Re: [expert-it] Compilazione kernel
Don Stefano Bortolato wrote: Ho provato più volte a ricompilare il kernel del mio linux e quando riavvio usando il nuovo kernel si pianta sempre nelle fasi di avvio. Ho fatto diversi tentativi e cambia solo il momento di "piantamento". Si va dalle fasi di decompressione del kernel al montagio del file system. Le prove le ho fatte con le distribuzioni: ... Le "anomalie" nel processo di compilazione che notato sono: se do "make zImage" non va in porto perché dice che è troppo grande il file. Con "make bzImage" tutto va bene. Questo e' abbastanza normale: hai fatto un kernel troppo grande e devi usare un algoritmo di compressione piu' efficiente (b2zip invece che gzip) per farlo rientrare nei limiti. Un po' e` naturale perche' i kernel 2.2.x sono "cicciottelli" di natura e tu hai delle device abbastanza eterogenee. Un po' potresti evitarlo stando attento a non inserire supporti inutili. Di sicuro la bzImage dovrebbe funzionare esattamente come la zImage. ciao, Andrea
Re: [expert] Multi Head X (OT)
Seanthat has been doable for a long time. Use this syntax: 'startx -- :x'. Your original session defaults to x=0, the next should be x=1 etc. Ctl-alt f7-f12 accesses the x-sessions whereas ctl-alt f1-f6 accesses the consoles you started the x-sessions in. Alan Sean Armstrong wrote: I've heard bits and tidbits of this multi head thing with the new X. I was wondering if this would allow multiple users to run multiple X sessions on the sam computer. ie. tty0 would be running a root X session while ctrl-alt-F2 would switch you over to tty1 running a user X session. I'm shooting in the dark here because I have no clue about this. Will someon please enlighten this unworthy one? Thanx, SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Netscape troubles
Netscape starts up slowy (almost seems like it is going to hang) when i start it up while i am connected to the internet. This does not happen when i start up netscape when i am not connected to the internet .. it does not hang, it starts right up. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I have erased my .netscape dir hoping that that would fix the problem but no such luck. I connect to the internet via modem and am not connected to a lan. Any help would be greatly be appreciated.
[expert] glibc-2.1.3-0.2mdk troubles
I recently installed glibc-2.1.3-0.2mdk.i586.rpm and
glibc-devel-2.1.3-0.2mdk.i586.rpm so that i could run some programs that
required a higher version of these libraries then what came starndard
with 7.0
The problem is that i get some errors now when i startup other
programs. They still run .. but i get these errors .. does anyone know
if there is anything that i can do to fix this. Here are some of the
errors:
Error when starting Linuxconf:
Error message from remadmin :Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by
C library
Error when starting rpmdrake:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Thanks
[expert] VMWare, Win3.1 and Linux Ethernet
Dear friends: [Running Mandrake 7.0] I have an unusual situation on my hands having to do with trying to make my Ethernet 3com card work in Win3.1 on VMware. My wife and I are Russian translators, as some of you may know, and TV6 from Moscow has recently begun broadcasting live ( throughout the day, I presume) on the Internet. Most unfortunately, they have chosen the Redmondians' Windows Media Player as their player of choice. I left Windows 95 after two years of nightmare and only Linux saved from sheer insanity. I am sure many of you have had the same experience. TV6 is the first major Russian network to broacast its live domestic programs on the Internet, and it would be a darn shame if it were not available to us Linux users just because it is on WMP. I would think twice or thrice if this meant installing Win95 or 98 on VMware. The very idea of dealing with the Win95/98 Registry makes me want to put a gun to my head. Win3.1, on the other hand, is a relatively easy OS to handle, even for a non-techie like myself. And it's very easy to restore it by just reinstalling over itself. Personally, I have little need for it (except that we still use it on our old 486 until full Cyrillic support is available in StarOffice and throughout Linux. So, I installed Win3.1 (NOT Win3.11 for Works), then installed my original Netscape 2.02 from Bellsouth, then upgraded it to Netscape 3.04. The Bellsouth Netscape version gave me two options: Standard DIAL-UP installation or CUSTOM (for LAN users). At the time, I was using a dial-up modem. Now, as a broadband user on Bellsouth, I am considered by them to be on their Bellsouth LAN. I decided to go ahead and install the dial-up version anyway, figuring that I could this way have the option of either dial-up or broadband (as I do on Linux with my U. S. Robotics ext 56k modem as my backup when ADSL goes down, which is quite often). Well, it just so happens that Microsoft has made their WMP available for Win3.1 at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/allplayers.asp Of course, everything hinges on whether this WMP 3.0 for Win3.1 is in fact the equivalent of their WMP 6.4 for Win95/98. This seems to be the case. Please correct me if I am wrong. Obviously, if it isn't the case, then I am barking up the wrong tree. If, however, it does play the video on TV6, then this would be a huge bonanza for Russian scholars, teachers and students everywhere who insist on using Linux (not too many as of this writing but I am optimistic). I have read all the relevant documentation on enabling devices and peripherals on the VMware site at: http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/troubleshooting/peripherals_ts_linux.html MAIN QUESTIONS: 1) During Installation I was asked if I wanted "bridge networking", in fact, it was already chosen for me under "Networking." VMware Support (see above) advised configuring the ethernet adapter and other devices and said that it all depended on the host OS, that is, Linux. After turning off Win3.1 and powering vmware off, as instructed, I went into the VMware Configuration Editor. The "network bridge" option needed no configuring. It had already been taken care of. But how do I actually configure and connect to the Internet through Win3.1 on VMware? 2) How do I connect to the Internet on Win3.1 through Vmware? To enable the modem and other devices, I am supposed to enter the path. But what path, where? For instance, what path would you put for the ttyS1 modem device? I typed "whereis ttyS1" and got nothing. Or do they want the /home/sher/vmware/Win31 path? Well, I tried that and got an error message when clicking on my Netscape dialer telling me that "the communications port was not responding or was being used by another telephy device. And should my dial-up modem be turned on first in Linux (kpppd) or directly in Win3.1/Vmware? 3) How to do you transfer files from Linux to Windows if the files are too big for floppies? All my thanks in advance to all of you who would be kind enough to respond. Yours, Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] Multi Head X (OT)
Ok, hope I understand you correct here. You're wondering if it's possible to run multiple X servers on one computer? Well, yes. It's been like this as far as I know. That's not what multi-head is all about. Multi-head is about displaying image on 2 phisically different monitors at the same time. Imagine for example a flight sim where you'd play using a big 19" monitor as main view, and another 14" one next to it that displays your radar all the time... That's what multi-head is all about. Another example would be one huge desktop with the left side displaying on the left monitor and the right side on the other, or using one monitor to code up an opengl-app, while you have it running on the other monitor for immediate viaual output. I don't know any details about the way it's been done in Xfree 4.0. AFAIK (but this might be incorrect) both monitors must run same resolution and colordepth. In order to be able to use multi-head, you either need 2 videocards, or one with dual-head option, like the Matrox MGA-G400 if I'm correct. I know Xfree 4.0 supports the matrox thingie, not sure about 2 separate video boards though. Well, hope this clarifies things, and sorry for my limited knowledge on the subject. On Mar 16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard bits and tidbits of this multi head thing with the new X. I was wondering if this would allow multiple users to run multiple X sessions on the sam computer. ie. tty0 would be running a root X session while ctrl-alt-F2 would switch you over to tty1 running a user X session. I'm shooting in the dark here because I have no clue about this. Will someon please enlighten this unworthy one? Thanx, SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] An I-opening Hack: $200 PC
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Larry Sword mewed: http://www.linux-hacker.net/opener/ He uses Mandrake-Linux also. Larry Huh? I got a 404 error with this link, uh oh, oops. -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com
[expert] GeForce card
I have an ASUS GeForce card that works well under Linux though it has extra features I would like to utilise. It also has a TV box attached which allows me to get TV on my PC. Are there any programs apart from VMWare that will allow me to use the software to run this? Will Wine do the job? Wayne *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** ***
Re: [expert] Multi Head X (OT)
Tom, I hope you are right. I just turned off my machine in the middle of a new install because nothing was going right. I think I know why, but.. Linux is certainly a hell of a lot more intuitive than I am, hopefully a reformat will cure the basic problem which was a kernel panic. Egads what a mess I created. -( Thankfully, my worst day with L-M is 1000 times better than my very best day with Microsloth. Pj Tom Berkley wrote: Nothing unworthy about asking a question you stupid newbie. (Laugh you asked for it). Try it and see if it works. 10 months ago I was a newbie too. The worst thing you can do is crash your system and have to reinstall linux. Except for messing with the video parameters in a way that will literally fry your video card, there is not much you can do that will physically damage your box short of dropping it off a table or your wife (or girlfriend?) throwing it out the window because you spend to much time playing with it and not her. Tom
Re: [expert] Netscape troubles
Netscape is a pregnant, lumbering yak. There hasn't been a version since 3.04 that has shown any signs of loading faster than ice melts in Alaska in the winter. I'm on telco too. Everytime I get on line I wonder who will fail first, telco, my IP or Netscape? The only possible cure for Netscape is a scalpel and a new owner. BTW, all browsers load faster off-line. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bobby Welch wrote: Netscape starts up slowy (almost seems like it is going to hang) when i start it up while i am connected to the internet. This does not happen when i start up netscape when i am not connected to the internet .. it does not hang, it starts right up. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I have erased my .netscape dir hoping that that would fix the problem but no such luck. I connect to the internet via modem and am not connected to a lan. Any help would be greatly be appreciated.
[expert] Linux Vmware file sharing -- footnote
Dear friends: This is a footnote to my long letter concerning Linux, VMware and Win3.1 (which is in fact one of the guest OS's supported by VMware for Linux). Here is a simple question: I downloaded an xyz.exe file for Win3.1 using Linux into my /home/sher directory (At this point I still don't know how to access the Internet on Win3.1/Vmware). Now how do I move or copy this file to Win3.1. Obviously, it would be something like: #cp xyz.exe to C:\ (the Windows directory)? Right? But where in the world am I going to find Drive C:\ on my Linux system. I checked the file system, KDE's file system. It's not in /home/sher/vmware/win31. So where is it? Or is there a special way to do this? Just curious. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] Printer problem in mdk 7.0
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Norman Carver wrote: Having set up mdk 7.0-2 on my two PCs and having had few problems (except for incomplete network setup on one), I agreed to help a colleague set it up on his PC. Unfortunately, we have had nothing but problems. We have resolved the same network issue that I had (this is obviously a bug in the installation). X is running after a fashion--though not properly, since the install did not work with his ATI rage pro turbo card for some unknown reason. We can probably get that fixed up too, though. However, we are now having a rather strange problem trying to get printing working. He has an Epson stylus 900 with usb and parallel port connections, which he has been using through the usb connection to Win98. We decided to switch to the parallel connection for Linux. We used the drakconf/printtool to set up the queue and printed a test page successfully. Then he rebooted to Win98 and it installed the printer again via the parallel port and printed to it successfully. Back to Linux, but now no response to an lpr command or to a redirection to /dev/lp0 (the parallel port being used). Huh? It is like the Win98 printer install did something (although it may just be a coincidence). Reran drakconf, says that it detects an Epson 900 on /dev/lp0, but still no luck with printing or redirection. Here's some of the info we have found: BIOS shows parallel port being set up at 0x378, with irq 7. That is what W98 shows for port. Rebooting into Linux, lsmod shows the lp, parport, parport_pc, and parport_probe modules being loaded. dmesg shows the results from the probe as detecting a Epson 900 on correct port and address. Still no luck printing or redirecting a file. Looking at /proc/interrupts does NOT show irq 7 assigned to parport. This seems strange except my mdk 7.0 with a local Epson printer (which works fine) also does not have irq 7 set. If we rmmod the lp and parport modules and then load them by hand with parport_pc using the io=0x378 and irq=7 options, parport_pc causes the printer to make some noises (as it does during BIOS phase). Still, though, no printing or redirection. I am really at a loss. parport_probe shows the right printer being detected and because parport_pc elicits some noise from the printer the port is clearly right. Why won't anything come out?? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. My friend was really hot to switch to Linux, but is about ready to bag it (though he will try Caldera first). One more question I have is why the irq for the parport is not being set up (e.g., even on my working system) when conf.modules contains the lines: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq I've seen similar problems with my HP Deskjet 670C. I found it was related to the bios assigning irq 7 to my SB AWE 64 after booting into Winsuck then returning to 'drake. Reserving irq 5 in bios to the isa bus so the sound card would grab it instead of 7 took care of the problem. I then edited my sound card entry in conf.modules to reflect the change to irq 5. -- Rich Clark Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
[expert] Mandrake Netware
The only instructions I've been able to find for hooking a Mandrake box to a Netware server have been for Mandrake 6.x, and they mainly involve using Caldera stuff to do the job. Since I'm running Mandrake 7.0.2, I'm hoping there's a better approach now. I first asked this question on the newbie list, but no one seemed to know the answer. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK
Magnus, to play CDs trougth the soundcard, you must have a cable attached from the CD to the soundcard.. if you have it should work just fine.. it is attached (Windows 98 plays CD's fine). Dave
Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found
Thanks everyone for the help. I was missing the M so 256M works fine and I am a happy bunny. Sorry for the delay in replying but I have been travelling (and installing more Mandrake very successfully). David
Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK
Guillermo Belli wrote: Is your CD-Rom attached to the soundcard? Is the CD volume set to low? Yes it is attached and I have tried all volumes. Dave
Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK
Alan, GMIX does not seem to be installed. I will install it (but I am normally using KDE at them moment - will that matter). Dave "Alan N." wrote: Guillermo Belli wrote: Is your CD-Rom attached to the soundcard? Is the CD volume set to low? El Fri, 10 Mar 2000, escribiste: Hi, I have installed Mandrake 7.0, my soundcard (soundblaster Live) works OK (I can play wav files fine), the cd player works fine (it detects the CD and play starts counting time). But no sound comes out when I play a cd. I guess that the cd player does not "know" about the soundcard. What am I missing? Try under gnome menus, multimedia , then GMIX. ( Gnome audio mixer ). Look for CD, and make sure REC is checked. Bug.. Alan
Re: [expert] An I-opening Hack: $200 PC
- Original Message - From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:12 PM Subject: [expert] An I-opening Hack: $200 PC Here's an interesting story An I-opening Hack: $200 PC (Technology 3:00 a.m. PST) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34977,00.html?tw=wn2316 With a minor cable tweak, an engineer jerry-rigged his new, $99 Net 'appliance' into a fully functional Pentium PC. Supplies are dry -- and now the company's IPO is boasting unexpected glitter. By Chris Oakes. http://www.linux-hacker.net/opener/ He uses Mandrake-Linux also. I hope to pick up mine today, but I am more likely to install BeOS on it because of the USB support necessary for a NIC and the 32 MB memory/ 200 MHz WinChip is a little light for running X/KDE. An on-board NIC and 64MB would be a better Linux box. Hoyt __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [expert] Multi Head X (OT)
- Original Message - From: Rial Juan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 3:59 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Multi Head X (OT) Ok, hope I understand you correct here. You're wondering if it's possible to run multiple X servers on one computer? Well, yes. It's been like this as far as I know. That's not what multi-head is all about. Multi-head is about displaying image on 2 phisically different monitors at the same time. Imagine for example a flight sim where you'd play using a big 19" monitor as main view, and another 14" one next to it that displays your radar all the time... That's what multi-head is all about. Another example would be one huge desktop with the left side displaying on the left monitor and the right side on the other, or using one monitor to code up an opengl-app, while you have it running on the other monitor for immediate viaual output. This is one area where MS Windows actually does much better than Linux (no flames please). It supports just about any combo of PCI video cards while X 4.0 seems limited to Matrox cards (and maybe the S3 Virge cards - docs are scarce). I have found multi-head to be great to use when writing: one monitor displays my web browser, one a text editor and file browser and the main monitor a wordprocessor with the main body of work. It sure beats multiple virtual desktops. I've been doing this since Win 98 came out. While the commercial X servers could support this, they were =very= expensive. I have been scoping out the used video card offerings looking for some 8MB Matrox cards and looking for another 15" monitor (It would be great to have all 17" monitors, but who has the money?) I am glad that XFree finally support multi-head so I can leave MS WiIndows foor good (Except for OE which I run in VMware - show me an equivalent, free Linux mail program and I'll be there.) And BTW, it seems that XFree 4.0 dows not support my Voodoo 3-2000 as yet. 8( Hoyt I don't know any details about the way it's been done in Xfree 4.0. AFAIK (but this might be incorrect) both monitors must run same resolution and colordepth. In order to be able to use multi-head, you either need 2 videocards, or one with dual-head option, like the Matrox MGA-G400 if I'm correct. I know Xfree 4.0 supports the matrox thingie, not sure about 2 separate video boards though. Well, hope this clarifies things, and sorry for my limited knowledge on the subject. On Mar 16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard bits and tidbits of this multi head thing with the new X. I was wondering if this would allow multiple users to run multiple X sessions on the sam computer. ie. tty0 would be running a root X session while ctrl-alt-F2 would switch you over to tty1 running a user X session. I'm shooting in the dark here because I have no clue about this. Will someon please enlighten this unworthy one? Thanx, SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: [expert] Mandrake Netware
Caldera has been created by the former Novell CEO, if I am right... That's why they have developped a Novell support for Linux (yes : Linux itself, and not Slackware or RedHat or SuSE or Mandrake or...). That's a great idea, and they have given the rights to use it freely, and it works well. Now, if you want improvements, then ask Caldera for it OR do it yourself! Nowadays, unfortunately, Novell is less used. And thus, the interest to develop new support for Novell has decreased. The big lack in Linux Novell support - in my mind - is the native Novell filesystem (ie read/write straightly from/to Novell formatted disks, no access through the network). I don't think it's the "job" of Mandrake to do it and I would really be surprised if they had been doing something about it in release 7.0.2. I'm afraid you still have to wander through the manuals to do the thing! That's my point of view. Regards Mathieu -Original Message- From: Lane Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 March 2000 12:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mandrake Netware The only instructions I've been able to find for hooking a Mandrake box to a Netware server have been for Mandrake 6.x, and they mainly involve using Caldera stuff to do the job. Since I'm running Mandrake 7.0.2, I'm hoping there's a better approach now. I first asked this question on the newbie list, but no one seemed to know the answer. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] An I-opening Hack: $200 PC
It's supposed to be www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/, and another site is www.i-opener-linux.net ... Not sure if they're related, since I just did a quick lookup on it while in class. On Mar 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Larry Sword mewed: http://www.linux-hacker.net/opener/ He uses Mandrake-Linux also. Larry Huh? I got a 404 error with this link, uh oh, oops. -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Linux Vmware file sharing -- footnote
AFAIK, vm-ware uses the loopback-device principle for its FS. That means it mounts a file as its filesystem (similar to mounting an ISO-image in linux). Therefore I fear it's impossible to copy the file directly onto the win 3.1 filesys. What you can try is check out if you can get any network access in win31, preferably FTP, and if that works, log into your linux-box and "download" the file. So basically: get that internet working under VM-ware. ps: isn't there another way? Can't you access the linux FS as a network drive in vm-ware? I don't use it, so I don't know... Perhaps putting it on a floppy, and reading the floppy in vm-ware? Just a few suggestions, I might not be making much sense here. ;-) On Mar 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends: This is a footnote to my long letter concerning Linux, VMware and Win3.1 (which is in fact one of the guest OS's supported by VMware for Linux). Here is a simple question: I downloaded an xyz.exe file for Win3.1 using Linux into my /home/sher directory (At this point I still don't know how to access the Internet on Win3.1/Vmware). Now how do I move or copy this file to Win3.1. Obviously, it would be something like: #cp xyz.exe to C:\ (the Windows directory)? Right? But where in the world am I going to find Drive C:\ on my Linux system. I checked the file system, KDE's file system. It's not in /home/sher/vmware/win31. So where is it? Or is there a special way to do this? Just curious. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
RE: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK
Can you play cd music under windows or are you on a sole Linux box??? It might be the cable (from cdrom to soundcard), or the connector on the soundcard wher the cable is plugged in, hence my question if you can play under windows. Regards Fred de Klein tel: 01908 656106 (w) 0780 8254445(mob) http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it -Original Message- From: David Warnock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 March 2000 12:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK Guillermo Belli wrote: Is your CD-Rom attached to the soundcard? Is the CD volume set to low? Yes it is attached and I have tried all volumes. Dave
Re: [expert] Not solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 16:30 -0600, Norman Carver wrote: Any idea what is going on?? Since my friend has to use W98 frequently, he is not too thrilled about having to remember to always turn his printer off between the boots. I'll put that in my own simple words: When the printer is switched on it listens on both ports where the next signal is coming in. 1. You're in Win, printing via USB. Printer is listening on his USB port. 2. You close Win and reboot into Linux. In Linux you don't have a working USB connect to the printer (YET!). So how do you think the printer recognizes any signals on the parallel port when it is listening on the USB port? You have to 'reboot' the printer as well as the PC so it can listen on both ports where the next signal comes from. 3. Close Linux and reboot into Win. Now the printer is still listening on the parallel port. But Win is sending on the USB port. Solutions: 1. Power down printer *before* you shut down Win or Linux. Reboot. Power on printer *after* your system (Win or Linux) is up. 2. Unplug the USB cable (printer must be powered off) and use only parallel in Win and in Linux. Don't forget to disable your USB port in BIOS. Downfall of this is, You lose extra speed and/or features in Win. 3. Get developer's kernel for Linux and try to get the USB port working. Any more solutions? Oh,yeah: Buy a second pc, connect it to your first, run Linux on one and Win on the other pc. Connect the printer to the Win-pc and print through network. (Now, that's the professional solution! ;-) ) wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
Re: [expert] An I-opening Hack: $200 PC
Vic wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Larry Sword mewed: http://www.linux-hacker.net/opener/ He uses Mandrake-Linux also. Larry Huh? I got a 404 error with this link, uh oh, oops. -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com Try http://www.i-opener-linux.net/. They were mentioned on Slashdot a couple days ago. Gene
[expert] stupid Xfree86 4.0 question
Greetings, everyone... I just upgraded to Xfree 4.0, and now plain X is the only thing that comes up. KDE doesn't come up. I've tried the Desktop Configuration tool in setup, searched the archives, searched for docs on the system, gone over the XFree86.org website and haven't found anything useful. Can somone point me to an FAQ or something? I'll gladly RTFM, if I could find one Thanks. Wayne
Re: [expert] Linux Vmware file sharing -- footnote
Dear Rial: Thank you so very much for taking out the time to help. Thanks especially for suggesting connecting to my Linux box from Win31 with FTP. Will keep that in mind once I get my Internet connection (or dial-up connection or both) set up. And, yes, I can copy files from Linux to Windows with a floppy. But what do you do with a 5 meg file? Thanks so much again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[expert] Linux/VMWare -- bridge or host-only networking?
Dear friends: This is a footnote to my earlier letter concerning Mandrake 7.0, VMware 2.0 and Win3.1. I have a single computer running Linux and a single virtual machine with Win3.1 on it. I have ADSL broadband (3com ethernet card) and I also use a U. S. Robotics 56k EXT modem as a backup for the ADSL. During installation, VMWARE recognized my DHCP protocol and suggested bridge network. That's what Settings also showed after installation (which was otherwise perfect). At the bottom of the main VMware screen I see icons for four devices: floppy, hard drive, CD AND ethernet0. The floppy icon works when I click on it and the hard drive. The CD is of no importance at this time. But the ethernet icon does not respond. BIG QUESTION OF THE DAY: After reading extensivly on this subject on VMware's support page (Documentation, Networking) at: http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/networking_linux.html, I can't help but wonder if perhaps what I really need is HOST-ONLY NETWORKING for the ethernet card. Bellsouth considers me to be on a LAN, and that is the way my ADSL was configured from the beginning (first under Windows95 and now under Linux). I hope to avoid Win95/98 at all costs in VMware. My interest is very specific: Windows Media Player 3.0 for Win3.1, which is equivalent, I think, to WMP 6.4 for Win96/98. I need this for live Russian broadcasting for my colleagues and myself, and TV6 Moscow broadcasts, alas, only on WMP. What's your opinion, please? Bridge or host-only networking? Thank you so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] use XF86Config from setup
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: The default Mandrake 7.0 install does not use the XFree86 XF86Setup program which is in a separate rpm. The xf86config is included in the basic XFree86 rpm and is usually not a very good way to configure your system. Use the Xconfigurator for the best results with Mandrake or Redhat. I've used them both and Xconfigurator has always worked better. Yes, but correct me if I'm wrong (I'll be the first to admit it if I am) don't you need to HAVE "X" before you can run Xconfigurator? In this case, the person asking for the help can't GET to his X. John
Re: [expert] Multi Head X (OT)
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: I've heard bits and tidbits of this multi head thing with the new X. I was wondering if this would allow multiple users to run multiple X sessions on the sam computer. ie. tty0 would be running a root X session while ctrl-alt-F2 would switch you over to tty1 running a user X session. I'm shooting in the dark here because I have no clue about this. Will someon please enlighten this unworthy one? You've already been able to do thatwith special startx command-line paramaters. Multi-headed has to do with being able to use multiple monitors. John
RE: [expert] Mandrake Netware
I'm afraid you still have to wander through the manuals to do the thing! Well, if I have to, I have to. :-) -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] An I-opening Hack: $200 PC
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Larry Sword mewed: http://www.linux-hacker.net/opener/ He uses Mandrake-Linux also. Larry Huh? I got a 404 error with this link, uh oh, oops. Heh. The URL got munged. It's www.linux-hacker.net/iopener (The "i" got left off. G) John
RE: [expert] Linux Vmware file sharing -- footnote
I'm a longtime user of VMWare for Linux so I'll try to answer the multitude of questions in this post -Original Message- From: Rial Juan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] AFAIK, vm-ware uses the loopback-device principle for its FS. That means it mounts a file as its filesystem (similar to mounting an ISO-image in linux). Therefore I fear it's impossible to copy the file directly onto the win 3.1 filesys. Although vm-ware never explicitly states that this is how they do it, it is a reasonable assumption. In fact, they offer a utility for mounting vm-ware virtual disks in Linux for direct manipulation by the host operating system. The URL is http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/loopback_linux.html It describes in detail how to set it up and covers common problems. What you can try is check out if you can get any network access in win31, preferably FTP, and if that works, log into your linux-box and "download" the file. So basically: get that internet working under VM-ware. Win3.1 is going to be more problematic than win9x or NT because you usually have to use DOS drivers to enable networking and that is a royal pain in the arse (been there, done that). If vm-ware is configured with bridged networking, it handles all of the issues related to having 2 IP addresses (1 for Linux and 1 for guest OS) with only one network card. The kicker being: You need multiple static addresses available for that to work (works for me since I could request additional IP's from my corporate networking group). If you are doing this at home via dialup or single static ip (cable modem/DSL/etc) that you must tell vm-ware to set up a private network (host only networking in their options dialog) for your guest OS. Then the Linux side has to be set up with something along the lines of IP-Masquerading or web proxies. ps: isn't there another way? Can't you access the linux FS as a network drive in vm-ware? I don't use it, so I don't know... Perhaps putting it on a floppy, and reading the floppy in vm-ware? Just a few suggestions, I might not be making much sense here. ;-) My comment above points out that vm-ware offers several networking solutions for it's guest OS's. Worst case scenario: you could mount the floppy on Linux, copy files to it, umount the drive, and reconnect the drive to the guest OS in the vm-ware options, all on the fly. It's tedious, but it does work. On Mar 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends: This is a footnote to my long letter concerning Linux, VMware and Win3.1 (which is in fact one of the guest OS's supported by VMware for Linux). Why are you using Win3.1 in the first place. Fire up a copy on Win95 or 98 in the VM and networking is 10 times easier. Matthew Zaleski
Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK
Dave, What soundcard? Do other sounds work? (I missed the first post, so my apologies if you already gave us this info). If you happen to have a SoundBlaster 64/Ensoniq AudioPCI there are several bugs in the kernel sound driver. First, the CD channel needs to be set to be a recording source in order for CD sound to work. Second, some mixer programs (including gmix and kmix) trigger a bug in which the Playback/Recording source settings get corrupted, and the CD channel gets switched into playback mode every time you start the mixer. To work around the problem in gmix, make sure the "Restore mixer settings on startup" option in preferences is unchecked. There's no workaround that I can find for kmix. The command line tool aumix does not exhibit this problem. Furthermore, the commercial OSS driver for this sound card does not exhibit these bugs. I haven't tried ALSA, so I don't know how well it works. Andrew David Warnock wrote: Magnus, to play CDs trougth the soundcard, you must have a cable attached from the CD to the soundcard.. if you have it should work just fine.. it is attached (Windows 98 plays CD's fine). Dave
Re: [expert] Netscape troubles
Check your proxy settings. I'd guess that it's trying to get to an automatic proxy configuration and failing or connecting very slowly. Alternatively it could have slow access to a startup page, but with no connection it fails the name lookup immediately and doesn't waste further time looking. On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Netscape starts up slowy (almost seems like it is going to hang) when i | start it up while i am connected to the internet. This does not happen | when i start up netscape when i am not connected to the internet .. it | does not hang, it starts right up. Does anyone know what could be | causing this? I have erased my .netscape dir hoping that that would fix | the problem but no such luck. I connect to the internet via modem and | am not connected to a lan. Any help would be greatly be appreciated. -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
Re: [expert] VMWare, Win3.1 and Linux Ethernet
You connect to the network under Win 3.1 under vmware just as you do under Win 3.1 when not under vmware. Which is "with great difficulty," I suspect. The networking support under Windows 95/98 is much improved. The path for the modem is /dev/ttyS1. In theory you can connect the modem via Linux and then use Linux as a gateway via the host-only networking to vmware, but I've had little success with that myself. Indeed, I've had little success with host-only networking, period, myself. So when I need to do this, I just connect the modem under vmware and let Windows own the modem. That works well for me. As for transferring files, see my earlier reply to your later mail. On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Dear friends: | | [Running Mandrake 7.0] | | I have an unusual situation on my hands having to do with trying to make | my Ethernet 3com card work in Win3.1 on VMware. | | My wife and I are Russian translators, as some of you may know, and TV6 | from Moscow has recently begun broadcasting live ( throughout the day, I | presume) on the Internet. Most unfortunately, they have chosen the | Redmondians' Windows Media Player as their player of choice. | | I left Windows 95 after two years of nightmare and only Linux saved from | sheer insanity. I am sure many of you have had the same experience. | | TV6 is the first major Russian network to broacast its live domestic | programs on the Internet, and it would be a darn shame if it were not | available to us Linux users just because it is on WMP. | | I would think twice or thrice if this meant installing Win95 or 98 on | VMware. The very idea of dealing with the Win95/98 Registry makes me | want to put a gun to my head. | | Win3.1, on the other hand, is a relatively easy OS to handle, even for a | non-techie like myself. And it's very easy to restore it by just | reinstalling over itself. Personally, I have little need for it (except | that we still use it on our old 486 until full Cyrillic support is | available in StarOffice and throughout Linux. | | So, I installed Win3.1 (NOT Win3.11 for Works), then installed my | original Netscape 2.02 from Bellsouth, then upgraded it to Netscape | 3.04. The Bellsouth Netscape version gave me two options: Standard | DIAL-UP installation or CUSTOM (for LAN users). At the time, I was using | a dial-up modem. Now, as a broadband user on Bellsouth, I am considered | by them to be on their Bellsouth LAN. I decided to go ahead and install | the dial-up version anyway, figuring that I could this way have the | option of either dial-up or broadband (as I do on Linux with my U. S. | Robotics ext 56k modem as my backup when ADSL goes down, which is quite | often). | | Well, it just so happens that Microsoft has made their WMP available for | Win3.1 at: | | http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/allplayers.asp | | Of course, everything hinges on whether this WMP 3.0 for Win3.1 is in | fact the equivalent of their WMP 6.4 for Win95/98. | | This seems to be the case. Please correct me if I am wrong. Obviously, | if it isn't the case, then I am barking up the wrong tree. If, however, | it does play the video on TV6, then this would be a huge bonanza for | Russian scholars, teachers and students everywhere who insist on using | Linux (not too many as of this writing but I am optimistic). | | I have read all the relevant documentation on enabling devices and | peripherals on the VMware site at: | | http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/troubleshooting/peripherals_ts_linux.html | | | MAIN QUESTIONS: | | 1) During Installation I was asked if I wanted "bridge networking", in | fact, it was already chosen for me under "Networking." VMware Support | (see above) advised configuring the ethernet adapter and other devices | and said that it all depended on the host OS, that is, Linux. After | turning off Win3.1 and powering vmware off, as instructed, I went into | the VMware Configuration Editor. The "network bridge" option needed no | configuring. It had already been taken care of. But how do I actually | configure and connect to the Internet through Win3.1 on VMware? | | 2) How do I connect to the Internet on Win3.1 through Vmware? To enable | the modem and other devices, I am supposed to enter the path. But what | path, where? For instance, what path would you put for the ttyS1 modem | device? I typed "whereis ttyS1" and got nothing. Or do they want the | /home/sher/vmware/Win31 path? Well, I tried that and got an error | message when clicking on my Netscape dialer telling me that "the | communications port was not responding or was being used by another | telephy device. And should my dial-up modem be turned on first in Linux | (kpppd) or directly in Win3.1/Vmware? | | 3) How to do you transfer files from Linux to Windows if the files are | too big for floppies? | | All my thanks in advance to all of you who would be kind enough to | respond. | | Yours, | | Benjamin | | -- | Benjamin and Anna
Re: [expert] Linux Vmware file sharing -- footnote
Well, that all depends on how you configured vmware. If you did a raw disk, then the simplest thing is to mount that partition while vmware is down. If you have host networking, you can use Samba or FTP while vmware is up. I think that if you have the filesystem in a file you can use the loopback device (man losetup) to get to the file system, but I'm not certain of that. On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Dear friends: | | This is a footnote to my long letter concerning Linux, VMware and Win3.1 | (which is in fact one of the guest OS's supported by VMware for Linux). | | Here is a simple question: | | I downloaded an xyz.exe file for Win3.1 using Linux into my /home/sher | directory (At this point I still don't know how to access the Internet | on Win3.1/Vmware). Now how do I move or copy this file to Win3.1. | Obviously, it would be something like: | | #cp xyz.exe to C:\ (the Windows directory)? | | Right? | | But where in the world am I going to find Drive C:\ on my Linux system. | I checked the file system, KDE's file system. It's not in | /home/sher/vmware/win31. So where is it? Or is there a special way to do | this? | | Just curious. | | Thank you so much. | | Benjamin | -- | Benjamin and Anna Sher | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sher's Russian Web | http://www.websher.net -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
Re: [expert] Not solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
From: Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 16:30 -0600, Norman Carver wrote: Any idea what is going on?? Since my friend has to use W98 frequently, he is not too thrilled about having to remember to always turn his printer off between the boots. I'll put that in my own simple words: When the printer is switched on it listens on both ports where the next signal is coming in. 1. You're in Win, printing via USB. Printer is listening on his USB port. ... Solutions: 1. Power down printer *before* you shut down Win or Linux. Reboot. Power on printer *after* your system (Win or Linux) is up. 2. Unplug the USB cable (printer must be powered off) and use only parallel in Win and in Linux. Don't forget to disable your USB port in BIOS. Downfall of this is, You lose extra speed and/or features in Win. ... I guess I was not clear enough. We did try your solution 2. However, we are still having the problem that every reboot into W98 results in the printer not working in Linux (unless it is powered down prior to reboot)--even with only the parallel cable connecting the PC and printer. I can understand why having both the usb and parallel cables connected to the printer might cause a problem, but I have a hard time understanding how simply going into W98 causes the printer to not work in Linux--since the bios is setting the i/o and irq, and these are what both W98 and Linux are using. Also, partport_probe appears to detectsthe printer, and reloading parport_pc elicits a response (noise) from the pinter. The printer will not output anything however--even via redirection to /dev/lp0. Why? W98 is not changing i/o or irq from what the bios is set to do. Also, we have tried loading parport_pc both with and without the irq. If the irq is set then parport_probe notes it and says notes that the parport0 is interrupt driven. If the irq is not set (the default from mdk conf.modules setup), the port is listed as polling. Printer will work either way--if is has been powered down prior to reboot--but neither way if not powered down. Again, thanks for any further suggestions, Norm
RE: [expert] Linux/VMWare -- bridge or host-only networking?
Host-only with IP-Masquerading or Proxie/firewall on the Linux side. I believe there is a walkthrough on VMWare's site for getting the IP Masquerade to work in your situation. You will most likely need DOS drivers for your network in Win3.1. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Sher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:23 AM To: Air-Exp Subject: [expert] Linux/VMWare -- "bridge" or "host-only" networking? Dear friends: This is a footnote to my earlier letter concerning Mandrake 7.0, VMware 2.0 and Win3.1. I have a single computer running Linux and a single virtual machine with Win3.1 on it. I have ADSL broadband (3com ethernet card) and I also use a U. S. Robotics 56k EXT modem as a backup for the ADSL. During installation, VMWARE recognized my DHCP protocol and suggested bridge network. That's what Settings also showed after installation (which was otherwise perfect). At the bottom of the main VMware screen I see icons for four devices: floppy, hard drive, CD AND ethernet0. The floppy icon works when I click on it and the hard drive. The CD is of no importance at this time. But the ethernet icon does not respond. BIG QUESTION OF THE DAY: After reading extensivly on this subject on VMware's support page (Documentation, Networking) at: http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/networking_linux.html, I can't help but wonder if perhaps what I really need is HOST-ONLY NETWORKING for the ethernet card. Bellsouth considers me to be on a LAN, and that is the way my ADSL was configured from the beginning (first under Windows95 and now under Linux). I hope to avoid Win95/98 at all costs in VMware. My interest is very specific: Windows Media Player 3.0 for Win3.1, which is equivalent, I think, to WMP 6.4 for Win96/98. I need this for live Russian broadcasting for my colleagues and myself, and TV6 Moscow broadcasts, alas, only on WMP. What's your opinion, please? Bridge or host-only networking? Thank you so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[expert] licq problems
Has anyone had any troubles with the latest mandrake rpms of Licq (licq-0.75.3a-2mdk.i586.rpm / licq-data-1.5-1mdk.noarch.rpm)? I have been able to get the version of Licq that comes with Mandrake 7.0 (Licq-0.70.1-2mdk) to work, but not the new rpm. When I installed the new version of Licq and tried to run it .. it just hangs. Has anyone else had this problem or know what to do to fix this? thanks
Re: [expert] stupid Xfree86 4.0 question
It sounds like you're starting X from the console. If that is true, try putting startkde or kde in "~/.xinitrc". Richard On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: Greetings, everyone... I just upgraded to Xfree 4.0, and now plain X is the only thing that comes up. KDE doesn't come up. I've tried the Desktop Configuration tool in setup, searched the archives, searched for docs on the system, gone over the XFree86.org website and haven't found anything useful. Can somone point me to an FAQ or something? I'll gladly RTFM, if I could find one Thanks. Wayne
Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK
I missed the first post, but when I upgraded to RHL6.1, the kernel that came with it wouldn't allow my cdplayer applications to see the CD-ROM drive. I have an ATAPI-type drive. I upgraded to kernel 2.2.15, and the problem was resoved. -- No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
Re: [expert] licq problems
I'd just download the latest source and install it. I think 0.76 has more neat features, anyway. On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Bobby Welch wrote: Has anyone had any troubles with the latest mandrake rpms of Licq (licq-0.75.3a-2mdk.i586.rpm / licq-data-1.5-1mdk.noarch.rpm)? I have been able to get the version of Licq that comes with Mandrake 7.0 (Licq-0.70.1-2mdk) to work, but not the new rpm. When I installed the new version of Licq and tried to run it .. it just hangs. Has anyone else had this problem or know what to do to fix this? thanks
RE: [expert] Mandrake Netware
Hello We connect to Netware from Linux at my work but there is no support for NDS ie it is via the bindery. I have been told this week however that software is being developed which will allow Linux to connect via NDS. I hope that it is true. Ron "Bois, Mathieu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Caldera has been created by the former Novell CEO, if I am right... That's why they have developped a Novell support for Linux (yes : Linux itself, and not Slackware or RedHat or SuSE or Mandrake or...). That's a great idea, and they have given the rights to use it freely, and it works well. Now, if you want improvements, then ask Caldera for it OR do it yourself! Nowadays, unfortunately, Novell is less used. And thus, the interest to develop new support for Novell has decreased. The big lack in Linux Novell support - in my mind - is the native Novell filesystem (ie read/write straightly from/to Novell formatted disks, no access through the network). I don't think it's the "job" of Mandrake to do it and I would really be surprised if they had been doing something about it in release 7.0.2. I'm afraid you still have to wander through the manuals to do the thing! That's my point of view. Regards Mathieu -Original Message- From: Lane Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 March 2000 12:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mandrake Netware The only instructions I've been able to find for hooking a Mandrake box to a Netware server have been for Mandrake 6.x, and they mainly involve using Caldera stuff to do the job. Since I'm running Mandrake 7.0.2, I'm hoping there's a better approach now. I first asked this question on the newbie list, but no one seemed to know the answer. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... Ilmainen Internet osoitteesta http://www.sirkus.com/
Re: [expert] Not solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
Hey, here's an even stranger finding on the W98-mdk/usb-parallel Epson printer saga: If you have both the usb and parallel cables connected to the Epson, but you only use the usb associated printer in W98 to print, then parallel port printing works fine when you switch to Linux. However, if you do any W98 printing via the printer queue associated with the parallel port, then the printer will not work in Linux unless the printer is powered down prior to rebooting the PC. Bizarre! BTW: the same problem affects Caldera OL2.3--so not suprisingly not a mdk-specific problem. Norm Carver
Re: [expert] licq problems
Yup, I had problems, and finally gave up. I just downloaded the 0.76 tarball from www.licq.org and compiled it. The qt-gui required a quick hack- I had to make /usr/lib/libqt.so (a symlink) point to a QT 2.0 library, because of the way the config script is written. I haven't encountered any problems yet, but I licq is about the only QT program I use anymore. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Bobby Welch wrote: Has anyone had any troubles with the latest mandrake rpms of Licq (licq-0.75.3a-2mdk.i586.rpm / licq-data-1.5-1mdk.noarch.rpm)? I have been able to get the version of Licq that comes with Mandrake 7.0 (Licq-0.70.1-2mdk) to work, but not the new rpm. When I installed the new version of Licq and tried to run it .. it just hangs. Has anyone else had this problem or know what to do to fix this? thanks
Re: [expert] Not solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:24 -0600, Norman Carver wrote: I guess I was not clear enough. We did try your solution 2. However, we are still having the problem that every reboot into W98 results in the printer not working in Linux (unless it is powered down prior to reboot)--even with only the parallel cable connecting the PC and printer. Printer will work either way--if is has been powered down prior to reboot--but neither way if not powered down. That's exactly what I wrote: 1. Turn off the printer. 2. Shut down the system. 3. Boot into the other system. 4. Switch on the printer. In this order, no other way. Maybe *I* was not clear enough. It has nothing to do with irqs or the configuration in Linux. It is the printer's electronics which is responsible. In Windows the printer is talked to via the USB port. So it keeps this setting until someone sweeps his "memory" clean by rebooting the printer. IOW, when the printer gets switched on it is configured to listen on both ports. When the first signal is coming through the USB cable the printer gets set to "USB-mode". This setting will stay until you turn the printer off. When you turn it on the whole story starts again. IMHO the best solution for a device with different input options should be a hardware switch to switch between options. Like the switch you have on electric razors for different voltage. But this would mean an increase of production cost. Since most customers use Windows the manufacturers don't see any need to solve that problem. And come kernel 2.4 there may not be a problem any more, hopefully! wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake Netware
I use (with RedHat, not Mandrake, but I see no reason why this won't work) ncpfs (check rpmfind.net) to mount Novell filesystems (over the network, of course), which works like a charm. You can also get ahold of a PAM module to authenticate with a Novell server: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html Please, let me know if either one mentioned there compiles for you. Me, I couldn't get ncpfs to compile, which pretty much excluded nw-auth from compiling. How do I use it? My co-worker found a binary, and we use that. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 17 Mar 2000, Lane Lester wrote: The only instructions I've been able to find for hooking a Mandrake box to a Netware server have been for Mandrake 6.x, and they mainly involve using Caldera stuff to do the job. Since I'm running Mandrake 7.0.2, I'm hoping there's a better approach now. I first asked this question on the newbie list, but no one seemed to know the answer. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
[expert] Font Server Crashes
Yes, I am back. I am back because I have information to share again. First, thanks to Brian Schellenberger for this one. I was able to reproduce the mysterious font server crashes that have been plaguing more than a few running Mandrake 7.0. Look in /tmp There are two directories in the hidden files .X11-unix whose contents may vary but always seem to include a file called X0 which has a socket icon .font-unix whose contents may vary but always seem to include the (socket) fs-1. Of course hardly anyone but Brian and I seem to make separate /tmp partitions (probably Axalon does, just to dodge the /tmp overflow hack), so few would have thought to report any changes made to /tmp as significant to the mysterious font crashes. DON'T try this on anything but a test system loaded on its own partition, but if you delete the hidden directories on /tmp. your font server will NOT start on next reboot. I think either a) We are missing the regeneration at boot time of these directories, which seem to hold only sockets, or b) These directories should be in another directory, definitely not /tmp.I haven't begun to examine the initscripts for the code relevant to these, but I can disable the xfs by removing them. Later I will try the effects of each one individually and look a little more thoroughly. I wasn't able to restore the services by recreating the directories, only by reinstalling X. More experimentation will be done, but perhaps some others will want to try some things. Civileme
Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK
look to ensure it sees cd correctly , I have Atapi cd which it sees as a scsi dev and needed to be reset to I think it was scd0 "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: "David Warnock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK Magnus, to play CDs trougth the soundcard, you must have a cable attached from the CD to the soundcard.. if you have it should work just fine.. it is attached (Windows 98 plays CD's fine). Dave
[expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)
Many moons ago, August, I believe, "Good Morning America" was scheduled to carry a short article about the Personal Internet Appliance. The show was postphoned, and I am not sure that segment ever aired (I don't have television service, anyway.) It was revolutionary in two ways It promised internet connectivity with word processing, browsing, etc and a 333MHz processor with 32M RAM and a 2G or larger HDD. And the Price tag was an astounding $199. I ordered one, and the order was confirmed, and I was offered "customization" in a separate email where for only $29.95 the "codes" for my ISP of choice would be preloaded. I ignored the email and waited for the device,... and waited, and waited Well, tow months later, I called and they said they had no record of my order. OK snafus happen, particularly in startups, so I forgot about it. Later, someone approached me who has a son living 2400 miles away in Washington and who wanted to get him connected to email as cheaply as possible without trying the WEBTV type stuff. I remembered the PIA and said it should probably be stable, at least on the software side. I also presented several other alternatives without making any recommendation. He opted for the PIA from www.thelinuxstore.com. I recommended additional memory, so the PIA was purchased with 64M. Well, it was my opportunity to support the device. So, I dealt with it over the phone. Naturally, the high-schooler turned it off without shutting down. Then we discovered that the root password was nowhere in the documentation. (Everything was preinstalled, one ordinary user defined, named tux with pw tux). The Linux store folk I could find over the phone could not locate the one who knew the root password, so an email was sent and a response was received and, after e2fsck -c /dev/hda3 everything was working again. Debian was the distro, and KDE was the wm and level5 was how it booted (no LILO, no linux 1, no floppy drive for a rescue floppy, no CD drive to boot a CD to use it as a rescue). Everything worked like a charm. The modem was at /dev/modem, and Kppp was all set up except for the ISP specific stuff. Then we tried to go to eskimo.com No Carrier, nine times out of 10. Dropped lines, trashy performance. One login successful out of 74 attempts, and that one stayed up 3 whole minutes. Looked like Netscape loading knocked it down What is WORSE than a Rockwell HCF chipset? The PCTel HSP! That is what it had. A LINMODEM! And the Motherboard? PCChips M748R or something slightly newer which will run up to 500MHz P-IIIs and of course Celerons of all descriptions Most likely PPGA with perhaps a slot as well on board. Well, this is NOT one to try at home. This is NOT one to mention to friends. I found my friend a nice 56K external serial modem from Compaq for $54.50 plus $9.00 shipping. Now I just hope the PCChips board holds together for a while. As you know, PCChips boards are made by a company of geniuses who specialize in ECCR (elimination of cost-complicating redundancies) In 1996, it was discovered that motherboards produced by them had worthless pieces of plastic in the cache sockets (obviously, if there is no cache memory on board to fail, then the board will fail less frequently, and the cost complications are greatly reduced). I have seen Houston Tech, Hsin tech, Lucky Star, Matsonic, Eurome, Alton, and Amptron brands on PCChips made boards, and all seem to be basically the same. Never use two inductors when one will do. Never use a tantalum capacitor when an electrolytic can do the same task, and never, ever buy a chipset from a chipset manufacturer that the manufacturer is willing to put his own name on. Don't forget to use terms like AGP to mean "Advanced Graphics Processor" for your PCI/ISA boards without Accelerated Graphics Processor slots, either. After all, the Accelerated graphics Processor was at the time of MMX Socket 7 just another Cost Complication. Whew, long post, but you folk have been warned. Warn others. This is a BAD ONE. This is a Packard bell of the linux world. Also, there is a web site where the purchasers of these unhappy devices can update their software. It is called PlanetPIA, http://www.planetPIA.com, and it has been "Coming Soon" since September. This device will likely and deservedly fail. It is truly a shame that some will be blaming the operating system on it instead of the Ebiz Enterprises company handling it ... they seem predatory and into anything that is hot. But one note of light in all this darkness. EBiz did manage to make a nice installation of linux on very very marginal hardware. Sorry to have strayed from the Mandrake topic, but this one was too much to contain. Ebiz seems to have the linux store, CPU Micromart (which handles PCChips stuff and used to handle Multias), and a few other enterprises. None seem to have the resources to do much more than sell to you and produce product
Re: [expert] Linux/VMWare -- bridge or host-only networking?
You want bridged. if you use host-only, then windows can't get to any host other than your Linux host; it can't get to the www or ftp (except to your local machine) or anything. On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Dear friends: | | This is a footnote to my earlier letter concerning Mandrake 7.0, VMware | 2.0 and Win3.1. | | I have a single computer running Linux and a single virtual machine with | Win3.1 on it. I have ADSL broadband (3com ethernet card) and I also use | a U. S. Robotics 56k EXT modem as a backup for the ADSL. | | During installation, VMWARE recognized my DHCP protocol and suggested | bridge network. That's what Settings also showed after installation | (which was otherwise perfect). At the bottom of the main VMware screen I | see icons for four devices: floppy, hard drive, CD AND ethernet0. The | floppy icon works when I click on it and the hard drive. The CD is of no | importance at this time. But the ethernet icon does not respond. | | BIG QUESTION OF THE DAY: | | After reading extensivly on this subject on VMware's support page | (Documentation, Networking) at: | http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/networking_linux.html, I can't | help but wonder if perhaps what I really need is HOST-ONLY NETWORKING | for the ethernet card. Bellsouth considers me to be on a LAN, and that | is the way my ADSL was configured from the beginning (first under | Windows95 and now under Linux). I hope to avoid Win95/98 at all costs in | VMware. My interest is very specific: Windows Media Player 3.0 for | Win3.1, which is equivalent, I think, to WMP 6.4 for Win96/98. I need | this for live Russian broadcasting for my colleagues and myself, and TV6 | Moscow broadcasts, alas, only on WMP. | | What's your opinion, please? Bridge or host-only networking? | | Thank you so very much. | | Benjamin | | -- | Benjamin and Anna Sher | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sher's Russian Web | http://www.websher.net -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
Re: [expert] Linux Vmware file sharing -- footnote
You can read and write to a loopback file system just fine; "man losetup" for details. That said, I don't know whether vmware uses "real" loopback files or does its own thing; I use raw partitions myself. On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: | AFAIK, vm-ware uses the loopback-device principle for its FS. That means it | mounts a file as its filesystem (similar to mounting an ISO-image in linux). | Therefore I fear it's impossible to copy the file directly onto the win 3.1 | filesys. | | What you can try is check out if you can get any network access in win31, | preferably FTP, and if that works, log into your linux-box and "download" the | file. So basically: get that internet working under VM-ware. | | ps: isn't there another way? Can't you access the linux FS as a network drive in | vm-ware? I don't use it, so I don't know... Perhaps putting it on a floppy, and | reading the floppy in vm-ware? Just a few suggestions, I might not be making | much sense here. ;-) | | On Mar 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Dear friends: | | This is a footnote to my long letter concerning Linux, VMware and Win3.1 | (which is in fact one of the guest OS's supported by VMware for Linux). | | Here is a simple question: | | I downloaded an xyz.exe file for Win3.1 using Linux into my /home/sher | directory (At this point I still don't know how to access the Internet | on Win3.1/Vmware). Now how do I move or copy this file to Win3.1. | Obviously, it would be something like: | | #cp xyz.exe to C:\ (the Windows directory)? | | Right? | | But where in the world am I going to find Drive C:\ on my Linux system. | I checked the file system, KDE's file system. It's not in | /home/sher/vmware/win31. So where is it? Or is there a special way to do | this? | | Just curious. | | Thank you so much. | | Benjamin | | | -- | | Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 | ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org | | The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. | That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... | | | | Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html | Help bring us more Linux Drivers -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
Re: [expert] use XF86Config from setup
Yes, you're wrong. On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: | On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: | The default Mandrake 7.0 install does not use the XFree86 XF86Setup | program which is in a separate rpm. The xf86config is included in the | basic XFree86 rpm and is usually not a very good way to configure your | system. Use the Xconfigurator for the best results with Mandrake or | Redhat. I've used them both and Xconfigurator has always worked better. | | Yes, but correct me if I'm wrong (I'll be the first to | admit it if I am) don't you need to HAVE "X" before you can | run Xconfigurator? In this case, the person asking for the | help can't GET to his X. | John -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
Re: [expert] Linux Vmware file sharing -- footnote
If you get "host only" networking going (I never could), you can FTP from the virtual machine to your real machine. I myself, though, have used this technique to good effect when connected to a physical network via an ethernet connection; I can't get it to work when connected via the telephone, though. On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Dear Rial: | | Thank you so very much for taking out the time to help. | | Thanks especially for suggesting connecting to my Linux box from Win31 | with FTP. Will keep that in mind once I get my Internet connection (or | dial-up connection or both) set up. | | And, yes, I can copy files from Linux to Windows with a floppy. But what | do you do with a 5 meg file? | | Thanks so much again. | | Benjamin | -- | Benjamin and Anna Sher | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sher's Russian Web | http://www.websher.net -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
[expert] Superblock Corrupted - Please Help.
Well, I managed to get into trouble again... What I just did was deleted a vfat partition and turned that space into an ext2 partition. Now I can't boot up without an error. Here's what it's telling me... "The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or usf or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 (device)" I tried e2fsck but don't quite understand it. Where should I go from here to resovle this? Seve
[expert] SWAT
SWAT, web configuration tool for Samba, is missing several icons/links that link you to things like the actual configuration! You can get to them by actually putting in the url yourself, i.e. [server]:901/globals. Bill
[expert] Netscape bashing
Well, I am an aficianado of this wholesome hobby after an experience today. A user comes to me and says, "StarOffice won't SAVE! What am I supposed to do?" Well, her system is on an older computer and there wasn't a great deal of storage available, and it has one of the WD disks I am rotating out at first opportunity. I wondered if she had managed to clutter her home directory enough to make something terrible happen. Kdiskfree reported in its best full-screen graphic manner that /home was indeed a long RED bar, without space to create a folder except of course for the obligatory reserved blocks. I symlinked a chunk of space out of /usr/local for the user and asked her to move or delete files she could do without. She managed to decrease usage from 99 Mb down to 96 Mb in this manner. Then I looked in a graphic manner and found no large files--none either on a search except a copy of AIR's iso sitting on ~/Desktop/remotepublic (my server), nothing in fact over 1 Mb. Growling low, I opened Konsole, su'ed, and ls -a -l -R -H ~ | grep ./ -A 1 | lpr Thank goodness I didn't try to print filenames. There were more than 9000 I paged through the nine sheets of printout and found ./carmen/.netscape/cache total 288k -- #; the offset () is mine so I don't get a nasty note from a #pine user whose client saw all these lines as signature #and didn't display them. # so far, so good Netscape Cache is limited to 5000 Kb # in preferences on her user space. ./carmen/.netscape/cache/00 total 2.6M # HUH? -- ./carmen/.netscape/cache/01 total 837k -- ./carmen/.netscape/cache/02 total 3.3M -- ./carmen/.netscape/cache/03 total 3.4M -- * * # using * for ellipsis for visibility * ./carmen/.netscape/cache/1F total 2.6M -- All right, technically Netscape didn't violate instructions. 288 in the cache, and 32 subdirectories of the cache with 7711 files and a combined total of 84 Mb, none individually over 3.8M. I am stll marveling over this. This is like when 7.0 is a bit slow and I run top and find lib.ld. consuming a chunk of memory and 84% CPU and none of its child netscapes even a process in the system... An event which seems to be on a weekly frequency. So I kill it and the system is fine and netscape starts up well the next time. But this interesting Netscape dodge is a new one on me. To cure it, I went to the file manager, saved ~/.netscape/archive for later analysis and then deleted ~/.netscape (which is automatically recursive without asking in kfm). Now the user is back to about 11% usage in the home directory, and I will be looking in with Webmin from time to time, hoping I can get some insight into how that happened. Anyone else have a similar experience? Civileme
Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)
Civileme wrote: RAM and a 2G or larger HDD. And the Price tag was an astounding $199. There is this saying, "You get what you pay for" This is a prime example of it. My video card alone was 3/4 of this price. I think I would be wary of any computer at this price, unless it was pre-owned.
Re: [expert] No CD music, but soundcard OK
David Warnock wrote: Alan, GMIX does not seem to be installed. I will install it (but I am normally using KDE at them moment - will that matter). Yes.. I ran KDE also.. Opening the gnome stuff and finding gmix fixed the problem. Open the KDE Kpackage and do a search for Gmix.. This will tell you if it is installed. GL Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2Beta and/or BeOS 4.5 ===
Re: [expert] COmpressed files
Try unzip. Payne Stanifer wrote: I was wondering what program I need to open .zip files. I have tried the archiver that comes with redhat 6.0, but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone know what program or patch I need? Thanks. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Superblock Corrupted - Please Help.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:03:28PM -0800, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Well, I managed to get into trouble again... What I just did was deleted a vfat partition and turned that space into an ext2 partition. Now I can't boot up without an error. Here's what it's telling me... "The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or usf or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 (device)" I tried e2fsck but don't quite understand it. Where should I go from here to resovle this? Seve You need to make a filesystem on the partition: # mke2fs /dev/hda4 or whatever your new ext2 partition is. - rick -- Richard Kilgore | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Developer | http://lore.ece.utexas.edu/~rkilgore/ Graduate Student in Computer Engineering
Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
Hi Can you make color prints or only black white? I ask this because I have a Deskjet 970Cxi and only prints on BW. Thanks Alvaro - Original Message - From: "Tom Berkley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0 I have an HP Deskjet 895 with USB and parallel cables attached simultaneously. Works fine but when I print from Win98 thru the USB cable and then reboot to linux and try to use the parallel cable connection, the printer must be powered off before I attempt any printer access or I have to reboot again after cycling the printer power to make the printer work with linux. Tom Norman Carver wrote: Printer is now working via parallel port. Problem appeared to be due to having both the usb and parallel cables attached to the printer. Win98 has no problem with this with the Epson, but Linux appears to--no output as I mentioned in earlier post. While we had tried disconnecting this cable and rebooting before (without success), we may not have shut printer down in between as we did this time. So usb cable has been removed. Still a bit hard to understand how this can be the issue. If the Epson works fine with both attached in Win98, why won't it work under Linux? Anyway, my friends setup is a bit closer. Now if we can just get X configured nicely for his Rage Pro Turbo. He is getting ghosting, which I gather implies improper settings. Perhaps will post on this later if we cannot make progress. Thanks, Norm Carver
Re: [expert] Netscape bashing
Civileme A user comes to me and says, "StarOffice won't SAVE! What am I supposed to do?" [snip] Anyone else have a similar experience? Well, yes, but on HP-UX Netscape would do that occasionally. On a different netscape rant I have had a myrid of problems with netscape and StarOffice working together. Occasionally it won't even start. Someone (my wife, kids, brother, mother, etc) on my box will click on star office and nothing will happen. If you run it from the commandline it returns right away, no errors. OR, it'll load but as soon as you try to open a file or open star writer it'll segfault. The solution? Remove the users .netscape directory. I don't know why but this seems to fix it every time. Go figure. Crappy product. Can't wait for KDE2's Konquorer or maybe Mozilla under Linux will shape up. Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
[expert] request for updates
Hi, I have a few requests for updates. indent 2.2.5 2.2.4 is buggy and doesn't always work. Also it's needed for the CADP toolset (Linux LOTOS CASE tool) to function properly. Please put the HOWTO's in. There is no reason for this omission as far as I can see. (or make them available) Krabber ( if it isn't already. I don't remember ) SOX 12.15 or newer if there is any. (Needed for Krabber) -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)
- Original Message - From: Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair) Civileme wrote: RAM and a 2G or larger HDD. And the Price tag was an astounding $199. There is this saying, "You get what you pay for" This is a prime example of it. My video card alone was 3/4 of this price. I think I would be wary of any computer at this price, unless it was pre-owned. Well, then look at http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/ for a $99 computer. Hoyt __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
Color works fine. Fire up printtool as root and select your printer then edit In the print filter there is a selection for the color bits. You probably took the default 8 bits which will give you a great bw printer with 256 shades of gray. Select 24bit color and you should enjoy some nice color output. Tom Alvaro Nunes wrote: Hi Can you make color prints or only black white? I ask this because I have a Deskjet 970Cxi and only prints on BW. Thanks Alvaro - Original Message - From: "Tom Berkley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0 I have an HP Deskjet 895 with USB and parallel cables attached simultaneously. Works fine but when I print from Win98 thru the USB cable and then reboot to linux and try to use the parallel cable connection, the printer must be powered off before I attempt any printer access or I have to reboot again after cycling the printer power to make the printer work with linux. Tom Norman Carver wrote: Printer is now working via parallel port. Problem appeared to be due to having both the usb and parallel cables attached to the printer. Win98 has no problem with this with the Epson, but Linux appears to--no output as I mentioned in earlier post. While we had tried disconnecting this cable and rebooting before (without success), we may not have shut printer down in between as we did this time. So usb cable has been removed. Still a bit hard to understand how this can be the issue. If the Epson works fine with both attached in Win98, why won't it work under Linux? Anyway, my friends setup is a bit closer. Now if we can just get X configured nicely for his Rage Pro Turbo. He is getting ghosting, which I gather implies improper settings. Perhaps will post on this later if we cannot make progress. Thanks, Norm Carver
Re: [expert] going from PS/2 to serial mouse problem
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi! I was having some weird behavior with my PS/2 3-button mouse, so i stuck on the PS/2 to Serial adaptor. The starnge behavior dissappeared, but now, the middle mouse button does not work. i used mouseconfig to set it up as a Generial 3-Button Mouse (Serial). I have verified that it is setup correctly, but still no middle mouse button. When it was configured as a Generic 3-Button Mouse (PS) it worked. Is there something I can do to get the middle button working on a serial mouse? TIA, Dave -- David G. Thiessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ThiessenDG King George, VAICQ: 55163586 http://webpages.kg.hsanet.net/ThiessenDG Let me know when You find out I am having the same problem. I have been too busy fiddling with other stuff to say what you just said!! Ivan
Re: [expert] Netscape bashing
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Go figure. Crappy product. Can't wait for KDE2's Konquorer or maybe Mozilla under Linux will shape up. Yes, we are all at the edge of seats for these and the edge of our patience with Netscape. Suprising thing is that I have not had any problems with stock mandrake 7.0's netscape 4.7 YET. *looks for some wood to knock on* Previous versions, and I've tried a few, were another story. I've had to delete the .netscape directories many times. My 7.0 install has been up less than a week, but has had heavy netscape usage so I pray this lasts! If Opera ever gets out of that pre-pre-pre-alpha usability stage they've been in forever they might be another contendor. One thing they have that deserves a mondo cool award is little widgets at the bottom of the window that can do things like zoom and toggle pictures for that window only. (why do somee web designers think everyone runs at 640x480 and specify tiny font sizes? That sucks at 1600x1200)
Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)
I am very wary of the LinuxStore at this point, and would NOT refer anyone to do business with them. I ordered LM 7.0 PowerPack on their website several weeks ago, and after a week or so, with no update to the original 'bounced' confirmation e-mail, I called themseveral times. I LIVE in Scottsdale, AZ, where they are headquartered, but it took me several tries into their Voice Response Menu and waiting for up to half an hour before I finally got a human on the line. Asked him for status on the order and he was completely clueless.thought the latest LM release was "6.2", and wouldn't listen when I tried to tell him it was 7.0. Couldn't find the order anywhere, put me on hold for another ten minutes, got back on the line and told me he had no idea when the LM 7.0 Power Packs would arrive. I cancelled the order immediately and went down to CompUSA, which had the US PowerPack version (LM 7.0 Deluxe) in stock and bought it. This company needs to completely revamp their ordering/customer service procedures, because as far as I can tell, they are completely lost in space. Civileme wrote: Ebiz seems to have the linux store, CPU Micromart (which handles PCChips stuff and used to handle Multias), and a few other enterprises. None seem to have the resources to do much more than sell to you and produce product for sale. A number of items have appeared on their various web sites as things one would see and "gotta have" which have quickly disappeared.
Re: [expert] going from PS/2 to serial mouse problem
Hi! Do you have the MS/PC slide switch on the bottom of the mouse? Believe it or not, when I had the switch set to MS and used the PS/2 port, all three buttons worked. When I moved to the serial port and tried to set it up as a generic 3button it didnt work. I read the 3button mouse mini HOWTO and realized that I had to set it to PC and set it up as a Mouse Systems 3 button serial to get it to work. Good Luck! On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi! I was having some weird behavior with my PS/2 3-button mouse, so i stuck on the PS/2 to Serial adaptor. The starnge behavior dissappeared, but now, the middle mouse button does not work. i used mouseconfig to set it up as a Generial 3-Button Mouse (Serial). I have verified that it is setup correctly, but still no middle mouse button. When it was configured as a Generic 3-Button Mouse (PS) it worked. Is there something I can do to get the middle button working on a serial mouse? TIA, Dave -- David G. Thiessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ThiessenDG King George, VAICQ: 55163586 http://webpages.kg.hsanet.net/ThiessenDG Let me know when You find out I am having the same problem. I have been too busy fiddling with other stuff to say what you just said!! Ivan -- -- David G. Thiessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ThiessenDG King George, VAICQ: 55163586 http://webpages.kg.hsanet.net/ThiessenDG
Re: [expert] An I-opening Hack: $200 PC
Thankya---thankyaverrimuch On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Eugene C. Zesch mewed: Vic wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Larry Sword mewed: http://www.linux-hacker.net/opener/ He uses Mandrake-Linux also. Larry Huh? I got a 404 error with this link, uh oh, oops. -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com Try http://www.i-opener-linux.net/. They were mentioned on Slashdot a couple days ago. Gene -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com
Re: [expert] New features in Mandrake 7.0
Go to DrakConf on your desktop and select Startup Services. Then you just uncheck the stuff you don't need. When you're done, that pc should boot up much quicker. Seve -Original Message- From: vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:45 AM Subject: [expert] New "features" in Mandrake 7.0 Hello All, I just upgraded to Mandrake 7.0 and it contains a few "features" I could do without! On bootup there are several NFS errors about locking files, and a RPC error 101 that keeps recycling till it times out (about 10 times I believe) then it goes on and starts up. I then do my usual startx and I get xauth: errors but it times out and starts up. It takes me almost 10 minutes to get going with the new version on Mandrake! I am a single user on a desktop, no network or anything I don't need apache nor four or five different languages on man pages, or any of the servers that start on bootup. What is the easiest way to prune out all the "features" I don't need?? Any help would be most appreciated! I would like to keep the "development" goodies C compiliers and the different libraries and languages. Thanks, Vern
Re: [expert] use XF86Config from setup
I thought Xconfigurator was an ascii console program, like sndconfig? On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: The default Mandrake 7.0 install does not use the XFree86 XF86Setup program which is in a separate rpm. The xf86config is included in the basic XFree86 rpm and is usually not a very good way to configure your system. Use the Xconfigurator for the best results with Mandrake or Redhat. I've used them both and Xconfigurator has always worked better. Yes, but correct me if I'm wrong (I'll be the first to admit it if I am) don't you need to HAVE "X" before you can run Xconfigurator? In this case, the person asking for the help can't GET to his X. John
Re: [expert] Not solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 14:03 -0600, Norman Carver wrote: Hey, here's an even stranger finding on the W98-mdk/usb-parallel Epson printer saga: If you have both the usb and parallel cables connected to the Epson, but you only use the usb associated printer in W98 to print, then parallel port printing works fine when you switch to Linux. However, if you do any W98 printing via the printer queue associated with the parallel port, then the printer will not work in Linux unless the printer is powered down prior to rebooting the PC. Bizarre! BTW: the same problem affects Caldera OL2.3--so not suprisingly not a mdk-specific problem. IMHO it still is not a Linux problem at all. Windows is talking to the printer in different ways than Linux does. So all data which Windows stores in the printer's memory has to be erased before you can use it with Linux. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)
Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair) Civileme wrote: RAM and a 2G or larger HDD. And the Price tag was an astounding $199. There is this saying, "You get what you pay for" This is a prime example of it. My video card alone was 3/4 of this price. I think I would be wary of any computer at this price, unless it was pre-owned. Well, then look at http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/ for a $99 computer. ] = quoted from http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/ ] What's inside of the I-Opener: ] CPU--WINChip C6 180MHz not too powerful, but I didn't expect a PIII! This is basically a pentium. ] MEM--32MB Dram (SODIMM) upgradable to 64mb max, if you replace the memory stick ] Storage--16MB Sandisk Flash On Board At least it has an onboard IDE controller so you can add that 2.5" laptop drive, and the custom bracket you'll create. To add this you have to cut the heatsink so you can access the controller. And you must MAKE YOUR OWN IDE CABLE (in faq) thats not something I'd look forward to. Oh I guess you can have some guy make one for you for $20 I don't know if the IDE controller supports a second drive so you can add a CD. You could get a parallel port CD-ROM. There is NO floppy, and apparently no controller for one. They the best way to install the OS onto the hard drive is on another machine. ] Display--10" color lcd 800x600 16bpp / Cyberblade i7 Video Chip UMA XF86Config This is the most impressive thing here. Bit small though. I was expecting a RF modulator to be honest. ] SoundYamaha YMF715 Stereo Speakers I Used The OSS Drivers $20.00 ] Modem56k internal modem on Com1 not a softmodem 8) ` I was suprised its not a softmodem ]Keyboard-Net KB with built in mouse PS/2 Comp. No ESC KEY 8( ]See below hot to make a cable to use a standard PS/2 kb and mouse Yeah, that keyboard looks like it leaves alot to be desired. And no escape key? I think you'll need the PS/2 keyboard, mouse and the time to fabricate a cable. ]Printer Port--Standard LPT Port ]USB--1 Usb Port ]To get in setup use control+alt+esc I bet thats fun to do since it DOESNT COME WITH AN ESCAPE KEY. Ok, so to use one of these as a desktop you're gonna need to pimp it out a bit. This will require additional costs, here are some approximations: I-Opener $99 1st month internet $22 required, then you can cancel 8-10 gig 2.5" HD$200 lp port cd $100 can this be used w/ linux yet? cable (premade) $20 64mb memory replacement $80 guess, not familiar w/ this kind real keyboard$15 real mouse $15 Mandrake 7.0 Powerpack $50 of course! Total $600 and it still has a weak processor, no floppy, and no expansion. I'll admit this is impressive for $99, especially when compared to a WebTV. It comes with a unix-like OS too, maybe this could be turned into a cheap X terminal running that or a stripped down linux with the 16mb flash only. But 16mb isn't much space! It's obvious that this company is expecting to make their profits with the internet service @ $22/month. This is similar to how game consoles are so cheap because they make money off the games. ~Jeremy
[expert] Linux,VMware, Win31 -- My thanks!
Dear friends: My deep thanks to all of you who wrote in with your expert opinions and suggestions on how to configure networking (and dial-up) for Win31 on VMware for Linux. I will now explore the situation further and, if necessary, talk to the people at VMware about all this. Thank you all so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[expert] COmpressed files
I was wondering what program I need to open .zip files. I have tried the archiver that comes with redhat 6.0, but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone know what program or patch I need? Thanks. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
