Re: [expert] Problems probing for the mouse
Hi Bob, Thanks for replying ... I've got an internal touch pad which is disabled when you plug in an external mouse. I have the same problem if I use the touchpad, or try my logitech 3 button mouse (or try no mouse by turning it off in the BIOS). It hangs when it probes for a mouse, so you don't even get as far as the next menu when you get to pick a mouse to use - hence I can't get any further with the installation and have to hit the power button. I'm having this problem on a Mitac 5026 laptop, M6 installation from the same cd went smoothly on a Compaq laptop with touchpad and external mouse. Any the wiser?! Dan. At 22:30 08/06/99 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Dan, > >What kind of mouse are you using? Are you able to select a mouse prior >to it hanging or is it not allowing you to select from the beginning? Do >you have an external mouse attached to the laptop? If so what kind? If >you have internal pointing device(s) you might try installing without an >external mouse and then running 'setup' from a command prompt and then >try installing you mouse. I'm running LM 6.0 on a Compaq Presario 1681 >laptop with a Logitech 3 button mouse. The touch pad also works >concurrently as well. > >Don't give up! >Bob > >Danb wrote: >> >> I'm trying to install Mandrake 6 on a laptop but it crashes every time >> at the mouse probing stage. It says 'probing found some type of PS/2 on >> port ps aux' then hangs and can only be restarted with a hard reset. >> >> The same cd has been used to install M6 on 3 or 4 other machines. >> RedHat 5.1 and RedHat 5.2 go in no bother. >> I have tried disabling the mouse in the BIOS. >> I've been through all the mail archives and tried the newbie mailing >> list, and now have run out of ideas. >> >> Any help would be really appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dan > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
[expert] re pcmcia image is broken, unlike RedHat 6.0
I run mandrake on a laptop and have had no problems with pcmcia. BUT I am running the 2.2.5 kernel that I downloaded from the mandrake site . Since the 2.2.5 kernel works, but the 2.2.9 does not , would'nt this point to a bug in 2.2.9 ?
Re: [expert] Problems probing for the mouse
Hi Dan, What kind of mouse are you using? Are you able to select a mouse prior to it hanging or is it not allowing you to select from the beginning? Do you have an external mouse attached to the laptop? If so what kind? If you have internal pointing device(s) you might try installing without an external mouse and then running 'setup' from a command prompt and then try installing you mouse. I'm running LM 6.0 on a Compaq Presario 1681 laptop with a Logitech 3 button mouse. The touch pad also works concurrently as well. Don't give up! Bob Danb wrote: > > I'm trying to install Mandrake 6 on a laptop but it crashes every time > at the mouse probing stage. It says 'probing found some type of PS/2 on > port ps aux' then hangs and can only be restarted with a hard reset. > > The same cd has been used to install M6 on 3 or 4 other machines. > RedHat 5.1 and RedHat 5.2 go in no bother. > I have tried disabling the mouse in the BIOS. > I've been through all the mail archives and tried the newbie mailing > list, and now have run out of ideas. > > Any help would be really appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Dan
Re: [expert] pcmcia image is broken, unlike RedHat 6.0
Mubashir Cheema wrote: > > They say that this is based on RedHat, but I am having > problems that just weren't there with RedHat 6.0. > > The pcmcia image is broken beyond belief. I posted the > following message to the list several days ago. I was > hoping that the problem would be resolved in a few > days. But so far the only solution I ever received was > an advice to go get a parallel port CDROM for my > laptops. I own one, which works under Linux but > the boot disk doesn't support it. :( > > --- > I have been trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on a few > laptops with no luck at all. Since these laptops are > thin laptops and dont have CDROMs in them, I have to > do a network install using the PCMCIA network card. > When I do this with Redhat 6.0, no problem. But with > Mandrake 6.0 the PCMCIA modules fail to load. It > recognizes the PCMCIA chipset as i82365 but cardmgr > cannot chdir to /etc/pcmcia and load the config file. > I have been trying for several days. I even downloaded > the images from various ftp sites, put them on > different floppies. Nothing works. I would appreciateany > pointers.Thanks. Hmm. When trying to load the pcmcia modules are you getting unresolved symbols? What is are the error messages that you have been getting? I have never used a laptop so I don't know how much I can help. Although I do know that there are version mismatches between the kernel and the kernel source tree. (with the exception of the non-smp kernel). The pcmcia modules made need to be rebuilt. Also with RH6.0 you are running the 2.2.5 kernel not the 2.2.9 kernel. I wonder if this is a bug in the pcmcia code in the 2.2.9 kernel. -- == Sheldon Lee Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nortelnetworks Ottawa Canada Skyeast CSA x55800 "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] esound and the play command
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jeremy Lunn wrote: > > > When I installed Mandrake the other day, I was using esdplay from KDE > > with no problems... no when I try to use it, it doesn't work... it > > doesn't give any errors... it just doesn't do anything... how can it be > > fixed? > > Did you load the sound module? Yeah, well I ran sndconfig and sound works in some apps. > > > sox: Effect '/dev/dsp' is not known! > > Known bug. > Fix: > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake/updates/test/RPMS/sox-12.15-7mdk.i586.rpm > > LLaP > bero -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] postgresql
No, there is no update yet, I'm checking this today. Everytime I rebuild the package, some files are missing (*sigh*). Version 6.5 is supposed to be out since yesterday, but all I see is a beta2 version. Hopefully the update will be 6.5. Jean-Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > > > I tought I fixed this problem. > Is there a update ? > > > > > > What files are missing? > > The only file I got in > /var/lib/pgsql/ > is > PG_VERSION > and the directory > base > > so psql is complaining about > pg_hba.conf > pg_databases > > > > > > Jean-Michel > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > I have some problems with postgresql. > > > > > > There seems to be missing some files from > > > /var/lib/pgsql/ > > > > > > Can anybody confirm that ?? >
[expert] Problems probing for the mouse
I'm trying to install Mandrake 6 on a laptop but it crashes every time at the mouse probing stage. It says 'probing found some type of PS/2 on port ps aux' then hangs and can only be restarted with a hard reset. The same cd has been used to install M6 on 3 or 4 other machines. RedHat 5.1 and RedHat 5.2 go in no bother. I have tried disabling the mouse in the BIOS. I've been through all the mail archives and tried the newbie mailing list, and now have run out of ideas. Any help would be really appreciated. Cheers, Dan
Re: [expert] lynx error with M6 reported (bero)
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > > > Doesn't get /tmp created by default with M6 anymore? > > It does - but lynx needs ~/tmp. > Ahh ;-). I see! > > And why doesn't this error occur with older versions of Lynx? > > Older versions use /tmp instead of ~/tmp. And Lynx doesn't use that anymore since /tmp must be world readable, right? > LLaP > bero Thanks a lot! tom -- "Paranoid? I hope so!" Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said. Questions? Answers! The a.o.l.m.-FAQ at http://aolmfaq.tsx.org
Re: [expert] man errors
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > Roberto Angelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've a problem with... > > --- man command --- > > [...] > > > and I can't see accented characters. > > You have a Mandrake6.0 ? > > To fix this, just edit /etc/man.config, and replace the line : > > NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tassci -mandoc > > by > > NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tassci -mandoc > > -- > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > --Chmouel Huh? *grin* Anyway, thanks a lot for your reply to my lynx question! Nevermind tom -- "Paranoid? I hope so!" Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said. Questions? Answers! The a.o.l.m.-FAQ at http://aolmfaq.tsx.org
Re: [expert] odd error... worked.. ;)
Cool! I have the same thing on my wall. Full color poster =) Do you have an URL? The guy who wrote that wanted to make t-shirts, but I lost my bookmark while re-installing one of the 25 versions of Mandrake 6 pre ;) Jean-Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Tommie Giles wrote: > and now, something I got on my WindowMaker background and is a truism, > methinks... read and laugh. i did > > CHOOSE SYSADMIN: > > Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family. Choose a f---ing big > computer, choose disk arrays the size of washing machines, modem racks, CD-Rom > writers, and electric coffee makers. Choose no sleep, high caffene and mental > insurance. Choose no friends. Choose black jeans and matching combat boots. > Choose chairs for your office in a range of f---ing fabrics. > Choose SMPT and wondering why the f--k you are logged in on a Sunday morning. > Choose sitting in that swivel chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing > web sites, stuffing f---ing junk food in your mouth. Choose rotting away at the > end of it all, phishing youir last in some miserable newsgroup, nothing more > than an embaressment to the selfish, f---ed up losers Gates spawned to replace > the computer illiterate... > Choose your future... > Choose Sysadmin > > > > error: "Warning! running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem can cause SEVERE > > > damage. Do you really want to continue? > > > > > > I got this error on boot after I boot from loadlin I setup on my windows > > > partition. I have 2 hdd's, win95 et all on the master drive and Mandrake 5.3 on > > > secondary drive. I usually boot from recovery floppy to gain access to > > > secondary (Linux) drive, but thought loadlin would be nicer to deal with. No > > > idea of the loadlin version, came on the Mandrake 5.3 cd... any thoughts on how > > > to get rid of this one? > > > > > > > have you tried this format: > > > > loadlin linux.img root=/dev/hda2 ro > > > > > > ? > > > > > > it causes the root to be mounted read only for e2fsck to be able to run > > > > bug >
Re: [expert] esound and the play command
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jeremy Lunn wrote: > When I installed Mandrake the other day, I was using esdplay from KDE > with no problems... no when I try to use it, it doesn't work... it > doesn't give any errors... it just doesn't do anything... how can it be > fixed? Did you load the sound module? > sox: Effect '/dev/dsp' is not known! Known bug. Fix: ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake/updates/test/RPMS/sox-12.15-7mdk.i586.rpm LLaP bero
[newbie] Re: [expert] kernel ibcs
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Roberto Angelo wrote: > what is kernel-ibcs...rpm ??? IBCS=Intel Binary Compatibility Specification. You need it if you want to run *BSD or Solaris binaries on Linux. > While it's installed in ny system the > kaudioserver hang in KDE (only for the kernels > 2.2.7) Are you sure this is related to iBCS? The iBCS modules shouldn't be loaded unless you're actually using them. Do you get any entries about iBCS in lsmod? > Do you kwon that sox 12.15 don't work with sndconfig and SB64 PCI ensoniq 1370 What error message do you get? LLaP bero
[expert] esound and the play command
Hi, When I installed Mandrake the other day, I was using esdplay from KDE with no problems... no when I try to use it, it doesn't work... it doesn't give any errors... it just doesn't do anything... how can it be fixed? I tried to run 'esd &' and it still doesn't work. And when I use the play command I get this: sox: Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echo echos flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample reverb reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect '/dev/dsp' is not known! anyone know how to fix these things? thanks -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] KDE - kfm trouble with vfat
Roberto Angelo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've found a bug in kfm: I was trasfering a file of 50Mb from an ext2
> partition to another vfat partition when I try to navigate into kfm-windows
> from that files was trasfering ... and kfm hang. I have to close the KDE.
> I've tried another time ... instead of try to navigate in the source
> kfm-windows I try to navigate the destination win... my computer hang and I
> have to reboot (no mouse move).
> So now when I transfer a file between ext2 <-> vfat partitions I see and
> nothig else!
>
> bye, Ro.
>
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Hi,
I had the same problem... I was trasfering an ISO9660 image from a
vfat partition to ext2 and my KDE dead!!!
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[expert] Netscape+Java: the solution
for those of you, like me, who had problems running Java from Netscape, the solution is in the RedHat Knowledge base. For Mandrake here's the solution: edit /etc/X11/fs/config and add a line like this one: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi (don't forget the "," depending on where exactly you put this line) then restart xfs that should do it. it works fine for me now. Jerome ALET - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome Faculte de Medecine de Nice - http://noe.unice.fr - Tel: 04 93 37 76 30 28 Avenue de Valombrose - 06107 NICE Cedex 2 - FRANCE
Re: [expert] lynx error with M6 reported
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > Doesn't get /tmp created by default with M6 anymore? It does - but lynx needs ~/tmp. > And why doesn't this error occur with older versions of Lynx? Older versions use /tmp instead of ~/tmp. LLaP bero
Re: [expert] postgresql (Nscape mail 4.51 bug respawn?)
On sam, 05 jun 1999, Knud Haugaard Sørensen wrote: > Hi > > I installed mandrake 6.0 some day ago. > > I have some problems with postgresql. > > There seems to be missing some files from > /var/lib/pgsql/ > > Can anybody confirm that ?? > > > I also have a problem that netcape can't locate localhost. > Is that fixed with the netscape 4.51 install ??? > I also have this NScape pblem. It hangs after asking for mail server password. I remember that from eaaarly versions, its been fixed for a long time now... Could be many things, thou. Havent found the time to investigate, hence the kde mail client, which is pretty good methinks. >xiX> > > Knud > > > -- > > Stud. Scient Knud Haugaard Soerensen homepage: > http://www.imf.au.dk/~khs/ > FreakTech: Free ezine reveals the hottest high tech news! > http://sunsite.auc.dk/FreakTech/ > Aeiwi: A search engine with a unique interface. http://www.aeiwi.com/
