[expert] testing - problems with postfix?
test I suddenly can no longer send emails from my local mailserver. Is THIS getting through? __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver
All was fine for a while. I run postfix, procmail, and fetchmail on my local box (stonekeep.ravenhome.net). I was able to send emails without problem to myself, to the list, wherever. Now, all I get are deferred messages and timeouts on any smtp server I try to connect to...or nameserver problems: What follows is what happens when I try to send an email to myself (from stonekeep to my yahoo address): Oct 14 20:58:49 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3083]: CF25F846: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=0, status=deferred (Name service error for name=yahoo.com type=MX: Host not found, try again) What the hell?! Trying to send to the expert list produces: Oct 14 20:59:55 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3083]: 7AE61848: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=0, status=deferred (Name service error for name=linux-mandrake.com type=MX: Host not found, try again) yahoo.com and linux-mandrake.com are both valid so what's the deal? Since I can ping both and, of course, both resolve properly, what is postfix's problem here? How do I fix this? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver
A little more info from my syslog, showing what happens when I try a test message to myself (to my yahoo account): Oct 14 21:07:50 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3396]: 208C882E: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=3849, status=deferred (connect to mx4.mail.yahoo.com[66.218.86.253]: Network is unreachable) Oct 14 21:07:50 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3398]: connect to mx2.mail.yahoo.com[64.156.215.6]: Connection timed out (port 25) Oct 14 21:07:50 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3398]: connect to mx1.mail.yahoo.com[64.156.215.5]: Network is unreachable (port 25) What's with the timeouts? I get the same thing for messages sent from my local box to the expert list. I can only send messages now if I go to the yahoo web interface. Local-sent messages timeout in every single case as above so I end up with a growing deferred mail list. Any ideas? __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost
Jumping in late, I want to reiterate that you must remove MesaGL rpms if they are installed. They will dork up your nvidia. praedor --- R N dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have an idea of what to look at, feel free ;-) Only to try: do you have alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia into /etc/modules.conf do you load glx module into XF86Config-4 and this is the correct version (did you remove the old driver installed by rpm first?) is the link into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ correct? Did you try to write to nvidia? i did once and i had the solution in a day. hope can help. Angelo __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad
I actually have now tried and failed to build kernel-2.4.22-0.6mdk (from cooker). I upgraded kernel-utils (built from source rpm so it would be cool with MDK 9.1) and then tried building the kernel. No go. First off, xconfig doesn't work so I had to go with menuconfig (no problem with 2.4.21-0.13mdk). It built just fine but when installing the kernel (make install) it failed to find a bzImage and didn't install a vmlinuz to go with the build. No amount of tinkering/manual file play would get around this. I haven't yet tried (again) to go to 2.4.21-0.25mdk via your method. At this point, I give up and will, I suppose, wait for 9.2 and HOPE that the kernel is all cool and functional on my laptop. praedor --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:29, Michael Lothian wrote: Try one of the tmb kernels http://www.netikka.net/tmb/ I use the cooker one and it's the most stableist I've used Oh and remember to use the latest version of kernel utils ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-utils-1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm Mike Praedor I had the same trouble and found out that the initrd.img was bad. Deleted it. Recreated it, ignored the warnings and I was able get it running. One note the only way I could create a working 25mdk kernel (or 18 for that matter) was to first boot into the stock 25mdk as distributed and then create my initrd. For whatever reason from 13mdk I couldn't create a working initrd for 18 or 25. James Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an IBM Stinkpad that has been running Mandrake for several years without problem. It currently runs 9.1 and 2.4.21-0.13mdk without problems. I have tried building -0.18mdk and, most recently, -0.25mdk kernels but neither works. Since 0.25mdk is the latest, here's the deal with it. I used the same config as I did to build my 0.13mdk kernel which works perfectly. When I restart after the build/install, it refuses to bootup. Instead, as soon as it loads linux, the screen blanks/goes black and the system restarts. No error message appears, or if it does it comes and goes too fast to see. I then rebuilt it from scratch, manually selecting or deselecting options as always. The main selection I go for vs the default kernel is in GRSECURITY - I select a number of the network security options...nothing that should in any way, shape, or form, prevent bootup. I try rebooting after install and, as before, I select linux, the screen blanks, it indicates its loading linux but then blank, reboot, ad infinitum. The only way to get back up is to bootup my old 0.13mdk kernel. No error messages appear in any logs, it occurs too soon and too rapidly. What's up with all the kernels beyond 0.13mdk that renders them unusable on an IBM Thinkpad 1412 (celery 366)? praedor - -- Key fingerprint = D6F9 8682 2257 2871 10C6 DB92 6F50 8BBA B100 EB15 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P2DYb1CLurEA6xURAryfAJ9x58sfw/ueieu1P3545maAg54b2wCfWLOA a1lIWi8Ed3XwM3/AMiVFyEE= =JrUm -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...
I have run into this insanely annoying behavior before too. I have LOTS of hdd space but I did not give /tmp it's own multigigabyte partition, just an unreasonably large 800 MBs. I download to /usr/local/download, period. It exists on my system for downloads because it has LOTS of space dedicated to it. I a link to it in my home dir and have rwx access to this directory. I have been screwed by other apps downloading files due to lack of hdd space, however - all due to /tmp not being gigabytes in size. A temp fix: do a mv /tmp /tmp-old and creat a new /tmp that is a link to your REAL download location. Once the download completes, delete the symlink and mv /tmp-old to /tmp again. praedor --- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:01:25 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHY do browser writers insist they know more about the operating environment than the user...? If you are going to use a browser to dl use opera. As to dl location both mozilla and galeon Will use your selected location But as you noted until the dl is complete both use /tmp, which is fine for most dls but for ISOs there will not sufficient space. Charles -- You will be dead within a year. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21.6mdk http://www.eslrahc.com - ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
Question...I have built/tried the 2.4.21-0.17mm-mdk kernel and found it to be too slow for most activities. Perhaps it is great for multimedia but anything else... Is the previous version -0.16mdkmm somehow superior to -0.17mm-mdk? --- Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. akestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
Wow. You would like to pay for a top-end 3D acceleration card but only seek to use the 2D rendering? I would think that you would do quite well to simply stick with Matrox or lower end ATI or NVidia cards with decent memory (say 64 MB) and you would be set for all 2D and DVD viewing. It seems such a waste of money to buy something like a (weakly supported) ATI 9200 and only use the simple 2D acceleration it offers. praedor --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply, Seppo. I'm on very unfamiliar territory here. I don't play games, so I've never kept up with what is happening on the graphics card scene, and I sometimes get caught out with the fact that names/phrases used don't always mean what I thought they mean g Graphics acceleration is only important in so far as it is used in dvd playback - and my old Matrox G400 handles that satisfactorily. Since the 9200 is not mentioned in the 'families' on the ATi website, should I expect that it will function satisfactorily in basic graphics, though not necessarily giving much in the way of acceleration, rather like my current card? For 'video capture' they are recommending the TVWonder and TVWonder VE. When they talk about 'video capture' are they meaning capture from tv signals? Although nice, this is not important to me, but I do want to be able to capture video from my camcorder. I see that they say that video4linux2 is needed for video capture, and gatos for dvd playback. I would be grateful for any advice from you or anyone else with more experience of video card and video capture, as I am completely out of my depth here. Anne On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:18 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: I use Radeon All-In-Wonder with all functions available. you need to use Gatos project drivers to get everything working. http://gatos.sf.net/ On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:34, Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees had said that he had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site and there is no linux driver for this model. Is anyone using it? Anne _ _ 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1
It has been a while since I last played this game but now I have some family visiting and at least one of these visitors would like to pass some time playing it. I installed it last night, got it working with my NVidia Ti4200 just fine, but I have no sound and it looks to be a libSDL issue of some sort. Has anyone managed to get this game working with sound in Mandrake 9.1 (or 9.0 which is likely similar enough for me to copy)? I have all the libSDL rpms installed that came with 9.1 but perhaps one is missing that is needed by this game? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount in 9.1 or 9.0 (or others). Supermount causes problems, however, if you wish to use k3b, the kde cdburner app. It is a nice looking app but I cannot get it to work with my system setup with supermount, though I have no problems with X-CDroast or eroaster w/supermount. So, I suppose it depends on your system and what you wish to do. The fstab entries required/created by k3b are incompatible with supermount (unless someone can set me right on this). praedor --- charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, Sevatio had this to contribute :- I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. It seems to depend who you talk to. I have trouble with all supermounts, others have none apparently when reading this list. Charlie -- Nothing is certain but uncertainty. G. K. Chesterton This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes
I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk and -0.13mdkcustom but cannot begin to boot 2.4.21-0.18mdkcustom (same config as -0.13mdkcustom). All I get is a black/blank screen after lilo. No errors, no kernel panic message, nothing. Then, after about 2 seconds, the system reboots and this cycle will continue forever (linux default bootup of course). I cannot even start it in failsafe. At the moment I am back to 2.4.21-0.13mdkcustom until/unless I can get a working -0.18mdk build. My system is an AMD Athlon XP2700+ with MSI KT333 mobo. Mandrake 9.1 with all the pertinent updates save the kernel, of course. Anyone see this sort of thing before? Have any ideas how to get a bootup or even a kernel panic out of this? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount in 9.1 or 9.0 (or others). Supermount causes problems, however, if you wish to use k3b, the kde cdburner app. It is a nice looking app but I cannot get it to work with my system setup with supermount, though I have no problems with X-CDroast or eroaster w/supermount. So, I suppose it depends on your system and what you wish to do. The fstab entries required/created by k3b are incompatible with supermount (unless someone can set me right on this). Praedor, I may be the exception to the rule, but K3b and supermount work just fine on my Mdk 9.1 laptop. I've got separate mount points for cdrom and cdrecorder, and it seems to work fine that way. However, if I remember correctly, I *did* need to setuid root on the cdrecord and cdrdao programs. They are setuid in any case. This is obviously a security risk, but my laptop is mostly single-user (my wife occasionally plays Frozen Bubble on it). -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom Association President Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
I had thought that allowing k3b to install new lines into fstab, redundant entries for my /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom2, would cause problems. I thought that these k3b-added lines needed to be in replacement for the supermount entries. Having semi-redundant lines in fstab with and without supermount doesn't cause any problems? praedor --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor In fstab, my cdrom mount point is setup for supermount, but my cdrecorder mount point is *not* setup for supermount -- K3b mounts it on demand, and presumably unmounts the cdrom mount point at the same time, so there are no conflicts. If *both* mount points are setup for supermount, but they use the same device, wouldn't this be rather ... counterproductive? -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom Association President Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes
My lilo entry have vga=788. I don't recall the failsafe entry (whatever default the system makes it as during install). I haven't tried starting throught the no-framebuffer entry as yet. I could try that this evening. Is there a framebuffer issue with the 0.18 kernel? praedor --- Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you trying to use a frame buffer? vga=normal? On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:54, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk and -0.13mdkcustom but cannot begin to boot 2.4.21-0.18mdkcustom (same config as -0.13mdkcustom). All I get is a black/blank screen after lilo. No errors, no kernel panic message, nothing. Then, after about 2 seconds, the system reboots and this cycle will continue forever (linux default bootup of course). I cannot even start it in failsafe. At the moment I am back to 2.4.21-0.13mdkcustom until/unless I can get a working -0.18mdk build. My system is an AMD Athlon XP2700+ with MSI KT333 mobo. Mandrake 9.1 with all the pertinent updates save the kernel, of course. Anyone see this sort of thing before? Have any ideas how to get a bootup or even a kernel panic out of this? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Newsflash: Gentoo has forked.
Didn't gentoo itself derive from a fork (of Sorcerer) some year or so ago? praedor --- Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo has been one of MDK's greatest competitors so far, maintaining fourth place at Distrowatch.com right behind Red Hat. Mandrake of course has almost consistently maintained it's first place position there. I find it interesting that so far we in the Mandrake world have avoided forking, thus maintaining our strength in concentrated form. Even though there are disagreements and disputes. It shows the strength of the Mandrake community. Mandrakians seem to be strong in that they are able to put up with disagreements and flaws without getting totally annoyed and just leavi?g. I think this is because mainly that we have voices in the form of votes and the mailing lists. As well as the forums. So there is the impression that everyone is helping to some degree. http://www.zynot.org/info/faq.html --LX __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Multimedia-Kernel
I tried the mm kernel and then went back to the regular kernel (built from source with some of the grsecurity features enabled). The mm kernel is slower than the rgular kernel for most non-mm stuff, so unless you do a lot of mm work, it isn't worth the switch. praedor --- KevinO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote: ... low latency is built in along with a number of other things for doing realtime audio and video editing. Most of this came about from trying to get a multimedia tool called (IIRC) Jack. Cool -- you know Jack.(the audio server?) People are constantly reminding me that I don't Jack ;-) (Even right now whilst I am drinking Jack) - -- KevinO Hickory Dickory Dock, The mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The others escaped with minor injuries. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE++r2YjBS1mMJB+bQRAlW2AKDULClPWmNQm1hh8WDzAp3BAGbzbACfScIr zoBRuV4Hm41b++M+kagMl2o= =8NL7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Open/StarOffice and MS-office
Then, in OO at least, it should be possible to disable this disabled import (re-enable unprotected import of pword m$ docs). --- Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.hos.horizon.ie/staroffice/techfaq.html#1q21 22. Q. Why can I not import password protected MS Office files? A. Microsoft does not specify how they protect their files, so we cannot simply import them as password-protected files in StarOffice 6.0 software. Microsoft does not encrypt their protected files. In the past, we simply imported those documents as unprotected files. Naturally, this represents a security violation and most enterprises were not happy about that. As a result, we blocked the import capability for password-protected files and they can no longer be imported at all. Does anyone know if this is true? Doe it go for the newer version of office? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed compilation of kdelibs-3.1-58mdk.src.rpm
When KDE was young (1.x to 2.0 days) I would rebuild the KDE source rpms without problems. Since late in the 2.x and into the 3.x versions I have given up on rebuilding the rpms. Somewhere along the line the complexity and just plain difficulty of getting the rpms to build got to be too much. I would consistently fail to get either kdebase and/or kdelibs built. After fiddling with them for a time, I gave up and have since stuck with the binary rpms. Somethin' ain't right in the KDE source somewhere - you meet all the dependencies and still can't get it to build. There is a magic trick performed by the KDE developers and/or Mandrake that does manage to get it all built with all the nice extra support switches activated...but they ain't telling the how of their magic trick. --- Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to do this stuff for a few months with some successes, and some mysterious failures- here's a link to a forum at pclinuxonline with lots of great info on this subject. I still haven't solved the kdelibs and base rebuilding either. Your Duron needs the tbird opt flag. There are more optflags you should investigate- you can add them to the stock Mandrakes, and you really should create a building tree in your /home directory so you can build as user intead of root. My posts are under wrc1944. Robert Crawford http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?mop=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewforumforum=11 On Tuesday 24 June 2003 04:27, Huw Blackwell wrote: Okay guys, A bit stumped by this one, I am trying to optimize Mandrake 9.1 for my computer by re-compiling the rpm source pacakges. I've hit a bit of a brick wall with kdelibs, which of course, kde base __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems after bios upgrade
I recently picked up an Athlon XP2700+ to replace my Duron 1100. The switch went fine except my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobo apparently doesn't support anything greater than an XP1500+. It is an MSI KT333 ultra and the manual says it can do a 200MHz FSB, etc, which would support the chip but...in any case, this is true, it seems, only with windoze when using a special MSI-supplied application for overclocking. I downloaded the latest bios upgrade for this mobo thinking/hoping it would add support for XP2000 and higher chips but. After upgrading the bios, Windoze ME still fires up just fine but Linux is hosed. I can boot up in failsafe mode and from there start up graphics and networking just fine as root. If I try to login from failsafe as a user, if fails to start XFree. This isn't the main problem at this point, however. The primary problem is if I try to startup linux via a normal kernel and graphical startup, I get a screen full of error messages having to do with unable to touch /var/lock/subsys/whatever no such file or directory and I also get an error message about being unable to mount most of my partitions because their /dev/hd* entries do not exist. Ultimately, the bootup fails when the system gets to the point of trying to start the system logger, at which point it just sits for a long time and then the screen goes blank and that's it. Why would I be able to start up just fine, graphics and all, all my partitions, all my /var/lock/... files, etc, from failsafe all the way to graphics (but only for root) but not be able to do the same from a normal bootup? How do I go about fixing this? Since I can get in as root via failsafe I am not yet ready to try reinstalling and feel that the system MUST be salvagable, but where to start? And why would a bios upgrade do this in such an odd manner, affecting only the graphical bootup but leaving the failsafe bootup (to graphics) intact? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Lyx for Mandrake 9.0 with QT UI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried posting this to the list yesterday but it never appeared in the list(?). If any of you are lyx users you may appreciate the Qt frontend in place of the ugly/clunky xforms frontend. An individual in the lyx-users list has produced a Mandrake 9.0 Lyx rpm with the Qt frontend instead of the default xforms frontend. It is very nice. It is available at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/bin/lyx/1.3.0 It is a major pain to build lyx with the Qt frontend. Many have tried and failed. This one works nicely if you have kde 3.0.3 and its qt3.x installed. You should be able to install and use it by using --nodeps (I did). It will likely complain about needing qt if you don't use nodeps, even though you have it installed. A quirk associated with the needs of building the lyx Qt frontend. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RSDa1i/6R1B/Yh0RAtvoAJ9pHSZfiZFXVEvNeyDOKkYnhpSDEQCghFIi M2Mln/9dZ4bDQPTYSomhIIU= =hBcc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem - resolved in OO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I submitted a bug report to openoffice.org about this problem and it has now been resolved in the latest build. There was a bug in the code that allowed for/created an empty OLE object on one of the slides and this prevented the export. It has been corrected in the latest build of OO, which makes the frame around the empty OLE object visable so it can be deleted. Once deleted, the presentation saves as powerpoint just fine. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Q7A01i/6R1B/Yh0RArhOAJ4vI0CawWLyW3JpVAuQXjrEU6opRwCglcgL 52SK7Nxk+DD6c6AhugH1q9Q= =Z6IH -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel upgrade failure :(
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 February 2003 08:14 am, stefmit wrote: [...] busybox: unresolved symbol drop_super_Rc64cc0dd4 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k reiserfs, errno=2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k freereiserfs, errno=2 kernel panic: no init found ... Well, well. You are experiencing the same problem I ran into with any 2.4.20 kernel. Originally I was having problems with XFS, getting the same errors as above but referring to XFS. I then found that the XFS module was DOA wrt to gcc 3.2. I switched my system to ReiserFS and tried again. Same error you get above. I am not using a 2.4.20 kernel, and have instead retained my 8.2 custom kernel built with gcc-2.96. If built with gcc3.2, it too goes looney the way your kernel is. You could try building with gcc-2.96, a proven workhorse. Or you could use the solid 8.2 kernel (2.4.18) and still build it with gcc-2.96 but have a fully working kernel. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Q7Ui1i/6R1B/Yh0RAsw/AJ9LfyVJSbzoUQMuoDO4g3Ue3TGY9gCdE4RU 2X7Jqw3TrL0h7ubGJPf0OIg= =2TZw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] supermount
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:41 am, SainTiss wrote: I enabled supermount through the MDK control center, but this is what I got in fstab now: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,users 0 0 I love supermount. It works for me on 8.2 and 9.0. I have 2 cdroms (1 cdrom, 1 cdburner). My working entry for my cd burner on /mnt/cdrom2 is: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto, ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+QQ/l1i/6R1B/Yh0RAu3IAJ9FqMPx+eOp+axEFy09LsMEdfv8hwCeIi9T mwKjhFW4CvjMik1rGegLl+8= =NRJf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I take responsibility for posting OT on the list. I would do it again but perhaps in doing so I should have specified an off-list, direct reply to me rather than in the list. Newsgroups are sometimes too slow and I needed info ASAP (like within an hour or so). I hoped to dialog with someone in the know directly rather than on the list. Or I expected someone to perhaps say Yeah, I'm the person you are looking for, tell me about your problem, which would have prompted me to directly (offlist) correspond with the person. This list happens to be quite quick with responses (usually), thus I made use of the best resource I had available. praedor On Monday 03 February 2003 09:39 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 04:06 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:51:40PM -0500 Thank you for the help...NOT. In any case, the OT DOES provide warning that it isn't ON TOPIC and you can read at your own risk. It's also a flag to list owners that the user is abusing the purpose and intent of said list. It sure beats the other OT thread on the list the other day. Be thankful. Please don't post OT posts. Be a leader, not a follower. [...] Todd: With all due respect, putting this thread in the same category as that mess last week is a huge leap. For one thing, this hardly a controversial topic. For another, I doubt that I'll be block-deleting great numbers of comments on this thread for the next five or six days before losing my cool. [...] - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+P8DA1i/6R1B/Yh0RAj/SAJwJk2m10IyPP5DJ85FzHOVG+j2LmwCfcw+d 1FwLPzMN++2wbrTltqqh7dc= =MYxN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a starimpress presentation that I must save as a powerpoint presentation. Trying to do so from either staroffice 6.0 or OO 1.0.1 fails with a beep and a General error input/output error. Is there some limitation/issue with these packages with regards to saving to powerpoint? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PmXt1i/6R1B/Yh0RApkZAKCYhztmnsana14SMrzcq8RfD1ropwCfSfwX CWa8vRZdQZiAtG78NCwQIzI= =D8i4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 08:08 am, Thomas Sourmail wrote: with a beep and a General error input/output error. You are not trying to save on a fat32 partition, are you ? Apart from the fact that soffice won't read those, I had weird problems with nfs and MS formats. I could save as staroffice/openoffice own formats on nfs, but got systematic crashes when trying to write a ppt or xls formated file on nfs. No clue why. I am merely trying to save the file to my local XFS partition. I am also having problems saving it to ReiserFS. It doesn't even TRY to save, the error is instantaneous with hitting save as powerpoint. No errors show up on the CLI if I start either OO or SO from the CLI. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Pm+b1i/6R1B/Yh0RAtErAKCOTy0Rvj4MEz2p1B9CNf/Ywj/8EgCfdwbM d2DQor9iWgPPhNDCNvKr+QQ= =2WaA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have. I need help fast. Anyone with knowledge about this who can help me...I would be eternally grateful. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Pq4Q1i/6R1B/Yh0RAgCoAJ4hCcGBWR6DedWgP3+vXs46OogbygCgjgqf gYfORsT2aAJdY1hBce8kBmE= =lI8t -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 01:45 pm, et wrote: ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. Hell's bells. Hmpf. Being an emergency, I tried other options and have decided to go with pdf. Staroffice, I found, cannot create (in this case at least) a valid/useable pdf file. By printing instead to a postscript file (SO does BEAUTIFUL postscript) and then using ps2pdfwr I get an equally gorgeous pdf file. My committee will have to make do with a pdf file as I have already generated it and tested it. Thanks for the attempts (and possible answer). I will have to try the copy-paste to a new file. Must be some wierd bit somewhere in the presentation. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PrkH1i/6R1B/Yh0RApnfAJ9+MQLjnuGq5OYteUGUPduiB5aZ7wCZAUE8 +BkCB5WGeb0v0LtLXDwg2nQ= =G4oM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for the help...NOT. In any case, the OT DOES provide warning that it isn't ON TOPIC and you can read at your own risk. It sure beats the other OT thread on the list the other day. Be thankful. On Monday 03 February 2003 03:44 pm, Seth Zirin wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 09:59, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have. I need help fast. Anyone with knowledge about this who can help me...I would be eternally grateful. How is this even remotely related to Mandrake Linux? Why are you wasting everyone's resources for unrelated math questions that you could likely answer yourself with five minutes of effort searching google? Seth - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PtZc1i/6R1B/Yh0RApEgAJ9C2Ho2mN/A9x2HIjpF69AFfJIkGgCgkTRa VCnsCOBzmtdd2VK0NBTDLmU= =iiQI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seth will be pleased to know I did acquire an answer by aid from this list, no less, which led me to a website which led me to a PERSON who was able to help me out with my specific situation. Thanks to those who did offer aid in various forms. On Monday 03 February 2003 04:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have. I need help fast. Anyone with knowledge about this who can help me...I would be eternally grateful. I'm familiar with it in the sense that I've given a couple statistics lectures concerning R (http://www.r-project.org/) and Linux (see, you're somewhat on topic after all). Fisher's exact is, of course, a correlation test and its applicability depends entirely on your data set and what you're trying to accomplish. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Ptii1i/6R1B/Yh0RAts9AJ9uzJ3fh4KnFcGDNky3W2rkvr4P3gCggHW5 qZfPFVS+sCo4Rqpk0RfwBA0= =8p5f -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs
On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:47 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On this same note... When I was trying to compile the KDE 3.1 package=20 kdelibs, I got some weird compile errors that appeared to be simple synta= x=20 [...] I haven't been able to successfully build KDE sources since somewhere around kde 2.2.x days. No matter what I do, no matter that I install ALL possible development tools and libs. KDE refuses to build. I ultimately gave up trying to build it from source, unfortunately. The KDE package is by far the most problematic source to build of anything I have ever tried. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
On Sunday 02 February 2003 05:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue I have wireless working OK with 8.2 and 9.0 (though 9.0 was a struggle). I use, on my IBM Thinkpad 1412 (old celeron 366 system), currently MDK 8.2 with a Zoomair wireless card (prism2) that has worked perfectly with both the linux-wlan-ng driver and my personal preference, the hostap driver which lets it also act as an access point (works well). On my desktop, I currently have 9.0 running with kernel 2.4.18 from 8.2 (I rebuilt it from source) and have a WUSB11 v2.6 usb device using the Atmel driver. It is working fine right now and has for days. I AM afraid to shutdown the system because I am not certain that when it comes back up that the USB wireless will still be working (what an ordeal). Neither system locks up nor loses connectivity. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is WAY offtopic and would be better suited for an alt.* newsgroup. As a US Desert Storm veteran and now reservist, I think I can speak for EVERYONE that Bush is an idiot, in fact, he truly is the most ignorant, ill-educated president that the US has EVER had and that his actions, politics, and behavior is an unfortunate expression of this fact. Lets just leave it here at what we ALL can and must agree on because these are simple, objective facts. There, all fixed. Now this topic can die. On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:57 am, Chuck Burns wrote: On Wed, January 29 2003 7:55 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *snip* BTW: What doo you think is the German way of today? From your statement I doubt that you have any clue. I think the Germans are so scared of their OWN past, that they will allow ANY country to do whatever they want to do to their OWN people, as long as the cowardly germans have to do nothing! - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+N+Fl1i/6R1B/Yh0RAqKFAJ0YzWPDvpLVTnpFjMg51esHAPUnVwCfUSTM xG/xRLtFv6cMgVilwZkowOQ= =Wc+U -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:08 am, tarvid wrote: I like my horse, even though he is over 30 now. 30?! Wow. What kind of horse is he? Have you retired him to pasture grazing or do you actually still ride him? - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+N+5P1i/6R1B/Yh0RApmBAJ4iKY+DydH//7ayvy9Q4Z1LJcpKjQCbB0Hk sYnfvhJRpC+j0XecNeZAUvg= =LIRF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:27 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:36 -0600, Chuck Burns wrote: FACT: The French have oil contracts with Iraq. Aha! Now we are seeing some real beef. The French have and the US have not? (You may recognize that I'm coming down to your level of arguing slowly but surely). There is a little thing of lost oil field control by US oil companies as a result of all the Desert Storm, etc, ugliness. Bush would love nothing more than to install a friendly leader in Iraq who would then turn over the oil fields in question to their former US oil company owners. Ties into both Bush's and Cheny's former business partners in the business. FACT: Nearly all the Iraqi weapons are of old Soviet design, where did they get these designs? Russia and her neighbors, under the old USSR So let me see, whre we have all old weapons from Russia with love: German criminals use them, some dozen countries in Africa use them, Pakistan has some, I was on B-52s in Desert Storm. The Soviet stuff had my attention (I was an electronic warfare officer - bomber electronic defensive systems) but the only weapons I actually had any fear of were the US-supplied HAWK missile systems. We were geared to deal with Soviet equipment and there is just not a lot that can be done to a HAWK missile wrt jamming/spoofing. [...] It all boils down to the situation that Mr. Bush and his followers are like a French Terrier dog, getting up on his hindfeet ready to be unleashed to get at his prey. Bush is also in a precarious position, primed to lose the next election for sure depending on how it plays out. He is spending billions of dollars on sending troops to the Gulf in preparation for war. The longer they sit there idle, the less effective they become (for soldiers it is just wearying to sit around waiting for something to happen - doesn't mean they need to be warmongers - I'm not. It is a matter of fact that the longer you have to sit around, the less effective you will be). Also, the longer they just sit there, the more the expenses pile up. Ding! Ding! Ding! That is the sound of deficits skyrocketing (after 8 years of steady decline under a truly intelligent and good, if not libido-riddled, previous president). If our troops have to sit there too long, it will hurt the US financially and, more importantly to the current administration, it will hurt chances of re-election. It wont matter if Osama finally is caught and Iraq is crushed if it ends up wrecking the US economy for several years - Bush will lose re-election. He can't have that so better to smash Saddam NOW, regardless of what almost anybody else things, and get the boys back, reducing the financial costs and better ensuring chances of re-election. Plus, he wants to give his daddy a present. Stupid kid. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+N/UW1i/6R1B/Yh0RAqRjAJ0V/zcZl1TxWVwKmyURDL4Yygca2gCeLuj/ cyKgzm0nN9UHI/RszzMKYgY= =6ETR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:35 am, tarvid wrote: On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:07 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:08 am, tarvid wrote: I like my horse, even though he is over 30 now. 30?! Wow. What kind of horse is he? Have you retired him to pasture grazing or do you actually still ride him? Norwegian Fjord and more of a retired cart horse than a trail horse. My daughter rides him on ocassion. He prefers cookies to grass although he manages to keep his 7 acre paddock rather close. The one horse keeps 7 acres close? Are the goats helping in this regard? I/we had 2 horses and 5 acres of pasture - they'd keep patches of it close while other sections grew long enough to require mowing now and again (they don't like fescue - out pasture is a mix of fescue and...something else I don't recall). Now we have the original 2 quarter horses and a Percheron that was acquired/rescued 3 months ago. He was donated to the local university veterinarian school where my wife works. This meant he was almost certain to be euthanized after a little educational use by veterinarian students. We couldn't have that. We are hoping that this third horse wont overstress the pasture come spring and summer. I keep a few goats - cashmeres, saanens and alpines. The place is blessed with a few dozen wild turkeys. Sound wonderful. No turkeys here (unfortunately - though we do see them around in the more forested portions of Indiana) but we have hawks, falcons, bald eagles, golden eagles, jack-rabbits, and my personal favorite, coyotes. The stench from the hog farm down the road wafts this way which gives me a hazy perspective but for entirely different reasons, I think, than your place does for you ;) - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+N/k51i/6R1B/Yh0RArdAAJ9Rp/V0Zq4qEFP9PIepnfo/AQLX4gCfcsoG nS4LdRgbplVbaNuTUoya/W0= =j03t -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:53 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:38, Chuck Burns wrote: On Wed, January 29 2003 8:32 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *snip* Yes, I know that one and I just love it. It's a very good example of putting the words so extreme that only a very dumb person doesn't realize it's a joke with a very serious background. I see that you completely ignored my post, and focused instead on my auto-generated fortune-sig. That must have taken a total lack of guts. That's right, Chuck; that's exactly what you would expect from a brainwashed socialist liberal with absolutely no facts on their side Guys, PLEASE! Uncalled for, ugly, and way too knee-jerk U.S.A.-conservative. Let's please cut the personal name-calling. Just stick to discussing Bush's lack of any real education and utter lack of curiosity about anything of which he is ignorant (this last part about utter lack of curiosity is cribbed from a newspaper article appearing in a local Indiana paper about a week ago - - the words are from a CONSERVATIVE journalist who spent time at the White House with Bush and friends for a while...can't recall his name right now). Oh for the days when we had a President who actually read BOOKS (comics, sports pages from newspapers don't count - nor do the stock market pages). - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+N/zI1i/6R1B/Yh0RAhIpAKCO4G8Y/eJE59DS398zRBGcq/2xmQCdHOrE T+jQxDxoIMJz0kJtZo5W7Gc= =lV78 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:29 am, Franki wrote: 3. Oil, I don't recall hearing that the Oil fields that the US liberated in Desert storm are now owned by the US did I miss some important news flyer here??? who is running Kuwait now??? I wasn't aware it was the No oil fields were taken after desert storm. In previous years when we were fast friends with Iraq, US oil companies invested a lot in Iraqi oil development/oil fields. Not very different than France, Russia, etc. When we decided that Iraq was no longer a friend (it was never a nice place - Saddam hasn't changed between then and now) it lost us those investments. It's kind of like the rabid, illogical hatred/fear that many Republicans have wrt Cuba. Cuba is SUCH a threat (that is sarcasm, by the way). They are s evil. No. What makes them sooo evil and bad is the lost investment that US companies suffered when it fell to Castro - not that the previous Cuban situation that the US gov't LIKED was good for the local citizens, but that doesn't matter because US companies were squeezing big bucks from their investments in Cuba. A not-insignificant part of the US gov't drive to go after Saddam/Iraq is oil. It certainly wont upset US oil companies if they will regain access to their investments. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:46 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: I beg your all pardon but I could not keep my fingers away from the keyboard after such a stupid things written below. [...] Pardon Praedor, but I could not help myself considering this subject over. However I shall not write anymore about it. Heh! I'm as guilty as you are in writing on the subject. It is immensely difficult to hold the tongue (fingers?) when certain things are stated. Plus, I wanted to make sure that within the USA chorus there were a number of US citizens with contrary views to those of the court-appointed US president and his apologists - I count several besides myself in this list thus far. Not all Americans respond with reflex support for what the current person in the White House says. I just loved some of his proposals: the one where he mentions saving the forests from being ravaged by fires - HAH! That is newspeak for give full access to timber companies so they can thin the trees, particularly that nasty old-growth garbage...totally ignoring the fact that controlled burning is superior to cutting timber in this regard. Amazing how the extensive (one-time) forests of the North American continent managed to exist at all for so many thousands of years without such protectors as Bush Republicans being there to cut it all to shreds for its own good. His give the elderly access to drug benefits means giving up their long-time doctors and joining a least-common-denominator HMO where any treatment that actually may extend/save lives is deemed experimental and thus not covered. You get the old-fashioned, largely ineffective treatments of yesteryear because they are cheaper. Period. Oh, and the drug benefit still costs the seniors an arm - somewhat better than an arm-and-a-leg as it is now. His clear skies initiative to clean up the air...means allowing power plants to produce MORE pollution and NOT add new/improved scrubbers. It means NOT requiring imminently doable mandated increases in CAFE standards for ALL cars/trucks. He had the audacity to mention fuel-cell automobile development too (apparently he couldn't recall the term fuel-cell and used a long, drawn-out description of using hydrogen for fuel and producing just water) - this after he tore the Gore campaign apart for advocating fuel-cell and hybrid vehicles, referring to them as jokes instead of real useful technologies. His proposal to ban ALL human cloning. Not just reproductive cloning, which you could possibly get some broad agreement on, but ALL cloning. This means that top-notch scientists will leave the US (if such a ban comes to pass - I happen to know some already are or are planning to) because all the real research will be conducted in Great Britain, France, and other European and Asian countries (Japan and China in particular) - don't know about Germany. This isn't about stopping someone from cloning themselves to make a baby (big deal), it is about stopping the creation of cures for many many diseases. It means a ban on cloning human stem cell lines (therapeutic cloning which could fix damaged neural tissue in epileptics, stroke victims, etc, correct heart tissue damage due to heart attack, prevent tissue engineering work targetted at growing new replacement organs). The list goes on. It is all tied to his lack of ability to understand anything having to do with science, and his total lack of curiosity about anything he doesn't currently understand. He just wants to bury his face in a bible and quit thinking. His mantra for jumpstarting the US economy is to give ever greater tax cuts to the wealthiest individuals, period, inspit of the fact that many of the RICHEST (Including the anti-christ Bill Gates) are against it. Who better to speak for the wealthy than Bill Gates? Bah! He's an idiot and if allowed to follow his path with some good blocking from the Senate minority, he will stumble as he must and be replaced next term. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OAwr1i/6R1B/Yh0RAr0vAKCVEixK2JQGolXKK3auVbp91TxnMgCeL1vs ogfc5b3/yUwU9WgYfOdnt5I= =4DrQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:57 am, Alfredo C. López wrote: El Mié 29 Ene 2003 11:54, Chuck Burns escribió: We never SIGNED kyoto, because it was nothing more than a ploy to LOOK GOOD to ecologists. The WORST polluting countries are the 3rd world countries with NO environmental protection agencies, and the Kyoto treaty left them alone, so, of course we didn't sign it. That crap men. the 3rd world countries didn't have industries. so is very difficult to polute in that way The exxon valdez was and american bote right? This sort of argument is erroneous for many basic reasons. A factory in a 3rd World Nation will likely pollute like crazy relative to any developed nation's factories, but there is only one or two such factories and so many fewer citizens doing their own damage. Then you have the US with many MANY factories/power plants, all putting out much less pollution PER PLANT but the sheer number of plants and the number of people doing their own polluting (a lot less than an INDIVIDUAL citizen of a 3rd World Nation) adds up to MUCH more pollution overall than a given 3rd World Nation could even aspire to produce. A lot of a little can easily add up to more than a little of a lot. And in this case, it does. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OA2G1i/6R1B/Yh0RAgBlAJ4m73JGkVCe0wjU+n1tqZXjTL8WHgCeKd6y IkzCrB6w9USnd4Zu4qZWvdI= =Oyf6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:23 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: [...] Last polls in USA show that nearly half of the American people don't want war against Iraq in any case. In Germany our chancellor wouldn't get away with doing something like that without a large majority on his side. And he'd never get that majority. [...] I sincerely wish that it was that way here. sadly, it would appear that america's people, for better or worse, are along for the ride. It is actually something like 30-ish% support going in without evidence, thus most are against this notion, while 70-ish% are for it WITH proof. So far, no proof, just the words, you have to trust me on this. Doesn't cut it, I'm afraid. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OBAT1i/6R1B/Yh0RAjoeAKCkVPDEGo4tOxdWPXxfEkc54sCVrwCfTfup oLrqm25Fld2QyKih0Q2RbxI= =amaI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish you people would quit cluttering my mailbox with all this crap. There are other lists where this would be appropriate. Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. first of all... repeat after me. FRANKI IS NOT AN AMERICAN :-) I'm an Aussie... [...] Heh. Just joining the list? At least you got in 'early'. Anyone who fires up the email latter in the day will be barraged. Better and more extensive than spam! At least it is an easy filter rule based on subject line. It will die down eventually. Perhaps as soon as one of the more inflammatory individuals needs help with a problem on their system and have to accept the aid of their new-found list enemy. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OBAv1i/6R1B/Yh0RAo2fAJ9cfFf0qyt/ccWpchj555xz+4YvGgCeIKet eX3bo54lWyQJdTj4fMmMIkQ= =dc74 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow? The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:45 pm, Franki wrote: [...] believe it or not.. often a dictator is better economically then a democracy (at least initially).. simply because the leader need not worry about public opinion.. but that certainly doesn't make it right... Yah, one example is Pakistan. Musharrif is essentially a dictator but the alternative is likely MUCH worse (good likelihood that Moslem extremists would gain a considerable level of power). Not good - it just produces another dangerous regime to worry about and cause problems for its neighbors. Until conditions for average Pakistani's improve to the point of squelching any desire to vote for religious extremists, I would have to say that the current nondemocratic situation is best overall (for the Pakistani's themselves, though they may not think so right now, and the world). How many citizens in Iran and Afghanistan are or were truly happy with the fundamentalist governments they have or had? I'd wager that the women are particularly less than pleased. Such situations invariably favor the poorly educated as such systems give them power that they wouldn't have. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OBSr1i/6R1B/Yh0RArdwAKCf8DZTtfWPxz60zbjZBJD5v/241ACfYSYf T4Q1JLb0fIPzMrWFER32ET8= =1Fmc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - This Damn List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 01:13 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:57:31 + Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AT LEAST TAKE IT OFF THIS LIST. Agreed!!! Thankfully using claws I can set an ignore flag. What is claws? - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OBgy1i/6R1B/Yh0RAo8/AJ9sNoBqGucOgvas3L0agWG/mouwMwCfS80f G0TlxGw6L1grG5TpMkTdQh8= =muGg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - This Damn List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 01:26 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:06:42 -0500 Praedor Tempus Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is claws? sylpheed-claws, a damn great email program. Ah. I know of sylpheed and have used it, I didn't know realize there was a claws as part of its name...or is there a variant of just sylpheed? - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OBtO1i/6R1B/Yh0RAmITAKCgyZtZxOqBP+ccBDSkJRJOhPEe/ACfcfiQ l8YR8iXdIPHINbTeJqwC+MQ= =pVDk -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow? Last word for me on this topic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:14 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: of US citizens with contrary views to those of the court-appointed US president and his apologists - I count several besides myself in this list thus far. Not all Americans respond with reflex support for what the current person in the White House says. Just to be accurate, there were no less than -3- independent recounts of the votes after the election - Bush was the winner in all 3 recounts. Sohe was not court appointed. Under the rules of our voting system - whoever takes the most votes in the Electoral college wins. Bush did this. Gore did have more popular votes - but he did not have more electoral votes. There are a lot of opinions (for and against) the electoral college - but it is the way the system is setup legally. It was setup before the election between Bush and Gore. Only Gore wanted to change the rules AFTER the election started. I understand that it was the electoral college - but I disdain and wish to see abolished the electoral college. It is a vestige of the attempts by SOME early Framers to restrict who could vote/who had control of the political process. No other democracy on the planet uses a system whereby the majority of the citizens can be overruled by cliques of supervoters. The people themselves know what they want more than some misrepresentation of the people. If most people voted against you, by definition, you do not properly represent them and cannot claim to do so. All too often the electoral vote is used to determine landslide victories or mandates. Reagan did this because he overwhelmingly won the ELECTORAL vote. Looking at the popular vote, the actual people's votes themselves, he had no mandate for anything. He didn't get much more than 50% (I seem to recall it being on the order of 54%). That means that nearly half the country voted against you and doesn't support you. That doesn't say mandate or landslide by any stretch. The electoral college is wrong and needs to go. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ODQ41i/6R1B/Yh0RAhiSAJwKTNa+PaAkmP63GK1rQnq8PSp4yACfY14R iHpXepRG8iVoZP70Y1OIIb8= =I0m7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] sftp and chroot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:24 pm, J.P. Pasnak wrote: I've been attempting to set up an enviroment that will let a user use sftp, but not allow them to 'walk' the rest of the system. I've tried _numerous_ different variations (created a chrooted user, using rbash or sftp-server as a shell, etc), and none of them seemed to work. I seem to be going in circles now, so if anyone has any insight, it would be appreciated. In case you get an answer offlist, I would appreciate a note on what you get. I would like such a capability myself - I haven't tried anything to that direction as yet because I didn't really think about the situation until you brought it up. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ODTT1i/6R1B/Yh0RAmTOAJ9ZuT4yj9QpE7K3Y7Mn8wiHvT9JLwCggos+ kqrcAdU5LG0Z70Bvb5tQGZ0= =2tcP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT crap about Iraq, etc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For my part I apologize for letting myself getting involved and helping to stretch this stupid thread beyond its useful lifetime. In order to prevent getting bumped off the list, I promise to hold my keys and respond never again to any portion of this thread on the list. Pleze don't bump me! (I really do have big watery doe eyes that no one can resist when I beg) - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ODaE1i/6R1B/Yh0RAj8cAKCY1WqZkqqT4iHvEjy4bhM2FClpbACfehgK yc94NWE9XvyGXt8QPmj1bS8= =3R0r -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:03 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: I am curious as to Which OS Version you encountered this? I have a Sever running for Several Months on LM 8.2, when I install LM 9.0 it will not rung for more than a few days without encountering this message. Any ideas? Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: Some of what I have found with regards to messages like: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 01100112 [...] Really? Perhaps another problem to chalk up to the many with 2.4.19 (and higher) kernels? I encountered this problem with Mandrake 9.0 kernel-2.4.19-2mdk, customized build. I find I generally have to build my own kernel to get wireless working properly regardless of version but 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 have given me fits - problems with filesystem support (both XFS and RieserFS) and usb primarily. Supermount hasn't been too much of a problem for me as yet. Oh yes, to get around the problems with the kernels to a point of actually being able to USE 2.4.19, I had to build it using gcc2.96. It seems that the entire gcc 3.x series is screwed wrt kernel building. If you build a kernel with gcc 3.x you will loose XFS support at the very least. I couldn't bring up a ReiserFS system with 2.4.20 when built with gcc3.x either. Using 2.96 didn't save me from the problem I mentioned about paging requests, however. That just cleared itself up for perhaps the current boot cycle. I rebooted the magic number of times, I suppose, and this last time it worked. I fear rebooting again. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:08 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:03 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: I am curious as to Which OS Version you encountered this? [...] Really? Perhaps another problem to chalk up to the many with 2.4.19 (and higher) kernels? I encountered this problem with Mandrake 9.0 kernel-2.4.19-2mdk, customized build. I find I generally have to build my own kernel to get wireless working properly regardless of version but 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 have given me fits - problems with filesystem support (both XFS and RieserFS) and usb primarily. Supermount hasn't been too much of a problem for me as yet. [...] Are you indicating that 9.0 doesn't support anything other than ext2 or ext3? If so, Where's the BEEF? Do you have any Documentation available? I never got any answers from support either, must have been the Chapter 11 filing issues . Would like to get the 9.0 running on it, but I have no idea what will provide support for the ReiserFS filesystem. I didn't have any problems booting up and running my system (sans wireless lan) with the stock, prebuilt Mandrake 9.0 kernel. Upon building my own kernel (because I had to patch the kernel's hub.c to get wireless working) I lost the ability to bootup - my system was 100% XFS. Stock kernel, no problem, custom kernel built with gcc 3.2, problem. I then tried 2.4.20 from Cooker. Same thing only by that point I had decided to go to ReiserFS so I could use a kernel NOW rather than at some future point where, presumably, XFS support would be working again. I built the 2.4.20 kernel without hitch (using gcc 3.2 default) and rebooted. Kernel panic, couldn't handle XFS. I went back to the stock 9.0 kernel and did some digging. I then found that there are issues with gcc3.x and XFS. I then followed a suggestion to use gcc2.96 and the problem went away with regards to the XFS issue. I was having problems with the wireless device (WUSB11 v2.6) however and that was a showstopper. The problem was the kernel paging deal I mentioned. The STOCK Mandrake 9.0 2.4.19 kernel that came with the install (precompiled) was fine with regards to XFS, it was only when I tried to do what I always do and rebuild my own kernel with the default 9.0 gcc (3.2) that things went south. I have gotten my WUSB11 working after much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth but I am not sure the kernel paging issue is really fixed or if it just decided not to rear its head with my last restart. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:31 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:08 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: [...] Are you indicating that 9.0 doesn't support anything other than ext2 or ext3? If so, Where's the BEEF? Do you have any Documentation available? I never got any answers from support either, must have been the Chapter 11 filing issues . Would like to get the 9.0 running on it, but I have no idea what will provide support for the ReiserFS filesystem. I didn't have any problems booting up and running my system (sans wireless lan) with the stock, prebuilt Mandrake 9.0 kernel. Upon building my own kernel (because I had to patch the kernel's hub.c to get wireless working) [...] I just wanted to reiterate that these problems are not Mandrake-created/specific problems. The problems are in the kernel code and in gcc3.x. If you want your software to WORK, don't use gcc3.x. If you want it to run faster, perhaps not compile, perhaps NOT work, use gcc3.x. The _kernel_ developers and _gcc_ developers are wrecking the stuff as fast as they can. Everyone else, including Mandrake, is simply stuck with the debris. -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Damn !@##$! usb @@#!%@! atmel !
On Monday 27 January 2003 11:08 am, JP wrote: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What. The. F*CK?!!! please grow up, and let me know when you succeeded so i can stop filtering the crap you send to this ml. Offended by !@##!@ F*CK are we? How about s;lolnoneoitjn;ongponre? -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question
Some of what I have found with regards to messages like: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 01100112 is that it is thought to be related to memory/cache problems. Does anyone know one way or another? I have been running memtest86 for over an hour on the problem system and so far there have been no errors. Anyone have experience with a similar error message and use of memtest86? Does this error type usually show up running memtest or is there something else going on. I have rebuilt my kernel, rebuilt the wlan driver, disabled and enabled APIC, all to no avail. The module for the wusb11 loads and KControl identifies it properly. What doesn't happen is that devfs doesn't create a device for the wlan device as it should and no amount of unplugging/replugging the wusb11 does any good. I cannot even unload the module for the device because I always get back a device busy or in use message. Is there any way to force a module to unload no matter what? It may not be pretty but it has to be better than having to reboot. Shutting down usb doesn't permit unloading the wusb11 driver either. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Yenta Socket and Compaq Laptops
On Monday 27 January 2003 12:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Nothing like talking to oneself here *grin*. I think I've tracked the blocking down to hotplug.. Seems that there is a device that exists in newer compaq desktops at /dev/compaq/cpqphp. This of course doesn't exist in a 2 year old laptop. HotPlug is the cause of the the problem. Everytime you try to insert a cardbus pcmcia card hotplug reacts by trying to load EVERYthing on the pci bus. It appears that my choices are. I have NEVER had any luck with yenta wrt pcmcia. I always end up dumping yenta and switching to i82365 instead. Have you tried this, by chance? Edit /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia so that PCIC=yenta says PCIC=i82365 and try again...or is there something about Compaq that requires you use yenta? praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Damn !@##$! usb @@#!%@! atmel !
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 January 2003 01:43 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: What is wrong?! Why? Why!? WHY!? I REALLY need wireless to work for me to get work done. Anyone have anything to offer? A sledgehammer for both my computer and the WUSB11 perhaps? A pair of brass knuckles to use in dotting Linus' eyes? [...] yep, a D-LINK DWL-810 ETHERNET TO WIRELESS BRIDGE Thanks, I'll have to take a look. This is too unreliable as it is. Right now, for no apparent reason, my WUSB11 is working again. I had shutdown from linux and booted up into memtest86 to test my memory. Let it go for 2 hours and there were no errors - all passed tests. I tweaked a few bios settings (nothing I haven't done before) and rebooted to linux expecting it to fail again. This time it came up but I have no idea why. I will have to ensure that my system doesn't get shut down again until the critical phase passes so I can keep a working wlan connection going. I am defending my PhD thesis next week and MUST access files from another computer without a useful intermediary such as zip disks or jazz disks between them. Floppies are just too small to use anymore. Hence, I needed the high bandwidth connection via wlan between my systems or I would have been wasting time redoing a lot of graphics and tables that already exist on the other system. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+NYOU1i/6R1B/Yh0RApoOAJ9op8Yplmi1zSBKs1hzrodyTwvz1wCdEO3w 6sPuyA9kBCkELLGv2AkZXR8= =irJJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X forwarding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am extremely new to x forwarding. I can x forward certain apps like gkrellm, staroffice, and several other self-contained apps (over wlan). Is it possible to x forward opengl apps? Can one x forward (via ssh) glxgears? An opengl game? It would be nice to be able to run certain apps on my laptop that it normally cannot handle because of a weak video card and CPU (celery 360), using my high-powered system (athlon 1100, Nvidia Ti4200) to do the heavy lifting - and do it over my wlan. Is this possible or does one require a fully capable video card on the receiving end to run accelerated opengl apps? Finally, how would one go about x forwarding KDE apps? I tried something simple like x-forwarding kcontrol but it doesn't work due to DCOP errors. Is there a nice howto to cover this somewhat specifically? I just read a generic x forwarding howto that permitted me to quickly run gkrellm and staroffice via wlan from desktop to laptop but I would like to get more powerful or intensive apps (and kde apps) working over ssh too but the general case doesn't work. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+NZvI1i/6R1B/Yh0RAvJ/AJ9HgEIk2toNfn6YjEgeYA1YeOyb1gCcDtwT 3MW6qa0hc3bPlyipf6y8L3I= =ESoQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X forwarding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 January 2003 05:02 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I don't seem to have any problem running KDE apps in remote X windows. Usually I ssh in rather than telnet. What kind of errors are you seeing? Can you post the output of something like a konqueror start-up sequence? Here's the output from trying to run kcontrol via x-forward between my desktop and laptop: [praedor@stonekeep praedor]$ ssh -X 192.168.0.2 kcontrol [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: kdeinit: Launched DCOPServer, pid = 4339 result = 0 _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOP: register 'anonymous-4339' - number of clients is now 1 DCOPServer up and running. kdeinit: Launched KLauncher, pid = 4343 result = 0 DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-4339' DCOP: register 'klauncher' - number of clients is now 1 DCOP: unregister 'klauncher' DCOP: register 'klauncher' - number of clients is now 1 DCOP: register 'anonymous-4343' - number of clients is now 2 DCOP: new daemon klauncher DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-4343' kdeinit: Launched KDED, pid = 4346 result = 0 DCOP: register 'kded' - number of clients is now 1 DCOP: unregister 'kded' DCOP: register 'kded' - number of clients is now 1 DCOP: register 'anonymous-4346' - number of clients is now 2 DCOP: register 'anonymous-4347' - number of clients is now 3 kdeinit: Got EXEC_NEW 'kbuildsycoca' from launcher. DCOP: register 'kbuildsycoca' - number of clients is now 4 kdeinit: PID 4348 terminated. DCOP: unregister 'kbuildsycoca' DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-4347' DCOP: register 'kbuildsycoca' - number of clients is now 4 kdeinit: PID 4348 terminated. DCOP: unregister 'kbuildsycoca' DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-4347' kdeinit: Got EXEC_NEW 'kconf_update' from launcher. File = /usr/share/apps/kconf_update/kcookiescfg.upd Skipping 'kde2.2/b1' File = /usr/share/apps/kconf_update/kioslave.upd Skipping 'kde2.2/r1' Skipping 'kde2.2/r2' Skipping 'kde2.2/r3' kdeinit: PID 4349 terminated. DCOP: new daemon kded kdeinit: PID 4346 terminated. DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-4346' kdeinit: opened connection to localhost:10.0 ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication. DCOPServer : slotTerminate() - sending terminateKDE signal. kdeinit: terminate KDE. kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 DCOP: unregister 'klauncher' DCOP: unregister 'kded' kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Na061i/6R1B/Yh0RArB1AJ9sNgkLk9hz5yi+EJqNb+T9r0lSvACdESR1 h1dp+PRnpnkFnfWFZj6cVjA= =ZyWM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to fix my urpmi. It did, incompletely. Many of the sites were either unavailable or broken such that urpmi still fails quite often when I try to use it. Anyway, I would like to add the 9.0 CDs to the urpmi database in place of many of the website-based sources. I only have a 56k modem conne tion and doing upgrades/installs online is painful and inefficient. How do I add the CDs (I have the 9.0 box set - Powersuite) to the database? I don't mind leaving some inet sites in the database, obviously updates or unsupported, but for basics like main, I need/prefer the CDs as they are right here and far faster than the web. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Lt391i/6R1B/Yh0RAlLJAJ48bE0MxHuzx3HgU+ITeHIt2MrNQgCfQ71v jIS6Cd/bFfGMms4ik37w1f8= =UgQs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:21 pm, Eric Fernandez wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to fix my urpmi. It did, incompletely. Many of the sites were either unavailable or broken such that urpmi still fails quite often when I try to use it. Anyway, I would like to add the 9.0 CDs to the urpmi database in place of many of the website-based sources. I only have a 56k modem conne tion and doing upgrades/installs online is painful and inefficient. How do I add the CDs (I have the 9.0 box set - Powersuite) to the [...] Since you have the Powerpack, the CDs of the contrib should be already added to your urpmi database. PLF packages are not included in any I deleted the original sources as per other instructions in this list (plus they weren't working anyway). I would like to try to reset them/rebuild the urpmi database to functionally and properly include the CDs. I'll try the site you mention though a cursory glance really doesn't tell me what I need specifically. It is somewhat like a manpage. Lots of information but often not really useful if you are not fully fluent in arcane bash/manpage speak. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+LvNT1i/6R1B/Yh0RAsMHAKCGhZh7ZEaOFI90Fz7fmeBBnLeEYQCeIJJH vxkd8NUavXFwfiKqDpzslfM= =ZyHE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 04:16 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:21 pm, Eric Fernandez wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to fix my urpmi. It did, incompletely. Many of the sites were either unavailable or broken such that urpmi still fails quite often when I try [...] How do I add the CDs (I have the 9.0 box set - Powersuite) to the [...] I deleted the original sources as per other instructions in this list (plus they weren't working anyway). I would like to try to reset them/rebuild the urpmi database to functionally and properly include the CDs. [...] I'll throw out a couple of ideas but I have not personally taken these steps. I did it with urpmi.addmedia -h /mnt/cdrom with my 9.0 CD1 in the drive. It appears fixed now. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Ly2d1i/6R1B/Yh0RAj2WAKCIG3Nnm66t4bRLCfag8nDd/orFXgCaAram qzv3e7CUuI8K/KZDdZ18INY= =rjzQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wireless cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 January 2003 07:47 pm, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote: On Monday 20 January 2003 06:21 am, KevinO wrote: I just want to be able to get a connection without having to pay $20 a day for an ethernet connection. I will be traveling through London, Paris and Amsterdam. how does that work? you still need to get the internet feed from somewhere. if you're not paying for the ethernet connection (presumably at hotels), whose wireless network are you going to connect to? or are you going to be sniffing for open networks and leech off them? :). Britain has a number of public access wireless lans. Will Mandrake 8.0 be current enough or should I upgrade ? i had lots of trouble getting my d-link WPC11 working on 8.2. basically, i had to build my own kernel and it was a major pain (because i have a bunch of other patches that i need, mainly win4lin, and it took weeks to get everything straightened out because of conflicts in the patches That seems to make yours a special case. I had no problems getting any of my wlan devices working in 8.2 but many in 9.0. In fact, I installed 9.0 but still use the 8.2 kernel because it works so well whereas the 9.0 kernel, rebuilt or not, doesn't do much right at all for me (no XFS support if I build the kernel EVEN if I explicitly select XFS support, no usb wlan possible, supermount glitches). As I understand it, the kernels coming after 9.0 are WORSE - no XFS support at all, usb problems still. 8.2 is a solid version that works very well with lots of wlan cards. If you aren't worried about win4lin stuff, then it is probably the best bet. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+LC7E1i/6R1B/Yh0RAmd4AJ0RpLGRQ87XaX5FJg5qcxXCnZRxNgCfZ3nd HtSyzudT6a4nD2dFZjx4qjw= =ZYJB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wireless cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 January 2003 05:02 pm, KevinO wrote: I am looking to add an 802.11b card to my older laptop (P-150) in preparation for a trip to Europe I am about to make. I currently have Mandrake 8.0 on this laptop but I can install 8.1, 8.2 or 9.0 if necessary. What are good cards to buy for this purpose ? Depends on your intent. Any prism2-based card is well supported. Less well supported are atmel-based cards. I have several, all of which work fine. My favorite is a Zoomair card. I use the hostap driver with it (allows it to act as a regular client for a wlan network OR act as an access point AND it supports monitor mode for wlan sniffing). Orinoco cards are also reasonably well supported (I also have an Orinoco Gold). There are a number of others but since I'm happy with my current cards I haven't looked into it much more of late. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+KyI51i/6R1B/Yh0RAowVAKCYU2AEv4QVS7/KmLcBT4JCYmFvJACZAcsx hNbkId/l8p8DdRId9ORP39k= =LS9s -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] RPM screwed and worthless
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I don't know what happened or when but I cannot do anything with rpm except
make simple queries. VERY simple queries. And I cannot do a database
rebuild either. I have been trying to install/reinstall all the latest
Mandrake rpm-* rpms but I cannot do it. At first, I tried doing a simple rpm
query: rpm -qa|grep rpm- to see what rpm versions I had installed for rpm
itself. Nothing. Just sits there forever and never produces a result. If I
do rpm -q rpm I get a result. I then tried installing rpm-rebuilder and
rpm-get but it just sits there and wont do anything. Running an strace on it
it appears that rpm goes through some form of database query but then gets to
a point where all it does is timeout:
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout}
over and over and over forever.
If I try to do an rpm --rebuilddb, it does the same thing, just sits there
forever timing out.
How do I FORCE rpm to install an rpm regardless of whatever shape the rpm
database is? What if I delete the rpm database? What filename and where is
the database?
Help please. I'm screwed royal at this point. If one loses the ability to
use rpm on an rpm-dependent distro, one is HOSED.
praedor
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Re: [expert] RPM screwed and worthless
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 12:14 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 17 January 2003 16:05, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know what happened or when but I cannot do anything with rpm except make simple queries. VERY simple queries. And I cannot do a database rebuild either. I have been trying to install/reinstall all the latest Mandrake rpm-* rpms but I cannot do it. At first, I tried doing a [...] How do I FORCE rpm to install an rpm regardless of whatever shape the rpm database is? What if I delete the rpm database? What filename and where is the database? Help please. I'm screwed royal at this point. If one loses the ability to use rpm on an rpm-dependent distro, one is HOSED. praedor Does 'urpmi' fail too, or is this just 'rpm' that won't work? urpmi also fails to function. The commands I used from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon mostly failed (the sites listed either don't exist or refuse connections). I was TRYING to get sites closest to me, as many US sites as possible but almost all failed. Urpmi and rpm are dead and useless. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+KCzn1i/6R1B/Yh0RAu87AJ0QJuNYevnDfrT83ZUtu1AtOXxChwCeOjqM C36YC/0GvtN8GRYr267ILwU= =QC3q -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM screwed and worthless
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 11:25 am, Azrael wrote: Do you have the rpm database locked by a zombie/dead/half-dead/forgotton rpm process somewhere? check all your processes and kill off rpm related ones? There are no rpm processes running at all. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+KDPh1i/6R1B/Yh0RAuEpAJ40Dnh8/hhREAE0rkpuViD2PiRK7QCgkFPi sNPOdAr+YpDw5uOtBQnmIkg= =PfSf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM screwed and worthless
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 11:38 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Azrael wrote: Do you have the rpm database locked by a zombie/dead/half-dead/forgotton rpm process somewhere? check all your processes and kill off rpm related ones? Also, rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* (after rpm processes are killed)? Then, --rebuilddb. Ah. Thank you, deleting those files did the trick and I was subsequently able to rebuild the database. Thank you! Sigh of relief. I have found what appears to be a highly reliable means of wrecking your rpm database. Do a search/query of your database using rpm -qa|grep whatever and terminate the process before it finishes. Using Ctrl-C works for this nicely. After this, the database is hosed and requires rebuilding. This is a bug as simply querying the database and terminating the query shouldn't alter the database in any way. It should be a simple reading of the database. This wrecking procedure worked in 8.2 and continues to work in 9.0. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+KDU81i/6R1B/Yh0RAhSrAJ9tXWW9F+33dT/ONdq3G7Ztk1PsuwCggouy C/tJroKKGBGBmDkfhKfSf1s= =CKhF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Staroffice setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It has been a while since I last had to do this and now I don't recall the procedure for installing staroffice for EVERYONE. What is the command after initial rpm install to install staroffice 6.0 such that everyone can use it? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+KDYQ1i/6R1B/Yh0RAmn5AJoCgZIbTU+uIFTIBryIoRmmSCse6ACfQx3z 0fvJfhEtRPDZzRsZYsWr5hY= =eA8m -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] It's official.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mandrake has officially filed for Chapter 11. Done deal. Hopefully they will pull out of this reorganization of payments and...still exist. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JcQE1i/6R1B/Yh0RAl2bAKCBltBhetWNQ3fcqYXvlCSNOuSZMQCggw2n 3rk3/ZEV6EqqgS5D8Hur+LI= =ofw3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 January 2003 04:34 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 13 January 2003 05:58 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I was playing RTCW on my 8.2 system without too much problem (worked perfectly if started in a non-KDE environ prepended by soundwrapper, wouldn't work with sound at all no matter what in KDE). I have an NVidia Geforce 4 Ti4200. In 9.0, the game starts up fine with sound in KDE BUT [...] Anyone have RTCW and 9.0 playing well together? The game is updated to the most current bugfix level. Praedor, I've not gotten around to reinstalling that one yet, I'll do that in the next while - I'll let ya know how it goes here. All OK. Magically, upon my next reboot all is OK (I did nothing). Graphics are fine in RTCW now and it plays just fine in KDE/Mandrake 9.0. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+I+201i/6R1B/Yh0RAnfdAKCO3vPfb8DMULh9DdN77CF3KZtefQCfSUdX c738hdLYAD5nwspkxTCn1Go= =ghzg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.0 urpmi broken?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not finding urpmi very functional nor impressive in Mandrake 9.0. In Mandrake 8.2 it works like a charm but in 9.0 it chokes on virtually EVERY query I make. Latest: urpmi recode In 8.2 this immediately turns up a hit and seeks permission to install another rpm to satisfy dependencies. In 9.0 I get no package named recode. Heh. There IS a 9.0 rpm for recode. I also get this equivalent message for EVERYTHING I have tried to urpmi. I end up having to go to rpmfind instead to find and download the rpm. What gives? - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JHgk1i/6R1B/Yh0RApjrAKCXUd4lrDgzETTsgk9/QIgUmGWujwCbBKK/ kHPTPfXG4pXv1DfonqENfds= =F7kl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.0 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was playing RTCW on my 8.2 system without too much problem (worked perfectly if started in a non-KDE environ prepended by soundwrapper, wouldn't work with sound at all no matter what in KDE). I have an NVidia Geforce 4 Ti4200. In 9.0, the game starts up fine with sound in KDE BUT the config screens get screwed up, almost as if there is no screen redraw/refresh between config screens. All the config menus pile up on top of each other when I go from menu to menu and nothing I do will correct it. In the end, I cannot DO anything in the game because of this and have to kill the game. Anyone have RTCW and 9.0 playing well together? The game is updated to the most current bugfix level. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Ipvt1i/6R1B/Yh0RAmPxAJ4rKPE1pjQIrfP/ko5RnbPOZvLtMwCeK7+G BR/MbYI+zulxYVAXR6IgouU= =daNO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.0, XFree86, Nvidia, glxgears
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prior to upgrading to MDK 9.0, my 8.2 system (NVidia Geforce 4 Ti4200) would produce upwards of 6000 FPS in glxgears, default size (1024x768, 16 bit color). Since upgrading to 9.0 (and rebuilding/reinstalling the NVidia drivers), I get a reasonably steady 3800 FPS. I've looked over the XFree86-4.conf file and it appears to have altered its format from the previous iteration. I used to have a setting explicitly placing my agp mode to 4x, for instance, but there is nothing there now. I don't know if this is part of the reason for the drop in framerates... Anyone have suggestions on how to tweak the config file in XFree86-4.2.1 to maximize framerates again? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IsTH1i/6R1B/Yh0RArS+AJ99qbicPaQXVOnNQQbxNQeh6tMi+gCfTeyR GU91hLrA23ZmcTYQNNzoyXE= =r2iL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:55 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday January 12 2003 08:48 am, Azrael wrote: [...] I've been using 9.1 since cooker unfroze shortly after 9.0's release. It's been solid all along ... on ReiserFS. From what I understand 9.1b1 (due to the 2.4.21 kernel) lacks support for XFS [...] What's up with this? Anyone know why XFS support is lacking? Is it a technical or political decision? My system is 100% XFS so I could really stand to know - this prevents me from even considering upgrading kernels. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IZSo1i/6R1B/Yh0RAqR1AJ9WX6d4G3IM5MFNmKq15c7NeY7bvQCeNo1X 6JaCyCJeIDqxHSiuB8eRuMY= =qlyv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! [...] A bit hard to get it to start the first time and a total pain in the ass because all of the Mandrake partitions (except /boot and /) on all 4 of my hard drives are XFS which isn't supported apparently, but all in all definitely worth testing. Hmpf. I upgraded, finally, to 9.0 to get past the growing problems I was having upgrading other aspects of 8.2 - dependency hell. It just became easier to upgrade. Thing is, though I am now running 9.0, I am still using the 8.2 kernel because the 2.4.19 kernel (9.0) just doesn't work on my system. It took some tweaking just to get the install CD to bootup on my system (never had THAT problem before). With 2.4.19 I cannot use my WUSB11 v2.6 wlan device. Rebuilding and installing the atmel driver just doesn't work but it works perfectly with 2.4.18. Then, you mentioned XFS. I am 100% XFS and it has worked fine until 2.4.19. In hopes of getting my WUSB11 to work, I tried building my own 2.4.19 kernel (I ALWAYS end up building my own kernel) but even using the default Mandrake 9.0 config file for the kernel, the newly built kernel will NOT bootup - lots of errors wrt XFS. Then a kernel panic. The stock 2.4.19 kernel works OK (except for the WUSB11 device). Anyway, what is up with XFS? Why wouldn't it be supported? It is a rather mature filesystem, afterall. What kernel is used in the 9.1 beta? Is it 2.4.20? I am considering trying that kernel to get around my WUSB11 problems and the XFS problems. Surely it supports XFS? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IMd21i/6R1B/Yh0RAuyaAJ4zyA+3UQ3ZtGZHrU+poJid0gBmYACdE/qR ezy42LTKLbhXC80RSXD0B6w= =T/xh -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] testing...ignore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 checking mailserver problems - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FFsr1i/6R1B/Yh0RAiDqAJ9aeKSf8MHGZDnr4uvJdFW+IxgK5QCeLBxA 70MK9KJsLWKr458nKXZkJaA= =vSyG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] routing/DNS problems - wireless connection sharing
I am getting mixed success with my wireless connection sharing. I am finally figuring out certain aspects that need to be handled to get it working but one baffles me still. I get a modem connection on box 1 which is ad-hoc wireless connected to box 2. After the connection, box 1 can use the internet OK but box 2 doesn't get DNS - it can only use the internet if IP addresses are used while site names lead to unknown host messages. I have checked my routing tables and they are fine. I also have iptables setup to NAT. I am just not able to get name resolution on box 2 from box 2. At the moment, to get it working I have had to manually add the DNS IP on box 2 assigned by the modem connection. How do I get name resolution to work? I am not running a local DNS (and would prefer not to). I SHOULD be able to use the DNS settings of box 1 to get name resolution on box 2. What settings need to be looked at on which box to get this working? It HAS worked before but I have no idea how/why - while now it doesn't. My iptables-save output is: # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.5 on Thu Nov 28 10:45:49 2002 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [2753:2158267] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [3352:376728] -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --sport 68 --dport 67 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 68 --dport 67 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --sport 67 --dport 68 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 67 --dport 68 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Thu Nov 28 10:45:49 2002 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.5 on Thu Nov 28 10:45:49 2002 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [202:12816] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [464:37631] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [468:37967] -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQUERADE -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Thu Nov 28 10:45:49 2002 My box 1 routing table contains: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 128.211.132.5 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 00 ppp0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 128.211.132.5 0.0.0.0 UG 0 00 ppp0 Anyone have any wisdom to put forth? On box 2, how do I setup DNS (with linuxconf?) Right now, I have box 1's IP as its DNS (192.168.0.1). This is also its gateway. praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Postfix/kmail problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have recently setup postfix on my desktop to be my MTA, both sending and receiving (with fetchmail). I get emails in /var/spool/mail/praedor as expected and can see them with pine and if I do ls /var/spool/mail I see the praedor mailbox. In kmail (KDE 3.0.3) I changed my receiving host to local mail using maildir format. In the selection window provided it had /var/spool/mail/praedor exactly as it should. If I select it, however, and check mail I get an error: cannot open ://var/spool/mail/praedor I then tried to choose the directory to see if this would fix the problem. I navigate in the kmail window to /var/spool/mail...and nothing appears! To kmail this directory appears empty yet my mailbox praedor is CLEARLY there and can be seen by pine, mail, and simple ls! What IS the deal here? What does it take to get kmail to cooperate with local mail? Why can't it see my very much existing mailbox from postfix? Next, since kmail seems to be prepending an unneeded / on the default directory I altered the entry to be simply var/spool/mail/praedor. Now, when I check mail, nothing happens. No errors and no messages appear even though I know for a fact that mail resides in the directory. Anyone? - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE946F61i/6R1B/Yh0RAhnGAJ9RirsqhcefpgcBqym/xDeGa0/CHQCff7TV YtrRG+LeBlDKieJZ+buCiP0= =T+hs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables help?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:06 am, Woody Green wrote: On the sharing machine, run iptables-save and post the output here. Hello, After some fiddling I managed to get things working again, though I only barely understand what I did. Below is the output of iptables-save. There are a few duplicate entries resulting from my fiddling but so far it is working. Day before last I had it working too via an ad-hoc wireless connection but after several hours of connectivity, it just quit and I could not regain an adhoc connection even after repeated attempts. I finally got a new adhoc regoing but without being able to share the internet connection until after my long bought of reading and fiddling with iptables (results below). Any suggestions or improvements would be greatly appreciated. At this point, and as a result of my fiddling, I _think_ all I need to do next time is do: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -i eth0 Am I missing something? [root@Stonekeep praedor]# iptables-save # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.5 on Sun Nov 24 07:26:34 2002 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [29568:5444758] :FORWARD ACCEPT [6207:1830932] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [29589:2467901] COMMIT # Completed on Sun Nov 24 07:26:34 2002 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.5 on Sun Nov 24 07:26:34 2002 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [610:39174] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [3504:360904] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [3898:387546] - -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.2 -i eth0 - -A PREROUTING -i eth0 - -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -i eth0 - -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 - -A PREROUTING -i eth0 - -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQUERADE - -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE - -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 - -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 - -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Sun Nov 24 07:26:34 2002 Woody Praedor Atrebates said: I am having problems with a internet connection share. Oddly, I had it working for a while last evening but then, suddenly, it died and I was unable to communication computer to computer via wlan (sharing a modem connection on one of them). Running Mandrake 8.2, I have a usb wlan device on my desktop set as eth0 and IP 192.168.0.1 as well as a modem (ppp0) through which the internet connection is to be shared. My laptop has a wlan card set as wlan0 and IP 192.168.0.2. The wireless connection is ad-hoc and they are communicating just fine but I am unable to get the laptop to communicate with the internet via the desktop's modem connection. In other words, the connection is being shared. This appears to be a problem with iptables setup. Can someone help me out with getting iptables setup (to run NAT) so that my laptop can communicate with the internet via the desktop modem? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE94Mg+1i/6R1B/Yh0RAuJuAJ9hCxgAebwUGRIoH9uvZDpV0P2TEACeINyA kS4sBnDEOsjSSQsO8Wng6e0= =Jchs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Odd network situation
I was misled. I was informed that one could not share an internet connection through an ad-hoc wlan connection. I have found I was wrong/misinformed and it is possible. At this point I am only partially sharing, however. I changed my wlan connection from my laptop to desktop to be ad-hoc and they are connected. I have been trying to setup iptables so that I can share the connection on the desktop but oddly, it only appears to be partially successful. I am sending and receiving email but I cannot access the web. Any attempt to ping a host from my laptop ends up in Destination unreachable strings (unless I am pinging my desktop directly). What is needed to get this working? What on the desktop and on the laptop must be done to finally bring a fully shared internet connection to fruition? I don't understand how I can be able to send email and receive email (via my local postfix MTA) but not access the web. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Procmail spam filter recipes?
Well, it now appears that all is right with the world. I managed to get my wireless connections between desktop and laptop up and running so as to allow both machines to connection share a dialup account from the desktop. I also got my KDE slow startup problem resolved (my desktop hostname isn't yet valid and enameco.com is down for a day or so). Now, I am wanting to clean up my procmail filters. Does anyone have any particularly good spam filters setup for procmail that seem to do a good job? Would you be willing to share your recipes? praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Procmail spam filter recipes?
I just picked up junkfilter but cannot build it. I placed it in /usr/local/etc/junkfilter and set the path to point to this as well as my procmailrc file. I do a make create in the junkfilter directory and all I get is: [praedor@lapdog junkfilter]$ make create Makefile:49: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. Nothing comes of it. On Friday 22 November 2002 12:07 pm, Albert E. Whale wrote: I use the Junkfilter. I have narrowed my Recipes to get current information as well. I would be glad to share it with you. Let me know if you are interested in it. -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Procmail spam filter recipes?
Hmpf.
I have/had procmail working on my system. I have a directory: $HOME/.procmail
which contains a link to $HOME/.procmailrc. I read the somewhat confusing
directions in the README with junkfilter and elected to install the
junkfilter files in /usr/local/etc/junkfilter. I created a symlink in my
.procmail directory to the junkfilter directory, ie, ln -s
/usr/local/etc/junkfilter $HOME/.procmail/junkfilter. I created a directory
in .procmail called lists which are for my user-specific lists. I set
JFDIR=$PMDIR/junkfilter and JFUSERDIR=$PMDIR/lists in my .procmailrc and
in my .bash_profile. I was then able to build/make the filters (make create
and make all) which filled my .procmail/lists directory with a load of empty
user files. The jf binary is executable and resides in the junkfilter
directory plus I followed your example and made a symlink to it in /usr/bin.
I added INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/junkfilter to my .procmailrc. I've been watching the
procmail log in my .procmail dir and see whenever a new message is handled
by procmail. It just isn't doing anything. I have set my mailer to display
ALL headers and I have sent myself fake SPAM messages using keywords and
combinations included in the junkfilter filters (Please read and the like).
Nothing I've done leads to any message having any header information altered
or added to indicated that junkfilter looked it over and passed a judgement.
None of the fake spams have received any X-IS-SPAM additions and neither has
any of the real junk I have stored and resent to myself.
There are no error messages and the procmail log indicates everything is
OK...but it isn't.
praedor
On Friday 22 November 2002 01:28 pm, Albert E. Whale wrote:
It is my Understanding that you need to set the
PMDIR = {directory of Procmail Storage info} - i.e. /var/Procmail
JFDIR = {directory of Junkfilter Binaries} - i.e. /var/Procmail/junkfilter
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Re: [expert] Procmail spam filter recipes?
On Friday 22 November 2002 12:07 pm, David Relson wrote: [...] My procmail recipe is pretty simple. It checks for korean and japanese character sets and puts those messages into file spam-unreadable,then runs bogofilter to classify the message as spam or ham, and then takes appropriate action. Info on bogofilter can be found at SourceForge. I' ve downloaded and installed bogofilter and am giving it a whirl. Thanks for the heads up. I've eliminated my kmail spam filters to see how it does. I am also TRYING to use junkfilter - if it works then the headers of junkmail should obtain a new spam identifier, thanks to junkfilter, indicating it detected it. Which ever one seems to do the best job wins. Basically, if bogofilter puts something in my spam folder, it wont have an X header alteration. If junkfilter detects spam, it will add a new spam X header. Now I just need to wait for spam... praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help with fetchmail/fetchmailconf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been running postfix on my system for a long time, primarily for sending mail, receiving mail from my yahoo pop mail account. I am now trying to setup fetchmail to work with postfix and procmail plus spamassassin to act for both incoming and outgoing mail. I have fetchmail 6.1.0 and fetchmailconf. I ran fetchmailconf to configure fetchmail during an initial test but now the test is over and I want to change its polling behavior. I try to run fetchmailconf now and it errors out with this: [praedor@lapdog praedor]$ fetchmailconf Can't read configuration output of fetchmail --configdump. This has happened twice. I can only run fetchmailconf once. After that, it is impossible because it errors out. What is the problem here and how do I fix it? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93PpU1i/6R1B/Yh0RAuBWAKCCEqUgqyHBi1HXJBFWzDCVscDyAACePQ4S fjwcr2+8rEVCiTe5PYv6H2U= =Of+E -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] A test-ignore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Testing. Nothing to see here. Carry on. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93QSE1i/6R1B/Yh0RAtXFAJ9bxspDEQLGTmqsZ2Op1G6g34PV1wCghVTm +a/h3mDWkOOB0m+phigcmZc= =Vemv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Testing once more
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Still nothing to see here. Keep moving. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93Qis1i/6R1B/Yh0RArUSAJ0cXRP0/pdUtKlVo+zKu9gQ5Ubi2ACeIOzN ncxjbJmBSCcqt1PzzcpcTpQ= =XSxM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help with fetchmail?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however. In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message there in my inbox. I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never appeared on my system here. I am using kmail and have set it for local mail. I have tried pointing it to /var/spool/mail/praedor and /var/mail/praedor with no affect. No new messages ever appear. I cannot find where fetchmail is placing the mail. Where might I look to find the location fetchmail is stashing messages? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93Q6K1i/6R1B/Yh0RAqjuAJwOTqJOgr4GzuEixOh6T5x8PYvFkACcDxwN e5daWul1KiiSYo7K/vrT++c= =AQW3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wrong. The new message WERE coming in and being processed by procmail into their respective KMail folders. The thing is, they never show up as new and unread messages (red text), instead showing up as already read, making it hard to track them. praedor On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:49 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however. In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message there in my inbox. I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never appeared on my system here. [...] - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93REI1i/6R1B/Yh0RApMpAJ9WNi4PXYf3p2Z4GaPh7BCKyTERBgCfZbON OgwHVbFLoD2BjeYo3FTvhiM= =Ab+m -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Test-Final to group
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Final test here, promise - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93RQ91i/6R1B/Yh0RAuEmAJ9f/MWn31Z7sSQHeHsmvWhqbCvPTQCfXKMW VVhq7vYet6kXmsYZQVJsqhw= =SHTy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Postfix, procmail working now, I think. A few pointers
I think I have fetchmail-postfix-procmail working now on my system but for one thing I miss. I use Kmail as my mail client and I like the color coding it does for new/unread messages vs read messages. Is there a way to bring back the coloration when one is using fetchmail + postfix as the MTA + procmail? I am not sure which of these apps, if any, are responsible for kmail no longer coloring new messages (or if it is a flaw in kmail) but any help along these lines would be greatly appreciated. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CLI app/script for activating modem
I've always handled modem internet connections via a GUI app like kppp. What would be the method for doing this from the command prompt? praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] patching kernel 2.4.18
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have never quite gotten how to patch kernels. I have a patch for upgrading wireless extensions to version 15 that I would like to apply to kernel 2.4.18 (unless someone knows of a 2.4.18 kernel that already contains this patch as well as supermount). I have the file I have named wireless-extensionsv15.patch. Where do I place this file and to which file(s) in the kernel source directory do I direct it? What patch command? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE927lX1i/6R1B/Yh0RAt3+AJ9h30EaP40svQA6NiFqyQrHgTX7rACgl5+T kY2DD955gE4hAw+i0VuY4Aw= =vk4C -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] hostname
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this question pops up periodically and I have asked it myself. How does one assign a hostname to their system without breaking it and so that it comes up every time one boots? I managed to get my laptop to be called lapdog.ravenhome.net but cannot recall how. My hosts file contains both 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 10.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.net This isn't enough, however. I somehow managed to get my xterm prompt to display the lapdog.ravenhome.net name as well but cannot recall how. Simply setting hostname desired hostname will break the current session and require a logout/login to get past it. It will also only last as long as the current session. If I reboot it will be back to localhost.localdomain. I want my desktop system to identify itself as something other than localhost.localdomain and I want it to do it with every bootup, login, etc. How do I do this? Ultimately, I will be setting up (hopefully) a local home network and I will require the desktop to be a particular name for this to work. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE928oW1i/6R1B/Yh0RAnlHAJ9Hr3g9Dxb8xNS2h6Dr5fmQwVqvZwCfWX1n 9ZdSjl56MhOgptmddXTZKlk= =BkT/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IRQs
I just cannot believe this. I have a laptop (IBM Thinkpad) with absolutely no available IRQ resources. None. The only things attached to this is a phone cord for the modem (linmodem/winmodem). Every single IRQ is used up such that I cannot insert any pcmcia cards while connected via modem because the IRQ conflicts and trashes the pcmcia card. I want to be able to use my wlan card as an AP, have the laptop connected via modem, and have my desktop get to the internet via my laptop's phone connection. Basic connection sharing, but it appears flat out impossible. Without the wlan card inserted, my IRQs look thus: CPU0 0: 175953 XT-PIC timer 1: 4347 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 128808 XT-PIC ESS Solo-1 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 535202 XT-PIC i82365, ltserial 10: 15360 XT-PIC usb-ohci 12: 47425 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 25766 XT-PIC ide0 15: 2 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Looking at this one can see that IRQ 3 is available. If I insert my wlan card, it takes IRQ 3 and...the system either locks up or the pcmcia card is useless - likely because ltserial, the modem (driver) is sharing and IRQ with the pcmcia bus controller. When there is no card inserted there is no problem but insert a card and there is a wreck. Can anyone suggest ANY way to get this working? praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Try another way to connection share via wlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I have just about given up trying to share my laptop's modem connection via wlan connection with my desktop. I have picked up a modem for my desktop and would like to try to share a connection that way. Thing is, my laptop HAS to be the wlan AP (only prism2/2.5 cards are supported by the HostAP driver) and my desktop the client as there is no AP mode for the WUSB11 v2.6 wlan device (Atmel driver). I want to know if it is perfectly OK to use the laptop as the AP to get a wlan connection between my laptop and desktop, but use the desktop as the gateway to the internet? Would I simply set the gateway on my laptop to the IP of my desktop? What about DNS? Should I simply set DNS as not necessary? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE92/HC1i/6R1B/Yh0RAp7KAJ9Pb80e8EGlCb3OSGUi8vSWVsFk9ACgnFlk GiY+GtuhcWa1/AWERVtYMjI= =4XsA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????
A linksys WUSB v2.5 will, perhaps also a v2.0. I goofed my first time and bought a WUSB - it had been a while since it came out so I thought it likely to be a v2.x though there was no indication whatsoever on the box. I lost the receipt and was unable to take it back. a v1.5 will not work. There are others, of course. I would suggest you take a look around the linux-wlan-ng website: http://www.linux-wlan.org/index.html Down the page is a table with a list of the working and not working devices with the linux-wlan-ng drivers. There is an alcatel driver out there that will work with some devices as well. praedor On Monday 18 November 2002 07:13 pm, Mike Graham wrote: I am about to try again - upon purchasing another pci-to-pcmcia adaptor. If that fails, I will try USB which I know works (if you get the correct wlan usb device, that is). Ok that brings up a very good point, which usb devices work with Mandrake 9.0? I am about to buy another one to try and would very much appreciate any help on the selection. Are there any that work right out of the box ? Mike This is the point...If you find correct deviceUnfortunately they are not all YET linux-compatibleBut wil be... Jarmo praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????
On Sunday 17 November 2002 04:22 pm, jarmo wrote: [...] Don't blow your head off... If you'd read better you'd figure that this is not a laptop.. Pse read again... As said with my orinoco silver card and wavelan pci adapter etc... I can get it working...but MDK's installation does notNot big deal...eh? I have no problems with getting wlan cards working on my laptop (orinoco, zoomair, or netgear). I was never able to get them working properly on my desktop with a pci-to-pcmcia adaptor. The problem appeared to be related to IRQs. What sort of messages do you see in /var/log/messages related to the card and/or adaptor? I am about to try again - upon purchasing another pci-to-pcmcia adaptor. If that fails, I will try USB which I know works (if you get the correct wlan usb device, that is). praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound
On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:18 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I've done multiple installs on my laptop. (just testing some stuff before I settled down to do work conclusion Blue bytes ) (pun intended) and since installing more ram, I needed a larger suspend partition. I lost sound during one of the installs myself for some odd reason. Another had sound but in MCC sound card had no info. Now I keep these two lines from modules.conf handy. alias sound-slot-0 maestro above snd-es1968 snd-pcm-oss Now Mine is a compaq not an IBM but it does have the same sound card. I'd also recommend going to IBM's site as they have some pretty extensive docs on Linux on the ThinkPad. [...] Thanks for the info but... I just went back to a custom 2.4.18-6mdk kernel and sound works again just fine. Since the hardware is oldish and never changes, there is obviously a problem in the kernel and drivers (2.4.19). I also have a fully functional supermount again and a functioning parallel port Zip drive (2.4.19 couldn't operate it either). Trying to build the 2.4.19 kernel with the proper sound drivers built into the kernel instead of produced as modules failed miserably. The kernel refuses to build when I try it. I've gone back to a recompiled 2.4.18 kernel with the same drivers built as modules and all is well. I would say that 2.4.19 is the problem, not my hardware (which is invariant). -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There should be no problems at all ESPECIALLY if you build your own 2.4.18 kernel. You will still have the 2.4.19 kernel there is you goof up 2.4.18 so you can try again. As it is you can select from a set of kernels for install during installation anyway. What you will get is a fully working supermount, fully working sound, and none of the other problems that came with the new improved 2.4.19 kernel. You will occassional run into a new stable kernel that's royally dorked up in several ways (2.4.19 is the latest), so it is nice to be able to go back to a perfectly fine working kernel like 2.4.18, in this case. I've had to do this periodically in the past, primarily due to supermount problems. I will not run a kernel that wont give me supermount. It is indispensible for a number of things, not the least is its complete convenience - besides, Linus has made it known that he likes it and ultimately intends to make it part of the kernel rather than have it forever as an extraneous patch. praedor On Friday 15 November 2002 11:59 am, Franki wrote: Are there any other probs that come about loading a 2.4.18 kernel in mdk9.0?? if there isn't, I might try compiling one myself.. I miss supermount..:-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:praedor;lapdog.ravenhome.net]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus Sent: Friday, 15 November 2002 10:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:18 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I've done multiple installs on my laptop. (just testing some stuff before I settled down to do work conclusion Blue bytes ) (pun intended) and since installing more ram, I needed a larger suspend [...] - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE91WHF1i/6R1B/Yh0RAjuxAJ9jeSkou27yY/VcIyUO1OGpd5fMLQCeKQDc lpwH+3igXuRHbhSF5PVh+ec= =/C++ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound
I have an IBM Thinkpad with an ESS Solo1 sound card. It has worked fine with most previous Mandrake kernels up to 2.4.18. I recently built and installed the Mandrake 2.4.19 kernel (with the correct sound settings selected in xconfig) and find it has totally croaked my sound. There is no /dev/dsp, no sound-slot-0, no sound-card-0, nothing. If I try to run DrakConf and then run the harddrake to resetup the sound card, it fails because it cannot find sound-slot-0. I have done a system search and naturally this module doesn't exist. I have always used Alsa sound on my thinkpad and it has worked. Now that alsa has been blended into the kernel, it no longer works. What does it take to get sound working? There are no sound modules getting loaded at all during bootup. Running lspci -v produces this for my soundcard : 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 1002 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 7800 [size=64] I/O ports at 7850 [size=16] I/O ports at 7870 [size=16] I/O ports at 7890 [size=4] I/O ports at 78a4 [size=4] Capabilities: available only to root Yup, there it is. It's just that Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 doesn't see it. What arcane trick is now necessary to get sound working again? praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
