[expert] eth0 error
Greetings, all. First, I want to thank all those that helped me get my laptop up and running, especially John and Axalon. But now I'm having problems with my desktop. I'm sure it's something simple I forgot to do, but I can't figure it out. I upgraded the kernel using the 2.2.14 rpms. (I think it was the -22mdk). I did the kernel, kernel headers and initscripts. But since then, I'm not able to get any network connectivity. Here's the stuff from the logs: eth0: Digital DC2104 Tulip rev 17 at 0x6400, MAC address snipped, IRQ 10. eth0: 21041 Media Table, default media 0800 (Autosense). eth0: 21041 media #0, 10baseT eth0: 21041 media #4, 10baseT-FD eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good. Before I have a chance to log in, the following appears: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc26, CSR 12 50c8, CSR 13 ef01, CSR 14 , resetting... And I noticed in the logs just under this line there is: eth0: 21143 10 Mbps sensed media. What did I forget to do? Everything worked great before I upgraded the kernel, so I know that *I* screwed something up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] problems sending mail to list??
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: could someone please advise if there is a certain way to post to the list? Nopejust send it to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" :-) John TEST !!! I receive messages from the expert list (digest and individual), yet I've been unable to *post* to the list... this is a test. Thanks... Dan.
Re: [expert] 128 mb mem
Actually thats not true at all. For example, I used to run SuSE 5.1 and had to add the append statement into my lilo.conf to see 64M of ram. Btw, you DON'T enable the OS/2 option, since that's specific to the OS/2 operating system. ;) After upgrading to SuSE 5.3 I didn't need the append option in lilo.conf, nor RH 6.x or Mandrake 6.1. I upgraded the hardware recently to a Asus MB, (last summer/fall) and still no problems. Sometimes, an older SCSI card can do odd things also..., I can't recall exactly what it was, but it had something to do the a 16MB memory limit with direct DMA. (?) This was back in my OS/2 days. (good os btw) Regards, Dana On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, you wrote: Well, Jean-Louis, It happend that the box has a brand new ASUS board (BIOS 11/99) If I will set the BIOS for OS/2 I am getting only 14M. Go figure!! Again I think that thre is something wrong with the code itself - there are too many people complainig about the same thing - LINUX IS NOT ABLLE TO RECOGNIZE MORE THAN 64M It looks like the intruction code is made to recognize only a 16Bit integer.
[expert] MDK 7.0 Install - Easy as a pie!
After reading such a lot of complaints, cries for help and even last whispers of broken down users, all about problems with installing Air; After I was told by Alix and some other Mandrake guys to be very sensible with the install if I don't want my Windows98 wiped (as if I cared about a thing which asks for quarterly install-fests!); After all that I took a daring stand and did an install after the book. Put the MDK 7.0 CD1 of the PowerPack in my CD drive, hit the reset and told BIOS to boot from CD. Great graphical install procedure. Jumped into DrakX, erased my Linux partitions (did I back up my data?) and left the Win partition alone. Created new partitions (all on a 8.4 IDE disk), formatted and went on with the installation. What else: I installed the complete system within 3.5 hours. Involved was: 1. Flawless hardware recognition of SCSI controller and CD writer, also grafics card and soundcard (Soundblaster AWE64). 2. Could choose all packages to install or not to install, dependencies were automagically resolved. 3. First reboot took me right to the kdm where I found myself as a mini-Tux. 4. Second stage was installation of my ISDN card. I had my Netscape up and was looking at my favourite site within 20 minutes. I tried some applications and all the stuff I did with Helios. Everything just worked out of the box so far. Oh, BTW, I must not forget to read the installation guide sometime when I'm not busy. ;-) Great stuff! wobo -- GPG Fingerprint 519E 2627 FE60 91F5 32AA 6862 CE9D 800A 3876 EF13 -- Linux Mandrake's Home: http://www.linux-mandrake.com ## LLaP (Linux Lovers are Perfect!) #
RE: [expert] LM 7.0 loses the clock setting
You told Linux that your CMOS clock was set to GMT and that you were in the Eastern timezone. So set the CMOS clock to GMT(for EST add 5 hours) and all will be right until you rebuild and tell the install that your clock is NOT set to GMT... Lyle -Original Message- From: Mohammad R. Salehpour, Ph.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 3:51 PM To: Mandrake List Subject: [expert] LM 7.0 loses the clock setting Hello, I have LM 7.0 installed on my notebook computer. All of a sudden I noticed that when I boot the clock which is displayed on the KDE panel is 5 hours behind EST. I set it then on reboot the same thing. I thought maybe the internal clock battery is going bad. But when I enter the BIOS setup at startup, the cock is correct, but it changes when it boot into linux. And it is off exactly 5 hours. I did set it back in the DrakeConf. But on the next reboot it is back by 5 hours. Any ideas? Thank you. M.S. M. R. Salehpour, Ph.D., DABR Associate Professor / Chief Physicist Rad. Onc. / ECU School of Medicine Dir. Medical Physics Grad. Program Dept. of Physics and Astronomy East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (252) 816-2900
Re: [expert] MDK 7.0 Install - Easy as a pie!
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: After reading such a lot of complaints, cries for help and even last whispers of broken down users, all about problems with installing Air; After I was told by Alix and some other Mandrake guys to be very sensible with the install if I don't want my Windows98 wiped (as if I cared about a thing which asks for quarterly install-fests!); You were lucky. Mandrake 7.0 as we know it today is now dead. See the following: Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 02:41:11 +0100 From: Gael Duval [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Due to a bug in the installer that occured in certain conditions with some FAT partitions resizing and some other smaller problems (see http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3), the Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack has been delayed. It will be available at the end of February. This quality engagement has also lead us to release a new ISO image of Mandrake 7.0 has soon as the bug as been fixed. Gaël. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] MDK 7.0 Install - Easy as a pie!
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: After reading such a lot of complaints, cries for help and even last whispers of broken down users, all about problems with installing Air; After I was told by Alix and some other Mandrake guys to be very sensible with the install if I don't want my Windows98 wiped (as if I cared about a thing which asks for quarterly install-fests!); You were lucky. Mandrake 7.0 as we know it today is now dead. See the following: Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 02:41:11 +0100 From: Gael Duval [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Due to a bug in the installer that occured in certain conditions with some FAT partitions resizing and some other smaller problems (see http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3), the Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack has been delayed. It will be available at the end of February. This quality engagement has also lead us to release a new ISO image of Mandrake 7.0 has soon as the bug as been fixed. Gaël. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dead? No. I'd call it a minor setback. I've done several upgrades and installs on my machine since Oxygen was announced. I've encountered several bugs but no big deal. Fix it and move on. What you hear most of all in these complaint posts is each individual's frustration with being unable to find the problems and fix the problems by themselves. I do feel, however, that 7.0 was rushed through to production a bit too quickly. Good product == long beta test period during which all these bugs could have been identified and ironed out before the masses got hold of the product. -- Rich Clark Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Sound Card difficulties
-Original Message- From: S. Newhouse http://www.indelible-blue.com/ibapps/hardware.nsf/category/4386 says there are no Linux drivers. They are *wrong* There is support in MDK6.1, 7.0 will configure it automaticly. The ALSA drivers work too. Do a search on "esssolo1" in the mailing list archives at mandrake.com. Post back if you have problems. Bryan Donald writes: Does anyone know how I might be able to get an ESS SOLO-1 PCI AUDIODRIVE soundcard to work in Linux? I can't figure it out. -Thanks -Warren [from VMware 2.0 in MDK 7.0 /brag]
[expert] Cron Errors after update to 7.0
How can i fix these? mv: /var/log/security/suid_root.today: No such file or directory mv: /var/log/security/unowned_user.today: No such file or directory mv: /var/log/security/unowned_group.today: No such file or directory mv: /var/log/security/open_port.today: No such file or directory mv: /var/log/security/suid_md5.today: No such file or directory mv: /var/log/security/suid_group.today: No such file or directory mv: /var/log/security/unowned_group.today: No such file or directory mv: /var/log/security/open_port.today: No such file or directory I get about 100+ emails from cron about this stuff daily!
Re: [expert] Sound Card difficulties
try www.opensound.com they had a fixfor my sound card, and yours might be on their list they sell their driver (huge support list and free upgrades for $20) (untill some one figures it out and puts it in the kernel GRIN dave On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: http://www.indelible-blue.com/ibapps/hardware.nsf/category/4386 says there are no Linux drivers. I would get another card. -sen Bryan Donald writes: Does anyone know how I might be able to get an ESS SOLO-1 PCI AUDIODRIVE soundcard to work in Linux? I can't figure it out. -Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] /mnt lacks disk space for upgrade?
Hello Steve, I had some troubles installing 7.0 myself until I made the txt_boot.img bootdisk and installed using the text mode (6.0 version) of the installer. The rawrite utility for windows didn't work either. I had to use the rawrite.exe file from a dos environment or the disk wouldn't boot. I notice on RedHat's bug page that they hosed up the install images on their latest release and I wonder if it has carried over into Mandrake. I have had no problems at all using the text-mode-boot-disk-install. Dana Sparling Hello, I have been using 6.0 since its release and it has made me very productive. I picked up a copy of 7.0 at the Mandrake booth at LinuxWorldExpo; I tried to do an upgrade using a CDROM install. The upgrade fails, giving me an error message that "/mnt" needs 37M for the RPM packages. I mv'd /mnt to /usr/mnt (which has two gigs available), made a symlink /mnt - /usr/mnt, and tried again. This time I got an error that /mnt needed another 36M for the install. I'm probably overlooking something obvious... the CDROM is a "pre-release" of 7.0, but the gentleman at the booth said that it was the same as the final version except for th DiskDrake tool. I'm going to try once more to boot off the CDROM (instead of a floppy boot) to see if I can get it to work.. thx sw -- Steve Wainstead, programmer, | "When will the rhetorical Times Company Digital| questions all end?" 1120 6th Ave, NY NY 10036| -- George Carlin (212) 597-8067 | __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] MDK 7.0 Install - Easy as a pie!
At 07:27 AM 2/5/00 -0500, you wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: After reading such a lot of complaints, cries for help and even last whispers of broken down users, all about problems with installing Air; After I was told by Alix and some other Mandrake guys to be very See the Mandrake home page for 5 Feb. All the info regarding the new image 70-2.iso is available. The image is on most if not all of the mirrors. palmer
[expert] IRQ conflicts or SBLive hell
I'm not sure if I'm diagnosing this correctly, but I think I'm having an IRQ conflict. I've been having a right headache attempting to get my SBLive card working under Mandrake 7.0, and I've read alot of web pages and newsgroup messages that purport to fix the problem, and even after working them all out with a fair amount of understanding about the underlying stuff in linux, I really do think that the problem is an IRQ conflict. The quick summary is that after I have removed all sound related drivers from the kernel, andkilled all sound related processes, I insmod soundcore, no complaints, and then insmod emu10k1. But I _always_ get the following: ./emu10k1.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Now everything that tries to detect my soundcard tells me its an ensoniq 1371 or something like that, and looking at the pci information, I see that an Ensoniq ES1371 is reported and is using IRQ 10, supposedly. Thats it in a nutshell. I'm about to install windows dual boot I think, just to see if I can get all the IRQ etc information firgured out. Please let me know where my thinking is going astray, and if my guess is right, how I go about resolving it (pass flags to the insmod command when loading the driver?) ? Thanks, David "Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
Re: [expert] eth0 error
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: Greetings, all. First, I want to thank all those that helped me get my laptop up and running, especially John and Axalon. But now I'm having problems with my desktop. I'm sure it's something simple I forgot to do, but I can't figure it out. I upgraded the kernel using the 2.2.14 rpms. (I think it was the -22mdk). I did the kernel, kernel headers and initscripts. But since then, I'm not able to get any network connectivity. Here's the stuff from the logs: Hmm...it would APPEAR that maybe it doesn't have the correct driver for your network card? Just a shot in the dark... John
[expert] xtraceroute on mdk 7
Is it only my machine or does xtraceroute not work on 7? If I run it from the command line i get a internal error and if I install the src rpm and try to package it when its doing the configure of build it halts on the fact that it can't find the mesa/gl libs but these are also installed. How did they get a rpm if the src doesn't actually compile? or is it my machine.
Re: [expert] Sound Card difficulties
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: try www.opensound.com they had a fixfor my sound card, and yours might be on their list they sell their driver (huge support list and free upgrades for $20) (untill some one figures it out and puts it in the kernel GRIN It's already in the kernel. With opensound/solo1 you need to buy another module which takes the price up to about $40. A low end Soundblaster card could be had for less - go figure :o) -WBD
[expert] Mailing list comments
Iv'e been watching the mailing list and have seen many different
complaint's/problem's concerning (AIR) 7.0 release. I must admit I have
also found a few problems, however was able to easily find and resolve
those simply by verifying rpm install. I will tell everyone it did require
that I correct some bad symlinks which pointed to libs in /lib directory
which were in fact in /usr/lib and also some rpms for mod_ssl and mod_perl
that did not install all files from the rpm packages. I corrected all the
symlinks to libraries that wer not correct, a few I can recall at the
moment were libforms , libpanel , and libmenu and can honestly say I have
had absolutely no problems with Linux-Mandrake-7.0 (AIR) release. Linux
has allways required one to look at the system and configure it for your
own personal requirements which is the very reason I choose Linux as my
computer OS 9 years ago and with just a little effort, " a very good
learning experience" Mandrake 7.0 Distro performs very
well. Congratulation's to all the Mandrake staff! I certainly do
appreciate your efforts and can surely understand the difficulty in making
any Linux Distro "User Friendly" to the point of a zero knowledged
install. I feel that the advancements made to this point are excellent and
encourage the staff and any users with helpfull input to keep up the Great
Work.
Sincerely scripted,
Dave.
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Re: [expert] /mnt lacks disk space for upgrade?
I can't understand why so many people have had problems with mandrake 7.0. It's by far the easiest install I've seen in my 2 years using linux. The only recommendation I have is to back up your users(s) directory then blow out the old install and re-install a fresh 7.0 install. Personally I didn't have any problems going from mandrake 6.1 to 7.0 (I used an iso I downloaded from the net). As to the delay in official release? I think its a good sign that they posponed the release to make some fixes rather than rush it out as some have suggested. Everyone is making these comments on a pre-release, but you have to remember, it is a PRE-RELEASE. Just my 2 cents :) Jim Original Message On 2/5/00, 12:17:40 AM, "Dana Sparling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [expert] /mnt lacks disk space for upgrade?: Hello Steve, I had some troubles installing 7.0 myself until I made the txt_boot.img bootdisk and installed using the text mode (6.0 version) of the installer. The rawrite utility for windows didn't work either. I had to use the rawrite.exe file from a dos environment or the disk wouldn't boot. I notice on RedHat's bug page that they hosed up the install images on their latest release and I wonder if it has carried over into Mandrake. I have had no problems at all using the text-mode-boot-disk-install. Dana Sparling Hello, I have been using 6.0 since its release and it has made me very productive. I picked up a copy of 7.0 at the Mandrake booth at LinuxWorldExpo; I tried to do an upgrade using a CDROM install. The upgrade fails, giving me an error message that "/mnt" needs 37M for the RPM packages. I mv'd /mnt to /usr/mnt (which has two gigs available), made a symlink /mnt - /usr/mnt, and tried again. This time I got an error that /mnt needed another 36M for the install. I'm probably overlooking something obvious... the CDROM is a "pre-release" of 7.0, but the gentleman at the booth said that it was the same as the final version except for th DiskDrake tool. I'm going to try once more to boot off the CDROM (instead of a floppy boot) to see if I can get it to work.. thx sw -- Steve Wainstead, programmer, | "When will the rhetorical Times Company Digital| questions all end?" 1120 6th Ave, NY NY 10036| -- George Carlin (212) 597-8067 | __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] updated/fixed xwindows-ttfonts faq/
Hi, I've fixed and expanded the FAQ that was here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html There were some errors in the steps and I expanded it for people who have broken ttfonts. I originally emailed it to the email address on the home page but no one has posted it or bothered to reply so I'm sending it to you guys. Gael- maybe you can beat him over the head with it "s'il vous plait" -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. == Title: MUO -X - Fonts Administration Connectivity Forum Hardware Installation Kernel Modules LinuxBasics OtherResources SiteMap Troubleshooting X Main - X Fonts On X Anyone Seen My Loupe? Covers: Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? My Fonts Are Too Small! Adding Fonts Font Viewers Font Resources Related Resources: X Window User HOWTO, 7 Font Deuglification mini-HOWTO man xfs Translations: Dec. 12, 1999 Tom Berger Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? By default, X only supports bitmapped fonts, while are not scaleable. If you scale them anyway, they will look crumbly and rugged. This bipmapping is one reason why X eats up so much memory: instead of vectorial descriptions it sends bitmaps (i.e. small pictures of each displayed character). Later there came support for PostScript Type 1 and Speedo fonts which are scaleable, but the Type 1 font rendering machine is mediocre at best. Furthermore are good Postscript fonts very expensive and therefore can't be included. There are a lot of free fonts but their quality doesn't match commercial ones. (Thanks to Gael and Pablo for correcting me about this.) Now X supports TrueType fonts via the X Font Server 'xfs', but isn't able to do nifty stuff like anti-aliasing yet (some window managers however - like Enlightenment - do. The results are not very convincing, though). Many X applications don't know about TrueType at all. 'Hinting' works differently than with PostScript so that even if the application allows using TT fonts, the results could differ widely from what you might have expected. Hopefully this problem will lessen as soon as XFree 4 will be released (expected around February 2000), which will feature a major reimplantation of the font rendering subsystem. Until then, one has to resort to shifts for the most serious problems.
[expert] Mail rests in peace at Mandrake?
Hi, I happended to look at the header of my last mail to the expert-list. It took the mail 2 days to return to me. How come? Here is the relevant part: Received: from [216.71.84.35] (helo=mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com) by mx00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12H3Bs-0006Gi-00; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:15:48 +0100 Received: from majordomo@localhost) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA25843 for expert-list; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 00:24:55 -0600 Received: from mout00.kundenserver.de (mout00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.69]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA25827 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 00:24:50 -0600 So this shows that it really took a long time from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com to mx00.kundenserver.de wobo -- GPG Fingerprint 519E 2627 FE60 91F5 32AA 6862 CE9D 800A 3876 EF13 -- Linux Mandrake's Home: http://www.linux-mandrake.com ## LLaP (Linux Lovers are Perfect!) #
Re: [expert] MDK 7.0 Install - Easy as a pie!
Palmer C Byrne wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: After reading such a lot of complaints, cries for help and even last whispers of broken down users, all about problems with installing Air; After I was told by Alix and some other Mandrake guys to be very See the Mandrake home page for 5 Feb. All the info regarding the new image 70-2.iso is available. The image is on most if not all of the mirrors. I'll read that but don't really need it. I just stated that: in _my_ case on _my_ hardware with _my_ situation of the VFAT32 partition of Win there was no problem during installation. I also found during normal daily useage there was no problem. So why do I need a bugfix where there is no bug here? I don't want to say that there may not be a hardware and/or software situation where a fix is called for. But again, not here. And, BTW, MDK 7.0 is not dead, it's very much alive here! wobo -- GPG Fingerprint 519E 2627 FE60 91F5 32AA 6862 CE9D 800A 3876 EF13 -- Linux Mandrake's Home: http://www.linux-mandrake.com ## LLaP (Linux Lovers are Perfect!) #
Re: [expert] xtraceroute on mdk 7
tommiy wrote: Is it only my machine or does xtraceroute not work on 7? If I run it from the command line i get a internal error and if I install the src rpm and try to package it when its doing the configure of build it halts on the fact that it can't find the mesa/gl libs but these are also installed. How did they get a rpm if the src doesn't actually compile? or is it my machine. It it is like 6.1 Traceroute is only allowed by root. from x-term (after su) the command traceroute works for me of course you could change permissions ..
Re: [expert] updated/fixed xwindows-ttfonts faq/
Thanks, Sheldon! .. Pj Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Hi, I've fixed and expanded the FAQ that was here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html There were some errors in the steps and I expanded it for people who have broken ttfonts. I originally emailed it to the email address on the home page but no one has posted it or bothered to reply so I'm sending it to you guys... snip.."
Re: [expert] updated/fixed xwindows-ttfonts faq/
Ooops. Wrong one. Don't worry bout this one. Let me find the right one. Sorry. Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Hi, I've fixed and expanded the FAQ that was here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html There were some errors in the steps and I expanded it for people who have broken ttfonts. I originally emailed it to the email address on the home page but no one has posted it or bothered to reply so I'm sending it to you guys. Gael- maybe you can beat him over the head with it "s'il vous plait" -- == Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project. -- Andy Tanenbaum, oh how wrong you are :) ==
[expert] new/fixed xfont.html tutorial.
Hi, Here is the actual fixed xfont.html file for mandrake-user.org -- == Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project. -- Andy Tanenbaum, oh how wrong you are :) == Title: MUO -X - Fonts Administration Connectivity Forum Hardware Installation Kernel Modules LinuxBasics OtherResources SiteMap Troubleshooting X Main - X Fonts On X Anyone Seen My Loupe? Covers: Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? My Fonts Are Too Small! Adding Fonts Font Viewers Font Resources Related Resources: X Window User HOWTO, 7 Font Deuglification mini-HOWTO man xfs Translations: Dec. 12, 1999 Tom Berger Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? By default, X only supports bitmapped fonts, while are not scaleable. If you scale them anyway, they will look crumbly and rugged. This bipmapping is one reason why X eats up so much memory: instead of vectorial descriptions it sends bitmaps (i.e. small pictures of each displayed character). Later there came support for PostScript Type 1 and Speedo fonts which are scaleable, but the Type 1 font rendering machine is mediocre at best. Furthermore are good Postscript fonts very expensive and therefore can't be included. There are a lot of free fonts but their quality doesn't match commercial ones. (Thanks to Gael and Pablo for correcting me about this.) Now X supports TrueType fonts via the X Font Server 'xfs', but isn't able to do nifty stuff like anti-aliasing yet (some window managers however - like Enlightenment - do. The results are not very convincing, though). Many X applications don't know about TrueType at all. 'Hinting' works differently than with PostScript so that even if the application allows using TT fonts, the results could differ widely from what you might have expected. Hopefully this problem will lessen as soon as XFree 4 will be released (expected around February 2000), which will feature a major reimplantation of the font rendering subsystem. Until then, one has to resort to shifts for the most serious problems. section index / top My fonts are too small! The Xconfigurator might still prefer 75dpi (dots
Re: [expert] Problems starting httpd
Hello. Sorry to answer late, I was buried under e-mail. Looks like you have conflicting libraries. Please give me the output of these commands: rpm -qa|grep apache rpm -q --whatrequires apache cat /etc/mandrake-release rpm -qa|grep \^gd-1 Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:25:23 -0600 From: Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Problems starting httpd Here's the error I get when trying to start httpd: [root@tolstoy /root]# /usr/sbin/httpd Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/midgardphp3.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/midgardphp3.so into server: /usr/lib/libgd.so.1: undefined symbol: png_set_dither Anyone know what causes it? -- Stephen
Re: [expert] eth0 error
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Stout, Wayne wrote: [..] I upgraded the kernel using the 2.2.14 rpms. (I think it was the -22mdk). I Mmm, you mean updated from a -22mdk, to the 2.2.14-15mdk (i think?) did the kernel, kernel headers and initscripts. But since then, I'm not able to get any network connectivity. Here's the stuff from the logs: eth0: Digital DC2104 Tulip rev 17 at 0x6400, MAC address snipped, IRQ 10. eth0: 21041 Media Table, default media 0800 (Autosense). eth0: 21041 media #0, 10baseT eth0: 21041 media #4, 10baseT-FD eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good. Before I have a chance to log in, the following appears: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc26, CSR 12 50c8, CSR 13 ef01, CSR 14 , resetting... And I noticed in the logs just under this line there is: eth0: 21143 10 Mbps sensed media. What did I forget to do? Everything worked great before I upgraded the kernel, so I know that *I* screwed something up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Exactly which module are you useing, tulip.o old_tulip.o or the de4x5.o ? if it's a 100mbs you can specify that to the module, it does seem they search in the reverse expected order, from 10mbs-100mbs. Hmm Thanks, Wayne -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[expert] Netsacpe problems
Hi, We have just installed Mandrake 7.0 in our computing lab at college. Users home directories are mounted over NFS and authentication is over NIS. Everything is up and running fine except this irritating problem we have been having with netscape. Even after a user quits Netscape, it sometimes leaves behind a process called ld-linux.so which keeps eating up CPU (sometimes upto 98% CPU) This happens more often when the user has been using some java applet. Even after the user has logged out the process will keep running, making the system look very slow till it has been killed by a kill -9. Besides this, while using java, Netscape often just freezes though the process is still running and taking a lot of CPU. I know it is not new for netscape to crash pretty regularly with bus error or something, but I've seen this for the first time. Anyone know what is happening? Thanks in advance, Harshal Pradhan
