Re: [expert] More fonts
Depends on your screen resolution. The 100 dpi fonts work well with 1280x1024 and the 75 dpi fonts work best with 1024x768. Other rez I have not played with. Tom Pat Mc wrote: In my quest to improve my system and Netscape fonts I found something interesting. The 100dpi and 75dpi fonts were installed in a zip format. Looking in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi and /75dpi all files end in .gz. I thought this to be strange so I experimented. Backed up the entire font dir and the expanded all the compressed files. This made Netscape look 100% better and improved some system fonts but made others worse. So what gives. Should the font files be ziped ? BTW this is Mandake 6.1 w/KDE Pat
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
With regard to home directories, I've found it most useful to have seperate /home partitions that hold all the config files and all that, and a /home2 partition, which can be shared. On this partition each user gets another directory that they own, and then they can put "big" stuff that will be the same for each distribution (like multimedia files, for instance) in their /home2 area and make a symlink from /home to there. It works for me; YMMV. -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
Well, to ask the obvious . . . You did delete the old "local" printers from the Windows machine(s) and re-install them as "network" printers, right? On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | On 5 Apr 00, at 15:10, Stephen Bosch wrote: | | Tell me - has the print server itself been configured properly? Print | servers usually have eeproms which need to be configured, and usually this can | only be done through a Windows or DOS app that is provided with the server. | | no its not that kind of print server, it has a built in webserver and telnet | access, it can also be configured via supplied software that either runs on | windows and interacts via tcp/ip, netbios or java. It can also be configured | from *nix using some native nix software. It works fine printing from linux, | the problem is that printing via samba no longer works since I moved the | printers off the local server onto the intel printserver. | | | | Harondel J. Sibble | Sibble Computer Consulting | Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com | (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Lane Lester wrote: HUGE SNIP /sbin/askrunlevel That is a SYMLINK to /bin/linuxconf * WHat is the output of cat /var/run/runlevel.dir Civileme
Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
Sevatio Octavio wrote: Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Seve Wrapped around istelf shortly after initialization with a window leak VEry slow to resize windows but will take fonts readily Makes the linux-mandrake page look ugly and muddy till you override their OCR-B-like fonts I have a marginal computer to use it on to exacerbate problems. DOES NOT (thank whoever--prolly the Mozilla team) use glibc2.0 Yay Has a sidebar I hate Has a non-functional link to AOL Instant messenger (Whp!_) Has a channel thingie you can click (I didn't) Has a shopping thingie that is probably as brain-dead as the channel thingie. Overall I hated it, but I like it a lot better than 4.70-4.72 and after the initial window leak has given no trouble. I can run StarOffice at the same time on a slow 64M memory machine without getting a disk-whacking virtual lockup. Civileme P. S. Will have to rewrite my script, but maybe I won't need it. This one seems meek after twisting the tail of a wild boar for 2 years.
Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem
I had a similar problem with a previous install, it ocuured oddly enough after I had repositioned the swap space to a different area of the drive from before and was gone after I moved the swap back to the end of the drive. I have a 4.3gig hard drive broken up into partitions like this (give or take): /boot 15M /root 350M /home 660M /usr 1555M /usr/local 1050M swap 128M I tried previously to move swap in between home and usr I think it was, and that's when I developed problems. I moved the swap back to the end of the disk and haven't had a hang or lock since. I think the Partitioning how-to might be able to explain it. I'm not sure if the swap space was split in between platters causing the head to have to read all the way to the end of first platter and then move back to the beginning of the second inorder to complete the swapping. Whatever it was, what's your partitioning scheme as well as the size and geometry of the disk. Also take a look at the partitioning how-to which my be able to give you some idea on the whole concept of partition physics. Second, what time is it doing this? I think at 3 or 4 the slocate crontab runs which makes a database of all the files on the drive, I don't think that would be large enough to really hang the system but take a look at what's going on at the time. When slocate had to database my entire windows drive though, it did take a while and did slow up slightly. Just some possible suggestions. Tom On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I have 64Megs of RAM and 128Megs of swap. Ok. As long as you've got at least a PII that should be sufficient... John
Re: [expert] gnucash
mhh... Forgot early versions of DirectX then? A higher version of DirectX always got overwritten by a lower version, if you installed a game that shipped with a lower version than the one curently installed on the system. And the fun part was: it always asked you if you wanted to overwrite the current version before it did, but never ever did anything usefull with that info. "Do you want to overwrite your current version of DirectX? [y/n]" -- n -- "Installing DirectX now..." But you're right; it is damn annoying. I believe it's because sometimes a higher version of some library in linux discontinues support for functions included in an earlier version, and therefore using the "at least" numbering interfere with the proper compilation of your code. But then again; I've been up all night, and I'm just theorizing about this. Probably nothing I say right now makes sense, and it's a much more sophisticated plot involving martian invaders, custard pie and 3 cups of hot water. ;) On Apr 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. . . this trick almost always works fine when going in this direction. (ln -s lib.so.new lib.so.old) I don't know why packages check for particular numbers rather than checking for "at least" this number, which would make a lot more sense. It's rather annoying. (And one thing that Windows apps usually don't suffer from!) -- 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] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
Craig Woods wrote: Are you using a Linux version of this browser, and if so, where did you find that little hummer? Thanks, Craig I am using a linux version. I downloaded it from the AOL (err... Netscape) site. ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub, etc which you can find at www.netscape.com. The only problem is the "slashdot effect" ... Many many downloads going and connection reset by peer. I cured that with Web DOwnloader for X which you can find at www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo And I hammered away for an hour over a DSL connection to bring in the 10Mb or so (Mozilla M14 was only 6 , the other 4 must be Shopping, Channels, sidebar, and AOL IM Chat). They managed to slow M14 considerably by adding a newsfeed in the sidebar which I collapsed without being able to kill the newsfeed. CIvileme
RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple boot loader. And it's free! http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Hope this helps, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirk McElhearn Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 3:22 AM Subject: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk? I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Wild Netscape Hunter-Killer
On Apr 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Once the pid of a running netscape process is discovered, then top # is started, with output to /tmp/.netshk and killed by killall after # after 3 seconds So if I'm getting this correct, "top" is launched, and killed by "killall" 3 seconds later. Suggestion: start top like this: "top bn1" b = batch mode n = number of iterations 1 = self-explanatory ;-) This output can also be redirected; there's no 3-second delay, and it's a bit more elegant. Have fun hunting netscapes, and be sure to send me a skin when you kill one; I'm in desperate need of a new rug ;-) -- 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] gnucash
tboldtbefore you went to all of that trouble, did you try cbb? It's already installed on your system if you didn't deselect it durring installation. Alan tboldt wrote: I am attempting to switch totally from OS/2-Windows to Linux. I am almost there. I have ported my applications that I use consistently. The only application I have yet to obtain for Linux is a replacement for my checkbook, financial application. I have decided to try gnucash and donwloaded the latest version 1.3.4 and the support package guile, 1.3.4. My problem - when I attempt to install gnucash with kpackage, it will not install due to a failed dependency: libguile.so.4 I have examined the guile packages included with the mandrake version I have (7.0-2 (Air)), no libguile.so.4. There are other libs, but not '.4'. The guile package I downloaded from the gnucash site also did not contain the '.4' lib. Does anyone know where I can obtain this lib?? Or maybe this is a false error message from kpackage. Has anyone else installed gnucash under Mandrake Linux??? if so, how???
[expert] OT: Game Developers
Does anyone remember the old DOS version of Shanghai Dragon's Eye? It was a very advanced version of Maj Jongg with animated tiles, championship matches and the ability to create your own layout among other things. This company has since gone on to Internet games, however they are willing to talk about licensing DE with a company that can develop it for Linux users. I have the contact name if there is interest. If the same game were available for Linux I'd buy it in a second. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
I didn't see any support for Linux partitions, but then I did not read the 'primer'. Pj Bill Shirley wrote: I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple boot loader. And it's free! http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Hope this helps, Bill
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On 6/04/00 7:21, Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: See what I mean? I think I get it. But how do I actually go about making the partitions? When I install Mandrake, I get a partitioner. Do I do it all at that time? (I am planning to do a clean Mandrake install as the first OS on the new disk.) Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? Can I run diskDrake from the current Mandrake installation (on the older HD) to partition the new disk? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
[expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Is Linux not detecting the RAM? Is it discounting space used by the kernel? I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Hi Glyn Change it to append ="mem=32M" then type lilo enter to run the change and reboot. - Original Message - This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Is Linux not detecting the RAM? Is it discounting space used by the kernel? I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[expert] Sendmail
HI ! I have a little LAN at home where my Linux is the "mail-server". Or it should be. What should I do that the sendmail send all of the qued mails when I'm connected to the inet via PPP ? Is the "sendmail -q" line sufficient ? (Written into the ip-up or ip-up.local file). And what happens when I'm connected and sending mail from one host ? Does the sendmail deliver it immediatelly to my ISP ? Thanx, Ago "If you love somebody set them free..." Sting is GPL fan :-)) A hivatalos magyar KDE oldal : www.kde.hu
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Brian T. Schellenberger said: I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything. Thus a plain gray screen. Try deleting it and then do a startx. Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting (well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to operate without crashing back to the console. Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find where that is going on and make the change. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
Well, so the hardware allows you to have several _screens_. Now, what about input ? Several mouses are supported too, but AFAIK you can't have several keyboards in a PC, and each X server probably needs one ... Thanks for your concern Jean, but I only need to display some real-time data. While X has hooks for input, I do not think it is a necessity. Regards Christopher Cox
Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
Not sure, but "multihead support" in XFree 4.0 perhaps? Or is it for dual-head matrox cards only? Hello Rial, It would appear you and Marcos are on to something. I see where the Xfree86-4 drivers can be designated PCI slots. This looks encouraging. Regards Christopher Cox
Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
Since PlugPray allows for multiple PCI VGA boards Is there a way to start multiple X servers against multiple PCI VGA boards? er... nop and yes... er.. only with xfree4 and having TOO much luck! see www.xfree.org for more info. No, I hadn't set up such thing... yet. LOL... Thanks for the Xfree86 Version 4 clue. It looks like it just might do it! Thanks Marcos Christopher Cox
RE: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Hve you restarted Lilo??? 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: Glyn Millington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 April 2000 09:49 To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Is Linux not detecting the RAM? Is it discounting space used by the kernel? I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [expert] Sendmail
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Deim_Ágoston?= wrote: HI ! I have a little LAN at home where my Linux is the "mail-server". Or it should be. What should I do that the sendmail send all of the qued mails when I'm connected to the inet via PPP ? Is the "sendmail -q" line sufficient ? (Written into the ip-up or ip-up.local file). And what happens when I'm connected and sending mail from one host ? Does the sendmail deliver it immediatelly to my ISP ? Thanx, Ago I would advise the use of a proper tool for this kinda thing... sendmail is not prepared to be offline unless you use uucp, which is not an easy thing to set up (at least, people who had set ip up had told me so). Instead, I used MasqMail (search it in www.freshmeat.net). It's very easy to setup (took me 10 minutes after reading the short docs) and has the hability to change the From: part of the mail so they point to a reachable e-mail account you may have. Give it a try, it won't dissapoint you... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets
yes... you can buy the oss drivers (just $20; www.opensound.com) and it will go smooth! -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] gnucash
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:11:13PM -0400, tboldt wrote: - I am attempting to switch totally from OS/2-Windows to Linux. I am - almost there. I have ported my applications that I use consistently. The - - only application I have yet to obtain for Linux is a replacement for my - checkbook, financial application. I have decided to try gnucash and - donwloaded the latest version 1.3.4 and the support package guile, - 1.3.4. - - My problem - when I attempt to install gnucash with kpackage, it will - not install due to a failed dependency: - - libguile.so.4 - - I have examined the guile packages included with the mandrake version I - have (7.0-2 (Air)), no libguile.so.4. There are other libs, but not - '.4'. The guile package I downloaded from the gnucash site also did not - contain the '.4' lib. - - Does anyone know where I can obtain this lib?? Or maybe this is a - false error message from kpackage. - - Has anyone else installed gnucash under Mandrake Linux??? if so, how??? - - I've done fairly well with CBB, It is on the Mandrake 6.1 CDs, but I had problems with that cophy, so I just installed from the tar file. It is working quite well now. http://cbb.sourceforge.net/ -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
[expert] cron problem.
I recently changed from Suse 6.2 to Mandrake 7.0 (and it is quite cool), with a fresh install, and now have an odd cron problem. My crontab has this in it: 30 22 * * * /root/backup and /root/backup is this: #!/bin/bash cd /pub tar cvzf mtn.tar.gz /home/mtn /pub/redmeadow /home/support /etc The problem is this: backup works fine from a command line, producing a 170Mg file, but when run by cron it quits after about 56K. I even changed the time it was run with the same results. It worked fine under Suse. Any ideas? Could cron be limiting the time the process runs? -- Dan Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bigfork, MT.
RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Ranish Partition Manager does support Linux partitions. I like the text based boot manager best. It allows you to type the number of the partition to boot or type zero to go directly into the partition manager. Pretty easy to use, also. Just remember, when resizing a partition, to use the + and - keys; it's easier that way. It will copy data from one partition to another. I believe it will boot partitions above the 1024 cyl. line. It has instructions for booting Win9x and NT above the 1024 cyl. line. If you're doing an install to a clean hard disk, I recommend downloading Ranish, unzipping to a floppy, booting the floppy, and configuring the boot manager (text based) in the space right after the Master Boot Record (uses about 500K) which is usually unused because all fdisk programs (MS and Linux) like to align partitions on a cylinder boundary. After installing the boot manager, you can use Ranish, DiskDrake, or any other program to define your Linux partitions. You won't need lilo at all. It should be easy enough to investigate now. I think you will find it very useful. And if you're hard disk is still clean, it won't be so scary to experiment with it. Hope this helps, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pj Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk? I didn't see any support for Linux partitions, but then I did not read the 'primer'. Pj Bill Shirley wrote: I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple boot loader. And it's free! http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Hope this helps, Bill
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Wow! I tried this and it threw my kernel into a panic - had to dig out the rescue disk etc. My first real emergency! I'm only guessing - is the kernel using up 9 MB? and panics when not allowed that space? All explantions welcome! TIA Glyn On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:48:11AM -0400, thus spake Dan Westlake: Hi Glyn Change it to append ="mem=32M" then type lilo enter to run the change and reboot. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Is Linux not detecting the RAM? Is it discounting space used by the kernel? I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:48 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Try Dan's advice (mem=32M, run /sbin/lilo after change). If that is not the solution then look at your graphics board. Does it have all it's memory on the board or does it use a part of RAM? Some graphics boards use 8 or 16M of the system's memory so you have to substract that amount from RAM. 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] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:19:13AM -0400, Christopher Cox wrote: - - Well, so the hardware allows you to have several _screens_. - - Now, what about input ? Several mouses are supported too, - but AFAIK you can't have several keyboards in a PC, and each - X server probably needs one ... - - - Thanks for your concern Jean, but I only need to display some real-time - data. While X has hooks for input, I do not think it is a necessity. Then you may want to look at a multi-headed display instead of multiple servers. A multiheaded display merges several physical displays into one logical one. As you move the rodent around, the pointer goes from display to display. Windows can show up on one or several displays, etc. metro X has had multi-headed display capability for the Matrox Millenium card for years; they may have extended the list of supported cards. Xfree86 may now include multi-headed displays, I haven't checked. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] Sendmail
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:53:10PM +0200, Deim Agoston wrote: - HI ! - - I have a little LAN at home where my Linux is the "mail-server". Or - it should be. What should I do that the sendmail send all of the - qued mails when I'm connected to the inet via PPP ? Is the - "sendmail -q" line sufficient ? (Written into the ip-up or ip-up.local - file). And what happens when I'm connected and sending mail from - one host ? Does the sendmail deliver it immediatelly to my ISP ? - Thanx, - Ago You shouldn't have to do anything. If sendmail is running as a daemon, it will try from time to time and eventually suceed. You will have messages from sendmail complaining that it could not deliver message X for the last four hours. Other than that minor annoyance, you should be all set up. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
[expert] LT Winmodem
Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just jerkin my yang? -- Carter B. Bennett Little House Computer Services (LHCS) Using Red Hat 6.0 Corel Linux (A laptop's wet dream.) Linux Rocks!!! You may be able to kill two birds with one stone, but in the end, when it's all over, all you really have is two dead birds, and your short one stone. My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy. Bruce Springsteen, Rosalita, 1973
Re: [expert] Install on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Bois, Mathieu wrote: When I try to install Mandrake 7.0R2 or RedHat 6.2, it says it needs a floppy disk with PCMCIA drivers... er... have you tried the pcmcia.img boot floppy? the cd boots the cdrom.img boot floppy, which has no (or too poor) pcmcia support... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not part of the problem. Russ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart Brian T. Schellenberger said: I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything. Thus a plain gray screen. Try deleting it and then do a startx. Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting (well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to operate without crashing back to the console. Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find where that is going on and make the change. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
Not even when using let's say multiple USB keyboards? Or one regular keyboard, and a ps-2 one? Or any mixture of regular/ps2/usb keyboards? I believe this was already discussed on the linux kernel list (not sure, but I heard a friend talk about it who's subscribed), so in theory it should be possible. I don't know how far the implementation of this stuff has evolved though. On Apr 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Cox wrote: Since PlugPray allows for multiple PCI VGA boards Is there a way to start multiple X servers against multiple PCI VGA boards? Well, so the hardware allows you to have several _screens_. Now, what about input ? Several mouses are supported too, but AFAIK you can't have several keyboards in a PC, and each X server probably needs one ... -- 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] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
Yes of course, all the "obvious" stuff has been done! ; - ) On 6 Apr 00, at 2:05, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Well, to ask the obvious . . . You did delete the old "local" printers from the Windows machine(s) and re-install them as "network" printers, right? Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] installing from hd that has a dir mounted to cdrom ????
Is this possible? I mean how can i do this i hope it is but i couldnt. In more detail, I want to boot with an image file ( possibly hd.img) and select a hd partition ( this can include the minimum requirement of the Mandrake/ directory tree ex: all the dirs - base, instimage, mdkinst, RPMS but empty RPMS) then mount my cdrom and link the RPMS directory in the hd partition to RPMS dir in the CDROM( by ln -s ...) and go on the installation. I crashed at the linking stage. In order to come there i made a node node /dev/hdc in order to mount my CDROM , copied real executable of mount because the mount in the hd.img is nothing but a perl script and doesnt work, and of course u should insmod isofs before mounting. The images for Mandrake installation are too restrictive , thats too bad i think :( If u can have a idea for installing from a directory ( it can be in hd or mounted to cdrom /Mandrake dir) please tell me.. cdrom.img chouldnt identify my mandrake cdrom .. thats way i am doing these tricks... Please dont say burn a new iso image because i cant do it now and i want to do exactly the above scenerio or something like it... by.. have fun with linux... __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
That's it - the graphics board uses 8MB. Thanks for this; glad I don't need to play with Lilo any more! TVM Glyn M. On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:32:29PM +0200, thus spake Wolfgang Bornath: On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:48 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Try Dan's advice (mem=32M, run /sbin/lilo after change). If that is not the solution then look at your graphics board. Does it have all it's memory on the board or does it use a part of RAM? Some graphics boards use 8 or 16M of the system's memory so you have to substract that amount from RAM. 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 -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: And I hammered away for an hour over a DSL connection to bring in the 10Mb or so (Mozilla M14 was only 6 , the other 4 must be Shopping, Channels, sidebar, and AOL IM Chat). They managed to slow M14 considerably by adding a newsfeed in the sidebar which I collapsed without being able to kill the newsfeed. CIvileme Sounds like I need M14 if it's stable enough for a newbie to use! Maybe the fonts are better than Net 4.7 which I use now. Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: [expert] Sendmail
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Charles Curley wrote: You shouldn't have to do anything. If sendmail is running as a daemon, it will try from time to time and eventually suceed. You will have messages from sendmail complaining that it could not deliver message X for the last four hours. Other than that minor annoyance, you should be all set up. yes, but if you don't configure sendmail and you don't connect within 5 days, you'll get the sent mails kicked back and sendmail complaining "I cannot deliver this. the server must be down" or something the like... and it's some difficult to masquerade From: 's... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Glyn Millington wrote: Wow! I tried this and it threw The kernel footprint is about 500K. This is not windows where it runs about 4Mb (at least for NT) A kernel panic when? When you ran LILO? When you rebooted as well or just when you rebooted? What does your BIOS say when it tests memory at the opening screen? This sounds suspiciously like a memory problem. The kernel normally accepts the amount of memory reported by the BIOS, and the append is to workaround BIOSes that fail to report all of it, but almost always this is upwards of 64M or 15 or 14M depending on whether the "hole" from 15-16M is activated in the BIOS. Civileme
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
"Harondel J. Sibble" wrote: On 5 Apr 00, at 15:10, Stephen Bosch wrote: Tell me - has the print server itself been configured properly? Print servers usually have eeproms which need to be configured, and usually this can only be done through a Windows or DOS app that is provided with the server. no its not that kind of print server, it has a built in webserver and telnet access, it can also be configured via supplied software that either runs on windows and interacts via tcp/ip, netbios or java. It can also be configured from *nix using some native nix software. It works fine printing from linux - How? Over Samba? the problem is that printing via samba no longer works since I moved the printers off the local server onto the intel printserver. Though the mode of configuration is different, I still think the problem is the same -- the print server itself has not yet been set up for SMB support. It needs a NetBIOS name, or it won't appear to Windows clients (I have seen this problem before). What was the model number of the printserver again? -Stephen-
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
A guess: 8Meg for video ram (no seperate video memory) + 1Meg for the 640k "regular" memory. (Thank you, Bill.) On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | Wow! I tried this and it threw my kernel into a panic - had to | dig out the rescue disk etc. My first real emergency! | | I'm only guessing - is the kernel using up 9 MB? and panics when | not allowed that space? | All explantions welcome! | | TIA | | Glyn | | | | | | On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:48:11AM -0400, thus spake Dan Westlake: | Hi Glyn | | Change it to append ="mem=32M" then type lilo enter to run the change and | reboot. | | It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) | | On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me | I have 23MB ram. I've added | append = "mem=32m" | to lilo.conf with no effect. | Can anyone tell me what is going on here? | Is Linux not detecting the RAM? | Is it discounting space used by the kernel? | | I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. | | TIA | | Glyn M. | -- |** |* "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * |* Douglas Hoftstatder* |** -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Sure. Whatever. You can create 'em ahead of time, create 'em on the first install, or create 'em as you go (just leave the end of the disk un-paritioned on the first install). IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. I'd probably FIRST do a test install on the disk where I had a dummy empty partition 1050 cylindars large, and install into / for the rest of the disk, with default options. If this one boots, then you know you don't have to worry about the 1024 limit; if it fails, then you do. THEN proceed with either the simple approach or the complex one, depending on whether you have the 1024 problem or not. On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | On 6/04/00 7:21, Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have | said: | | See what I mean? | | I think I get it. But how do I actually go about making the partitions? | When I install Mandrake, I get a partitioner. Do I do it all at that | time? (I am planning to do a clean Mandrake install as the first OS on | the new disk.) Or do I need to partition the HD before installing | anything? | | Can I run diskDrake from the current Mandrake installation (on the older | HD) to partition the new disk? | | Kirk | | | |vice versa | Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing | Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com | Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Well, I'm running 7.0.2, so I don't know if there are any updates. I guess I could install the initscripts and wipe out any customizing I've done, if you think it's a good idea. Unless the name of the file is initscripts.rpm, I might need some help identifying it. Hmm...I coulda sworn there was another person with similar problems running 6.1. :-) In any event, you will find it quite easily. It'll be "initsricpts-some_version-number.rpm" Should be REALLY easy to find. And, yes, it wouldn't hurt to backup your initscripts, etc. John
Re: [expert] LT Winmodem
"Carter B. Bennett" wrote: Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just jerkin my yang? I recall seeing something about LT Winmodem support at www.linmodems.org -Stephen
Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Yes. I've got a K6-2 3xx here with 32 mb RAM and plenty of drive space. I downloaded and extracted it. I started it up and it really didn't do anything. Looked interesting, but that's about it. YMMV, though... John
Re: [expert] Any Sparc/Linux users out there
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm looking for any sort of help, or possibly alternate kernels (without PCI support) from somebody that runs Sparc/Linux We've got a Sparc5 that wouldn't install Linux. RedHat (up through 6.1) said it wasn't supported. We downloaded the ISO for RedHat 6.2 and it installed fine, except we had to use the "text expert" install. Unfortunately, I don't THINK Mandrake supports this model (yet?) John
Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: No one in Australia can install Linux? Jeanette The system is in San Francisco, I think, while the author is in Sydney. :-) John
[expert] syslog stopped working?
After about 4 days of uptime, klogd stopped working. I use ipchains and ip masquerading and noticed that /var/log/messages stoppped logging denied packets and other info like kernel: ip_masq_ftp OUT: got PASV. After I restarted syslog, it started logging again. Anyone experienced this before. I have since updated the sysklogd package from MandrakeCooker to see if the problem goes away. Thanks.
[expert] Mandrake Linux Certified
Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: [expert] LT Winmodem
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just jerkin my yang? It *may* support SOME LT Winmodems. There are software drivers out there for the LT Winmodems for use Under linux. However, last time I checked, there were still in early stages of development -- it would dial out and connect to an ISP, but only just. And, IIRC, it wouldn't really respond to the modem queries by the remote side. I'd forget about it for now. John
RE: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Is it possible you have one of those systems that "shares" the ram with the video? In that case, you're motherboard is using 8 megs of ram for video, leaving you 23 megs for the system. Russ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glyn Millington Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:49 AM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Is Linux not detecting the RAM? Is it discounting space used by the kernel? I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: A guess: 8Meg for video ram (no seperate video memory) + 1Meg for the 640k "regular" memory. (Thank you, Bill.) Actually (and I don't like Micro$oft), Bill didn't have much to do with this. IBM designed the PC with 10 times as much memory as the then current machines (the z80, CP/M crowd), and use the area from 640K to the top, which was 1 megabyte, for video cards, BIOS, extra card bioses for scsi controllers, etc. MSDOS simply dealt with it. when Intel came out with the 286, it was really bad. MSDOS did not change to work with it (thanks, Bill). Third parties adapted to it, and M$ was brought along kicking and screaming. Windows started working with it, and now we have Windows 2000. Note that versions of Linux will run in as little as 4 megabytes, and do something useful. Not M$ products. bug
[expert] RE: [expert] Install on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
pcmcia.img boot floppy Thank you all of you for your very useful answer ! I've done it and I've been able to initiate MDK7.0R2 installation, but it didn't work from CDROM, so I did it from a copy done to local HD (this kind of installation didn't wanted to work yesterday). Now, LILO, MDK and Win98 work together (in perfect harmony ?). I've been unable to do the RedHat 6.2 install whatever the method. I'd have enjoyed to take a look a this new version... What a pity. But I've now a working laptop, thank to you all, and I'll be able to retry in a few days/weeks now that I know how to do it ! Best regards Mathieu
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Civileme wrote: Glyn Millington wrote: Wow! I tried this and it threw The kernel footprint is about 500K. This is not windows where it runs about 4Mb (at least for NT) SNIP As it turned out, he had a motherboard that shared system memory with the onboard video. Linux puked because he used LILO to report more available memory than actually existed. -Stephen-
Re: [expert] LT Winmodem
Well mine works with 7.0 found the driver @ www.linmodems.org tho... -WBD - Original Message - From: "Carter B. Bennett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 2:49 AM Subject: [expert] LT Winmodem Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just jerkin my yang? -- Carter B. Bennett Little House Computer Services (LHCS) Using Red Hat 6.0 Corel Linux (A laptop's wet dream.) Linux Rocks!!! You may be able to kill two birds with one stone, but in the end, when it's all over, all you really have is two dead birds, and your short one stone. My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy. Bruce Springsteen, Rosalita, 1973
[expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
Help ! I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and 1400-14ff) Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. I can't see nothing regarding it in the kernel messages. Do you think it is a winmodem ? Do you know if it there's a chance/mean to make it work on Linux? (it works correctly under win98) Regards Mathieu
Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
I tried it. Command line start.. debug screen... crashed. I gave up after 3 tries.. - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Yes. I've got a K6-2 3xx here with 32 mb RAM and plenty of drive space. I downloaded and extracted it. I started it up and it really didn't do anything. Looked interesting, but that's about it. YMMV, though... John
RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
If that's the case, then why does deleting that line solve the problem? On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in | runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not | part of the problem. | | Russ | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester | Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:03 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart | | | Brian T. Schellenberger said: | I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just | do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. | | Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks | you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything. | | Thus a plain gray screen. | | Try deleting it and then do a startx. | | Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this | investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting | (well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out | "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab | allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to | operate without crashing back to the console. | | Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is | running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find | where that is going on and make the change. | -- | Lane | | Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA | Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] gnucash
Alan Shoemaker wrote: tboldtbefore you went to all of that trouble, did you try cbb? It's already installed on your system if you didn't deselect it durring installation. Alan tboldt wrote: I am attempting to switch totally from OS/2-Windows to Linux. I am almost there. I have ported my applications that I use consistently. The only application I have yet to obtain for Linux is a replacement for my checkbook, financial application. I have decided to try gnucash and donwloaded the latest version 1.3.4 and the support package guile, 1.3.4. My problem - when I attempt to install gnucash with kpackage, it will not install due to a failed dependency: libguile.so.4 I have examined the guile packages included with the mandrake version I have (7.0-2 (Air)), no libguile.so.4. There are other libs, but not '.4'. The guile package I downloaded from the gnucash site also did not contain the '.4' lib. Does anyone know where I can obtain this lib?? Or maybe this is a false error message from kpackage. Has anyone else installed gnucash under Mandrake Linux??? if so, how??? No - i'll look it it and moneydance. I looked through the disks that came with Mandrake Linux - do not remember seeing anything describing cbb, but then that is a pretty descriptive name :-) . Thanks for the tip and to everyone who replyed - I'm getting much, much closer to a sane world now
Re: [expert] Any Sparc/Linux users out there
John Aldrich wrote: We've got a Sparc5 that wouldn't install Linux. RedHat (up through 6.1) said it wasn't supported. We downloaded the ISO for RedHat 6.2 and it installed fine, except we had to use the "text expert" install. Unfortunately, I don't THINK Mandrake supports this model (yet?) I thought it did, though I've never used it myself. -Stephen-
[expert] USB Mouse Support.
During my installation of 7.0.2, I was using an USB Mouse. The installation program addressed the mouse properly and allowed me to use it during my install. However, once I completed the install X Windows does not seem to recognize my mouse. During installation I chose my mouse type as USB mouse. Does anyone have any ideas how to make sure that the driver is loaded properly etc. ? I can make this real easy and go buy a new ps/2 mouse, but I would like to know why I can't get it to work if it worked flawlessly in the installation program. Any help would be most appreciative. -Chris
Re: [expert] syslog stopped working?
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 13:48 -0400, Bob Chin wrote: After about 4 days of uptime, klogd stopped working. I use ipchains and ip masquerading and noticed that /var/log/messages stoppped logging denied packets and other info like kernel: ip_masq_ftp OUT: got PASV. After I restarted syslog, it started logging again. Anyone experienced this before. I have since updated the sysklogd package from MandrakeCooker to see if the problem goes away. Thanks. Yes, I have seen this before. Every now and then the logging in /var/log/messages stops completely after the daily cron at 04:02 in the morning. This happens in irregular intervals and I observed this with MDK 5.3, 6.1 and 7.0 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] Can't Break X Autostart
Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear. I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting in runlevel 3. This is controlled by the first line in inittab. If it does, you have much bigger problems than just X starting at bootup. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T. Schellenberger Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart If that's the case, then why does deleting that line solve the problem? On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in | runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not | part of the problem. | | Russ | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester | Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:03 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart | | | Brian T. Schellenberger said: | I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just | do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. | | Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks | you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything. | | Thus a plain gray screen. | | Try deleting it and then do a startx. | | Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this | investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting | (well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out | "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab | allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to | operate without crashing back to the console. | | Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is | running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find | where that is going on and make the change. | -- | Lane | | Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA | Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] RE: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
What kind of modem does Win98 say it is? I know that the modem on my Travelmate 512 is a winmodem, and I've never had any luck using the linmodem drivers. BeOS, however, sees the modem and works like a champ. HTH, Wayne -Original Message- From: Bois, Mathieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 2:53 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT Help ! I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and 1400-14ff) Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. I can't see nothing regarding it in the kernel messages. Do you think it is a winmodem ? Do you know if it there's a chance/mean to make it work on Linux? (it works correctly under win98) Regards Mathieu
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Have you tried typing lilo to effect your changes? On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:48:45 +0100 To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Is Linux not detecting the RAM? Is it discounting space used by the kernel? I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
After a pretty much all day troubleshooting session, the problem is solved, samba was using by default the wrong printing command. I added the following to my printers share and now all is well: print command = lpr %p %s On 6 Apr 00, at 2:05, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Well, to ask the obvious . . . You did delete the old "local" printers from the Windows machine(s) and re-install them as "network" printers, right? Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] gnucash
I installed the beta version 1.3.1 from the Mandrake Cooker RPMS. It's a new beta version, I think the stable version is 1.2. something or other. On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Has anyone else installed gnucash under Mandrake Linux??? if so, how??? No - i'll look it it and moneydance. I looked through the disks that came with Mandrake Linux - do not remember seeing anything describing cbb, but then that is a pretty descriptive name :-) . Thanks for the tip and to everyone who replyed - I'm getting much, much closer to a sane world now -- --- Linux, Win, DOS,- also known as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly! --- Contentment - is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. ---
Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
Craig Woods wrote: Are you using a Linux version of this browser, and if so, where did you find that little hummer? Thanks, Craig Yep. Netscape's site. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 ===
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
I think I get it. But how do I actually go about making the partitions? When I install Mandrake, I get a partitioner. Do I do it all at that time? (I am planning to do a clean Mandrake install as the first OS on the new disk.) Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? I'd suggest making the partitions ahead of time, for simplicity. That way, you'll know what you want to do before you start installing, and won't have to deal with any inept install partitioning tools you might run across. Planning is good. And you can use any partitioning tool you like- except for Microsoft FDISK.EXE, because it doesn't understand anything outside of MS-Land. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] IP Masq.
I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my isp. I am totally lost with Linux to do this. I have printed out the IP Masq. HOWTO and now know even less then before I read it. Is there a simple program or setup I can use so these 3 machines can connect to my ISp again. I have tried several questions in newbie and gotten no answers. I am by no means an expert and need simple suggestions or directions. Thanks for any help you can give.
RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Bill Shirley wrote: After installing the boot manager, you can use Ranish, DiskDrake, or any other program to define your Linux partitions. You won't need lilo at all. Don't you? You still need something that will read into the ext2 filesystem and locate the kernel. LILO is also nice because it allows you to add "append=" strings, and specify a runlevel for init. Can you do this with other boot managers? I know that you can keep LILO in the boot sector of the Linux partition, and have the other boot manager load LILO, which loads the kernel, but can the other boot managers actually load the kernel? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: If that's the case, then why does deleting that line solve the problem? On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in | runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not | part of the problem. | | Russ | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester | Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:03 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart | | | Brian T. Schellenberger said: | I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just | do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. | | Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks | you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything. | | Thus a plain gray screen. | | Try deleting it and then do a startx. | | Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this | investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting | (well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out | "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab | allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to | operate without crashing back to the console. | | Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is | running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find | where that is going on and make the change. | -- | Lane | | Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA | Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. Deleting the line changes the X behavior--basically breaking it. I finally reproduced the problem. High security user login su'ed in a Konsole Set /etc/inittab line to id:3:initdefault: logged out and rebooted--finding myself in X cat /var/run/runlevel.dir /etc/rc.d/rc5.d kudzu looks at /etc/inittab and boots to RL5 if it sees 5 linuxconf is called by a symlink called /sbin/askrunlevel and looks in /var/run/runlevel.dir Apparently su-ing in High security level enables the permission to edit a file but not to make linuxconf do its thing. So they are out of sync and runlevel 5 is a logical OR of their individual directives. It appears the remedy is to use linuxconf to set your runlevel--under Misc Servives on the opening screen. Civileme
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Kirk McElhearn wrote: Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? Good partitioning is so essential to the running of any multiple-OS computer that it isn't worth taking any risks with (like tyres on a car, and the battery in cold climates). Partition Magic is mature, well known, and works well for all OSs and file system types. Ranish is only beta, Mandrake's partitioner is too new (look at the history of bugs behind Partition Magic!). The basic problem is that there is no ISO, or any other, standard or organisation in charge of how disks should be partitioned - for example, Windows traditionally builds the partition tables in start cylinder number order, Unix/Linux traditionally builds them in creation time order. Fundamental ditfferences like that make interworking catastrophic. Because this whole area has just grown like Topsy, it is not well designed, and has been much klooged over the years to retain the required backwards compatibility. Therefore there are lots of gotchas. For a salutory education, just look at the error message listing in the back of the Partition Magic manual!. Mandrake has not yet published the error messages for its partitioner. So, yes, set up your hard disks with a good multi-OS and multi-file-system-type partitioner before you install. The only one I know that can be confidently trusted is Partition Magic. Yes, it does cost, but it's more than worth it. Partitioning is not just a one time job - you will be readjusting the partitioning, say, monthly, as your space demands grow. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Russ Johnson said: Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear. I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting in runlevel 3. This is controlled by the first line in inittab. Perhaps you haven't been following the whole thread. I've had: id:3:initdefault: for a long time without effect. It was not until I commented out: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon that I finally was able boot without X automatically starting. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my isp. I am totally lost with Linux to do this. I have printed out the IP Masq. HOWTO and now know even less then before I read it. Is there a simple program or setup I can use so these 3 machines can connect to my ISp again. I have tried several questions in newbie and gotten no answers. I am by no means an expert and need simple suggestions or directions. Thanks for any help you can give. Try PMfirewall.. ( find it on freshmeat ). Run it, install it.. When it asks for machines with unrestricted use put the ip in of the machines you wish to masq. It will also later ask you if you want ipmasq ( or forwarding enabled. ) answer yes. This is easy. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 ===
RE: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Russ Johnson said: Is it possible you have one of those systems that "shares" the ram with the video? In that case, you're motherboard is using 8 megs of ram for video, leaving you 23 megs for the system. Good point. I had that problem until I used "mem=124M" because my onboard video uses 4M. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT
Yes, most internal modems coming in laptops are "winmodems" But this is hardly a setback! My laptop came with such a modem, and I have never once used it. I went straight for my Zoom PCMCIA Modem card, and I have never looked back since. On my laptop, NT4.0 SP5 and LM7.02 love the baud right out of this little sucker. Craig "Bois, Mathieu" wrote: Help ! I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and 1400-14ff) Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. I can't see nothing regarding it in the kernel messages. Do you think it is a winmodem ? Do you know if it there's a chance/mean to make it work on Linux? (it works correctly under win98) Regards Mathieu begin:vcard n:Woods;J. Craig x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Celtic Pride, Inc.;Networking adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:IT Consultant x-mozilla-cpt:;11744 fn:J. Craig Woods end:vcard
[expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]
Hello, Just looking for a little info: just upgraded Netscape v4.7 to v4.72. For some inexplicable reason, there was a bit of hacking I needed to do but most came out for the better. One little residual hang up is in the AddressBook for the Netscape mail client. This Netscape upgrade was done on my PC with the LM7.02 system. In looking at my laptop, also running LM7.02 but with the older Netscape v4.7 running, I see no such file named "AddressBook.na2" in "/root/.netscape". However, I do see such a file name in "/root/.netscape" on my newly upgraded v4.72 on the PC. But the addressbook feature, the feature that allows you to store email addresses and affix these same addresses to new mail, works just fine on the laptop but does not work on my PC's upgraded v4.72. When I attemp to open the address book, it completely crashes the Netscape daemon. Is this a bug, probably not? Would someone running v4.72 look at your directory ".netscape" and see what your "AddressBook.na2" file looks like, such as permissions and file type, etc., if indeed you have such a file. Do you find that this file, "AddressBook.na2" needs to be copied to other locations? Hopefully, someone has a bit more insight into the email AddressBook feature in Netscape. Any and all help will be appreciated. Thanks Craig begin:vcard n:Woods;J. Craig x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Celtic Pride, Inc. adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:IT Networking Admin x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:J. Craig Woods end:vcard begin:vcard n:Woods;J. Craig x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Celtic Pride, Inc.;Networking adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:IT Consultant x-mozilla-cpt:;11744 fn:J. Craig Woods end:vcard
RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Well, there's theory, and then there's practice. In practice, it solved his problem. But I do see what you're saying now . . . what he's done, really, presumably, is that he's still in runlevel 5 but now runlevel 5 doesn't really do what it ought. So this solves his problem but it's not the right solution. Well, I'm a pretty emperical guy myself, so good enough for me, but there's still a mystery to be solved. Have at it! On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear. | | I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your | system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting | in runlevel 3. This is controlled by the first line in inittab. | | If it does, you have much bigger problems than just X starting at bootup. | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T. | Schellenberger | Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:09 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart | | | | If that's the case, then why does deleting that line solve the problem? | | On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | | For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in | | runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's | not | | part of the problem. | | | | Russ | | | | -Original Message- | | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester | | Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:03 AM | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart | | | | | | Brian T. Schellenberger said: | | I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just | | do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. | | | | Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks | | you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything. | | | | Thus a plain gray screen. | | | | Try deleting it and then do a startx. | | | | Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this | | investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting | | (well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out | | "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab | | allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to | | operate without crashing back to the console. | | | | Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is | | running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find | | where that is going on and make the change. | | -- | | Lane | | | | Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA | | Using Linux to get where I want to go... | -- | "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org | Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. | Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT
B Try this as root: /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig (also try ttyS0) start kppp, go to setup and modem, then use the modem query function to see if it will find the modem if it does not find the modem, disable the modem in the bios and get yourself a 3Com 3CCM156 pcmcia modem. Its one of the best that I have tried. Works great in windows and linux. With the standard pcmcia linux package you can be braindead and the modem will still work for you.(Trevor notwithstanding). Tom PS if you get a modem busy when you query the modem, do not worry. use setserial to change the irq to another unused interrupt and then set it back to 3 which is standard issue for ttyS1 or 4 for ttyS0 ^_^ "Bois, Mathieu" wrote: Help ! I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and 1400-14ff) Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. I can't see nothing regarding it in the kernel messages. Do you think it is a winmodem ? Do you know if it there's a chance/mean to make it work on Linux? (it works correctly under win98) Regards Mathieu
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified
Redhat now offers a certification program (!!!) for redhat linux similar to MCSE from M$. Never heard of anything from Mandrake. Tom Marcos Dione wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified le what? uh... are... do you... mmm... answering more than 5000 problems presented in this list a year? ok, stop the joke... thas something like that exist? Now I'm curious... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
[expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
In the ongoing tradition of "weird wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems: If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE. All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that does anything that I can find is Ctrl-Alt-Del, which does a proper shutdown (although I can't see anything on the monitor) and reboot. Num lock, Caps lock scroll lock lights don't toggle, Alt-F1 (or Ctrl-Alt-F1) or any other F key does nothing, nor does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The monitor doesn't come back until the machine restarts. I've looked in all the /var/log files for something that might explain it - but all looks fine to me (but I don't really know what I'm looking for!) Anybody have any solutions/hints/comments/guesses??? Thanks, Trevor
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Yes, the last line in /etc/inittab could stay in and not cause a problem. What he had was the standard last line that is altered only if you want to have kde startup for a graphical login. Its presence is not the problem, definitely. I have had that last line in about 6 different linux installs and never seen it cause a problem Tom Russ Johnson wrote: Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear. I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting in runlevel 3. This is controlled by the first line in inittab. If it does, you have much bigger problems than just X starting at bootup. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T. Schellenberger Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart If that's the case, then why does deleting that line solve the problem? On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in | runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not | part of the problem. | | Russ | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester | Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:03 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart | | | Brian T. Schellenberger said: | I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just | do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. | | Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks | you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything. | | Thus a plain gray screen. | | Try deleting it and then do a startx. | | Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this | investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting | (well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out | "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab | allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to | operate without crashing back to the console. | | Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is | running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find | where that is going on and make the change. | -- | Lane | | Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA | Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] USB Mouse Support.
Run mouseconfig from the shell prompt and see what happens. Two things to look at also: 1) /dev/mouse and see what it points to (hopefully the usb device file) and 2)recompile the kernel but if the install recognized it then it should be in the installed kernel functionality but that does not mean that it is. Tom "Christopher M. Kopp" wrote: During my installation of 7.0.2, I was using an USB Mouse. The installation program addressed the mouse properly and allowed me to use it during my install. However, once I completed the install X Windows does not seem to recognize my mouse. During installation I chose my mouse type as USB mouse. Does anyone have any ideas how to make sure that the driver is loaded properly etc. ? I can make this real easy and go buy a new ps/2 mouse, but I would like to know why I can't get it to work if it worked flawlessly in the installation program. Any help would be most appreciative. -Chris
Re: [expert] LT Winmodem
Once upon a time Carter B. Bennett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just jerkin my yang? -- I just bought a new acer laptop, and it came with internal LT winmodem, I was running to get a PCMCIA modem card but I read a little over www.linmodem.org and downloaded a little module from the site (made by LT) installed it and to my greatest surprise the modem worked. I can connect to the net and ppp works fine with it. I cannot fax out though (I haven't tried hard though).. I am still very amazed that it worked. -- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- | Ayman Haidar| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | just another linux and vim lover. | -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
Firewall - quick and easy for Mandrake or Redhat linux: Start netcfg and go to the routing tab and turn on network packet forwarding by highlighting the box. Then add the following lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall file: /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.1/24 -j MASQ /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.2/24 -j MASQ After you finish editing, chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall. Note that the ip addresses are examples and you should change your ip addresses to the ones in your network that you want to be able to see thru this firewall. If you have more machines, then add more lines like the last one with the new ip address. Also if you do not want the others to have realaudio, irc or ftp thru the firewall, then you can comment out each of those modprobe commands with a # sign. If your netmask is 255.255.255.0 then the 24 in the last two lines is correct. Last thing to do is reboot and check the other machines. Tom Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my isp. I am totally lost with Linux to do this. I have printed out the IP Masq. HOWTO and now know even less then before I read it. Is there a simple program or setup I can use so these 3 machines can connect to my ISp again. I have tried several questions in newbie and gotten no answers. I am by no means an expert and need simple suggestions or directions. Thanks for any help you can give.
Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]
Craig Woods wrote: Subject: Netscape v4.72 Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:46:06 -0500 From: Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Just looking for a little info: just upgraded Netscape v4.7 to v4.72. For some inexplicable reason, there was a bit of hacking I needed to do but most came out for the better. One little residual hang up is in the AddressBook for the Netscape mail client. This Netscape upgrade was done on my PC with the LM7.02 system. In looking at my laptop, also running LM7.02 but with the older Netscape v4.7 running, I see no such file named "AddressBook.na2" in "/root/.netscape". However, I do see such a file name in "/root/.netscape" on my newly upgraded v4.72 on the PC. But the addressbook feature, the feature that allows you to store email addresses and affix these same addresses to new mail, works just fine on the laptop but does not work on my PC's upgraded v4.72. When I attemp to open the address book, it completely crashes the Netscape daemon. Is this a bug, probably not? Would someone running v4.72 look at your directory ".netscape" and see what your "AddressBook.na2" file looks like, such as permissions and file type, etc., if indeed you have such a file. Do you find that this file, "AddressBook.na2" needs to be copied to other locations? Hopefully, someone has a bit more insight into the email AddressBook feature in Netscape. Any and all help will be appreciated. Thanks Craig J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Networking Admin Celtic Pride, Inc. Its pab.na2 that you are looking for in linux netscape. Tom J. Craig Woods IT Networking Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celtic Pride, Inc. Conference Software Address Default Directory Server Additional Information: Last NameWoods First Name J. Craig Version 2.1 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Consultant Celtic Pride, Inc. Networking J. Craig Woods IT Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celtic Pride, Inc. Networking Conference Software Address Additional Information: Last NameWoods First Name J. Craig Version 2.1
RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
That means something else is broken. By commenting out that line, you effectively broke your system. Yes, it's now doing what you want, but in the wrong manner. There's probably other things going on that you don't need, or things that you want that aren't running. Russ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 5:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart Russ Johnson said: Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear. I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting in runlevel 3. This is controlled by the first line in inittab. Perhaps you haven't been following the whole thread. I've had: id:3:initdefault: for a long time without effect. It was not until I commented out: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon that I finally was able boot without X automatically starting. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
What I have typically done in the past is to make partitions for the first OS (typically Win95) and leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned. When I load the next OS, I partition specifically for that, and so on. I give the most space to the primary OS, and less to the others. That way, I don't have to worry about resizing partitions and losing data, since I am essentially working with a bare drive. Of course that takes planning ahead of time. -scott On 7 Apr 00, at 10:54, Ron Stodden wrote: Kirk McElhearn wrote: Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? Good partitioning is so essential to the running of any multiple-OS computer that it isn't worth taking any risks with (like tyres on a car, and the battery in cold climates). Partition Magic is mature, well known, and works well for all OSs and file system types. Ranish is only beta, Mandrake's partitioner is too new (look at the history of bugs behind Partition Magic!). The basic problem is that there is no ISO, or any other, standard or organisation in charge of how disks should be partitioned - for example, Windows traditionally builds the partition tables in start cylinder number order, Unix/Linux traditionally builds them in creation time order. Fundamental ditfferences like that make interworking catastrophic. Because this whole area has just grown like Topsy, it is not well designed, and has been much klooged over the years to retain the required backwards compatibility. Therefore there are lots of gotchas. For a salutory education, just look at the error message listing in the back of the Partition Magic manual!. Mandrake has not yet published the error messages for its partitioner. So, yes, set up your hard disks with a good multi-OS and multi-file-system-type partitioner before you install. The only one I know that can be confidently trusted is Partition Magic. Yes, it does cost, but it's more than worth it. Partitioning is not just a one time job - you will be readjusting the partitioning, say, monthly, as your space demands grow. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
[expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)
I just reinstalled Mandrake 7.0-2 to clean up the GNOME desktop and some other things I messed up. Now GNOME is horrendously slow! Everything takes about 10x as long as it used to and I don't think I did anything differently between now and when I installed it before... any ideas? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
"Alan N." wrote: Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my isp. I am totally lost with Linux to do this. I have printed out the IP Masq. HOWTO and now know even less then before I read it. Is there a simple program or setup I can use so these 3 machines can connect to my ISp again. I have tried several questions in newbie and gotten no answers. I am by no means an expert and need simple suggestions or directions. Thanks for any help you can give. Try PMfirewall.. ( find it on freshmeat ). Run it, install it.. When it asks for machines with unrestricted use put the ip in of the machines you wish to masq. It will also later ask you if you want ipmasq ( or forwarding enabled. ) answer yes. This is easy. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 === If all you want is masquerading, Linux does it with no added exras. Just: 1) Edit /etc/sysconfig/network by changing "FORWARD_IPV4=NO" to "FORWARD_IPV4=YES" 2) In a shell (console) type: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ Add these 2 lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local unless you want type them every time you restart Linux! 3) Type into your console: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart and you're off and running...
Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT
Tom Berkley wrote: B Try this as root: /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig (also try ttyS0) start kppp, go to setup and modem, then use the modem query function to see if it will find the modem if it does not find the modem, disable the modem in the bios and get yourself a 3Com 3CCM156 pcmcia modem. Its one of the best that I have tried. Works great in windows and linux. With the standard pcmcia linux package you can be braindead and the modem will still work for you.(Trevor notwithstanding). Hey! Now that's getting personal! g I can't help it if computers misbehave just 'cause I get near them! Tom PS if you get a modem busy when you query the modem, do not worry. use setserial to change the irq to another unused interrupt and then set it back to 3 which is standard issue for ttyS1 or 4 for ttyS0
[expert] Office Suite for Linux
Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]
Tom, I have both files, AddressBook.na2" and "pab.na2", and both are in my "root/.netscape" directory. Should one or both go somewhere else too? Or should I dump one? I have never seen Netscape crash so fast when all I do is open my address book. At any rate thanks for the response. Craig begin:vcard n:Woods;J. Craig x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Celtic Pride, Inc.;Networking adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:IT Consultant x-mozilla-cpt:;11744 fn:J. Craig Woods end:vcard
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified
No no no, I miss spoke, I meant to say How to I earn Mandrake Linux Certification. Dave On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified le what? uh... are... do you... mmm... answering more than 5000 problems presented in this list a year? ok, stop the joke... thas something like that exist? Now I'm curious... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified
But RedHat's not the Best. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: Redhat now offers a certification program (!!!) for redhat linux similar to MCSE from M$. Never heard of anything from Mandrake. Tom Marcos Dione wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified le what? uh... are... do you... mmm... answering more than 5000 problems presented in this list a year? ok, stop the joke... thas something like that exist? Now I'm curious... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
