Is there a problem with the list server?
I had to request subscription 3 times before I got a response from this list
server, and I am still waiting for a response from the newbie list server...
Trevor
My Ensonique SoundscapeVIVO sound card, which works perfectly under LM 7.2,
behaves strangely under LM 8.0
It is not detected by HardDrake, so I use sndconfig to install it. Sndconfig,
however, does not offer the correct mpu401 settings, so I edit
/etc/modules.conf to the correct values later
This was discussed a couple of months ago. I was unable to:
1) set background
2) change font
3) change icon (except to clock)
on the login screen. Several others confirmed this problem, but no-one was
able to offer a solution.
Looks like we will have to wait for 7.3 :(
Trevor
On Sunday 24
Hi Rog,
"vanilla" is the plain flavour - no fancy extras! (check out ice-cream!) In
this case it simply means a basic kernel - no Mandrake "extras".
Trevor
On Saturday 23 December 2000 04:17, you wrote:
Compiling a kernel, that part I understand. 2.2.18, that part I also get.
From vanilla?
For the interest of anyone that might have contributed or been following this
thread, or for someone searching the archives to find the solution to a
similar dilemma:
I now have the HP950c and can comment:
1) My usual rule is "never buy second hand unless you know what you are
buying". I
Hoping this adds something to the tracking down of the problem and doesn't
muddy the water more...
I have an LG (Goldstar) IDE cd burner, similar to Rog's (bios ver 1.05
instead of his 1.07, but otherwise the same) and I get the same error.
I also find that after burning a cd, the read light
Thanks everyone for the replies. My final decision was to buy the HP 950c.
A close decision, but it came down to:
Pro:
1) HP was $250, as opposed to the Epson at $400
2) HP had better quality printing (2440x1220 dpi as opposed to 1440x720)
3) HP have recently launched an opensource driver
Hi,
I liked the old inconspicuous LILO: prompt, and would like it back, but can't
find anywhere in lilo.conf to turn off the new menu.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Trevor
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Hi,
I have enabled internet connection sharing using DraxConf so my other box
(sometimes Win95, sometimes WinNT, sometimes some version of Linux, and
sometimes something else! - it's my test machine) can see the net, but the
internal ip addresses assigned are wrong for my LAN. I have altered
Hi,
I have a working DHCP server, and also a working DNS server, but can't find
how to set it so that machines which are have address assigned via DHCP are
automatically added to my DNS lists.
Is this possible, and if so, where can I find out how?
TIA,
Trevor
Keep in touch with
Roger,
I have a LG cdrw (goldstar) that identifies itself as 'CD-RW CED-8042B '
'1.05' Removable CD-ROM so I guess its similar to yours. It too produces the
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
message, but has worked perfectly under Mdk 7.1 for ages. Now
Ken,
Thanks for your reply. Interesting that you should mention HP as I have just
been offerred a near-new HP 950 at a good price. It is ex-Sydney Olmpics and
therefore is also a momento of that event! I normally steer well clear of
2nd hand printers, but might make an exception for this
Hi,
I know that this is a common question, but I would appreciate hearing from
anyone who has had experience with either a Canon BJC-6200 or an Epson
ColorStylus 760 under Linux (and particularly Mdk 7.2) I have shortlisted
these as the best 2 printers in my budget range that are presently
Some more info on this problem:
1) I am now running Mandrake 7.2. The changes I tried to make involve a
custom icon and a different background. These changes worked under 7.1
2) I was running Login Manager as root.
3) Responses to my earlier post that I have received direct to me indicate
I have tried to change the background image logo on the initial logon
screen using Login Manager, but can get nothing other than a plain blue
background, and any change to the icon results in a corrupt image. The clock
show OK, but I can't get anything else to work.
I have even tried
Michael,
I, too, have a machine that goes coma-tose and nothing responds except
ctrl-alt-del! I can access it from telnet, but all local access is dead. My
problem is simple to locate, however, it is my SiS6326 video chip - it doesn't
like switching from console mode to X - about 1 in 3
Maximo,
That happened to me also - I solved it by editing the
lilo.conf file to remove any reference to "ide0=autotune" and "ide1=autotune".
Dont forget to run lilo after the edit like I did :(
These to appends caused this problem on my desktop machine, and my laptop was
not able to reliably
I'm no expert on this, but I'll have a guess that you named your printer
something other than "lp". lpr uses "lp" as its default printer, and gets
upset if it can't find one! I know that at install time it tells you to use a
pipe "|" to asign more than one name if you want something more
Thanks, Francois,
That did the trick nicely.
Trevor
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Francois Pons wrote:
Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4280 with the above video chipset. I had no
worries (once I found out how to) getting this working
Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4280 with the above video chipset. I had no
worries (once I found out how to) getting this working under Mdk 7.1 via the
XF86_FBdev server, the machine booted to the 1024x768 display at boot and all
worked well.
Now, with 7.2, I can't get better than 640x480.
installing Red Hat 6.2 on another drive
could have made any changes to my Mandrake system (these persist even if I boot
off the boot floppy I made at install). Since it got my burner working, I'm not
complaining, mind you :-) but I would love an explanation for any of the above
if anyone has one.
-- Trevor Farrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I forgot to mention that kudzu comes up on boot and says that the cd writer has
been removed from the system. I choose "do nothing".
Trevor
ead-only
root=/dev/hda2
append="mem=96M"
I get "open /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0: No such file or directory". Windows
Mandrake boot OK (except for Problem 1) but no Red Hat.
So I guess I have screwed something! How do I fix it???
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Lee Trevor Farrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
, Gary, I have LICQ 0.81 running on a standard Mandrake 7.0-2 installation,
and my only problem is that the cursor doesn't flash where I am typing!
I don't know what I can do to help, but if you want a copy of any file or
anything, let me know.
--
Trevor Farrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've just decided to try Red Hat 6.2, and was dissapointed to find that it
still doesn't install my SiS 6326 video correctly, so Mandrake 7 is still,
AFAIK, the only Linux distro that can do it first try! Congratulations Mandrake!
Also, Red Hat did not recognise my CDrw as a burner, and just
This seems to be an old problem I have encountered with several different virus
checkers:
When you install them, they take a copy or checksum the mbr and boot sectors.
Each time they boot they compare the current mbr/boot sectors to the
copy/checksum, and yell "VIRUS" if anything has changed.
the machine know how
to go to NT loader when you do a single boot, without Linux, to your NT OS? And if
you install Lilo to MBR, how are you getting back to boot into NT? Your thoughts on
that would be very interesting..
Craig
Trevor Farrell wrote:
Funny, but I have never had this problem
I have recently switched from Netscape mail to Kmail, and love it, but there is
one annoying problem - the cursor does not line up with where I type! It is 1
or 2 characters to the right . While this is not a major bug, it is annoying!
Any one know how to fix it, please?
Trevor Farrell
[EMAIL
disks and at this point my brain
is fried and don't know where to look. Any pointers?
If memory serves my I need to run fdisk MBR but am unsure if this
works with NT (with NTFS) and don't want to screw things up any
further than I already have.
--
Lee Trevor Farrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles Curley wrote:
I have come across what I believe to be a misstatement of information in
an Microsoft publication about Linux. In an unsigned article article
entitled Linux Myths posted October 4, 1999 and last updated Monday,
November 01, 1999, Microsoft says, "Linux performance and
Alen Salamun wrote:
Charles Curley wrote:
Yes, they are the most common utils in the Unix world. Which is EXACTLY
why you don't want them on a server. If a cracker were to gain access,
would you want the cracker to be able to compile for your computer?
For proper security, do your own
Icebreaker wrote:
Ok, I'm currently having several problems with my Linux box
Here is what I'm running:
Release: Mandrake-Linux 6.5
Kernel: 2.2.13-7mdk
Machine: Pentium II 400 MMX
(need any other info?)
1) Video Card: Sis 6326
a)I can only use 800x600
Civileme wrote:
Trevor Farrell wrote:
The ongoing tradition of "weird wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems continues:
...
2) LICQ doesn't like me using the shift key on a long line - invariably
garbles the text I've already typed. Anyone else have that one???
Yes, ever
Trevor Farrell wrote:
In the ongoing tradition of "weird wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems:
If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console
all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE.
All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that doe
Larry Sword wrote:
A look in /dev shows that the cd-Rom is correctly linked, @cdrom-hdc.
There is also a cdrom1, linked , @cdrom1-/dev/hdd. The @cdrom2-hdd is
also linked to hdd. Anyway to get the cd-rom2 icon the properly open and
read and display the second cd-rom, which is the CDRW we
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
Thus spake Sheldon Lee Wen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Sun has released a preview of 5.2 (~80-100 MB and available for Windoze and
Linux).
Yes and it chokes on large complex msword docs.
*hysterical laughter*
So does Microsoft Word... have you ever tried to
In the ongoing tradition of "weird wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems:
If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console
all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE.
All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that does anything
that I can find is Ctrl-Alt-Del, which
"Alan N." wrote:
Richard Bonebrake wrote:
I am trying to get my home network working with ip
masq. I have this
working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I
normally connect with
OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my
ISP. I do my Palm pilot
through my win98 machine
Tom Berkley wrote:
B
Try this as root:
/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig (also try
ttyS0)
start kppp, go to setup and modem, then use the modem query function to
see if it will find the modem
if it does not find the modem, disable the modem in the bios and get
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
The problem is that if it's win-specific TCP/IP problems, well, it
provides an opaque view and besides we're all here 'cause we want to
get *away* from Windows.
I mean, really, we all love ya', but Windows questions *will* be better
answered by Windows
Bill Shirley wrote:
One time I had problems installing Windows 98 from my CD-ROM that was a
slave on IDE channel two. Changed the CD-ROM to master on that channel
(there wasn't any master on channel two) and everything went ok.
Bill
Bill, this is exactly the problem that has caused us to
Andrew,
I finally got my CMI8330 sound chip working.
In short, follow the kernel docs, but remove the soundblaster and
joystick
sections, and put the modules stuff in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file
(once
again, omitting the soundblaster line).
Bios is still set to pnp os, so win95 works ok.
Let
Yes, I finally got it going!
In short, three problems:
1) the kernel doc I was using refers to irq 5 in one place, but irq 7
for the same device elsewhere.
2) the chip can run in either it's native mode or soundblaster
emulation. The kernel doc has a setup that seems to offer both, but it
Well done, Brian. This is the sort of thing we need collected somewhere - a
concise ultra-mini how-to that just tells you what you need to know to do
it, without having to sort through pages of info, but still points you to
the bigger documents if you need more info.
"Brian T. Schellenberger"
Mage Grimau wrote:
I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16
partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's
"Program Files" directories when on the same
partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all
happy (except Win98 seems to like corrupting its own
space
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
Hmn. Where to start?
Okay -- I like that MandrakeSoft took the step of going to an all graphical
install. I've heard people rave about it and I've seen the screenshots,
which are nice (though I myself haven't taken the step of moving up) -- but
I have a few
John Aldrich wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Please, fix those pesky little things : Netscape on Linux is
definitively behind Netscape on Win* or even, - apologize -, MSIE. So
please, fix that kind of misbehaving BW look 'n' feel and the kind of
bugs : it's hard to advocated
any ideas to help me run v4 other than "buy a better card"?
Thanks.
Trevor Farrell wrote:
I'm a great believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" - if ver
3.3.6
works, stay with it until they get the bugs out of ver 4!
(I have a 6326 chip also - mine i
Tom Berkley wrote:
Trevor
Its a bit difficult for me to relate to your problems. I have two
machines, one a dual celeron and the other a laptop, both installed and
run Mandrake 7.0 (GL edition) without any hassles except for a minor
problem with the pcmcia modem initialization that has to
Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:39:05PM -0600, Craig Woods wrote:
- I just noticed a "buggy" aspect, yes another one, in Netscape. I was
- wondering if someone has seen it, and maybe has a fix. The "bug" occurs
- when you delete your email from the trash bin. It is not
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
TrevorI have mdk 7.0 running (as near as I can tell)
flawlessly on three machines. At first one of the three would
not install 7.0, but 6.1 had installed just fine on it. So I
changed the ide cdrom drive to a new one and that solved the
problem. But on my main
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Trevor Farrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Linux Mandrake Expert list" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:22 AM
Subject: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)
I would have i
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
And, FWIW, we have a computer that would NOT install Windows (it
wouldn't recognize the CD-ROM at install time [sound familiar?]), but
Linux went on just fine. Since there is only one Windows distribution,
and this is primarily a game machine, we wound up
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
I have Mandrake 7 and Netscape behaves beatifully. With the
RedHat/Mandrake Netscape wrapper script I've had the most stable
Netscape since the 2.0 days. I mean that puppy is *stable* now.
And the icons are in all those goofy colors that they are supposed
Pj wrote:
It's been mentioned that there should be a mini how-to site with
information such as what Brian S. provides to the list.
I agree and will create a web site for this purpose if anyone is
interested.
Pj
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, yes, Yes, please do, Pj!
Tom Berkley wrote:
Trev
This is more of something that I can contribute to. Its a simple cost
trade study. You have a bunch of computers. You want to consider an
alternative OS (ie Mandrake 7.0 and say Redhat 6.2 both very good)
Take a typical work computer, load each OS on it and try it.
When I first installed it, I really liked Mdk 7.0-2 - real nifty new
installer, supermount, XFree3.3.6, the first graphical install to work
with my SiS 6326 chip, ... Yes, I thought it was really nice. Then the
cracks started to appear - sound card that worked under Ver 6 wouldn't
install under
John Aldrich wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2035, you wrote:
I having trouble installing 2 cd rom drives. one is as cd-wr from Ricoh
Anyone had done this before?
Both ATAPI? or is one SCSI or both SCSI? I think we need a
bit more info. However, what you MIGHT want to do (assuming
BOTH are
Mage Grimau wrote:
I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and
linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or
the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed
Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to
reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no boot
record" and quits
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
.
.
.
4. I did not have a really good experience with the Mandrake 7.0
installation process; this is really a number of related items:
a) The disk partitioner was very pretty, but it was perfectly happy to
allow me to create *overlapping* partitions; in
Dennis Robertson wrote:
Hello List,
Has anyone managed to get the SiS 6326 chip to work with version 4 of
XFree86?
I installed v4 without drama but, no matter what I do, I cannot get a
normal mouse pointer; rather, I have the big white square that has
featured prominently on the newbie
After trying the solutions suggested I still had problems (eg, no menus
when I right-clicked on the desktop), so...
1) I backed up that users home directory.
2) I used userdel to remove them from the system.
3) I then deleted their home directory.
4) Next, I used adduser to put them back as a
Mage Grimau wrote:
The reason Win95/98 are so large and slow is that they
WERE supposed to be backwards compatible as much as
possible. Win2000 is not the next step in the Win95/98
chain, its the next step in the NT chain. Windows
Millenium is the next step in 95/98 chain, and it has
the
Hi,
I'm looking to (finally) dive into web page design, and have been
horrified by the different packages (and their cost) under M$ Windows,
and, anyway, am rapidly coming to prefer Linux. Can anyone recommend any
good packages?
TIA
Trevor
Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
At 09:12 AM 03/21/2000 -0800, Tom Berkley wrote:
Sean
I cannot relate at all to what you are talking about. After 1 year
playing with linux and using five different distros, I use Mandrake 7.0
(GL edition) on both my laptop and my dual celeron smp box with only
Trevor Farrell wrote:
With regard to my previously-post CD-writer problem:
[root@treble /dev]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
OK, I don't know what is going on, but this is my 6th attempt at getting
this through to the list! I've tried different mailservers, using "new
msg"
"reply", and several changes of text/subject. Other emails are going
out OK, just not this
one! My apologies if the floodgates suddenly burst and
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
First off NICE job Mandrake on the GUI install, only complaint would be
that it was a little confusing which packages I was selecting for
install (might want to look at check boxes instead of the color change
thing).
Amen to that!
Just for grins I tried
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
thanks for the overwhelming amounts of replies.
Now the funny thing is that I have 2 boxes both LM7.02, on one the append
worked, on the other box, there was already an append in the lilo.conf, I
tried to add the
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Trevorsorry I tipped you to a technique that has caused you
trouble! I use this method to temporarily become root in a
second xsession all the time. I've never had any problems with
it. So I'm sorry also, that I've no helpful suggestions for
you.
Alan
Trevor
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
Hope this mail gets through to the list. The last four(!) did
not.
wobo
--
Trevor Farrell wrote:
OK, I don't know what is going on, but this is my 6th attempt at getting
this through to the list! I've tried different mailservers, using "new
msg"
Civileme wrote:
Trevor Farrell wrote:
OK, I don't know what is going on, but this is my 6th attempt at getting
this through to the list! I've tried different mailservers, using "new
msg"
"reply", and several changes of text/subject. Other emails are
Tom Berkley wrote:
I see the lilo prompt twice when I want to boot to the second drive but
that is normal for any linux boot from a drive other than the first
drive.
I have now seen several posts like this saying that it is nornal for two LILO prompts
if you are booting Linux off a second
Civileme wrote:
It has been enlightening being on this list. Researching and
attempting to reproduce problems mentioned in posts has brough
about a quantum leap in my learning.
But now I find myself becoming annoyed with posts of new people,
and with some of their uneducated expectations,
John Aldrich wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
My home system has Windows 95 on hda and a vfat partion as hdb1, as well as Linux
on
hdb. I have installed Redhat 5.2, 6, 6.1; Mandrake 6, 7; as well as Caldera and
Suse
distributions on this machine. None have given me 2 LILO
mandrake 7.0
which is very stable and I do not experiment very much with if because I
like to have one stable boot version that is usable.
Tom
Trevor Farrell wrote:
Tom Berkley wrote:
I see the lilo prompt twice when I want to boot to the second drive but
that is normal for any
Tom Berkley wrote:
...
Second, what hardware do you have in your system. A very complete list
would be most helpful.
...
Tom
I have an M747 motherboard - SiS chipset -- with a celeron 366 96Mb ram.
drive info (from /var/logs/dmesg):
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Trevor Farrell wrote:
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
Not as helpful as i was hopeing for. For future reference the drive is
listed under 'Goldstar' not matsumi, and it is one of the
"recommended" drives. Can you reboot t
Is the partition editor that is built into the Mandrake 7.0-2 install
based on the partition magic that seems to occupy such a sizable portion
of this list?
I ask 'cause I recently decided to re-install my Mandrake 7 system (the
first install simply used the "recommended" button, and not a big
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
FWIW I get some funny complaints but CD-ROMS write ok anyway.
(It decides that I have one, single track of 650M . . . well, unlimited
capacity, actually, but scdbackup is kind enough not to try to write
more than that.)
My Windblows CD burning software (the
Andrew Roberts wrote:
Got the same problems, there's some documentation
in/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound.
I've had a play and it looks like the sndconfig problem is in what goes in
the /etc/conf.modules. When I get a working setup I'll have a post something
somewhere.
Regards, Andrew
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
Not as helpful as i was hopeing for. For future reference the drive is
listed under 'Goldstar' not matsumi, and it is one of the
"recommended" drives. Can you reboot the machine with the kernel-linus as
the kernel and try that again plz.
Sorry Axalon, whilst I'm
OK, I'm the one who started the remove supermount thread (and I'm not
proud of it, but I needed to know...) so I could see if supermount was
causing my CD burning to fail. Having executed the now famous supermount
disable command, I can state that it made not one iota of difference!
My CD burner
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Trevor Farrell wrote:
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
You mean this i assume? can you showoutput of 'cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -prcap'
[root@treble trevor]# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -prcap
Cdrecord release
How do I completely remove supermount from my system???
Is it enough to replace all lines refering to it in /etc/fstab with the
more conventional /dev/... references, or are there other files to edit
too.
thanks]
Trevor
POWER! to the penguin...
My Mdk 7.0 install (I just hit the recommended button let it do the
rest) does not seem to have set up gcc correctly. Can anyone tell me
what I need to do to fix this?
[root@treble nicq-0.0.5]# ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install.../usr/bin/install
Andrew Vick wrote:
Sort of related...
I've got Mandrake 7.0 running on a Gateway with a Phillips 2/2/4 CD-RW, and
for me it's not detecting the CD drive. At all. When I try to mount it, it
gives me an error,
"mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" and that the driver is not
Following on from my post last night, I have read through the HOW-TO and
it threw no light on my problem. the output from cdrecord is:
[root@treble /dev]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
cdrecord:
Yann Forget wrote:
Hi,
lee binkley a écrit :
Al Smith wrote:
Yes it is possible if you use IP masquarding and such.
-Al
I will nedd 2 nic .
so in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local
ipchains -P foward DENY
ipchains -A foward -i eth1 -j MASQ
echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_foward
At risk of prolonging this agony further, I too have been unable to get a
cd burn with my new Ver 7.0-2 install. I have an LG CED 8042B 4x4x24 IDE
cd rw, which the install correctly identified. The install also faked some
sort of IDE-SCSI translation so the system "thinks" this is a SCSI drive.
I have installed licq off the mandrake 7.0-2 cd, and it works fine
except when I type messages they corrupt if I use the shift key in a
long line! and suggestions???
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