[expert] Vertical Sync Settings for X!!!! BSR 3100V----OLD!

[scrapmetaldevil]

Does anyone know of the settings for an ancient BSR 3100V monitor for vertical
sync? I have tried dozens of combos but cannot get a display on this monitor
other than garble. Is there a site or database somewhere for old monitors that
I can get specs for them? I have searching for a week with no luck...please any
help will be appreciated. I guess it is closely related to the old Samtron
monitors made circa 1986-1988...it works, but I'd like to save this monitor
from the dump.

Re: [expert] ATX Support

[MailListReader]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 03:19:01 +0200
> someone said:
> >> yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more than able
> >> to run indefinately without being rebooted or shutdown. that's the Linux
> >> way!
> >
> and Mogens answered:
> >In my simple opinion - we are some, who cares about the escalating
> >power-consumption.
> ---
> Mon, 4 Sep 2000  21:49:20
> 
> I agree Mogens, needless waste also bothers me, water running all
> night in the river bothers me 8-)
> 
>   The single factor which does not allow me to run 24-7 is the
> constant heavy thunderstorms with lightning to shatter your day...I
> must shut down for fear of that ,and know if I run all night I will
> surely awake to a hard drive that looks like raisin toast
> 
>   I would imagine there are actually more ops that shutdown
> daily for various reasons than ones who run 24-7?
> 
>   ps. there is something wrong with your keyboard Mogens. the a
> and the e seem stuck together .
> 
> Olly P
> Biloxi
> Mississippi
> 
> "and the rains cameand washed all the crops away"
> 
Sorry if this has been answered, I don't see a real one.  Anyway to make
linux shutdown (poweroff) when halted you need to configure some things in
your kernel.  If I remember correctly Linux-Mandrake comes with these
settings by default.  Anyway with 2.2.16 (similar in other versions) you
need to select 'Advanced Power Management BIOS support' under 'General
Setup', this should be all you need.  If your BIOS is buggy (ie if the
previous doesn't work) you can also try enableing 'Use real mode APM BIOS
call to power off'.  Also note in earlier kernels (prior to 2.2.15?) there
is also an option something like 'Power off on shutdown', which needs to
be checked also.  Hope that helps.

BTW:  I have one computer I leave on all the time (server) and one that I
shut off regularly (my workstation), both run linux only . . . so I am
rather neutral on the debate!

Cheers ;)

-- 
****
Nick Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Asheesh Laroia]

Oops.  My mistake.

The 1024+ patch has been in LILO since 21-3.  Weird

Well, get the new LILO and see what happens still.  It might make the
difference

Now I'm **really** sorry about the confusion.

-- Asheesh.

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote:

> I the latest version of LILO, version 21.4-3, and I still cant boot over
> the 1024th cylinder. Everytime that I try to install LILO using KLILO I
> always get the same error message:

The latest version is 21.5.  Might sound like no difference, but that's
the version that can boot from > 1024th cylinder.

It's available in the Mandrake 7.2 beta (which means, go to
http://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel and get all "lilo"-related binary
RPMs).  Go get it.

Sorry about all the confusion!

-- Asheesh.

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Oliver L. Plaine Jr.]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:35:55 -0400 (EDT),Asheesh  wrote:

>/sbin/lilo -V
>
>Hey, it works for me.  Check from the slashdot story what version you'd
>need to go past the magical BIOSBoundary TM.
>
>-- Asheesh.

Tue, 5 Sep 2000  00:26:28

If I understood what I read Asheesh, that new lilo uses the same
functions as LBA...and if that is so, my old computer will not gain
anything as I have no LBA?

Olly P
Biloxi
Mississippi

Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Todd Marshall]

Unfortunately then you didn't read far enough--as I said..I have a working 
Linux installation...I'm not trying to boot from the large drive, just mount 
swap on it...
the problem is that I cannot seem to make a workable partition table on the 
drive... everytime it rereads the partition table it says that it finds 
problems with it and that it won't work...
therefore, I believe the problem lies elsewhere--either in the number of 
heads/cyl that the kernel "sees" or else in the partition table itself and 
how I make it...
that's my problem...just SEEING the hard drive--lilo doesn't care if the 
hard drive even exists :-)


>From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake
>Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:26:09 -0400 (EDT)
>
>I can tell before I read past the first few lines of your message that you
>didn't "read" the partitioning documentation for "large" drives before you
>installed.  :)  If you had read that you would have seen that LILO can't
>see past cylinder 1024 which is why you kernel is having a problem.
>
>I'm scolding you tongue in cheek cause I did the same thing once.
>
>anyway, you will want to make some modifications to the partitions you're
>going to setup for an installation that will not give your kernel a fit
>when you boot such a HUGE friggin drive. MAN! I wish mine was that
>BIG!  :)
>
>So, here's the layout: (this is the bare minimum basic layout)
>
>/boot = 15MB   # this partition is where your kernel will boot from
>
>/home = 5GB# this partition will contain all your data files and your
>   # home directory and the home dir's of any other users on
>   # the system
>
>/ (root) = (...)   #this partition can be as big as you want to make it
>   #since you've got 39GB's left however it should
>   #be at least 5GB in size
>+
>
>Now, if you want to install and use Grub as your boot loader instead of
>LILO that's fine too. Grub doesn't mind big drives at all. You won't need
>to make all these other partitions, HOWEVER, I would strongly advise that
>you DO make a /home partition because in the event of something BAD
>happening on your Linux system that you can't get figured out and the only
>solution to the problem is a fresh install in the OS placing a partition
>on the Hard drive defined as /home will keep your data files safe when you
>format all the other partitions of the linux drive to do the install. I
>fresh intall on newly formatted partitions takes a fraction of the time
>that an install over top of a previous install takes. That's because the
>installation program decides that it MUST read ever entry and analyze them
>all in the RPM database. That can take quite a while.
>
>But that's another story. For now, define your partitions in a similar
>mannar as I've outlined here for you and you'll be booting happily into
>Linux on your insanely lArge drive before you know it.
>
>  --
>Mark
>
>**  =/\=  No Penguins were harmed  | ICQ#27816299
>** <_||_> in the making of this|
>**  =\/=  message...   | Registered Linux user #182496
>
>
>On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Todd Marshall wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to get Mandrake 7.1 running 2.2.16 to access my 45 gig IDE 
>hard
> > drive.  I am willing to toast it if that's the key to my problem...
> > currently I'm passing the following parameters to the kernel to try to 
>get
> > it to recognize this IBM Deskstar 45 gig at hde.
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/sda1
> > initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> > append=" ide2=0xdc00,0xe000 ide3=0xe400,0xe800"
> > read-only
> >
> > Unfortunately when the kernel looks at the partition table of the hard 
>drive
> > it gulps:
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, 
>BIOS
> > settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing 
>Config
> > Success
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, 
>BIOS
> > settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing 
>Config
> > Success
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 
>dev
> > 98
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: not 100% native mode: will 
>probe
> > irqs later
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, 
>BIOS
> > settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel 
>DVD-105S
> > 011, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead 
>of
> > ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
> > Sep  3 19:45:26 

Re: [expert] ATX Support

[Oliver L. Plaine Jr.]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 03:19:01 +0200
someone said:
>> yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more than able
>> to run indefinately without being rebooted or shutdown. that's the Linux
>> way!
>
and Mogens answered:
>In my simple opinion - we are some, who cares about the escalating
>power-consumption.
---
Mon, 4 Sep 2000  21:49:20

I agree Mogens, needless waste also bothers me, water running all
night in the river bothers me 8-)

The single factor which does not allow me to run 24-7 is the
constant heavy thunderstorms with lightning to shatter your day...I
must shut down for fear of that ,and know if I run all night I will
surely awake to a hard drive that looks like raisin toast

I would imagine there are actually more ops that shutdown
daily for various reasons than ones who run 24-7?

ps. there is something wrong with your keyboard Mogens. the a
and the e seem stuck together .

Olly P
Biloxi
Mississippi

"and the rains cameand washed all the crops away"

Re: [expert] HardDrake always locks my machine

[Keith Kelly]

>Yeah, I met same problem before. :)

Did you ever get it fixed?  If so, how?

- Keith
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Re: [expert] ATX Support

[Gavin Clark]

on 9/4/00 6:07 PM, Mark Weaver  wrote:
> Greg Stewart wrote:
>> Now why would you shudtdown in the first place? 
>> --Greg
>> 
>>> I have a atx system so i want my linux to shutdows automatically i know my
>>> 98 does how to in linux ?
>>> 
> yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more than able
> to run indefinately without being rebooted or shutdown.

so is my power bill ;-)

Gavin

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Stefan Srdic]

Asheesh Laroia wrote:
/sbin/lilo -V
Hey, it works for me.  Check from the slashdot story what version
you'd
need to go past the magical BIOSBoundary TM.
-- Asheesh.
--
Sigh.  I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to
be on
the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice.
(Craig E. Groeschel)
I the latest version of LILO, version 21.4-3, and I still cant boot over
the 1024th cylinder. Everytime that I try to install LILO using KLILO I
always get the same error message:
 
Warning:device 0x0306 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big
(1291 > 1023)
Error: LILO died
I know that now using LILO is out of the question,
as I said before I use LOADLIN and a bootdisk to boot up Linux. But, I
would rather use a boot loader, how can I install and configure Grub on
my system??

[expert] SIOCADDRT: Network is down???

[Tyler Longren]

Hi everybody,

I'm not sure my ethernet card works.  When I cd to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and do an ./ifup eth0 i get this:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
SIOCADDRT: Network is down

Why does this occur?

Thanks,
Tyler Longren

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[A V Flinsch]

On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote:

> 
> How can I tell which version of LILO I have??

lilo -V

-- 
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Asheesh Laroia]

/sbin/lilo -V

Hey, it works for me.  Check from the slashdot story what version you'd
need to go past the magical BIOSBoundary TM.

-- Asheesh.

-- 
Sigh.  I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on
the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice.
(Craig E. Groeschel)

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Mage Grimau]

Stefan Srdic wrote:
> 
> I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot floppy
> and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in Windows :-D
> 
> Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up which OS
> to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root filesystem, its above
> the 1024th cylinder.
> 
> I tried using DrakBoot with no success, I know that I have Grub installed on my
> system. How do I configure and install it?
> 
> Stef

In 7.1 you can use LILO - it knows about big drives. I have 2 - 2G
partitions on my
drive, both of them before my / partition. LILO is in the MBR and works
fine. I
couldn't get grub to work at all.

-- 
Mage Grimau
..
So you can spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed
about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed.
..
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Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Stefan Srdic]

Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> Um, this is no longer true.  A search of www.slashdot.org for "LILO" will
> show that LILO can now load kernels beyond the 1024th cylinder.  So, you
> can use lilo.
>
> However, I'm not sure what version of LILO you have.  It might be before
> the amazing slick kewl nifty wow-giving progress of LILO.
>
> (-:
>
> I try to be helpful, from time to time
>
> -- Asheesh Laroia.
>
> --
> When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone
> to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

How can I tell which version of LILO I have??

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote:

> I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot floppy
> and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in Windows :-D
> 
> Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up which OS
> to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root filesystem, its above
> the 1024th cylinder.

Um, this is no longer true.  A search of www.slashdot.org for "LILO" will
show that LILO can now load kernels beyond the 1024th cylinder.  So, you
can use lilo.

However, I'm not sure what version of LILO you have.  It might be before
the amazing slick kewl nifty wow-giving progress of LILO.

(-:

I try to be helpful, from time to time

-- Asheesh Laroia.

-- 
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone
to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

[expert] How to install Grub?

[Stefan Srdic]

I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot floppy
and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in Windows :-D

Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up which OS
to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root filesystem, its above
the 1024th cylinder.

I tried using DrakBoot with no success, I know that I have Grub installed on my
system. How do I configure and install it?

Stef

Re: [expert] ATX Support

[Mogens Jæger]

Mark Weaver wrote:

> Greg Stewart wrote:
> >
> > Now why would you shudtdown in the first place? 
> >
> > --Greg
> >
> > > I have a atx system so i want my linux to shutdows automatically i know my
> > > 98 does how to in linux ?
> > >
>
> yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more than able
> to run indefinately without being rebooted or shutdown. that's the Linux
> way!

In my simple opinion - we are some, who cares about the escalating
power-consumption.
My computer is not part of a network (besides my internet), so when I go to
sleep, I don't see, why I should waste valuable energy!
But OK - i must confess - I am an european, and we do many things different over
here!
Sincerely
Mogens Jæger

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

[D. R. Evans]

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On 4 Sep 00, at 11:35, Anton Graham wrote:


> > One also wonders what is the point of bothering with PAP, since I've 
> > already sent exactly the same information via the terminal script.
> 
> Because it's (apparently) throwing out the script based login.  You never
> saw this under Windows because the DUN client automagically detects the
> authentication protocol in use.  But at least you now know why they were
> hanging up on you :)
> 

No. It accepts the script based login just fine. It then changes gears to 
PAP.

If I kill the script-based bit, then I never get to the PAP. BOTH are 
necessary, which does seem faintly ridiculous. But perhaps not without 
precedent; this is, after all, USWest. 

(Maybe this whole thing has something to do with the takeover, since they 
are now QWest. But it's probably just a coinicidence. It's no good asking 
them. They don't seem to have a clue about much at all. In the course of 
the last three months I have contacted tech support three times. They 
didn't solve a single one of the problems.)

  Doc


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Re: [expert] ATX Support

[Mark Weaver]

Greg Stewart wrote:
> 
> Now why would you shudtdown in the first place? 
> 
> --Greg
> 
> > I have a atx system so i want my linux to shutdows automatically i know my
> > 98 does how to in linux ?
> >

yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more than able
to run indefinately without being rebooted or shutdown. that's the Linux
way!
-- 
Mark

**  =/\=  No Penguins were harmed   | ICQ#27816299
** <_||_> in the making of this |
**  =\/=  message...| Registered Linux user #182496

RE: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out

[Abe]

cool.  Thanks fopr the input!


Abe


>= Original Message From Tony McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
>On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Abe pushed some tiny letters in this order:
>> Anybody know what extra cool new versions of old favorites this puppy 
sports?
>> X 4.01?  2.4 kernel?  There is no read me in the directory that refers to 
the
>> ISO's.
>>
>>
>> Abe
>>
>
>Xfree 4.01 is very likely since initial 4.0 support was in mdk7.1. A stable
>release 2.4 kernel isn't available yet so it's unlikely that'll be there 
unless
>maybe the kernel is released very soon. I'm hoping the stable release of KDE2 
is
>going included with the next Mandrake but maybe not? Or maybe they're just
>waiting until KDE2 and/or the 2.4 kernel is released to ship mdk7.2.
>
>Tony

Jesus saves,
Allah forgives, 
Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.

Re: [expert] terminal

[Tom Massey]

Foris Gabor wrote:
> 
> Dear Tom,
> 
> Approximately those things were in my mind what you have put donw in the
> previous letter even if unuttered. That is, I understood your points. The
> only thing i could not figure out is what is NIC? Some sort of cable or
> modem?

Network Interface Card.

> Your idea about installing a linux on the old computer is hidered by the
> fact that is has got no hdd. That is why I wanted to turn this into a
> graphical terminal. Or more than that.

You might like to look at , which is a
great site for ideas on what to do with older hardware.

[expert] PCI Serial port card

[Sridhar G]

Hi,

I just installed a PCI Serial port card and connected my 56k Modem to it. I
am not able to query the modem. I am not sure if the ports are being
recognized.

My /proc/pci :-

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
   Host bridge: Intel 82437 (rev 1).
  Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371FB PIIX ISA (rev 2).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  No
bursts.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371FB PIIX IDE (rev 2).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=32.
  I/O at 0x3000 [0x3001].
  Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 83).
  Medium devsel.  IRQ 7.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf000 [0xf000].
  Bus  0, device  18, function  0:
Ethernet controller: LiteOn Unknown device (rev 37).
  Vendor id=11ad. Device id=c115.
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 5.  Master Capable.
Latency=32.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
  I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf400 [0xf400].
  Bus  0, device  19, function  0:
Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0).
  Vendor id=131f. Device id=2000.
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.
  I/O at 0x6100 [0x6101].

My /proc/interrupts :-
   CPU0
  0: 338522  XT-PIC  timer
  1:   1803  XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
  5: 478261  XT-PIC  eth0
  8:  1  XT-PIC  rtc
 13:  1  XT-PIC  fpu
 14:  43492  XT-PIC  ide0
 15:  5  XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:  0

the setserial for ttyS0-ttys3 shows as follows
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
/dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3


How to check the new serial ports and where are they located.

Thanks for the help
Sridhar

Re: [expert] terminal

[Foris Gabor]

Dear Asheesh,

I tried to make head or tail what you said and let me sum it up for 
checking. 
I connect two computers together through the serial ports(com2). One of 
the computers is equipped with full linux mandrake with Gnome window 
manager. The other computer is just a motherboard, a 486-DX2 with 4Mb 
memory and 512k video memory + iocard, and a 5.25 floppy drive. 
What i have gathered from your writing is the following. Make a linux 
boot disk and boot the "stupid computer". You will have a text terminal.
Now you telnet to the server and do the steps listed. You will have kde 
running on the "stupid computer" which you can be activated by ctrl-alt-f7. 
you exit from the telnet session. you follow the remaining steps.
Could you please verify wether these steps are right or wrong, whether the 
hardware configuration is proper for this or not. 

Thank you in advance,
Gabor


On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> You can remotely set up a graphical thingy using the following commands:
> 
> (Assuming that "server" is the headless computer, and "workstation" is
> your machine that you can do stuff on, like us a monitor and email the
> Mandrake lists)
> 
> 
> telnet server
> 
> 
> 
> [user@server] $ Xvnc 2> /dev/null > /dev/null &
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [user@server] $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0
> [user@server] $ startkde&
> [user@server] $ exit
> 
> 
> 
> Then, from workstation:
> 
> 
> 
> [user@workstation] $ vncviewer
> 
> Then enter "server" as the VNC server
> and :0 as the port
> 
> You now have a complete remote GUI access thingy.
> 
> Try it: you'll like it!
> 
> -- Asheesh Laroia.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
>   -- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
> 
> 
> 

Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Jason Pierce wrote:

> Hello all,  I'm thinking about building a new system.  Does anyone know of
> a(n inexpensive?) mobo that can house 2 Athlon Thunderbirds that works with
> linux?  I have heard that Tyan(www.tyan.com) is supposed to be shipping one
> sometime this month, but could find no refference to it on the Tyan site.

Nope, sorry.

> There are no dual boards listed in the AMD recommended list.

> I'm thinking about using the system as a high traffic LAN server,
> and/or high-end gaming system.

A LAN server hardly needs to be a dual athlon

> For the gaming part, what would be a good sund card and speaker
> system?  Are there any sound cards compatable with linux that have
> multiple sound in ports?  I would like to beable to attach a cd
> changer, record player, tape deck, etc.

How about an SB Live!  I have one, and it's great.  I use the Cambridge
SoundWorks FourPointSurround sound speakers, and they're great.

> Some of the Dolby speaker systems are pretty nice, anyone have any
> experience with them?

Nope, sorry.

> I plan on using a Voodoo 5(or latest Voodoo at time of building) for
> video.

What about the latest NVidia chip?  Reviews I've read
(www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster.

> I would also like to use multiple PCI UDMA/100 controller cards.  Is
> it possible to use more than one PCI hard drive controller card?

Yep!

> Thanks, Jason Pierce

Sure thing.


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Re: [expert] Auto-menu editor

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Leopold Palomo:
> someone knows some graphical app to edit the menu?

MenuDrake (from cooker)

> or

> how to do it?

Umm.. It's fairly well documented in /usr/doc/menu-{version}, or even just
look at some of the entries in /usr/lib/menu to see how it works.


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Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

[MailListReader]

On the PCI 100 cards, I am pretty shure that multiple cards will work,
multiple ultra66 cards work just fine ;)

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Jason Pierce wrote:

> Hello all,  I'm thinking about building a new system.  Does anyone know of
> a(n inexpensive?) mobo that can house 2 Athlon Thunderbirds that works with
> linux?  I have heard that Tyan(www.tyan.com) is supposed to be shipping one
> sometime this month, but could find no refference to it on the Tyan site.
> There are no dual boards listed in the AMD recommended list.  I'm thinking
> about using the system as a high traffic LAN server, and/or high-end gaming
> system.  For the gaming part,  what would be a good sund card and speaker
> system?  Are there any sound cards compatable with linux that have multiple
> sound in ports?  I would like to beable to attach a cd changer, record
> player, tape deck, etc.  Some of the Dolby speaker systems are pretty nice,
> anyone have any experience with them?  I plan on using a Voodoo 5(or latest
> Voodoo at time of building) for video.  I would also like to use multiple
> PCI UDMA/100 controller cards.  Is it possible to use more than one PCI
> hard drive controller card?
> 
> Thanks, Jason Pierce
> 
> 

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[expert] Dual Athlon Processors

[Jason Pierce]

Hello all,  I'm thinking about building a new system.  Does anyone know of
a(n inexpensive?) mobo that can house 2 Athlon Thunderbirds that works with
linux?  I have heard that Tyan(www.tyan.com) is supposed to be shipping one
sometime this month, but could find no refference to it on the Tyan site.
There are no dual boards listed in the AMD recommended list.  I'm thinking
about using the system as a high traffic LAN server, and/or high-end gaming
system.  For the gaming part,  what would be a good sund card and speaker
system?  Are there any sound cards compatable with linux that have multiple
sound in ports?  I would like to beable to attach a cd changer, record
player, tape deck, etc.  Some of the Dolby speaker systems are pretty nice,
anyone have any experience with them?  I plan on using a Voodoo 5(or latest
Voodoo at time of building) for video.  I would also like to use multiple
PCI UDMA/100 controller cards.  Is it possible to use more than one PCI
hard drive controller card?

Thanks, Jason Pierce

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 04-Sep-00 by D. R. Evans:
> The geniuses at USWest added PAP authentication after the ordinary logon 
> script. In other words, you have to go through the old logon sequence and 
> then do a PAP dance that was never necessary before.
> 
> Now why couldn't they have told me that instead of simply saying that Linux 
> isn't supported
> 
> One also wonders what is the point of bothering with PAP, since I've 
> already sent exactly the same information via the terminal script.

Because it's (apparently) throwing out the script based login.  You never
saw this under Windows because the DUN client automagically detects the
authentication protocol in use.  But at least you now know why they were
hanging up on you :)

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[expert] Auto-menu editor

[Leopold Palomo]

Hi people,

after the thread about Auto-Menu, and after auto-menu deleted my edited
menu the question I ask is:

someone knows some graphical app to edit the menu?

or

how to do it?

Leo




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Re: [expert] RE: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out

[alann]

Phil Risby wrote:
> 
> Wilson wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded and installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta but everytime I try to
> > boot it stops at:
> 
> Would some kind person tell me what to do with the iso file?
> Do I burn it straight to CD or what?
> Please instruct a first time iso downloader :-)
> 
> Thanks
> Phil

in linux:
cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -eject /home/whoyouare/filename.iso

( assuming your cdr is scd0 )

IN windows, using easy cd creator, burn it as an iso image.

Alan

Re: [expert] firewalls - what is good - port sentry?

[alann]

Andy Judge wrote:
> 
> I was curious what firewall software (preferably free) is considered
> powerful and somewhat easy to use.  I wrote my own with ipchains and
> ipmasqadm.  Mandrake comes with gfcc, but I might as well write the thing by
> hand.  I've read about the port sentry firewall and that looks appealing,
> but I would like some opinions / comments before deploying it.
> 
> Andy

goto freshmeat.net and search for pmfirewall

Alan

Re: [expert] terminal

[Asheesh Laroia]

You can remotely set up a graphical thingy using the following commands:

(Assuming that "server" is the headless computer, and "workstation" is
your machine that you can do stuff on, like us a monitor and email the
Mandrake lists)


telnet server



[user@server] $ Xvnc 2> /dev/null > /dev/null &




[user@server] $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0
[user@server] $ startkde&
[user@server] $ exit



Then, from workstation:



[user@workstation] $ vncviewer

Then enter "server" as the VNC server
and :0 as the port

You now have a complete remote GUI access thingy.

Try it: you'll like it!

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Re: [expert] mero samba&access horror

[Stephen F. Bosch]

"Deim Ágoston" wrote:
> 
> Daniel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta:
> > You may want to check user permissions as allowd by your SMB.CONF file. Of
> > Particular note would be the section "Valid Users"
> Thanks I knew this and that was another case. It's a MS Access weirdness and the 
>solution is under /usr/doc/samba-doc.

*heh heh*

This happens on Windows machines too -- Access just stinks =) - this is
what Microsoft does to make everyone go to MSDE/SQL Server 7...

-Stephen-

Re: [expert] mero samba&access horror

[Ágoston]

Daniel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta:
> You may want to check user permissions as allowd by your SMB.CONF file. Of
> Particular note would be the section "Valid Users"
Thanks I knew this and that was another case. It's a MS Access weirdness and the 
solution is under /usr/doc/samba-doc .
Thanks anyway,
Ago

Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[JASON SNYDER]

I have the exact same drive running on my Mandrake 7.1 system.  In fact I even
had it running on a Pentium 133 for a little while before I had the money
together to upgrade the rest of my system.

I have tried the drive both with the controller you are using (built into an
ABIT BE6-II) and with a Promise controller on a 430VX based board and an ASUS
K7V w/o audio.  Both of my experiences with the Promise controller have been
good ones.  The biggest problem that I had was with the ASUS board where I had
to move the Promise controller to a different slot to clear up a conflict that
crippled my ability to use UDMA modes.  This was not really do to the ASUS
board, but really to the way that Intel designed resource handling into the IBM
PC architecture.  I mean from the modern day standpoint the whole architecture
is ass backwards including PCI.  With the ABIT board it was designed such a way
so that I couldn't get a functional configuration (unless I somehow managed to
miss the one stripped down config that would work right) that didn't also
conflict with the the integrated Ultra66 controller.  In certain configurations
I could get a drive to be recognized, but I couldn't get UDMA to work.

One thing to consider is that I have noticed that explicitly defining ide2 and
ide3 is not necessary with Mandrake 7.1 with the HPT366 and the Promise Ultra66
controllers.  If anything it gets in the way when you are hunting around for a
configuration that doesn't conflict with something on the motherboard (m/b) or
moving from one m/b to the next.  Taking out those setting is what made it easy
for me to move from a P133 to a BE6-II m/b to an ASUS m/b (which I'm living on
now).

A second thing to consider is that if there is a conflict, having default
settings in mdk 7.1 set to fully optimize disk access will cause more problems
then with it turned off.  It doesn't look like your machine does that in the
sections of the startup log that you gave me (I noticed that you cut out a
section, but it is something to check for.  Going down this path it also would
be a good idea to try another device like your DVD-ROM on the controller.

It looks like you may have a bum disk, but it is always a good idea to check all
other possibilities before bringing it back.

To give you an idea of what it looks like when things are happy here is my
/var/log/dmesg file:

Linux version 2.2.15-4mdksecure ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 SMP Wed May 10 14:16:48 CEST 2000
Scan SMP from c000 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c00f for 65536 bytes.
Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 4096 bytes.
mapped APIC to e000 (002ce000)
Detected 800043829 Hz processor.
ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-floppy
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1595.80 BogoMIPS
Memory: 256748k/262080k available (1320k kernel code, 424k reserved, 2972k data,
152k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K  L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K  L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 100.00 usecs.
CPU0: AMD AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 01
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Setting commenced=1, go go go
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0880
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.12)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VT 82C691 Apollo Pro

Split FIFO Configuration:  8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
   8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing 

Re: [expert] RE: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out

[Austin L. Denyer]

> Wilson wrote:
>
> Would some kind person tell me what to do with the iso file?
> Do I burn it straight to CD or what?
> Please instruct a first time iso downloader :-)

You can burn the image to the CD, although there is another trick you
can do with it under Linx.

If you download it to your hard drive you can mount the image as another
drive.  You can then copy the files out of the image to another area of
your hard drive and install from that.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ozz.

Re: [expert] mero samba&access horror

[Daniel Baker]

You may want to check user permissions as allowd by your SMB.CONF file. Of
Particular note would be the section "Valid Users"


; The following two entries demonstrate how to share a directory so that two
; users can place files there that will be owned by the specific users. In
this
; setup, the directory should be writable by both users and should have the
; sticky bit set on it to prevent abuse. Obviously this could be extended to
; as many users as required.
;[myshare]
;   comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
;   path = /usr/somewhere/shared
;   valid users = mary fred
;   public = no
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no
;   create mask = 0765

Hope this Helps...




> Hi !
>
> Thanks the responses to everyone who helped me to solve the mapping
> problem. But this Access stuff sucks ! I'm going mad. When I want to
> access the databases stored on the server frm more then one client it
> rejects to map the drive and the access program gives me the "Runtime
> error" message. The dialog box says that the file is in use so it can't
> open or do anything with it. It seems to me that the Samba locks the file
> (or the client program wants to do it and Samba allows this ***
> behaviour). How can I resolove this. Either to reject the locking or not
> to lock the files natively. Any help appriciated. SOS !
> Thanks,
> Ago
>
>
>
>

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 plugin

[Fabrice SERVANT]

I found it !!!
My java was enabled, but my default CLASSPATH is wrong.
--> it doesn't include /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
As I couldn't changed it, I've made a symbolic link
from /usr/lib/netscape/plugins to /usr/bin/plugins
which is in my classpath.
And it's working (flash, realplayer ...)
Thanks to all
Fabricio


>From: Craig Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 plugin
>Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 12:44:05 -0500
>
>Make sure you have your java enabled. This is checked in edit -
>preferences - advance.
>
>Craig
>
>Marc Handelman wrote:
>
> > I am experiencing the same issue.
> >
> > Fabrice SERVANT wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I've updated (with rpm) my netscape because of security hole when
> >> you enable
> >> java (brown orifice).
> >> The thing is that plugger seems to be installed but I can't install
> >> other
> >> plugins.
> >> When I copy the files into the pluggin directory and restart
> >> netscape,
> >> I can't see them installed and flash pluggin for example is not
> >> working.
> >>
> >> If someone has an idea ?
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> Fabricio
> >> 
> >> 
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> >
>
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Re: [expert] [SOT] procmail problem

[Gary]

> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, "Patrick" == Patrick Erler wrote:

  Patrick> procmail is working, the program gets executed - but, how can i
  Patrick> bring procmail to leave the message untouched so that the owner
  Patrick> of the account can fetch the mail via POP3?

Use fetchmail for that, and then use the -k option which will keep the 
mail on the POP mailserver. 

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Re: [expert] terminal

[Mage Grimau]

Tom Massey wrote:
> 
> Foris Gabor wrote:
> >
> > thank you anyway :)
> 
> Just thinking about this some more, I don't think that you'll be able to
> run X on a PC running terminal emulation and connecting over a serial
> port (I think this is what you want to do). Connecting a text only
> terminal on a serial port is pretty easy to do, you just have to add a
> line to /etc/inittab to run a getty on the serial port, then hook up the
> pc with a null modem cable, run some terminal emulation software and
> make sure the settings in your terminal emulation software match those
> set up in the getty on the Linux box you're connecting to. Problem is -
> I can't think of any terminal emulation software that would be able to
> understand X codes. I know that there are terminals that can do this -
> after all X was designed to run on a central machine and display on many
> terminals (it actually works much better/faster this way then the way
> it's currently often used on Linux boxen with a single user at a time -
> as an aside to anybody who doesn't think X runs very well on their
> machine: it wasn't designed to be run the way it often is on a Linux
> box). Sorry if I'm rambling a bit here... My point is that when you hook
> up a PC to your Linux box on the serial port, and run terminal emulation
> software on it, then all you've got on the PC running emulation is the
> capabilities of the terminal it's emulating. Generally this doesn't
> include the ability to run X. eg If you've got it running VT100
> emulation (pretty much the most popular), then all the PC will
> understand is VT100 codes, which don't include X. If you've got
> reasonable hardware (say 486 and above) you'd be better off installing
> Linux on it properly, and sticking a NIC in.

There are Xterm emulators available, but I don't know of any free ones.

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[expert] PC NFS client using pcnfsd or NIS

[Mads Rasmussen]

Hi there,
 
Have anyone tried installing a NFS server and then 
accessing from a windows pc (95/98)?
I know that Samba is a better and perhaps more 
secure solution but my provider has bloked the samba ports.
I have a NFS server running on my linux mandrake 
and I am able to mount them from another linux system but alas not from 
windows.
 
My first idea was to install pcnfsd the pc 
authentication demon but I think it messes up when the system uses shadowed 
passwords. I installed the shadowed verson of pcnfsd but still no 
access.
By the way, the configuration of the demon is 
rather weird. You don´t specify anything related to the users.
 
My second option was to use NIS although I´d rather 
not since the server is standalone and therefore I don´t need the NIS 
distributed features. 
However the pc clients I have tried to use is 
giving the option of authentication using NIS.
 
I now have a NIS server up and running but my pc 
client still doesn´t authenticate.
 
I have tried the following clients:
 
ICE-NFS
OmniNet Lite
 
Any ideas
 
With regards,
 
Mads Rasmussen

[expert] [SOT] procmail problem

[Patrick Erler]

hallo MANDRAKE!

sorry, for the slightly of topic question:

i'd like to execute a program whenever mail for a specific account
arives - so i choose procmail.

procmail is working, the program gets executed - but, how can i bring
procmail to leave the message untouched so that the owner of the
account can fetch the mail via POP3?

i think its quite easy, but i just can't find the solution in the man
pages...

thanks for all answers in advance,

PAT
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Re: [expert] terminal

[Ellick Chan]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tom Massey wrote:

Perhaps if you were able to start a painstakingly slow pppd over that
serial link, you could use the remote-x facilities. Maybe something low
bandwidth like VNC, lbx, or perhaps ssh-x-forwarding.

> Just thinking about this some more, I don't think that you'll be able to
> run X on a PC running terminal emulation and connecting over a serial
> port (I think this is what you want to do). Connecting a text only
> terminal on a serial port is pretty easy to do, you just have to add a
> line to /etc/inittab to run a getty on the serial port, then hook up the
> pc with a null modem cable, run some terminal emulation software and
> make sure the settings in your terminal emulation software match those
> set up in the getty on the Linux box you're connecting to. Problem is -
> I can't think of any terminal emulation software that would be able to
> understand X codes. I know that there are terminals that can do this -
> after all X was designed to run on a central machine and display on many
> terminals (it actually works much better/faster this way then the way
> it's currently often used on Linux boxen with a single user at a time -
> as an aside to anybody who doesn't think X runs very well on their
> machine: it wasn't designed to be run the way it often is on a Linux
> box). Sorry if I'm rambling a bit here... My point is that when you hook
> up a PC to your Linux box on the serial port, and run terminal emulation
> software on it, then all you've got on the PC running emulation is the
> capabilities of the terminal it's emulating. Generally this doesn't
> include the ability to run X. eg If you've got it running VT100
> emulation (pretty much the most popular), then all the PC will
> understand is VT100 codes, which don't include X. If you've got
> reasonable hardware (say 486 and above) you'd be better off installing
> Linux on it properly, and sticking a NIC in.
> 

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Re: [expert] smbclient and smbtar - not installed / available

[flupke]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Andy Judge wrote:

> I'm running 7.0 and it doesn't seem to have smbclient of smbtar.  Aren't
> those part of samba?  I setup some shares with samba and I would like to
> access the zip drive in a windows client for backups but I can't find smbtar
> or smbclient for that matter.

It seems that you don't have the "smb-client" package installed.
Install it from the mandrake CD and your problem should be solved.

HTH
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Re: [expert] terminal

[Foris Gabor]

Dear Tom,

Approximately those things were in my mind what you have put donw in the 
previous letter even if unuttered. That is, I understood your points. The 
only thing i could not figure out is what is NIC? Some sort of cable or 
modem?
Your idea about installing a linux on the old computer is hidered by the 
fact that is has got no hdd. That is why I wanted to turn this into a 
graphical terminal. Or more than that.

Gabor


On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tom Massey wrote:

> Foris Gabor wrote:
> > 
> > thank you anyway :)
> 
> Just thinking about this some more, I don't think that you'll be able to
> run X on a PC running terminal emulation and connecting over a serial
> port (I think this is what you want to do). Connecting a text only
> terminal on a serial port is pretty easy to do, you just have to add a
> line to /etc/inittab to run a getty on the serial port, then hook up the
> pc with a null modem cable, run some terminal emulation software and
> make sure the settings in your terminal emulation software match those
> set up in the getty on the Linux box you're connecting to. Problem is -
> I can't think of any terminal emulation software that would be able to
> understand X codes. I know that there are terminals that can do this -
> after all X was designed to run on a central machine and display on many
> terminals (it actually works much better/faster this way then the way
> it's currently often used on Linux boxen with a single user at a time -
> as an aside to anybody who doesn't think X runs very well on their
> machine: it wasn't designed to be run the way it often is on a Linux
> box). Sorry if I'm rambling a bit here... My point is that when you hook
> up a PC to your Linux box on the serial port, and run terminal emulation
> software on it, then all you've got on the PC running emulation is the
> capabilities of the terminal it's emulating. Generally this doesn't
> include the ability to run X. eg If you've got it running VT100
> emulation (pretty much the most popular), then all the PC will
> understand is VT100 codes, which don't include X. If you've got
> reasonable hardware (say 486 and above) you'd be better off installing
> Linux on it properly, and sticking a NIC in.
> 
> 

[expert] smbclient and smbtar - not installed / available

[Andy Judge]

I'm running 7.0 and it doesn't seem to have smbclient of smbtar.  Aren't
those part of samba?  I setup some shares with samba and I would like to
access the zip drive in a windows client for backups but I can't find smbtar
or smbclient for that matter.

Andy

Re: [expert] RE: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out

[Phil Risby]

Tony McGee wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Phil Risby pushed some tiny letters in this order:
> >
> > Would some kind person tell me what to do with the iso file?
> > Do I burn it straight to CD or what?
> > Please instruct a first time iso downloader :-)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Phil
>
> If you don't have a burner (or forever forgetting to buy blank cds like me :))
> you can mount the image directly onto the filesystem and copy the files needed
> for installation out of the image then do a hard drive install.
>
> mount someimage.iso -r -t iso9660  -o loop /mnt/image
>
> Tony

Thanks everyone for all the help on this
and yes I do have a burner
and no, I dont have any blank CD's :-((()
Great help I know what to do now with this *.iso file
Buy CDR's

:-)
Phil

Re: [expert] iso burn

[flupke]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Gavin Clark wrote:

> Cool.
> 
> Is there a way to do a test run - do everything but turn the laser on?
> 
Sure. Use the "-dummy" option to turn the laser off during the burning
process.

HTH
Flupke

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Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Mark Weaver]

I can tell before I read past the first few lines of your message that you
didn't "read" the partitioning documentation for "large" drives before you
installed.  :)  If you had read that you would have seen that LILO can't
see past cylinder 1024 which is why you kernel is having a problem.

I'm scolding you tongue in cheek cause I did the same thing once.

anyway, you will want to make some modifications to the partitions you're
going to setup for an installation that will not give your kernel a fit
when you boot such a HUGE friggin drive. MAN! I wish mine was that
BIG!  :)

So, here's the layout: (this is the bare minimum basic layout)

/boot = 15MB# this partition is where your kernel will boot from

/home = 5GB # this partition will contain all your data files and your 
# home directory and the home dir's of any other users on
# the system

/ (root) = (...)#this partition can be as big as you want to make it
#since you've got 39GB's left however it should
#be at least 5GB in size
+

Now, if you want to install and use Grub as your boot loader instead of
LILO that's fine too. Grub doesn't mind big drives at all. You won't need
to make all these other partitions, HOWEVER, I would strongly advise that
you DO make a /home partition because in the event of something BAD
happening on your Linux system that you can't get figured out and the only
solution to the problem is a fresh install in the OS placing a partition
on the Hard drive defined as /home will keep your data files safe when you
format all the other partitions of the linux drive to do the install. I
fresh intall on newly formatted partitions takes a fraction of the time
that an install over top of a previous install takes. That's because the
installation program decides that it MUST read ever entry and analyze them
all in the RPM database. That can take quite a while.

But that's another story. For now, define your partitions in a similar
mannar as I've outlined here for you and you'll be booting happily into
Linux on your insanely lArge drive before you know it.

 -- 
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Todd Marshall wrote:

> I can't seem to get Mandrake 7.1 running 2.2.16 to access my 45 gig IDE hard 
> drive.  I am willing to toast it if that's the key to my problem... 
> currently I'm passing the following parameters to the kernel to try to get 
> it to recognize this IBM Deskstar 45 gig at hde.
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda1
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append=" ide2=0xdc00,0xe000 ide3=0xe400,0xe800"
> read-only
> 
> Unfortunately when the kernel looks at the partition table of the hard drive 
> it gulps:
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS 
> settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config 
> Success
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS 
> settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config 
> Success
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 
> 98
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe 
> irqs later
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS 
> settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 
> 011, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of 
> ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of 
> ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of 
> ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe000 on irq 11
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hpt366: assuming 33Mhz PCI bus
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x6f { 
> DriveReady DeviceFault DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x6f { 
> DriveStatusError UncorrectableError TrackZeroNotFound AddrMarkNotFound }, 
> LBAsect=258961263
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB 
> Cache, CHS=89355/16/63
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, 
> (U)DMA
> 
> ...
> 
> Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: Parti

[expert] multiple logons

[faisal]

is there any way to restrict a user for muliple logins ?

Re: [expert] terminal

[Tom Massey]

Foris Gabor wrote:
> 
> thank you anyway :)

Just thinking about this some more, I don't think that you'll be able to
run X on a PC running terminal emulation and connecting over a serial
port (I think this is what you want to do). Connecting a text only
terminal on a serial port is pretty easy to do, you just have to add a
line to /etc/inittab to run a getty on the serial port, then hook up the
pc with a null modem cable, run some terminal emulation software and
make sure the settings in your terminal emulation software match those
set up in the getty on the Linux box you're connecting to. Problem is -
I can't think of any terminal emulation software that would be able to
understand X codes. I know that there are terminals that can do this -
after all X was designed to run on a central machine and display on many
terminals (it actually works much better/faster this way then the way
it's currently often used on Linux boxen with a single user at a time -
as an aside to anybody who doesn't think X runs very well on their
machine: it wasn't designed to be run the way it often is on a Linux
box). Sorry if I'm rambling a bit here... My point is that when you hook
up a PC to your Linux box on the serial port, and run terminal emulation
software on it, then all you've got on the PC running emulation is the
capabilities of the terminal it's emulating. Generally this doesn't
include the ability to run X. eg If you've got it running VT100
emulation (pretty much the most popular), then all the PC will
understand is VT100 codes, which don't include X. If you've got
reasonable hardware (say 486 and above) you'd be better off installing
Linux on it properly, and sticking a NIC in.

RE: [expert] iso burn

[Arild Sunde]

You can use the option -dummy in cdrecord.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gavin Clark
Sent: 4. september 2000 05:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] iso burn


Cool.

Is there a way to do a test run - do everything but turn the laser on?

I have a USB Que drive and it loves to choke on anything above 2X - mac and
windows anyway.

I'd like to know if it can get through a 4x burn on Linux without making a
new coaster (I have a full set)

Gavin

on 9/3/00 8:07 PM, Sarang Lakare  wrote:

> Use this command line to burn the ISO :
>
> cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -eject -speed=4 
>
> just makesure the "dev" above is correct.. you can get what dev u are
using
> by typing
>
> cdrecord -scanbus
>
> ~ > cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg
> Schilling
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0   0) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R   PX-W8432T' '1.05' Removable CD-ROM
> 0,1,0   1) *
> 0,2,0   2) *
> 0,3,0   3) *
> 0,4,0   4) *
> 0,5,0   5) *
> 0,6,0   6) *
> 0,7,0   7) *
> ~ >
>
> my output is somethign like the above one.. once you have that info, you
> can put it into a small script and use it to burn CDs from ISO.. much
> simpler than any GUI out there ;)
>
> -sarang
>

[expert] Wine

[Mogens Jæger]

Hey list
Since I have upgraded to Mandrake 7.1 (from 7.0) I can't use my
homebanking program, because the program - or is it Wine - can't get
access to the modem.
I have not changed anything in my setup (and as you can see, my internet
access works), and I have chown'ed the /dev/modem to user (me).
I have tried to change to the /dev/ttyS1 as well, but no difference.
What's wrong?
Thanks in advance
Mogens Jæger

Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

[D. R. Evans]

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Found it!!

The geniuses at USWest added PAP authentication after the ordinary logon 
script. In other words, you have to go through the old logon sequence and 
then do a PAP dance that was never necessary before.

Now why couldn't they have told me that instead of simply saying that Linux 
isn't supported

One also wonders what is the point of bothering with PAP, since I've 
already sent exactly the same information via the terminal script.

  Doc Evans


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[expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Todd Marshall]

I can't seem to get Mandrake 7.1 running 2.2.16 to access my 45 gig IDE hard 
drive.  I am willing to toast it if that's the key to my problem... 
currently I'm passing the following parameters to the kernel to try to get 
it to recognize this IBM Deskstar 45 gig at hde.
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" ide2=0xdc00,0xe000 ide3=0xe400,0xe800"
read-only

Unfortunately when the kernel looks at the partition table of the hard drive 
it gulps:
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS 
settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config 
Success
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS 
settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config 
Success
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 
98
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe 
irqs later
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS 
settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 
011, ATAPI CDROM drive
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of 
ALTSTATUS(0xff)
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of 
ALTSTATUS(0xff)
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of 
ALTSTATUS(0xff)
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe000 on irq 11
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hpt366: assuming 33Mhz PCI bus
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x6f { 
DriveReady DeviceFault DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x6f { 
DriveStatusError UncorrectableError TrackZeroNotFound AddrMarkNotFound }, 
LBAsect=258961263
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB 
Cache, CHS=89355/16/63
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hda: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, 
(U)DMA

...

Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel:  hde:hde: lost interrupt
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f { 
DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f { 
DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound 
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x61?)
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: lost interrupt
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f { 
DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f { 
DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound 
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x61?)
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: lost interrupt
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x7f { 
DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x7f { 
DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound 
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=260013951, sector=0
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00 (hde), 
sector 0
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel:  unable to read partition table
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: autorun ...
Sep  3 19:45:26 localhost kernel: ... autorun DONE.


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Re: [expert] terminal

[Foris Gabor]

thank you anyway :)

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tom Massey wrote:

> Foris Gabor wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Tom,
> > 
> > I still did not have the time to read through but credit me one more
> > question. Can this terminal be graphical as well?
> > I mean wether I can have the same platform on an old pc as i have in X11?
> > Can I have gnome, kde or it is just a simple TEXT terminal?
> 
> When you say 'old pc', how old do you mean, and what sort of video
> card/monitor does it have? This is really what will determine what you
> can display on it. If you've got an EGA monitor or earlier hooked up to
> it, then I doubt X will do anything except destroy it. I've only ever
> hooked up really old machines as terminals (XT's running emulation,
> VT100's) so I've never been able to try it, but if you've got a terminal
> with a VGA monitor, you might be able to get X running on it - just
> remember to stay within the capabilities of the monitor on the terminal.
> Probably the type of terminal emulation you've got running on the old pc
> will also be important, and might make running X on the terminal
> impossible, eg running VT100 emulation you won't be able to use X,
> because a VT100 has no idea what to do with any of the X stuff. You'd
> need to run emulation that understood about X. Not much help sorry, this
> isn't something I have experience with.
> 
> 

[expert] mero samba&access horror

[Deim Agoston]

Hi !

Thanks the responses to everyone who helped me to solve the mapping
problem. But this Access stuff sucks ! I'm going mad. When I want to
access the databases stored on the server frm more then one client it
rejects to map the drive and the access program gives me the "Runtime
error" message. The dialog box says that the file is in use so it can't
open or do anything with it. It seems to me that the Samba locks the file
(or the client program wants to do it and Samba allows this ***
behaviour). How can I resolove this. Either to reject the locking or not
to lock the files natively. Any help appriciated. SOS !
Thanks,
Ago

RE: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out

[Tony McGee]

On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Abe pushed some tiny letters in this order:
> Anybody know what extra cool new versions of old favorites this puppy sports?  
> X 4.01?  2.4 kernel?  There is no read me in the directory that refers to the 
> ISO's.
> 
> 
> Abe
> 

Xfree 4.01 is very likely since initial 4.0 support was in mdk7.1. A stable 
release 2.4 kernel isn't available yet so it's unlikely that'll be there unless
maybe the kernel is released very soon. I'm hoping the stable release of KDE2 is
going included with the next Mandrake but maybe not? Or maybe they're just
waiting until KDE2 and/or the 2.4 kernel is released to ship mdk7.2.

Tony

Re: [expert] RE: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out

[Tony McGee]

On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Phil Risby pushed some tiny letters in this order:
> 
> Would some kind person tell me what to do with the iso file?
> Do I burn it straight to CD or what?
> Please instruct a first time iso downloader :-)
> 
> Thanks
> Phil

If you don't have a burner (or forever forgetting to buy blank cds like me :))
you can mount the image directly onto the filesystem and copy the files needed
for installation out of the image then do a hard drive install.

mount someimage.iso -r -t iso9660  -o loop /mnt/image

Tony

[expert] Problems with xf86cfg

[Stephen Boulet]

Just tried using this program to set my XFree 4 config file. I get the
graphical setup utility. When I right-click on any of the icons, I get a menu,
but it doesn't let me select any of the choices.

Anyone know how to work around this?

-- Stephen

Re: [expert] iso burn

[Stephen Boulet]

On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Cool.
> 
> Is there a way to do a test run - do everything but turn the laser on?
> 
> I have a USB Que drive and it loves to choke on anything above 2X - mac and
> windows anyway.

There's nothing stopping you from using:   speed=2

instead of 4...

-- Stephen


[snip]

Re: [expert] terminal

[Tom Massey]

Foris Gabor wrote:
> 
> Dear Tom,
> 
> I still did not have the time to read through but credit me one more
> question. Can this terminal be graphical as well?
> I mean wether I can have the same platform on an old pc as i have in X11?
> Can I have gnome, kde or it is just a simple TEXT terminal?

When you say 'old pc', how old do you mean, and what sort of video
card/monitor does it have? This is really what will determine what you
can display on it. If you've got an EGA monitor or earlier hooked up to
it, then I doubt X will do anything except destroy it. I've only ever
hooked up really old machines as terminals (XT's running emulation,
VT100's) so I've never been able to try it, but if you've got a terminal
with a VGA monitor, you might be able to get X running on it - just
remember to stay within the capabilities of the monitor on the terminal.
Probably the type of terminal emulation you've got running on the old pc
will also be important, and might make running X on the terminal
impossible, eg running VT100 emulation you won't be able to use X,
because a VT100 has no idea what to do with any of the X stuff. You'd
need to run emulation that understood about X. Not much help sorry, this
isn't something I have experience with.