Re: [Cooker] imwheel fails on sysinit
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 00:24, Frederic Lepied wrote:
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With imwheel listed in rc.modules (this is cooker, of course) there is an
error message on init (can't remember exact words and it's too early in
process to get into /var/log/messages). It seems like the system is
looking for it too early. I moved the entry to rc.local - no more
message.
Could you send the entry ?
imwheel -k ; imwheel
Typing su -c "imwheel -k" at a console produces the message I saw...
WARNING: imwheel process could not be verified, it may not be running
anymore, that's OK!
: No such file or directory
WARNING: imwheel process could not be verified, it may not be running
anymore, that's OK!
: No such file or directory
INFO: imwheel started (pid=2852)
/root/.imwheelrc: No such file or directory
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Re: [Cooker] Strange things in sysinit on cooker
On Friday 01 December 2000 21:48, Peter Ruskin wrote: Dec 1 03:28:33 penguin mount: mount: mount point /7.2/boot does not exist Dec 1 03:30:20 penguin rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems failed When I log in, /7.2/boot has been mounted. This happens on every bootup on cooker. Similar filesystems with 7.1 and 7.2 on the same machine don't produce this message. Ooops! My fault again. I'm running Win98, LM7.1, LM7.2 and Cooker on the same machine, each with its own boot partition (first three primary, cooker boots from a logical partition). I needed to set up fstab so that the non-current boot partitions are not mounted at boot-time. I should have realised that earlier. That said, Mandrake handled the situation well. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-01pnr, Uptime 2 hours 9 minutes
[Cooker] Installer bugs
Cooker expert upgrade developer 01-Dec-2000. [03:13 peter@penguin:~]$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.2.17-29mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sat Nov 25 17:16:34 CET 2000 1. After selecting upgrade and pointing to my root partition, I see a message that tells me it's formatting. Obviously it isn't - this is an upgrade, right? Please change this scary message to something like "Please wait while I figur out what to do next." or tell us what it is doing. 2. At the make bootfloppy stage I get this message: "An error occurred. insmod'ing module loop failed." 3. X is already configured - keep it? ... Yes. But then it saves my XF86Config with a ~ suffix, makes another with extra modelines I don't need and copies some of my modelines back in. In so doing it manages to truncate some so that X will not start. For goodness sake, if I say keep the present configuration, don't mess with it. -- ---- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-01pnr, Uptime 0 hours 41 minutes
[Cooker] CUPS not working
Cooker expert upgrade developer 01-Dec-2000. [03:13 peter@penguin:~]$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.2.17-29mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sat Nov 25 17:16:34 CET 2000 Try to print and nothing comes out of the printer - HP DeskJet 720C on local parallel port (works with CUPS on 7.2 on same machine). From the admin tool I do a test print - nothing comes out but the interface behaves normally - then when I check finished jobs the testpage is listed as cancelled. xpp segfaults without appearing. It all looks pretty broken to me. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-01pnr, Uptime 1 hour 10 minutes
[Cooker] Strange things in sysinit on cooker
Dec 1 03:28:33 penguin mount: mount: mount point /7.2/boot does not exist Dec 1 03:30:20 penguin rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems failed When I log in, /7.2/boot has been mounted. This happens on every bootup on cooker. Similar filesystems with 7.1 and 7.2 on the same machine don't produce this message. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-01pnr, Uptime 2 hours 11 minutes
[Cooker] imwheel fails on sysinit
With imwheel listed in rc.modules (this is cooker, of course) there is an error message on init (can't remember exact words and it's too early in process to get into /var/log/messages). It seems like the system is looking for it too early. I moved the entry to rc.local - no more message. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-01pnr, Uptime 2 hours 17 minutes
[Cooker] Drakfont broken in cooker
I used drakfont to install the four courier-new fonts from my Windows directory. What I got was: altsys-CodexSSK-medium-r-normal Bitstream-CloisterBlack BT-medium-r-normal urw-CityDMed-medium-r-normal urw-CityDLig-medium-r-normal [12:42 root@penguin:~]# ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont c010012d.ttf c010014d.ttf codexssk.ttf fonts.dir tt0757m_.ttf If I select a font from the listbox to install or remove, the action is performed on a different font. If I install all, a font called (null) is installed and I get the following message: Gdk-WARNING **: Creating pixmap with NULL window and colormap. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 0 hours 33 minutes
[Cooker] mkbootdisk-1.2.7-2mdk broken on cooker
[11:27 root@penguin:~]# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.17-28mdk Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press Enter to continue or ^C to abort: mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 usage: lilo [ -C config_file ] -q [ -m map_file ] [ -v ... ] lilo [ -C config_file ] [ -b boot_device ] [ -c ] [ -l | -L ] [ -i boot_loader ] [ -m map_file ] [ -d delay ] [ -v ... ] [ -t ] [ -s save_file | -S save_file ] [ -P fix | -P ignore ] [ -r root_dir ] [ -w ] lilo [ -C config_file ] [ -m map_file ] -R [ word ... ] lilo [ -C config_file ] -I name [ options ] lilo [ -C config_file ] [ -s save_file ] -u | -U [ boot_device ] lilo -T help (to see a list of options) lilo -V The result is not a bootable disk. There seems to be something wrong with the way lilo is called. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 0 hours 58 minutes
Re: [Cooker] mdk 7.2 running IE 5, kind of
On Sunday 26 November 2000 06:39, Leon Brooks wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2000 11:28, Leon Brooks wrote: MS Internet Explorer 5.0 running under Mandrake 7.2, sort of: Leon, Which kernel patch did you use when installing Win4Lin? I see you are using Mandrake 7.2 as I am, but the only Mandrake kernel patch I could see in Win4Lin1.0-eval was for kernel 2.2.13. Regards, -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 1 day 15 hours 52 minutes
Re: [Cooker] LM 7.2 EXPERT-Minimal installation
On Sunday 26 November 2000 17:59, Geoffrey Lee wrote: Yo. On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:52:56PM +0300, Vadim Plessky wrote: Hello All, 5) System/Base -Menu -2891K Pretty big. well it's possible to take it off, but I was not sure if something will not be broken if I delete it. Basically we have the menu system now if you don't have this you do 't get any menus for wm. What? I've removed menu (which I've never liked) and I still have my menus, managed myself in /usr/share/applnk, the KDE way. The only thing I miss is the kmenuedit program that Mandrake seems to have removed from the distribution in KDE2. I don't use any other window manager than KDE. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 1 day 22 hours 2 minutes
Fwd: Re: [Cooker] mdk 7.2 running IE 5, kind of
Thanks for the advice, Jim. Hmmm, as I'm already using 2.2.17-27mdk I'd
better get the .17 from kernel.org.
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Subject: Fwd: Re: [Cooker] mdk 7.2 running IE 5, kind of
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:00:22 +1000
From: "Sarah Hayes" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i think this was meant to be for you
Cheers
WEBMASTER
http://www.mandrake-linux.com
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From: Jim Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 13:19:44 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] mdk 7.2 running IE 5, kind of
** Reply to message from Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Sun, 26
Nov 2000 13:39:29 +
Which kernel patch did you use when installing Win4Lin?
You need to download the Kernel-Win4Lin2-2217.patch file, and then
patch the
2.2.17 kernel, and build your own. There was a message on the win4lin
mailing
list that reported that you could use the 2.2.17-21mdk kernel source
with the
following changes:
1. Install kernel-source and kernel-headers rpms from the mandrake CD
2. get the linux/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c file from the 2.2.17 kernel
archive (you can download that single file from my web server if you
like,
http://perfect.yi.org/apm.c)
3. Place that file in the appropriate directory
(linux/arch/i386/kernel/)
4. Patch the kernel with the 2.2.17 generic win4lin patch
5. Edit include/linux/tasks.h and change NR_TASKS to 3500
6. make menuconfig select the win4lin option.
7. make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage
I get the kernel to compile ok with this method, but it doesn't run
correctly,
so I use the non-mandrake 2.2.17 kernel source from www.kernel.org.
You might be
able to successfully get this to work with this method with one of
the earlier
kernels. I do make the #5 change to the native kernel source, and I
also edit
the EXTRAVERSION line in the Makefile to identify my patched kernel.
Jim Bradley -- Maryville, MO USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Re: [Cooker] Fwd: Re: GNOME, KDE and Mandrakesoft (fwd)
My test results: On Wednesday 22 November 2000 19:24, Christopher Molnar wrote: For all of you who have a long weekend, here is something to play with - a QT2 and a KDE update: (Someone PLEASE let me know they where able to properly install): On Monday 20 November 2000 14:51, I wrote: --- 2. "Error - Potato Guy: Fatal error: I could not load the pictures. I'll quit." Still the same. 3. KSmileTris: crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT). Still the same. 5. KDevelop and/or KDevelop Setup: crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) - I only clicked the launch icon. Still the same. Then I put the kidewrite.desktop file in my ~/.kde/share/applnk/Applications/Editors directory and, just like the last time KDevelop doesn't crash, but it doesn't work either - it's just a skeleton. The right-hand pane is always empty; icons are all "unknown"; no library documentation; no setup. You can create what is called a "Projectspace" and files are generated but you can't see them. 6. Konqueror: I like the colour when you type man:ls in the address bar. As file manager, when I change directory (~ to ~/.kde), .kde contents show briefly, then ~ contents show again - it's fast but that's not good. Still the same. 7. KDE System Control: still very weak compared to kudzu. Still the same - this app is useless. 8. Configuration|Printing|QT CUPS: nothing happens when you click this (probably nothing to do with KDE though). Still the same. 9. KIconEdit: doesn't appear on menus. Still the same. It works really well though. 10. Kaiman: good to see it working (badged GQmpeg?), but it's too small on the screen. Still the same. 11. KMid: no menu item. Didn't try this - I've uninstalled menu (I had to force kdebase because it wanted me to have menu installed and I'm not playing!-)) 12. KMidi: not working. "/usr/share/apps/kmidi/config/timidity.cfg: No such file or directory Try kmidi -h for help ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error!" Still the same. 14. KMail|Settings|Configuration|Composer|Language: Only English US (C) allowed! This has been fixed. 15. KOffice still very much work in progress, although some improvement in Office97 imports. No change here. Address Book: Every time I edit an entry, KAB assigns the current date to the birthday field if empty. I haven't found a way to delete this. KJots: I found the option to change editor fonts and thought - heh, this is usable - then I changed my mind as I kept writing new subjects (for this mail) and they weren't getting saved. Now using good old Text Editor (KEdit) - still the best! KChart: After changing a few chart parameters KChart froze. I could still resize and move the main window but couldn't close it. After 2 minutes I was about to kill it when it came to life showing a dialog. Can't work with this app yet. KIllustrator: Node edit not working properly. The polygon tool just draws triangles, so I tried to add a node - unsuccessfully. KWord: It can now print arial and palladio as well as times but it can't print any special characters (dingbats, symbols) and the like, although it renders them on screen OK. Text selection with the mouse is _awful_. This app still unusable. KSpread: Can't import excel again. Previous version could. Konv: Very good little conversion app - better looking than kunit. Task Scheduler(KCron): Excellent. Kafka: Doesn't seem to do anything. Can't get it to load web pages. KEdit: Settings|Configure KEdit|Spelling - set client Aspell with British dictionary. Tools|Spelling provokes dialog: "ISpell could not be started. Please make sure you have ISpell properly configured and in your PATH." I would only want ISpell if it had a British dictionary, that's why I chose ASpell. This spoils a superb program. KSciPlot: Does nothing - even when stsrted from Konsole. KJezzball (kjezz): Crashed with signal 11. KNode: Looks cool but can't handle mulipart messages yet. LSkat: No cards. Previous version worked. KPatience (kpat): Crashes with signal 6. kPPP log viewer: Very strange - From Until Seconds Bytes in Bytes out 01:48 01:48 0 s 32.5 MB 733.2 KB -- -------- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 5 hours 56 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Konqueror ftp bug.
On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:15, Ron Stodden wrote: Ben Reser wrote: Okay let me get this right. You won't use a command line ftp client or even say gFTP with 7.2 so you reboot into 7.1 so you can drag and drop for ftp? Correct. KDE 2.0 is presumed to be an advance over KDE 1.1, yet there has been an unacceptable degreee of regression, as if they tore up everything and started over with a new team which rushed on regardless without ever bothering to look at the existing, and already coded, 1.1 features. I agree. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 5 hours 59 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.2.17-21mdk has streaming problems.
On Thursday 23 November 2000 07:37, Ron Stodden wrote: Who in MandrakeSoft is looking into this, please? Klaus Erik Sebastian Vuorinen wrote: On Tuesday 21 November 2000 13:33, Ron Stodden wrote: My first attempt to write CD-R and CD-RW blanks with cdrecord-1.9-3mdk under Mandrake 7.2 turned out to be a dismal failure, not able to get past track 4 to 8 for "Medium Error." and "Write Error - Loss of Streaming". This with numerous CD-R and CD-RW blanks. I get the same behaviour on my box. All attempts to burn a cd fail. Most tries failed before the burn could even start, but sometimes it manages to write 10 - 25 % before failing. This drive used to work just fine. The symptoms have manifested themselves in 7.2. I suspect the kernel being the reason also. Maybe something with scsi-drivers ? This all works perfectly on this same machine under Mandrake Helium 7.1. The CDRW is an ATAPI Sony CRX145E. Here is the output from cdrecord -v -data dev=0,0,0 speed=4 Mandrake72-ext.iso under Mandrake 7.2 installed from iso-CDs: Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 4 of 552 MB written (fifo 98%).cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 09 53 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) write track data: error after 4888576 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 32.738s Fixating... Fixating time: 61.753s cdrecord: fifo had 141 puts and 78 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 23 times full, min fill was 95%. [root@small iso]# Hi Ron, I had no end of problems with the 7.2-supplied kernel. I've upgraded to 2.2.17-27mdk and burnt a CDRW sucessfully last night using Eroaster. I have a Yamaha CRW8424S on an Adaptec 2940UA controller. Regards, -- ---- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 5 hours 54 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.2.17-21mdk has streaming problems.
On Friday 24 November 2000 02:07, Ron Stodden wrote: Peter, Is updating a kernel as simple as installing its RPM, replacing /boot/vmlinuz, then editing /etc/lilo.conf? Does this set up all the kernel modules correctly? Ron, Installing a kernel RPM will automatically replace /boot/vmlinuz, so you just have to edit lilo.conf and run lilo. When I update, I use the kernel source and headers RPMS and rebuild. Before I do this I rename, for example, /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 to /usr/src/linux-2.2.17-21mdk, otherwise it'll get overwritten. I have several kernel versions in /usr/src: 2.2.17-21, -25, -27 etc., so if I get problems with one I can easily switch. Procedure as follows: 1. As root, cd to /usr/src/linux-2.2.17-27mdk and run "make xconfig ; make dep; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install;" 2. cd to /usr/src/linux-2.2.17-27mdk/arch/i386/boot and copy bzImage to vmlinuz-2.2.17-27mdk. I then copy this to /boot and to my dos c:\linux folder (so I can use "C:\Linux\loadlin.exe C:\Linux\vmlinuz-2.2.17-27mdk root=/dev/hde7 ro" to get to linux from config.sys or Win98 desktop). 3. Copy /usr/src/linux-2.2.17-27mdk/System.map to /boot/System.map-2.2.17-27mdk. 4. Edit /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel (leave the old ones for safety), run /bin/lilo and reboot. It's fun and you're in control. Regards -- ---- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 1 hour 40 minutes
Re: [Cooker] last KDE2 rpm (from KDE_UPDATE) rpms version number
On Friday 24 November 2000 01:19, you wrote: Why the hell, when i open kpackage it says that 2.0 kde rpms are the newer rpms. should 2.0-17.1mdk be smaller than 2.0.1-1mdk 2.0.1-# _is_ newer than 2.0-# -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 0 hours 26 minutes
Re: [Cooker] KDE 2 CVS Update RPMS
On Saturday 18 November 2000 18:50, Christopher Molnar wrote: Hello, I have just placed a new set of the KDE 2.x RPMS's onto ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE. The rpm's are at the following version #'s: Nice work, Chris. This KDE seems faster. Here are my test results... 1. External taskbar: superb! 2. "Error - Potato Guy: Fatal error: I could not load the pictures. I'll quit." 3. KSmileTris: crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT). 4. Snake Race: much better - you can see the exit button on the titlebar now. 5. KDevelop and/or KDevelop Setup: crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) - I only clicked the launch icon. 6. Konqueror: I like the colour when you type man:ls in the address bar. As file manager, when I change directory (~ to ~/.kde), .kde contents show briefly, then ~ contents show again - it's fast but that's not good. 7. KDE System Control: still very weak compared to kudzu. 8. Configuration|Printing|QT CUPS: nothing happens when you click this (probably nothing to do with KDE though). 9. KIconEdit: doesn't appear on menus. 10. Kaiman: good to see it working (badged GQmpeg?), but it's too small on the screen. 11. KMid: no menu item. 12. KMidi: not working. "/usr/share/apps/kmidi/config/timidity.cfg: No such file or directory Try kmidi -h for help ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error!" 13. aRts control: I like freeverb. 14. KMail|Settings|Configuration|Composer|Language: Only English US (C) allowed! 15. KOffice still very much work in progress, although some improvement in Office97 imports. Good job - thanks for making them available. -- ---- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-27mdk, Uptime 10 hours 52 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Problems with current kernels (was Cooker install 20001117)
On Sunday 19 November 2000 21:16, Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Sunday 19 November 2000 20:44, Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Friday 17 November 2000 23:38, Peter Ruskin wrote:
The default kernel has no MS-DOS support, so I started by rebuilding
the kernel. The locale warning appeared again but the kernel built OK
(with MS-DOS support) - except it didn't, or wasn't - after running
lilo and rebooting, still no MS-DOS support in this kernel. How can
this be?
That was cooker, with kernel-2.2.17-25mdk.
Now I find that the standard 7.2 kernel-2.2.17-21mdk has a serious
problem. When I try to mount my SCSI CD-ROMs I get the message "Could not
mount device. The reported error was: mount: the kernel does not
recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?)"
This is the same whether I use the stock kernel or build my own; and
whether I'm running LM 7.2 or 7.2. It looks like I'll have to move down
to
2.2.17-0.24mdk - I wonder whether that will work on cooker?
Ooops - that should be 7.1
Just installed 2.2.17-27mdk from cooker on 7.2. This seems to solve the
above problems. My SCSI adapter is Adaptec 2940UA. I suggest you update 7.2
kernel urgently.
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Re: [Cooker] Creating CDs
On Friday 17 November 2000 04:26, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2000 16:32, Warly wrote: Stephen Lesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am familiar with creating new/updated CDs of RedHat and getting them bootable/installable, from the how-to. Where do I find the FAQ for this mailing list, and the how-to on creating cooker install CDs. .. I used the script included on the 72betaftp.php3 page, with modifications as attached, to make the two CDs for 7.2. I have the 7.2 tree rsync'd from Norway. However, the first CD is a bit too big - I get "Track 01: 650 of 656 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error...". The size of the iso file is 656.3 MB. I've thoroughly checked the source tree and there's nothing there that shouldn't be there. Any ideas? OK, fixed it myself. I moved "Tutorial" out of the source tree. I had some problems with the script leaving the "mirror" directory in the "cd1" directory, so I modified the script as attached. CDs burn great! - much better than rsync'ing the isos - thanks. -- -------- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-21mdk, Uptime 0 hours 35 minutes Make isos/CDs script
Re: Re: [Cooker]
On Saturday 18 November 2000 22:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chmouel,
Perhaps I expresed myself badly, I can hear sounds under KDE, for
example starting and closing the session, but not when I change from a
virtual desktop to the other. When I had 7.1, with KDE 1, the sounds
selected work when changing between virtual desktops-
The "Virtual Desktop # Selected" sound events have never worked on my machine
either. KDE 2.0 is still very incomplete - be patient.
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[Cooker] Cooker install 20001117
I've just done an hd expert developer installation which went very smoothly
until I rebooted. There were lots of error messages - I haven't followed
them all up yet, so there'll probably be a follow-up mail.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "en_GB",
LC_COLLATE = "en_GB",
LC_TIME = "en_GB",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_GB",
LC_MONETARY = "en_GB",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
The default kernel has no MS-DOS support, so I started by rebuilding the
kernel. The locale warning appeared again but the kernel built OK (with
MS-DOS support) - except it didn't, or wasn't - after running lilo and
rebooting, still no MS-DOS support in this kernel. How can this be?
KDE2 looks a bit better (I'd lost the icons but restored them following
Chris' advice to run update-menu as root - I had to do rpm --rebuilddb first).
No sound whatsoever. DrakConf complained about version of modutils, so I
went to do the usual for my AWE64, that is sndconfig - guess what? no
sndconfig. So I copied modules.conf and isapnp.conf from 7.2 (before kernel
make dep), expecting sound after reboot - nada. I'll add some lines from
/var/log/messages - perhaps that'll give someone a clue...
Original kernel:
Nov 17 12:57:33 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
vfat, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:57:33 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
eth0, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:57:33 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
ppp0, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:55:22 penguin depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.17-25mdk/pcmcia/pcilynx_cb.o
Nov 17 12:57:35 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
lockd, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:57:36 penguin keytable: Loading keymap: uk succeeded
Nov 17 12:57:42 penguin netconf: /sbin/netconf: error while loading shared
libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-6, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin last message repeated 5 times
Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-4, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin last message repeated 67 times
Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-180, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:57:56 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-10-175, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:59:04 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
binfmt-, errno = 2
Nov 17 12:59:17 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-14, errno = 2
Nov 17 14:40:50 penguin modprobe: execvp: No such file or directory
Nov 17 14:40:50 penguin sound: Unloading sound module (sb) failed
Nov 17 14:40:50 penguin modprobe: execvp: No such file or directory
Nov 17 14:40:50 penguin sound: Unloading midi module (awe_wave) failed
Rebuilt kernel:
Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin isapnp: Board 1 has Identity d6 06 ea d5 ce c5 00 8c
0e: CTL00c5 Serial No 116053454 [checksum d6]
Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin isapnp: CTL00c5/116053454[0]{Audio }:
Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 --- Enabled OK
Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin isapnp: CTL00c5/116053454[1]{Game}:
Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK
Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin isapnp: CTL00c5/116053454[2]{WaveTable }:
Ports 0x620 0xA20 0xE20; --- Enabled OK
Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin rc.sysinit: Setting up ISA PNP devices: succeeded
Nov 17 14:45:46 penguin : Loading module: vfat
Nov 17 14:45:47 penguin mount: mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel
Nov 17 14:47:48 penguin sound: Loading sound module (sb) failed
Nov 17 14:47:48 penguin modprobe: execvp: No such file or directory
Nov 17 14:47:48 penguin sound: Loading midi module (awe_wave) failed
Nov 17 14:48:02 penguin netconf: /sbin/netconf: error while loading shared
libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
Nov 17 14:48:08 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-6, errno = 2
Nov 17 14:48:08 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-4, errno = 2
Nov 17 14:48:08 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-10-175, errno = 2
Nov 17 14:48:08 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
char-major-180, errno = 2
Sorry about the length. Hope someone can help?
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Re: [Cooker] CUPS: Back in Cooker again!
On Thursday 16 November 2000 06:27, Ron Stodden wrote: However, none of these, or Acrobat itself, will print with CUPS. Ron, I have CUPS and acroread - prints just fine to my HP DeskJet 720C. Regards, -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 KDE 2.0 still not fit for production machines as of 16-Nov-00. Linux 2.2.17-21mdk, Uptime 1 day 3 hours 44 minutes
Re: [Cooker] CUPS: Back in Cooker again!
On Friday 17 November 2000 01:59, Ron Stodden wrote:
Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Thursday 16 November 2000 06:27, Ron Stodden wrote:
However, none of these, or Acrobat itself, will print with CUPS.
Ron,
I have CUPS and acroread - prints just fine to my HP DeskJet 720C.
If you are in the USA, that is true. Default print setup is Letter,
8.5 x 11 inches.
However, if you change the Paper from Letter to A4 (say), it still
leaves the page size at 8.5 x 11 inches, with the result that it
won't print. Manually change the page size to 8.27 x 11.69 inches
and you are in business again.
Since Acrobat is proprietary software, Mandrake cannot patch it (no
source) and make a mdk RPM. Only Adobe can correct this original
coding error, and until they do, they cannot expect any use of their
Linux Acrobat Reader 4 to print out documents outside the USA.
You're quite right, Ron - I hadn't tried to change the page size - but then
you don't have to. At the bottom of the Print dialog, in PostScript Options,
select "Fit to Page" and it'll do just that - if your printer is A4 as mine
is too, it prints A4 perfectly. That's how acroread works - it doesn't let
you alter the original in any way, while you can view and print as you like.
Cheers,
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Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2
KDE 2.0 still not fit for production machines as of 17-Nov-00.
Linux 2.2.17-21mdk, Uptime 1 day 12 hours 19 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Creating CDs
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 16:32, Warly wrote:
Stephen Lesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am familiar with creating new/updated CDs of RedHat and getting them
bootable/installable, from the how-to. Where do I find the FAQ for this
mailing list, and the how-to on creating cooker install CDs.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72betaftp.php3
or
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/soft/mkcd/
I used the script included on the 72betaftp.php3 page, with modifications as
attached, to make the two CDs for 7.2. I have the 7.2 tree rsync'd from
Norway. However, the first CD is a bit too big - I get "Track 01: 650 of 656
MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd:
retryable error...". The size of the iso file is 656.3 MB. I've thoroughly
checked the source tree and there's nothing there that shouldn't be there.
Any ideas?
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Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2
KDE 2.0 still not fit for production machines as of 17-Nov-00.
Linux 2.2.17-21mdk, Uptime 1 day 12 hours 53 minutes
Script to make iso files and burn CDs
Re: [Cooker] small question about XMMS .
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 13:04, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...
I have an Arts toggle on my desktop - if any program can't produce
sound when Arts is running, I just toggle Arts off while I run that
program and toggle it back on afterwards...
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$(ps -aux | gawk '{print $11}' | grep artsd)" != "artsd" ];
then
artsd
else
killall artsd
fi
In the startkde script they say that artsd should be started only by
startkde.
I read that too, Guillaume, but this works for me - why not give it a try?
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Re: [Cooker] Failed Cooker install
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 04:49, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:46:46AM +, Peter Ruskin wrote: Chmouel, how am I supposed to send you a bug report? I went to Console 2 and entered "bug", which generated a 583k file "report.bug", but sympa@tampax keeps rejecting it "we accept only messages shorter than 100kb". I think the obvious answer is to email directly to Chmouel and not to the list, which is what I'm guessing you are doing if you're getting bounces from sympa. Thanks, Ben -- ------ Peter Ruskin[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UKKDE - the professionals' choice -- Uptime 0 hours 20 minutes --
Re: [Cooker] small question about XMMS .
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 12:37, Meir Faraj wrote:
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 14:08, you wrote:
Meir Faraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all ,
I wanna tell u about Arts sound problems .
By default XMMS doesn't use Arts to output sound
...
I have an Arts toggle on my desktop - if any program can't produce
sound when Arts is running, I just toggle Arts off while I run that
program and toggle it back on afterwards...
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$(ps -aux | gawk '{print $11}' | grep artsd)" != "artsd" ];
then
artsd
else
killall artsd
fi
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Peter Ruskin[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wrexham, UKKDE - the professionals' choice
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[Cooker] Don't you want any bug reports then? Am I wasting my time?
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 00:46:46 + I wrote: Chmouel, how am I supposed to send you a bug report? I went to Console 2 and entered "bug", which generated a 583k file "report.bug", but sympa@tampax keeps rejecting it "we accept only messages shorter than 100kb". I did an expert developer install from hd.img and it failed in post-install configuration phase. (Locales). Although there were no error messages (on Console 7) during RPM installation, a subsequent (failed) update revealed that many packages had not been installed. Bug report was attached on 2 previous failed postings. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:49:59 -0800 Ben Reser wrote: I think the obvious answer is to email directly to Chmouel and not to the list, which is what I'm guessing you are doing if you're getting bounces from sympa. On 13 Nov 2000 21:00:33 -0800 Chmouel spake: no, Chmouel get more than 200 personal email by day (mean people non mdksoft people or people i know) and Chmouel will never answer if his get a big 100k mail. -- ------ Peter Ruskin[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UKKDE - the professionals' choice -- Uptime 1 hour 6 minutes --
[Cooker] Promise Ultra100 card supported by linux
Who said that the Promise Ultra100 card wasn't supported by Linux-Mandrake? It works a treat on my machine, with kernel 2.2.17-0.24mdk and 2.2.17-21mdk. With 2.2.17-0.24mdk, I have to append "ide2=0xd400,0xd802 ide3=0xdc00,0xe002" to lilo, but 2.2.17-21mdk doesn't need it. "Autotune" in lilo will make it hang on partition check during boot. I don't use any drive optimisations. Extract from dmesg ... PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 40 PDC20267: chipset revision 2 PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20267: ROM enabled at 0xea00 PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. PDC20267: FORCING PRIMARY MODE BIT 0x00 - 0x01 MASTER PDC20267: FORCING SECONDARY MODE BIT 0x00 - 0x01 MASTER ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA hde: Maxtor 54098H8, ATA DISK drive hdf: Maxtor 54098U8, ATA DISK drive hdg: Maxtor 91020D6, ATA DISK drive hdh: Maxtor 88400D8, ATA DISK drive ide2 at 0xd400-0xd407,0xd802 on irq 15 ide3 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe002 on irq 15 # Actually, 54098H8 is a UDMA100 drive - for some reason kernel thinks # it's a 33 - but it goes pretty fast - not as fast as the 66 though. hde: Maxtor 54098H8, 39082MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=79406/16/63, UDMA(33) hdf: Maxtor 54098U8, 39082MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=79406/16/63, UDMA(66) hdg: Maxtor 91020D6, 9728MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=19765/16/63, UDMA(33) hdh: Maxtor 88400D8, 8011MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=16278/16/63, UDMA(33) Test results (/dev/sda is an IBM UttraSCSI) ... # hdparm -t /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.47 seconds = 18.44 MB/sec # hdparm -t /dev/hdf /dev/hdf: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.34 seconds = 27.35 MB/sec # hdparm -t /dev/hdg /dev/hdg: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.22 seconds = 12.26 MB/sec # hdparm -t /dev/hdh /dev/hdh: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.74 seconds = 11.15 MB/sec # hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 7.76 seconds = 8.25 MB/sec -- ---------- Peter Ruskin[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UKKDE - the professionals' choice -- Uptime 2 hours 12 minutes --
[Cooker] Failed Cooker install
Chmouel, how am I supposed to send you a bug report? I went to Console 2 and entered "bug", which generated a 583k file "report.bug", but sympa@tampax keeps rejecting it "we accept only messages shorter than 100kb". I did an expert developer install from hd.img and it failed in post-install configuration phase. (Locales). Although there were no error messages (on Console 7) during RPM installation, a subsequent (failed) update revealed that many packages had not been installed. Bug report was attached on 2 previous failed postings. PS Thanks for the linux_logo tip, Vincent. -- ------ Peter Ruskin[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UKKDE - the professionals' choice -- Uptime 3 hours 39 minutes --
Re: [Cooker] 7.2 problems
On Thursday 09 November 2000 04:21, you wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: I did a fresh expert install using hd.img. I've also just installed a Promise Ultra UDMA100 card and a 40GB Maxtor UDMA100 disk as /dev/hde. Problems... 1. Halt or reboot shuts down all the processes correctly, then gives the message: "INIT - no more processes in this run level" and just sits there like that for ever. Consequently, I suffer a fscking fsck every time. I'm now using "/sbin/shutdown -f -r now" for reboot until you can advise me something better. 2. My nice new UDMA100 disk is recognized as a UDMA33, which is a tad disappointing. I also have a UDMA66 version of that disk (same size) on the same PDC20267 which is correctly recognized and runs faster: Are you using the new ATA100 circular cross-section special cable to connect hde and hdf? Yup - it came with the card. -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] kaiman
On Thursday 09 November 2000 04:40, you wrote: Whats wrong with kaiman is everyone having problems with it? Is there going to be a rebuild kdemultimedia to fix kaiman, since it's never worked at least for me only thing that happens is it uses about 86 percent of my cpu and uses up most of my memory and stay like that tell I kill it, but does not segfault. Just wondering what going on? Hopefully cooker will be getting more on topic since as of late seems to be wondering some. naz Me too -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] 7.2 problems
I did a fresh expert install using hd.img. I've also just installed a Promise Ultra UDMA100 card and a 40GB Maxtor UDMA100 disk as /dev/hde. Problems... 1. Halt or reboot shuts down all the processes correctly, then gives the message: "INIT - no more processes in this run level" and just sits there like that for ever. Consequently, I suffer a fscking fsck every time. I'm now using "/sbin/shutdown -f -r now" for reboot until you can advise me something better. 2. My nice new UDMA100 disk is recognized as a UDMA33, which is a tad disappointing. I also have a UDMA66 version of that disk (same size) on the same PDC20267 which is correctly recognized and runs faster: [23:06 root@penguin:/home/peter]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.26 seconds =101.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.40 seconds = 18.82 MB/sec [23:06 root@penguin:/home/peter]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hdf /dev/hdf: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.23 seconds =104.07 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.32 seconds = 27.59 MB/sec I'll leave the optimizing up to the Promise controller, because the last time I experimented with hdparm the performance difference was negligible and my /var directory reported it was full (although `ls` couldn't explain why `du` came to that conclusion). All was OK after reboot - no corruption, just crazy file size reporting. 3. Konqueror just dumped me off the machine while it did an unprovoked hard reset. KDE2 may look pretty but it's buggier than Win98 - not worthy of release status. Comments: I'm glad that great ASCII penguin has gone, but I have neither "issue" nor "issue.net" in /etc, so I get a very bare prompt "penguin login:" - you surely didn't intend this. -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] 7.2 problems (KDE, Konqueror)
On Thursday 09 November 2000 00:14, you wrote: Doug Roberts wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: 3. Konqueror just dumped me off the machine while it did an unprovoked hard reset. KDE2 may look pretty but it's buggier than Win98 - not worthy of release status. I have to second that. Konqueror was advertised as being able to handle java. It doesn't. [Context: 7.2rc1 ISO] It did for me after I configured it on. You do have a Java runtime of some kind installed, don't you? No, I hadn't even enabled Java, so it wasn't that - I just had two copies of the File Manager - not a browser in sight. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Does someone know how to turn DGA on?
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Leon Brooks wrote: Meir Faraj wrote: On Friday 03 November 2000 02:33, you wrote: VMware will freeze my X4.0.1 when attempting to resume a suspended session or going fullscreen. I've do a fullscreen with vmware it just do the screen very buggy and not usable I hopes that the next version of vmware (2.0.3(it's in RC r8 now)) will have support for DGA 2 ;-) Try the latest Win4Lin, Beta4 I think. Magic. It's version 1.0 - from www.netraverse.com -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] ISO images - questions
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, stephen wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 01:19:35PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, stephen wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:36:44AM +0100, stephen wrote: ... I run this from my crontab every 2 hours 20 minutes. ## #!/bin/bash # /usr/local/bin/rsync-iso echo == echo rsync-iso - this script will download the latest Mandrake iso. echo puzzle? suppose i have the rc1 inst image, all 670+Mb of it i thought the idea was to only pull the differences and still retain the bulk of the file, and not after the first 2hr download session to end up the 40Mb file? Any ideas ? As long as your rc1 inst image has the same name and is in the same place '$LOCALDIR' it should work. I don't have an earlier iso so I can't test that - I expect to be downloading most of this week - I'm currently at 26% of Mandrake72-ext.iso -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] ISO images - questions
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, stephen wrote:
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:36:44AM +0100, stephen wrote:
...
btinternet in their infinite something, drop the line every 2 hrs
and it's dynamic ip, not a problem when i use download 4 x
netscape downloads need stopping and restarting.. pain
what happens with rsync connections, have i really got to wake up
every 2 hrs
i don't suppose anyone has a suitable script for adaption ?
I run this from my crontab every 2 hours 20 minutes.
##
#!/bin/bash
# /usr/local/bin/rsync-iso
echo ==
echo rsync-iso - this script will download the latest Mandrake iso.
echo
#
# Variables
#
NORWAY="sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake/iso/"
REMOTEDIR=$NORWAY
LOCALPARTITION='/mnt/downloads'
LOCALDIR='/mnt/downloads/Mandrake/iso/'
MYISP='greatXscape'
DIALUPDELAY='20s'
ISTATUS=`netstat -i|grep ppp0`
# TIMEOUT This option allows you to set a maximum IO timeout in seconds. If no
# data is transferred for the specified time then rsync will exit. The default
# is 0, which means no timeout.
TIMEOUT=7100
H=$[$TIMEOUT/3600]
S=$[$TIMEOUT-$[$H*3600]]
M=$[$S/60]
S=$[$S-$[$M*60]]
# If ppp already running, quit.
if [ "$ISTATUS" != "" ] ; then
echo "ppp already running - I'm leaving it alone! - Goodbye."
exit
fi
echo "Connecting to $MYISP ..."
echo
/sbin/ifup ppp0
# Allow a delay before connect.
while [ "$ISTATUS" == "" ] ; do
sleep 1
ISTATUS=`netstat -i|grep ppp0`
done
# I like this monitor.
echo "Spawning: GKrellM stacked system monitors ..."
echo
[ "$DISPLAY" = ":0" ] /usr/X11R6/bin/gkrellm
echo "Ready to start the download"
echo
if [ $H = 0 ] ; then
echo "After $M minutes, rsync will stop if data transfer is interrupted."
elif [ $H = 1 ] ; then
echo "After 1 hour and $M minutes, rsync will stop if data transfer is
interrupted."
else
echo "After $H hours and $M minutes, rsync will stop if data transfer is
interrupted."
fi
# Get the start time
START=`date +%s`
# Get directory size at start
T1=`du -sm $LOCALDIR|gawk '{print $1}'`
# This is the busy stuff ...
rsync -rltvP --stats --timeout=$TIMEOUT \
$REMOTEDIR $LOCALDIR
# Get finish time ...
FIN=`date +%s`
ELAPSED=$[$FIN-$START]
H=$[$ELAPSED/3600]
S=$[$ELAPSED-$[$H*3600]]
M=$[$S/60]
S=$[$S-$[$M*60]]
# ... and report how long it ran at end of script.
# Get directory size at finish and report download size (at end of script).
T2=`du -sm $LOCALDIR|gawk '{print $1}'`
F=`df | grep $LOCALPARTITION|gawk '{print $5}'`
T=$(($T2-$T1))
# All done!
echo "quitting ppp ..."
/sbin/ifdown ppp0
echo
echo "terminating GKrellM ..."
echo
killall gkrellm /dev/null
# Report how long it ran.
echo
if (( $H == 0 )) ; then
echo "rsync was running for $M minutes until `date`."
elif (( $H == 1 )) ; then
echo "rsync was running for 1 hour and $M minutes until `date`."
else
echo "rsync was running for $H hours and $M minutes until `date`."
fi
# Report download size.
if (( $T != 0 )); then
if (( $T = 0 )) ; then
echo
echo "After rsync, $LOCALPARTITION is now $T MB bigger at $T2 MB ( $F
used )."
echo
else
echo
echo "After rsync, $LOCALPARTITION is now $((-$T)) MB smaller at $T2
MB ( $F used )."
echo
fi
fi
exit 0
--
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Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice
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Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 now available rsync locations?
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Eric Rouse wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Jason wrote: The final release of 7.2 is available from http://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/iso/ Does anyone know where I can rsync a copy (not the ISOs) I didn't see them on rpmfind.net yet rsync://sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake/7.2/i586/ rsync://sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake/7.2/SRPMS/ -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] 7.2 and Promise U66 controler
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Denis Pelletier wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2 and my Promise U66 controler seems to cause a problem. At the present time I have a cdrom on ide0, a cdr on ide1, a Quantum HD (udma66) on ide2, a Maxtor HD (udma66) on ide3. To boot with 7.1, I use the following line with Grub: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage-2.2.16-9mdk_2 root=/dev/hde2 hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi ide2=0xd400,0xd800 ide3=0xdc00,0xe000 ide2=dma ide3=dma When trying to upgrade to 7.2 by booting from the cdrom, if I don't add anything the instaler hang with: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xd400-0xd407,0xd802 on irq 9 ide3 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe002 on irq 9 If after pressing F1, I boot with "linux ide2=0xd400,0xd800 ide3=0xdc00,0xe000" the installer hang with: Partition check: hde: And if after pressing F1, I boot with "linux ide2=0xd400,0xd802 ide3=0xdc00,0xe002" I get the same result as when I don't add anything. The relevant part of "cat /proc/pci" is: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology IDE UltraDMA/66 (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xd800]. Is there something else I can try? My `cat /proc/pci` gives: Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology IDE UltraDMA/66 (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401]. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec00 [0xec00]. and my boot "append=" is "ide2=0xd800,0xdc02 ide3=0xe000,0xe402 " If I were you I would try those numbers. There are five addresses and only four of them are IDE channels -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] 7.2beta chroot does not work
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: [00:20 peter@penguin:~]$ su -c "chroot /mnt/beta ls" Password: bak bin boot dev etc home lib misc mnt net opt proc root sbin tmp usr var win What versions of Linux were these two partitions? Looks like chroot from 7.1 to 7.2beta? What's that odd 'win' at the end for g? Hi Ron, Yep, from 7.1 to 7.2beta. I keep my Win98 a-m drives in /win - not in compliance, I suppose, but I know where to find them. Cheers, Pete -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] 7.2beta rc1 Installation notes
7.2beta rc1 Installation notes From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the pre-KDE2.0 version - I'm still trying to rsync the latest version, having diverted to Sweden since Norway closed. I did a clean expert developer install, not that I'm an expert, but I like the choices. 1. Quadruplicated KDE menu items was a puzzle that mysteriously disappeared all by itself. 2. NumLock still not working in X. /etc/X11/xinit.d/numlock should point to /var/lock/subsys/numlock instead of /etc/sysconfig/numlock. 3. Alsa still doesn't support the internal AWE64 midi device (AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k) when not using alsa. 4. Without alsa, system event sounds and primary multimedia work fine (after the modification to startkde), but there is no sound in ClanBomber, for instance. ClanBomber has sound if I install alsa, but LBreakout hasn't. Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, alsa is dead until it supports AWE64. 5. KDE Control Centre is plain daft! When I adjust the time and date formats, it doesn't allow all the changes. I can change "%l:%M:%S %p" to "%H:%M:%S" and "%d/%m/%Y" to "%d/%m/%y", but not both at the same time. I still haven't found where KDE stores this information. Hope this is fixed in 2.0! Overall impression - very good - and the install went very sweetly - I boot SCSI and use Promise UDMA66, so I still have to remember, on every install, to hand-amend lilo.conf at the end of install, else I'll never get in. I would like the same opportunity to change the boot-floppy's lilo.conf parameters. As it is, the boot-floppy is useless to me. append=" ide2=0xd800,0xdc02 ide3=0xe000,0xe402" is quite a lot to type in at bootup \:op -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] 7.2beta rc1 Installation notes
This is the pre-KDE2.0 version - I'm still trying to rsync the latest version, having diverted to Sweden since Norway closed. 1. Quadruplicated KDE menu items was a puzzle that mysteriously disappeared all by itself. 2. NumLock still not working in X. /etc/X11/xinit.d/numlock should point to /var/lock/subsys/numlock instead of /etc/sysconfig/numlock. 3. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] 7.2beta chroot does not work
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: As user root: Any attempt to chroot from one 7.2beta partition to another (mounted), say, chroot /mnt/c8 ls always leads to 'Permission denied'. Any attempt to chroot from a Mandrake 7.1 partition to a 7.2beta partition (mounted), say, chroot /mnt/c8 ls always leads to 'Permission denied'. -- This seems to me a very severe error, because it precludes partition rescue operations. -- However, using tomsbtrt 1.7.208 from floppy, all attempts to chroot to a mounted 7.2beta partition are successful. [00:20 peter@penguin:~]$ su -c "chroot /mnt/beta ls" Password: bak bin boot dev etc home lib misc mnt net opt proc root sbin tmp usr var win -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] DiskFree and KwikDisk with 7.2rc1
Ron Stodden mentioned these recently. I am also a fan of these programs. and it is possible to run them on 7.2rc1. I used the source tarball from KDE 1.1.2, which built and installed OK, but kdf segfaulted and dumped core. I ran it with strace and discovered it was failing on pixmaps "Cannot convert a null pixmap". The cure is simple. From a working 7.1 or earlier distribution, copy these two folders: /usr/share/toolbar and /usr/share/apps/khtmlw. -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] SunSITE Norway busy??
Welcome to the SunSITE University of Oslo archive. == This archive is running on a Sun Ultra 5 with 100GB of disk space donated by USIT, Uninett, NUUG and Sun Microsystems Norway. All transfers are logged with your host name and whatever you entered for the password. If you don't like this policy, please disconnect now. Please email suggestions and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] receiving file list ... push_dir .: Permission denied (3) unexpected EOF in read_timeout Does this mean they're rejecting? Are they too busy? Should I call back later? Was it something I said? The terse " Permission denied (3)" tells me nothing. -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Num-look doesn't work!
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Peter Ruskin wrote: ... but you've renamed /etc/sysconfig/numlock to /etc/sysconfig/NumLock - Sorry! - it must have been me - just done a clean install and it _is_ called /etc/sysconfig/numlock. must get more sleep getting senile -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Resizing NTFS
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: - Is it _possible_ to resize NTFS filessystems (with Open / Closed software? which software? any experience with this?)? PartitionMagic 5.0 from PowerQuest -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Experiences with odyssey-rc
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Pixel wrote: Craig Van Degrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As noted in an earlier message on Beta-3, my Matrox's 8MB is still not recognized. This limits the resolution of the installed system and fouls up the behavior of the X configuration options in DrakConf. can you give the output of "ddcxinfos | head -1" ? Me too - my Matrox G400-32 always gets detected as having 16MB RAM - here's my output: [23:11 peter@penguin:~]$ su -c "ddcxinfos | head -1" Password: 32768KB of video ram -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Experiences with odyssey-rc
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Tim McKenzie wrote: Me too - my Matrox G400-32 always gets detected as having 16MB RAM - here's my output: [23:11 peter@penguin:~]$ su -c "ddcxinfos | head -1" Password: 32768KB of video ram -- Um what's the problem... I see 32mb of ram there... =) So do I, but DrakConf detects the card as a G400 with 16MB. This is only a very minor annoyance to me, but it doesn't inspire confidence in the operating system -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Playing DVD under linux .
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mike wrote: I tried installing and using this program last night; I put a dvd movie into the dvd drive and then called the program from the command line 'vlc' but all it said was 'waiting for stream'. Am I mistaken in expecting this program to play dvd movies? If it's indeed a player, what are the steps to get it working? TIA Mike Meir Faraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all , Someone have a link to a good DVD player since commercial one doesn't exist we have vlc-0.1.99h-1mdk.i586.rpm in contribs. Have you tried xmovie? It's on cooker and AFAIK it's the only thing that will work on linux at present. It won't play your movie straight from the disc, but if you open the DVD in konqueror you'll see a load of *.vob files. xmovie can play these - not very big but not bad for a start. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake's look feel
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000,Zeljko Vukman wrote: I knew it. Now there is a new Mandrake's splash screen instead of original KDE splash screen (it happened before with Helix-Gnome splash screen). It is cute, my children like it, but I am 42 and I would like to have an option to choose which splash screen I will use when I start KDE. Original KDE splash screen is unfortunatelly removed from /usr/share/apps/ksplash. Please, if the next step is to remove all kde icons and replace them by Mandrake's icons tell us so we can make backup of our kde icons. Regards, Ohno! Please stop this Mandrake graffitti _now_. People at KDE _do_ have an eye for style and I consider it to be an affront to them to have their work spoilt this way. Is there no respect for intellectual property? -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] Cooker 7.2rc1 installation notes
Well, rsync finally finished over the weekend and I did a 'British' hd install à la Ron Stodden. I congratulate you Cookers for a great installation. A few points follow: 1. I kept getting the "There was an error installing packages:" message for locales-es, ~pl, ja, netscape-polish, ~japanese, ~spanish, etc., none of which I had selected (expert install - workstation). 2. I have a Promise Ultra66 controller which _was_ recognised, but I couldn't boot - I had to use my 7.1 boot floppy to get in and do repairs. It got a little bit further before it hung - reported finding hde, hdg and hdh - then nothing. I had to remove the 'append=" ide3=autotune ide2=autotune"' line from lilo.conf to make it work. I put back in its place 'append=" ide2=0xd800,0xdc02 ide3=0xe000,0xe402'. I used to also have 'optim' on this line. Is that still valid? I'm very impressed with the still rough-around-the-edges KDE. There must be some things it doesn't like though, because I made a terrible mess of it doing a manual upgrade - support, then libs, base, etc. But the Cooker install makes a very good job of it -- ---------- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] KPPP
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Christopher Molnar wrote: On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Prana wrote: Hiya, KPPP doesn't dock anymore. I missed KDE1 when KPPP can dock into the panel when it dials up. Note that I didn't try this yet on 1.99 though... kppp --- setup --- misc tab and select dock on connect. You also need to add the System Tray applet to your panel. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Cooker 7.2rc1 installation notes
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: 1. I kept getting the "There was an error installing packages:" message for locales-es, ~pl, ja, netscape-polish, ~japanese, ~spanish, etc., none of which I had selected (expert install - workstation). Oops! Have I goofed? no_rsync.pl has been developed and only tested with a: customized - install - development install, on the assumed basis that other install type variants should not call for any additional locales. Rather than undertaking a large project to test all the variants of install type (anybody?), I will make what seems to be an install type restriction clearer in the readme.html that comes with the fast downloader. I don't think it was anything to do with your script, Ron. The Cooker installation was looking for files that it had no business looking for. The messages were harmless, though, and didn't affect the installation one bit. Cheers -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] Permissions haywire again!
While using kpackage to install the latest cooker and contrib packages rsynced from sunsite.uio.no, all my icons disappeared from my KDE 1.1.2 desktop and kfm. I suspect the culprit was initscripts 5.27-33mdk. Whatever it was, it changed the mode for the /usr/shar/icons folder from 755 to 644. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] konsole word wrap corruption
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Con Kolivas wrote: There is a bug in the konsole (which has always been present) in kde which still remains to be fixed. When I maximise a konsole in kde at 1024x768 the typing is corrupted by it attempting to word wrap too soon. Works OK on mine - I'm still using KDE 1.1.2-- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Aurora
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Khawar Zia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hey, Btw how do u turn on aurora. I don't see any graphical boot up. I have a s3 virge 3d 2000. You need to boot with a Framebuffer kernel, and framebuffer-supported videocard. Guillaume, am I right in assuming that the Matrox G400 card is _not_ suitable for Aurora? /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt advises to use the Matrox framebuffer rather than VESA, which I presume is required by Aurora. -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Tekram DC390U3W SCSI Adapter with sym53c1010 Chipset
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people I have been trying to install Mandrake (7.1 and 7.2) onto a system with a Tekram DC390U3W SCSI adapter. . . listed. I then get the following error: Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 etc request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted. VFS Cant open root device 09:09 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:09 This is another problem that refuses to go away. I you boot from scsi, you can forget about using the stock Mandrake kernels, because scsi support is modular, so the kernel doesn't know how to boot because it can't see the scsi module yet. You just have to keep asking Mandrake to build scsi support directly into their kernels, or roll your own, like I have to do -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] Xtheater 0.5.2.1mdk
What are you playing at, Lenny? ;-p [21:08 peter@penguin:~]$ xtheater Unable to open UI Module: /home/lenny/rpm/tmp/Xtheater-buildroot/usr/lib/Xtheater/libgtkui.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] Strange repeating messages
Help ? /;-(( While busy downloading cooker and contribs, using kpackage to install the RPMs, I hit [ Ctrl-Alt-F1 ] to get to the console. While logging on at the console, the screen filled with this repeating message: LookupDeviceIntRec id=0x3 not found Because I only have a V90 connection and it's taking forever to rsync the distro (BTW, many thanks to Ron Stodden and Troels Liebe Bentsen), I upgrade piecemeal and sometimes get things wrong - so, suspecting that the above message had something to do with video, I changed all the XF and Mesa rpms to those supplied with the 7.1 discs. That runaway message seems to have gone now, but I'd really like to know what it means.Now I have another message on the console, which doesn't run quite so fast: neighbour table overflow Does that mean anything to anyone? Thanks -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Some bug reports for Beta 3
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Alexandre Dussart wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Sound is not working. The card (AWE32) is found, but when testing it reports errors (OPL/3 is busy or so). Also I do not hear anything, even if I don't get any errors. Alex, can you investigate? Hum seems AWE32 doesn't handle OPL3 midi chipset... :-/ ok I'll remove it from configuration... Greets, Alex. I have an AWE64 and if I install alsa, kmid doesn't play midi. When I select Options | Configure Midi devices, there is only one option (not an option at all for me) : External Midi Port. When I get rid of alsa, I see these options: Sound Blaster 16 - External Midi Port AWE Midi Emu - External Midi Port AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k) I choose the third option and it works perfectly. So I am worried about the increasing dependence on alsa - I don't mind alsa if it works, but despite Guillaume Cottenceau's claim in a previous reply to my posting that alsa fully supports AWE64, I know that it doesn't. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved - ClanBomber 1.01-6mdk and VM problems
failed for kswapd... Sep 25 15:21:58 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for clanbomber... Sep 25 15:22:07 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Sep 25 15:22:08 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for clanbomber... Sep 25 15:22:12 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xscreensaver... Sep 25 15:22:26 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Sep 25 15:22:26 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for maudio... Sep 25 15:22:26 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... Sep 25 15:22:26 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cupsd... Sep 25 15:22:26 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kfm... Sep 25 15:22:26 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kfm... Sep 25 15:22:26 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kwm... Sep 25 15:22:26 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kwm... Sep 25 15:22:29 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cupsd... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kwm... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kwm... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for maudio... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xscreensaver... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xscreensaver... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdesud... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdesud... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cupsd... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for X... Sep 25 15:22:39 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kfm... Sep 25 15:22:43 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Sep 25 15:22:46 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for maudio... Sep 25 15:23:05 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Sep 25 15:23:05 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for X... Sep 25 15:23:05 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for X... Sep 25 15:23:05 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for maudio... Sep 25 15:23:05 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... Sep 25 15:23:05 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kwm... Sep 25 15:23:05 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... Sep 25 15:23:09 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for X... Sep 25 15:23:11 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for clanbomber... Sep 25 15:23:14 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for clanbomber... Sep 25 15:23:15 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Sep 25 15:23:15 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xscreensaver... Sep 25 15:23:15 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... Sep 25 15:23:15 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kwm... Sep 25 15:23:15 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd... Sep 25 15:23:15 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kfm... Sep 25 15:23:15 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cupsd... Sep 25 15:23:19 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... Sep 25 15:23:20 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xscreensaver... Sep 25 15:23:20 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cupsd... Sep 25 15:23:25 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for konsole... Sep 25 15:23:29 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... Sep 25 15:23:30 penguin last message repeated 2 times Sep 25 15:23:30 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for X... Sep 25 15:23:30 penguin kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cupsd... -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] Mandrake kernels
Would it be too difficult to build scsi support into the standard kernels? My boot disk is scsi, so I always have to roll my own kernels - not much of a problem except for the time, with the frequent updates from cooker. I always use matroxfb in my kernels (I have a Matrox G400-32). Since 2.2.17-1 this has not been possible. The kernel documentation fb/matroxfb.txt advises _not_ to use the VESA framebuffer. With the latest kernels I have to build without framebuffer so that I can boot - with framebuffer I get some message about framebuffer trying to use wrong memory location (doesn't get into any logs so I have to rely on my memory for that). I have gone back to using 2.2.17-0.24mdk and initscripts-4.97-43mdk, which serves me well but I would prefer to move forward instead of back. There must be many of us with G400s and scsi disks -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Get those messages all right and gltron works OK, but bzflag - nothing Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 @@Created GLX Context.. then konsole just sits there until I Ctrl-C. So at least gltron is working -- so please don't just drop "won't work on my g400" :-((... What is the output of xtraceroute, csmash, tux_aqfh, FlightGear, tuxracer? OK, you want testing - I test... [01:31 peter@penguin:~]$ xtraceroute Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 Found a hosts.cache with 0 entries. Found a site_hosts.cache with 0 entries. Can't open the database file /home/peter/.xt/user_hosts.cache!(In mode r) Can't open the database file /usr/share/xtraceroute/networks.cache!(In mode r) Found a site_networks.cache with 0 entries. Can't open the database file /home/peter/.xt/user_networks.cache!(In mode r) Can't open the database file /home/peter/.xt/user_generic.cache!(In mode r) Known countries: 239 Built-in database: 87 @@Created GLX Context.. Can't open the database file /home/peter/.xt/user_hosts.cache!(In mode w) (looks pretty though) [02:39 peter@penguin:~]$ csmash Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 /usr/share/csmash/@@Created GLX Context.. Avg = 10.802994 [02:45 peter@penguin:~]$ tuxracer tuxracer: error in loading shared libraries: libtcl8.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [02:43 peter@penguin:~]$ tux_aqfh BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c: 210: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed! [02:57 peter@penguin:~]$ tuxkart Data files will be fetched from: '/usr/share/games/tuxkart' Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 @@Created GLX Context.. Data files will be fetched from: '.' TUXEDO T. PENGUIN stars in TUXKART! by Steve and Oliver Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net [02:44 peter@penguin:~]$ FlightGear bash: FlightGear: command not found [02:48 peter@penguin:~]$ clanbomber Please select a display target by entering its abbreviation: [fbdev] Linux FBDEV target [glx] GLX target [svga] SVGAlib target [x11] Native X11 target Your choice: glx Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 @@Created GLX Context.. ClanLib Info(2): Not implemented. from Sources/Core/Sound/ClanSound/playback_static.cpp:133 Killed [02:46 peter@penguin:~]$ bzflag Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 @@Created GLX Context.. (then wait for ever) [02:56 peter@penguin:~]$ gears Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 @@Created GLX Context.. 1656 frames in 5.002 seconds = 331.068 FPS 1700 frames in 5.002 seconds = 339.864 FPS [02:54 peter@penguin:~]$ gltron checking 'data/settings.txt'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/settings.txt'ok [gltron] speed set to 6.50 (level 1) initializing sound checking 'data/game_engine.wav'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/game_engine.wav'ok checking 'data/game_start.wav'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/game_start.wav'ok checking 'data/game_crash.wav'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/game_crash.wav'ok checking 'data/game_win.wav'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/game_win.wav'ok checking 'data/game_lose.wav'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/game_lose.wav'ok checking 'data/menu_action.wav'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/menu_action.wav'ok checking 'data/menu_highlight.wav'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/menu_highlight.wav'ok checking 'data/gltron.it'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/gltron.it'ok loading menu checking 'data/menu.txt'...unsuccessful checking '/usr/share/games/gltron/menu.txt'ok menu loaded chec
Re: [Cooker] Printer driver packages renamed
Peter Ruskin wrote: HP720C Still not working with cups 1.1.2-22mdk and cups-drivers 0.3.6-12mdk... ESP Printer Calibration Tool v1.0 Copyright 1999-2000 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. Printer name [default]? Resolution [default]? 600x600 Media type [default]? Press ENTER to print pass #1 or N to skip... Sending calibration pass #1 for density/saturation levels... Calibration pass #1 sent. Please select the character that corresponds to the black block that is 100aturated (dark) while not bleeding through the paper. If the saturation point appears to occur between two characters, enter both characters. Black density? f Now select the character that corresponds to the yellow block that is 100aturated (dark) while not bleeding through the paper. If the saturation point appears to occur between two characters, enter both characters. Yellow density? Yellow density? f Now select the character that corresponds to the red block that is 100aturated (dark) while not bleeding through the paper. If the saturation point appears to occur between two characters, enter both characters. Red density? f Thank you. Now insert the page back into the printer and press the ENTER key to print calibration pass #2. Gamma? 3 Thank you. Now insert the page back into the printer and press the ENTER key to print calibration pass #3. Press ENTER to print pass #3 or N to skip... Sending calibration pass #3 for red, green, and blue adjustment... Calibration pass #3 sent. Please select the character that corresponds to the correct red, green, and blue colors. If the transition point appears to occur between two characters, enter both characters. Red color? 7 Green color? 7 Blue color? 7 Thank you. Now insert the page back into the printer and press the ENTER key to print the final calibration pass. Press ENTER to continue... Sending calibration pass #4 for visual confirmation... Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Till Kamppeter wrote: Did it not print or did only the calibration not work? Or didn't you find this printer in the printer listing? The calibration is still alpha, perhaps I will take it out again. Till Till, The printer works fine. It's only the calibration that can't print the fourth pass, and presumably doesn't save any settings - I'd enter the settings by hand if I knew where to do it. Thanks, Peter -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Printer driver packages renamed
HP720C Still not working with cups 1.1.2-22mdk and cups-drivers 0.3.6-12mdk... ESP Printer Calibration Tool v1.0 Copyright 1999-2000 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. Printer name [default]? Resolution [default]? 600x600 Media type [default]? Press ENTER to print pass #1 or N to skip... Sending calibration pass #1 for density/saturation levels... Calibration pass #1 sent. Please select the character that corresponds to the black block that is 100% saturated (dark) while not bleeding through the paper. If the saturation point appears to occur between two characters, enter both characters. Black density? f Now select the character that corresponds to the yellow block that is 100% saturated (dark) while not bleeding through the paper. If the saturation point appears to occur between two characters, enter both characters. Yellow density? Yellow density? f Now select the character that corresponds to the red block that is 100% saturated (dark) while not bleeding through the paper. If the saturation point appears to occur between two characters, enter both characters. Red density? f Thank you. Now insert the page back into the printer and press the ENTER key to print calibration pass #2. Gamma? 3 Thank you. Now insert the page back into the printer and press the ENTER key to print calibration pass #3. Press ENTER to print pass #3 or N to skip... Sending calibration pass #3 for red, green, and blue adjustment... Calibration pass #3 sent. Please select the character that corresponds to the correct red, green, and blue colors. If the transition point appears to occur between two characters, enter both characters. Red color? 7 Green color? 7 Blue color? 7 Thank you. Now insert the page back into the printer and press the ENTER key to print the final calibration pass. Press ENTER to continue... Sending calibration pass #4 for visual confirmation... Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UKKDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Won't work on my Matrox G400. lspci follows 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:08.0 Serial controller: Rockwell International HCF 56k V90 FaxModem (rev 01) 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 03) 00:0a.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 (rev 01) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) Try xfree-3 + Mesa. Already using: XFree86 3.3.6-16mdk Mesa 3.312mdk Ok, but so what's the meaning of "won't work"? In particular, when you start an accelerated app, a message should appear "Loaded required library libGL.so.1.2" or something, can you reproduce it? And then did you test "gltron" for example? Get those messages all right and gltron works OK, but bzflag - nothing Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 @@Created GLX Context.. then konsole just sits there until I Ctrl-C. -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] kernel source 2.2.17-4mdk IPV4 broken
make all_targets make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.17-4mdk/net/ipv4' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.17-4mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointe r -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium - mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps= 2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ip_masq.c ip_masq.c:578: `ip_masq_hash' undeclared here (not in a function) ip_masq.c:578: initializer element is not constant ip_masq.c:578: (near initialization for `__ksymtab_ip_masq_hash.value') ip_masq.c:579: `ip_masq_unhash' undeclared here (not in a function) ip_masq.c:579: initializer element is not constant ip_masq.c:579: (near initialization for `__ksymtab_ip_masq_unhash.value') ip_masq.c:518: warning: `masq_port_lock' defined but not used make[3]: *** [ip_masq.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.17-4mdk/net/ipv4' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.17-4mdk/net/ipv4' make[1]: *** [_subdir_ipv4] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.17-4mdk/net' make: *** [_dir_net] Error 2 -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Pixel wrote: pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the point of shiping Mandrake with bzflag for example, if it is unplayable with most modern computers ? MG400 ? Voodoo5 ? Won't work on my Matrox G400. lspci follows 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:08.0 Serial controller: Rockwell International HCF 56k V90 FaxModem (rev 01) 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 03) 00:0a.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 (rev 01) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) Try xfree-3 + Mesa. Already using: XFree86 3.3.6-16mdk Mesa 3.312mdk -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Pixel wrote: pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the point of shiping Mandrake with bzflag for example, if it is unplayable with most modern computers ? MG400 ? Voodoo5 ? Won't work on my Matrox G400. lspci follows 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:08.0 Serial controller: Rockwell International HCF 56k V90 FaxModem (rev 01) 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 03) 00:0a.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 (rev 01) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] Calibrate Colour Printer (CUPS)
After I updated cups to 1.1.2-19mdk I spotted this cool feature. Unfortunately, it crashes when starting the final calibration run on my HP DeskJet 720C, so the settings aren't saved. 1st run F 2nd run 2 3rd run - I selected 7, inserted paper, hit OK and the tool disappeared. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] ALSA and AWE64
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi cookers, I compiled ALSA with " --with-isapnp=yes --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes --with-cards=sbawe" for my AWE64 card, but I keep getting messages "Can't open /dev/sequencer - no such file". [11:45 peter@penguin:/usr/src/drivers/alsa-driver-0.5.7]$ ls -la /dev/sequencer crw---1 petersys 14, 1 May 4 02:40 /dev/sequencer strace the binary to see what's happening. I went for the AWE64 mainly because it would be recognised anywhere, but perhaps it is not fully supported by ALSA. KMid is one program that complains - there are many others. Anyone have any clues? OSS works flawlessly with awe64. I still haven't got midi working with alsa. I chmodded /dev/sequencer 660, chown root.audio. KDE's kmidi works OK - that uses /dev/dsp (which I also have to periodically chmod/chown as above). Now KMid has stopped complaining about /dev/sequencer but is still silent. Its Options | Midi Setup only offers MIDI 0-0 - External Midi Port, whereas it should show the AWE internal midi option as it used to. I tried [04:56 peter@penguin:~]$ playmidi /win/e/Media/midi/Jazz/7steps2h.mid Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details please see the file COPYING. playmidi: No playback device found. I wanted to also try xplaymidi, but get "error in loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" There are a few other apps that require libXaw.so.*, but I can't find it on cooker -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] What's the hell with /dev permissions ?
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Guillaume Rousse wrote: As a curious side effect of removing my boggy .gtkrc, all my group write perms on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer were removed at next login... Is this some sort of windows emulation ? :-) This keeps happening to me too. Perhaps it's a ghodt? It _is_ very annoying. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] What's the hell with /dev permissions ?
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Peter Ruskin a écrit : On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Guillaume Rousse wrote: As a curious side effect of removing my boggy .gtkrc, all my group write perms on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer were removed at next login... Is this some sort of windows emulation ? :-) This keeps happening to me too. Perhaps it's a ghodt? It _is_ very annoying. Please upgrade my poor english : what is a ghodt ? A new kind of bug ? Forgot the spell checker again - sorry, I meant ghost -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] mandrake_desk-7.2-4mdk - bad /usr/sbin/chksession
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, I wrote:
/usr/sbin/chksession line 79 has commas where there should be semicolons.
If you're using KDE 1.1.2 as I do, this results in a long row of
comma-separated display managers instead of a drop-down list when kdm
appears, and you can't choose any of them. This is not good.
Line 79 should be as follows:
for(@lf) { $session .= /$lf[-1]/ ? "$_;failsafe;default" : "$_;" }
Would it be possible to do something like this?
if ($kdm) {
if installed KDE version = 1.*; then {
$session="SessionTypes=";
for(@lf) { $session .= /$lf[-1]/ ? "$_;failsafe;default" : "$_;" }
print "$session\n";
exit(0);
}
else {
$session="SessionTypes=";
for(@lf) { $session .= /$lf[-1]/ ? "$_,failsafe,default" : "$_," }
print "$session\n";
exit(0);
}
}
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[Cooker] mandrake_desk-7.2-4mdk - bad /usr/sbin/chksession
/usr/sbin/chksession line 79 has commas where there should be semicolons.
If you're using KDE 1.1.2 as I do, this results in a long row of
comma-separated display managers instead of a drop-down list when kdm
appears, and you can't choose any of them. This is not good.
Line 79 should be as follows:
for(@lf) { $session .= /$lf[-1]/ ? "$_;failsafe;default" : "$_;" }
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Re: [Cooker] 7.2 beta hangs on partition check
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Anthony Cheng wrote: I have a hard disk of 20GB attached to promise UDMA 66 card. The first 12GB are used by win 98. I am able to install 7.2beta in the remaining space. However, 7.2beta hangs on the partition check. Do anyone know how to solve it?? Best Regards, Anthony Read /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Ultra-DMA.html. What you need to do is to see what IO addresses Mandrake writes in lilo.conf for your second tertiary and quaternary disks and add two to each. It works fine on my box with kernel 2.2.17-0.24mdk. You ought to be able to install OK - the hang on partition check occurs when you reboot, so be sure to make a boot floppy with rescue when you install, then fix /etc/lilo.conf from rescue. Good luck. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice -- Title: The Linux Ultra-DMA Mini-Howto The Linux Ultra-DMA Mini-Howto Brion Vibber, [EMAIL PROTECTED]v3.0, 9 November 1999 This document is intended to explain how to use Ultra-DMA aka Ultra-ATA aka Ultra33 and Ultra66 hard drives and interfaces with Linux. The most recent version of this mini-Howto can be obtained in HTML format at http://pobox.com/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA.html. 1. Introduction 1.1 Disclaimer 1.2 Credits 1.3 Document History 1.4 Copying 2. What is Ultra-DMA and why do I want it? 2.1 IDE, EIDE, ATAPI 2.2 Bus Master DMA 2.3 Ultra-DMA aka Ultra-ATA aka Ultra33 aka... 2.4 Just how ``Ultra'' is it anyway? 2.5 How does UDMA compare to SCSI? 3. Using your UDMA hard drive with an EIDE interface 4. Using your hard drives with a UDMA interface 5. Offboard PCI UDMA interfaces 5.1 Promise Ultra33 5.2 Promise Ultra66 5.3 Artop ATP850UF 5.4 Adding device files 6. Onboard UDMA interfaces 6.1 Intel FX, HX, VX, TX, LX, and BX 6.2 The VIA VP2 and Related Chipsets 6.3 TX Pro and other ``Pro'' boards 6.4 HPT 366 7. Unified IDE Patches 8. Activating and Deactivating UDMA 8.1 Using kernel boot parameters 8.2 Using hdparm 9. Problems 9.1 The UDMA Blacklist 9.2 Are you overclocking? 9.3 Is your BIOS current? 9.4 If you still can't get it to work! 10. If you have some information about UDMA stuff that's not in this mini-howto...
Re: [Cooker] cooker won't boot on promise ultra66
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Matthew R. Sprague wrote: howdy folks I just installed cooker on a udma66 hard drive controlled by a promise ultra66 pci controller card. It installs without any hitches but upon booting with lilo it gets to Partition check hda: hda1 hda2 hde: At this point the computer freezes and the keyboard won't respond. I can only hit he reset switch to reboot. I re-installed 7.1 which works without any glitches. What do I need to do here? I had this too. It is something stupid with the 2.2-17 kernels. I went back to using the 2.2-16 kernel and the Promise works fine. 2.2-15 and 2.3-99 work too. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Printer driver packages renamed
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Till Kamppeter wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: Are there any CUPS drivers for HP720C printers (ppa)? I have looked now, there is one, choose HP and then HP Deskjet 720C. Be sure that you have installed the most recent versions of pnm2ppa, ghostscript, cups, and cups-driver (from the Cooker). Thanks Till. I have pnm2ppa-1.0-2mdk; ghostscript-5.50-22mdk; cups-1.1.2.12mdk; cups-drivers-0.3.6.6mdk. Works fine from the CUPS WWW admin tool, but I need to print from KDE apps, etc. and, despite editing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to read "Printcap /etc/printcap" and adding a printer from the admin tool, printcap doesn't get generated. Also, when I try "lp (or lpr) filename [Enter] from a console as a non-root user, I get: "lp: unable to print file: The requested resource was not found on this server." What am I doing wrong? -- ---------- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
RE: [Cooker] conf.modules, modules, modules.conf ... what's the d eal?
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Don Head wrote: When upgrading to Mdk 7.1, and recompiling my kernel, Mandrake complained about /etc/conf.modules and mentioned that it's now deprecated. fine. I copied conf.modules to modules.conf ... exact copy, ... everything works fine EXCEPT my soundblaster live! value card (emu10k1 module). I then copied modules.conf back to conf.modules and everything starts up fine, even the soundcard, except that Mandrake complains that conf.modules is deprecated. What's the deal? And why is there also a /etc/modules file, that currently only has vfat as the sole module in it? I'd be happy to use /etc/modules.conf if and only if everything works! Rather than copying, you should try symlinks. For situations like this, they're much more reliable, and the preferred method. When a change is made to one, it's also being made to the other, because they're the same file. This way, no matter what file is read, the contents will always be the same. ln -s /etc/conf.modules /etc/modules.conf (or the other way around) ln -s /etc/modules.conf /etc/conf.modules Don Head [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] But then when you build your next kernel from Cooker it will will rename your symlink and make a new conf.modules, so beware !-( -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: Deprecated [Was: Re: [Cooker] conf.modules, modules,
Well said! On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, David Dennis wrote: Can I just soapbox once more briefly - there is nothing more annoying and lame within the linux realm than these moronic microsoft-esque 'bla is now deprecated' messages or scenarios involving chunderous deprecation. First, one that i think is from read hat and is now dead. let's hope. It illustrates the point -- from long ago in late 1998, I first came across the following on a RH 5.1 system: ps - is now deprecated, use ps from now on I about launched a brick at my monitor. Who were these red hat bozos and what were they lecturing me about using ps? especially since AFAIK, neither Sys V or BSD has this issue. It seemed (and seems) entirely thought up by concerns other than those that use tools for functional reasons. It seems like someone wanted to make the manual easier to write. Second, the way rm was changed, including on my current Mandrake 7.1, to default to essentially requiring rm -rf to do the work of what rm does on sparc and bsd and used to do on linux til the redhat horde arrived. Kids, how many times have you typed rm -rf and blown away a directory tree when you only intended to remove a file or files. The point of the rf flag to rm was it was supposed to be rarely invoked. By making rm nag, you cause rm -rf to be the norm. It's far more catastrophic if mistakes happen than rm. Fix it til it's broke, then look up in amazement. Finally.. this whole conf.modules / modules.conf thing. Kudos to you for posting it. This is a linux long-standing gotcha, ever since the modules entity came out. If you are going to ''deprecate'' a file and remove it, please actually do all the work of testing every potential fail point in your install suite .. don't just hang a sign up that says 'deprecations to the rear' then go home. Because the result will be yet again something that will run right until someone reads a HOWTO from 1998, or an info that hasn't lately been maintained, or even a (deprecated) man page, and once they do, will be royally confused, possibly annoyed, and probably longing either for the days when Microsoft did everything for them, or else when slackware was the only linux distro, a handful of conf files easily tuned any linux system. The savvy will fix, the rest will do exactly what you apparently were trying to prevent -- get frustrated with their 'computing desktop experience.' And don't forget those of us that just don't have time to go to school on a wildly new set of problems every time a new release comes out. (but from time to time have loads of time to complain that others should, lol) That should do it, my meds have arrived. Thanks for listening, keep up the great work. And looks like I will have to find a mandrake linux user group that is both small enough to be practical, yet large enough not to be stagnant. Anybody know of one ? (a mandrake sys admins mail list, with discussions above the level of newbie, yet with enough response to actually be useful, as this list is usually too busy just bug hunting .. i will check your web page and go from there.) -Dave Dennis Seattle WA -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Printer driver packages renamed
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Till Kamppeter wrote: I have renamed the printer filter packages (which filter raster output of GhostScript to the proprietary printer protocols) to make the names more "human-readable": Are there any drivers for HP720C printers (ppa)? -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UKKDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Printer driver packages renamed
I posted this Tue, 29 Aug 2000 00:37:10 +0100 and I still can't see it on the list, so here it is again (sorry if it contributes to duplicates)... On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Till Kamppeter wrote: I have renamed the printer filter packages (which filter raster output of GhostScript to the proprietary printer protocols) to make the names more "human-readable": Are there any CUPS drivers for HP720C printers (ppa)? -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] both grub and lilo?
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:43:58PM +0200, Pixel wrote: lilo is 200KB, grub is 266KB, not that much is it? Yes, it is much, because one of them is not needed. There hasn't been an answer yet, so: Why both? And actually what Pixel said isn't an answer either. Just because both packages are quite small doesn't rectify to *NEED* both. Having both just adds to the overall bloatness of the system. GRUB isn't bug-free, so we _do_ need both. I used to use grub and preferred it to lilo, but since I now boot from a SCSI disk on an Adaptec 2940U controller it won't work for me. AFAIK, lilo works on anything, so if you wanted to just have one it would have to be lilo. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] both grub and lilo?
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:53:05PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: GRUB isn't bug-free, so we _do_ need both. I used to use grub and Sure it isn't, but I'll bet that LILO isn't either. preferred it to lilo, but since I now boot from a SCSI disk on an Adaptec 2940U controller it won't work for me. AFAIK, lilo works on anything, so Is this a known problem of grub with Adaptec controllers? Extract from my post to this list Thu, 24 Aug 2000 04:31:01 +0100 ... Thanks Pixel, tried that. It's a GRUB bug. /usr/doc/grub-doc-0.5.94/BUGS: - GRUB hangs up when accessing a disk via Adaptec AIC-7880 SCSI-controller in LBA mode. It is unknown if this is due to GRUB or the SCSI BIOS. For now, you need to disable the BIOS support for INT 13 Extension (that is, you can't use the LBA mode). This means there's no support for my Adaptec 2940U card unless I use a tiny disk. All I get is the one liner: "stage 1". So it's back to lilo for me. -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: Fwd: Re: [Cooker] GRUB not working with SCSI boot disk
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Pixel wrote:
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
BTW, lilo-0.21.5-1mdk.i586.rpm on Cooker gives a nice menu, but it
installs /boot/boot.b as a link to boot-menu.b, so drakboot can't make you
a boot floppy - it can't open boot.b. "Progress means deterioation."
I don't understand what/who is wrong here. Are you talking about drakfloppy
("Create a boot floppy") or really drakboot ("Configure LILO/GRUB")
I don't see what can be failing...
Sorry - I meant drakfloppy of course - but mkbootdisk fails too, so the
problem is with lilo, not drakfloppy.
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Re: Fwd: Re: [Cooker] GRUB not working with SCSI boot disk
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still not on cooker list at Thu Aug 24 04:31:55 BST 2000, so here's a FMY what is BST ? British Summer Time, which is GMT + 1 -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Fwd: Re: [Cooker] GRUB not working with SCSI boot disk
Still not on cooker list at Thu Aug 24 04:31:55 BST 2000, so here's a repost. Hope this doesn't create another darned duplicate. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [Cooker] GRUB not working with SCSI boot disk Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:14:45 +0100 From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Pixel wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I quite liked GRUB, but since I got a new ATA66 disk and Promise controller, repartitioned and used my IBM SCSI disk to boot from, it doesn't work - all I get is the message `First stage install ...' LILO works fine. I've tried different versions of GRUB to no avail. can you try changing your /boot/grub/device.map, something like (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/hde (hd2) /dev/hdg (hd3) /dev/hdh or (hd0) /dev/hde (hd1) /dev/hdg (hd2) /dev/hdh (hd3) /dev/sda Thanks Pixel, tried that. It's a GRUB bug. /usr/doc/grub-doc-0.5.94/BUGS: - GRUB hangs up when accessing a disk via Adaptec AIC-7880 SCSI-controller in LBA mode. It is unknown if this is due to GRUB or the SCSI BIOS. For now, you need to disable the BIOS support for INT 13 Extension (that is, you can't use the LBA mode). This means there's no support for my Adaptec 2940U card unless I use a tiny disk. All I get is the one liner: "stage 1". So it's back to lilo for me. BTW, lilo-0.21.5-1mdk.i586.rpm on Cooker gives a nice menu, but it installs /boot/boot.b as a link to boot-menu.b, so drakboot can't make you a boot floppy - it can't open boot.b. "Progress means deterioation." -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice -- --- -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] Mesa-3.3-4mdk and Matrox G400
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, fpons wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to use Mesa (if possible with glx and agpgart) with my Matrox G400 32MB AGP card. Do I understand the following release note correctly, that I need Mesa-3.2.1 for glx? If so, where can I get it? I can't see it on Cooker. It is already here in this Mesa package, 3.2.1 is used for glx libGL.so version and 3.3 is used for pure software version (Mesa standard). I encourage you to update to 3.3-4mdk instead, there is a wrapper to select the right libGL according to your system (if glx-3.so is loaded as module). This version of Mesa does not conflict anymore with XFree86-libs, if you want accelerated support for you matrox card, get the XFree86 packages of cooker, hardware acceleration is available for your card. Thanks François. I installed 3.3-4mdk per your advice and I'm encouraged by the results. But... Is there a reason for why I only get pseudo-dma, even though I have agpgart installed? I attach a few config files FYI... gears gives me ~200 FPS but q3demo is really unplayable - too jerky and garbled sound and bzflag just gives: Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 @@Created GLX Context.. and nothing more. Any help appreciated. -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] ALSA and AWE64
Hi cookers, I compiled ALSA with " --with-isapnp=yes --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes --with-cards=sbawe" for my AWE64 card, but I keep getting messages "Can't open /dev/sequencer - no such file". [11:45 peter@penguin:/usr/src/drivers/alsa-driver-0.5.7]$ ls -la /dev/sequencer crw---1 petersys 14, 1 May 4 02:40 /dev/sequencer I went for the AWE64 mainly because it would be recognised anywhere, but perhaps it is not fully supported by ALSA. KMid is one program that complains - there are many others. Anyone have any clues? -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] Mesa-3.3-1mdk
I want to use Mesa (if possible with glx and agpgart) with my Matrox G400 32MB AGP card. Do I understand the following release note correctly, that I need Mesa-3.2.1 for glx? If so, where can I get it? I can't see it on Cooker. On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Is this release compatible with XFree 4.01 ? "François Pons" a écrit : --=-=-= Name: Mesa Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 3.3 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Mon Jul 24 12:13:50 2000 - 3.3. - update glx to CVS version of 2000/07/24. - moved module glx.so to glx-3.so. - using Mesa-3.2.1 for glx. ^^ -- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Re: Mesa / XFree 4attn: Guillaume Cottenceau
At last - a Cooker kernel patched for agpgart! For all you cookers out there with Matrox AGP cards, this is what I would do: 1. Uninstall all your cooker Mesa rpms, except the demos (the latest ones require glide, which is no use for a Matrox owner) 2. Point your browser at http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net and download glxMesa-2328-1.i586.rpm and the gart module README 3. Get kernel-source-2.2.17-0.9mdk.i586.rpm from Cooker, together with -headers, -doc and -utils 4. Use XFree86-3.3.6-16mdk.i586.rpm - 4.0 is no use 5. Install glxMesa 4. Build kernel, enabling AGP support with the appropriate chipset under "Character devices" 5. `mknod /dev/agpgart c 10 175` to make /dev/agpgart 6. Add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, to load agpgart at start-up: # load 3DFX module action "Loading AGPGART module" insmod agpgart 7. Add this to your XF86Config: Section "Module" # This loads the 3DFX module Load "glx.so" EndSection 8. Reboot, with fingers crossed. I did this and most of the Mesa demos work (200+ frames per second with gears) - see attached GLtest. I don't do Quake, but it's reported to work. On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello Guillaume, O.k., I've printed the userguide that you pointed me to (http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html) and as I read through, I'm starting to see a few problems already. 1) It says that for the Matrox G400 card I should be using kernel 2.3.51 with AGP support; I'm currently using 2.2.17-0.4mdk, is that sufficiently back-ported? -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice -- $ ./bounce @@Created GLX Context.. $ ./clearspd Mode: RGB SwapBuffers: no Size: 400 x 400 Buffers: color @@Created GLX Context.. Rate: 51200 clears in 5.38s = 9516.73 clears/s 1522676579 pixels/s Rate: 51200 clears in 5.38s = 9516.73 clears/s 1522676579 pixels/s Rate: 51200 clears in 5.382s = 9513.19 clears/s 1522110739 pixels/s $ ./drawpix @@Created GLX Context.. GL_VERSION = 1.2 Mesa 3.2 beta 1 Keys: SPACE Reset Parameters Up/Down Move image up/down Left/Right Move image left/right x Decrease X-axis PixelZoom X Increase X-axis PixelZoom y Decrease Y-axis PixelZoom Y Increase Y-axis PixelZoom w Decrease glDrawPixels width* W Increase glDrawPixels width* h Decrease glDrawPixels height* H Increase glDrawPixels height* p Decrease GL_UNPACK_SKIP_PIXELS* P Increase GL_UNPACK_SKIP_PIXELS* r Decrease GL_UNPACK_SKIP_ROWS* R Increase GL_UNPACK_SKIP_ROWS* s Toggle GL_SCISSOR_TEST f Toggle front/back buffer drawing b Benchmark test ESC Exit * Warning: no limits are imposed on these parameters so it's possible to cause a segfault if you go too far. Benchmarking... Result: 120 draws in 4.015000 seconds = 1095870.485679 pixels/sec $ ./gamma @@Created GLX Context.. $ ./gears @@Created GLX Context.. 1048 frames in 5.003 seconds = 209.474 FPS 1061 frames in 5.001 seconds = 212.158 FPS $ ./glinfo @@Created GLX Context.. GL_VERSION: 1.2 Mesa 3.2 beta 1 GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_RENDERER: GLX-MGA-G400 GL_VENDOR: Utah GLX GLU_VERSION: 1.2 Mesa 3.2 beta 1 GLU_EXTENSIONS: GL_EXT_abgr GLUT_API_VERSION: 3 GLUT_XLIB_IMPLEMENTATION: 15 $ ./glutfx NOTE: if you've got 3Dfx VooDoo hardware you must run this program as root. Move the mouse. Press ESC to exit. @@Created GLX Context.. $ ./isosurf 7179 vertices, 7177 triangles @@Created GLX Context.. Vertex arrays not supported by this renderer Nr unique vertex/normal pairs: 2723 num_tri_verts: 21531 FOG disable libGL: Application called unsupported GL API function. Fix the application! $ ./morph3d Morph 3D - Shows morphing platonic polyhedra Author: Marcelo Fernandes Vianna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [1]- Tetrahedron [2]- Hexahedron (Cube) [3]- Octahedron [4]- Dodecahedron [5]- Icosahedron [SPACE] - Toggle colored faces [RETURN] - Toggle smooth/flat shading [ESC] - Quit @@Created GLX Context.. $ ./multiarb @@Created GLX Context.. Sorry, GL_ARB_multitexture not supported by this renderer. $ ./osdemo ./osdemo: error in loading shared libraries: ./osdemo: undefined symbol: OSMesaCreateContext $ ./paltex @@Created GLX Context.. Sorry, GL_EXT_paletted_texture not supported $ ./pointblast @@Created GLX Context.. libGL: Application called unsupported GL API function. Fix the application! $ ./reflect @@Created GLX Context.. $ ./renormal @@Created GLX Context.. $ ./spec
Re: [Cooker] KDE 2
Thanks for responding, David. On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, David Faure wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:46:48PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: ... snip ... #6180 - KMid not working. Started from Konsole, where I saw an interesting debug message "You're using ALSA but kmid was not compiled with ALSA support - ask your package builder to include the support or build from source." I'm amazed that such an application cares what sound system you're using, as long as it's an approved linux one. Noatun happily plays wav files... But kmid's goal is not to play wav files... Well, of course, but I did mean that the included /opt/kde2/share/apps/kmid/*.kar refused to play. What else would you use kmid for? #6181 KWord produces SIGSEGV while importing simple Word 97 doc Tell MS to release their file format :-) So, still a problem then? #6182 KSpread can't do date calculations, treating dates as text. This is fixed now. That is good news - can hardly wait to use it. #6183 - KWord crashes while importing plain text file Does this still happen ? Yesterday we tested this filter extensively and it worked fine. I guess it was a bug in KWord, which has been fixed now. I hope so - earlier builds coped OK -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Fwd: Re: [Cooker] Help...Someone..!
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [Cooker] Help...Someone..! Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:50:21 +0100 From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] rant mode Thanks for that. I await your menu editor. I have read the contents of /usr/doc/menu-2.1.5, and I'm trying to live with it, but I *do* *not* like it at all. If I wanted to be dictated to about how I do my everyday work then perhaps I would have chosen a distribution like Debian. The way forward for Linux is for it to get on everybody's desktop. The KDE people know this and have been doing great work to promote an alternative desktop operating system. I moved from RedHat to Mandrake mainly because it seemed more KDE-friendly but now I'm not so sure. Hey, KDE already has a perfectly good menu editor, despite Mandrake's attempt to hide it (Configuration ¦ Other, would you believe). I like to organise my menus to reflect *my* work, for example: ¦ -- Document control -- Programming -- User guides -- Ornithology -- Finance -- Japanese porcelain -- Gardening stuff All right, some of the headings are fictitious, but I could do that before ML71, by adding the appropriate folders and .kdelnks to /usr/share/applnk. I'm still trying to do this now, by adding .kdelnks to /usr/share/applnk and adding entries in /etc/menu then calling update-menus. The new menu items live only until I install an RPM - when my `rogue' .kdelnks simply get wiped out without question -- this is pure arrogance. Out of sheer bloody-mindness, I continue, carefully backing up /usr/share/applnk so I can restore *my* links when a new RPM has zapped them. But I really don't need this and I'd appreciate it if you would consider whether the Debian Menu System really is "excellent software" or not. /rant mode On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll make a note of that one - thanks ... *but* ... What is wrong with this new consolidated menu system? I was perfectly happy with the old KDE menus, but I thought: OK, I'll go along with these drab pastel icons if it's the way forward. Extract of the soon to be released next mdk-rpm-howto: para As of the 7.1 version of Linux-Mandrake, we now use the Menu System written by Debian. /para para This excellent software provides a Window-Manager independant way to register an application to the system. Most of the time, this registration will become effective in the Start button or alike of your favourite Window Manager. /para para It works like this: each package includes a file in directory literal/usr/lib/menu//literal. Most of the time the filename will be the name of the package. In this file, it will have one line per menu-entry, like this: /para However, if I install an RPM from Cooker, Contribs, etc., and it doesn't know about 'Amusement', 'Configuration' or the other new menu items, it reads the applnk and makes a new menu item, for example, the old 'Utilities'. That's OK, I can find it. But the next time I boot - it's disappeared. How can I stop this happening? I want to be able to customise the menus *without* something cancelling my changes between sessions. We are working on a menu editor. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) For the moment you can edit the entries by hand ; all the menu entries have to be in /usr/lib/menu Read /usr/doc/menu*/* for more information -- "Pixel, il faut mettre un peu de chaleur dans tes contacts humains" (c) Titi -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice -- --- -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] KDE 2
ATH if [ "$UID" = "0" ]; then PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin else PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:/bin:/usr/bin fi echo $PATH|/bin/grep -q $HOME/bin || export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin echo $PATH|/bin/grep -q $X11HOME/bin || export PATH=$PATH:$X11HOME/bin echo $PATH|/bin/grep -q /usr/local/bin || export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin echo $PATH|/bin/grep -q /usr/games || export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games snip --- etc, etc, - snip # # .bashrc # Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] # User specific aliases and functions snip --- etc, etc, - snip # Reapply environment lost somewhere between /usr/local/startkde1|2 # and kde actually running if [[ "$QTDIR" == "/usr/lib/qt2" ]]; then source /opt/kde2/bin/kde2; fi if [[ "$QTDIR" == "/usr/local/qt" ]]; then source /opt/kde2/bin/kde1; fi # On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Alex Boag-Munroe wrote: --- snip --- 1. I cannot run simple things like XKill. Just says it can't run it. If I type it in at the command prompt, it works fine. Likewise with Drakconf. ??? 2. kdesu doesn't kick in. If something requiring root is run, it just complains that it can't run it. 3. After a couple of logins, not only do I have the KDE 2 menu items on the K Menu (Start menu type thing, u know), but all my KDE 1 menu items appear too. And yes, u guessed it, I can't run any of them. 4. When I install KDE1and2scripts, it makes the relevant changes to the windowmanagers file, but the changes do not appear on the menu at the login screen UNTIL I add them in using the login manager. And last, but not least 5. After a program error, or hang, and I restart X, all the desktop icons disappear. Only after I delete the .kde2 folder from my home dir can I get them back. Oh, yeah, one last thing. Some sites look weird under --- snip --- -- -- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] KDE 2
I reposted the scripts in my reply to Alex Boag-Munroe. My word, the posts are taking ages now. Meanwhile, my reactions to kde2 0708 build ... It does look beautiful, but I can't believe that it'll be ready for the scheduled release date, particularly KOffice, which, after konqueror, ought to be the best killer-app. I've sent in several bug reports: #6178 KWord still can't print underlines and doesn't highlight while spellchecking #6179 General (wishlist) - lamenting the passing of KPanel and the top taskbar, which I miss even more than the old menu system (the latter having nothing to do with KDE, it's a Mandrake mistake) #6180 - KMid not working. Started from Konsole, where I saw an interesting debug message "You're using ALSA but kmid was not compiled with ALSA support - ask your package builder to include the support or build from source." I'm amazed that such an application cares what sound system you're using, as long as it's an approved linux one. Noatun happily plays wav files... #6181 KWord produces SIGSEGV while importing simple Word 97 doc #6182 KSpread can't do date calculations, treating dates as text. #6183 - KWord crashes while importing plain text file On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Chris Molnar wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Civileme wrote: Check the cooker archives for a script that takes out the repeating path additions. The author of the post was Ruskin, I believe, and the subject was kde2. If anyone can forward this to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I will add it to the scripts rpm. -Chris -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Accessing the ods partitionin RW mode
You *can* read/write and own dos/win9* partitions. Use linuxconf - file systems - access local drive - dos options. Here's a line from my /etc/fstab. Peter /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, you wrote: DOS/FAT partitions do not have the necessary fields for real security features. linux fakes it at mount time. You can't chmod or chown them. --- Thomas SMETS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here below is my /etc/fstab snip /dev/hda5 / ext2defaults1 1 /dev/hda6 swapswapdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /home ext2defaults0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosvfatdefaults0 0 /snip When logged as a comon' user I never can write on the DOS partitions (it's a real pity). Doing a "su" then requesting as root to "chown" of /dev/hda1 I've the following error : snip [root@Calvin dos]# chown -v tsmets.users * failed to change owner of My Documents to tsmets.users chown: My Documents: Operation not permitted failed to change owner of My Download Files to tsmets.users chown: My Download Files: Operation not permitted /snip When I see the description of the CHOWN command Usage: chown [OPTION]... OWNER[.[GROUP]] FILE... It's what I do ... or I'm wrong ? Thomas, p.s. : users is a group with ID 100 tsmets is a user with ID 501 -- Thomas SMETS Phone : +32 (0)2 742. 05. 94. Av. de la Brabançonne 133 / 3 e-mail : tsmets @altern.org 1030 Bruxelles Quote of the day = "What do you give a man who has everything?" the pretty teenager asked her mother. "Encouragement, dear," she replied. === End of Quote = = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Accessing the ods partitionin RW mode
Use linuxconf - file systems - access local drive - dos options ... Then select default user and default group, e.g. Mage and users. On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Mage Grimau wrote: Yes, you can do it in fstab - just can't do it with chmod and chown. --- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You *can* read/write and own dos/win9* partitions. Use linuxconf - file systems - access local drive - dos options. Here's a line from my /etc/fstab. Peter /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, you wrote: DOS/FAT partitions do not have the necessary fields for real security features. linux fakes it at mount time. You can't chmod or chown them. --- Thomas SMETS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here below is my /etc/fstab snip /dev/hda5 / ext2defaults1 1 /dev/hda6 swapswapdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /home ext2defaults0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosvfatdefaults0 0 /snip When logged as a comon' user I never can write on the DOS partitions (it's a real pity). Doing a "su" then requesting as root to "chown" of /dev/hda1 I've the following error : snip [root@Calvin dos]# chown -v tsmets.users * failed to change owner of My Documents to tsmets.users chown: My Documents: Operation not permitted failed to change owner of My Download Files to tsmets.users chown: My Download Files: Operation not permitted /snip When I see the description of the CHOWN command Usage: chown [OPTION]... OWNER[.[GROUP]] FILE... It's what I do ... or I'm wrong ? Thomas, p.s. : users is a group with ID 100 tsmets is a user with ID 501 -- Thomas SMETS Phone : +32 (0)2 742. 05. 94. Av. de la Brabançonne 133 / 3 e-mail : tsmets @altern.org 1030 Bruxelles Quote of the day = "What do you give a man who has everything?" the pretty teenager asked her mother. "Encouragement, dear," she replied. === End of Quote = = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice -- = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
Re: [Cooker] Help...Someone..!
I'll make a note of that one - thanks ... *but* ... What is wrong with this new consolidated menu system? I was perfectly happy with the old KDE menus, but I thought: OK, I'll go along with these drab pastel icons if it's the way forward. However, if I install an RPM from Cooker, Contribs, etc., and it doesn't know about 'Amusement', 'Configuration' or the other new menu items, it reads the applnk and makes a new menu item, for example, the old 'Utilities'. That's OK, I can find it. But the next time I boot - it's disappeared. How can I stop this happening? I want to be able to customise the menus *without* something cancelling my changes between sessions. On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Chmouel wrote: "Danny W. Burdick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just downloaded and ran the install for new Corel Photoshop 9 free download rpm advertised for use with Mandrake.. BAD BAD BAD NEWS I had the beautiful default pulldown kde menus with Mandrake 7.1 and all the latest updates installed..and instead of leaving the desktop alone it completely replaced all my beautiful Mandrake color pulldown menus with an ugly ugly ugly 4 entry pulldown menu that reminds me of stock redhat out of the box... All the entries are gone...! Anyone figure out how to put it all back PLEASE.HELP ME AND LET ME KNOW as root : /usr/bin/update-menus -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel -- ------ Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice --
[Cooker] Fwd: Re: [utah-glx-users] Utah-GLX Patch for 2.2.15
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [utah-glx-users] Utah-GLX Patch for 2.2.15 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 23:29:59 +0100 From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I finally got GLX working again on my Mandrake 7.0-2 - 7.1 box. I downloaded 2.2.16-1mdk kernel, did `rm -f /usr/src/linux/include/linux/agpgart.h' then sucessfully applied the Utah `/usr/local/glx/newagp/agpgart-2.2.13.patch' patch. Here are the results for my PentiumIIMMX-400 box with 380MB RAM and Matrox G400-32MB card. I'm quite impressed! #* [/usr/local/glx/mesa/demos]# ./bounce # works fine sending isdirect request isdirect succeeded going direct got reply mgaGLXClientInit try to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so: opened /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so found init func got api pointers got dispatch table calling init func: Sucessfully loaded X11 client symbols nvisual=32 (0+32) glx extension init: Initializing logs [mga] mgaInitGLX completed adding direct client: Creating new client: 1! Adding client as resource: 68! finished glxInitDirectClient: @@Created GLX Context.. Adding drawable 92274689 to glWindows list: #* [/usr/local/glx/mesa/demos]# ./clearspd # works fine For options: clearspd -help Mode: RGB SwapBuffers: no Size: 400 x 400 Buffers: color found init func got api pointers got dispatch table calling init func: Sucessfully loaded X11 client symbols nvisual=32 (0+32) glx extension init: Initializing logs [mga] mgaInitGLX completed adding direct client: Creating new client: 1! Adding client as resource: 68! finished glxInitDirectClient: @@Created GLX Context.. Adding drawable 92274689 to glWindows list: Rate: 25600 clears in 2.741s = 9339.66 clears/s 1494345129 pixels/s Rate: 25600 clears in 2.701s = 9477.97 clears/s 1516475379 pixels/s Rate: 25600 clears in 2.705s = 9463.96 clears/s 1514232902 pixels/s #* [/usr/local/glx/mesa/demos]# ./drawpix # works fine sending isdirect request isdirect succeeded going direct got reply mgaGLXClientInit try to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so: opened /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so found init func got api pointers got dispatch table calling init func: Sucessfully loaded X11 client symbols Loaded 194 by 188 image Keys: SPACE Reset Parameters Up/Down Move image up/down Left/Right Move image left/right x Decrease X-axis PixelZoom X Increase X-axis PixelZoom y Decrease Y-axis PixelZoom Y Increase Y-axis PixelZoom w Decrease glDrawPixels width* W Increase glDrawPixels width* h Decrease glDrawPixels height* H Increase glDrawPixels height* p Decrease GL_UNPACK_SKIP_PIXELS* P Increase GL_UNPACK_SKIP_PIXELS* r Decrease GL_UNPACK_SKIP_ROWS* R Increase GL_UNPACK_SKIP_ROWS* s Toggle GL_SCISSOR_TEST f Toggle front/back buffer drawing b Benchmark test ESC Exit * Warning: no limits are imposed on these parameters so it's possible to cause a segfault if you go too far. #* [/usr/local/glx/mesa/demos]# ./gamma# works fine sending isdirect request isdirect succeeded going direct got reply mgaGLXClientInit try to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so: opened /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so found init func got api pointers got dispatch table calling init func: Sucessfully loaded X11 client symbols nvisual=32 (0+32) glx extension init: Initializing logs [mga] mgaInitGLX completed adding direct client: Creating new client: 1! Adding client as resource: 68! finished glxInitDirectClient: @@Created GLX Context.. Adding drawable 92274689
