Re: Sort By Thread (WAS: [expert] missing SSH ?)
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:01:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick comment, and I'll probably get blasted for it, but I haven't found a mail client for Linux that does "View by Thread" as well as MS Outlook. Netscape is horrible, I don't think Polarbar does it, and I haven't been happy with other clients I've tried. mutt does it pretty good... I get a really nice threaded mailbox for mailing lists... =) -- [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] How will this effect Mandrake?
I sent this message to MandrakeSoft's mailing list. If I receive replies, I'll post a summary. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, vern wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:23:51 -0400 From: vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] How will this effect Mandrake? I read this on freshmeat today and wondered if it will have an impact on the way Mandrake does business? vern subject: Possible Threat to French Open Source Sites added by: jeff covey on Jun 21st 2000, 07:40 category: Editorial body: John Fremlin writes: Next week, the French National Assembly will vote on appending a chapter to the law limiting freedom of communication. As written, it would unambiguously prohibit hosting of content of unspecified provenance; that is, sites on which users could post material would be legally obligated to somehow determine the true identities and postal addresses of their users. The free software community is directly affected, as large Open Source projects don't have the requisite information about their contributors and could not legally be made available in France. Incidentally, several Open Source projects are hosted by altern.org (for example, consoletools and all of my programs), which would have to shut down. | http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/21/961587656.html
Re: [expert] troubles with star office
try running it from your hd James Sparenberg wrote: All, I've got a box with Mandrake 7.1 that I'm trying to install Star Office on. But I've run into the following problem. It seems that whenever I type the ./setup command after going into the directory on the cdrom it keeps giving me a Permission denied error. I've checked permissions and they are read execute. I'm logged into kde as root. (I've also done a ctrl/alt/f3 and tried it from the command line logged in as root) and I get the same permission denied error. No other errors are present. Since I can navigate to the directory on the cdrom I know it's mounted and I've checked permissions up the chain and they are all in line. In short I'm having trouble finding any difference between this box and another one that I have already installed Star Office on. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time. James I haven't gotten a copy of this letter in about an hour so I am resending I apologize if you are receiving this twice. -- --- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )XIntercomp Ltd. (m_m) | |ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ Office : 09-9526993. | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| | |_)_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\ ---
Re: [expert] Mouseconfig question.
hi ! hd donation ? hehe i got 1 to sell though .. try mouseconfig or mousedrake for your mouse what's wrong with your backspace key ? just doesn't work ? hmm ... maybe it's disfunctional ? donno ... Yer Daddy wrote: Hello, I am looking for the place where it tells you how to set up a three button sierial mouse for the laptop. I found it once, but I can't remember4 where it was. It said to select a certain mouse type and do thjis and that also how the heck to get the damn backspace button to work? where do you find thazt out? Thanks for listening to my stupid questions. All donations fo ra new hdd accepted . thats; why I am having these troubles. Ivan. -- --- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )XIntercomp Ltd. (m_m) | |ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ Office : 09-9526993. | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| | |_)_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\ visit us at www.legacy2web.com. ---
Re[2]: [expert] adding packages
hallo Daryl! on Saturday, June 24, 2000, 4:18:00 AM, you wrote: DP Patrick Erler wrote: hallo Expert! maybe i'm stupid, but i can't find a way to add packages after the installation of mandrake 7.1, i miss the rpm installer too... and i haven't the harddrake.. i did a simple costum install with all packages beside sound and multimedia and stuff which went (nearly) seamless... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF DP surely rpm is installed. it's certainly in the distribution. use rpm to DP install rpmdrake. then use rpmdrake to install whatever else you need. but there is no such thing like rpmdrake (at least not, when i search for it with webmin..) the strange thing is, that i have drakeconf, but it has only the modules xconfig xresolution user addition drakboot security level startup services keybord choice linuxconf mousedrake network config printerconfig no update, no harddrake no nothing... PAT PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] So,anybody fixed mc in 7.1?
and the question is ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- --- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )XIntercomp Ltd. (m_m) | |ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ Office : 09-9526993. | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| | |_)_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\ visit us at www.legacy2web.com. ---
[expert] Yahoo! Auto Response
Sorry every one this accoutn is no longer active for me. Original Message: X-Track: 21: 40 Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (216.71.84.35) by mta127.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 2000 01:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sympa@localhost) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA26873 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 03:18:35 -0500 Received: from empire.NetRevolution.com (Empire.NetRevolution.com [207.253.184.2]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA23995 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 03:19:41 -0500 Received: from localhost (jmdault@localhost) by empire.NetRevolution.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA17022 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 04:12:17 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: empire.NetRevolution.com: jmdault owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 04:12:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] adding packages
Patrick Erler wrote: hallo Daryl! on Saturday, June 24, 2000, 4:18:00 AM, you wrote: DP Patrick Erler wrote: hallo Expert! maybe i'm stupid, but i can't find a way to add packages after the installation of mandrake 7.1, i miss the rpm installer too... and i haven't the harddrake.. i did a simple costum install with all packages beside sound and multimedia and stuff which went (nearly) seamless... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF DP surely rpm is installed. it's certainly in the distribution. use rpm to DP install rpmdrake. then use rpmdrake to install whatever else you need. but there is no such thing like rpmdrake (at least not, when i search for it with webmin..) the strange thing is, that i have drakeconf, but it has only the modules xconfig xresolution user addition drakboot security level startup services keybord choice linuxconf mousedrake network config printerconfig no update, no harddrake no nothing... PAT PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF find your distribution. go to the Mandrake/RPMS subdirectory. enter this command: rpm -Uvh rpmdrake* they may be unsatisfied dependencies. make a list of them. then enter rpm -Uvh rpmdrake* missing1* missing2* ... you can either list them all together in one command, or enter rpm -Uvh --nodeps rpmdrake* rpm -Uvh --nodeps missing1* ... and so on. --nodeps ignores the dependencies. if something still refuses to install use: rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force rpmdrake* rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force missing1* ... what's happened is that all the rpm's that were required by DrakConf were not installed. this has happened to me as well before. once you have rpmdrake installed, it will check dependencies for you automatically and will install everything it needs at once without your having to screw around. good luck!
Re: [expert] adding packages
Patrick Erler wrote: hallo Daryl! on Saturday, June 24, 2000, 4:18:00 AM, you wrote: DP Patrick Erler wrote: hallo Expert! maybe i'm stupid, but i can't find a way to add packages after the installation of mandrake 7.1, i miss the rpm installer too... and i haven't the harddrake.. i did a simple costum install with all packages beside sound and multimedia and stuff which went (nearly) seamless... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF DP surely rpm is installed. it's certainly in the distribution. use rpm to DP install rpmdrake. then use rpmdrake to install whatever else you need. but there is no such thing like rpmdrake (at least not, when i search for it with webmin..) the strange thing is, that i have drakeconf, but it has only the modules xconfig xresolution user addition drakboot security level startup services keybord choice linuxconf mousedrake network config printerconfig no update, no harddrake no nothing... PAT PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF to see what all is missing look in /etc/DrakConf. there is an .rc file for each module that DrakConf can load: XFdrake.rc diskdrake.rc draksec.rckeyboarddrake.rc mandrakeupdate.rc printerdrake.rc Xdrakres.rc drakboot.rc drakxservices.rc kpackage.rc mousedrake.rc rpmdrake.rc adduserdrake.rc drakfont.rc harddrake.rc linuxconf.rc netconf.rc the packages names for the most part are the same as the .rc files.
Re: [expert] Gnome background not accepting changes
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: BS''D Hi Andrew, I've tried it in GCC, Ive tried in in Window manager config and I've tried it by right clicking on the desktop...smae story every time...it lasts for a session and then I'm where I was also..I've just noticed that Gnome-Terminal has started doing the same thing :( that sounds not good ... do you have in you ~/.gnome directory a file named "Background"? mine looks like [Default] color1=#39374b color2=#42528f Enabled=true simple=gradient gradient=vertical wallpaper=/z-sources/X/pics/All-Good-People-4.jpg wallpaperAlign=0 wallpaper0=/z-sources/X/pics/All-Good-People-4.jpg wallpapers=1 this should load the desired background Best, Daniel. Hi Daniel THank for your help, I figured it out Seems the splash screen was changing the color somehow and it wasn't refreshing from teh Background file
[expert] rpmdrake and URLs
hallo Expert! can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can install packages from the net? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] rpmdrake and URLs
For cooker, you have ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/RPMS/ I never achieved to enter them via rpmdrake mask, is used instead in-line command urpmi.addpackage name url with relative path to hdlist.cz2 Also sprach sam, 24 jun 2000 : hallo Expert! can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can install packages from the net? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine.
Re: [expert] CDROM, PICO, and Web Server in 7.1
pico comes with the package "pine", Apache will be there somewhere, sorry, can't help with the CD. -WBD - Original Message - From: "Bob Puff@NLE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 4:10 AM Subject: [expert] CDROM, PICO, and Web Server in 7.1 Hi Gang, I just installed the latest 7.1 on a system. A couple things went wrong: #1. After it installs all the packages from disk #1, it prompts me for disk #2. However, my CDROM drive is frozen - I can't eject it! Even when I physically unplug it, switch disks, and plug it back in again, LM doesn't see the disk. What's up with that? Tried another CDROM drive, thinking there was something wrong with the one, but same story. #2. I noticed the PICO editor didn't get installed. Where can I get that? #3. I want to have a http server running on this machine. I didn't see any server software get installed. Didn't see any Apache stuff in the list of RPMs on the disk either. Thanks. Bob _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?
Hi Norvell - I'm sending a cc of this to the Mandrake Expert list, because there's probably somebody there who can comment on this better than I can. Norvell Spearman wrote (with regards to the idea of using the 2.2.14 ppp.o module with the 2.2.16 kernel): Could the above solution possibly work for a tape drive problem I'm having? My tape drive isn't working with Mandrake 7.1 where it works perfectly with 7.0. I'm including my previous posting to expert. I've already tried changing the block size with an mt command (before running tar), but with no success. Upgrading the kernel to 2.2.16-4mdk didn't help either. It'd be worth a try I think. And instead of recompiling 2.2.14, could I not simply find ide-tape.o in the kernel-2.2.14 rpm and use it? Possibly - I'm just not sure if the .o file would be included in the RPM. I think it probably would be so long as you don't mean the source RPM - the source RPM just has code that you need to compile before you use it. If you can find ide-tape.o from a 2.2.14 RPM then it'd probably work. You'd still need to change the kernel version in ide-tape.o to make it work without error messages - this is not hard to do, you just have to load the module into a text editor (eg Emacs) and change the 2.2.14 to 2.2.16 or whatever kernel you're using. You'd have to check which kernel it is exactly if you're using a Mandrake modified one - typing 'cat /proc/version' in a terminal will give this to you. Then you put the module you've modified in place of the one that's already there - somewhere in /lib/modules/2.2.16/ probably - (good idea to make a backup called ide-tape.o.old or whatever) and then 'insmod ide-tape'. You may have to 'rmmod ide-tape' first to unload the old module. Please remember though that dropping back to an earlier module isn't really a solution, and this technique probably won't work with kernel 2.4. Please feel free to email me if you have any problems following these instructions. Hope this helps. Tom
[expert] su - user -c command doesn't load profile
Hi, On Mandrake 7.0 when you do a su - user -c "command" from the root account, user's profile is not loaded. When you just do a su - user, it works OK. This is very annoying, I need to create a script that runs as root and executes some commands as another user. I can't get this to work right now. Even su - user -c ". .profile; echo $ORACLE_HOME" doesn't work. How can I get this fixed ? I can't remember having this problem on Red Hat or SuSE. I upgraded to the newest sh-utils, but that didn't help either. Also, su doesn't return the correct errorcode if you use the -c flag, it always returns 0. This works fine on e.g. HP/UX and Sun Solaris. Thanks for the help, Jasper
Re: [expert] help!
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: I did something really dumb and did a CP /lib /home/lib and RM -R /lib in order to move the /lib to another disk.. Now I am in BASH, and no command works! I get: mail:/bin# sh bash: /bin/sh: No such file or directory mail:/bin# ls bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory any ideas? Thanks, -turgut Have you booted off a rescue disk and made a symbolic link to /home/lib so that when Linux goes looking for /lib, it can find it? If not, do so immediately. Do this: as root, type "touch lib" in /. Then make a symbolic link between the file you just created and /home/lib. John
[expert] apache user list?
Anyone know of an apache user mailing list? I can't seem to find one. Gavin
[expert] postfix or sendmail tempting
Hi all! I've got the job to make accepting mails to an e-mail address a bit unusual. What's unusual. I will explain. When a mail arrives to the address it shouldn't appear in the /var/spool/mail immediately. Because there is daemon which scans the mailbox all the time and as soon as it sees a mail arriving it takes it from the box and passes it to a program which works on it and then sends the output to a database. But when the mail starts to arrive the system starts to write it to the disk immediately. ..And the daemon takes of , let's say the first 15 bytes (From, mal client etc.) but not whole letter. That's the problem because the body contains the datas to the program. The only solution I see is to move it temporarly to a /temp box or directory and as soon as the whole mail arrived pass it to the accurate mailbox so the daemon could catch it to delivery(the whole mail) to the program. Oh, yes, and all the headers have to be untouched so the From and Reply to and Envelope _must_ be the same as they arrived. The ASCII art to this (as I imagine) : mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- temporary box/dir(until closed) -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /-- daemon -- program -- DB2/ How can I do it with postfix (preferable) or sendmail or any other sendmail compatible MTA RTFMs and HOWTOs are welcomed. Thanx, Ago
[expert] [SOT] controling turbeo KED
hallo Expert! slightly off topic, does anyone know if it is possible to switch the turbo LED on and off via software? i would like to use it as an online/offline LED on my router... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] Real PLayer
Wonder if this is connected somehow to why I can't get a live stream from Live365.com? It apparently uses 'm3u' and 'pls' extensions on the live stuff. 'pls' was already in my xmms setup and I added in netscape the extensions to realplayer and it tries to open it but won't play anything but the realplayer 'theme' ...just can't get it to connect to the live365 stream. I have a direct link address for a weekly radio program that is live streaming on mp3 format (different site entirely) and go direct through xmms with no problem. And can get live radio broadcasts fine (that are not in the new media player format)...i.e. from Yahoo Broadcast. I am at a loss for how to do this as well. Bambi "Werner E. Niebel" wrote: James, I agree with much of your accessment. OK here is the weird thing... When I upgraded to Mandrake 7.1 this only started happenning... Yesterday I tried to connect to Dr Dean Edel and then could not .. I quick rebooted and tried in Mandrake 7.0 (since I installed them on separte partitions) and I could reboot in 7.0... It seems to either be a Mandrake 7.1 problem or Netscape or something I had in configuration that got overwritten. Im trying to troubleshoot this but it only has a problem with real time streams... I can connect to businesstalkradio fine yet other sites I cant. Incidentally if I try to get Dr Dean archives it works fine.. Its only with some real time streams... Any additional advice you or anyone has would be appreciated. Thanks Werner James Sparenberg wrote: Werner, There could be a couple of reasons that you can't connect and they aren't your fault. Since you can connect to the one site that indicates that your set up correctly (however this could be a bad assumption on my part I really doubt if it is.) 1. Rush's site is so slow or overloaded at the time you are trying to connect that it's just taking forever for RPlayer to get the data it needs and it's timing out or freezing. 2. The webmaster at rushes site made a typo on the page and as a result it can't connect correctly. 3. Since realplayer for linux is in a state of perpetual beta testing it could be unable to connect due to some weird Windoze only feature the webmaster has enacted. 4. The people at Real.com are liberals and they have added software to block Rush. :) Hope this helps. James At 10:46 AM 6/22/00, you wrote: Hi there, I had real player working and dont know what is going on in 7.1. If I go to a site like www.businesstalkradio.net and try to listen it works fine with the streaming audio...When I go to something like www.rushlimbaugh.com it doesnt work... Real player executes and says "contacting" forever yet never gets the stream...Anyone out there know what the netscape file structure and plugins well enough to help me out diagnose what is wrong... Thanks Werner
Re: [expert] rpmdrake and URLs
why not try gnorpm from terminal window as root while connected it will update itself and then you will have rpms from the net to choose from. Bambi Patrick Erler wrote: hallo Expert! can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can install packages from the net? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] Upgrade on Software root RAID
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade MDK 7.0 system with a software raid0 root. It seems that everything is in place to do it since I manadged to manually start and mount the array. The problem is that the installer dont offer you any choice over choosing a root on an md device. Did someone managed to do it automaticly or even manually. I wold really apreciate some help on this thing since the only other way I have is to reinstall everything from scratch. (We all know this is a bad thing!) -- _ Marc Bourget
Re: [expert] rpmdrake and URLs
BTW: I use gnorpm from the terminal window as root in KDE. Bambi Patrick Erler wrote: hallo Expert! can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can install packages from the net? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] rpmdrake and URLs
actually that is not root per se, it is su Bambi Patrick Erler wrote: hallo Expert! can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can install packages from the net? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] Hardware removal and configuring modem
I've still got Mandrake 7.0. I've removed the older Voodoo graphic card from the PC and when I rebooted Linux, WOW, kudzu was launched to tell me that the Voodoo card was removed and asked me if I wanted to do such and such, etc. I'm really impressioned. However, I'm thinking if the modem could be configured similarly, it'd be very nice. Actually, the so-called "modem configuration "just consists of asking what port the modem is connected to and make a symbolic link to /dev/ttySx. If a novice user doesn't even know what a port is or where it is, this configuration is useless. I'm pretty sure this can be done more intelligently, ie, sending signals to a port and waiting for responses from this one to determine if a modem is connected to such and such port. Fong
[expert] Zip Drive Compatibility
Greetings. After much thought, I have come to the conclusion that a Zip Drive will be my most economical and most efficient cross-platform backup solution. I'm probably going to Best Buy this evening to pick one up. I need to know if there are any concerns regarding the model. I'd prefer a parallel port model. Will any capacity work? Thanks, -- Joe Heafner -- Astronomy/Physics Instructor 828-327-7000, ext. 4246 My Book http://www.willbell.com/new/fundephcomp.htm My Home Page http://home.interpath.com/heafnerj/ CVAC Home Page http://home.interpath.com/heafnerj/cvac.html Linux! Why did it take me so long to try it?
Re: [expert] mc listing and rpm problem
So anybody fixed it ? It is not problem with MC i did try a few different versions Norvell Spearman wrote: victor gvirtsman wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.1 and now i have problem with midnight commander- When listing it is not case sensitive even when marked case sensitive in sort options when looking at rpm file it does not show full content instead you see file CONTENTS.cpio does not sort properly files starting with dot just put's them in a middle of list. I believe the problem is with that version of midnight commander. When I was using 7.0, I installed the helix-code gnome 1.2 which installed a newer version of midnight commander. After that, I could no longer browse into rpms as I could before (mc still works with tar.gz files, however). Anyone else already figured out how to fix this? ---Norvell Spearman
[expert] Quake III doesn't work with XFree 3.3.6 OR 4.0??
Hello all, I've been trying to get the Quake III demo working on my system: Dual PII 333 192mb Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP SoundBlaster AWE 64 Mandrake 7.1 install (with XFree 3.3.6 initally). I downloaded and installed the Q3Demo and everything appeared to go ok until I ran it. When I did, the sound was very choppy, and the mouse would barely move. I had to press the tab key 5 times to get down to exit and hit return (took it about 2 seconds between moves.) I figured it might be GPM, so I killed gpm off, no difference. I figured I may as well try upgrading to XFree86 4.0 so I did so (downloading directly from XFree86.org) and had the same problems. Then I noticed the XFree86 4.0 mdk.rpm on the install CD, so I erased my current setup and used that to upgrade to 4.0, same problem. (X windows is working correctly in all cases other than the Q3Demo problems outlined above.) It appears that my version of Xfree doesn't matter, and I was wondering if anybody else had fixed this problem? Thanks, Jay
Re: [expert] Hardware removal and configuring modem
Submitted 24-Jun-00 by Seak, Teng-Fong: However, I'm thinking if the modem could be configured similarly, it'd be very nice. Actually, the so-called "modem configuration "just consists of asking what port the modem is connected to and make a symbolic link to /dev/ttySx. This *does* work with external modems, since they work off of the standard ports. The problem arrises when using an internal model, becuase it frequently is on a non-standard irq. Because auto-probing irq's is not recommended, it is not built into the kernel. So, if you have a machine with two "real" serial ports (/dev/ttyS[01]) and an internal ISA modem (/dev/ttyS2), the internal modem is not detectable unless you have previously "setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq my_irq". The dialog you spoke of does not appear when the modem can be detected. (This is at least true in 7.1, I didn't do any significant hardware changes other than video under 7.0) -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [expert] Zip Drive Compatibility
I would suggest an IDE or SCSI model. I have a parallel port zip drive, and have yet to be able to get it working under Linux. There are drivers that claim to work, but I haven't gotten them working. (Also, SCSI and IDE are MUCH faster than parallel port for data transfer). I assume you want to be able to move the drive from machine to machine, so an internal IDE wouldn't be optimal (unless you got one for each machine), and a SCSI model would require a scsi adaptor in each computer that you want to use it with. This is the route I'd suggest if you want to use the same drive on more than one computer. Having a SCSI interface on a computer is always nice, you never know what cool SCSI peripherals you might find at a garage sale ;. You could probably find some cheap scsi adaptor cards on the net, you don't need the latest and greatest for a zip drive... Having a SCSI adaptor built into my motherboard, I'd go with SCSI if I had to buy a zip drive now (already using my IDE ports ;). If you can get parallel port support working under Linux, that would work well for you, BUT, I'd suggest you buy your zip drive from somewhere that will let you take it back if you are unable to get it working with linux. Jay Summet On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, you wrote: Greetings. After much thought, I have come to the conclusion that a Zip Drive will be my most economical and most efficient cross-platform backup solution. I'm probably going to Best Buy this evening to pick one up. I need to know if there are any concerns regarding the model. I'd prefer a parallel port model. Will any capacity work? Thanks, -- Joe Heafner -- Astronomy/Physics Instructor 828-327-7000, ext. 4246 My Book http://www.willbell.com/new/fundephcomp.htm My Home Page http://home.interpath.com/heafnerj/ CVAC Home Page http://home.interpath.com/heafnerj/cvac.html Linux! Why did it take me so long to try it? --
Re: [expert] diald - doesn't work
"admin.mdk" wrote: I'm using Air 7.02, and wanted to do a little proxy... I tryed install diald, downloaded from LM librarys ... ... and diald doesn't work. I tryed install more than 7 times. Once time it can connecting, more times can't... During boot diald.init messages me, it initialized ... In what I'm wrong? What can do problems? Many thank's for your help ... You might want to look into man pppd. pppd now has an option to dial on demand, making diald unnecessary. For instance, my /etc/ppp/options contains: 10.0.0.0:10.0.0.0 demand idle 240 ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local lock noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/chat-script" /dev/ttyS2 115200 modem crtscts defaultroute noipdefault I'm not sure its elegant, but it works for me. On boot, I activate the connection with netcfg, and it works. Gene
[expert] gdm login
How does gdm remember what login I used last time? (Gnome, KDE) seb
Re: [expert] missing SSH ?
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Gary wrote: Actually, the US law has changed a few months ago, and 128 bit is okay to export. This was demonstrate by a US Congresman from California who was the first to send the PGP program to someone in England. It made the papers nationally. It really is no longer a problem. In fact, if you go to PGPI (Internationl) website, www.pgpi.com, to download the latest version, it will send you to the US site for downloading. Yes, but. You have to get permission from the government to export the software. This may only apply to the developer of the program, but I am not sure. So, exporting high encryption software can still get you in trouble, depending upon the circumstances. bug
Re: [expert] Zip Drive Compatibility
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:37:27AM -0400, Joe Heafner wrote: - Greetings. - - After much thought, I have come to the conclusion that a Zip Drive will - be my most economical and most efficient cross-platform backup solution. - I'm probably going to Best Buy this evening to pick one up. I need to - know if there are any concerns regarding the model. I'd prefer a - parallel port model. Will any capacity work? Any capacity should work for you. I use a zip drive for part of a bare metal recovery backup, and find I only need about 30 MB on the zip drive. However, that's the minimum to get to a condition where I can restore from tape in the second stage. I believe that if you have the 250 MB version, it will read and write the 100 MB disks, so if I were buying one now, I'd look closely at the 250 MB. I don't know if they have a parallel port version, so check that out. The paralle port model is far and away the easiest to move from computer to computer. -- -- 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 PGP signature
Re: [expert] su - user -c command doesn't load profile
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:41:26PM +0200, Jasper Spit wrote: - Hi, - - On Mandrake 7.0 when you do a su - user -c "command" from the root - account, - user's profile is not loaded. When you just do a su - user, it works OK. - - This is very annoying, I need to create a script that runs as root and - executes some - commands as another user. I can't get this to work right now. - Even su - user -c ". .profile; echo $ORACLE_HOME" doesn't work. - - How can I get this fixed ? I can't remember having this problem on Red Hat - or SuSE. - I upgraded to the newest sh-utils, but that didn't help either. - - Also, su doesn't return the correct errorcode if you use the -c flag, it - always returns 0. - This works fine on e.g. HP/UX and Sun Solaris. I suspect you want to take out the initial hyphen. Here is what I use to start up the distributed net daemon: # dnetc 2000 06 21 16:19:34 pushd /home/dnetc/bin su dnetc -c \"./dnetc\" -s /bin/bash popd Your initial hyphen tells su to run the login sequence, e.g. run the .bash_profile, etc. -- -- 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 PGP signature
Re: [expert] CDROM, PICO, and Web Server in 7.1
As far as the CDROM goes, are you using supermount? If not, are you manually mounting the cd drive from the command line, or something similar? Monte On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Hi Gang, I just installed the latest 7.1 on a system. A couple things went wrong: #1. After it installs all the packages from disk #1, it prompts me for disk #2. However, my CDROM drive is frozen - I can't eject it! Even when I physically unplug it, switch disks, and plug it back in again, LM doesn't see the disk. What's up with that? Tried another CDROM drive, thinking there was something wrong with the one, but same story. #2. I noticed the PICO editor didn't get installed. Where can I get that? #3. I want to have a http server running on this machine. I didn't see any server software get installed. Didn't see any Apache stuff in the list of RPMs on the disk either. Thanks. Bob _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] su - user -c command doesn't load profile
Hi, On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Charles Curley wrote: I suspect you want to take out the initial hyphen. Here is what I use to start up the distributed net daemon: # dnetc 2000 06 21 16:19:34 pushd /home/dnetc/bin su dnetc -c \"./dnetc\" -s /bin/bash popd Your initial hyphen tells su to run the login sequence, e.g. run the .bash_profile, etc. This doesn't work for me. I just don't understand why su doesn't load the user's profile. What's the point of the -c option if it doesn't load the profile with the correct PATH settings, etc. ?!? Thanks, Jasper
Re: [expert] Zip Drive Compatibility
Jay Summet wrote: I would suggest an IDE or SCSI model. I have a parallel port zip drive, and have yet to be able to get it working under Linux. There are drivers that claim to work, but I haven't gotten them working. (Also, SCSI and IDE are MUCH faster than parallel port for data transfer). I assume you want to be able to move the drive from machine to machine, so an internal IDE wouldn't be optimal (unless you got one for each machine), and a SCSI model would require a scsi adaptor in each computer that you want to use it with. This is the route I'd suggest if you want to use the same drive on more than one computer. Having a SCSI interface on a computer is always nice, you never know what cool SCSI peripherals you might find at a garage sale ;. I need to move between my linux desktop box and my notebook, neither of which has scsi adapters at the moment. Speed isn't an issue for me. If you can get parallel port support working under Linux, that would work well for you, BUT, I'd suggest you buy your zip drive from somewhere that will let you take it back if you are unable to get it working with linux. Absolutely! -- Joe Heafner -- Astronomy/Physics Instructor 828-327-7000, ext. 4246 My Book http://www.willbell.com/new/fundephcomp.htm My Home Page http://home.interpath.com/heafnerj/ CVAC Home Page http://home.interpath.com/heafnerj/cvac.html Linux! Why did it take me so long to try it?
Re: [expert] su - user -c command doesn't load profile
Try downloading "sudo" that was the old Linux "su" package - it should still be out there. On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Jasper Spit wrote: On Mandrake 7.0 when you do a su - user -c "command" from the root account, user's profile is not loaded. When you just do a su - user, it works OK. How can I get this fixed ? I can't remember having this problem on Red Hat or SuSE. I upgraded to the newest sh-utils, but that didn't help either. Also, su doesn't return the correct errorcode if you use the -c flag, it always returns 0. This works fine on e.g. HP/UX and Sun Solaris. Jasper -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation www.noblesys.com
Re: Sort By Thread (WAS: [expert] missing SSH ?)
Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll second that. I've been using mutt myself for a few years now and I haven't wanted to try anything else yet. Pretty lightweight but so powerful. It's great! emacs and this : (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-date gnus-thread-sort-by-subject gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score)) in .gnus The PGP/GPG support is also done nicely. -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
Re: [expert] How will this effect Mandrake?
Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read this on freshmeat today and wondered if it will have an impact on the way Mandrake does business? vern None, our servers are based in the US ;) and a lot of developers are based in US ;) subject: Possible Threat to French Open Source Sites added by: jeff covey on Jun 21st 2000, 07:40 category: Editorial -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
Re: [expert] Connecting two monitors
Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Being my ever forgetful self i left out a major point. XFree has been able to drive multiple cards on the same machine for quite awhile now (no i don't know exactly a version #), but it drives them indapendantly. yep look with natanya (my machine in the LA office) i have two graphics card and i think XFree use on the card where the Monitor is attached. -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
Re: [expert] CDROM, PICO, and Web Server in 7.1
Monte, sounds to me like this is happening during install...so he hasn't mounted or supermounted anything yetsounds like my cdrom bug has hit someone elseARE YOU LISTENING MDK??? I have been messing with thisw hd thing ever since 7.1 was releasedI still don't have answers Jim - Original Message - From: "Monte Milanuk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] CDROM, PICO, and Web Server in 7.1 As far as the CDROM goes, are you using supermount? If not, are you manually mounting the cd drive from the command line, or something similar? Monte On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Hi Gang, I just installed the latest 7.1 on a system. A couple things went wrong: #1. After it installs all the packages from disk #1, it prompts me for disk #2. However, my CDROM drive is frozen - I can't eject it! Even when I physically unplug it, switch disks, and plug it back in again, LM doesn't see the disk. What's up with that? Tried another CDROM drive, thinking there was something wrong with the one, but same story. #2. I noticed the PICO editor didn't get installed. Where can I get that? #3. I want to have a http server running on this machine. I didn't see any server software get installed. Didn't see any Apache stuff in the list of RPMs on the disk either. Thanks. Bob _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] su - user -c command doesn't load profile
Submitted 24-Jun-00 by Lars Nordin: Try downloading "sudo" that was the old Linux "su" package - it should still be out there. Actually sudo is far more powerdul in limiting access than su is because you can define who can use what commands and never give out a superuser password :) -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
[expert] 7.0-2 Hardware conflict
I seem to have a conflict that causes Mdk to perform poorly. No version I've tried to date runs well. This includes 6.0, boxed 6.1 PowerPack-which wouldn't install the first disk, and 7.0-2. Needless to say I am as frustrated as the kind folks who are privately trying to help me. Symptoms: The fontserver crashes in Gnome when I try to select a font from the pull down menu. I see many warnings and error messages about the screensaver Atlantis in Gnome. The GUI Netscape and Xterm will not open once an internet connection has been established. During boot ? is force checked. 0.1% is "non contiguous." Gnome help file warning error "NULL" The monitor was never been correctly identified but once configured does not seem to cause any problems. Hardware: Tyan S1590s/VIA chipset AT motherboard; K2-500 CPU; 160 P-100 RAM. 2-Western Digital Caviar drives; 1-Seagate harddrive. All 5400 spin speed. Hi-Val CD-ROM; generic floppy. Sound Blaster AWE16. Aopen S3Virge PCI or Diamond S3Trio AGP. PCI in use currently. Digiview HR 70+ 17" multisync capable. Deere brand 250watt AT power supply. Setup: hda1: 3.2GB WD /boot(LILO)19MG Winblows 98 (bad block in G partition. hdb1: 8.4 WD /swap Mdk hdb3: .850 Seagate Winblows Distro: Mdk7.0-2. Monitor 800x600 and 100dpi font Installed: Openssh, Openssl mdk-rpm Window Manager: Gnome / Enlightenment. What is the answer and is there a solution? Do I have a timing or hardware conflict or a combination? Thanks for the help, Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] CDROM, PICO, and Web Server in 7.1
I said hd thingit should have read cdrom.there is a definate cdrom/cdrw bug in mdk 7.1.. Monte, sounds to me like this is happening during install...so he hasn't mounted or supermounted anything yetsounds like my cdrom bug has hit someone elseARE YOU LISTENING MDK??? I have been messing with this hd thing ever since 7.1 was releasedI still don't have answers Jim - Original Message - From: "Monte Milanuk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] CDROM, PICO, and Web Server in 7.1 As far as the CDROM goes, are you using supermount? If not, are you manually mounting the cd drive from the command line, or something similar? Monte On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Hi Gang, I just installed the latest 7.1 on a system. A couple things went wrong: #1. After it installs all the packages from disk #1, it prompts me for disk #2. However, my CDROM drive is frozen - I can't eject it! Even when I physically unplug it, switch disks, and plug it back in again, LM doesn't see the disk. What's up with that? Tried another CDROM drive, thinking there was something wrong with the one, but same story. #2. I noticed the PICO editor didn't get installed. Where can I get that? #3. I want to have a http server running on this machine. I didn't see any server software get installed. Didn't see any Apache stuff in the list of RPMs on the disk either. Thanks. Bob _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Copy HD to HD
:~Is there any command to copy HD to HD ,like command line "diskcopy" under DOS yes. :~,my friend tech me :~dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024k,but must run it under single mode. :~anyone tell or me? or another good command to use?thanks So your frien tech (what does that mean?) you "dd", and you are not happy? dd can do just about anything whene it comes to copiing, so if you really want to mirror HD, dd is the way to go. If you are scared of dd, and want to copy all data from one partition to another using a cute user interface, I would recoment "mc". cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [expert] Zip Drive Compatibility
you need to use 'modprobe imm' with the newer zips. note that using a parallel port drive _really_ bogs the processor down. You want to do your backups early in the morning. bug On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Joe Heafner wrote: Greetings. After much thought, I have come to the conclusion that a Zip Drive will be my most economical and most efficient cross-platform backup solution. I'm probably going to Best Buy this evening to pick one up. I need to know if there are any concerns regarding the model. I'd prefer a parallel port model. Will any capacity work? Thanks,
Re: [expert] su - user -c command doesn't load profile
true. However, please note that the sudoers file ships with ALL=(ALL):NOPASSWD as an example. ALL does not mean "all the programs I have defined to be run by people I have given access to." Instead, ALL means "every program on the machine." This can bite you, as it is a silent permission. bug On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 24-Jun-00 by Lars Nordin: Try downloading "sudo" that was the old Linux "su" package - it should still be out there. Actually sudo is far more powerdul in limiting access than su is because you can define who can use what commands and never give out a superuser password :)
Re: [expert] messages in triplicate (fwd)
:~Awww...shucks, Denis I'm just trying to help. I :~sometimes feel guilty for bugging you about list-related :~problems so much, but... :-) At least you know how to file a bug report. Doing a diff is much easier when one actually has the files .-) :~Being a Tech Support professional I can sympathize :~sometimes with how frustrating it can be to run this list! Ah, that is why you know how to file a report! cu D -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [expert] su - user -c command doesn't load profile
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 08:01:34PM +0200, Jasper Spit wrote: - Hi, - - On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Charles Curley wrote: - - I suspect you want to take out the initial hyphen. Here is what I use to - start up the distributed net daemon: - - # dnetc 2000 06 21 16:19:34 - pushd /home/dnetc/bin - su dnetc -c \"./dnetc\" -s /bin/bash - popd - - Your initial hyphen tells su to run the login sequence, e.g. run the - .bash_profile, etc. - - This doesn't work for me. I just don't understand why su doesn't load - the user's profile. What's the point of the -c option if it doesn't load - the profile with the correct PATH settings, etc. ?!? OK, then try escaping the quotes and the semicolon and any other shell special characters in the original. The point of the -c with or without the user profile, etc., depends on what you are trying to do. You may not want the user profile for some things. You may want some other profile, like that of the user you are suing from. Not being a Microsoft product, Linux is not going to prohibit you from doing something just because the developers can't think of a reason why you would want to do it. The sample I showed above does not load the profile, and works just fine. I didn't load the profile in that one because I didn't need it. -- -- 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 PGP signature
Re: [expert] missing SSH ?
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 11:54:04AM -0500 or thereabouts, Bug Hunter wrote: Actually, the US law has changed a few months ago, and 128 bit is okay to export. This was demonstrate by a US Congresman from California who was the first to send the PGP program to someone in England. It made the papers nationally. It really is no longer a problem. In fact, if you go to PGPI (Internationl) website, www.pgpi.com, to download the latest version, it will send you to the US site for downloading. Yes, but. You have to get permission from the government to export the software. This may only apply to the developer of the program, but I am not sure. So, exporting high encryption software can still get you in trouble, depending upon the circumstances. Could be Bug, I donno. PGPI has a "news" section where it says that Network Associates was granted a license to export PGP, so you are probably right. Regards, Gary bug
Re: [expert] mc listing and rpm problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So anybody fixed it ? It is not problem with MC i did try a few different versions Well, I just uninstalled the mc which comes with Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (`rpm -e --nodeps mc') then installed the mc off my 7.02 CD and I can now browse rpms again. And the file listing format is back to normal also. Which versions of mc did you try? The one on 7.02 is mc-4.5.42-4mdk. ---Norvell
Re: [expert] 7.0-2 Hardware conflict
Submitted 24-Jun-00 by Pj: Symptoms: The fontserver crashes in Gnome when I try to select a font from the pull down menu. Which application? The GUI Netscape and Xterm will not open once an internet connection has been established. This *sounds* like the problem that crops up when kppp (or any other dialer) is configured to reset your host name upon connect. After that, X programs no longer have permission to start on your machine. During boot ? is force checked. 0.1% is "non contiguous." Is that question mark what is displayed or ? 0.1% non contiguous is just an informative message and can be ignored. Gnome help file warning error "NULL" Umm... When do you see this? What actions lead up to it? -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
[expert] using menu system in 7.1 for 7.0
Since I can't get my tape drive to work after installing 7.1, I'm downgrading to 7.0. Anybody know how to incorporate the new X menu system from 7.1 into 7.0? Thanks much. ---Norvell
Re: [expert] using menu system in 7.1 for 7.0
Submitted 24-Jun-00 by Norvell Spearman: Since I can't get my tape drive to work after installing 7.1, I'm downgrading to 7.0. Anybody know how to incorporate the new X menu system from 7.1 into 7.0? Thanks much. It requires both the menu-*.rpm and the 7.1 (and newer) versions of the relevent window managers. Good luck. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [expert] CDROM, PICO, and Web Server in 7.1
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi Gang, I just installed the latest 7.1 on a system. A couple things went wrong: #1. After it installs all the packages from disk #1, it prompts me for disk #2. However, my CDROM drive is frozen - I can't eject it! Even when I physically unplug it, switch disks, and plug it back in again, LM doesn't see the disk. What's up with that? Tried another CDROM drive, thinking there was something wrong with the one, but same story. Try hitting ctrl-alt-F1, thru F5 to see if the virtual consoles give any error messages #2. I noticed the PICO editor didn't get installed. Where can I get that? Pico is part of the pine package #3. I want to have a http server running on this machine. I didn't see any server software get installed. Didn't see any Apache stuff in the list of RPMs on the disk either. Look on the Mandrake CD under Mandrake/RPMS, apache should be there. Thanks. Bob _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- Regards, Ellick Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Quake III doesn't work with XFree 3.3.6 OR 4.0??
QIII (full) worked fine with the 3.3.6 in 7.0, there are mouse probs in 4.0 that will not be fixed until 4.0.1 is released. Do you have glide mesa installed (version that comes with quake is probably better than the mandrake one)? There are drivers instructions at http://www.linux.3dfx.com . IIRC I have seen a Mandrake rpm for device 3dfx, so it might be on your CD, but you'll probably need the voodoo 3 glide rpm. Don't download the X 3.3.5 from 3dfx.com though, as, 3.3.6 from Mandrake is better. If you are still having probs, start it from a term (without "") post the output (try killing it with ctrl+alt+esc-move cursor -enter, or opening a new term with ctrl+alt +F1 whacking it with top). HTH -WBD - Original Message - From: "Jay Summet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 2:39 AM Subject: [expert] Quake III doesn't work with XFree 3.3.6 OR 4.0?? Hello all, I've been trying to get the Quake III demo working on my system: Dual PII 333 192mb Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP SoundBlaster AWE 64 Mandrake 7.1 install (with XFree 3.3.6 initally). I downloaded and installed the Q3Demo and everything appeared to go ok until I ran it. When I did, the sound was very choppy, and the mouse would barely move. I had to press the tab key 5 times to get down to exit and hit return (took it about 2 seconds between moves.) I figured it might be GPM, so I killed gpm off, no difference. I figured I may as well try upgrading to XFree86 4.0 so I did so (downloading directly from XFree86.org) and had the same problems. Then I noticed the XFree86 4.0 mdk.rpm on the install CD, so I erased my current setup and used that to upgrade to 4.0, same problem. (X windows is working correctly in all cases other than the Q3Demo problems outlined above.) It appears that my version of Xfree doesn't matter, and I was wondering if anybody else had fixed this problem? Thanks, Jay
Re: [expert] Mouseconfig question.
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hello, I am looking for the place where it tells you how to set up a three button sierial mouse for the laptop. I found it once, but I can't remember4 where it was. It said to select a certain mouse type and do thjis and that The "xf86config" command will ask that, otherwise, insert your favorite editor, vi, and "vi /etc/X11/XF86Config". Under that, there is an emulate 3-button option somewhere in the mouse section. also how the heck to get the damn backspace button to work? where do you find thazt out? I think you need the XKB extensions, try xf86config or editing the above file. Thanks for listening to my stupid questions. All donations fo ra new hdd accepted . thats; why I am having these troubles. Ivan. -- Regards, Ellick Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] Upgrade on Software root RAID
Yes, I did an install on /dev/hda1 and then configured hdb1 and hdc1 for raid0 (for / mount) -- hdb3 and hdc3 (for /boot mount) on a couple of 20G drives. (/dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdc2 are 128M swap). I mounted /dev/md0 as /mnt/root and /dev/md1 as /mnt/boot. Then: cp -ax /boot /mnt/boot cp -ax / /mnt/root Then, I wanted to remove the install disk. To do this, edit /mnt/root/etc/raidtab and change references from hdb to hda. Configure /mnt/root/etc/lilo.conf and /etc/mnt/etc/fstab and power down. Pull install drive (old /dev/hda). Jumper /dev/hdb to now be master. Boot from a floppy and run lilo. Reboot. [root@bugsbunny /root]# cat /etc/raidtab # Sample raid-1 configuration raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/hda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc1 raid-disk 1 raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/hda3 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc3 raid-disk 1 [root@bugsbunny /root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf boot = /dev/md1 timeout = 50 prompt message = /boot/message default = linux vga = 0x0f05 read-only map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b keytable=/boot/us.klt image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux append = "max_scsi_luns=5" root = /dev/md0 image = /boot/vmlinuz.old label = oldlinux append = "max_scsi_luns=5" root = /dev/md0 other = /dev/fd0 label = floppy unsafe [root@bugsbunny /root]# cat /etc/fstab #/dev/hda1 / ext2defaults1 1 /dev/md0/ ext2defaults1 1 /dev/md1/boot ext2defaults1 1 #/dev/hda2 swapswapdefaults0 0 /dev/hda2 noneswappri=100,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 /dev/hdc2 noneswappri=100,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/ptsdevpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 elmo:/home/Mandrake /mnt/nfs nfs noauto,ro,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 Hope this helps, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Bourget Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Upgrade on Software root RAID Hi, I'm trying to upgrade MDK 7.0 system with a software raid0 root. It seems that everything is in place to do it since I manadged to manually start and mount the array. The problem is that the installer dont offer you any choice over choosing a root on an md device. Did someone managed to do it automaticly or even manually. I wold really apreciate some help on this thing since the only other way I have is to reinstall everything from scratch. (We all know this is a bad thing!) -- _ Marc Bourget
Re: [expert] OT: any quality PC keyboards?
I used to use a M$ Natural, which worked well for me. I have a partially shattered elbow, which makes a normal 104 key keyboard very uncomfortable after about 5 minutes. The keyboard which I use now, is a PFU Happy Hacking Lite keyboard. Nice and small, and I can absolutely fly on this thing, now that I am used to the layout, which is a little different. I don't have the url for their website, but they may be worth checking out for you. FWIW, they also make a more expensive version that can be used with either a Sun/Mac/PC, but it is around $130US. Monte -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] diald - doesn't work
Even though pppd now has dial-on-demand, it doesn't make diald 'un-necessary'. Diald still has some features that may make it desirable in certain situations. If you have a home LAN and want to make sure that your children aren't going places on the net during the wee hours of the morning, you can set up accounting so that diald will not dial up the internet during certain hours, or when packets are passed to it from certain ip addresses, etc. Also, it can vary the connect time, depending on how long your are online, i.e. if you are on for only a few minutes (a periodic fetchmail/sendmail job), it will drop the connection after only a minute or so of inactivity. If on the other hand, you've been online for an hour, but are pausing to read a news site, it will wait 10-15 minutes before dropping the connection. And it is all configurable. I had this set up at one time, on a Slackware 4.0 box. The trade off is that it is definitely more difficult to set up (more options, etc.) Monte On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Eugene C. Zesch wrote: "admin.mdk" wrote: I'm using Air 7.02, and wanted to do a little proxy... I tryed install diald, downloaded from LM librarys ... ... and diald doesn't work. I tryed install more than 7 times. Once time it can connecting, more times can't... During boot diald.init messages me, it initialized ... In what I'm wrong? What can do problems? Many thank's for your help ... You might want to look into man pppd. pppd now has an option to dial on demand, making diald unnecessary. For instance, my /etc/ppp/options contains: 10.0.0.0:10.0.0.0 demand idle 240 ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local lock noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/chat-script" /dev/ttyS2 115200 modem crtscts defaultroute noipdefault I'm not sure its elegant, but it works for me. On boot, I activate the connection with netcfg, and it works. Gene -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] 7.0-2 Hardware conflict
Anton, Ok, I need to clarify myself a little: Font server crashes in GIMP everytime I try to select a font. I can click and preview the first four fonts in the list without problem. Click and preview number five locks the program and creates the error mesage. I am not completely familiar with the boot process. I see a comment that X number of blocks were cleaned..followed by a statement that /dev/hdb1 reached maximal mount count, check forced..I watch the percent process. It finishes with the statement that .01% is non contiguous. The login finishes in a normal manner Kppp is configured for server assigned addresses. I have two ISP's. I've never had the *reset* problem before, if this is a *normal function* that is all I need to know. I don't know what precipitates the Gnome errors. I get the same error even if I do nothing more than play solitaire and log out. [Gnome always starts with two windows open.] Everytime I log out I see many Gnome error messages. Here is a small sample: rm: Cannot remove '/home/ibi/.gnome //gmc-0L6CF2': No such file or directory. Gnome VT-warning **: Could not open help topic file NULL. Warning: gnome_is_image_filename called, you should use gnome mime instead. BTW, I don't think the AMD CPU is the problem. I am quite unsure about the motherboard though. I don't know that I've ever seen the TYAN S1590s mentioned in this list. In fact I don't recall any Tyan/VIA chip being mentioned here. Thanks to our list for your continuing support, Pj At 02:34 PM 6/24/00 -0700, you wrote: Submitted 24-Jun-00 by Pj: Symptoms: The fontserver crashes in Gnome when I try to select a font from the pull down menu. Which application? The GUI Netscape and Xterm will not open once an internet connection has been established. This *sounds* like the problem that crops up when kppp (or any other dialer) is configured to reset your host name upon connect. After that, X programs no longer have permission to start on your machine. During boot ? is force checked. 0.1% is "non contiguous." Is that question mark what is displayed or ? 0.1% non contiguous is just an informative message and can be ignored. Gnome help file warning error "NULL" Umm... When do you see this? What actions lead up to it? -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
[expert] Kernel Upgrades on SCSI system
If I use MandrakeUpdate to download the new kernel and headers (2.2.16), what do I need to do to install the new kernel prior to rebooting? ie, rerun lilo, anything special since my box is all SCSI (hd's, cdrom)? John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. Mandrake Linux 7.1 (2.2.15) / Polarbar Mailer 1.16c JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-2515
Re: [expert] Kernel Upgrades on SCSI system
"John J. LeMay Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I use MandrakeUpdate to download the new kernel and headers (2.2.16), what do I need to do to install the new kernel prior to rebooting? ie, rerun lilo, anything special since my box is all SCSI (hd's, cdrom)? mkinitrd, see the man mkinitrd and do : -$ mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd.img 2.2.16-9mdk -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
Re: [expert] using menu system in 7.1 for 7.0
You'll find the menu tree in /usr/share/applnk seve -Original Message- From: Anton Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [expert] using menu system in 7.1 for 7.0 Submitted 24-Jun-00 by Norvell Spearman: Since I can't get my tape drive to work after installing 7.1, I'm downgrading to 7.0. Anybody know how to incorporate the new X menu system from 7.1 into 7.0? Thanks much. It requires both the menu-*.rpm and the 7.1 (and newer) versions of the relevent window managers. Good luck. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
