just what you've mentioned. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 11:05am up 20:48, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
Why not modprobe aic7xxx. It loads all other modules for aic as well. For some reason on my MDK 8.1 box, rc.local won't run anything I have added into it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] how to make insmod permanent Hi I got my umax scanner working today by installing a aha-2906 scsi card, and doing insmod aic7xxx after which xsane finds and uses the scanner fine everything works great. however when I rebooted it appears to have lost some setting and I had to insmod aic7xxx and find-scanner again before it would work. The error was there was no device. how can I make what I - insmod - ed, permanent. so i don't have to redo this everytime I reboot for some reason. Any suggestions? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Matrix screensaver install.
I copied kmatrix from RH disc. Besides the kss file you also need the kmatrix.desktop file. My system locked up once and I had to power down. Mandrake seems to have some script to check on things cause after reboot kmatrix.desktop was gone. I now keep a copy in my home dir, just in case. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Matrix screensaver install. Thanks, that works but it still is not the screensaver I expected; cmatrix runs like a game any ideas how to make the screensaver part work? What you see on the console Is ( AFAIK - as far as I know ) all it does. If you maximize the console and run it, it IS the screensaver. I use it this way sometimes because I liked the regular martix screensaver that was part of 7.2's xscreensaver. but since 8.0 none available. there is supposed to be one out for the 8.1, or probably more likely 8.2 distro. the rpm is very small , you can try it but I couldn't get it to work look for kde-matrix-1.0tex.i686.rpm If you can't find it I can send it privately Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
yes lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Oct 30 15:34 /etc/rc.local - rc.d/rc.local -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1766 Dec 15 17:31 rc.local Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: jarmo kettunen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent On Friday 08 February 2002 15:17, you wrote: Why not modprobe aic7xxx. It loads all other modules for aic as well. For some reason on my MDK 8.1 box, rc.local won't run anything I have added into it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Is your rc.local file executable? Jarmo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Problems with gkrellm plugin, GKrellWeather and Message.pm -- fix before 8.2?
I got the weather plugin to run, however it doesnt update. It is still showing forcasts from 1/19/02. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: John Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Problems with gkrellm plugin, GKrellWeather and Message.pm -- fix before 8.2? On Monday 28 January 2002 11:33, you wrote: This has been going on for quite some time, and we've finally tracked it down. When running gkrellm and the GKrellWeather plugin, it fails on the following: 400 FTP return code 500 at /usr/X11R6/bin/GrabWeather line 49. which eventually tracks the troublemaker down to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/HTTP/Message.pm Once that's removed, it works fine. I thought it was perhaps the version of perl-libwww-perl that shipped with 8.1 so I installed the version available via cooker (5.63-2mdk) to no avail. It's simply if /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/HTTP/Message.pm exists, GKrellWeather can't grab the weather. Sorry to contradict your findings, but. running with the following: perl-libwww-perl-5.63-2mdk gkrellm-1.2.4-2mdk gkrellm-plugins-1.2.4-1mdk and the weather plug-in runs just peachy -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 hours 46 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] umax astra 600s scanner scsi card not seen
I did a modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x240 ncr_irq=5 dtc_3181e=1 for the module, and my ultra 1220s works fine. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] umax astra 600s scanner scsi card not seen Hi I just got an umax astra 600s scanner with the dtc-432P card. Does anyone kow how to make this work In mandrake? can I get this card to work or do i need another scsi card? If so which one? any help here? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] GMT and Mandrake
I have a quin boot system at home. 2 of which are win One 98, One 2k, and three linux's. The clocks are all fine, under whichever OS I boot too. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 (937) 973-3125 (pager) -Original Message- From: David Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; J. Grant Subject: Re: [expert] GMT and Mandrake On dual boot systems, Windows expects the hardware (BIOS) clock to be in localtime not GMT (UTC not precicely the same thing anymore). So you have a choice. Leave hwclock set to local time and live with it on the Linux side or set the BIOS clock to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and have the time always be wrong under windows. J. Grant wrote: Hello, I have a dual boot laptop, with a certain other proprietry OS on the other partion.. Anway, I'm in linux most thats what counts, but I have a problem with the clock, MDK seems to use clock set to GMT where as the other OS seems to think clock set to TOKYO. I found in /etc/sysconfig/clock ARC=false UTC=true (I changed this to false) ZONE=Asia/Tokyo I assumed UTC was the american name for GMT, as i had read that somewhere, but nothing happed after i changed it to false. I even rebooted! So how does one have 2 OS's co-existing on the same system with the same time zone? Windows does not have any options unfortunatly. I set MDK to GMT, but then all my email times are messed up. Any solutions appreciated. (but its only the windows time so not a serious loss IMO) JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1
No, I am not using NTFS for the 2k partition. I saw no reason to since it is just there wasting disk space on my home computer. Someone on the irc channel though uses NTFS with his multiboot and no problems with that he said Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 9:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1 Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN enlightened the whole world with this utterance: Is there a reason you can't boot with lilo. My desktop system Multiboots. Win 98, Win 2k, and three linux's. Lilo works fine. I use Mandrake's Graphical boot screen. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB I've personally never had much luck using lilo to boot nt of any kind. It seemed to work fine when I just had it booting win98, but when I added win2k, it actually was easier to go the route already explained on this thread. Are you using ntfs with your win2k? I think I remember reading that lilo couldn't boot an ntfs partition? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Happy New Year 2002 Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === I've got a fever ...and the only cure is... more cowbell! -SNL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Java Developement Kit
just chmod +x filename.bin, then ./filename Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:08 PM To: expert; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Java Developement Kit Hi, I would like to be able to use the JDK1.3.1_02 or any JDK on my Mandrake. I tried to install it but I couldn't cause the extension was rpm.bin Can anyone tell me what to do. Thanks a lot in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1
Is there a reason you can't boot with lilo. My desktop system Multiboots. Win 98, Win 2k, and three linux's. Lilo works fine. I use Mandrake's Graphical boot screen. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: J. Craig Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 6:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1 At 03:36 PM 1/8/2002 -0700, you wrote: I have my system configured as so: Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 3278 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 259 1958008+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 260 3278 22823640f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 260 665 3069328+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 666 812 288+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 813 1367 4195768+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda8 1368 1461710608+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda9 1462 2003 4097488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda10 2004 2558 4195768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda11 2559 2836 2101648+ 83 Linux /dev/hda12 2837 3225 2940808+ 83 Linux /dev/hda13 3226 3278400648+ 82 Linux swap I have the NT bootloader installed on /dev/hda1, I have LILO installed on /dev/hda6 and have run the command: dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/mnt/win_c/bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1 to create the boot sector file needed for loading, and modified my boot.ini file: [boot loader] timeout=15 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT=Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional /fastdetect C:\=Microsoft Windows bootsect.lin=Mandrake Linux 8.1 Under Lm 7.2, and 8.0 this worked great, under 8.1, the system just reboots. Did something change here? Try this: If partition hda6 is where your boot records for Linux are, do this: dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 copy this file over to your C drive or over to the drive that boots up Windows with the boot.ini file. In boot.ini add this line: C:\BOOTSECT.LNX=Linux Mandrake 8.1 This should do it for you. J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] iso images mdk 7.2 needed
Check this site for 7.2 iso: http://linux.unige.ch/install/mandrake/7.2/iso/ http://ftp.idg.se/linuxworld/mandrake/7.2/iso/ ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/mirrors2/linux/distributions/mandrake/7.2/iso/ Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] iso images mdk 7.2 needed HI ALL gotta piece of sorta junk p100 pc , tried to put mdk 8.1 on it but it bombs out, sorta crashes and reboots.. I know that board wont object to mdk 7.2,, but where are the iso images ???, i've found 8.1 and 7.1 but wher is 7.2 ?? its not on the mdk download site or the mirrors.I wa going to throw this pc at someone who is still addicted to DOS, in the hope she might see sense. I dont wanta put suse 7.2 on it as if she asks questions I hate that distro... it argues to much. I have mdk 7.2 running on another machine, could I make iso images of that and burn onto a cd or 2... catch 22 I'm not sure how to do that... HELP please tia richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?
8.1 uses devfs by default. add devfs=nomount (IIRC) to lilo.conf. Reboot, then you will have the mount points. I had same problem with scsi mountpoints, this works. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Tarragon Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)? On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:32, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello My parallel zip worked just fine with LM 8.0. Unfortunatley I had to upgrade my system to LM 8.1 (I want o to run multiple Xs). I said unfortunately because LM 8.1 has lots of funny stuff (for instance, ps2 mouse -gpm - is a nightmare!). I tried to issue the command moutn -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 but an error message came out no such device. LM 8.1 defined /dev/sda4 on fstab but I've checked the dev dir and I couldn't find sda4 (though /dev/sda is pointing the right place - cdrecord -scanbus confirms that my system has a zip on 0,6,0). How can I create /dev/sda4? Or how can I mount /dev/sda4? Many thanks Ed The 4 in the sda4 is supposed to refer to a partition number on the drive. I suspect that Zip drives don't have that many partitions. Does mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip2 work? Do you have any other SCSI drives? t -- PGP key : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] WMA in Linux?
I received the Forbidden in IE at the office here too! Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] WMA in Linux? On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:34 am, you wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:14:04 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not a tease; it is a bug in Konqueror. Use Mozilla and you can download just fine. KDE seems more buggy with every release as well as more cluttered with engineer's toys. I get the same message with Netscape 4.78, Mozilla 0.96 and Galeon 1.0 (with and without my proxy enabled). I use IceWM and not KDE. All under Mandrake 8.1 with all the updates. That does nort reproduce here. I was able to download files from that site with lftp and Mozilla. Check your mozilla preferences, and if you need to, override with 'anonymous:nick.walster@' without the quotes, between the // in http:// and the site info. You should not have to if you are set for anonymous logins to ftp sites. Civileme QA Team Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] WMA in Linux?
look at http://xine.sourceforge.net They state that with the win32 codecs (downloadable) you can play Win Media 7/8 files Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 (937) 973-3125 (pager) -Original Message- From: nds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] WMA in Linux? Michael Viron wrote: At 11:47 AM 12/17/2001 -0300, Alexander Arzberger wrote: Hi, how can I play WMA (Windows Media Audio) files in Linux.? Also, I was looking for a converter, without success. Alex I think WMA is a Microsoft proprietary format. If it is, then it is very unlikely that you'll find a converter or a player for it, as 'reverse-engineering' it would be illegal (the DMCA would apply, at least in the US). -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The best method that I have seen to work by what I see on the website is win4lin by netraverse. Here is a link of a desk top running WMA: http://www.netraverse.com/images/art/screenshots/w4l3_screen_med.jpg I plan on purchasing this software today. I am impressed and I have to see it for myself! I hope this helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Conf
Have you added the user to /etc/samba/smbpasswd run smbpasswd -a username and you should edit smbusers and add that user there as well I forget the samba way to sync passwords though. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Robert Boggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Conf I finally got the windows machine to see the samba server, however it is fussing about a password. I did not make one. Also when I use the gnome samba server and mount robert, it does not bring anything into my drives. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
I never had any problems with picture quality on my Happague Win TV/Radio. Color is better than on my set Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Ed Tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations ehh, what software are you using? have you set the settings to reflect say ntsc (as opposed to pal or secam, if you are in the USA?) and broadcast as opposed to cable? is the coax running by flouresecent light fixtures? my win tv works great and is every bit as clear as any other picture on my computer. Is the card next to the video card in side the box? is it next to a network card? On Tuesday 11 December 2001 01:40, you wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:58, Ed Tharp wrote: Almoxt any brooktree848 based card should work good, my cheap winTV card works great for mem and does good video capture to. I believe the difference would be to have the PCI based card (as opposed to the USB). Does anyone who has a WinTV card have any secrets to share about how they cleaned up the picture? My card was recognized, and i am able to display video through it, but, the picture is distorted with line noise. The display is crawling with video worms. I can drive a TV set directly off the same coax and get a perfectly beautiful picture but when i display the signal through my WinTV card it looks really sloppy. I have tried iron torroids on the coax as well as replacing my standard coax with shielded, low noise coax, nothing seems to help. I am guessing that the WinTV card is picking up RF from inside my box but I would have thought that Hauppauge would have planned on that. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] StarOffice
If you install it without the /net option accidentally you should be able to either run the install again and choose uninstall. There is a . file in you home dir when installed, SO checks for this. remove this hidden file, and then reinstall, all should be fine with using /net then. That is how 5.2 was at least. I haven't used Star Office in quite some time now. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Lee Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] StarOffice At 07:34 PM 12/9/2001 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2001 05:20 pm, you wrote: El dom, 09-12-2001 a las 20:22, Lee Roberts escribió: The /net option just made me more frustrated. Screw it! I don't have the time to spend trying to make this stuff work. Why can't it a straightforward install??? Thanks for everyone's help anyway. Then, just install it without the /net option, selecting your home directory for install (a.e. /home/lee/office52). It can't do a straightforward install because Linux is a multi-user, networked OS. Star Office is appropriately designed for installation in such an environment. As a result, properly designed programs seem a little strange in a home desktop environment. However, many apps are not designed to live in a multi-user networked environment (like Netscape which needs to be heavily customized to behave well on a network) and present problems to the sysadmin like inappropriate permissions, wasted disk space for redundant files, unnecessary use of bandwidth for eye-candy, and so on. According to what you guys told me, the sequence for installing StarOffice for multiple users is as follows: 1. Install SO with the /net option 2. Change directory to where soffice is located 3. Execute soffice and follow the instructions 4. Done That seems straightforward to me. But, when I executed soffice, I got an error message that SO was already installed. Anyway, I installed it in my home directory. Maybe I'll try the /net option at some later date if someone knows what happened. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] LM 8.1 can not write to othet HD
Have you tried adding umask=0. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: skidley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 10:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM 8.1 can not write to othet HD On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Michael Viron wrote: HI, I use LM 8.1 on my box. I have 2 SCSI HD, 1 IDE HD and 2 removable jaz 1 GB. I install Win XP on sda and LM 8.1 on hda, using LILO to boot the system. the problem is I can read/ mount to other HD using LM 8.1 but I can not write them. anybody can help me? Thanks What command are using to mount XP? mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /mnt/windows as root?(X being the number of the partition) -- .-. .-. oo| Give Microsoft The Bird oo| /`'\ Use Linux!!!/`'\ (\_;/)(\_;/) Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] LM 8.1/Win2k dual boot clock issue
If your system has timeconfig, try man timeconfig. Otherwise look at man hwclock Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: avalancheresearch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] LM 8.1/Win2k dual boot clock issue Hello, I have an HP Omnibook DBoot w/ win2k (for work - we use exchange :( ) and LM 8.1 (for me). I made a mistake when installing LM. When asked by the installer weither my system clock was set to GMT I said yes (it's not). Soo every time I go back and forth between OS's, i chokes my clock and neither one stays correct. I am wondering how to fix this...I went into the clock setting in LM, but did not see a way to change the system clock offset. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, Greg _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] automating mount proces
You might try looking into autofs, if you are wanting to auto-mount your cd's and all Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: meta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] automating mount proces edit your /etc/fstab add what u wanna mount automatically every booting On Thursday 06 December 2001 07:00, you wrote: Hi, How can I automata the mount proces in the mandrake 8.1 I can't find it thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?
Sounds like you want a print server adapter. Bestbuy and probably everywhere like them have them for around $89 or so. Samba wont work for you ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet? Hi List! I'm looking for a product (if it really exists!) to allow me to print via Ethernet using parallel printer. I mean, a kind of box with one RJ input (so I could set a IP address) and some parallel ports, where I would connect printers. So I would be able to set printers in my linux (even Winblows and Applows) to print over network. Is such a thing possible? Is there a such device? Thanks for any suggestion. --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] automating mount proces
There is a program on http://freshmeat.net called autorun. I used it on my RH 7.1 system, and it seemed fine. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] automating mount proces On Thursday 06 December 2001 09:32 am, Franki wrote: Hi Tom, Got a few questions for you if I may... Why did you have to upgrade initscripts and iptables to go with 2.4.16-1??? I have that kernel, initscripts-6.27-10.4 and iptables-1.2.4-2 Should I upgrade them?? it all seems to be fine and iptables is definately working... kernel-2.4.16.1mdk-1-1mdk iptables-1.2.4-2mdk initscripts-6.40.2-3mdk ... is what I've got, additionally I have setup-2.2.0-16mdk and lm_sensors-2.6.2-1mdk IIRC, setup was a dep for initscripts. 'iptables -L' gave me the mismatch with kernel version error, so I knew to get the latest for 2.4.16. 'sensors' quit working with 2.4.16,, but an upgrade fixed that. Difference might be that I used the ready made 2.4.16 kernel, but all the other ones were cooker src.rpms using rpm --rebuild. If your usin a vanilla source kernel, I have no idea if the supermount patch will work. I've had no problems with Mandrake kernels = 2.4.13 and supermount. ~ $ locate supermount.o /lib/modules/2.4.13-2mdk/kernel/fs/supermount/supermount.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.16.1mdk-1-1mdk/kernel/fs/supermount/supermount.o.gz Secondly, with supermount -i enable and mount -a should I add them to rc.local??? No Frank, I just ran them initially to add 'supermount' to fstab. I believe I forgot to mention to 'umount' all your removable devices before doin 'mount -a' , mea culpa. I really would love to get supermount working for cdrom and floppy,, (so samba can share them effectively.) any help, much appreciated. As I alluded to in my earlier reply, I suspect different people are gonna experience different results/success/failure, since we're all runnin different hardware. FWIW, here' my fstab after 'supermount -i enable' for removable devices ~ $ less /etc/fstab none/mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/hdc,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro,nosuid, nodev,codepage=850,exec 0 0 none/mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro,nosuid, nodev,codepage=850,exec 0 0 none/mnt/floppy supermount auto,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850, noauto 0 0 -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.
Running defrag, or scandisk destroyed my linux partitions with '98. I disabled it and now just dont go to windows unless I need to scan something. Scanner progs just dont compare with color matching in linux. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Asheesh Laroia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption. On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the partition table corruption. No Anti-Virus software installed. Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under certain non-MS-tested circumstances. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Wenninger wrote: Is it possibly Anti-Virus software in windows repairing your boot sector? On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:13 pm, you wrote: Hi, My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help of this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install LM8.1. My main concern now is trying to figure out what I did that might have caused the corruption. The only unsual activities just prior to corruption were: - Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs partition to FAT32 windows partition. - I may have left a floppy drive mounted and failed to log out as root, before shutting down (but surely this wouldn't affect the partition table). - Booted windows. Just looked around with Explorer. I accidentally opened a BIOS flash utility, but exited immediately, without activating any controls. I dont' think the utility actually did anything other than show its GUI, but I can't be certain. Can flashing BIOS (if thats what happened) affect the partition table ? Upon leaving windows, Linux would not re-boot, because it couldn't find the filesystems to mount due to the partition table corruption. I use reiserfs for my linux partitions, if that is a factor. I'd love to hear any ideas about possible corruption causes. regards, Charles. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Getting an ISA SCSI card working
Don't know if this will help any for you. I have an ISA DTC SCSI card as well. I ended up loading it from rc.local by: modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x240 ncr_irq=255 dtc_3181e=1 And it works fine for my scanner. The irq=255 is not a typo, by setting it to 255 lets it grab the first free irq, if I recall right. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: George Jones (IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:00 PM To: 'Expert' Subject: [expert] Getting an ISA SCSI card working I've been trying to get my DTC 3520A ISA SCSI adapter working with 8.1. It doesn't get detected by the installer so I cannot get mandrake installed on the SCSI drive I have attached to it. It's supposed to be Adaptec 151x/2x compatible, but even when I select that from the menu, I still can't get it to recognize it at all. George Jones IV Store Systems Support Borders Group Inc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] printing in 8.1 and kde
OK, I have decided devfs isn't for me. I have the nomount option upon boot My question is how do I get printing to work in MDK 8.1 and KDE. Anything I print comes out with a complete black page. I can print with my laptop in Windows (gf likes win better) with no problem. So I assume the driver wouldn't be the issue, but I am sure I am wrong here :) Here is my Samba printers section though. [printers] comment = All Printers path = /tmp read only = No create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j browseable = No Cups is set up and sees the printer fine, and verified through the cups web-gui. I have tried printing from many progs on this system with no success. Any help appreciated. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] mandrakestore
I ordered online as well. Trying to support Mandrake somewhat. The wait was long, service terrible. I ordered the d/l version (3cds), took about a month or so. The first order came back with a HTML page that kmail couldn't read (HA) but it stated basically the order didn't go through. So I ordered again, well now I have 2 copies of the 8.1 3CD set. I think I will go back to d/l'ing the iso and burn them at the office. Needless to say the preordering wasn't worth the wait Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Ron Marriage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 2:40 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] mandrakestore Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea on the delivery times they are having from the Mandrake Store in the U.S. I ordered a power pack 26 days ago. I've sent two emails to their service email address and have not received an answer to either. I received a confirmation of the order and billing information on the same day I ordered online. I've sent this info with each request for a status update. How do they deliver, (UPS, Fedex ground or air)? How long is it taking? Thanks Ron -- Ron Marriage Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User Group http://www.seidata.com/~seilug/ Blind Links http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mpg123 probs
Anyone know how to get mpg123 to work in MDK 8.1 with devfs. I get the error: audio: No such file or directory There is no /dev/audio either. Does devfs actually make any of the needed things. Did Mandrake forget some programs to build for devfs? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] cdrw cant burn
For some reason insmod sg didn't work, besides the sg module was loaded already. Found a work around though. Clunky way, but it worked. See another post on this. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 (937) 973-3125 (pager) -Original Message- From: Expert User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 2:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] cdrw cant burn Looks like the sg module is not loaded. Do 'insmod sg' as root and try cdrecord -scanbus again. The /dev/scd0 device is not used for the Recording. Only for reading CD. Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a recent iinstall of Mandrake 8.1. Using devfs, how do you burn a cd with cdrecord? Cdrecord gives: [root /dev] cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. fstab entry is: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,rw,noauto 0 0 and /dev entries are: [root /dev] ls -l scd0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Nov 20 16:56 scd0 - scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd [root /dev] ls -l cdrom lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Nov 20 16:56 cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 How does one use a burner with devfs?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Two Distros, Two Hard Drives, One PC
I currently have 3 linux distros installed on (1) hd. I used to have (2) and did it the same way as described below. a) install one distro (I installed MDK) b) install second, and third, etc... c) make sure you make a boot disk for each d) I made a dir in /boot of mdk for each of the other distros. i.e. Redhat, Debian e) copy the contents of the other distros /boot to the respective mandrake /boot f) edit /etc/lilo.conf accordingly g) re-run lilo, reboot, and choose from the graphical menu (That is why I chose Mandrake as first installed) h) I even have win 98 and 2k installed and choose them the same way! Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: H.J.Bathoorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 7:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Two Distros, Two Hard Drives, One PC On Saturday 24 November 2001 22:33, you wrote: I'm trying to create a 'dual boot' with two distros. Currently on hda I have e-smith(firewall distro), and on hdd I have mandrake 8.1. I wanted to move the firewall to mandrake, BUT I didn't want to have to keep unpluging Hardrives while setting things up, I wanted to just quickly select a new distro at start. I'm having a hard time finding any howto's for two distros, of course tons of stuff for linux/windows. Can anyone show me an example of what the lilo.conf file should look like? After installing mandrake, I mounted the hdd drive while on e-smith(hda) and took a look at hdd's lilo.conf and hda's lilo.conf and no of them have any reference point to the other distro. The easiest way out is to boot one of the two with a bootfloppy. This is also a nice way of testing a new installation without throwing the old one to the dogs straightaway:) You don't even need a seperate disk, partitions will do. Sharing /home between the two is a bit risky though. Good luck Harm Bathoorn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] damn shockwave
I had the flash/shockwave problem until last night I installed lesstif, kdebase-nsplugins, and let kde rescan for plugins (in the kontrol panel) and it works, slow as a duck in konq, but it works Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Angus Beath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] damn shockwave I've been using Galeon, and shockwave seems to work fine with it - perhaps you should try it out? I've tried it on the page below and it works fine. Angus On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 22:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 19 November 2001 01:54 pm, Mark D'voo wrote: konqueror is very wierd with shockwave. First try it with mozilla (or a mozilla based browser like galeon), If it works there then it should work in konqueror. I've had just the opposite experience. For example, http://www.flowgo.com/rsubf.cfm?id=hfnbwbiShprpwnfDuxcl=78p=19376d=10-18-01 Konqueror w/flash plays it well, might take some time to load, could have some pauses on a slow connection, but it'll play smoothly on replay. Mozilla (9.4 or 9.5) plays it way too fast, sound is gibberish. Flash was installed and setup automagically by 8.1's install on my system. Didn't need to do a thing. Still some pages, not too many, still pop up that damn 'shockwave page popup' -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA On Tuesday 20 November 2001 06:49 am, you wrote: I just don't get it. I HAVE the correct, most recent shockwave plugin installed. If I open up kcontrol - file browsing - file association - application it is there and set with use embedded viewer. Nonetheless, I go to a site with the annoying shockwave crap on it and I get the ever-lovely download macromedia shockwave flash window popping up. What is it with linux and shockwave that just doesn't play well together? What is the secret to eliminating the download shockwave page popup forever? praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- | Angus Beath | Support Coordinator +61 2 42215600 | | ICQ: 44324120 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you hear someone yell, Empower THIS!! try to put some distance between you and whatever happens next. - words from the wise DNRC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cdrw cant burn
I have a recent iinstall of Mandrake 8.1. Using devfs, how do you burn a cd with cdrecord? Cdrecord gives: [root /dev] cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. fstab entry is: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,rw,noauto 0 0 and /dev entries are: [root /dev] ls -l scd0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Nov 20 16:56 scd0 - scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd [root /dev] ls -l cdrom lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Nov 20 16:56 cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 How does one use a burner with devfs?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Usb scanner problems 8.1; updating kde
I had a similar prob with 8.1 and my scsi scanner. Seemed due to devfs. I changed /etc/lilo.conf devfs=mount to devfs=nomount. Rebooted, let MDK refind the scanner via kudzu, then changed the lilo.conf back to devfs=mount and reran lilo again then Rebooted. All was fine -- still. Seems devfs isnt all it is cracked up to be. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 5:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Usb scanner problems 8.1; updating kde In this message I have two questions, I hope you could help me ^_^ I have a home net composed by the main computer (Pentium III 800, conected to internet by a cable-modem and runing Mandrak 8.1) and a Toshiba laptop (celeron 400 conected to the main computer and to internet by IP masquering; that runs Mandrake 8.0 because I have found problems to configurate the screen under 8.1; I think is a problem with XFree86 4.1). I have configured without problems a usb scanner (Epson Perfection 1200 USB) using MDK 8.0 (mknod /dev/usb/usbscanner0 c 180 48; chmod 666 /dev/usb/usbscanner0, insmod usbcore, insmod usb-uhci, insmod scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0104; modifying the /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file putting the last line: usb /dev/usb/usbscanner0) and it is runing fine from the laptop, but from the main computer runing 8.1 the scanner is not detected. After read some messages in the list, I am thinking this could be a problem with the use in 8.1 of devs instead of dev (this main computer has also a mandrake 8.0 installed and from this the scanner is accesible without problems. I have used also scanner-drake, the scanner is well detected and ¿configured?, but xsane don't detect it and stops. ¿What can I do to? Second question I have activated the scanner updating xsane, xsane-gimp and all the related dependencies in the laptop and the new look is splendid :-). I have heard about the kde 2.2 faster than the 2.1 releases, so I would like to update it in the laptop. I think that to do that the files coming with the Mandrake 8.1 cds could be enought, couldn't be? I don't know, perhaps I do need download the packages from any mandrake update url, do I? Anyway, what are the files I need to update? I suposse that the kde files and some libs; do you know where can I find the whole list of files to be updated? Will the libs updated give me problems with others packages? Thanks in advance for the help, yours sincerely Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] everything loads, but no sound.
Did you run aumix and check the settings of the channels, and save them? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Richard Wenninger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] everything loads, but no sound. I'm having problems... I've upgraded my kernel to 2.4.13-7, and everything works except sound. In the process, I also got working a ieee1384 firewire external hard drive. This is a toshiba notebook computer (2805-s402). I can't figure out why sound doesn't work... there doesn't appear to be any messages, all the modules are loaded (see below lsmod output). But no sound. The mixer loads fine, and the levels are not turned down, xmms plays fine, but without sound. NO AUDIO. I don't get it. Any Ideas where I should look? I didn't upgrade any sound modules during this process... I did have to reinstall the nVidia 3d accellerated drivers after the kernel upgrade. I'm a quick learning newbie, with some experience. Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated. Richard snd-pcm-oss18944 1 snd-pcm-plugin 16464 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-seq-midi3488 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26240 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3248 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq41600 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-mixer-oss 4768 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-ymfpci 4640 1 snd-ymfpci 35888 0 [snd-card-ymfpci] snd-pcm32032 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ymfpci] snd-ac97-codec 24928 0 [snd-ymfpci] snd-mixer 24448 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ymfpci snd-ac97-codec] snd-opl34976 0 [snd-card-ymfpci] snd-timer 8656 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm snd-opl3] snd-hwdep 3280 0 [snd-opl3] snd-mpu401-uart 2576 0 [snd-card-ymfpci] snd-rawmidi10208 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4016 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]snd35120 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ymfpci snd-ymfpci snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-opl3 snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 4208 8 [snd] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Re: radio program for linux
Haved you tried the radio prog that comes with xawtv's tar package, there are a ton more on freshmeat too. Brian D. Klar - CVE WPAFB -Original Message- From: Harold Hartley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Re: radio program for linux No Message Collected Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel compilation probs
I am trying to compile a new kernel from kernel.org, 2.4.5 make dep clean and bzImage all went well, however make install errors with: Warning: device 0x030f exceeds 1024 cylinder limit Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (3426 1023) make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [install] Error 2 Now Mandrake is out there on partition hda15, and I have 4 other os's on this machine, so how do i get make install to work here?? Any help appreciated... Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
[expert] screensavers not working
I have 8.0 installed on my laptop. Fresh install from format of drive. One of the problems I am having is that I don't get to set a KDE screensaver. I get a listing of xscreensaver files though. And of those, any of them that need GL don't work. i.e. KPipes, Tux, and whatelse is in the GL list. GL is installed on the laptop, and in 7.2 it worked. I have been installing all the KDE updates as they came out, and they would work fine. I am sure I am missing something but what I don't know. I have glx loading in XF86Config-4.. v 4.03 Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
[expert] Matrox G450 and 8.0 final
Has anyone installed 8.0 with the G450 video card. If so did you need the Matrox drivers from vendor site? Mandrake folks stated once that it was supported in 8.0 beta version however I was never able to get it to work. I will hopefully be able to install 8.0 tonight and want to know what to expect. Thanks, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
[expert] pcmcia modem with 8.0 rc-1
I have recently installed RC-1 on my Toshiba laptop. Mandrake sees my internal Xircom modem, but wont use it (winmodem I think), and it refuses to recognize my pcmcia 3Com 56k modem, whereas 7.2 let me use it. Any ideas on how to make it work in 8.0 Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
[expert] RC-1 upgrade from Beta 2 results
I upgraded my laptop from beta-2 to rc-1 last night. The upgrade went well, it actually let me change cd's this time. I however lost my background settings for kde. Not a big issue. I don't have the connection to the home pc right now, however there are a few errors upon bootup, which I will try to post this weekend, if I get a chance. I didn't see an option for Supermount in the upgrade, is it now defaulted to no? Upgrade took my PIII 650 128M like 2.5 hours though. My Gnome settings also got wiped out as well. Good job on the release it seems right now at least! Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
RE: [expert] help: ext2 superblock disk problems
-Original Message- From: Ron Heron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] help: ext2 superblock disk problems Your partitions may have changed. Try mounting different partitions, looking for boot. # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt shouldn't there be something after /mnt since /mnt is a dir like /mnt/disk or just some name, so long as you mkdir it in /mnt first? Brian EXT2-fs: 03:0a: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted filesystems. = ^C quit :q exit ? help shit __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[expert] beta 3 or rc1
I was checking the sites this morning and noticed all the beta download sites have 8.0 beta 3 with the exception of one that has rc-1. I forget which site it was though. IS there a RC-1 release now, and if so what is different between rc-1 and beta? The rc-1 is dated I think 4/8/01 whereas beta 3 is I think 3/31/01. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
RE: [expert] Notebook install via ftp
What does ifconfig show?? -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 6:42 AM To: Experts Subject: [expert] Notebook install via ftp Hi, got a notebook w/ a broken cdrom drive. But it has a pcmcia network adapter and all I had to do is buy a cross-over cable to connect. Made the pcmcia bootdisk. Notebook boots and asks for the data (IP, domain, etc). Then it tries to get to second stage but fails because no connection to server. On VT 4 I see that cardmgr has loaded the proper modules and declares eth0 as ready to go. But: issueing the command 'network start eth0' it fails with: 'network: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-up not found' AFAIK this command is used to give eth0 the IP and to initialize it (or something that way). So what can I do? This file should be on the boot disk, or not? BTW: There is no os on the notebook. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
RE: [expert] Editing GUI log-in dialog
With KDE, and logged in as root, you can change it to what ever you like. In Control Center ... forget right now, but at the bottom of the menu listing. Brian -Original Message- From: Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 4:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Editing GUI log-in dialog Hello all, I want to edit the users that appear in the GUI log-in dialog, the one that's headed "Welcome on Localhost". I've seen a menu item that allowed the dialog to be edited but I can't find it now. Can someone refresh my memory? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] Tar/Gzip Onto Multiple 650MB segments for CDRW Storage - How To?
try freshmeat, there are a lot of progs popping up that do as you want. http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=cd+backup Brian -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 6:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Tar/Gzip Onto Multiple 650MB segments for CDRW Storage - How To? I would definately like to know the answer to that one myself. Are there any hints in the man pages. I've looked there myself and to date haven't seen anything. At least nothing that I remember. Think maybe I'll look again. Mark Sevatio Octavio wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to backup my partitions onto CD-RW discs. How do you tar and gzip a partition into 650MB segments? Thanks, Seve
RE: [expert] weirdness with linuxconf
You can use ntsysv to choose what gets started upon bootup. Brian -Original Message- From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] weirdness with linuxconf For some reason, samba wasn't starting at bootload, so I check in the linuxconf services. It's listed as "manual" and not running. So I click on the Automatic button for it, do Accept and leave. Later, for some reason, I went back and was looking at some services, and happened to see the entry for Smb. Guess what? It still says "Manual"? I experimented with several other services and discovered the same thing. Also, for some reason, there are two entries for Imap. This has gotten more than a little frustrating, I must say. I don't remember running into any of these issues when I was running 6.1. Some of these issues seem like basic QA oversights.
[expert] kde 2.1.1 screensavers
I have installed kde2.1.1 and for the life of me cant find the kde screensavers. I get a listing of the xscreensavers. Kfind only comes back with 20 results for *.kss. Where are the screensavers, and how do I get them in the list. Mandrake 8.0b2 Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
RE: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?
For my SB Live, and Mdk 8.0b2 I had to change the perms on mpg123, and for kde sounds enter play in the use external player field in kde's control center. Xmms is using OSS driver entry. Brian -Original Message- From: Chris Spackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user? On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:56:54PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: this is driving me nuts. for reasons not relevant here, i have done a reinstall of 7.2 4 times in the last 24 hours. some of the time, as a non-root user, i can play mp3's. the rest of the time (using the mpg123 program), i get a "permission denied" error. not aware of having done anything sound-related during or after the install. Just a thought, but have you tried any other programs for sound? Like play or xmms, etc? I only ask because I had some problems with mpg123 when i first installed 7.2. Sound was working fine, it was mpg123 that was having problems. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
RE: [expert] Menu Bars in X
That happened with 2.0. I believe I changed the settings of the clock (of all things) and it corrected it. Sounds like you have LED Font style. Check the font settings. Brian -Original Message- From: rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 11:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Menu Bars in X Howdy all... This has caused me some pause tonight. All of a sudden, all of my menu bars in any X window app, (it happens across all window managers...KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) have huge dot-matrix-like fonts. Has anyone ever seen this? Right now, for example, I'm using KMail to compose this and the menu bar at the top that reads "Message Edit View Options Attach Settings Help" is very large, as is the To: Cc: Bcc: Subject: and I don't know how it happened or how to fix it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Rob
RE: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?
Adding the user to the audio group did not work for me with 8b2. Since this is just my home machine, it didn't bother me to change perms to get sound working. Brian -Original Message-From: Stephen Lawrence Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:41 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?Dan Swartzendruber wrote: At 09:34 AM 4/2/2001 -0400, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: For mpg123 I made mine 777 since it is only an audio player I don't understand. Why are the permissions on the executable important? I can run the program, it just doesn't have access to the audio device (it seems). Unless it's supposed to be SUID or something. Brian -Original Message- From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user? At 08:50 AM 4/2/01 -0400, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: For my SB Live, and Mdk 8.0b2 I had to change the perms on mpg123, and for kde sounds enter play in the use external player field in kde's control center. Xmms is using OSS driver entry. change the perms to what?The proper solution to this problem is to add your USERNAMEto the AUDIOgroup. Don't change perms. -- Stephen Lawrence Jr. - Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] California Animal Health Food Safety Laboratory System, UC Davis (530)-752-4614
RE: [expert] pci device irq conflicts how do you avoid them?
I didn't think PCI devices cared about sharing IRQ's, and that was it's stronghold. I know my PCI cards share IRQ's and work fine together. Brian -Original Message- From: Declan Moriarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 5:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] pci device irq conflicts how do you avoid them? I hit something like this before: I solved it by pulling one card and removing all the config settings, and then carefully reinstalling it with kudzu. Lazy, I know, but why worry if it works? What's happening is that the sound card was not correctly identified as such; I used get these messages dropping out of X telling me that this weird card had been found, and please e-mail some guy in Mandrake. Do you have them? I did, e-mail him he talked me into installing some rpms, which brought out a lovely problem with rpm, as it didn't recognize my AMD '586. This was only a '486 at heart, I'm now told, so rpm said it was a '486. It nevertheless ran '586 code very well :-}. Just like the K6 is a i586 at heart, and runs i686 code quite happily, except for kernels. I then solved the 300 or so dependency problems, and was asked for the readout of the pnpdump program I had just put in. That was all he wanted. Mandrake has gone the road of making Linux configuration automatic - and brougt in many of the problems of this nature. I would prefer an advice centre saying where to look your problem up, or how to hack it, A course on Perl by e-mail, and train us all to be capable of hacking our own systems from a console. If people can master a system, they'll stay with it. But many windoze users try linux, find it as inscrutable as the Oracle at Delphi, and get fed up; they are lost to linux for the foreseeable future. -- Regards, Declan Moriarty Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius A Slightly Serious(TM) Company Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, stuart simpson wrote: ok in windows, you goto the control panel and change the irq's if there is a conflict. Since there doesn't seem to be a similar way to do this in mandrake, what configuration files do I change? Can I change this with configuration files? using mandrake 8.0 beta 1 my apparent problem: according to: cat /proc/pci my sndblaster live uses irq 10 my matrox g400 uses irq 11 when I install mandrake, I can't get the hpt 366 on board udma "card" ( on motherboard ) to work -- computer crashes upon bootup. It also uses Irq 11 so I turned off the hpt 366 card in the bios temporarily, and then installed mandrake, worked ok then I was hoping to be able to enable the hpt 366 in the kernel 2.4.2 in order for it to work. ( i assumed this was the reason for the crashing ) I went to check the kernel settings, and hpt 366 in the newer kernel is enabled by default, and it is shown as detected in the bootup, but after detection, it crashes. so I am assuming the fact that the video card (agp) uses irq 11, and the hpt channels use irq 11 ( 2 of them ) is the conflict that crashes my computer upon booting. what I'd like to do: move snd card to irq 5 move video card to irq 10 then the hpt366 can work ok on irq 11 or simply move the hpt 366 to irq 5?
RE: [expert] dual displays - How do I get xinerama working?
I use xinerama, and have still to get full screen display in Mandrake 8.0 b2. I can get full screen video in RH 7.1b though. I upgraded to the latest xawtv with still no sucess in Mandrake. Maybe I missed something in Mandrake configuration though. Brian -Original Message- From: Hoyt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays - How do I get xinerama working? - Original Message - From: "Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: RE: [expert] dual displays Well I had a chance to use the Matrox drivers this weekend. Whil I was able to get two displays running with KDE 2.1, I really wasn't able to use the second to any real advantage. Windows kept opening too far down, and I couldn't move them. I think it is a KDE issue. I recall read- ing that KDE is "not" multi-monitor compliant. Thanks for the help, and info I have been able to get two separate displays working in KDE2, xfce, GNOME/Elightenment and blackbox, but I can't get xinerama enabled for a single wide screen. I'm using 8.0beta2, a Voodoo3 AGP card and a Matrox PCI card. I am using Option "xinerama" "on" in /etc/XF86Config-4 to enable xinerama (that worked when I had 7.2 installed with the same hardware). Hoyt Any suggestions?
