[expert] Upgrade?? to LM7.1
Hello List, I am sending this in Windows (sob!) because I was foolish enough to try to upgrade my LM7.0 with the 2.2.16-9mdk kernel and XFree86 4.0 to LM7.1. Now I am completely unable to startx. I have tried XFree86 -config, xf86config and Xconfigurator and the result is the same - the hatched sceen with the x pointer is as far as I get. xf86 config seems to have a bug as well because it gets to the screen where it asks do you want to look at a list of cards and when I answer y the program exits to the mc screen. Of course I am running the dreaded SiS6326 chip with an LG 56i monitor so I am behind the 8ball, but all was well with LM7.0. Can anyone suggest a fix which doesn't include new hardware? Is it possible to "upgrade" back to LM7.0 while preserving my data - I have backups but it will be a pain to reinstall. Has anyone got LM7.1 to work with the Sis6326 chip? Can anyone assist please? Yours in anguish.
[expert] Can't find memory
I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my friend's computer and then he changed the CPU and upgraded to PC133 memory. Now when I tried to install it says Segmentation fault can't find memory and when I press enter on the OK button it throws me into a prompt #. Any suggestions? Thank you, Armand -- Linux 2.2.16-9mdk Sat Jul 1 12:45:00 MDT 2000
[expert] Switch back to LILO from GRUB
Hi, I made the mistake of leaving the LBA star engaged in the Boot Window during installation. This has meant when I booted I got GRUB instead of LILO. No matter what adjustments I have made to DrakBoot no change has happened to bring LILO back. GRUB is certainly colourful, but you can not do simple commands such as (linux 3) to get to run level three as with LILO. Would anyone have an idea how to get rid of GRUB and replace it with LILO? Thankyou, Simon Robertson
Re: [expert] KDE GONE! -- New Install
Dear Civilme: All my thanks for your help. The commands didn't work, unfortunately, but I am grateful for your coming to my rescue. I think I know what caused this whole problem: An installation or two ago, I tried to delete my /home/sher directory but I think I did it improperly by deleting all the subdirectories and files from my /home/sher directory and then deleting the /home/sher directory itself. This may have caused a conflict of sorts when reinstalling it. I should mention that this has happend at least twice. So, perhaps there was some sort of vestige in my system that corrupted my /home/sher directory. At any rate, I plan to reinstall 7.1 from scratch by FTP a little later this morning. The silver lining to the cloud: I finally figured out (I know this sounds dumb) how to select or unselect the programs and files under "Select Individual packages". I have been trying to figure this out for some time. In 7.0 you could just highlight a whole category (as Expert) and then add it to your download. Apparently, in 7.1 you can't do that. You have to open up each category with your mouse, then each subcategory, then highlight each file (with information on each file in the right pane), then select it with your mouse (a yellow check is then placed in the blank square) and you can see your download size increase accordingly. Now I can add certain files that I know I need and that I can make use of. Finally, I have formatted both hda and hdb (which contains my /home directory) so that everything should now be as clean and pure as snow. You live and learn! Thanks so much again. Benjamin Civileme wrote: Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Civilme and friends: There might well be a permissions problem. .Xauthority has "root" for permissions, while everything else in my /home/sher directory has "sher". (and I have not yet installed anything into it. It is a blank "sher" directory with only "Desktop" and "http" directories in it, if I recall (I am writing from Windows). I now recall distinctly that this morning when I noticed this, I went into KDE by su to root (no problem with getting into KDE with root. Everything works fine). I then went into the File Manager (remember I was root) and changed permission on .Xauthority from "root" to "sher" and logged out. But I could never really change the permissions. Every time I went back to KDE as root and checked, .Xauthority's permissions returned to "root." Should I do this in the console using a manual command? If so, which command would be best, please? I am just afraid that I am going to mess things up again. Thanks so very much. Benjamin Is your security setting high or paranoid? If so, consider a lower setting. As root cd /home/sher chown sher.sher .Xauthority chmod 0755 .Xauthority then login as user and do a startx Civileme -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] Can't find memory
Armand wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my friend's computer and then he changed the CPU and upgraded to PC133 memory. Now when I tried to install it says Segmentation fault can't find memory and when I press enter on the OK button it throws me into a prompt #. Any suggestions? Thank you, Armand -- Linux 2.2.16-9mdk Sat Jul 1 12:45:00 MDT 2000 I had sigsegv problems with two boards. Both cleared with mild underclocking(95% rate0. Both were FIC PAG2130 with VIA MVP4 Chipsets. Now that you mention it, I had a Soyo with intel i810 chipset that required certified memory and underclocking to work--even in windows. PC133 memory and 133 Bus clocking often overdrive the AGP or put it into a fall-back to 66MHz... At this time, I don't think 133 is ready for prime time. Try backing off the bus clock. The timing requirements of 7.1 are pretty narrow windows around the specs in several areas, especially IDE and main memory. Slowing down slightly, like from 133 to 124, might give it the space needed. (And it will certainly make your system more reliable). The speed of a non-working computer is irrelevant. Civileme
[expert] Changing home drive
I have my home directory on a 6 gig drive that I would like to put in another machine. Does anyone know a good source of information or could anyone tell me how to change my home drive under linux, and move all of my existing programs a directories to the new drive? I would appreciate any help. Wayne
Re: [expert] going form Linux-mandrake 6-7.1
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Tiger l wrote: Just purchased a 6.0 complete package at the local computer store only to find it was not the current version. Installed well except my Aureal Vortex Audio card and not being able to see or write to any Win98 partitions. Any suggestions? Drivers for Aureal cards can be found at: http://linux.aureal.com please consider signing the petition to Aureal at: http://www.linuxgames.com/petitions/show_full_text.php3?petitionName=Aureal so they release source code for drivers. As to problem with Win98 partitions make sure you have compiled kernel support for FAT32 (either as kernel built-in or as kernel module). Regards -- Registered Linux user #166697 visit http://counter.li.org to register Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
[expert] Missing Icons
Hi, I installed 7.1 and after that Helix Gnome. Everything right, except that the desktop icons of root was changed, not by Helix Gnome icons but common icons of system. Even worst, I can find the icons, select them, but the other are not substituted. Had happened the same to anyone of you? Anyone knows how can I solve this? Thanks Alvaro
[expert] sounddrake freeze on sb awe64
Hi, I have a small problem: I tried either souddrake or sounddrake-text, and they hang my computer when trying to detect my isa sb awe 64. The configuration worked with sndconfig, but now harddrake also hangs when trying to detect the soundcard, even though I specified to not look for isa cards. I looked at the mailing list and in the faq, and I could not find any information about this. What I would like to do is to be able to use harddrake. Please cc to me as I am not on the mailing list. Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen.
Re: [expert] SO 5.3
i think it's a typo. --- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )XIntercomp Ltd. (m_m) | |ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ Office : 09-9526993. | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| | |_)_|_|_| |_|__,_/_/\ visit us at www.legacy2web.com. --- On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 07:34:53 -0400 From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SO 5.3 On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: No problem, just run it. It works. Dennis/sg Is this subject a typo or is there REALLY a 5.3 Star Office? I find SO less than useful since the mail client crashes every time I try to use it (RedHat 6.2.) If there really is a 5.3, where can I get a copy??? John
Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, you wrote: Dave Cotton wrote: I also have spent a frustrating week with UDMA problems including a totally unreadable disk (corrupted superblock). With Mandrake 7.0 and a UDMA 33 motherboard HDPARM reported 16MB/s with my WD205AA now with 7.1 this is down to less than 5MB/s. With the drive on my UDMA66 motherboard this drops to 3.5MB/s If I use DMA etc. I get a corrupted superblock. I cut the speed of the bus by 5% and that seems to have stopped the corruption. If you run hdparm -t /dev/hda with dma set there is a stream of seek and crc errors until the system resets the controller and disables dma. My question is what is your processor and motherboard. I have AMD 400 and 500s and DFI P5BV3+ and K6XV3+/66 mbs. Dave Cotton Linux Autrement Avignon France +33 (0)4 90 16 07 89 If you search the archives for UDMA66 problems, you will find most complaints involve WD drives. There is a reason. WD drives have unusual timing requirements. 7.1 is the first MAndrake distro to support UDMA66 out of the box, and the timing might be a little too tight for the WDs. Also, WD does not actually use Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) protocol but rather fakes it and blows it off. The result is that there is nothing in the HDD hardware/firmware to block a data stream corrupted by timing chatter from being written to disk. THere is a program that sets WD drives for UDMA66 available for DL from WD, which might(tm) help. In the mean time, on kernel traffic, the discussion crops up from time to time that a possible solution is to restrict WD drives to PIO upon recognition. No conclusion has been reached, but the fact that such discussion is taking place should indicate something to everyone. Civileme And of course Promise has actually made a driver available for the HPT366 in source code. The driver may still need a few bugs located, but the future looks brighter for stable UDMA66. Promise making a Linux driver for Highpoint, err??? Cheers, -- /* Manuël Beunder. (aka MBr) - http://how.to/sblive the SB Live! Linux page - 'You must be the change you wish to see in this world. -Gandi' */
RE: [expert] Printing with samba 2.06.
Hello, Is your printer on the samba server, or your linux box is a client for a window's printer ? (printing to linux from windows (e.g.) or printing from linux to windows). In the first case, my bad english didn't let me understood properly and I am out of subject...don't pay attention ! In the second case, there's a bug in the standard installation : you must set your .config file (probably /var/spool/lpd/printer_directory) property too user = root, group = lp. If you configure by printtool, you must do this again after each configuration. chown root:lp /var/spool/lpd/printer_directory/* I hope this will be helpfull. Didier -You wrote- De : Jorge Fuertes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : vendredi 30 juin 2000 13:02 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : [expert] Printing with samba 2.06. I've installed Samba 2.06 from Mandrake RPM. I cannot print! The document is send from mi computer to the server, and is writed in "/tmp", with "0766" permision (i specyfied 0777 in samba) but it's never printed. What's the problem? My printer cfg in Samba: [minolta] comment = Impresora de sistemas path = /tmp read only = No guest ok = Yes print ok = Yes print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p printer name = minolta -- -- Jorge Fuertes Alfranca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administración Sistema Tel: 976-748091 MAZ-MATEPSS Nº11 http://www.maz.es -- __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
Re: [expert] KDE GONE -- as user, NOT as root!
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, you wrote: Dear Davidu: Thanks so much for writing. You are right in suggesting deleting .Xauthority and even more right that this won't fix the problem. I tried that in an earlier installation of 7.1 and it failed. Let's hope somebody knows the secret word. IIRC, someone once said that you need to copy your .Xauthority from /root to ~/username and chown it to your user, and that that would fix it. CAVEAT: I'm repeating what I *think* I remember, not having had the guts to try BETA software, I don't know if it works or not. :-) John
Re: [expert] KDE GONE!
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: Dear Civilme and friends: There might well be a permissions problem. .Xauthority has "root" for permissions, while everything else in my /home/sher directory has "sher". (and I have not yet installed anything into it. It is a blank "sher" directory with only "Desktop" and "http" directories in it, if I recall (I am writing from Windows). I now recall distinctly that this morning when I noticed this, I went into KDE by su to root (no problem with getting into KDE with root. Everything works fine). I then went into the File Manager (remember I was root) and changed permission on .Xauthority from "root" to "sher" and logged out. But I could never really change the permissions. Every time I went back to KDE as root and checked, .Xauthority's permissions returned to "root." Should I do this in the console using a manual command? If so, which command would be best, please? I am just afraid that I am going to mess things up again. From a *console*, as root, try "chown sher.sher .Xauthority" and see if that allows "sher" to log into KDE. John
Re: [expert] Upgrade?? to LM7.1
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hello List, I am sending this in Windows (sob!) because I was foolish enough to try to upgrade my LM7.0 with the 2.2.16-9mdk kernel and XFree86 4.0 to LM7.1. Now I am completely unable to startx. I have tried XFree86 -config, xf86config and Xconfigurator and the result is the same - the hatched sceen with the x pointer is as far as I get. xf86 config seems to have a bug as well because it gets to the screen where it asks do you want to look at a list of cards and when I answer y the program exits to the mc screen. Of course I am running the dreaded SiS6326 chip with an LG 56i monitor so I am behind the 8ball, but all was well with LM7.0. Can anyone suggest a fix which doesn't include new hardware? Is it possible to "upgrade" back to LM7.0 while preserving my data - I have backups but it will be a pain to reinstall. Has anyone got LM7.1 to work with the Sis6326 chip? Can anyone assist please? Yours in anguish. Here's what I'd do. Install a small linux-on-dos distro on your Windoze partition, and use it to mount your 'regular' linux root dir (/) and rescue the files you need to save. Another way would be to install 'explore2fs' under Windows and use it to get the files you need to save, and move them to a Windoze directory. Then you can put boot from your Mdk CD and try an upgrade, but you might have to do a re-install. I live dangerously and install 'cooker' rpms all the time, but I've found it's not to good an idea to install things which are gonna mess with a lot of library/system binary files. You end up with miss-matches, and a very unstable system. Like you I tried XF-4, and also KDE2 on 7.0, ended up doing a re-install as I outlined above. My saving grace is when I switched from RH to Mandrake, I installed PhatLinux (back when it was Mandrake 6.0) under Windows to preview Mandrake. Needless to say I've found it quite handy for fixin what I manage to screw up in my 'regular' Mandrake. I also backup all my important or personal files to a windoze directory now as a regular practice ;- -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Switch back to LILO from GRUB
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:25:49 +1000, you wrote: Hi, I made the mistake of leaving the LBA star engaged in the Boot Window during installation. This has meant when I booted I got GRUB instead of LILO. No matter what adjustments I have made to DrakBoot no change has happened to bring LILO back. GRUB is certainly colourful, but you can not do simple commands such as (linux 3) to get to run level three as with LILO. Would anyone have an idea how to get rid of GRUB and replace it with LILO? Thankyou, Simon Robertson Just run "lilo" and reboot. If everything were as simple Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Switch back to LILO from GRUB
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:25:49 +1000, you wrote: Hi, I made the mistake of leaving the LBA star engaged in the Boot Window during installation. This has meant when I booted I got GRUB instead of LILO. No matter what adjustments I have made to DrakBoot no change has happened to bring LILO back. GRUB is certainly colourful, but you can not do simple commands such as (linux 3) to get to run level three as with LILO. Yes you can, and more, just choose 'failsafe' Would anyone have an idea how to get rid of GRUB and replace it with LILO? Thankyou, Simon Robertson Just run "lilo" and reboot. If everything were as simple It'd be a good idea to review the lilo.conf file first to make sure all is as it should be Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] rpmdrake is unusable
Hi! How do I use rpmdrake? I removed the listings for cdrom[1-4] and added the an FTP url for cooker to rpmdrake. Next I wanted to install a package (sag). After a shortwhile an error message popped up, saying: "Fehler beim holen von sag". (Error while fetching sag). What did I do wrong? The sag package is available at the mirror I entered (sunsite.uio.no). Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ:7328191
[expert] KDE2 dcopserver error
The first version of KDE2 1.91 I tried I didn't have a problem but ever since the one that came out on June 10th I can't get it to run. When I try to run dcopserver I get the follwoing error: BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c:210: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed! I've tried installing an updated version of ld.so and any other thing that it seems like it might be connected too but still no luck. I'm finally at a loss on this one and was wondering if anyone else has encountered it or has an idea of how to fix it? Regards Dan http://www.bits-of-knowledge.com
[expert] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1
I have 3 large issues with Mandrake 7.1 I need help with... First, how do I enable XF86 4? I selected to install it (yes, with expert installation) when it asked, but it seems that I'm running 3.3.6 (at least, rpm -q XFree86 reports so). I need XF86 4 for my NVidia drivers. Second, how do I configure PPP? I do NOT use KDE, and never will, so please don't tell me what everyone else has: use KPPP. The Gnome-PPP that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 doesn't work (pppd dies), and the PPP configuration option in Linuxconf is gone. I had to manually edit some files, which isn't something I would expect of a distro known for simplicity. Finally, this is more of a warning, the version of the emu10k1 driver that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 had a very serious bug in it that causes an NMI Error to be generated about twice a second on certain hardware-configurations, and logged by syslog. How something like that gets past quality control, I don't know... anyways, you very well may want to post a patch for Mandrake 7.1 right away (for Mandrake Update or what not). Oh, finally, as a question, will Mandrake keep placing icons in my GNOME menu for non-GNOME apps? That 'unified' menu was disgusting (couldn't find anything I was looking for, and those damn ugly KDE-like icons all over the place). I've of course replaced the menu with a normal GNOME one (by deleting the old GNOME menus and installing true Helix GNOME, not the 'partial/hacked' Helix GNOME Mandrake 7.1 shipped with). If so, what program does this? Or was the menu thing merely a packaing issue with the default Mandrake RPMs?
Re: [expert] Corel Photo-Paint for Linux - FYI Download Links
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:43:50PM -0700, Sevatio Octavio wrote: ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz 182520 Kb Wed Jun 28 21:00:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxDEB.tar.gz CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxDEB.tar.gz 91989 Kb Wed Jun 28 20:54:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz 92601 Kb Wed Jun 28 20:56:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive FYI: The package CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz contains the DEB and the RPM package. If you really want to have all, there's no need to download all the three packages, the big one is enough. And there are no differences between the RPMs contained in the big package to the RPMS contained in the RPM tarball. So, for mandrake users it's sufficient to download the third package (CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz). Sevatio: Could you please wrap your lines at ~72 characters? It makes your mails easier to read! Thx. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] Corel Photo-Paint for Linux - FYI Download Links
Does anyone know where to get the updated version of wine? I tried downloading and installing, everything went ok except that since I have WordPerfect Office 2000 installed already, it wants me to upgrade to a newer version of wine-wpo2000. The script that pops up says that it should be on the PhotoPaint cd - a little difficult since there's only a download at this point! If anyone else has had this problem or knows what I'm talking about, any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:43:50PM -0700, Sevatio Octavio wrote: ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz 182520 Kb Wed Jun 28 21:00:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxDEB.tar.g z CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxDEB.tar.gz 91989 Kb Wed Jun 28 20:54:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.g z CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz 92601 Kb Wed Jun 28 20:56:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive FYI: The package CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz contains the DEB and the RPM package. If you really want to have all, there's no need to download all the three packages, the big one is enough. And there are no differences between the RPMs contained in the big package to the RPMS contained in the RPM tarball. So, for mandrake users it's sufficient to download the third package (CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz).
Re: [expert] Switch back to LILO from GRUB
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 05:25:49PM +1000, Simon Robertson wrote: GRUB is certainly colourful, but you can not do simple commands such as (linux 3) to get to run level three as with LILO. Yes, you can. You can edit the commands grub is going to run when you chose an entry. Would anyone have an idea how to get rid of GRUB and replace it with LILO? Sure, run lilo. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] KDE GONE -- as user, NOT as root!
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:28:42PM -0700, davidu wrote: someone once told me that you can just delete your .xauth* files and they will be recreated but I don't believe that is the case. Actually it is. If you have a look at /etc/skel, you wont find an .xauth file. Or am I missing something? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] Changing home drive
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 06:45:33PM +1000, Wayne Petherick wrote: I have my home directory on a 6 gig drive that I would like to put in another machine. Does anyone know a good source of information or could anyone tell me how to change my home drive under linux, and move all of my As root edit /etc/passwd and change the home directory of the user. existing programs a directories to the new drive? I would appreciate any tar cfvp - wayne -C /home | tar xfvp - -C /new-drive This will copy all the files from /home/wayne to /new-drive/wayne Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] Can't Sync Palm Pilot
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:31:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm still having problems syncing my Pilot under Mandrake and am trolling for other suggestions. In a nutshell, I'm trying to sync my Pilot using both pilot-link and gnome-pilot. The Pilot times out using either application. I've made sure that the permissions on the serial port are chmoded correctly and can in fact download pictures from my digital camera into gPhoto using the same serial port without problem. Did you create a link from /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/pilot? Is /dev/ttyS0 chmod 006, 066, 606 or 666? If yes, everything should work. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ:7328191
Re: [expert] SO 5.3 REALLY SO5.2
It is a typo. newest I saw today was staroffice 5.2...had just gone back for the adabas 16meg download today. It installed as easily with the .bin file (after chmod 777 so_filename) as the first .bin file from sun. Boy, before I updated adabas it is one of the slowest program suites I have seen in Linux to load. .. Now it is about the same. I am running it from my /home2 partition on a 502 meg drive which runs in mode 3. I guess it would run a little faster on the mode 4 10.2 gig drive...but when I did a tailored down version earlier to see what it was like it on the 10.2 gig drive...it didn't run really any faster. Very nice suite, but even Netscrappy loads quicker! I tried out the mail, nice client, works well and you can use rules etc. but like everything in StarOffice, it is slow. And I have a 366mhz Celeron with 64megs RAM and ATI All in Wonder 8meg video card. Bambi Bambi TaLinux wrote: i think it's a typo. --- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )XIntercomp Ltd. (m_m) | |ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ Office : 09-9526993. | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| | |_)_|_|_| |_|__,_/_/\ visit us at www.legacy2web.com. --- On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 07:34:53 -0400 From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SO 5.3 On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: No problem, just run it. It works. Dennis/sg Is this subject a typo or is there REALLY a 5.3 Star Office? I find SO less than useful since the mail client crashes every time I try to use it (RedHat 6.2.) If there really is a 5.3, where can I get a copy??? John
Re: [expert] pppd dies after dialing
I'm sure this is not caused because of incorrect modem init strings or modem config, because if I dial to another ISP I have no problems at all. I tryied changing the authentication from PAP to CHAP and it didn't work; with CHAP it refused to connect every time. Here is what appears in /var/log/messages Jul 2 09:59:35 localhost pppd[332]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0 Jul 2 09:59:59 localhost pppd[332]: Terminating on signal 15. Jul 2 10:00:00 localhost pppd[332]: Exit. Jul 2 10:00:35 localhost modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 Jul 2 10:00:36 localhost pppd[341]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0 Jul 2 10:00:36 localhost pppd[341]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 2 10:00:36 localhost pppd[341]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS3 Jul 2 10:00:36 localhost pppd[341]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Jul 2 10:00:36 localhost pppd[341]: Modem hangup Jul 2 10:00:36 localhost pppd[341]: Connection terminated. Jul 2 10:00:36 localhost pppd[341]: Exit. Jul 2 10:01:08 localhost modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 Jul 2 10:01:08 localhost pppd[344]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0 Jul 2 10:01:08 localhost pppd[344]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 2 10:01:08 localhost pppd[344]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS3 Jul 2 10:01:15 localhost pppd[344]: Remote message: Login Succeeded Jul 2 10:01:19 localhost kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered Jul 2 10:01:23 localhost kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered Jul 2 10:01:24 localhost pppd[344]: local IP address 200.12.228.47 Jul 2 10:01:24 localhost pppd[344]: remote IP address 200.12.228.7 Jul 2 10:01:37 localhost pppd[344]: Terminating on signal 15. Jul 2 10:01:38 localhost pppd[344]: Connection terminated. Jul 2 10:01:38 localhost pppd[344]: Connect time 0.5 minutes. Jul 2 10:01:38 localhost pppd[344]: Sent 372 bytes, received 501 bytes. Jul 2 10:01:38 localhost pppd[344]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Jul 2 10:01:39 localhost pppd[344]: Exit. Jul 2 10:03:20 localhost modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 Jul 2 10:03:20 localhost pppd[367]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0 Jul 2 10:03:20 localhost pppd[367]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 2 10:03:20 localhost pppd[367]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS3 Jul 2 10:03:26 localhost pppd[367]: Remote message: Login Succeeded Jul 2 10:03:27 localhost pppd[367]: local IP address 200.12.228.40 Jul 2 10:03:27 localhost pppd[367]: remote IP address 200.12.228.7 I just added "noauth" and "debug" to /etc/ppp/options and I'm using MDK 7.0 with a self compiled kernel 2.2.14 Civileme, escribió: Guillermo Belli wrote: Every time I dial my ISP and the modem makes those horrible noises, the pppd daemon dies for no apparent reason. Then, if I try again, it connects without problems. Im' using MDK 7.0, and my ISP's servers use Cobalt Linux. Such an event could occur if the hardware in front of the cobalts require one authentication protocol but can optionally use another. See what happens if you switch either from Chat scripts to PAP or vice-versa. If it occurs before the logon, then it isn't in the software but may be in the modem configuration (CRTSCTS vs ... ) or in the hardware of the respective modems (OR in the codec used by the phone company and the T-1 multiplex/demultiplex circuitry if it is 56K stuff) Can you get any sort of data dump at all? Civileme -- *Guillermo Belli-Linux User #121340* * ICQ #38321312* *http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (en construccion)* -- *Guillermo Belli-Linux User #121340* * ICQ #38321312* *http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (en construccion)*
Re: [expert] VIA vs Intel
Faster or not is not the issue...skip the VIA chipset! Been there, done that! I have a VIA chipset and unless they have made it more multi-OS friendly than my VIA chipset, skip it! The one I have was built for Windows and we had a heck of a time getting it to work with Linux. It is finally working and working great, but if you are a newbie in Linux as I was, you had better have an inovative Linux Guru to work with you on it. I installed three times before my Jim (my Guru) stepped in and saved my sanity and my install! Bambi Lang Zhi wrote: Hi. How is the performance of VIA chipset based MOBO, compared to Intel based. Lets say, BX vs VIA, or i810 vs VIA ? Which one faster ? -lz Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Switch back to LILO from GRUB
If you simply run 'lilo' from the command line, you should get lilo back. Mike ps. make sure you take a look at your /etc/lilo.conf file first to make sure it says what you want. Hi, I made the mistake of leaving the LBA star engaged in the Boot Window during installation. This has meant when I booted I got GRUB instead of LILO. No matter what adjustments I have made to DrakBoot no change has happened to bring LILO back. GRUB is certainly colourful, but you can not do simple commands such as (linux 3) to get to run level three as with LILO. Would anyone have an idea how to get rid of GRUB and replace it with LILO? Thankyou, Simon Robertson
Re: [expert] Network Blues
Yes I've issued the command netfs restart (nfs doesn't seem to work in 7.1). I get this error message: Mounting NFS filesystems mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused This happen's during boot or when I restart after making configuration changes. Here is boss' fstab entry: darkstar.ken.org:/net2 /root/Desktop/Network nfs exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 The folder /net2 exists on darkstar and CAN'T be accessed from boss. Boss' exports file: net1 darkstar.ken.org(rw,no_root_squash,insecure) Boss' hosts file: 127.0.0.1 loopback.localhost lo 192.168.10.20 darkstar.ken.orgdarkstar 192.168.10.10 boss.ken.orgboss boss' resolve.conf: search localdomain Here is darkstar's fstab entry: boss.ken.org:/net1 /root/Desktop/Boss nfs user,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 The folder /net1 exists on boss and CAN be accessed from darkstar. == Darkstar's exports file: /net2 boss.ken.org(rw,no_root_squash,insecure) == Darkstar's hosts file 127.0.0.1 loopback.localhost lo 192.168.10.20 darkstar.ken.orgdarkstar 192.168.10.10 boss.ken.orgboss = Darkstar's hosts file: search localdomain I have fought this problem through several months and several distro's not just LM. I'm pretty sure I have overlooked something in the configuration, but for the life of me I don't know what. In my original post I had the directory mounts backward, darkstar CAN mount the directory on boss but boss CAN'T mount the directory on darkstar. I only have the barest minimum of networking knowledge so simple explainations will be of more help to me. OH, the network set up is coax with terminators in a 2 system network, if it makes any difference. Thanks a LOT for your help. It's this feeling of co-operation that makes Linux the great OS that it is. -- Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services 1801 Wayne Dr. Payette, Idaho 83661 Ph. (208) 642-7101 (888) 642-7101 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Computer Sales - Service and Repair Internet Web Site Design
Re: [expert] Where is the rtl8139 module in 2.2.16?
[snip] 'kay. Still, why wouldn't rtl8139 be listed in "make *config"? Is it an oversight on the part of the guy who supports "kernel make"? I dunno, stranger things have happened. Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services 1801 Wayne Dr. Payette, Idaho 83661 Ph. (208) 642-7101 (888) 642-7101 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Computer Sales - Service and Repair Internet Web Site Design
[expert] XFree86 4.01
XFree86 4.01 just came out. How long will it take for MDK 7.1 RPMs to be made? I need 'em since XFree86 4 didn't install like I specifically asked it to when installing MDK 7.1. Sean Middleditch
Re: [expert] Network Blues
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, you wrote: The /24 means "the first 24 bits are the network." (Put another way, that's the network mask.) This can also be written / 255.255.255.0; means the same thing, but /24 saves typing. Thanks Brian, good explaination and makes sense to this NEWBIE :) to networking. -- Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services 1801 Wayne Dr. Payette, Idaho 83661 Ph. (208) 642-7101 (888) 642-7101 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Computer Sales - Service and Repair Internet Web Site Design
Re: [expert] Switch back to LILO from GRUB
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 05:25:49PM +1000, Simon Robertson wrote: GRUB is certainly colourful, but you can not do simple commands such as (linux 3) to get to run level three as with LILO. Yes, you can. You can edit the commands grub is going to run when you chose an entry. Would anyone have an idea how to get rid of GRUB and replace it with LILO? Sure, run lilo. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ: 7328191 The failsafe option brings you to a login that allows you to choose what runlevel you want. -- Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services 1801 Wayne Dr. Payette, Idaho 83661 Ph. (208) 642-7101 (888) 642-7101 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Computer Sales - Service and Repair Internet Web Site Design
Re: [expert] sounddrake freeze on sb awe64
Alan Schmitt wrote: Hi, I have a small problem: I tried either souddrake or sounddrake-text, and they hang my computer when trying to detect my isa sb awe 64. The configuration worked with sndconfig, but now harddrake also hangs when trying to detect the soundcard, even though I specified to not look for isa cards. I looked at the mailing list and in the faq, and I could not find any information about this. What I would like to do is to be able to use harddrake. Please cc to me as I am not on the mailing list. Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. I have an isa SB AWE64, no config pbs. Check /etc/isapnp.conf and set the appropiate irq, etc... (Don't forget to set your kernel to that card.) Or do in CONSOLE 'sndconfig'. Ther may be no pb. Eric
[expert] Linux-friendly chipsets?
As of this writing, it appears that the first board (a Soyo) utilizing the SiS 630 chipset is making its way to market. This is one of those highly integrated deals, with the SiS 300 Video controller and a sound card built-in to the chipset (and is it a set?--Many things have been moved onto one package if not one chip). Anyway, the SiS 630 and 540 are supposed to be linux-friendly (from the SiS horse's mouth that word). I would love to see any reports on them. My previous experience with 530-based systems has been "Hassle to set up, but nary a hiccough afterward." Civileme
Re: [expert] Network Blues
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 09:24:58AM -0600, Ken Thompson wrote: Yes I've issued the command netfs restart (nfs doesn't seem to work in 7.1). I get this error message: Mounting NFS filesystems mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused This happen's during boot or when I restart after making configuration changes. Here is boss' fstab entry: darkstar.ken.org:/net2/root/Desktop/Network nfs exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 Did you run "exportfs"? -- -- 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] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: I have 3 large issues with Mandrake 7.1 I need help with... First, how do I enable XF86 4? I selected to install it (yes, with expert installation) when it asked, but it seems that I'm running 3.3.6 (at least, rpm -q XFree86 reports so). I need XF86 4 for my NVidia drivers. ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X Second, how do I configure PPP? I do NOT use KDE, and never will, so please don't tell me what everyone else has: use KPPP. The Gnome-PPP that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 doesn't work (pppd dies), and the PPP configuration option in Linuxconf is gone. I had to manually edit some files, which isn't something I would expect of a distro known for simplicity. Give ezppp a try. Finally, this is more of a warning, the version of the emu10k1 driver that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 had a very serious bug in it that causes an NMI Error to be generated about twice a second on certain hardware-configurations, and logged by syslog. How something like that gets past quality control, I don't know... anyways, you very well may want to post a patch for Mandrake 7.1 right away (for Mandrake Update or what not). Try a more up-to-date driver. (Sorry, no URL). -- Stephen
Re: [expert] CD Burner problems--solved!!
Thanks a lot. Kisocd solved my problems and easy to use. I have been burning cds all day. This is cool!! Thanks for all the help. Best Regards Bruce "If it ain't broke, you're not trying" New Red Green Show. On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Jon Hewitt wrote: On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, you wrote: hi ! first , what type of cdr is it ? scsi ? ide ? which type ? second , if you are using mandrake 7.1, try kisocd...it's great and it work's with almost all the cdr's avail... You do not have to have Mandrake 7.1 to enjoy the benefits of Kisocd. Go to http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~um12/en/main_index.html for Jens Wilhelm Wulf's homepage, the author of Kisocd. I've been using it for several months now and IMO its the easiest of all the CDWrite apps available. -jon-
Re: [expert] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1
On 2 Jul 00, at 22:48, Sean Middleditch wrote: First, how do I enable XF86 4? I selected to install it (yes, with expert installation) when it asked, but it seems that I'm running 3.3.6 (at least, rpm -q XFree86 reports so). I need XF86 4 for my NVidia drivers. Then it prolly means that X4 is not installed. Try doing it al over again. IIRC, XF4 has a different path than XF3.3.6. Follow the readme files and you'll be up in no time. Second, how do I configure PPP? I do NOT use KDE, and never will, so please don't tell me what everyone else has: use KPPP. The Gnome-PPP that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 doesn't work (pppd dies), and the PPP configuration option in Linuxconf is gone. I had to manually edit some files, which isn't something I would expect of a distro known for simplicity. Use wvdial. It is something like windows dial-up-networking and understands a lot of protocols like, PAP, CHAP, etc...It is fairly easy to set up as well. In addition, you'll have to edit /etc/resolv.conf to look like: search [your_ISP's_domain] nameserver [ISP_nameserver1] nameserver [ISP_nameserver2] pppd alos dies when it does'nt find the default route. SO check if those settngs are correct. If however you want to write your own ppp script, do a "tknarr xmission linux" search in google, and it takes you to a nice page where you'll find conf options for ppp, mail, etc. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [expert] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1
Stephen Boulet wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: I have 3 large issues with Mandrake 7.1 I need help with... First, how do I enable XF86 4? I selected to install it (yes, with expert installation) when it asked, but it seems that I'm running 3.3.6 (at least, rpm -q XFree86 reports so). I need XF86 4 for my NVidia drivers. ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X Ah. I see. OK. Thanks. Second, how do I configure PPP? I do NOT use KDE, and never will, so please don't tell me what everyone else has: use KPPP. The Gnome-PPP that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 doesn't work (pppd dies), and the PPP configuration option in Linuxconf is gone. I had to manually edit some files, which isn't something I would expect of a distro known for simplicity. Give ezppp a try. I actually prefer just setting up networking the old-fashioned way... by creating a ppp network device. I have one created, and I did hand-edit the files to make the changes I needed to. I'm just surprised Mandrake shipped Linuxconf without the ability to edit these. Finally, this is more of a warning, the version of the emu10k1 driver that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 had a very serious bug in it that causes an NMI Error to be generated about twice a second on certain hardware-configurations, and logged by syslog. How something like that gets past quality control, I don't know... anyways, you very well may want to post a patch for Mandrake 7.1 right away (for Mandrake Update or what not). Try a more up-to-date driver. (Sorry, no URL). I am. Latest CVS. I'm was jsut saying maybe there should be an update for Mandrake Update so that people who don't realize it's happening (they might be new to Linux and just think the incredable slowness of the machine is Linux's fault). -- Stephen
[expert] 7.1 installation
Not being too impressed with the previous Mandrake setups, I was hoping 7.1 would finally have some stability in it. I was bitterly disppointed, though, when after a successful boot from the CD, setup asks what kind of a CDROM I have! Only gives SCSI and 'other' as options. So much for Mandrake this time, too! :( KS
Re: [expert] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1
Sthitaprajna wrote: On 2 Jul 00, at 22:48, Sean Middleditch wrote: First, how do I enable XF86 4? I selected to install it (yes, with expert installation) when it asked, but it seems that I'm running 3.3.6 (at least, rpm -q XFree86 reports so). I need XF86 4 for my NVidia drivers. Then it prolly means that X4 is not installed. Try doing it al over again. IIRC, XF4 has a different path than XF3.3.6. Follow the readme files and you'll be up in no time. All over again? That's a bit ludicrous. Especially since when it asked me if I wanted to try XF 4, I said yes... I'll see about thatother directory though. Someone else said something along the same lines. Thnaks. Second, how do I configure PPP? I do NOT use KDE, and never will, so please don't tell me what everyone else has: use KPPP. The Gnome-PPP that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 doesn't work (pppd dies), and the PPP configuration option in Linuxconf is gone. I had to manually edit some files, which isn't something I would expect of a distro known for simplicity. Use wvdial. It is something like windows dial-up-networking and understands a lot of protocols like, PAP, CHAP, etc...It is fairly easy to set up as well. In addition, you'll have to edit /etc/resolv.conf to look like: search [your_ISP's_domain] nameserver [ISP_nameserver1] nameserver [ISP_nameserver2] Does wvdial come with MDK 7.1? pppd alos dies when it does'nt find the default route. SO check if those settngs are correct. If however you want to write your own ppp script, do a "tknarr xmission linux" search in google, and it takes you to a nice page where you'll find conf options for ppp, mail, etc. OK Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com Sean Middleditch
Re: [expert] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1
Stephen Boulet wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: I have 3 large issues with Mandrake 7.1 I need help with... First, how do I enable XF86 4? I selected to install it (yes, with expert installation) when it asked, but it seems that I'm running 3.3.6 (at least, rpm -q XFree86 reports so). I need XF86 4 for my NVidia drivers. ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X OK, I have XFree86 4 running (after some trouble... the binaries install from tarballs ran smoother on MDK 7.0 than letting MDK 7.1 install it itself... sheesh). I have several questions: For starts, I read this is a "snapshot" release of XFree86 4.0 (on the Mandrake website I believe). Is this the full XF86 4.0 as on the xfre86.org website, or a pre-release merely named 4.0 to fool us? Second, how do I make RPM think I actually have XFree86 4.0 installed, not 3.3.6? I have some RPM's I want installed that require XF86 4.0 (namely my NVidia drivers and a couple beta-status games). Third, since I'm told all of XFree86 4.0 is stored in a weird place on MDK 7.1, am I going to have trouble with packages that try to install into the standard /usr/X11R6 directory such as my NVidia drivers? If so, how do I make this frickin stupid Mandrake configuration work right? This weird packaging of MDK's is getting severely annoying... Finally, should I just go ahead and screw all this and install the binaries of XF86 4.01 from tarballs, or can I rely on Mandrake to supply some properly setup RPMs without a bunch of weird-ass non-standard configurations for once? Sorry for attitude, but for the last few days I've been seriously wishing I just kept my Mandrake 7.0 installation.. MDK 7.0 was the best, and 7.1 is really not impressing me. Again, sorry. I'll try and calm down a bit next time... :) Not your guys' fault, I know. Sean Middleditch
[expert] Help in log analyzing
Hello, The following is an intresting error in my kernel log file.. Seems it doesn't like my floppy drive. Understandable in a way. I don't have one. What should I be turning off to get this to disappear. You see since I don't have one I surely can't be changing the disk ever few seconds. Or can I? Jul 1 02:05:23 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Jul 1 02:06:03 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Jul 1 02:06:03 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Jul 1 02:10:47 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Jul 1 02:10:47 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Jul 1 02:15:11 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Jul 1 02:15:11 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Jul 1 02:15:52 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Jul 1 02:15:52 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Jul 1 02:15:58 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Jul 1 02:15:58 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Jul 1 02:17:13 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Jul 1 02:17:13 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Jul 1 02:17:54 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Jul 1 02:17:55 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Jul 1 02:18:22 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Jul 1 02:18:22 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 The second is from my syslog and it seems to be asking for a file that I can't find an example from on any of my boxes I have access to. In. inetd . Jul 1 02:12:56 dreams inetd[913]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 02:13:01 dreams inetd[914]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 02:13:06 dreams inetd[915]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 02:13:20 dreams inetd[916]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:26:15 dreams inetd[2020]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:27:53 dreams inetd[2021]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:28:42 dreams inetd[2022]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:28:44 dreams inetd[2023]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:30:57 dreams inetd[2029]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:31:03 dreams inetd[2030]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:35:26 dreams inetd[2034]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:35:29 dreams inetd[2035]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:35:30 dreams inetd[2036]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:35:48 dreams inetd[2037]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:36:22 dreams inetd[2039]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:36:28 dreams inetd[2041]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Jul 1 15:36:30 dreams inetd[2043]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory I'm running Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium 233mmx Soltek motherboard with intel chipset (older chipset I don't remember model) Seagate 6.1 gig udma33 Ide hdd Soundblaster 16 , Cirrus Logic 5480 VGA and 3c905ctx ethernet.The cdrom is an LG 24x model unknowable (it's all in Korean I don't know which is the model number) Kernel is 2.2.16-8mdksecure. Hope this is enough info. Again, no floppy... yet hope to install a 120mb soon. Nightwriter
Re: [expert] 7.1 installation
Hi all, I have installed 7.1 on an asus k7v athlon 650 with a sony eide cdwriter and have had no probs with installing at all - except in expert mode when trying to configure xf 4 - another story. But over the last week or so i have booted up on cd1 and done a complete repartition and install about 20 times - no problems. Interesting point : winbloze takes at least 35 minutes and 3 reboots for an install and format. Mandrake 7.1 can be installed in 11 miunutes or less with 1 reboot - one for the good guys :)) Kari Suomela wrote: Not being too impressed with the previous Mandrake setups, I was hoping 7.1 would finally have some stability in it. I was bitterly disppointed, though, when after a successful boot from the CD, setup asks what kind of a CDROM I have! Only gives SCSI and 'other' as options. So much for Mandrake this time, too! :( KS -- Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] VIA vs Intel
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Faster or not is not the issue...skip the VIA chipset! Been there, done that! I have a VIA chipset and unless they have made it more multi-OS friendly than my VIA chipset, skip it! The one I have was built for Windows Well I have 3 different VIA systems (aprox 3yrs to 6mo old, one running a Winchip) and one Intel system and I have noticed zero difference related to installing/using Linux. I've swapped drives between VIA and Intel without a hitch. It seems like most problems are whats plugged into the motherboard/system not the motherboards/chipsets.
Re: [expert] 7.1 installation
Kari Suomela wrote: Not being too impressed with the previous Mandrake setups, I was hoping 7.1 would finally have some stability in it. I was bitterly disppointed, though, when after a successful boot from the CD, setup asks what kind of a CDROM I have! Only gives SCSI and 'other' as options. So much for Mandrake this time, too! :( KS Ho ho ho Well, you get to that routine from floppy boots, and dos transfers, too. And all it needs to know is whether to load a scsi module or not. I am glad I don't ever have to be evaluated by your standards. Civileme
Re: [expert] VIA vs Intel
Tell that to my normally easy to install USR Sportser modem and mobo built-in Yamaha OPL3-SA3 sound card...and the PnP and non-PnP game we had to play with this mobo :) Bambi Dave Lers wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Faster or not is not the issue...skip the VIA chipset! Been there, done that! I have a VIA chipset and unless they have made it more multi-OS friendly than my VIA chipset, skip it! The one I have was built for Windows Well I have 3 different VIA systems (aprox 3yrs to 6mo old, one running a Winchip) and one Intel system and I have noticed zero difference related to installing/using Linux. I've swapped drives between VIA and Intel without a hitch. It seems like most problems are whats plugged into the motherboard/system not the motherboards/chipsets.
Re[2]: [expert] CD Burner problems--solved!!
Hello Bruce, Sunday, July 02, 2000, 5:22:57 PM, you wrote: BEH Thanks a lot. Kisocd solved my problems and easy to use. BEH I have been burning cds all day. This is cool!! I presume you have a SCSI writer. I spent hours fruitless trying to get my IDE writer to work by following all the ide-scsci tricks, and I've seen gobs of messages from others fighting this thing. My current conclusion is that I'll only be able to write CDs in Windows until I replace my writer with a SCSI model. :-( -- Lane
Re: [expert] How to get back secure rpm's offered during initial install?
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Does anyone know how I can install the original RPM's which were offered via the web during the CD install. I believe that these were the crypto and secure shell RPM's that the installer offers to add as it completes the installation. ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake-crypto My system was not connected to the internet at the time. Thanks! -JMS
Re: [expert] Corel Photo-Paint for Linux - FYI Download Links
http://www.winehq.com Pierre Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Does anyone know where to get the updated version of wine? I tried downloading and installing, everything went ok except that since I have WordPerfect Office 2000 installed already, it wants me to upgrade to a newer version of wine-wpo2000. The script that pops up says that it should be on the PhotoPaint cd - a little difficult since there's only a download at this point! If anyone else has had this problem or knows what I'm talking about, any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:43:50PM -0700, Sevatio Octavio wrote: ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz 182520 Kb Wed Jun 28 21:00:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxDEB.tar.g z CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxDEB.tar.gz 91989 Kb Wed Jun 28 20:54:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive ftp://ftplinux2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.g z CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz 92601 Kb Wed Jun 28 20:56:00 2000 Unix Tape Archive FYI: The package CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz contains the DEB and the RPM package. If you really want to have all, there's no need to download all the three packages, the big one is enough. And there are no differences between the RPMs contained in the big package to the RPMS contained in the RPM tarball. So, for mandrake users it's sufficient to download the third package (CorelPHOTOPAINT9LnxRPM.tar.gz).
Re: [expert] Where is the rtl8139 module in 2.2.16?
Ken Thompson wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hello, In my current kernel 2.2.12, my 10b2 card uses the rtl8139.o module, but I can't find it in the 2.2.16 "make menuconfig". Am I just blind, or has something changed? Sincerely, Ron -- Try the ne2k-pci device in linux conf. This seems to work with *MOST* pci NIC's, and ALL of my RTL card's.. -- Ken Thompson As a workaround, after I did "make mrproper", I grabbed the linux-2.2.12/.config a dropped it in linux-2.2.16, then ran "make oldconfig"... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
[expert] Applying Applications and Devices to Desktop
Hi, I have noticed after installing 7.1 that when you right click on the desktop, under the 'New' option only a 'Folder' can be created. Though when you right click on a new folder you get the past options that were available in 7.0 of creating 'Applications, Devices, etc', though they do not go to the Desktop as .kdelnk but the 'New Folder'. Can anyone assist me in creating a Desktop .kdelnk for Applications and Devices, just like what was available in 7.0. Thankyou, Simon Robertson
Re: [expert] Applying Applications and Devices to Desktop
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 13:36:24 +1000, you wrote: Hi, I have noticed after installing 7.1 that when you right click on the desktop, under the 'New' option only a 'Folder' can be created. Though when you right click on a new folder you get the past options that were available in 7.0 of creating 'Applications, Devices, etc', though they do not go to the Desktop as .kdelnk but the 'New Folder'. Can anyone assist me in creating a Desktop .kdelnk for Applications and Devices, just like what was available in 7.0. Thankyou, Simon Robertson Create a folder called "NewApps". Open that folder and create your application link icon. Move the icon out onto the Desktop. Close the NewApps folder until the next time. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Applying Applications and Devices to Desktop
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 13:36:24 +1000, you wrote: Hi, I have noticed after installing 7.1 that when you right click on the desktop, under the 'New' option only a 'Folder' can be created. Though when you right click on a new folder you get the past options that were available in 7.0 of creating 'Applications, Devices, etc', though they do not go to the Desktop as .kdelnk but the 'New Folder'. Can anyone assist me in creating a Desktop .kdelnk for Applications and Devices, just like what was available in 7.0. Thankyou, Simon Robertson Create a folder called "NewApps". Open that folder and create your application link icon. Move the icon out onto the Desktop. Close the NewApps folder until the next time. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or simply create your link in your home directory and drag it to the Desktop... -- Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services 1801 Wayne Dr. Payette, Idaho 83661 Ph. (208) 642-7101 (888) 642-7101 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Computer Sales - Service and Repair Internet Web Site Design
Re: [expert] Upgrade?? to LM7.1
- Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 22:27 PM Subject: Re: [expert] "Upgrade??" to LM7.1 | Here's what I'd do. Install a small linux-on-dos distro on | your Windoze partition, and use it to mount your 'regular' linux | root dir (/) and rescue the files you need to save. Another way | would be to install 'explore2fs' under Windows and use it to get the | files you need to save, and move them to a Windoze directory. Tom, Thanks. I previously saved my backup files to windows ( that's about the only smart thing I did) and can access them through mc. That's how I reloaded my X11 and X11R6 directories which now won't work. | |Then you can put boot from your Mdk CD and try an upgrade, but | you might have to do a re-install. Unless someone can help soon it looks like a reinstall. If that happens I will try LM7.1 one last time and attempt to load the XF86 4.0 I got from the XF site because I had that working with LM7.0. I think the version with LM7.1 is suspect and I have already found a bug in xf86config. | |I live dangerously and install 'cooker' rpms all the time, but | I've found it's not to good an idea to install things which are | gonna mess with a lot of library/system binary files. You end up | with miss-matches, and a very unstable system. Like you I tried | XF-4, and also KDE2 on 7.0, ended up doing a re-install as I | outlined above. My saving grace is when I switched from RH to | Mandrake, I installed PhatLinux (back when it was Mandrake 6.0) | under Windows to preview Mandrake. Needless to say I've found it | quite handy for fixin what I manage to screw up in my 'regular' | Mandrake. I also backup all my important or personal files to a | windoze directory now as a regular practice ;- Me too. Ironic, isn't it? I'm really trying to give windows up. Regards and thanks again.|
Re: [expert] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1
- Original Message - From: "Sean Middleditch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 20:58 PM Subject: Re: [expert] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1 | Stephen Boulet wrote: | Finally, should I just go ahead and screw all this and install the binaries | of XF86 4.01 from tarballs, or can I rely on Mandrake to supply some properly | setup RPMs without a bunch of weird-ass non-standard configurations for once? | | Sorry for attitude, but for the last few days I've been seriously wishing | I just kept my Mandrake 7.0 installation.. MDK 7.0 was the best, and 7.1 is | really not impressing me. Again, sorry. I'll try and calm down a bit next | time... :) Not your guys' fault, I know. | | Sean Middleditch | My sentiments exactly. How far away is 7.2?|
[expert] GDB and shared libraries
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and came across the same problem you described with gdb and the missing dynamic linker breakpoint function. I took a look at the dynamic linker /lib/ld-2.1.3.so (to which /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is a symlink) and compared it with the dynamic linker on a Redhat 6.2 system, which also uses glibc version 2.1.3 and which doesn't have the gdb problem. It turns out that Mandrake shipped a stripped dynamic linker, whereas Redhat 6.2 has one with debugging information. When I replaced the /lib/ld-2.1.3.so file on the Mandrake with a copy of the non-stripped Redhat version, the gdb errors disappeared. An ld-2.1.3.so file from any distribution should work, just as long as it hasn't been stripped. This is easier than compiling glibc-2.1.3 all over again just for one file. I hope this helps if you haven't already solved your problem. - Kris PS - Using another distro's ld-2.1.3.so might not be such a good idea. Although almost every program works with the redhat version, the /usr/sbin/makemap program (of sendmail) crashes with it. This is really a bug and Mandrake should release a version of it that hasn't been stripped.
Re: [expert] Applying Applications and Devices to Desktop
Simonassuming your login to be simon, it sounds like you are missing part of the contents of your /home/simon/.kde/Templates/ directory. You can copy the missing templates from the /etc/skel/.kde/Templates/ directory. Alan Simon Robertson wrote: Hi, I have noticed after installing 7.1 that when you right click on the desktop, under the 'New' option only a 'Folder' can be created. Though when you right click on a new folder you get the past options that were available in 7.0 of creating 'Applications, Devices, etc', though they do not go to the Desktop as .kdelnk but the 'New Folder'. Can anyone assist me in creating a Desktop .kdelnk for Applications and Devices, just like what was available in 7.0. Thankyou, Simon Robertson
RE: [expert] Applying Applications and Devices to Desktop
Open up your Desktop folder in your home directory and create the new application in there. It will automatically appear on your desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Robertson Sent: July 2, 2000 8:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Applying Applications and Devices to Desktop Hi, I have noticed after installing 7.1 that when you right click on the desktop, under the 'New' option only a 'Folder' can be created. Though when you right click on a new folder you get the past options that were available in 7.0 of creating 'Applications, Devices, etc', though they do not go to the Desktop as .kdelnk but the 'New Folder'. Can anyone assist me in creating a Desktop .kdelnk for Applications and Devices, just like what was available in 7.0. Thankyou, Simon Robertson
Re: [expert] X 4, PPP, and Emu10k1
Seanmay I share with you a short description of my approach to running new versions of Linux-Mandrake that I believe saves me from the kind of frustration that you are experiencing? I'm running my computer on 7.1, but my 7.0 installation still exists on the same hard drive as 7.1 is on and if something happens, even something cataclysmic, with my 7.1 installation I can immediately boot up on my old 7.0 installation and continue where I left off a month ago. When I installed 7.1 I did a new install on fresh partitions, not an upgrade over my old 7.0 installation. Then, after testing out the new 7.1 installation, I copied my 7.0 /home and /root directories to the 7.1 file system and reinstalled any extra software that still didn't work (/user /opt stuff mainly). After that I began to use the new 7.1 installation daily and abandoned the old 7.0 installation. But it's still there in case I need it and I'll leave it there till I erase the partitions and install 7.2 in its place. It took me a couple of hours to get 7.1 up to speed with my personal stuff, but at any time, if a problem would have occurred I could have simply gone back to my intact 7.0 system. I've been doing it this way (with some refinements) since version 5.2. I've never done an upgrade (too many horror stories). Alan Sean Middleditch wrote: [snip] [snip] Sorry for attitude, but for the last few days I've been seriously wishing I just kept my Mandrake 7.0 installation.. MDK 7.0 was the best, and 7.1 is really not impressing me. Again, sorry. I'll try and calm down a bit next time... :) Not your guys' fault, I know. Sean Middleditch
RE: [expert] /dev/radio ... no such device
I bet, if U R root its OK. dev/radio ... no such device I am trying to get my radio card to work in 7.0. It worked fine in 6.1. I keep getting /dev/radiono such device Although /dev shows the following: lrwxrwxrwx 1 brianbrian 6 Apr 27 22:24 radio - radio1 crw--- 1 brianroot 81, 64 Sep 21 1999 radio0 crw--- 1 brianroot 81, 65 Sep 21 1999 radio1 crw--- 1 brianroot 81, 66 Sep 21 1999 radio2 I have the Hauppague Win Tv/Radio card. I use the same config lines in 7.0 as I did in 6.1. /dev/video shows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root6 Apr 27 22:24 video - video0 crw--- 1 brianroot 81, 0 Sep 21 1999 video0 crw--- 1 brianroot 81, 1 Sep 21 1999 video1 crw--- 1 brianroot 81, 2 Sep 21 1999 video2
Re: [expert] Printing with samba 2.06.
Very helpfull information, we are bug's meat. ¿Why I cannot find information about this terrible bug en the web? I dedicated this lastweek (I cannot find the solution) to remove Mandrake from the server and reinstall Red Hat 6.2. Sorry. This bug burns my patient. Didier Galland wrote: Hello, Is your printer on the samba server, or your linux box is a client for a window's printer ? (printing to linux from windows (e.g.) or printing from linux to windows). In the first case, my bad english didn't let me understood properly and I am out of subject...don't pay attention ! In the second case, there's a bug in the standard installation : you must set your .config file (probably /var/spool/lpd/printer_directory) property too user = root, group = lp. If you configure by printtool, you must do this again after each configuration. chown root:lp /var/spool/lpd/printer_directory/* I hope this will be helpfull. Didier -You wrote- De : Jorge Fuertes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : vendredi 30 juin 2000 13:02 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : [expert] Printing with samba 2.06. I've installed Samba 2.06 from Mandrake RPM. I cannot print! The document is send from mi computer to the server, and is writed in "/tmp", with "0766" permision (i specyfied 0777 in samba) but it's never printed. What's the problem? My printer cfg in Samba: [minolta] comment = Impresora de sistemas path = /tmp read only = No guest ok = Yes print ok = Yes print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p printer name = minolta -- -- Jorge Fuertes Alfranca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administración Sistema Tel: 976-748091 MAZ-MATEPSS Nº11 http://www.maz.es -- __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) -- -- Jorge Fuertes Alfranca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administración Sistema Tel: 976-748091 MAZ-MATEPSS Nº11 http://www.maz.es --
Re: [expert] Switch back to LILO from GRUB
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 05:25:49PM +1000, Simon Robertson wrote: Hi, I made the mistake of leaving the LBA star engaged in the Boot Window during installation. This has meant when I booted I got GRUB instead of LILO. No matter what adjustments I have made to DrakBoot no change has happened to bring LILO back. GRUB is certainly colourful, but you can not do simple commands such as (linux 3) to get to run level three as with LILO. Would anyone have an idea how to get rid of GRUB and replace it with LILO? Try: 1) As root, edit /etc/lilo.conf to suit. 2) Also as root, run "lilo". -- -- 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
