[expert] Two scsi controllers.
I have two essentially identical scsi controllers that I would like to use in the same box. The only problem is that linux and my bios see the cards in the opposite order so if I have hard drives on both controllers, linux sets up to boot off of one drive, but my bios tries to boot from the other. The controllers are both Adaptec Ultra-2 Wide (one, model 7890, is on the motherboard and the other is a PCI 2940U2W). Any suggestions?
[expert] ECP/EPP Parallel port problem
Has anyone else had problems with Mandrake 6.0 detecting ECP/EPP parallel port modes? I have tried all my bios settings but it always reports the port as SPP. This is stopping VMWare from recognising dongles on Windows NT. Any ideas? Toby
[expert] Who has the correct bootnet.img disk?
Dear friends: Could someone who has actually downloaded Mandrake 6.1 (I emphasize 6.1) by FTP please recommend to me where I can find an authoritative bootnet.img that will connect me to an FTP site. I tried half a dozen sites last night (and I have done this successfully before so I am quite sure about the procedure) and everyone of the them said the same at the critical second stage of ram: "File not found on server". And I mean on Thurdsay night between 12 midnight to 4 a.m. including such powerhouses as ftp.rpmfind.net and metalab.unc.edu (and many others). The exact same error message. What's up? I got my install bootnet.img from rpmfind.net. At my wits' end. Thank you all so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] Many 6.1 mandrakes?
I can't confirm this, but it appears that Mandrake updates there ISO images on there mirrors with changes and patches as they come out. I am sure McMil took one of the early realeses to the cd-press and that is what you have. Any files that have been updated should be updated on there mirrors, and therefore fetchable via the MandrakeUpdate utility. But remember.. it's all linux under the hood. You might want to familarize yourself with a utility rpmfind. (you can get it on freshmeat.net ...) Makes it very easy to search down and update RPM's that are out of date... the open source world changes so fast, it's hard for the distributions to keep up on all of there packages. Keep an eye out for the common used packages you use, and assume that your distro will watch out for the rest. :) .mark Brett Jones wrote: Sorry, I just did a diff against a ls -a file-xx from the RPMS dirs of the MacMillan cd and the iso I burned (output below). It seems that there are diffs between the MacMillan version, version numbers for the most part. By the way I'm running 6.1 on my toshiba 2515 laptop with no trouble. Try going to the pcmcia-cs page to solve your problem. Funny, I nothing but trouble with the kernel upgrade under 6.0 so I was stuck with the 19 build of 2.2.9 and all it's umount trouble, but 6.1 has been 99.9% perfect. 37c37 X11R6-contrib-3.3.2-7mdk.i586.rpm --- X11R6-contrib-3.3.2-8mdk.i586.rpm 74a75 abisuite-0.7.5-1mdk.i586.rpm 110c111 bzip2-0.9.5c-5mdk.i586.rpm --- bzip2-0.9.5d-1mdk.i586.rpm 116,118c117,119 cdrecord-1.8a24-1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-cdda2wav-1.8a24-1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-devel-1.8a24-1mdk.i586.rpm --- cdrecord-1.8a27-1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-cdda2wav-1.8a27-1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-devel-1.8a27-1mdk.i586.rpm 127a129 compat-libs-5.3-2mdk.i586.rpm 168c170 enlightenment-0.16.devel.5-2mdk.i586.rpm --- enlightenment-0.16.devel.6-1mdk.i586.rpm 195c197,199 fortune-mod-1.0-24mdk.i586.rpm --- fonts-ttf-japanese-0.19990222-1mdk.noarch.rpm fonts-ttf-korean-1.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm fortune-mod-1.0-25mdk.i586.rpm 202,203c206,207 fvwm2-2.2.2-8mdk.i586.rpm fvwm2-icons-2.2.2-8mdk.i586.rpm --- fvwm2-2.2.2-9mdk.i586.rpm fvwm2-icons-2.2.2-9mdk.i586.rpm 210d213 gcc-fr-2.95-1mdk.noarch.rpm 237,240c240,242 glibc-2.1.1-15mdk.i586.rpm glibc-devel-2.1.1-15mdk.i586.rpm glibc-localedata-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm glibc-profile-2.1.1-15mdk.i586.rpm --- glibc-2.1.1-16mdk.i586.rpm glibc-devel-2.1.1-16mdk.i586.rpm glibc-profile-2.1.1-16mdk.i586.rpm 262,263c264,265 gnome-print-0.4-6mdk.i586.rpm gnome-print-devel-0.4-6mdk.i586.rpm --- gnome-print-0.4-9mdk.i586.rpm gnome-print-devel-0.4-9mdk.i586.rpm 267d268 gnomehack-1.0.2_990711-3mdk.i586.rpm 313c314 indexhtml-6.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm --- indexhtml-6.1-5mdk.noarch.rpm 316c317 initscripts-4.23-33mdk.i586.rpm --- initscripts-4.23-34mdk.i586.rpm 320d320 interconfig-1.0-4mdk.noarch.rpm 328c328 isapnptools-1.18-5mdk.i586.rpm --- isapnptools-1.18-6mdk.i586.rpm 332a333,334 ispell-indonesian-0.6-1mdk.noarch.rpm ispell-norsk-1.1a-1mdk.noarch.rpm 347,353c349,355 kdeadmin-1.1.2-3mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-1.1.2-7mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-1.1.1.99_19990807-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-1.1.2-3mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-1.1.2-2mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-1.1.2-3mdk.i586.rpm --- kdeadmin-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-1.1.2-9mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-1.1.2-2mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-1.1.2-5mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-1.1.2-7mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-1.1.2-3mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-1.1.2-5mdk.i586.rpm 355,357c357,359 kdesupport-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-1.1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-1.1.2-3mdk.i586.rpm --- kdesupport-1.1.2-5mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-1.1.2-2mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm 364,373c366,375 kernel-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-BOOT-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-doc-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-fb-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-headers-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-fb-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-source-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm --- kernel-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-BOOT-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-doc-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-fb-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-headers-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-fb-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm kernel-source-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm 387c389 klyx-0.9.9-6mdk.i586.rpm --- klyx-0.10.0-3mdk.i586.rpm 390c392 kmodbox-0.4.0-1mdk.i586.rpm --- kmodbox-0.4.0-2mdk.i586.rpm 448,449c450,451 libmikmod-3.1.6-1mdk.i586.rpm libmikmod-devel-3.1.6-1mdk.i586.rpm --- libmikmod-3.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm libmikmod-devel-3.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm 494c496 man-pages-ko-1.1-6mk.noarch.rpm --- man-pages-ko-1.1-8mdk.noarch.rpm 498c500
[expert] network card wont load automatically ?
I am running Mandrake 6.0-1. I have a AT-2450 network card. All worked fine until I changed the card to a 3C905B. I could not make that card work, so I put back in the AT-2450. Now when I boot the card fails. I have to manually load the module, then run netcfg to activate it. I did a modprobe -c and there are line to load the card drivers, then lower in the list is a line alias eth0 off. Where does this line come from ?? How can I get this thing back to normal ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE
Re: [expert] How to set permission to write to a FAT partition as user?!
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: | Edit your /etc/fstab and put "user" in the tags for your | Windows partition, but I advise against doing that and just | use the "mtools" (mcopy, mdel, etc.) to manipulate files on | the Fat32 partition. That's interesting - I had never thought of using mtools for this (only for floppies). Why would you prefer using mtools over mounting the partition? Mtools are for dealing with dos files. Period. Not just floppies. You'll still need to mount the partition, you just won't be able to write to it as a non-priv user. John
Re: [expert] Gimp mk6.1
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 04:49:53PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: I've got some troubles with Gimp from the mk6.1 distr. If you try Xtns-script-fu-Logos-Neon for example it crashes... Any hint? It doesn't on my box. What if you run it from an xterm ? Any error msg ? -- Sylvain GIL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Dis donc, Cortex, qu'est-ce que tu veux faire cette nuit? - La même chose que chaque nuit, Minus: tenter de conquerir le monde! (choeurs) C'est Minus et Cortex, Cortex, Cortex.
Re: [expert] Bootnet.img data -- can't connect!
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am reinstalling my Mandrake 6.1 by FTP. When I type ftp.rpmfind.net and the directory (/linux/Mandrake/6.1/Mandrake) I keep getting the For an FTP install, use ftp.rpmfind.net /linux/Mandrake/6.1 Leave the last directory off of the URL, since the install is set up to look for things from the top-level of the Mandrake dist. -- Lee Burnside -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~tljlb/ "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage." --The Bard
rpmfind was:RE: [expert] Many 6.1 mandrakes?
You might want to familiarize yourself with a utility rpmfind. (you can get it on freshmeat.net ...) Without a doubt one of the coolest utilities around. Oddly, I've had issues with mirrors and directory tree (changes) - but I've used the output from rpmfind gftp and found what I need. Not sure what mechanism rpmfind uses to update mirrors. I used rpmfind to update to the latest gnome and it was invaluable. "Hats off" to the rpmfind folks... Don
[expert] Installing and configuring lirc
Well, I have some troubles to install and configure lirc for my Hauppauge WinTV card + xawtv. I've downloaded the latest CVS version of lirc in order to get the Hauppauge support and installed it but xawtv still can't connect to /dev/lirc Did someone here experience such troubles ? Olivier.
Re: [expert] bootnet.img -- the right one?
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: I am reinstalling Mandrake 6.1 by FTP. I installed it originally from ftp.rpmfind.net using a bootnet.img. I am unable to do so now nor to any of a half dozen sites, even though they are clearly not full (One had only 5 out of 110 connections used). I want to be sure that I have the right bootnet.img. It clearly says: Mandrake 6.1 and I got from rpmfind.net's linux/Mandrale/images directory. I keep getting an error message at the second stage : File not found on server and on Alt+3, I see "ftp connecting to fd". It should at this point open up an "inode" but it doesn't. Do I have the right bootnet.img and is there any explanation for this. I am using ADSL. I had no problem a few days ago. I seem to recall seeing something that said the original bootnet.img was buggy. I think there's a newer one. Try that. John
Re: [expert] Work Project
Hi Alann You don't want to bridge with the linux machine. You don't even need to route, especially not if you don't want the rest of your network to be able to talk to the SGI's. All you need to have is one nic on the SGI subnet and the other on the rest of the network. Each card with different subnet and viola!!! :) But I guess you already knew that alann wrote: "Ji-Haw, Foo" wrote: Regarding your dual network card problem, it is a well known issue for many people (like me) who use Linux as a router. I assume your 2nd NIC has PnP built in. What you can do is run this program called isapnp (from somewhere in your harddisk, or look it up on the Internet if there isn't. It is a common app) and it will tell you the ios and irqs of the cards you have. From there I think you can manage it on your own. regards, Thanks for the info. Isapnp.. Been there before, but didn't think about it. I just really NEED A BIG LIST of commands in Linux ! Someone else said I needed Softset for these intel cards and I do recall seeing that on machines when these cards were used. I'll get it..! Thanks Alan === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0 -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions
Re: [expert] OT: Ipchains problem...
Uhm that last rule Are your masks correct? The rule just doesn't seem right Why are both interfaces on the same subnet? Rickard Åberg wrote: Hi. I didn't know where to ask this and this isn't perhaps the right place, but I figured I might ask anyway. I have some problems using ipchains with the interface flag, it just refuses to work as I want it to work... maybe I've done something really wrong but I don't know. I want to DENY... works just fine :) # Default policy DENY for input ipchains -P input DENY This rule works as it should... I can ping eth0 and all traffic passes by. # Accept ALL connections on eth0 ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.50.43/32 But this one doesn't doesn't work... I can't ping eth1 and no traffic goes by. # Accept ALL connections from our own network on eth1 ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth1 -s 192.168.50.0/24 -d 192.168.50.65/32 And btw... 192.168.50.43 is eth0 192.168.50.65 is eth1 Does anyone have any ideas... shouldn't I be able to ping eth1 from my own network with these rules, or? Thanks... Rickard Åberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions
Re: [expert] Message
John Connell wrote: I have just noticed at the login screen (the one with the penguin) I get this message-- INIT: Id "mo" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Can anyone tell me what this means and how to rectify? TIA! John Connell I've had the same problem with gpm Something is continually dying and starting and dying and starting (or so I think). So fix that something so that it stays started :) -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions
Re: [expert] I have an interesting problem
Fred Frigerio wrote: Some ISP's detect ifthey are talking to a PPP or to a client that needs text. So when you do minicom it gives you the login. However when chat goes it doesn't and it expect the ppp to negotiate. Try taking away from your chat scripts any reference to passwd:, user: etc. -Original Message- From: Lord And Master;) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:04 PM To: Linux Mandrake List Subject: [expert] I have an interesting problem I switched isp's yesterday and after setting up the information in chat-ppp0 it dialed and then was imeditly disconnected, I looked in /var/log/messesges and it says that it had received invalid login. But when I log into the server with minicom and type in the same user name and password that are in the chat script all is fine. What gives? everything worked fine with the old isp! DarkWlf After reading the posts to the list I tried removeing the chat scrip stuff and simply entered my login and password into the pap boxex and it now connects! yippie! well that you for all your help once again! DarkWlf
Re: [expert] Gimp mk6.1
Sylvain GIL wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 04:49:53PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: I've got some troubles with Gimp from the mk6.1 distr. If you try Xtns-script-fu-Logos-Neon for example it crashes... Any hint? It doesn't on my box. What if you run it from an xterm ? Any error msg ? Download and install the new update package for gimp.
Re: [expert] fix for missing pixmaps in KFM
Brett Jones wrote: It seems the kdelib rpm does not install fully. Most of it makes it onto the hdd (enough to run kde) but it does not finish, and does not register in the rpm database. Running rpm -Uvh on the kdelibs rpm installs it completely and the missing pixmaps on KFM (and other apps) show up as they should. I tried that too - (having the same problems), but this didn't work. (I even forced with --force) Any hint in which directory those pixmap files have to be??? (I did an upgrade from RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 - and I suppose those two distributions decide to put the files somewhere else?)
Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?
Ian Douglas wrote: That's what I thought the alias file is for: it redirects something@host to someoneelse@host. Not necessarily. I use it to direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am very glad to see this confirmed. Only when I try it: it doesn't work. I have sendmail running and as soon as I try to add external addresses: it complaints about external addresses. Both domains are in my sendmail.cw file. Can you give me hints on how to work this out? But what I'm LOOKING for is an alias or sendmail setup that will catch all incoming Email that will normally bounce back to the sender because the user account or a matching alias does not exist, and redirect the message to another user account or alias... I understand... but thought this has to be setup in a virtual user table or a virtual host table I've done some reading about this, but couldn't get it running. So I would appreciate some hints (would be nice for you too,eh?) Herman
[expert] cdrw drive
I'm going to but a cdrw drive for my linux Mandrake (6.1) box. I want to be sure to buy one that will be problem free when I install it. Does anyone have any experience with this? WM
Re: [expert] cdrw drive
most atapi drives will work but require a quick little addition to lilo . append="ide-scsi" or something like that . otherwise for total ease just buy a scsi cdrw just about any will work with cdrecord and xcdroast now days Daver
Re: [expert] Xfs and Truetype Fonts (plain text)
Charles Leeds wrote: Mandrake gurus, I have had no problem getting truetype fonts to work in Redhat 6.0 and 6.1 every time: copy c:\windows\fonts to /usr/local/fonts in /usr/local/fonts do a ttmkfdir fonts.dir chkfontpath --add /usr/local/fonts stop and start xfs And voila, I had Truetype Fonts! Does anyone know how to replace the entire Mandrake xfs system with RedHat 6.0's? I can't get Mandrake's to work and I have tried all kinds of things with fonts.scale and fonts.dir xfs will never start for me with any kind of truetype font directory in the chkfontpath list. Can anyone help me? I am chartered to make a prototype of a Linux configuration to replace Windows on our low end desktops and without Truetype fonts for Mandrake, I will have to use RedHat 6.1 instead. I really want to tweak that Mandrake update tool to keep our desktops updated with the latest RPM's... Thanks, Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you installed the TrueType fonts fron the Mandrake disk? What is the output from your chkfontpath -l What is the entry in your XF86Config file section, "Files"
RE: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?
Maybe it has to do with newer configuration avoiding your box being used as a relay for spamming? That may be blocking anything that is not internal to you machine? -Original Message- From: Herman Van Keer (softouch) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address? Ian Douglas wrote: That's what I thought the alias file is for: it redirects something@host to someoneelse@host. Not necessarily. I use it to direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am very glad to see this confirmed. Only when I try it: it doesn't work. I have sendmail running and as soon as I try to add external addresses: it complaints about external addresses. Both domains are in my sendmail.cw file. Can you give me hints on how to work this out? But what I'm LOOKING for is an alias or sendmail setup that will catch all incoming Email that will normally bounce back to the sender because the user account or a matching alias does not exist, and redirect the message to another user account or alias... I understand... but thought this has to be setup in a virtual user table or a virtual host table I've done some reading about this, but couldn't get it running. So I would appreciate some hints (would be nice for you too,eh?) Herman
RE: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?
There's probably a better way to do this, but long ago when I was trying to keep mail from bouncing back to people, the way I found to do it was to put code in the checkcompat() (check the spelling of that) function that replaced the address I wanted to bounce the mail to. (At the time I was modifying that function anyway to do some custom filtering.) I tried to use various rewrite rules to accomplish this to no avail. Someone wiser than I must know the clean way to do this. Randy -Original Message- From: Herman Van Keer (softouch) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address? Ian Douglas wrote: That's what I thought the alias file is for: it redirects something@host to someoneelse@host. Not necessarily. I use it to direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am very glad to see this confirmed. Only when I try it: it doesn't work. I have sendmail running and as soon as I try to add external addresses: it complaints about external addresses. Both domains are in my sendmail.cw file. Can you give me hints on how to work this out? But what I'm LOOKING for is an alias or sendmail setup that will catch all incoming Email that will normally bounce back to the sender because the user account or a matching alias does not exist, and redirect the message to another user account or alias... I understand... but thought this has to be setup in a virtual user table or a virtual host table I've done some reading about this, but couldn't get it running. So I would appreciate some hints (would be nice for you too,eh?) Herman
Re: [expert] fix for missing pixmaps in KFM
I ran into a similar problem when installing WebMaker under Mandrake6.0...in previous versions, all shared pixmaps etc. were located in the /opt/share directory structure. Now everything is in /usr/share. I "solved" my problem by copying /opt/share to /usr/share - maybe that's what's needed here? Tim (I did an upgrade from RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 - and I suppose those two distributions decide to put the files somewhere else?)
Re: [expert] Sendmail question: catch-all Email address?
Fred Frigerio wrote: Maybe it has to do with newer configuration avoiding your box being used as a relay for spamming? That may be blocking anything that is not internal to you machine? I have no idea - I use 8.8.7 (be it on RedHat 5.1)
[expert] MySQL table problems
When I moved to Mandrake 6.1 I installed the MySQL RPM. I copied over the database files from the old machine, and everything seemed to be working fine. Now, though, when I try to insert a number into a BIGINT column, whether in an old table or a newly created one, the max value it will except is 2811145986721. No, wait. actually, what I see in KMySQL and MySQL client is 2811038951321. The former number is what I got trying to copy+paste into KMail. This is plain wierd. Also, if I choose the zero fill option, it will fill the entire field to the max size I set in the column setup (zero fill). I've only noticed these problems now. Everything else looked o.k., and my web applications were behaving. This is the first time I've tried to change or add data. Any ideas of what is going on? I've tried int, bigint, real, and float, both signed and unsigned. varchar works fine. Bill Ahern
Re: [expert] cdrw drive
i use a memorex and an hp no probs with either. Ralph - Original Message - From: "Wes Morriston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:35 PM Subject: [expert] cdrw drive I'm going to but a cdrw drive for my linux Mandrake (6.1) box. I want to be sure to buy one that will be problem free when I install it. Does anyone have any experience with this? WM
[expert] http://tux.tzo.net
Sorry if this seems a little off-topic here, but I thought I'd make mention of my new website (called Freezer Burn) at http://tux.tzo.net for people to check out. It's running on Mandrake 6.1 with the Advanced Extranet server stuff, uses PHP and mySQL for some databases (the majority of the pages don't use mySQL yet, but they will soon). I thought it would be nice for people to see what kind of a server can be run using Mandrake... looking at Freezer Burn, and some of the comments I've received, I think a few people are being swayed to Mandrake considering how easy it was for me to set it all up (mySQL aside, of course). Good work guys! Freezer Burn is becoming more of a success than I expected, and I think Mandrake is getting some pretty decent exposure from it... thanx for the tools to make a kick-ass website! =) Vincent Danen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . ICQ: 16978834 http://shx.tzo.net . telnet://shx.tzo.net . http://tux.tzo.net BBBS/LiI . Internet Rex for Linux Beta . Stronghold Enterprises/X BBS Check out the new Linux Information site at http://tux.tzo.net
Re: [expert] Message
Steve Philp wrote: Alwyn Schoeman wrote: John Connell wrote: I have just noticed at the login screen (the one with the penguin) I get this message-- INIT: Id "mo" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Can anyone tell me what this means and how to rectify? TIA! John Connell I've had the same problem with gpm Something is continually dying and starting and dying and starting (or so I think). So fix that something so that it stays started :) There will be a line in /etc/inittab that starts with 'mo'. To find it, use the command: grep ^mo /etc/inittab Then post to the list what that line is. The line reads-- mo:235:respawn:/sbin/vgetty /dev/ttyS0 I take it this has something to do with Kvoice and my modem? John
Re: [expert] VCs and KDE
try ctrl+atl+f[1-6] from the console, alt+f7 will probably put you back into X. On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: I recently tried to switch to a different virtual console while I was in kde and wasn't able to (alt+f1 brings up kpanel, alt+f2 runs a command, etc... alt+f4 will even close your current app). Is there another way to do this? I'm aware that I can easily bring up another terminal windows but x still isn't quite as stable as the rest of linux and it would sometimes be nice to be able to switch vcs in order to kill it... thanks. DvB
Re: [expert] VCs and KDE
David van Balen wrote: I recently tried to switch to a different virtual console while I was in kde and wasn't able to (alt+f1 brings up kpanel, alt+f2 runs a command, etc... alt+f4 will even close your current app). Is there another way to do this? I'm aware that I can easily bring up another terminal windows but x still isn't quite as stable as the rest of linux and it would sometimes be nice to be able to switch vcs in order to kill it... thanks. DvB As far as I know it is close: i use ctrl+alt+F1 (when switching from withing X-windows) Once you are in character mode: alt+Fx will suffice. Hope this helps Herman
Re: [expert] VCs and KDE
Hi, while running X, ALT-Fn (n=1-6) don't work as console switching keys: use CTRL-ALT-Fn and you'll have your text consoles. ALT-F7, while in text mode, will get you back to X. Cheers, Fernando Pérez. On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, David van Balen wrote: I recently tried to switch to a different virtual console while I was in kde and wasn't able to (alt+f1 brings up kpanel, alt+f2 runs a command, etc... alt+f4 will even close your current app). Is there another way to do this? I'm aware that I can easily bring up another terminal windows but x still isn't quite as stable as the rest of linux and it would sometimes be nice to be able to switch vcs in order to kill it... thanks. DvB
Re: [expert] VCs and KDE
Ctrl-Alt-Fn will switch between virtual consoles when in X. The last console not in use will be your X process. (ie: if you have the standard 6 VC's, then Ctrl-Alt-F7 will get you back to X) --- Ian Douglas, System Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Bootnet.img data -- can't connect!
Dear Lee: Thanks so much for the tip. Will do. Hopefully I'll succeed. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] VCs and KDE
David van Balen wrote: I recently tried to switch to a different virtual console while I was in kde and wasn't able to (alt+f1 brings up kpanel, alt+f2 runs a command, etc... alt+f4 will even close your current app). Is there another way to do this? I'm aware that I can easily bring up another terminal windows but x still isn't quite as stable as the rest of linux and it would sometimes be nice to be able to switch vcs in order to kill it... thanks. DvB Davidits control-alt fX (where X= 1-6), not just alt. Alan
Re: [expert] VCs and KDE
That works. Thanks! On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, [ISO-8859-1] Fernando Pérez wrote: Hi, while running X, ALT-Fn (n=1-6) don't work as console switching keys: use CTRL-ALT-Fn and you'll have your text consoles. ALT-F7, while in text mode, will get you back to X. Cheers, Fernando Pérez. On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, David van Balen wrote: I recently tried to switch to a different virtual console while I was in kde and wasn't able to (alt+f1 brings up kpanel, alt+f2 runs a command, etc... alt+f4 will even close your current app). Is there another way to do this? I'm aware that I can easily bring up another terminal windows but x still isn't quite as stable as the rest of linux and it would sometimes be nice to be able to switch vcs in order to kill it... thanks. DvB David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 5054[EMAIL PROTECTED] Clinton, MS 39058 http://www.mc.edu/~vanbalen
Re: [expert] VCs and KDE
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, David van Balen wrote: I recently tried to switch to a different virtual console while I was in kde and wasn't able to (alt+f1 brings up kpanel, alt+f2 runs a command, etc... alt+f4 will even close your current app). Is there another way to do this? I'm aware that I can easily bring up another terminal windows but x still isn't quite as stable as the rest of linux and it would sometimes be nice to be able to switch vcs in order to kill it... thanks. DvB -- __-- Hi, David, Just hit ALTCTRLF2 or ALTCTRLF3 etc... Bye: Viktor_ Sors bona, nihil aliud. Viktor Lakics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] cdrw drive
Wes Morriston wrote: I'm going to but a cdrw drive for my linux Mandrake (6.1) box. I want to be sure to buy one that will be problem free when I install it. Does anyone have any experience with this? WM well. I got a cdrw... an AOpen cdrw-622 and I haven't been able to set it up to run in linux, every time I try to connect to this site that is supposed to have the information it's down or un-reachable... ;-( also I lost all the information on how to setup my zip drive, last time I had to reformat the whole hdd. so... two items I can't use in linux... too bad! I went shoping today, I got a 32mg Video card, I hope linux can be able to 'detect'... It's a VC Diamond stealth S3 Savage-4 32M being there, at the distributors place I pick up a hdd, a maxtor hdmx17gb (17 Gigs) EIDE and a FD-LS120 Panasonic 1.44 - 120M floppy. I remember seeing some talk in the list not to long ago. Anything I should be aware of about these items? any information is most welcome! TIA. Sergio Korlowsky PD. I got this new drive to play around a little bit with 'Panoramix' and 'Cooker ;-) -- Windows, a 32bit shell for a 16bit OS, designd for an 8bit processor
Re: [expert] fix for missing pixmaps in KFM
"Herman Van Keer (softouch)" wrote: Brett Jones wrote: It seems the kdelib rpm does not install fully. Most of it makes it onto the hdd (enough to run kde) but it does not finish, and does not register in the rpm database. Running rpm -Uvh on the kdelibs rpm installs it completely and the missing pixmaps on KFM (and other apps) show up as they should. I tried that too - (having the same problems), but this didn't work. (I even forced with --force) Any hint in which directory those pixmap files have to be??? (I did an upgrade from RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 - and I suppose those two distributions decide to put the files somewhere else?) Delete or rename /usr/share/doc/HTML/update and reinstall kdelibs that will fix this problems... after installation check this folder and you'll see a all the subdirectories created there. Sergio Korlowsky -- Windows, a 32bit shell for a 16bit OS, designd for an 8bit processor
Re: [expert] Message
John Connell wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Alwyn Schoeman wrote: John Connell wrote: I have just noticed at the login screen (the one with the penguin) I get this message-- INIT: Id "mo" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Can anyone tell me what this means and how to rectify? TIA! John Connell I've had the same problem with gpm Something is continually dying and starting and dying and starting (or so I think). So fix that something so that it stays started :) There will be a line in /etc/inittab that starts with 'mo'. To find it, use the command: grep ^mo /etc/inittab Then post to the list what that line is. The line reads-- mo:235:respawn:/sbin/vgetty /dev/ttyS0 I take it this has something to do with Kvoice and my modem? Yup. Unfortunately, it appears to be dying an ugly death. Just how necessary is Kvoice to you? :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] SB 16 PCI
Has anyone had any success getting this card to work with the driver provided with the 2.2.13 kernel? I can't use OSS because of kernel # (they offically don't support 2.2.13 yet) and I have a SMP box, so the version they list for Mandrake won't install. Any help would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I'm takijng the card back tomorrow, and just getting an Ensoniq AudioPCI card. Brian Thacker
