RE: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found
-Original Message- From: Joerg Mertin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found -Original Message- From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:29 AM To: AA/MandrakeNewbie Subject: xfree86 RPM not found I downloaded the inst and ext iso images for Mandrake 7.1 I burned the cds I created the Boot disk. I did the install but when it got to the xfree86 configure portion I got Error found xfree86 RPM not found. 1. You did not tell on what Stage you have this error ? I am sorry. I thought I provide the information. I put in the boot disk, I followed the instruction to do the install for New. I used Custom and Development. The error occurs at the Configure X step. This is the gui installation, as plain as I can be. I get this error every time. Xfree code itself is there because I did a select individual packages once just to see and it did not work that time either. 2. What Install method did you use ? I don't know what you mean unless it was customize and development. That is what I choose. 3. Did you complete your install correctly ? As far as I could. At the point of the error you are stuck. It tries over and over and the ONLY choice is to select exit install. After that I have an installation but with no GUI. 4. what Hardware do you have (Graphic Card etc.) ? That is not relevant. I have a Viper II card and a 500 MHz P III if it matters. 5. If you're unable to ake a Graphical Install, make a Text-Install ? Yeas I got a text install but no xfree86. If that can be installed by text I don't know how. After all, I am new here. Not beeing happy about something is Ok. But you can belong to those people who would like to make a change about it, so provide Informations if you request help. The way you did it, is just wrong. I did my best to provide information. it think this now give all you need. If not, tell me exactly what more you need. As I said, it is just as though I wane tot he store and got the cds except I burned my own from the iso images. The inst and ext. All the code packages load but when It gets to the part o configure x it give that error. There is something wrong with the RPM or it is missing and I don't know how to recover. That is what I need OR THEY NEED TO FIX the files. HOW could they release this with obviously no testing. I did the EXACT same thing on version 7 and it installed fine but my video is only VGA so that is why I want 7.1 Also is there any other source of help that is faster. it seems to take AT LEAST 3 hours for a message to appear after posting it and then of course at least 3 hours for the reply plus the time for someone to decide to reply. Slowest mailing list I know of. Provide some Informations, and we might help you. I am NOT blaming list members for this, just the list owner. Maybe there is a reason for it? TIA If I sound frustrated, I AM. I guess I am to used to plugging in the windows CD and walking away and coming back 45 minutes later with a new system! Soory about that, bad week I guess. Cya -- The "cutting edge" is getting rather dull. -- Andy Purshottam | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : http://www.solsys.org | | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Data, Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | PGP fingerprint: 6D E9 7B 04 57 7B 65 42 B7 7A D0 AA 69 95 7C E1
Re[2]: [expert] Promise66
Hello Denis, Sunday, July 09, 2000, 09:33:01 zulu time, you wrote: :~Hi All, :~ :~ Does anybody run Promise66 card (ATA-66) with mandrake 7.1? :~ If so, did you have to push it or it worked out of the box? :~ DH Many people. See "forum" article on Promise for details. DH cu DH Denis Thank you, already done - no problems whatsoever. It took me a while to do that on Caldera. Had an old PD440FX mobo with 120 GB HDD space not working to the full potential G Installed NT4.0, Mandrake 7.1, OpenBSD and FreeBSD (2 HDDs). The first one was the only one that required drivers during installation. BSDs support Adaptec 29160N ;-) -- Best regards, Unikhmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 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] CD burner Howto..
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, you wrote: Can anyone point me to a good set of instructions for a HOW-TO to install a CD burner on a working system?? I found a number of how-to's that describe HOW TO BURN a cd using mkiofs and cdrecord, but I need some instructions on how to ADD a cd burner to a working system. The old CD-ROM has been replaced with the CD R/RW/ROM. I tried insmod ide-scsi but cd record can't find it. Obiously, I did something wrong.. Any advice is welcome. Alan Not sure Alan, but it sounds like you're in a situation similar to the one I found myself in a month or so ago. I had 7.1 installed, it picked up my Ricoh 7040 and had it fully functional, along with a BCD CDrom as master on the second IDE. BUT then the Ricoh died a little later. Sent it back and gotta Plex 8432. Problem I faced, was the Ricoh would only install as slave, when I got the Plex I made it master (2nd IDE, the BCD 40x CDrom is still on this IDE, but as slave). Anyway, to make a long story short, after fsck'in around tryin to delete/re-create the links to 'cdrom' and 'cdrom2', I just stuck the 7.1 install CD back in, booted from it, chose upgrade, and let it fix all that @#$!^ stuff. Sure'nuff, on the fresh reboot, I now have a fully functional Plex as master, BCD as slave. Masha danki Mandrake !! Hardware recognition and setup works in spite of this user ; BTW, the 'upgrade' only took a few minutes ;) Question: I d/l mp3's with Linux, convert and burn them to audio CD's with Windoze (Nero), and they play as such (.cda's) in every damn piece of junk CD player I can find. Including the 6 year old junk Sony in my pic'up, and my grandaughter's Fisher Price toy! They play in my BCD CDrom or the Plex CD-RW in Winblows, but not in the same hardware in Linux, how come?? I use high quality TaiyoyUden blanks. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
:~Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three :~mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs :~I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just :~rid myself of. ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the existence of these peskies. :-/ ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well, actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP. 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
[expert] qt dependancy problem and usb query
Hello. I am trying to install the latest version of nethack which requires the qt 2.1.0 or better. When I try to install the package there is a list of decpenancies about three miles long that will be broken. Most of then are kde apps. They all want libqt.so.1. After the list the core dumps (?) . My question is: will it totaly mess things up if I upgrade with out looking for dependancies? I would think that an upgrade should be backwards compatible. There are two that need qt-egcs-10x. Also I wonder how functional usb support for modems and zip drives are in 7.0. has any one had any luck? If anyone cares to you could tell me what file the fsck -l looks for. I think it is a secret. Thanks for the use of your "brainwidth" Ivan
RE: [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. Look in cooker, I reckon these RPM-s are already there. What is COOKER and how do I find it and use it? I also need that since the RPM for xfree86 is totally broken in the ISO images that you download. TIA
[expert] writing from win to linux
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 09:28:33 -0800, Civileme wrote: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm And be sure to read the FAQ and related stuff. You do not have to copy the directory to a FAT32 partition to be able to read it from WIN. I do think that it is singularly dangerous to write anything from win to linux, even with this tool, but reading should be (comparatively) safe. == Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:42:07 Oh my,..Is this really bad to do, Civileme? I have been stuffing file after file up into linux for several months..Without any tools , just straight from a fileI thought that win would not be acceptable to this, but Linux could handle it ok? I have not noticed anything that seems like a problem that I can attribute to this after many megs...with the possible exception of some tar.gz files from the internet,(winmodem) are no longer zipped so zxvf will error not a" g zipped file" ... I can untar them with xvf and they are ok. Your words "singularly dangerous" makes me think I may be "unwittingly" staggering toward the abyss? don't the floppy's write to Linux from vfat without problem? why would this be different? The above seems like a lot of questions, but really it's just one "should I cease this practice?"grin. Thanks Olly P Biloxi Mississippi
Re: [expert] XFree86 4.01
Submitted 10-Jul-00 by Sean Middleditch: How trustworthy are these RPM's? For example, the install on MDK 7.1 said the Xfree86 4.0 is was installing was only a 'snapshot release.' The really upsets me if it is, because it sure as hell wasn't advertised as being so... If not, then that's just another example of MDK's poor quality control when it comes to installations. Have you visited www.xfree86.org? XF4 is not ready for primetime according to them, which is why every other distro oly offers XF3. While many of us, myself included, are able to run it with no difficulty, it is experimental sofware, part of being on Mandrake's "bleeding edge," not poor quality control. Depending on a distro to keep you on the edge and then complaining when they do so seems a might strange to me. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
Denis Havlik wrote: :~Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three :~mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs :~I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just :~rid myself of. ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the existence of these peskies. :-/ ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well, actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP. Oh, I wouldn't quite say so: I've been using an ISA PNP card (SB AWE 64) in Linux for quite a long time (several years) and the user-mode isapnp utility works quite well for my taste. OTOH, I never quite got the hang of the PNP stuff (incl ISA PNP) now integrated in 2.3 and even lately in 2.2.x kernels, so I still de-activate it in the kernel and use the user-mode stuff. One thing I agree, though, is that it is probably hopeless to make this stuff work properly in an _install_ program. In other words, it does work, but one has to invest in a little RTFM first ... Also, I agree that in a few more months (?) the question will become irrelevant as more and more new mobos don't even _have_ any ISA slot ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
[expert] cable modem problems
I can't seem to get my cable modem to work. I believe I have my nic configured right. But it still doesn't seem to work Any help would be appreciated. Thank You Philip Watson
xwpe, was: [expert] This thing called C.
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Sean Middleditch wrote: [...] Also, I don't recommend buying an IDE... You could have gotten the Borland IDE for free, which used to be the best (until Microsoft made it near impossible to get anything useful done in Windows without VC++). If you are already familiar with the Borland IDE and you want to develop under Linux you should try xwpe which looks like the Borland IDE and runs in tty and X mode. I uploaded a srpm to ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming. [...] - Sending unsolicited commercial email to this address may be a violation of the Washington State Consumer Protection Act, chapter 19.86 RCW. Das Verschicken unverlangter kommerzieller email an diese Adresse ist verboten (LG Traunstein, 2 HK O 3755/97 vom 14.10.1997, CR 1998, 171f). (Frank Meurer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID: 0x5E756DA8)
Re: [expert] writing from win to linux
"Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:42:07 I have not noticed anything that seems like a problem that I can attribute to this after many megs...with the possible exception of some tar.gz files from the internet,(winmodem) are no longer zipped so zxvf will error not a" g zipped file" ... I can untar them with xvf and they are ok. Windows drops the 'extra' file extension when downloading. the file is still a .tar.gz but the .gz is missing. The file can be renamed with .gz extension and you will no longer have the error message. Well that is what I have found in my experience. I have also found that using netscape on Windows to download a .tar.gz file that when the dialog pops up asking where to save the file that adding .gz to the file name there will also solve the problem, again in my experience. -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In darkness we are no less
Re: [expert] This thing called C.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hello all, I'm a budding C/C++ coder and have signed up for a class for beginning C/C++ students. All is fine till I get to "Code Warrior" and being of little means, I can only afford to get the "starters version" in Windoze verses the "real version" for Linux that's $49 vs. $90 so I guess I will take a course in Windoze C++. I hope the lessons learned will apply to "Code Crusader" or KDevelop which I already have. Does anyone know of any classes on the Web for Linux?? Is there an "open source University" yet?? vern Best way to start is by going self taught, IMO. It's pretty simple stuff til you start gettin into classes/public/private/ hierarchy's/ etc. A few weeks spent on the Basic language might be a better place to start/get your feet wet. Using your brain doesn't cost anything. In Windoze you'd need to buy a compiler, in Linux it's already there most likely, or is freely available. www.mandrakeuser.org will get you pointed in the right direction. Start with the 'basics' section to see what you need to have installed to compile source. IDE's such as Code Warrior come with Mandrake, just install using the 'development' option. I got into programming with C, C++ several years ago. There's plenty of FAQ's, tutorials, sample code, and such available on the Net, even back then. Just use your favorite search site and try anything that starts with 'c', eg, 'c program' Bottom line is, if you're already using Linux (you posted w/ W98), you've already got the tools. A little self teaching/ exploring before seeking classroom experience might prove beneficial. I use to live in Houston, TX back when I was exploring C. I attended free classes in C programming there (ie, www.hal-pc.org world's largest pc user group). I was miles ahead of those that just jumped in, and was one of the few in the class about ready to start learnin' C after months of teaching myself ;) -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] OT: Cannot add bookmarks to Netscape
Marco, Try 'File Bookmark', not 'Add Bookmark' to add a new bookmark to Netscape. BTW, you can also go to a bookmark from 'Edit Bookmarks' by using the right click menu. Marco Fioretti wrote: However, if I am on a WWW page, and click on "Add Bookmark (ALT+K)" it is not added to the ~/.netscape/bookmark.html file. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Mandrake Linux.
Re: [expert] OT: Cannot add bookmarks to Netscape
Ron Stodden wrote: Marco, Try 'File Bookmark', not 'Add Bookmark' to add a new bookmark to Netscape. BTW, you can also go to a bookmark from 'Edit Bookmarks' by using the right click menu. It works! For some obscure reason, I was deeply sure that "File Bookmark" could only place a new bookmark in subfolders. Thank you, Marco
Re: [expert] This thing called C.
If this can help or as info, take a look at the 'C/C++ Users Journal', www.cuj.com Eric Sean Middleditch wrote: vern wrote: Hello all, I'm a budding C/C++ coder and have signed up for a class for beginning C/C++ students. All is fine till I get to "Code Warrior" and being of little means, I can only afford to get the "starters version" in Windoze verses the "real version" for Linux that's $49 vs. $90 so I guess I will take a course in Windoze C++. I hope the lessons learned will apply to "Code Crusader" or KDevelop which I already have. Does anyone know of any classes on the Web for Linux?? Is there an "open source University" yet?? vern Well, any good university will have UNIX programming courses. I'm taking a class at a community college write now in advanced C++ (unfortunately, I knew all of it before I got into the class, so it was a bit of a waste), and as for cost, well, I'm not even a senior in high school yet and I have both time and money to take these courses. Also, I don't recommend buying an IDE... You could have gotten the Borland IDE for free, which used to be the best (until Microsoft made it near impossible to get anything useful done in Windows without VC++). And Linux of course has many good ones (KDevelop if you're a KDE fanatic, CodeCommander if you're a GNOME lover, and the command line if you're just plain smart ~,^ ). KDevelop I believe is the best graphical IDE I've seen so far (VC++ has some really niftified features, but I believe the latest KDevelop has most/all of them). CodeCommander is a pleasure to use, although its not quite up to par (yet), and the command-line is more integrated than anything else, since you can use ANY tell to help you get your work done, i.e. you're whole system is integrated to help get development done. But that's just an opinion... (what can I say, I was taught to program on DOS with Turbo C++ and DJGPP by a UofM UNIX sys admin major when I was 12, the command line's power pulses thru my veins!!) OK, minus all the bull, check out the O'Reilly books. They are the best. Period. Anything from learning something, to mastering to, to specific uses, to references, O'Reilly has a book for it, and I will guarantee it will be one of the best. I haven't read an O'Reilly C++ book, but I have glanced thru them, and they surely beat everything I have on my bookshelf. One of these I might just pick one up if I ever find a need for more C++ stuff (which I doubt I will, unfortunately). Yadda yadda yadda, there I go babbling on for two-hundred pages for somthing relatively simple... ::sigh:: Sean Middleditch
[expert] Adaptec Decade PM1564U3 RAID
Hello all, I see to be having problems installing Adaptec's RAID card under Mandrake 7.1 The supplied .rpm files from DPT's web site do not seem to work properly as I am unable to see the card or load the driver properly. Has anyone experienced any problems similar to mine who could help me out? Thanks, Michael Lapa System Support Specialist Xprima.com Corporation 450.668.4415 ext. 238
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: :~Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three :~mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs :~I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just :~rid myself of. ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the existence of these peskies. :-/ ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well, actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP. 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 Isa-PnP seems to work OK for me, using Creative cards -AWE32 and AWE64. The only thing I have to do after install is run "sndconfig" to get it working.. I've had success with the CS4232 and the OPL23 Yamaha as well. Other than sound cards, I've had success with 3C509x NIC's and older NE2K ISA cards, too. -- 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: xwpe, was: [expert] This thing called C.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: Frank Meurer wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Sean Middleditch wrote: [...] Also, I don't recommend buying an IDE... You could have gotten the Borland IDE for free, which used to be the best (until Microsoft made it near impossible to get anything useful done in Windows without VC++). If you are already familiar with the Borland IDE and you want to develop under Linux you should try xwpe which looks like the Borland IDE and runs in tty and X mode. I uploaded a srpm to ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming. [...] Want to try it, but permission denied when try to download ?? - Sending unsolicited commercial email to this address may be a violation of the Washington State Consumer Protection Act, chapter 19.86 RCW. Das Verschicken unverlangter kommerzieller email an diese Adresse ist verboten (LG Traunstein, 2 HK O 3755/97 vom 14.10.1997, CR 1998, 171f). (Frank Meurer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID: 0x5E756DA8) Frank, Use Gftp, log in as anonymous and use your email address as password.. I just logged in to make sure the info was correct. -- 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] 7.1 and ESS Solo-1 sound
Greetings everyone! Just got my 7.1 cd's from Cheapbytes and I've run across an interesting little snag trying to get sound on my laptop (Acer Travelmate 512DX) running. Sounddrake finds the sound "card" (I've always hated integrated sound and video), identifies it as an ESS Solo-1 (ESS 1969). If I remember correctly, 7.0 said it was a 1938. Anyway, after clicking on ok, I'm presented with the list of sound cards with the Solo-1 hi-lighted. Unfortunately, all the values for IRQ, DMA, etc, are -1 and I can't change them. I don't get any sound at all. Anyone have any ideas? Since it worked in 7.0, I tried installing the sndconfig and dependant rpms, but still no go. Many thanks in advance. Wayne
Re: xwpe, was: [expert] This thing called C.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: Frank Meurer wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Sean Middleditch wrote: [...] Also, I don't recommend buying an IDE... You could have gotten the Borland IDE for free, which used to be the best (until Microsoft made it near impossible to get anything useful done in Windows without VC++). If you are already familiar with the Borland IDE and you want to develop under Linux you should try xwpe which looks like the Borland IDE and runs in tty and X mode. I uploaded a srpm to ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming. [...] Want to try it, but permission denied when try to download ?? - Sending unsolicited commercial email to this address may be a violation of the Washington State Consumer Protection Act, chapter 19.86 RCW. Das Verschicken unverlangter kommerzieller email an diese Adresse ist verboten (LG Traunstein, 2 HK O 3755/97 vom 14.10.1997, CR 1998, 171f). (Frank Meurer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID: 0x5E756DA8) YUP, Uh Huh, Now I see what you were talking about... Won't transfer files, I also get a permission denied message. -- 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]
I had somthing of the same problem with RedHad 6.0 and mandrake 7.1 I noticed that if I compiled my Ethernet Driver Before configuring sound I would not have sound even though the sndconfig showed their was a device, it ran through the motions of testing, did not report an error but did not emit a single peep. The first time (RH6) I would set up sound and make sure it worked, then compile and install my Eth0 driver. With this turn around (MDRK 7.1) I intalled everything in the main install, then DISABLED my Eth0, Rebooted, ran sndconfig. Re-enabled Eth0 and I was Golden. Hope this helps. SwordBlayde Greetings everyone! Just got my 7.1 cd's from Cheapbytes and I've run across an interesting little snag trying to get sound on my laptop (Acer Travelmate 512DX) running. Sounddrake finds the sound "card" (I've always hated integrated sound and video), identifies it as an ESS Solo-1 (ESS 1969). If I remember correctly, 7.0 said it was a 1938. Anyway, after clicking on ok, I'm presented with the list of sound cards with the Solo-1 hi-lighted. Unfortunately, all the values for IRQ, DMA, etc, are -1 and I can't change them. I don't get any sound at all. Anyone have any ideas? Since it worked in 7.0, I tried installing the sndconfig and dependant rpms, but still no go. Many thanks in advance. Wayne
Re: [expert] X-CD-Roast Audio Burning
From the X-CD-Roast manual: http://www.fh-muenchen.de/home/ze/rz/services/projects/xcdroast/e_0.96e-readme.html "Data-Read-Device: This is the device that is used for all DATA-READ Operations on CD-ROMs. You can even specify your CD-Writer as Read Device. Here you can choose from SCSI- and IDE-Devices. Audio-Read-Device: Audio-Read is only supported for SCSI-Devices, so you cant specify an IDE-Device here. Its perfectly ok to select your CD-Writer as Read-Device and I also recommend this." Is your CD-RW SCSI and your CD-ROM IDE? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Breno F Basilio wrote: Under Setup in X-CD-Roast, ¨CD Setup¨ tab I cannot select my CD-Reader for ¨Audio-Read-Devide¨. It only lists my burner, but under ¨Data-Read-Device¨ both CDROMs are listed. Can anybody help figure out why, or how to fix this? Thanks B
RE: [expert] gnome-core install problem
Thanks, that seems to have worked. In the past, though, when I have not properly downloaded a package, rpm has complained about it and not tried to install. Brian. -Original Message- From: Sean Middleditch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 1:34 AM To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'"@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] gnome-core install problem "Schroeder, Brian" wrote: I got the following error when trying to install the gnome-core package from the "cooker" : rpm -Uvh gnome-core-1.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm gnome-core unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic Segmentation fault Perhaps the package was corrupted during the download? Try re-downloading it. Sean Middleditch
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
In regards to this isa device stuff, I have an isa 56.6 us robotics modem that doesn't seem to be detected. Linuxconf won't query it, kudzu won't detect it, and kppp can't use it. The weird thing is that Mandrake 7.0 detected it fine with Kudzu. Any suggestions ...maybe disable plug 'n play in kernel? From: Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:33:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB32D59300ACD821979DD847542311950; Mon Jul 10 01:34:27 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA06562for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:34:21 -0500 Received: from dns.rsd.ch (dns.rsd.ch [195.212.115.2]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA05104 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:27:55 -0500 Received: from rsd.ch ([195.212.115.237]) by dns.rsd.ch (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA24246 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:19:23 +0200 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 01:35:12 2000 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Private Linux user X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: fr,en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 191 Precedence: list Denis Havlik wrote: :~Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three :~mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs :~I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just :~rid myself of. ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the existence of these peskies. :-/ ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well, actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP. Oh, I wouldn't quite say so: I've been using an ISA PNP card (SB AWE 64) in Linux for quite a long time (several years) and the user-mode isapnp utility works quite well for my taste. OTOH, I never quite got the hang of the PNP stuff (incl ISA PNP) now integrated in 2.3 and even lately in 2.2.x kernels, so I still de-activate it in the kernel and use the user-mode stuff. One thing I agree, though, is that it is probably hopeless to make this stuff work properly in an _install_ program. In other words, it does work, but one has to invest in a little RTFM first ... Also, I agree that in a few more months (?) the question will become irrelevant as more and more new mobos don't even _have_ any ISA slot ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
I am always confused .. why do things work with 7.0 and not with 7.1.. this is really strange!
[expert] Handspring Visor (USB) and Mandrake 7.1
Anyone had any luck with Mandrake 7.1 and a USB Handspring Visor? I've spent the last couple of days trying to recompile with the USB backpatch for kernel 2.2, but no luck. I've read the Handspring Visor mini-HOWTO and followed the directions, but still no-can-do. Am I missing something? There's gotta be some way to make this work, and I figure somebody out there has already succeeded where I have failed! :-( Thanks in advance for any advice. Michael
[expert] Re: This thing called C
Hello once again all! WOW! Thanks for the great response! I regret having to communicate via Win98 as my Linux modem is in the shop for repairs (I have a spare "real modem" on order too), but for now am on a "Winmodem". I have read all the replies, and they were exactly what I was wanting. I have a couple of ORielly volumes on C/C++ programming, I hope to understand same real soon. This is my second crack at learning computer programming, my first was with my Apple][ in about 1978 or so. I had all of 16K RAM (installed myself), and I recorded my programs (in Apple BASIC) on audio cassettes. I now have as much power as my college had then (almost) an IBM 360 using COBOL. Although I don't have any of the standard accessories: tape drives, card readers, key punch machines, and etc. Thanks for helping an old codger out! vern
Re: [expert] X-CD-Roast Audio Burning
You could use your ide cd-rom to read audio by using the ide-scsi module to make your ide cd-rom appear as a scsi device. You will have to recompile the kernel with the ide-scsi capabilities. There is some pretty thorough documentation in a cd-r howto on www.linux.com. This had better come plain text. Seems near impossible to force OE to send plain text, though I have manually set it to "Format - Plain Text" just now. Fox - Original Message - From: "Matt Stegman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Breno F Basilio" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Mandrake Expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [expert] X-CD-Roast Audio Burning From the X-CD-Roast manual: http://www.fh-muenchen.de/home/ze/rz/services/projects/xcdroast/e_0.96e-read me.html "Data-Read-Device: This is the device that is used for all DATA-READ Operations on CD-ROMs. You can even specify your CD-Writer as Read Device. Here you can choose from SCSI- and IDE-Devices. Audio-Read-Device: Audio-Read is only supported for SCSI-Devices, so you cant specify an IDE-Device here. Its perfectly ok to select your CD-Writer as Read-Device and I also recommend this." Is your CD-RW SCSI and your CD-ROM IDE? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Breno F Basilio wrote: Under Setup in X-CD-Roast, ¨CD Setup¨ tab I cannot select my CD-Reader for ¨Audio-Read-Devide¨. It only lists my burner, but under ¨Data-Read-Device¨ both CDROMs are listed. Can anybody help figure out why, or how to fix this? Thanks B
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
- Original Message - From: "bobby dowling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 In regards to this isa device stuff, I have an isa 56.6 us robotics modem that doesn't seem to be detected. Linuxconf won't query it, kudzu won't detect it, and kppp can't use it. The weird thing is that Mandrake 7.0 detected it fine with Kudzu. Any suggestions ...maybe disable plug 'n play in kernel? What does setserial return when you query the port? Is it correct for the modem? If not, try using setserial to configure it properly. Hoyt
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
- Original Message - From: "Sarang Lakare" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 I am always confused .. why do things work with 7.0 and not with 7.1.. this is really strange! Improvements in the install scripts. 8) Hoyt
Re: [expert] Handspring Visor (USB) and Mandrake 7.1
Check the cooker archives for the handspring There was discussion in early MAy, I think. Civileme Michael Abbott wrote: Anyone had any luck with Mandrake 7.1 and a USB Handspring Visor? I've spent the last couple of days trying to recompile with the USB backpatch for kernel 2.2, but no luck. I've read the Handspring Visor mini-HOWTO and followed the directions, but still no-can-do. Am I missing something? There's gotta be some way to make this work, and I figure somebody out there has already succeeded where I have failed! :-( Thanks in advance for any advice. Michael
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
Improvements? From: "Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:34:33 -0400 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB33916600BCD82197DED84754232A0B0; Mon Jul 10 14:55:50 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23990for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:50:02 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18820 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:36:06 -0500 Received: from worldnet ([12.79.43.116]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with SMTP id 2710213606.SPEV6885.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@worldnet for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:36:06 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 14:57:38 2000 Message-Id: 002f01bfeab6$a4080640$[EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 217 Precedence: list - Original Message - From: "Sarang Lakare" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 I am always confused .. why do things work with 7.0 and not with 7.1.. this is really strange! Improvements in the install scripts. 8) Hoyt Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
hmm...I think someone forgot to tell that to my 3Com USRobotics 56K ISA modem. It runs beautifully in both Winblows and Linux. In fact, Linux is the very reason I bought this particular model. Because I knew that since it was a REAL hardware modem it would work just fine in Linux. And it does. I haven't had a lick of trouble with it in either Redhat 6.1, 6.2 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1. Runs great in all of them. Now, on the other hand if someone were to ask me to use a PCI device I would get sick all over the place. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: :~Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three :~mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs :~I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just :~rid myself of. ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the existence of these peskies. :-/ ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well, actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP. cu Denis
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
Doesn't kppp pick it up? It sounds like the one I'm using and mine works fine. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, bobby dowling wrote: In regards to this isa device stuff, I have an isa 56.6 us robotics modem that doesn't seem to be detected. Linuxconf won't query it, kudzu won't detect it, and kppp can't use it. The weird thing is that Mandrake 7.0 detected it fine with Kudzu. Any suggestions ...maybe disable plug 'n play in kernel? From: Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:33:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB32D59300ACD821979DD847542311950; Mon Jul 10 01:34:27 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA06562for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:34:21 -0500 Received: from dns.rsd.ch (dns.rsd.ch [195.212.115.2]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA05104 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:27:55 -0500 Received: from rsd.ch ([195.212.115.237]) by dns.rsd.ch (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA24246 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:19:23 +0200 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 01:35:12 2000 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Private Linux user X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: fr,en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 191 Precedence: list Denis Havlik wrote: :~Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three :~mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs :~I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just :~rid myself of. ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the existence of these peskies. :-/ ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well, actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP. Oh, I wouldn't quite say so: I've been using an ISA PNP card (SB AWE 64) in Linux for quite a long time (several years) and the user-mode isapnp utility works quite well for my taste. OTOH, I never quite got the hang of the PNP stuff (incl ISA PNP) now integrated in 2.3 and even lately in 2.2.x kernels, so I still de-activate it in the kernel and use the user-mode stuff. One thing I agree, though, is that it is probably hopeless to make this stuff work properly in an _install_ program. In other words, it does work, but one has to invest in a little RTFM first ... Also, I agree that in a few more months (?) the question will become irrelevant as more and more new mobos don't even _have_ any ISA slot ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
dunno...drivers are different maybe??? -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote: I am always confused .. why do things work with 7.0 and not with 7.1.. this is really strange!
[expert] Modem problem
why isnt' there a GUI utility to load/unload drivers.. I was trying to get a modem to work under linux and didn't know how to test it other than kppp. Under kppp it said modem ready.. then it started querying the modem.. but the result of all ATIs was blank string.. the modem console was also blank.. no OK nothing! any help? -sarang
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
Make sure you have done a "ln -s /dev/ttyS? /dev/modem" Where ? is your modem device. Or in kppp just select your /dev/ttyS? Craig Mark Weaver wrote: Doesn't kppp pick it up? It sounds like the one I'm using and mine works fine. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, bobby dowling wrote: In regards to this isa device stuff, I have an isa 56.6 us robotics modem that doesn't seem to be detected. Linuxconf won't query it, kudzu won't detect it, and kppp can't use it. The weird thing is that Mandrake 7.0 detected it fine with Kudzu. Any suggestions ...maybe disable plug 'n play in kernel? From: Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:33:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB32D59300ACD821979DD847542311950; Mon Jul 10 01:34:27 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA06562for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:34:21 -0500 Received: from dns.rsd.ch (dns.rsd.ch [195.212.115.2]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA05104 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:27:55 -0500 Received: from rsd.ch ([195.212.115.237]) by dns.rsd.ch (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA24246 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:19:23 +0200 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 01:35:12 2000 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Private Linux user X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: fr,en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 191 Precedence: list Denis Havlik wrote: :~Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three :~mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs :~I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just :~rid myself of. ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the existence of these peskies. :-/ ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well, actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP. Oh, I wouldn't quite say so: I've been using an ISA PNP card (SB AWE 64) in Linux for quite a long time (several years) and the user-mode isapnp utility works quite well for my taste. OTOH, I never quite got the hang of the PNP stuff (incl ISA PNP) now integrated in 2.3 and even lately in 2.2.x kernels, so I still de-activate it in the kernel and use the user-mode stuff. One thing I agree, though, is that it is probably hopeless to make this stuff work properly in an _install_ program. In other words, it does work, but one has to invest in a little RTFM first ... Also, I agree that in a few more months (?) the question will become irrelevant as more and more new mobos don't even _have_ any ISA slot ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Modem problem
Make sure there is a /dev/modem symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0 if your modem is on COM1 or /dev/ttyS1 if your modem is on COM2. I believe kppp uses /dev/modem by default and straight after installation of 7.1 there is no link. If there is no /dev/modem link then create it by running 'ln -s SERIALDEVICE /dev/modem' at a root prompt where SERIALDEVICE is either of the ttyS devices explained above. HTH Tony - Original Message - From: Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 9:09 AM Subject: [expert] Modem problem why isnt' there a GUI utility to load/unload drivers.. I was trying to get a modem to work under linux and didn't know how to test it other than kppp. Under kppp it said modem ready.. then it started querying the modem.. but the result of all ATIs was blank string.. the modem console was also blank.. no OK nothing! any help? -sarang
Re: [expert] Modem problem
Yeah, I got it. I just followed the directions at linuxnewbie.org ...no problem after that, unless you count the fact that my telephone cable is too short! : ) Thanks From: "Tony McGee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Modem problem Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:23:54 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB33C2DC002ED82197EBD84754230F000; Mon Jul 10 18:26:53 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA31895for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:26:48 -0500 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au (vasquez.zip.com.au [203.12.97.41]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA30365 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:23:04 -0500 Received: from Dazhel (ppp60.dyn248.pacific.net.au [203.143.248.60]) by vasquez.zip.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA08425 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:23:02 +1000 (EST) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 18:30:17 2000 Message-Id: 00ee01bfead6$b08b8de0$4205000a@Dazhel References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 228 Precedence: list Make sure there is a /dev/modem symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0 if your modem is on COM1 or /dev/ttyS1 if your modem is on COM2. I believe kppp uses /dev/modem by default and straight after installation of 7.1 there is no link. If there is no /dev/modem link then create it by running 'ln -s SERIALDEVICE /dev/modem' at a root prompt where SERIALDEVICE is either of the ttyS devices explained above. HTH Tony - Original Message - From: Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 9:09 AM Subject: [expert] Modem problem why isnt' there a GUI utility to load/unload drivers.. I was trying to get a modem to work under linux and didn't know how to test it other than kppp. Under kppp it said modem ready.. then it started querying the modem.. but the result of all ATIs was blank string.. the modem console was also blank.. no OK nothing! any help? -sarang Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Modem problem
thanks for the advice.. but I do know all about ttyS? (thats the reason i sent mesg to "expert ;) neway, the reason i said that was because I wanted to know how the /dev/cdrom link is created.. shoudln't there be a program which asks/searches for modem on all COM ports and creates the link? (or let me know if there is one). it'll make life a hell lot simpler for a newbie. apart from that, I still don't know why kppp said modem found and all ATI strings were blank! sarang
[expert] INstalling 7.1
I have downloaded all of the files for 7.1 and now want to install it. Can I install it off the hard drive, or do Ihave to install from CD? Cheers, Wayne
[expert] No MBR
I recently installed L-M 7.1 onto an empty hard drive. At the time, it was /dev/hdc in my computer, and I had L-M 6.1 on /dev/hda1. Since I intended to make the new HD my boot drive when I finished installation, I told the L-M install program to install LILO. It appeared that it had done so, but did not write anything to the MBR. I am having to boot from a floppy boot-disk, and would rather boot from the HD. When I tried to install LILO from the command line, I get: "Fatal: Partition entry not found." I get the same error when I try to use KLILO to install LILO into either the MBR or the Root partition. I get the feeling that I don't have a MBR on this new drive. My question is: Is there a way to install an MBR on my new /dev/hda without destroying my customized install of L-M 7.1? TIA, Scott Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fastlane.net/~sdboyd/ --- A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to it's head.
[expert] Broken C Compiler?
Dear friends: I was just reading an article on ZDNet's site called "Only Two Linux Companies Really Matter" (i.e. Red Hat and Caldera). One of the talkback comments includes the following line: "Mandrake last I checked shipped with a broken C compiler that causes malformed kernel code..." I am just an ordinary user, but that sentence, if true, sounds pretty ominous. Could someone please comment on a) whether it's true, how serious is this b) what versions does this affect (LM 7.0 or LM 7.1), c) if true, has this been corrected? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] Broken C Compiler?
Submitted 10-Jul-00 by Benjamin Sher: Dear friends: I was just reading an article on ZDNet's site called "Only Two Linux Companies Really Matter" (i.e. Red Hat and Caldera). One of the talkback comments includes the following line: "Mandrake last I checked shipped with a broken C compiler that causes malformed kernel code..." I am just an ordinary user, but that sentence, if true, sounds pretty ominous. Could someone please comment on a) whether it's true, how serious is this b) what versions does this affect (LM 7.0 or LM 7.1), c) if true, has this been corrected? Totally untrue. Think about this: if it produced malformed kernel code, there would be no working kernel for Mandrake because the kernel is built on a Mandrake box. The only important kernel issue that affected any kind of compatibility was kernel 2.2.13-7mdk (shipped with 6.1) which used a kernel option that made it incompatible with many binary only drivers (notably OSS which released a Mandrake-specific version). This was not a case of a broken compiler, but a little used configuration option. I have been using Mandrake since 6.0 and always run custom kernels. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [expert] INstalling 7.1
There should be a boot image available that will allow you to install from a hard drive. Look in /images. Hoyt - Original Message - From: Wayne Petherick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 11:25 PM Subject: [expert] INstalling 7.1 I have downloaded all of the files for 7.1 and now want to install it. Can I install it off the hard drive, or do Ihave to install from CD? Cheers, Wayne
[expert] install problem: partition detection
Hello, I have a 20 gig Maxtor hard drive installed in my pc. The BIOS does not recognize the full capacity of the drive so I am using their release of EZ-Drive called MaxBlast. Naturally, Windows works fine. I have Partition Magic 5.0 Pro and have partitioned the drive for FAT32 and also Ext2 file systems. When trying to install Mandrake 7.1, the partition program only shows one large FAT32 partition and a tiny 7 MB partition at the end of the drive. I'm assuming this is due to MaxBlast being installed on the drive. If I press the "restore partition table" button (in Expert Install Mode) the Ext2 partitions are shown, but the remaining FAT32 partition is shown as a blank or empty partition. I am not brave enough to continue the installation because I am afraid that my Windows partition will be destroyed. I have checked for a BIOS upgrade, but the most recent one available is from 1997 and does not mention anything about large hard drive detection. I have previously installed RedHat 6.1 with the exact same partitioning scheme and it detected everything properly. I am wondering if there is any command that can be passed to the installation routine that can help this. Is there an updated boot disk that may help the partition detection? Many thanks, Jon
