Re: [expert] Problems with gv in Mandrake Linux 7.0

[Chunnuan Chen]

Vinay Gupta wrote:

> Chunnuan Chen wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Chunnuan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf
> > > > file and got an error message like "unknow device: x11alpha", and the
> > >
> > > Can you check which version of ghostscript-XXX you have, you should see
> > > ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both, else install one of them and remove
> > > the previous one which may be ghostscript-SVGALIB or ghostscript-PrintOnly.
> > >
> > > > file was not displayed. Can someone tell me what  this means and how to
> > > > correct this? Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Chunnunan
> > >
> > > François.
> >
> > Thanks. I only got something like ghostscript-5.10-17mdk. How to see something
> > like ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both?
> >
> > Chunnuan
>
> Try this:
> run gs from the shell
> you'll get a gs prompt
> type the following at the prompt
> devicenames ==
> look for any x11 stuff
> you should find atleast x11 if not x11alpha
> Thereafter:
> Try changing your ghostscript options in gv from state->ghostscript
> options->antialias device to the one you found earlier ( if none was found or if
> this does not work remove the device in the antialias device. you'll atleast
> be able to read your ps's if not too clearly :-(
>
> hope this helps
> vinay
>
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I used  ghostscript -? and got:

GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23)
Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
 -dNOPAUSE   no pause after page   | -q   `quiet', fewer messages
 -gx  page size in pixels   | -r  pixels/inch resolution
 -sDEVICE=  select device | -dBATCH  exit after last file
 -sOutputFile= select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
 embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
Available devices:
   imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq lbp8 lips3 m8510 necp6 oki182 ln03 ap3250 appledmp
   epson epsonc eps9mid eps9high la50 la70 la75 la75plus deskjet djet500
   laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj
   pjxl pjxl300 uniprint cp50 declj250 dnj650c ljet3d lj4dith lj250 bj10e
   bj200 bjc600 bjc800 cdj500 jetp3852 st800 xes faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 r4081
   sj48 t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b
   pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw tiffcrle
   tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc psmono psgray
   bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m jpeg jpeggray
   pdfwrite pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor nullpage

After I erased the antialias device, the error was gone. However, although I can
see the page numbers on the left side
and acutally can print out the file, I can't see the context (the gv scree is
blank).  So,  is something  worng with the display?
By the way, I am  talking about  an LM-7.02  on a DELL Latitute laptop.

RE: [expert] WebServer Software

[Jon Miller]

Could it have been Netmax? They do something like that, but they actually
have three different products, firewall, file server and web server.
www.netmax.com

Jon

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Sheble
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 9:33 AM
To: Newbie Mandrake List
Subject: [expert] WebServer Software


Yesterday I saew a link come through the mailing list about a linux distro
that was based on RH, and was strictly for web communications.  They
stripped everything but the web specific stuff, and are selling it as such.
Does anybody remember this message?  If so, would you still happen to have
the link?

Thanx!

Joseph (Joe) Sheble
a.k.a. Wizaerd

Wizaerd's Realm
http://www.wizaerd.com
3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas
a little bit of everything...

ColdFusion Developer
iTOOL.com
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Re: [expert] Security with cable

[myrhillion]

DSL is a private connection much like a t1, with it's own port connection on
the isp end.  Although the dsl router is more analagous to a modem in some
ways.

Cable modem is a shared ethernet segment, and thus is less secure.

Really depends on what you're trying to accomplish which is more
appropriate..  upstream speeds on some dsl products are kind of slow,  ask
about this when you talk to whatever sales goon you get.

Have you ever done a broadcast ping on a cable box(should do this within the
network)? Can be fairly enlightening, of course the only machines that will
respond on your segment are those that allow icmp packets.   I personaly
have about 40 neighbors currently(that I can see), so I'm on a lightly
loaded segment.

i'm on a /23 network which means there can be 509 (512-3) customers on this
network with me.
I know areas like New York have isp's that will really load up a segment to
the point it's choking.

JDSmith
isp monkey.

- Original Message -
From: "Lyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 7:22 PM
Subject: RE: [expert] Security with cable


> In that sense, DSL is more like T1 or Frame-relay or modem dialup and
unlike
> a shared cable modem medium.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Fred Frigerio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 2:23 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [expert] Security with cable
>
>
> Yeah but what I was wondering is if it is more like a T1 or frame-relay
> in the sense that you will not be in the same broadcast space as the
> rest of the people in the same DSL area. That is what I'd like to know.
> The reason is that that way they will find my machine by scanning but
> people on the same group but my machine will not see traffic on the
> link.
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:29 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [expert] Security with cable
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > > What about DSL? I think it is similar to a PPP connection but havent
> > > seen one yet and am thinking about getting it. Does anybody
> > have good
> > > info about it? Running together with Linux?
> > >
> > DSL is more like a cablemodem -- it's a semi-permanent connection.
> > John
> >

Re: [expert] Mkbootdisk after kernel recompile

[Dennis Robertson]

Tom wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Axalon, but I couldn't get it to work.  Maybe someone will write
> > a how-to one day on how to upgrade and recompile a kernel, dispose of
> > the old one and make a new bootdisk.  I am about to upgrade to LM 7.0,
> > I hope.
> > --
> > Dennis Robertson  2/2 Sylvia Street  NOOSAVILLE  QLD  4566  AUSTRALIA
> > Phone: 61 7 54742343  Mobile: 0419 535539  Fax: Phone first for setup.
> 
> http://www.mandrakeuser.org/kernel/index.html
> 
> --
> ..   Tom Brinkman  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   .

Thanks Tom,
I had read it and referred to it in an earlier post, but my level of
comprehension at the time was obviously low.  I'll try it again on LM7
for practice.
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Re: [expert] Video chipset support ?

[Roberto A. F.]

Jean-Louis Debert wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I'm trying to install 7.0 on a DELL 500C desktop.
> Now DRAKX seems not to like the video hardware, and
> installation proceeds in character mode (not much of a problem).
>
> But I was concerned: the video chipset is part of the motherboard
> chipset (Intel 810).

I have installed a MDK 6.1 on i810 sucessfully.
You have to look at intel site... istruction to use module for i810 is
little wrong... but module works (fine too! ).

>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [expert] info

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Hi
> I had an atempt today from a to access my computer an i have the ipaddress 
> from the crupit but can not finout whho own the ip address. durn internic 
> is not blocking the info from doing a whois. anyone  else know of a way to 
> get the info on an ipaddress thanks
> 
whois @whois.arin.net
Internic doesn't maintain a return address lookup
directory. They only maintain the NAME lookup. i.e., you
can lookup "linux-mandrake.com" but you can't lookup
216.71.116.161 at internic (or more properly
networksolutions.com) and find out that the IP address in
question translates to www.linux-mandrake.com.

If arin.net doesn't know who the IP address belongs to,
they will at least tell you which directory WILL tell you
who it belongs to, and then you can query THAT directory
server and find out which domain it belongs to and maybe
find out how to contact someone in charge at that domain.
John

RE: [expert] Security with cable

[Lyle]

In that sense, DSL is more like T1 or Frame-relay or modem dialup and unlike
a shared cable modem medium.

-Original Message-
From: Fred Frigerio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 2:23 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [expert] Security with cable


Yeah but what I was wondering is if it is more like a T1 or frame-relay
in the sense that you will not be in the same broadcast space as the
rest of the people in the same DSL area. That is what I'd like to know.
The reason is that that way they will find my machine by scanning but
people on the same group but my machine will not see traffic on the
link.

> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:29 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [expert] Security with cable
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > What about DSL? I think it is similar to a PPP connection but havent
> > seen one yet and am thinking about getting it. Does anybody 
> have good
> > info about it? Running together with Linux?
> > 
> DSL is more like a cablemodem -- it's a semi-permanent connection.
>   John
> 

Re: [expert] smb.conf

[Dan Swartzendruber]

At 09:28 AM 02/18/2000 -0600, Audrey Beck wrote:
>duncan wrote:
> >
> > I want the windows boxes to automatically map their home directory H:
> > and  group driectory G: when they log in each morning. I would like to
> > do this on a user basis rather than per machine .
> >
> > I have written a basic %U.bat file but it is not executed when the 
> win98
> > user logs in.
> > Here is the %U.bat file called duncan.bat.
> >
> > NET USE H: \\SAMBA\duncan
> > NET USE G: \\SAMBA\group
> >
> > It is stored in the /home/netlogon/ directory and can be seen in 
> network
> > neighbourhood. I can run it from there and the drives get mapped, but
> > what I need is for this to happen automatically.
> >
> > Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dunc


Duncan, it's hard to tell what might be wrong from just this small 
snippet.  Can you post your entire smb.conf?

Re: [expert] Xterm background colour

[Michael R. Schultz]

OK Glyn!

How about from the command line:

>xterm -n "Your Name Here" -bg black -fg lightblue &

which is not a GUI way of pulling one up, but if your hot on using an xterm...

see also  >man xterm

Mike

Glyn Millington wrote:

> How do I get a nice BLACK background to Xterms in KDE - and for that matter
> change the colour of the foreground too.  They don't seem to respond to
> .Xdefaults!
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
>
> Glyn M.

Re: [expert] kudzu during startup

[Wolfgang Bornath]

Vinay Gupta wrote:
> 
> just move the S**kudzu to K**kudzu
 
Yeah, I know *how* to do that. What I wanted to know is if there is any
harm in removing kudzu.

wobo
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Re: [expert] Video chipset support ?

[Warren Doney]

- Original Message - 
From: "Michael G.Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm
> 
> They didn't make it easy to find!

I remembered that - that's why i didn't try to find it! :o)

Re: [expert] burning CDs

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > 
> > One possible explanation is that the individuals using these CD's  have
> > an older cd drive that can't read the newer  disks.
> > 
> Hmm...Yeah. I thought that MIGHT be the case... thanks. Although, in
> one of the two cases I know of who've had problems, they were able to
> use a Mandrake 7.00 burned CD.
>   John
>
Ok. I know it's "poor form" to reply to your own messages,
but I found the model number of one of the CD drives that
had problems with a CD I burned. It's a GoldStar CRD-8240B,
a 24x IDE cdrom. I kinda doubt it's a bad CDROM drive.
John

RE: [expert] burning CDs

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > don't use Xcdroast on data cdroms, this program is broken somehow
> > (at least it has never worked for me without hitches since some
> > error messages are suppressed and several options are not correct)
> > we use plain mkisofs/cdrecord here and it has been working just great 
> > for *years* now
> 
> I've only used XCDRoast for 2 years now, both with a 4x and an 8x burner.
> Data and audio CDs both come out fine at full speed.  The version of
> XCDRoast in the distro LM6.1 and LM7.0beta(Oxygen) have a display bug where
> status box doesn't get updated until the burn is complete.  Grab a different
> version from the maker of XCDRoast and that problem goes away.
> 
That seems to be a problem with LM 6.0 as well. I may go
ahead and do as you suggest. What's the URL for the
XCDRoast page?
John

Re: [expert] burning CDs

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Question:
> > I have had problems copying Mandrake 5.3 with dd (to a .iso file).  It
> > seems to get to the end and then get data errors.  Is there something at
> > the end of the CD that prevents this sort of copying?
> 
> How do you know the exact size to specify to dd 
> You can't use, say, df, because it will not know about TOC and such,
> so how can you know _exactly_ ???
> 
You don't have to know the exact size for creating the ISO
file. You're just making a sector-by-sector /
track-by-track copy of the CD to a file.
John

Re: [expert] Greetings

[ibi]

Hi Dan, 

Greetings from the Ozarks! I'm a newbie too. I like this site because
it's written in a user-friendly format. It's technical but not so much
so that you can't grasp the concept easily. 

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/basics/index.html . And while your at it 
take a look at the Mandrake Power Pack at
http://www.mandrake.com/en/fpowerpack.php3

Pj
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 




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Re: [expert] Vortex Audio

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> My father wants to try out Linux, so he asked me to install it in his computer.
> the problem is that his hardware is not so Linux friendly. 
> -Fisrt, the video card is a Savge 4 Pro. The Mandrake version I got is 6.0,
> but also got XFree 3.3.5, and I think this version supports his video card. 
>
www.xig.com or www.metrolink.com or www.suse.com. One of
them MAY have a driver that'll work with your card.
>
> -The sound card is a Diamon Sonic Impact S90 with the
> Vortex 1 chipset > (AU8820B2). Are there any dirvers for
>this card? If so, how can I install them? > Working without
> music is not much fun
>
www.4front-tech.com or www.alsa.org
>
> -The modem is a Motorola
>SM56K. It's a Winmodem I know there's nothing to > do
>about it, but I've heard somebody wrote some drivers for
>some winmodems. > Does anybody know about this? 
>
www.linmodems.org is the page your searching for.
Good luck!
John

Re: [expert] upgrading KDE

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 
> QT and the KDE rpms are all that are necessary for KDE.
> 
> Do you know that KDE 2 is near completion? Why not wait?
> 
I suppose I *could* wait, but it was my impression that
KDE2 is several months down the road yet and I don't
feel like waiting THAT long... :-)
John

RE: [expert] Security with cable

[Jean-Michel Dault]

DSL is basically using the same technology as a T-1. You can have a T-1 on
fiber, but most Telcos will provide you a T-1 on some Pairgain units,
which are really HDSL (two 768K DSL pairs).

Your DSL goes straight to the Telco Central Office, and then is
multiplexed either on frame relay or ATM and backhauled to the ISP. Some
DSL providers use PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) to permit multiple ISPs to
resell DSL, it authenticates users from the ISP server, then creates a
tunnel between the ISP and the customer. Some other DSL providers do not
use PPPoE, in that case the ISP is plugged directly into the DSL access
unit.

So it's not like cable at all. If you want to sniff the packets, you must
be at the Telco or ISP.

Jean-Michel Dault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Fred Frigerio wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:22:37 -0500
> From: Fred Frigerio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [expert] Security with cable
> 
> Yeah but what I was wondering is if it is more like a T1 or frame-relay
> in the sense that you will not be in the same broadcast space as the
> rest of the people in the same DSL area. That is what I'd like to know.
> The reason is that that way they will find my machine by scanning but
> people on the same group but my machine will not see traffic on the
> link.
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:29 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [expert] Security with cable
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > > What about DSL? I think it is similar to a PPP connection but havent
> > > seen one yet and am thinking about getting it. Does anybody 
> > have good
> > > info about it? Running together with Linux?
> > > 
> > DSL is more like a cablemodem -- it's a semi-permanent connection.
> > John
> > 
> 

Re: [expert] Re: Scanner

[alann]

"Michael G.Moore" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > I have a scanner manufactured by KYE called the Genius, "Color Page-EP"
> > which supports Twain, Recognita OCR, EPP. I believe it is a SCSI
> > emulator as there is no card, just software. I can daisy chain it to the
> > printer or connect directly to a port in Windoz. However, I can't find
> > any information on Genius or KYE or Color Page in the lists of supported
> > scanners, and can't find any information on the drivers except URL's to
> > the manufactures home page.
> >
> > Does anyone use this brand with L-M or know how to set it up? I'm
> > stumped.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pj
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Your scanner is in fact a Primax.
> 
> http://thor.prohosting.com/~chrordig/Primax/index.html
> 

This sounds very much like my el cheapo Mustek 600 III EP.

Could this work??

Scanning is the ONLY thing I cannot do under Linux..

Thanks
Alan

==
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
running Linux Mandrake 6.1 and/or BeOS.

Re: [expert] smb.conf

[Audrey Beck]

duncan wrote:
> 
> I want the windows boxes to automatically map their home directory H:
> and  group driectory G: when they log in each morning. I would like to
> do this on a user basis rather than per machine .
> 
> I have written a basic %U.bat file but it is not executed when the win98
> user logs in.
> Here is the %U.bat file called duncan.bat.
> 
> NET USE H: \\SAMBA\duncan
> NET USE G: \\SAMBA\group
> 
> It is stored in the /home/netlogon/ directory and can be seen in network
> neighbourhood. I can run it from there and the drives get mapped, but
> what I need is for this to happen automatically.
> 
> Can anyone help me with this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dunc

Your version of windows might be different, but in the windows directory
there should be a profiles directory with your users in it.  They should
each have a start menu and in programs group a startup folder.  Why not
put a shortcut for each user there?

Re: [expert] Problems with gv in Mandrake Linux 7.0

[Vinay Gupta]

Chunnuan Chen wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Chunnuan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf
> > > file and got an error message like "unknow device: x11alpha", and the
> >
> > Can you check which version of ghostscript-XXX you have, you should see
> > ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both, else install one of them and remove
> > the previous one which may be ghostscript-SVGALIB or ghostscript-PrintOnly.
> >
> > > file was not displayed. Can someone tell me what  this means and how to
> > > correct this? Thanks.
> > >
> > > Chunnunan
> >
> > François.
>
> Thanks. I only got something like ghostscript-5.10-17mdk. How to see something
> like ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both?
>
> Chunnuan

Try this:
run gs from the shell
you'll get a gs prompt
type the following at the prompt
devicenames ==
look for any x11 stuff
you should find atleast x11 if not x11alpha
Thereafter:
Try changing your ghostscript options in gv from state->ghostscript
options->antialias device to the one you found earlier ( if none was found or if
this does not work remove the device in the antialias device. you'll atleast
be able to read your ps's if not too clearly :-(

hope this helps
vinay



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Re: [expert] Video chipset support ?

[Michael G.Moore]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> You ca get an X server/module/instructions from intels website
> (intel.com?).
> 
> -WBD
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Jean-Louis Debert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 4:11 AM
> Subject: [expert] Video chipset support ?
> 
> 
> > Hello all.
> > 
> > I'm trying to install 7.0 on a DELL 500C desktop.
> > Now DRAKX seems not to like the video hardware, and
> > installation proceeds in character mode (not much of a problem).
> > 
> > But I was concerned: the video chipset is part of the motherboard
> > chipset (Intel 810).
> > I looked on XFree's site but unless I missed it, there does not 
> > seems to be any support for this chipset ... 
> > 
> > So what am I to do ? Use the frame buffer driver ??? This should
> > work, but AFAIK the frame buffer driver is _not_ accelerated at all,
> > so performance would suffer ???
> > 
> > Does somebody know of a better way (even a beta driver would be fine
> > at this stage).
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 

http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm

They didn't make it easy to find!

Civileme
> > -- 
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> > 74 Annemasse  France
> > old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Re: Scanner

[Michael G.Moore]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> I have a scanner manufactured by KYE called the Genius, "Color Page-EP"
> which supports Twain, Recognita OCR, EPP. I believe it is a SCSI
> emulator as there is no card, just software. I can daisy chain it to the
> printer or connect directly to a port in Windoz. However, I can't find
> any information on Genius or KYE or Color Page in the lists of supported
> scanners, and can't find any information on the drivers except URL's to
> the manufactures home page. 
> 
> Does anyone use this brand with L-M or know how to set it up? I'm
> stumped.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pj
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Your scanner is in fact a Primax.  

http://thor.prohosting.com/~chrordig/Primax/index.html

is the home page for linux Primax drivers.  It appears their version 0.92
driver is compatible with yours (and with Visioneer Parallel Port Scanners)

In your BIOS you must go set the mode of the parallel port to EPP, not ECP and
generally not ECP+EPP.  Also, this early driver may be confused by the presence
of a printer, but not always.

Civileme

RE: [expert] Security with cable

[Fred Frigerio]

Yeah but what I was wondering is if it is more like a T1 or frame-relay
in the sense that you will not be in the same broadcast space as the
rest of the people in the same DSL area. That is what I'd like to know.
The reason is that that way they will find my machine by scanning but
people on the same group but my machine will not see traffic on the
link.

> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:29 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [expert] Security with cable
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > What about DSL? I think it is similar to a PPP connection but havent
> > seen one yet and am thinking about getting it. Does anybody 
> have good
> > info about it? Running together with Linux?
> > 
> DSL is more like a cablemodem -- it's a semi-permanent connection.
>   John
> 

Re: [expert] Problems with gv in Mandrake Linux 7.0

[Chunnuan Chen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Chunnuan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf
> > file and got an error message like "unknow device: x11alpha", and the
>
> Can you check which version of ghostscript-XXX you have, you should see
> ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both, else install one of them and remove
> the previous one which may be ghostscript-SVGALIB or ghostscript-PrintOnly.
>
> > file was not displayed. Can someone tell me what  this means and how to
> > correct this? Thanks.
> >
> > Chunnunan
>
> François.

Thanks. I only got something like ghostscript-5.10-17mdk. How to see something
like ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both?

Chunnuan

Re: [expert] kudzu during startup

[Vinay Gupta]

Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Subject: Re: [expert] Minor mouse problem in 7.0
>
> Axalon writes:
>
> > Kudzu is probeing your hardware, select "do nothing" IIRC, it says on the
> > screen, "do this and i'll never ask again" thats the one you should choose
>
> Question:
>
> During normal install of Air kudzu is integrated in the boot-up sequence
> of init 3 and 5. As long as I do not change my hardware, can I take
> kudzu out of the startup procedure without any harm (just by removing
> the S05kudzu and the K95kudzu from the rcn.d directories)?
>
> wobo
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just move the S**kudzu to K**kudzu


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Re: [expert] burning CDs

[Hoyt]

- Original Message -
From: Michael D. Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 11:05 AM
Subject: [expert] burning CDs


> On this topic...
>
> I downloaded Linux Mandrake 7.0 CD Image and burned in on a CD.
>
> The burn was successful and verified out perfectly...
>
> BUT!  When I went to do an install, the installer is missing a package


Did you get 7.0 or 7.0-2?

Only two changes between them, but very imporatant ones. See the Mandrake
web site for details.

Hoyt


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[expert] kudzu during startup

[Wolfgang Bornath]

Hi,

In  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Subject: Re: [expert] Minor mouse problem in 7.0 

Axalon writes:

> Kudzu is probeing your hardware, select "do nothing" IIRC, it says on the
> screen, "do this and i'll never ask again" thats the one you should choose

Question:

During normal install of Air kudzu is integrated in the boot-up sequence
of init 3 and 5. As long as I do not change my hardware, can I take
kudzu out of the startup procedure without any harm (just by removing
the S05kudzu and the K95kudzu from the rcn.d directories)?

wobo
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Re: [expert] Video chipset support ?

[Michael G.Moore]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I'm trying to install 7.0 on a DELL 500C desktop.
> Now DRAKX seems not to like the video hardware, and
> installation proceeds in character mode (not much of a problem).
> 
> But I was concerned: the video chipset is part of the motherboard
> chipset (Intel 810).
> I looked on XFree's site but unless I missed it, there does not 
> seems to be any support for this chipset ... 
> 
> So what am I to do ? Use the frame buffer driver ??? This should
> work, but AFAIK the frame buffer driver is _not_ accelerated at all,
> so performance would suffer ???
> 
> Does somebody know of a better way (even a beta driver would be fine
> at this stage).
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> -- 

An extensive search turned up...  Nothing.

I have it from the overclockers of my acquaintance who like to run linux that
the 810 is a "CHIPSET TO AVOID"  (their caps).

Of course, with Dell added into the mix, you may not have a standard Intel 810
Chipset to begin with.  Dell has quite a lot of buying power.  The Turtle Beach
Montego I, for example, will not run with the Voyetra drivers if it was bought
as part of a Dell box.  And this is true in both windows and linux.

The other item I have turned up is that Intel is requiring a non-disclosure
agreement if you want to know about the 810 internals.  This reminds me of the
i740 drivers which were only available in binary for quite some time.

I do not make these statements lightly.  I DLed several intel zip files to look
because I was curious.  No detailed specifications were available, just a
troubleshooting guide which referenced the various versions of their drivers

This is annoying.  Dell supposedly supports linux, but only on some models, and
Intel is giving some lukewarm support as well, but when it comes to a query to
write drivers, we see once again the Great Stone Face.

But one would think there might be some justice in the universe.  On the
surplus market, boards from Soyo and Shuttle based on the 810 are underselling
boards from the same manufacturers based on the SiS 530 and 620, and these 810s
appear to be retail boxed sets, not OEM boards.

Civileme
>
Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 74 Annemasse  France > old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Video chipset support ?

[Warren Doney]

You ca get an X server/module/instructions from intels website
(intel.com?).

-WBD

- Original Message - 
From: "Jean-Louis Debert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 4:11 AM
Subject: [expert] Video chipset support ?


> Hello all.
> 
> I'm trying to install 7.0 on a DELL 500C desktop.
> Now DRAKX seems not to like the video hardware, and
> installation proceeds in character mode (not much of a problem).
> 
> But I was concerned: the video chipset is part of the motherboard
> chipset (Intel 810).
> I looked on XFree's site but unless I missed it, there does not 
> seems to be any support for this chipset ... 
> 
> So what am I to do ? Use the frame buffer driver ??? This should
> work, but AFAIK the frame buffer driver is _not_ accelerated at all,
> so performance would suffer ???
> 
> Does somebody know of a better way (even a beta driver would be fine
> at this stage).
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 74 Annemasse  France
> old Linux fan

[expert] Moneydance

[Joseph S. Gardner]

Has any one gotten Moneydance to run with LM 6.1 yet ??

I tried but all I got was a blinking "moneydance" box in the
lower right of my screen


Thanks,

Joe



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no windows, no gates,
and apache inside.

Re: [expert] Vortex Audio

[Rickard Åberg]

Hey...

The drivers for the soundcard can be found here:
http://linux.aureal.com

/ Rickard

- Original Message -
From: "Guillermo Belli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 5:43 PM
Subject: [expert] Vortex Audio


> Hi all:
>
> My father wants to try out Linux, so he asked me to install it in his
computer.
> the problem is that his hardware is not so Linux friendly.
> -Fisrt, the video card is a Savge 4 Pro. The Mandrake version I got is
6.0,
> but also got XFree 3.3.5, and I think this version supports his video
card.
> -The sound card is a Diamon Sonic Impact S90 with the Vortex 1 chipset
> (AU8820B2). Are there any dirvers for this card? If so, how can I install
them?
> Working without music is not much fun
> -The modem is a Motorola SM56K. It's a Winmodem I know there's nothing
to
> do about it, but I've heard somebody wrote some drivers for some
winmodems.
> Does anybody know about this?
> Please help me get my father into the Linux Community.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> --
> Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340
> ICQ #38321312
> http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
>

Re: [expert] Greetings

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 
> First of all, is it safe to say that basically, all Linux distributions are 
> about the same?  It looks as though the only real differences between the 
> distributions deal with the installation process and the choice of packages 
> that each company chooses to include, is this true?  And if it is, are 
> problems encountered with other Linux distributions pretty much relevant to 
> this list?
>
Well, speaking VERY generally, all linux distros use the
same software, BUT the directory structure may be laid out
differently. RedHat and compatibles have one structure, and
most of the rest (I think) have a different directory
structure / idea where certain files should go. For
example, most RedHat and compatible distros put KDE in
/usr. Just about everyone else puts in /opt or /usr/local.
>
> I would also really like to get an idea of
> the way the directories are set  > up.  For example, where
> are the most common places to put files at, such as  >
> mp3s, files downloaded from the internet, pictures, etc. 
>
Files I download, such as MP3 files, pictures, etc either
go in /home/ or in some "junk" directory. If it's
an app, it may want to be installed in /usr/local/bin or
something similar
>
> Also, where would  > be a good place to look to figure out
> how all the various .conf files and the Linux
> equivalent of autoexec.bat affect my system? 
>  
Hmm...Linux equivalent of Autoexec.bat... well, There are
SEVERAL files that together would be your "autoexec.bat"
including your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, and the
/etc/rc.d/ directory tree.
>
> I would really like to talk to some Linux users in real
> time.  If this is possible for any of you guys to help
> me out with the type of questions that I  > would feel
> stupid asking in this list, I would really appreciate it. 
> Also,  perhaps I could have a few reference sites to
> find out more of these general  > things I will have to
> get used to in moving from Windows and DOS to Linux?   
> I have no problem reading things (preferably online
> materials, as I have no  > money), I just don't know where
> to look.   
>
You might want to see about finding a copy of the SAG
(System Administrator's Guide) on-line. There *is* a
version available in pdf format on commercial CDs. Maybe
someone will be nice and email some of the files to
you...but the PDF files are about 5-10 megs each!
John

Re: [expert] nfs & rpc question: "Program not registered"

[William Ahern]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> I have been able to nfs mount the root partition of a computer for over a
> year with no problems. Recently, power went out, affecting both of the
> computers involved, causing both to die a horrible death. As I was not
> around at the time, I don't know what error messages were shown when the
> machines rebooted.

is portmap running?

RE: [expert] nfs & rpc question: "Program not registered"

[Bois, Mathieu]

I use Sun Solaris at work, and when I reboot one, I do a ping to know if
it's alive and then a rup machinename to know if I can log in.
If the Sun has not yet finished its rc.* scripts, then the answer is 'RPC
program not registred'. When rup gives the upload and not the error message,
then I know the machine is up and running.

In your case, maybe the NFS server 'server' is not in a good state (crashed
?) or you have to start /etc/rc.d/init.d/rpc_something or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs.server ?

Hope it helps

Mathieu

> -Original Message-
> From: Charles Curley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 18 February 2000 18:11
> To: Expert mailing list
> Subject: [expert] nfs & rpc question: "Program not registered"
> 
> 
> I have been able to nfs mount the root partition of a 
> computer for over a
> year with no problems. Recently, power went out, affecting both of the
> computers involved, causing both to die a horrible death. As I was not
> around at the time, I don't know what error messages were 
> shown when the
> machines rebooted.
> 
> The error message I now get is:
> 
> root@charlesc # mount /mnt/server/
> mount: RPC: Program not registered
> 
> charlesc's fstab contains:
> 
> server://mnt/server nfs 
> timeo=14,intr,noauto 0 0
> 
> server's /etc/exports is:
> 
> [ccurley@server ccurley]$ cat /etc/exports /   
> charlesc(no_root_squash)
> 
> also on server:
> 
> [ccurley@server ccurley]$ cat /etc/rpc | grep -i nfs
> nfs 13  nfsprog
> rpcnfs  100116  na.rpcnfs
> nfs_acl 100227
> pcnfsd  150001
> bwnfsd  545580417
> 
> Any brilliant ideas out there?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
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> 
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> 
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Re: [expert] sendmail

[William Ahern]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>Quick question. I'm using my machine for sending email (smtp) but
> I always get mail bounced back from hotmail, no one else.

Does reverse lookup work for your host? Some hosts won't accept mail from
other hosts if it can't do a reverse lookup on its domain name... Just an
idea

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Re: [expert] compile for i686 -- slowdowns?

[Linda Walsh]

Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> 
> Here are the flags to optimize for i686:
> 
> optflags: i686 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s
> -mpentiumpro -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -ffast-math
> -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2
> -malign-functions=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
---
I ran the AIM9 benchmarks -- overall, those flags gave about
a 1% performance improvement.  The problem is that for some of the
tests, they perform *worse* with the -mpentium (or -pentiumpro) switch.  
For the test I used a rebuilt kernel, rebuilt test suite and the stock math
lib either from SuSE (unopt) or from MDK (pent-opt).  Compiler for both
was egcs from 7.0MDK.

The most aggregious offender was short integer addition -- the
-mpentium switch cause a 25% slowdown!!!  I've sent the code/test
case and exact switches used to the pentium compiler group (pgcc).
I haven't had a chance to dump assembler and find out why.  The benchmark
was performed on a 2x500-PIII SMP machine running a stock 2.2.14 kernel,
256M, 10K-RPM SCSI's.

There were several of the tests that performed worse in the
5-7% range, but even with all those slowdowns, overall for the 60 tests
was a 1% increase in speed.  If I turned off the pentium optimizations 
for the test suite itself and ran it, I got close to a 2% speedup (~1.7%).

I'm hoping to get a fix out of the compiler group in a reasonable
timeframe since since if the short-int problem is fixed, that might
cause speed-ups throughout the test.

Re: [expert] Booting from floppy

[Eric]

Well, I'm no expert, but I had the same problem as you mention, and I
think I can offer A solution (which I'm sure is not the best one).  I
load Linux from a floppy for my secondary hard drive (win98 on Primary
hard drive).  The only way I could get an append entry to work from the
floppy was to:
1) Have lilo installed on HDB (which is root partition).
2) Add append="hdd = ide-scsi" in lilo.conf (I realize most people know
this, but I didn't).
3) Make the new boot disk
3) Run lilo, and use the -i option to point the boot-sector to the
floppy disk.
  I believe it was something like: root> lilo -i /mnt/floppy/boot/boot.b
Now, I boot from the floppy, but the Kernel is loaded from hdb1, which
loads up WAY faster.

This did succesfully work in my case, but being a non-guru in Linux
administration, I'm not sure if it's the solution or not.

Cheers,
Eric Aksomitis
http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml

Adrian Saidac wrote:
> 
> Hello expert,
> 
> Here are my questions for today:
> 
> A.I was able to upgrade successfully the Kernel to 2.2.14-15mkd
>   Because I am booting Linux from the FD I did build a new boot FD with
> mkbootdisk.
>   Everything is OK but I can not rich, for a reason or another, the
> lilo.conf during boot.
>   The bottom line is that the entry
> 
>   append="mem=320M" inserted into the lilo.conf is not available. I am
> building the "conf"   files with "lilo" command after editing the
> "lilo.conf"

Re: [expert] Couple of questions...

[M Thompson]

I had the same problem when I tried to apply a patch to the Mandrake 
2.2.13pre?? kernel source.  Mandrake ships a non-standard kernel source with 
their distribution, but the patches are expecting the standard kernel source 
that can be found on ftp.kernel.org

To solve the problem, I:
1) broke the symbolic link "/usr/src/linux"
2) downloaded and installed the latest kernel source from ftp.kernel.org to 
a directory called "/usr/src/linux-2.2.??"
3) created a symbolic link "/usr/src/linux" that points to 
"/usr/src/linux-2.2.??"


HTH,
Matt



>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [expert] Couple of questions...
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:12:30 +
>
[snip]
>2. At home I`m using Mandrake 6.1, with the original kernel it come,
>2.2.13-pre??, ... I tryied to patch it to the latest available 2.2.14 but I 
>get
>a lot of .rej, ...I`d followed the standar procedures as described under
>/usr/src/linux/README, ...any idea ?.
>
[snip]
>Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
>Jorge Carminati.
>
>
>

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Re: [expert] Greetings

[M Thompson]

I great place to start is:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html

or

http://www.mandrakeuser.org


HTH,
Matt



>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [expert] Greetings
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:07:50 EST
>
[snip]
>I would really like to talk to some Linux users in real time.  If this is
>possible for any of you guys to help me out with the type of questions that 
>I
>would feel stupid asking in this list, I would really appreciate it.  Also,
>perhaps I could have a few reference sites to find out more of these 
>general
>things I will have to get used to in moving from Windows and DOS to Linux?
>I have no problem reading things (preferably online materials, as I have no
>money), I just don't know where to look.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Dan Rasmussen
>
>Instant Messenger: Spiffy1two
>ICQ: 4689648

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[expert] Mouse goes crazy when hd or cd IO occuring

[Eric]

I have a LM 6.1 (waiting on KDE 2.0 before any more upgrades), and
everything works OK that I really need.  Except:
My mouse (Boring Serial Mouse) works great, except when ANY long-running
IO occurs with any Hard Drive or CD-device , even if it is not intensive
(ie: Burning a CD).  I have tried running and not running IRQtune, but I
get the same results.  The mouse jumps all over the screen even when not
being moved.  It is not just a delayed result, it is a totally incorrect
movement (or rather jump).  Any thoughts on even where to investigate?

Eric Aksomitis

[expert] nfs & rpc question: "Program not registered"

[Charles Curley]

I have been able to nfs mount the root partition of a computer for over a
year with no problems. Recently, power went out, affecting both of the
computers involved, causing both to die a horrible death. As I was not
around at the time, I don't know what error messages were shown when the
machines rebooted.

The error message I now get is:

root@charlesc # mount /mnt/server/
mount: RPC: Program not registered

charlesc's fstab contains:

server://mnt/server nfs timeo=14,intr,noauto 0 0

server's /etc/exports is:

[ccurley@server ccurley]$ cat /etc/exports /   charlesc(no_root_squash)

also on server:

[ccurley@server ccurley]$ cat /etc/rpc | grep -i nfs
nfs 13  nfsprog
rpcnfs  100116  na.rpcnfs
nfs_acl 100227
pcnfsd  150001
bwnfsd  545580417

Any brilliant ideas out there?

Thanks!


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Re: [expert] burning CDs

[minnrp01]

IIRC,
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cd.iso

I don't use a specified block format.

It works for most of the CDs that I've copied, just not Mandrake 6.0 and
5.3.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Question:
> > I have had problems copying Mandrake 5.3 with dd (to a .iso file).  It
> > seems to get to the end and then get data errors.  Is there something at
> > the end of the CD that prevents this sort of copying?
> 
> How do you know the exact size to specify to dd 
> You can't use, say, df, because it will not know about TOC and such,
> so how can you know _exactly_ ???
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 74 Annemasse  France
> old Linux fan
> 

[expert] Vortex Audio

[Guillermo Belli]

Hi all:

My father wants to try out Linux, so he asked me to install it in his computer.
the problem is that his hardware is not so Linux friendly. 
-Fisrt, the video card is a Savge 4 Pro. The Mandrake version I got is 6.0,
but also got XFree 3.3.5, and I think this version supports his video card. 
-The sound card is a Diamon Sonic Impact S90 with the Vortex 1 chipset
(AU8820B2). Are there any dirvers for this card? If so, how can I install them?
Working without music is not much fun
-The modem is a Motorola SM56K. It's a Winmodem I know there's nothing to
do about it, but I've heard somebody wrote some drivers for some winmodems.
Does anybody know about this? 
Please help me get my father into the Linux Community. 
Thanks a lot.

-- 
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ICQ #38321312
http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)

Re: [expert] info

[Michael D. Kirkpatrick]

Visit http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois

Above the "NOTICE" statement, you will find 5 links.  If the IP originated here in
the US, select the top link.  It will take you to
http://www.arin.net/whois/arinwhois.html.  There you can do a whois on a specific
IP address.  There you can find the actual owner of that IP.  It will be
registered to some kind of service provider.  With that info, you can contact them
to find out who was actually using that IP.  Make sure you have all the INFO you
will need.  Ip address, Date, Time, Etc...  You should be able to track the
individual down, unless that person is a very good hacker...  On the same note, if
that person was a very good hacker, you would have never found about the attack.

Jack Malone wrote:

> Hi
> I had an atempt today from a to access my computer an i have the ipaddress
> from the crupit but can not finout whho own the ip address. durn internic
> is not blocking the info from doing a whois. anyone  else know of a way to
> get the info on an ipaddress thanks
>
> jack
> Jack Malone
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone

[expert] burning CDs

[Michael D. Kirkpatrick]

On this topic...

I downloaded Linux Mandrake 7.0 CD Image and burned in on a CD.

The burn was successful and verified out perfectly...

BUT!  When I went to do an install, the installer is missing a package
when you select everything.  That did not bother me since I can get that
package online if I really need it.  The major problems I hit was it
could not detect my NIC's, Install Lilo properly, the documentation is
broken, and when I make it boot up off of the floppy, every service
reports "Wrong kernel version."

Now, I have downloaded it 3 time and burned 12 CD's trying different
options.  Is there something wrong with the iso image on Mandrake's
site?

Here I thought I would try to take a cheap way out by downloading it
instead of buying the box set.  With all the hassle and time wasted, I
think I would have been better off ordering a copy...

Re: [expert] burning CDs

[Michael D. Kirkpatrick]

ixsoft Softwareentwicklung und -vertrieb wrote:

> Kodak with black coating (yes, these really exist !)
> any green CD-R (especially ARITA or Red Label, "audio")
> dark blue CD-R (especially Verbatim or unlabelled)

Can you possibly direct me to where I can obtain some Kodak CDs with the black
coating?  I need a few for a program I am working on that runs on the
Playstation.  I hate the fact that I have to use a Mod chip to help in the aid of
building the program.

If you E-Mail me directly, I will let you know what I am working on...

Thanks in advance.
Mike Kirkpatrick

RE: [expert] Greetings

[Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)]

> First of all, is it safe to say that basically, all Linux 
> distributions are 
> about the same?  It looks as though the only real differences 
> between the 
> distributions deal with the installation process and the 
> choice of packages 
> that each company chooses to include, is this true?  And if 
> it is, are 
> problems encountered with other Linux distributions pretty 
> much relevant to 
> this list?
Classifying Linux distributions is like saying jazz or acid rock is the best
music in the world.  Pick a distro that feels comfortable to you.  Each has
its good points and bad points.  Some make better servers, others are good
home machines or newbie machines.  I've watched them evolve rapidly over the
last few years (who remembers SlackWare?) to the point where even newbies
can get a basic system up and running in no time.  I'm happy, else I
wouldn't be on this list, with the feature set in LM6.1.

> 
> I would also really like to get an idea of the way the 
> directories are set 
> up.  For example, where are the most common places to put 
> files at, such as 
> mp3s, files downloaded from the internet, pictures, etc.  
> Also, where would 
> be a good place to look to figure out how all the various 
> .conf files and the 
> Linux equivalent of autoexec.bat affect my system?
try "man "
go into the /usr/doc directory system and spend a few weeks there,
especially the HOWTO, FAQ and LDP sub directories.
Go to www.linux.org and spend a few weeks there too.


Matthew Zaleski

Re: [expert] Minor mouse problem in 7.0

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Axalon:

Thanks for the good advice. Appreciate it.

Benjamin
-- 
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net

RE: [expert] burning CDs

[Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)]

> don't use Xcdroast on data cdroms, this program is broken somehow
> (at least it has never worked for me without hitches since some
> error messages are suppressed and several options are not correct)
> we use plain mkisofs/cdrecord here and it has been working just great 
> for *years* now

I've only used XCDRoast for 2 years now, both with a 4x and an 8x burner.
Data and audio CDs both come out fine at full speed.  The version of
XCDRoast in the distro LM6.1 and LM7.0beta(Oxygen) have a display bug where
status box doesn't get updated until the burn is complete.  Grab a different
version from the maker of XCDRoast and that problem goes away.

> 
> > > > Any ideas? I burned at full 4x speed, and some people have
> > > > told me they typically burn at half the maximum speed.
> > > > Would that help, do you think?
> > > 

> Also, some CD-R (dark blue and shiny green) should be avoided for data
> duplication under all circumstances. Especially these CD-R 
> will not work
> well with Linux ISO images (this is from experience with 
> about 5000 produced
> CD-R, so please don't flame me on this):
>   Kodak with black coating (yes, these really exist !)
>   any green CD-R (especially ARITA or Red Label, "audio")
>   dark blue CD-R (especially Verbatim or unlabelled)
I've had a few problems with the cheapy green CD-R disks, although I
attributed it to poor balance where the CD reader drive couldn't spin up the
disk beyond 4x or 8x without problems.

> 
> The following CD-R work GREAT on any Linux ISO image:
>   Kodak or Mitsui GOLD/GOLD (only 6x speed)
>   unlabelled SILVER/SILVER (be sure to buy 8x speed CDs)
>   PRINCO SILVER/BLUE (this is light blue ...)
>   Intenso SILVER/BLUE (this is also light blue, 
>   we did not test the new dark blue Intenso 700 MB yet)
I have not had any problems (in 50-100 CD's) so far unlabelled silver/silver
disks.  I burn at 8x even though they are spec'd for 4x or 6x.

Overall, I agree with the intent of your comments: "BUY QUALITY CD-R
disks!".  They are not that much more expensive and what good is a storage
medium that corrupts your data.

Matthew Zaleski

Re: [expert] Minor mouse problem in 7.0

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Dear Jean-Louis and friends:
> 
> Thanks to you, my mouse is working in the console as well as in
> XWindows. Works just great.
> 
> However, I have two questions:
> 
> 1) Axalon says that I should have used chkconfig instead of a symbolic
> link. Could you explain to me in a few words what command I should use
> with chkconfig and what it does.

man chkconfig, It basicly creates the symlinks for you, but it also reads
information from the init file to know what order to startup
 
> 2) When I reboot, I keep getting a Hardware dialog box saying that my
> serial mouse is gone. That's of course not true. It then asks me if I
> want to remove, keep or ignore the configuration. This screen keeps
> reappearing every few boots even though my serial mouse is working fine
> in both the console and XWindows.
> 
> What's going on? And how do I get rid of this screen?

Kudzu is probeing your hardware, select "do nothing" IIRC, it says on the
screen, "do this and i'll never ask again" thats the one you should choose

> Thanks so much.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> 

-- 
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

[expert] ide-floppy.o

[Bug Hunter]

  Does anyone know what this module does for you?  I loaded it and tried
various things. It broke accessing the ls-120 drive as /dev/hdd, and it
didn't work as /dev/fd0.  I couldn't find any man pages on it.

[expert] Couple of questions...

[jorge_carminati]

Hi there, 

I`m subscribed to this list since a long time ago, ...every day reading all the 
answer but now I had a ton of qestion in queue :)


1. I`d like to setup static routes automaticaly every time I start my Mandrake. 
I`d checked under /etc/sysconfig and added a file `static-routes
% with chmod 
755 but it doesn`t work, ...any suggestion ?, ...checked man route, and NET3 
but couldn
%t find nothing.

2. At home I`m using Mandrake 6.1, with the original kernel it come, 
2.2.13-pre??, ... I tryied to patch it to the latest available 2.2.14 but I get 
a lot of .rej, ...I`d followed the standar procedures as described under 
/usr/src/linux/README, ...any idea ?.

3. I get some messages when running KDE like `KCharset: Wrong charset`, I 
suppose that some applications try to use some fonts that doesn`t exist, am I 
wrong ? what can I do.

4. I have two kernels compiled, ...the one that come with my original 
installation of Mandrake , and the one I compiled, ...a symbolic link is 
pointing to the one I compiled. The same applies to System.map
How can I set lilo.conf to start with the System.map that belong to the kernel 
selected when I start my system ? without touching the symlink ?.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
Jorge Carminati.

Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Patrick Putteman wrote:

> I'd rather see Mandrakesoft fix the IP Aliasing problem that exists with
> Mandrake 6.x and probably 7 (haven't tried that yet)  than give
> unconstructive comments.

works fine in 7.0
 
> If Mr. Litwiller wants to put 2 ip's, one private and one public, on the
> same nic, that's his choice and should normally work. I can even see some
> particular setups where this would be a logical choice.

This is NOT his choice, we have private ip space on the grounds that it
will never be connected to the internet. please please please read the rfc
1918
 
> The thing is, IP Aliasing has been broken since Mandrake 6, and although
> there have been several questions asked in the expert and newbie mailing
> list, I haven't seen one sollution from Mandrake that actually makes it work
> for me!
> 
> I've too far integrated my Mandrake 6.1 server into our company network
> (bind and dhcp server and monitoring tools as Netsaint and MRTG) to switch
> to another distro. If I knew what I know now I wouldn't choose Mandrake
> anymore. But, I need IP Aliasing!!
> 
> The thing is, although I'm still excited about what Mandrake represents and
> all the good intentions I don't think Mandrake will ever become THE linux
> distro because of basic problems and the lack of sollutions.
> 
> You'll never hear me say that Linux has to be simple, has to be installed
> with a graphical interface, has to be drag and drop, plug and play,  I
> knew that when I chose to integrate Linux in our company network, I'd have
> to actually work on it to get it going (once it's running, it's a pleasure
> to keep it that way though), but I'm not a programmer, I'm a system engineer
> and don't think that I'm supposed to fix some source code because someone
> forgot to replace a comma by a dot in a makefile just before uploading his
> tarball
> 
> Patrick
> - Original Message -
> From: "Axalon Bloodstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Timothy Litwiller wrote:
> >
> > > how do I put two ip addresses to the same network card -
> > >
> > > specifically I would like to use my public IP address 203.53.###.53 and
> > > a private ip address 192.168.2.53 on the same card.
> >
> > You must be jokeing
> >
> > > also if this works then what do I need to do to make samba function only
> > > on the private ip#
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> > --Axalon
> >
> 

-- 
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

[expert] Video chipset support ?

[Jean-Louis Debert]

Hello all.

I'm trying to install 7.0 on a DELL 500C desktop.
Now DRAKX seems not to like the video hardware, and
installation proceeds in character mode (not much of a problem).

But I was concerned: the video chipset is part of the motherboard
chipset (Intel 810).
I looked on XFree's site but unless I missed it, there does not 
seems to be any support for this chipset ... 

So what am I to do ? Use the frame buffer driver ??? This should
work, but AFAIK the frame buffer driver is _not_ accelerated at all,
so performance would suffer ???

Does somebody know of a better way (even a beta driver would be fine
at this stage).

Thanks 

-- 
Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse  France
old Linux fan

[expert] WebServer Software

[Joe Sheble]

Yesterday I saew a link come through the mailing list about a linux distro
that was based on RH, and was strictly for web communications.  They
stripped everything but the web specific stuff, and are selling it as such.
Does anybody remember this message?  If so, would you still happen to have
the link?

Thanx!

Joseph (Joe) Sheble
a.k.a. Wizaerd

Wizaerd's Realm
http://www.wizaerd.com
3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas
a little bit of everything...

ColdFusion Developer
iTOOL.com
http://www.itool.com
Come Build Your Site Today

Re: [expert] burning CDs

[Jean-Louis Debert]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Question:
> I have had problems copying Mandrake 5.3 with dd (to a .iso file).  It
> seems to get to the end and then get data errors.  Is there something at
> the end of the CD that prevents this sort of copying?

How do you know the exact size to specify to dd 
You can't use, say, df, because it will not know about TOC and such,
so how can you know _exactly_ ???

-- 
Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse  France
old Linux fan

[expert] Remove

[ANDREW L. EDWARDS]

Remove

Re: [expert] Xterm background colour

[Roberto A. F.]

Glyn Millington wrote:

> How do I get a nice BLACK background to Xterms in KDE - and for that matter
> change the colour of the foreground too.  They don't seem to respond to
> .Xdefaults!
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions

I use konsole and colors are settable by menu.
My xterm appears colored as KDE because I put a "v" in a box (traslating from
italian) "apply KDE colors & prop. at non KDE apps" in the control center.

>
> Glyn M.

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Re: [expert] burning CDs

[minnrp01]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, ixsoft Softwareentwicklung und -vertrieb wrote:

> > > > I have a 4x4x16 CDRW. I burned a whole bunch of Mandrake
> > > > 7.02 CDs and gave 'em out. Now I'm starting to get reports
> > > > back that they don't work. I used XCDRoast to burn 'em and
> > > > I verified most of 'em, and there were no errors reported
> > > > when burning or when checking.
> 
> don't use Xcdroast on data cdroms, this program is broken somehow
> (at least it has never worked for me without hitches since some
> error messages are suppressed and several options are not correct)
> we use plain mkisofs/cdrecord here and it has been working just great 
> for *years* now
> 
There is a program called readiso that will copy a cd into a .iso file,
which might work better than mkisofs for copying a cd.  Feed the .iso to
cdrecord and it should work.

Question:
I have had problems copying Mandrake 5.3 with dd (to a .iso file).  It
seems to get to the end and then get data errors.  Is there something at
the end of the CD that prevents this sort of copying?

Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic

[Ray]

You have got to be kidding! I am running Mandrake 6.1 ans 7.0 and 
I have 12 ips on one card on both machines. These are both production web and
ftp servers.



 On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> I'd rather see Mandrakesoft fix the IP Aliasing problem that exists with
> Mandrake 6.x and probably 7 (haven't tried that yet)  than give
> unconstructive comments.
> 
> If Mr. Litwiller wants to put 2 ip's, one private and one public, on the
> same nic, that's his choice and should normally work. I can even see some
> particular setups where this would be a logical choice.
> 
> The thing is, IP Aliasing has been broken since Mandrake 6, and although
> there have been several questions asked in the expert and newbie mailing
> list, I haven't seen one sollution from Mandrake that actually makes it work
> for me!
> 
> I've too far integrated my Mandrake 6.1 server into our company network
> (bind and dhcp server and monitoring tools as Netsaint and MRTG) to switch
> to another distro. If I knew what I know now I wouldn't choose Mandrake
> anymore. But, I need IP Aliasing!!
> 
> The thing is, although I'm still excited about what Mandrake represents and
> all the good intentions I don't think Mandrake will ever become THE linux
> distro because of basic problems and the lack of sollutions.
> 
> You'll never hear me say that Linux has to be simple, has to be installed
> with a graphical interface, has to be drag and drop, plug and play,  I
> knew that when I chose to integrate Linux in our company network, I'd have
> to actually work on it to get it going (once it's running, it's a pleasure
> to keep it that way though), but I'm not a programmer, I'm a system engineer
> and don't think that I'm supposed to fix some source code because someone
> forgot to replace a comma by a dot in a makefile just before uploading his
> tarball
> 
> Patrick
> - Original Message -
> From: "Axalon Bloodstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Timothy Litwiller wrote:
> >
> > > how do I put two ip addresses to the same network card -
> > >
> > > specifically I would like to use my public IP address 203.53.###.53 and
> > > a private ip address 192.168.2.53 on the same card.
> >
> > You must be jokeing
> >
> > > also if this works then what do I need to do to make samba function only
> > > on the private ip#
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> > --Axalon
> >

[expert] ipmasq and Visual Interdev

[James Lewis]

We've setup IP masquerading through 2.2.13, and everything is going great 
*except* one of the workstation inside the network is running NT and Visual 
Interdev, which connects to an external SQL Server via TCP/IP port 1433. 
The TCP and UDP timeouts are set to 2 hours on the linux box, and when the 
INterdev session is left idle for a few minutes, then returned to, it has 
constant connetion errors until the program is closed and restarted.

Any help/suggestions/ideas on why this is happening would be v. handy.

Many thanks

James Lewis

P.S. I didn't know whether to post to expert or newbie. I'm somewhere in 
between.

[expert] Sometimes KDE session crash

[Roberto A. F.]

Hello,

 sometimes KDE session crash at my home.
 But it's crash on other PC too, so I thing good think write here.
Sorry for the long msg I hope this help you to make MDk more stable.
 I use MDK 7.0 and this is part of /var/log/messages:

Starting PC:

Feb 18 09:13:30 localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Feb 18 09:13:30 localhost syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Feb 18 09:13:30 localhost syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Feb 18 09:13:30 localhost kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Feb 18 09:13:30 localhost kernel: Inspecting
/boot/System.map-2.2.14-15mdk
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Loaded 6230 symbols from
/boot/System.map-2.2.14-15mdk.
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.14.
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Loaded 60 symbols from 4 modules.
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release))
#1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Detected 334093908 Hz processor.
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 333.41
BogoMIPS
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Memory: 63028k/65536k available (1092k
kernel code, 412k reserved, 940k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Dentry hash table entries: 262144
(order 9, 2048k)
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536
(order 6, 256k)
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Page cache hash table entries: 16384
(order 4, 64k)
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0
initialized
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping 02
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU
using exception 16 error reporting.
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at
0xfdb81
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer
Society NET3.039
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for
Linux NET4.0.
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash
65536 bhash 65536)
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.5
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with
MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03
(Driver version 1.9)
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM
disks of 4096K size
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00
dev 39
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will
probe irqs later
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7,
BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf,
BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: hda: SAMSUNG SV0432A, ATA DISK drive
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: hdb: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: hdd: LTN301, ATAPI CDROM drive
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: hda: SAMSUNG SV0432A, 4112MB w/482kB
Cache, CHS=784/255/63
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: hdb: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB
Cache, CHS=784/255/63
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 120kB
Cache
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256,
MAX_REAL=12
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: raid5: measuring checksumming speed
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel: raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed
MMX checksum routines
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel:pII_mmx   :   736.092 MB/sec
Feb 18 09:13:31 localhost kernel:p5_mmx:   769.620 MB/sec
F

Re: [expert] FrameMaker on Mandrake 7.0

[Olivier DUGEON]

Hi,

I just install fmlinux beta 2 under Mdk 6.1. It work fine. Never crash
when run under 15 bpp or 16 bpp X server. Just say that "it doesn't
support such a resolution and may crash or not displaying properly some
images". In fact it's true. It doesn't crash for me but display
incorrectly some images : there are grey'd.

Hope this help.

Olivier
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Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic

[Phil Edwards]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Patrick Putteman wrote:
> I'd rather see Mandrakesoft fix the IP Aliasing problem that exists with
> Mandrake 6.x and probably 7 (haven't tried that yet)  than give
> unconstructive comments.
> 

I don't know about your other problems, Patrick, but I found recently that
IP Aliasing *does* work in MDK 6.1, but *only* if your network card driver
is compiled into the kernel as a module. I discovered this by accident
recently when I had to reboot my MDK 6.1 box and forgot to type
"newkernel" at the LILO prompt - it loaded the vanilla 2.2.13-22mdk kernel
and my IP aliases came up automatically. I rebooted the machine, using my
self-compiled kernel, and no IP aliases appeared. Note that you will need
to have the "initscripts-4.23-35mdk" RPM installed for this to work.

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Re: [expert] Problems with gv in Mandrake Linux 7.0

[fpons]

Chunnuan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
> I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf
> file and got an error message like "unknow device: x11alpha", and the

Can you check which version of ghostscript-XXX you have, you should see
ghostscript-X or ghostscript-Both, else install one of them and remove
the previous one which may be ghostscript-SVGALIB or ghostscript-PrintOnly.

> file was not displayed. Can someone tell me what  this means and how to
> correct this? Thanks.
> 
> Chunnunan

François.

Re: [expert] burning CDs

[ixsoft Softwareentwicklung und -vertrieb]

> > > I have a 4x4x16 CDRW. I burned a whole bunch of Mandrake
> > > 7.02 CDs and gave 'em out. Now I'm starting to get reports
> > > back that they don't work. I used XCDRoast to burn 'em and
> > > I verified most of 'em, and there were no errors reported
> > > when burning or when checking.

don't use Xcdroast on data cdroms, this program is broken somehow
(at least it has never worked for me without hitches since some
error messages are suppressed and several options are not correct)
we use plain mkisofs/cdrecord here and it has been working just great 
for *years* now

> > > Any ideas? I burned at full 4x speed, and some people have
> > > told me they typically burn at half the maximum speed.
> > > Would that help, do you think?
> > 
> > Don't work in what way? Can't boot from CD? Can't boot from floppy? Can't
> > read CD in Linux or MS Windows?

Yes, we need more accurate information on the problem since there may
be many causes - ASCII ftp transfer may cause the image to get corrupted,
then the image itself may have been damaged by some unknown cause like
NFS failure (I'm still wondering if the NFS chksum works now with knfsd)
and there may have been wrong options to cdrecord from xcdroad.
Also, you may have used a broken CD-R-drive where the laser is dejustified
(don't laugh, this really happens) and produces CDs that cannot be read
by other CDROM drives.
Also, some CD-R (dark blue and shiny green) should be avoided for data
duplication under all circumstances. Especially these CD-R will not work
well with Linux ISO images (this is from experience with about 5000 produced
CD-R, so please don't flame me on this):
Kodak with black coating (yes, these really exist !)
any green CD-R (especially ARITA or Red Label, "audio")
dark blue CD-R (especially Verbatim or unlabelled)

The following CD-R work GREAT on any Linux ISO image:
Kodak or Mitsui GOLD/GOLD (only 6x speed)
unlabelled SILVER/SILVER (be sure to buy 8x speed CDs)
PRINCO SILVER/BLUE (this is light blue ...)
Intenso SILVER/BLUE (this is also light blue, 
we did not test the new dark blue Intenso 700 MB yet)

> and yes burning at 1x does help some older hardware..

this is mostly true for audio CDs
for data CD-R, you should burn at 8x (minimum 4x) - this will work
with most CD-Rs - the faster you write to the CD-R, the more
accurate the dot pitch of the burned holes will be - so 8x CD-R should
be better than 4x CD-R and 12x CD-R (untested) theoretically should
be better than 8x. I have never understood what the problem with these
audio tracks is, but 4x does not work in most cases since it's too fast.
for data CD-R, the opposite is true. maybe there is some D/A conversion
in between that causes the problems, something like realtime problems when
faxing on ISDN lines.

we are burning several 100 CD-R a week at 8x and we did have only
2 known failures (a customers' drive was incapable to read an otherwise 
perfect CD-R) in about 3-4 months now.
if you don't believe me, you can order some sample CD-R from us and have
a look at them ;-)

Bernd

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Re: [expert] Minor mouse problem in 7.0

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Jean-Louis and friends:

Thanks to you, my mouse is working in the console as well as in
XWindows. Works just great.

However, I have two questions:

1) Axalon says that I should have used chkconfig instead of a symbolic
link. Could you explain to me in a few words what command I should use
with chkconfig and what it does.

2) When I reboot, I keep getting a Hardware dialog box saying that my
serial mouse is gone. That's of course not true. It then asks me if I
want to remove, keep or ignore the configuration. This screen keeps
reappearing every few boots even though my serial mouse is working fine
in both the console and XWindows.

What's going on? And how do I get rid of this screen?

Thanks so much.

Benjamin


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