[expert] Fwd: 7.0-2 and Trident Video
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Subject: 7.0-2 and Trident Video
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:03:17 -0900
From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I had a machine running 6.0 (Venus) successfully. After several moderate
successes upgrading to 7.0 I tried this one.
1. The install procedure wrapped around itself in DiskDrake. I tried to do an
upgrade and kept being told that /usr had 86 Mb too little. I then started
again booting from CD and expanded the /usr partition since / was big enough
tpo contain the /var partition following /usr. I deleted /var and resized /usr
to contain the old /usr and /var, resigning myself to an install, but having
most of what I wanted to keep in /home and /usr/local partitions anyway
Now, after Diskdrake wrote to disk... A problem appeared. Itr said the
partitions were overlapping. I looked and backed up and tried again... Same
result--overlapping partitions. I rebooted and smacked into a wall trying to
install because the partition table was corrupt. I booted a floppy and checked
with fdisk, and they WERE. It wasn't a false read, it had been a bad write.
Well I wanted to see if the program would fix it, so I deleted those
partitions, and the offending overlapping ones, and repartitioned using
DiskDrake. That worked, and the install proceeded.
We got to video Oooops. Nothing would work. THis was working fine under
XFree86-3.3.4 A trident 3DImage975 AGP card with 4Mb. Finally, I selected
"Quit" after trying everything from 1154 at 32bpp to 640 at 8bpp, and I told it
to remember the 640x480 at 8bpp. I stupidly allowed it to set runlevel 5, but
remembered in time to type "linux 3" at boot. After adding
Option "noaccel"
to /etc/X11/XF86Config with vi, I tried startx and had a screen.
Unfortunatewly this one had a glide pad and it is annoying to have to hold
alt, click the left mouse button, and use a "{free}" finger to slide the box
around so you can click what you want.
Anyway, I managed to get four resolutions working--all under no acceleration.
1154 at 32 bpp (roughly the size of a postcard on my NEC 3V 15" monitor),
640x480 at 24bpp, with Netscape in glorius monochrome, 640x480 at 32bpp and
that was about 10% larger than a postcard under my best monitor adjustments.
I cannot reinstall Xfree86-3.3.4 because something in initscripts needs a
higher number. I will write a script to strip XFree86-3.3.6 and rpm in
XFree86-3.3.5 and offer ti to all. It is true that under XFree86-3.3.5 every
Trident Micro 3DImage (975 or 985) card I have tried has refused to work
properly until I hand-added the "noaccel" option.
I do note that the latest version of XF86Setup does allow the inclusion of
lines in the XF86Config file from the setup routine. I like it, but it did no
better than Xconfigurator.
Civileme
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[expert] netscape problems
I'm running a fairly clean install of Mandrake 6.0 on my old p-166. If I open more than a few windows in Navigator 4.6 it can bring the whole system down with constant HD activity. It effectively ties up all resources-- I can't kill KDE or switch to another terminal. Last time this happened I did a hardware reset and trashed everything fairly thoroughly, hence the fairly clean install! This time I managed to telnet from my windows box, but the system was so tied up it took several minutes to connect and present me with a login prompt so I could reboot. This has happened before with Netscape 4.7 so I don't think an upgrade will help. It seems to happen most readily on pages using Java. Other than disabling Java is there any common fix? Thanks, Gene ...still wishing for Mozilla or Opera to be ready...
Re: [expert] PS2 Mouse problem
At 14.18 20/02/00 -0500, you wrote: >For qustion 1) Have you tried recompiling MC with gpm enabled? I didn't recompile mc, but I uninstalled mc and mcserv , then installed the same (even if a little older) packages from rh61, and these work! Thank U for the suggestion! :-) Bye Ev
Re: [expert] leafnode / telnet problems
Andreas Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is refused. I have no idea why, because it's worked with previous installations > of mandrake and leafnode. I suppose that soem security settings don't allow the > access. Can someone help? The same aplies to telnet. telnet-server is > installed, but I only get a connection refused message. PLZ help. What version of leafnode ? take the last version from cooker contrib : http://www.linuxmandrake.com/cooker/ work for me. -- Chmouel Boudjnah MandrakeSoft Inc. Building 1025.
[expert] ipchains problem
Can someone possibly shed light on why IPChains refuses to work for me? Here's what I'm trying to do: /sbin/ipchains -A output -d 199.95.207.0/24 -j DENY /sbin/ipchains -A output -d 199.95.208.0/24 -j DENY But whenever I try and do that, it keeps coming up and saying "protocol not available." Before you ask, "Is IPChains installed?" here's the answer: [root@slave1 /root]# rpm -qa | grep ipchains ipchains-1.3.8-4mdk and: [root@slave1 /root]# ipchains -V ipchains 1.3.8, 27-Oct-1998 As you can clearly see, IPChains ARE installed, but it won't work. I even tried using the "-p tcp" switch and it STILL says "protocol not available. What's the problem here Can someone enlighten me on this? Thanks... John
Re: [expert] installing in /usr/local
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, you wrote: > >%_RPMs are generally the rule with Mandrake, in which case you simply have no > control... many packages go primarily in to /usr/lib with pieces going > elsewhere. > Actually, you CAN use the --relocate switch with RPM. Never used it myself, but it's there... :-) John
[expert] GPG with Kmail
Does anyone know how to get GPG to work with Kmail? I amusing version 1.0.21. -- Stephen Carville Linux -- The Assault Weapon of the Internet
Re: [expert] tape backup
I'm new to tape drives in linux and actually have no clue on how to install them. I got myself sony superstation ide drive and mdk 7 detected it as disk drive? mind telling me abouth the how tos you've read? thanx - Original Message - From: "alann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 2:14 PM Subject: [expert] tape backup > Hi, I'm trying ( unsucessfully ) to get my Colorodo T-3000 to work under linux. > > I have read a number of how-tos, but am a little lost in trying to configure it under > /etc/fstab. Most of the how-to's I have found have dealt with inserting ftape in the > kernal. > Ftape seems to be present on my MDK 6.1 sys. However, I am unsucessful in getting it to > work. > > If anyone knows a better howto or can tell me some hints, I would greatly appreciate it. > I want to try mdk 7 ( maybe 7.1 ) but since my sys now is SO nicely running, I want it on > tape before I go further. > > Thanks > Alan > > -- > == > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > running Linux Mandrake 6.1 and/or BeOS. >
Re: [expert] Re: timeout sending Config-Requests [Incident:mcpaid000219-0017]
This problem aporadically occurs with my Mandrake 6.1 setup as well. It hasn't happened in several months, and I haven't changed anything related to PPP between then and now. I never figured out what caused the problem. I'm wondering if it's a problem with some ISPs' setup that Win9x and WinNT work around and Linux doesn't. Maybe you should contact the maintainer of PPP with a description of the problem. Andrew Ramon Gandia wrote: > > Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > > > The log said your line is not 8-bit clean. That probably means your modem > > speed is not set correctly. Try with 19200, 38400 and 115200 to see if it > > changes something. > > Common enough assumption. It means nothing of the sort. It > simply means the pppd deamon did not start. The error message > is misleading. This is a "well known behaviour." > > In his case, the modems had already negotiated and passed > some data back and forth. So its not a serial port problem, > its a protocol problem. > > -- > Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net > http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 > P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 > Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
[expert] ps broken
When I log in as a user and type ps aux or ps -ef, I only get the users processes. I can only get all processes by loging in as root. I noticed in /proc that all the process directories are not world readable or executable, yet inside the directories there are some world readable files. Whats up with that? Could this be related to my security level in Msec. I setup mandrake using level 4.
Re: [expert] installing in /usr/local
RPMs are generally the rule with Mandrake, in which case you simply have no control... many packages go primarily in to /usr/lib with pieces going elsewhere. Why not move /usr/lib to the other part and create a symlink in the original location pointing to it? Oughta be in single-user mode to do this. If you use tarballs, you can change paths in Makefile (sometimes Makefile.config) after doing 'make' and before 'make install'. If the subject package is real primitive, check paths in .h file. Probably best to stick with generally-accepted standard locations though. -- Carl A. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORDER, I say... ORDER! Joel VanderWerf wrote: > I'm using Mandrake 6.0, but this is really a general linux question. > > How do I force install scripts to put files in /usr/local? > > Some background: when I first installed linux, I put /usr/local on a > separate partition (symlinked to /home/local, actually). (That may have > even been the advice of one of the resident sages of this list ;-) The > intention was that all subsequently installed programs would go to > /usr/local, and I could install new versions of the distro on top of my > / partition without clobbering all the downloaded stuff. I'd only have > to worry about preserving /etc, /root, and maybe a few others. > > With *some* tarballs, all I have to do is "configure > --prefix=/usr/local", and the makefiles will put everything where I > want. > > But today I tried to install kdirstat. Even with the prefix option, it > tries to put kdirstat in /usr/bin. Here's the Makefile output: > > /usr/bin/install -c kdirstat > /usr/bin/kdirstat > > I also tried "--exec-prefix=/usr/local". > > Are there some other settings I should change? > > Thanks for any help! > > Joel > > -- > > Joel VanderWerf > [EMAIL PROTECTED] S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[expert] installing in /usr/local
I'm using Mandrake 6.0, but this is really a general linux question. How do I force install scripts to put files in /usr/local? Some background: when I first installed linux, I put /usr/local on a separate partition (symlinked to /home/local, actually). (That may have even been the advice of one of the resident sages of this list ;-) The intention was that all subsequently installed programs would go to /usr/local, and I could install new versions of the distro on top of my / partition without clobbering all the downloaded stuff. I'd only have to worry about preserving /etc, /root, and maybe a few others. With *some* tarballs, all I have to do is "configure --prefix=/usr/local", and the makefiles will put everything where I want. But today I tried to install kdirstat. Even with the prefix option, it tries to put kdirstat in /usr/bin. Here's the Makefile output: /usr/bin/install -c kdirstat /usr/bin/kdirstat I also tried "--exec-prefix=/usr/local". Are there some other settings I should change? Thanks for any help! Joel -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Re: timeout sending Config-Requests [Incident:mcpaid000219-0017]
Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > The log said your line is not 8-bit clean. That probably means your modem > speed is not set correctly. Try with 19200, 38400 and 115200 to see if it > changes something. Common enough assumption. It means nothing of the sort. It simply means the pppd deamon did not start. The error message is misleading. This is a "well known behaviour." In his case, the modems had already negotiated and passed some data back and forth. So its not a serial port problem, its a protocol problem. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
[expert] napster and win98, w2k and linux
Hi all, I'm running a mandrake 7.0 machine for the gateway. It has a nic connected to a cable modem for outside connection. I have a win98 box for my girly, and I've got a w2k machine set up as well. I've got napster installed on both the win98 machine and win2k machine. On the firewall I have port 6699 and 6688 open for napster both outbound and inbound. The 98 machine has no problems connecting to napster, then doing a search and actually initiating downloads off random people's machines. The 2000 box however, connects to napster ok, does a search ok, but when I actually go to download an mp3, I ALWAYS get transfer errors on the win2k machine. I think it must be some problem with the tcp/ip stack in w2k, but I thought you guys might be able to pinpoint if it's some sort of firewall problem. I don't think it is since the 98 machine isn't having this problem. Thanks for any help. (please don't flame me, I know this is probably more suited to windows newsgroup but no one has been of any help there) I'd rather go where the smart people are :) Cheers, Myrhillion
Re: [expert] Real Audio.
> Hmm...Ok. All I can say is that the G2 Player works here, > or would if RealPlayer connection were allowed in through > the firewall. :-) > John > I don't understand what the confusion is about "no G2 plugin". Clicking on a realplayer video file in your web browser and having realplayer G2 launch in a separate window is NOT a plugin. A plugin is an application that opens embedded in the browser window. If the application opens in its own window and is not embedded, it's merely an application association. Realplayer G2 for Windows can do both. Realplayer G2 for Linux can only open in a separate window. Some web sites require the _embedded_ plugin, because they want the video to display in the same window as their other web content. Andrew
[expert] ICQJava
Anyone else giveing ICQ's beta java utility a try, it seems quite nice so far not to mention i dont have to keep exiting it each time i log off like i do with gnomeicu only thing was i had to download the latest jdk to get it to work right -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: [expert] Problems with booting from HD
On Son, 20 Feb 2000, Andreas Müller wrote: >Hi all, > >I've installed Air, and I'm able to boot from a floppy disk. Then I tried to >use LILO. It always worked for me the way I did it before, but with air >something's going wrong. I did not chnge anything in /etc/lilo.conf, just >started lilo. My lilo.conf looks like this: > >vga=0x0f02 >default=linux >keytable=/boot/de-latin1.klt >compact >message=/boot/message >image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure >label=linux >root=/dev/sda5 >initrd=/boot/initrd-secure.img >append="" >read-only >image=/boot/vmlinuz >label=linux-up >root=/dev/sda5 >initrd=/boot/initrd.img >append="" >read-only > > >Then I only dumped the boot.sector to my booting partition with: > >dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/mnt/DOS_sda3/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1 > >Now, when trying to boot with the NT-Bootloader I only get LI and all stops. >What is wrong here? Can someone help? Then another question: What is the >difference between the two kernels supplied vmlinuz-secure and vmlinuz? > Perhaps is the kernel behond the 1024 border on your disk Hmm - mustn't there be a "boot=/dev/sda5" entry in your lilo.conf, just to be sure that your boot block _is_ on sda5? -Cajus
Re: [expert] Should I?
John, the more important question before you start upgrading ram and disk space is what are you going to be using the machine for? I have a p200 with 32 megs of ram and an 800 meg hd, running my firewall and webserver, considering my site is very lightly trafficked it's a very appropriate machine for this task as it is. It would not serve as a GUI workstation that well though. The vid card is an old 1mb s3. Linux Mandrake should run fine on any pentium. As usual check the hardware on your machine against what's compatible. Cheers, JD Smith - Original Message - From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Should I? > > - Original Message - > From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 9:42 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] Should I? > > > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > > I was just wonderingI just became the "proud owner" of a GW2K P5-75 > with > > > 32MB RAM, 2 HDD's 540MB and 420MB. I would like to install LM on it, > should > > > I or is it not up for the task? If not what distro would you experts > > > suggest? Thanks to you all, > > > > > I'd say that would be BARELY enough drive space, and barely enough > > RAM for KDE/X. I'd want to upgrade the RAM at least... > > John > > > > Yes, barely for ram, but adequate. Format the second disk to put the swap > space in the /hd*1 partition, the fastest part of the disk - you'll be using > swap often for X Windows. You might want to look at another window > manager/desktop that needs less ram. > > There is a lot of stuff you can dump after you do a minimal install. Look in > the comps file on the CD and see what is installed in the base that you > don't need, then hunt it down and nuke it.Then add things as you need them. > Since you have another machine, it would be OK to delete the docs/ man pages > if you need the space. > > It sure would be great if "minimal install" was an option. Hint. Hint. Hint. > > Hoyt > >
[expert] Squid Permissions and MSEC
Looks like MSEC is a great idea. I just installed Mandrake 7.0.2 and set to server:highsecurity. (for my firewall) But am having a problem with Squid... it can't get to the access.log, and further investigation shows it can't access the cache.log either. (permissions problem) I can squid -z though. I have set the log & spool directories' permissions to global everything. I changed squid.conf 'cache effective user' and 'group' to squid:squid and to nobody:nogroup, each time chowning the log & cache dir to match, and no effect on the problem. Squid will not run. And if I can't run Squid, I can't run Junkbuster... HELP! I think this MSEC has everything to do with the problem, but can't figure out how. It doesn't seem to have a daemon; (is it a kernel patch? Some 'invisible hand' is affecting me and not leaving any hints) Only two terse setup proggies & sparse docs. I find /etc/security/msec/user.conf has two usernames in it... & samba. But when I manually add squid, it doesn't help. When I enable squid for levels 3, 4, & 5 using chkconfig it doesn't help. (And why are levels 0-6 available? What are they... MSEC, or services levels?) Also Netscape always segfaults, possibly because it can't write to its config directory. (permissions?) And xfs will not recognize a new ttf dir, when installed with chkfontpath. (permissions?) Sometimes xfs won't start at all and causes X to crash on startup with "could not find 'fixed' font". That problem has spontaneously healed... twice. I have httpd nicely routed through TCPWrappers and the inside machines can see it, but noone outside can. (permissions again?) And why CAN I ping my firewall's outside interface from an inside machine, with firewalling, masquarading, & ip_forwarding OFF??!! What's moving packets between inside and outside interfaces? I think I must not be filtering packets! I can't prove whether selecting 'high' security makes it MSEC level 3, or 4. To the guy with the outragious 4-way SMP machine, it sounds like a caching- or operations-file limit is set in the SMP or disk quota areas. Try turning off quotas. Also suspect MSEC. Black & Blue is much more beautiful (and usable) than any Gnome themes. Nice work KDE! And MSEC is great, but I need a steering wheel for my car. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you... If you don't bet you can't win. S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [expert] Security on a Personal Linux Box.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Ivan Trail wrote: > Any way, on to my question. I recall reading that you can change the > names of commands in the shell. For instance you could make ls -l into > lsl to simplify things. Well since to hack into a system, you would > need to use some basic commands, like ls and cd etc., would you be able > to change these commands to a different command (give the command a > different name) like cd would become nohack or some other random name. > Thus a hacker would not be able to get around in your system because it > doesn't know the commands to do so. Now the big question, if you change > the commands on your machine, will your machine still recognise the > standard commands issued by the other machine to yours? > This is classical "security by obscurity". It may work only against VERY unexperienced hackers. If you change names of binaries in /bin (for example change cat to nohack) it will break many things on your system and probably you will have problems booting up (as almost all startup scripts use some basic commands esp. cat, rm). And if you use aliases then a hacker can do simple alias command to see your changes or invoke programs directly ( /bin/ls ). You should concentrate on not letting hacker on your system in the first place because when one is inside you really can't do much. Regards Suppiluliuma -- I live to the day I die I live to the day I cry I'm dead the day I lie
Re: [expert] PS2 Mouse problem
For qustion 1) Have you tried recompiling MC with gpm enabled? On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, EVRUS wrote: > Hi to all > > I've just downloaded AIR (mandrake70-2.iso) and installed it succesfully > (ALMOST! ;-) ) > I only have some minor (but very boring!) problems. > > 1) My generic PS2 (2 buttons) mouse has problems in the console, I mean > that when (in MidnightCommander, for example) I click on a menu or a file I > get no effect at all. I only see the pointer moving as it should, but it > doesn't interact. > In X-Windows instead it DOES interact perfectly, even with xterm apps (for > example MC). > On the same machine I also have RH6.1 and the same PS2 mouse works perfectly. > I have no clues 8-) > What could be the problem?? > > 2) I've tried to recompile my kernel with the ALI DMA Ide patch applied, > but it just wont pass the "make modules" section. It keeps stopping. On the > other side, the compilation of RH6.1 kernel (2.2.12-20) with the same > patch, works flawlessly. Is this a bug in the kernel source or an option I > must deselect (or select!) when I do "Make Menuconfig"? > > Anyway , I wish to thank you all! :-) for the solutions to the > problems , that worked for me too :-) > > Bye, > Ev > > > >
Re: [expert] Minicom user question
> Don't know how safe this is for security in the real world, but I just > changed the permissions for the device. I don't know how this will work > in mdk7.0 tho. > > chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS1 > >From security point of view I think it is better to create new group, let's call it 'modem' and do: chgrp modem /dev/ttyS1 chmod g+rw /dev/ttyS1 Then add users that are allowed to use modem to group 'modem' (that's what groups in Linux are for). Giving everyone access to modem should be OK if you are the only user on your computer but on shared machine it's much better to control who can use modem. Regards Suppiluliuma -- I live to the day I die I live to the day I cry I'm dead the day I lie
Re: [expert] Minicom user question -- SOLVED!
Dear Axalon: Thanks so very much for your advice. I will try to implement it next time I reinstall my system (when 7.1 comes out) unless there is a way to undo what I have already done. Thanks so much again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[expert] tape backup
Hi, I'm trying ( unsucessfully ) to get my Colorodo T-3000 to work under linux. I have read a number of how-tos, but am a little lost in trying to configure it under /etc/fstab. Most of the how-to's I have found have dealt with inserting ftape in the kernal. Ftape seems to be present on my MDK 6.1 sys. However, I am unsucessful in getting it to work. If anyone knows a better howto or can tell me some hints, I would greatly appreciate it. I want to try mdk 7 ( maybe 7.1 ) but since my sys now is SO nicely running, I want it on tape before I go further. Thanks Alan -- == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) running Linux Mandrake 6.1 and/or BeOS.
RE: [expert] burning CDs
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > > > Yeah that one i know for sure got fixed > > > Just grabbed the RPM from Mandrake 6.1. With any luck that will > work.. :-) > John actualy i think it was in the last release which should be in air, just check the website (http://www.fh-muenchen.de/rz/xcdroast/) to be sure. there were two instances of lost progress bars i think, i'll have togo digging -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[expert] Problems with booting from HD
Hi all, I've installed Air, and I'm able to boot from a floppy disk. Then I tried to use LILO. It always worked for me the way I did it before, but with air something's going wrong. I did not chnge anything in /etc/lilo.conf, just started lilo. My lilo.conf looks like this: vga=0x0f02 default=linux keytable=/boot/de-latin1.klt compact message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure label=linux root=/dev/sda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-secure.img append="" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-up root=/dev/sda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="" read-only Then I only dumped the boot.sector to my booting partition with: dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/mnt/DOS_sda3/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1 Now, when trying to boot with the NT-Bootloader I only get LI and all stops. What is wrong here? Can someone help? Then another question: What is the difference between the two kernels supplied vmlinuz-secure and vmlinuz? Thanx in advance Andreas
[expert] leafnode / telnet problems
Hi all, I have installed leafnode here. The problem is that the connection to port 119 is refused. I have no idea why, because it's worked with previous installations of mandrake and leafnode. I suppose that soem security settings don't allow the access. Can someone help? The same aplies to telnet. telnet-server is installed, but I only get a connection refused message. PLZ help. Greetings Andreas
[expert] Where is libtiff.a
I'm running Mandrake v6.1 on a K6-2/300 and want to compile an application that uses Lesstif. I compiles lesstif from the src.rpm an installed it without any problems. Unfortunately, when I attempt to compile the application I find that the system is missing a file, specifically libtiff.a. Where might it be? Thanks in advance. --- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for ChemistryStochastic and multivariant 614.486.4076
Re: [expert] Re: timeout sending Config-Requests [Incident:mcpaid000219-0017]
The log said your line is not 8-bit clean. That probably means your modem speed is not set correctly. Try with 19200, 38400 and 115200 to see if it changes something. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:02:59 -0700 (MST) > From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [expert] Re: timeout sending Config-Requests [Incident:mcpaid 000219-0017] > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, John wrote: > > > What do you mean by Configuration of ISP not supported? Everyone has to dial > > into an ISP to get connected to the Net. Are you telling me this product is > > not capable of dialing PPP to the Net? Let's try this again. I was able to > > get Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to work, but not 7.0 using the GUI of Linuxconf for > > PPP. > > No they are telling you they don't do that, why because they could do > nothing but that all day everyday and then they'd have no time for real > problems. First you should add 'debug' to your /etc/ppp/options, to see > exactly which config request is failing, once you have that you (read > we) will know which option you need to add. > > > Thanks, > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Saturday, February 19, 2000 2:07 PM > > Subject: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests [Incident:mcpaid 000219-0017] > > > > > > >Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line > > >support center. Below is a summary of your request and our > > >response. > > > > > >If we do not hear from you within 48 hours we will assume your > > >issue has been resolved. > > > > > >Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you. > > >- > > > > > >Summary: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests > > >SUGGESTED SOLUTION: > > >At 02/19/2000 11:43 AM we wrote - > > > > > > > > > > > >Dear Sir or Madam, > > > > > >Thank you for contacting Linuxcare Technical Support. > > > > > >Configuration of ISP connection is not supported. > > > > > >If you have any questions about the above, or need any other advice, > > >please don't hesitate to contact us. > > > > > >Thank you very much, > > >Linuxcare Support Team > > > > > >Incident Details: > > > Reference #: 000219-0017 > > > Product: Deluxe Linux Mandrake 7.0 > > > Sub-Product: Unspecified > > >Category: Macmillan > > > Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Date Created: 02/19/2000 07:30 AM > > >Last Updated: 02/19/2000 11:46 AM > > >Elapsed Time: 4 Hours, 16 Minutes > > > Status: Escal2ndLevel > > > Origin: Email > > > > > >Description: > > > Hello Support: > > > > > > This is my second time requesting this.Its been almost 48 hours > > >now. Are you all supporting this product or not? > > > > > > I just purchased Linux Mandrake 7.0 from Best Buy, OS installed > > >great, however, I am experiencing the following when trying to > > >dial-up with my modem. Almost I spoke with my ISP, who said they do > > >not support LCP extentions. > > > > > > When trying to get a network connection going with pppd/chat, > > >the > > > chat script finishes, but then pppd fails every time with: > > > > > > ...pppd[1683]: Serial connection established. > > > ...pppd[1683]: Using interface ppp0 > > > ...pppd[1683]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2 > > > ...pppd[1683]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests > > > ...pppd[1683]: Connection terminated. > > > ...pppd[1683]: Received serial link is not 8-bit clean: > > > ...pppd[1683]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 > > > ...pppd[1683]: Exit. > > > > > > What can I do about this? Help please! > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > John F. McClinton > > > > > > > > > > > >If your issue remains unresolved, please update your incident at > > >http://search.linuxcare.com/cgi-bin/mcpaid/r?11=000219-0017&130=950974203 > > > > > >You may also update this incident by replying to this message. Because > > your reply will be automatically processed, you MUST enter your reply in the > > space below. Text entered into any other part of this message will be > > discarded. > > >[===> Please enter your reply below this line <===] > > > > > > > > >[===> Please enter your reply above this line <===] > > > > > >--- > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > --Axalon >
RE: [expert] burning CDs
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > Yeah that one i know for sure got fixed > Just grabbed the RPM from Mandrake 6.1. With any luck that will work.. :-) John
[expert] PS2 Mouse problem
Hi to all I've just downloaded AIR (mandrake70-2.iso) and installed it succesfully (ALMOST! ;-) ) I only have some minor (but very boring!) problems. 1) My generic PS2 (2 buttons) mouse has problems in the console, I mean that when (in MidnightCommander, for example) I click on a menu or a file I get no effect at all. I only see the pointer moving as it should, but it doesn't interact. In X-Windows instead it DOES interact perfectly, even with xterm apps (for example MC). On the same machine I also have RH6.1 and the same PS2 mouse works perfectly. I have no clues 8-) What could be the problem?? 2) I've tried to recompile my kernel with the ALI DMA Ide patch applied, but it just wont pass the "make modules" section. It keeps stopping. On the other side, the compilation of RH6.1 kernel (2.2.12-20) with the same patch, works flawlessly. Is this a bug in the kernel source or an option I must deselect (or select!) when I do "Make Menuconfig"? Anyway , I wish to thank you all! :-) for the solutions to the problems , that worked for me too :-) Bye, Ev
Re: [expert] kudzu during startup
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Rial Juan wrote: > > Now really... Who will ever miss kudzu? At least I won't. Kudzu is only for > newbies who don't know how to setup their hardware by themselves. Sorry way to short an answer, If you shut off kudzu you loose the autodetection of devices at bootup, mostly a plus laptops and people who test or change hardware on a regular basis, most people got all they'll ever get out of it the very first boot i guess. > My opinion: don't move S..Kudsy to K..Kudzu; just remove all *kudzu > items. Otherwise, you're trying to kill a non-running app which is a pretty > silly thing to do. um like ntsysv, chkconfig or whatever pixel named the new one > On Feb 19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > Yeah everything kudzu provides... > > > > > > -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] upgrading KDE
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > What order do I need to install the KDE upgrade RPMs for Mandrake 6? > I'm of the understanding that I also need to upgrade QT. I am > currently downloading all the KDE rpms which came with Mandrake 6.1 > (which will upgrade me to KDE 1.1.2) and have already got all the QT > RPMs from Mandrake 6.1. > Anything else I need? If not, can I just rpm -Uvh qt* and rpm -Uvh > kde*? I just want to make sure I don't leave myself with a crippled > system because I upgraded something out of order... :-) > Thanks... > John > > PS...sorry for the cross-post, but since it IS a Mandrake question I > figured I'd better ask in both lists... :-) cd ~/tmp/kde rpm -Uvvv --test *.rpm and see what it says :) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [expert] burning CDs
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > John, > > > > An alternative program is KisoCD. The write up was great but I haven't > > taken the time to download it yet. The link to it is on the KDE website. > > > > Just a thought, > > Matt > > > Hmm...well, I've noticed that the status bar on my version doesn't > update properly, but that you can download an updated version, so I > may just try that first. > Thanks.. > John Yeah that one i know for sure got fixed
Re: [expert] Re: timeout sending Config-Requests [Incident:mcpaid000219-0017]
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, John wrote: > What do you mean by Configuration of ISP not supported? Everyone has to dial > into an ISP to get connected to the Net. Are you telling me this product is > not capable of dialing PPP to the Net? Let's try this again. I was able to > get Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to work, but not 7.0 using the GUI of Linuxconf for > PPP. No they are telling you they don't do that, why because they could do nothing but that all day everyday and then they'd have no time for real problems. First you should add 'debug' to your /etc/ppp/options, to see exactly which config request is failing, once you have that you (read we) will know which option you need to add. > Thanks, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Saturday, February 19, 2000 2:07 PM > Subject: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests [Incident:mcpaid 000219-0017] > > > >Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line > >support center. Below is a summary of your request and our > >response. > > > >If we do not hear from you within 48 hours we will assume your > >issue has been resolved. > > > >Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you. > >- > > > >Summary: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests > >SUGGESTED SOLUTION: > >At 02/19/2000 11:43 AM we wrote - > > > > > > > >Dear Sir or Madam, > > > >Thank you for contacting Linuxcare Technical Support. > > > >Configuration of ISP connection is not supported. > > > >If you have any questions about the above, or need any other advice, > >please don't hesitate to contact us. > > > >Thank you very much, > >Linuxcare Support Team > > > >Incident Details: > > Reference #: 000219-0017 > > Product: Deluxe Linux Mandrake 7.0 > > Sub-Product: Unspecified > >Category: Macmillan > > Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date Created: 02/19/2000 07:30 AM > >Last Updated: 02/19/2000 11:46 AM > >Elapsed Time: 4 Hours, 16 Minutes > > Status: Escal2ndLevel > > Origin: Email > > > >Description: > > Hello Support: > > > > This is my second time requesting this.Its been almost 48 hours > >now. Are you all supporting this product or not? > > > > I just purchased Linux Mandrake 7.0 from Best Buy, OS installed > >great, however, I am experiencing the following when trying to > >dial-up with my modem. Almost I spoke with my ISP, who said they do > >not support LCP extentions. > > > > When trying to get a network connection going with pppd/chat, > >the > > chat script finishes, but then pppd fails every time with: > > > > ...pppd[1683]: Serial connection established. > > ...pppd[1683]: Using interface ppp0 > > ...pppd[1683]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2 > > ...pppd[1683]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests > > ...pppd[1683]: Connection terminated. > > ...pppd[1683]: Received serial link is not 8-bit clean: > > ...pppd[1683]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 > > ...pppd[1683]: Exit. > > > > What can I do about this? Help please! > > > > Thanks, > > > > John F. McClinton > > > > > > > >If your issue remains unresolved, please update your incident at > >http://search.linuxcare.com/cgi-bin/mcpaid/r?11=000219-0017&130=950974203 > > > >You may also update this incident by replying to this message. Because > your reply will be automatically processed, you MUST enter your reply in the > space below. Text entered into any other part of this message will be > discarded. > >[===> Please enter your reply below this line <===] > > > > > >[===> Please enter your reply above this line <===] > > > >--- > > > > > > > -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] Upgrading KDE in Mandrake?
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > > > > > > Kewl. :-) > > > Thanks I think. (Not sure what you mean, unless you mean I need > > > to turn ON IPMASQ... ) > > > John > > > > Um no, you asked what identd server if any was supplied? i thought.. > > > > rpm -q pidentd || echo pidentd not installed > > grep -q '^auth' /etc/inetd.conf || echo identd not enabled > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd status > > > Ok. I found it. Now, it was turned off in inetd.conf. Is > there a way to manually turn it on? I read the man page and > tried a couple things it said to do to start it from the > command line but it didn't seem to work. :-( > I'm having trouble with IRC servers which want an ident > response (mainly Efnet.) I have also tried UNCOMMENTING it > in /etc/inetd.conf and running "killall -HUP inetd" but > that didn't APPEAR to work either. > John Thats definatly not good, umm send me someout put please :) rpm -V pidentd inetd rpm -q pidentd inetd your inetd.conf and output of 'netstat -an' -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] Minicom user question -- SOLVED!
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear Frank: > > You are right! chmod 4755 /usr/bin/minicom did the trick. May I ask why > the "4" prefix. Is that for my com 2? That would make sense. > > Thanks again. > > Benjamin It's a bad idea to have minicom suid root. it was not designed for such so doesn't drop root privlages, your minicom can now be used to do many nasty things to your system. The _right_ thing todo is put ttyS[12] under control of pam, or create a new group (lets say modem) and to put the modem device under this group and make it read write for that group only. groupadd modem chgrp modem /dev/ttyX chmod g+rw /dev/ttyX groupmod -G modem your_user -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[expert] Mandrake 7 SMP
After loading the old iso version of Mandrake 7, I enabled the SMP kernel on a 4 x Xeon procesor Gateway machine with an AMI RAID system. This broke SAMBA and X windows and when I halt the machine, it have problems unmounting /var. Before I enabled the SMP kernel I had no problems with SAMBA, X and /var. SMPD do not start up and somtimes the following error is logged in log.smb: smbd file_init(216) requested 1 open files only 1014 available. Help would be appreciated.
Re: [expert] nfs & rpc question: "Program not registered"
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 07:36:41PM +0100, Wojtek Piecek wrote: -> -> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 06:14:01PM +0100, Torben Tretau wrote: -> -> > Hi! -> > -> > > The error message I now get is: -> > > -> > > root@charlesc # mount /mnt/server/ -> > > mount: RPC: Program not registered -> > -> > hmm, i get the same message after updating my server to -> > MDK 7.0, before it worked great, anyone knows where -> > the probliem lies? -> -> One of rpc.* services not working. I think - rpc.nfsd/rpc.mountd. -> -> Try (by hand): -> -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart -> -> I hope this help. If help, do someting like: Did not help. -> -> ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S60nfs (as root) -> -> (rc5.d if your default runlevel is 5). The analogous files all seem to be intact for run levels 3, 4 & 5. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
