[expert] Re: Off Topic: BIOS - Could an engineer help me?
Hello list, This message is lengthy - which is why it is OFF TOPIC. It pertains to hardware conflicts - which I'll get to in a minute - and why the plea for help. I'm looking for a hardware engineer to help me verify BIOS and to help me compose a letter to my reseller's engineer where I am trying to exchange this hardware, all of which is under warranty. I don't know how to talk to this guy; he doesn't read what I write, he sends stock "help desk" answers - which isn't as helpful as my ISP's customer support. To begin with I talked to the reseller's tech staff and customer support several times BEFORE I ordered anything. I was assured that the configuration would work and I would be happy; no hardware conflicts with what I wanted to order. I was warned that the K6-3 had problems with the tri-level cache processing certain types of mathematical computations - AMD wouldn't support it -, and it was suggested that I order the K6-2 instead. Armed with this information, I ordered the Tyan 1590s[VIA chipset], K62-500 and 2-64MB P-100. I requested that they assemble the board and burn it. They didn't. The board arrived with 1 DIMM, a noisy CPU fan and the heat sensor clip (power) installed between the CPU and fan. A friend who builds computers took the fan and CPU apart, installed the board and set the BIOS. The AMD CPU fan was replaced with a Pentium fan without a heat sensor. This machine has been a pain since I turned it on. I've replaced 4 new drives since February. I get black streaks across the desktop. I have trouble holding a net connection. The box locks, crashes and I see blue screens all too frequently. Linux isn't stable and neither is W98. Incidentally, the CPU/new fan now sounds like chattering squirrels . As I was concerned about heat because the heat sensor on the CPU is missing, I added a case cooler, slot cooler for the video card, and bay cooler for the 3-drives I would like to use. The temp stays around 40 degrees consistently regardless of how long the box runs. Finally out of utter frustration I started surfing AMD and TYAN looking for answers. Tyan supports the board. AMD does not recommend the 500 CPU on this board, and lists the boards that does support. this configuration. I went back to the hardware seller site and found a comment board for the motherboard. One of the messages posted talked specifically about the problems I am having. I contacted the author and explained the problem; sent him the reply from my hardware provider and he suggested he could try to help me. [He is the senior engineer for a large telco.] He indicated the problem is one that no one wants to talk about: the bridge on the the VIA chipset doesn't work with the speed of the P-100 correctly and causes the kind of problems I am having. [This explains why the same board with a 350CPU and EDO RAM runs flawlessly.] He first had me check the jumpers and straps on the board. They are correct, as is the multiplier and RAM speed. However, in checking I found one of my DIMMS was weak and removed it - which did help to stablize the system some - but I still have a long way to go. Before Labor Day he sent me a list of things to check on the BIOS. He said if the BIOS checked out he would help me write a reply to the reseller's engineer that he would understand. I sent the information about the BIOS back to him before the holiday. There has been no reply since. I am in limbo. I can't setup Mandrake and I can't keep Winslop running. I don't know anything about BIOS and I don't know what to tell the reseller. I have all the messages pertaining to hardware specs and the letter from the reseller's engineer. I want to exchange boards and upgrade RAM to a better quality. I would be very grateful for any help. If there ever was a testimonial to knowing your hardware before you purchase it, this is a perfect example. Thanks and sorry for the length, Pj
Re: [expert] Maximum file size
Submitted 07-Sep-00 by Ellick Chan: 32-bit OS's typically have a 2 gb file size limit(2^31 why is it missing 1 bit?), ext2 has that as well as Reiserfs currently. Because it's a signed long. Setting the 32nd bit would make it a negative number. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." -- Francis Bacon, Of Death
[expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
Hi everyone, I'm about ready to explode because I can't get this problem figured out. I just recently switched to Mandrake 7.1 from Redhat 6.2 and I'm trying to dial through KPPP and I keep getting "modem is busy". I also try to go dial out through other things (minicom, and so on) and I get pretty much the same response. I had this modem working fine under Redhat by just adding the "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5" line but now it won't work with Mandrake. What could have changed? Is something conflicting with my modem (by the way, it is NOT a winmodem)? It's a US Robotics 56k Model 2977. I've copied some of my system info below if it might help. I would appreciate any help that anyone could give on how I might get this working. Thanks. My machine is a Athlon 650, 128Mb RAM, Abit Ka7 if it helps. *** less /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 193956 XT-PIC timer 1: 1735 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 12 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 361084 XT-PIC emu10k1 11: 0 XT-PIC eth0 12: 79640 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 6561 XT-PIC ide0 15: 5 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ** lspci -v 00:08.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com USR-56k Internal FAX Modem (Model 2977) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at dc00 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 ** less /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 8371 [KX133] (rev 2). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd000 [0xd008]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies VT 8371 PCI Bridge (rev 0). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super (rev 34). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 16). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16). Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16). Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super ACPI (rev 48). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008. Medium devsel. IRQ 5. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]. Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Ethernet controller: Winbond NE2000-PCI (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 8). Vendor id=1102. Device id=2. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401]. Bus 0, device 17, function 1: Input device controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 8). Vendor id=1102. Device id=7002. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: NVidia Unknown device (rev 17). Vendor id=10de. Device id=2d. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd400 [0xd400]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd600 [0xd608]. ** setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5 ** ls -l /dev/modem lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot10 Sep 7 11:36 /dev/modem - /dev/ttyS0 ** setserial /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xdc00, IRQ: 5 **
Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
Do you have other serial ports in the machine and might another of them be /dev/ttyS0? What does "dmesg | grep ttyS" show? -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." -- Francis Bacon, Of Death
RE: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
Yes, if I do a dmesg, it shows /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. I had the modem working great under RH 6.2 on /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5, but now "modem busy". It's got me baffled, I've tried what seems like everything. -- From: Anton Graham[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 3:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict? Do you have other serial ports in the machine and might another of them be /dev/ttyS0? What does "dmesg | grep ttyS" show? -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." -- Francis Bacon, Of Death
[expert] Automatisation de l'installation
Salut, le parc informatique dont je m'occupe est homogène je veux donc me faciliter la tache pour la future installation de Mandrake. J'ai suivi les explications du manuel de la 7.0 mais j'utilise la 7.1 . J'ai installé une machine comme je le désire et je voulais récupérer le fichier auto_inst.cfg.pl dans /tmp mais il n'y était pas (il y en a dans /root): question est-ce que celui dans /root de la 7.1 est le même que celui de la 7.0 dans /tmp? Il est dit ensuite qu'il faut éditer syslinux.conf, la aussi j'ai suivi la procédure mais cela ne marche pas: quelqu'un peut il m'aider pour ce fichier? Merci Pierre-Yves http://electroindus.free.fr
Re: [expert] Maximum file size
Ellick Chan wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, iain wrote: Is there a maximum file size with a samba share. When I back up a Win 2000 server to a samba box it halts at just over 2 Gig. Any suggestions ?? 32-bit OS's typically have a 2 gb file size limit(2^31 why is it missing 1 bit?), ext2 has that as well as Reiserfs currently. It's not missing 1 bit. It starts numbering at '0' as opposed to starting with the number '1'. EX: 0,1,2,3,... 0-31 = 32 bits 1,2,3,4,... clear as mud? -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
Submitted 08-Sep-00 by Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **: Yes, if I do a dmesg, it shows /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. I had the modem working great under RH 6.2 on /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5, but now "modem busy". It's got me baffled, I've tried what seems like everything. Okay. Took a closer look at your devices and that may be where the problem lies: 5: 12 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci IRQ 5 is in fact in use by the above mentioned devices (your Apollo USB controllers), thus "Device or resource busy." Can you reconfigure the card to IRQ 9? I've had to do that with an internal modem when 5 wasn't available (jumperless soundcard took it). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request There is nothing wrong with writing ... as long as it is done in private and you wash your hands afterward.
Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
"Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **" wrote: Hi everyone, I'm about ready to explode because I can't get this problem figured out. I just recently switched to Mandrake 7.1 from Redhat 6.2 and I'm trying to dial through KPPP and I keep getting "modem is busy". I also try to go dial out through other things (minicom, and so on) and I get pretty much the same response. I had this modem working fine under Redhat by just adding the "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5" line but now it won't work with Mandrake. What could have changed? Is something conflicting with my modem (by the way, it is NOT a winmodem)? It's a US Robotics 56k Model 2977. I've copied some of my system info below if it might help. I would appreciate any help that anyone could give on how I might get this working. Thanks. My machine is a Athlon 650, 128Mb RAM, Abit Ka7 if it helps. Ok...first of all if you're listing the correct com ports (/dev/ttyS0) that you have the modem setup on then it's no wonder the modem isn't working cause /dev/ttyS0 is COM port 1 and that's where the mouse goes. Mandrake will install the mouse there by default during the installation unless you tell it otherwise. It doesn't matter whether you're using a PS/2 mouse or a serial mouse. It will be assigned the device port of /dev/ttyS0. The modem is generally placed on /dev/ttyS1 (COM 2) and works there quite happily. Change the setting for your modem in the KPPP setup options and try dialing out again. This should work for you. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [expert] web/email server
Am I correct in assuming that POP, SMTP, Qmail, and Postfix run on top of sendmail?? -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, "Requires Windows 3.x or better", so I got Linux. Registered Linux user #1696600
[expert] Getting to like linux
Hello everybody Yesterday i mailed you about how to boot from a floppy changed my password in linux thanks to you guys i was able to do that . I was gettig a bit bored with this NT gui user manager so now i am really getting to like linux. It only a matter of time before i remove NT installed linux on all my servers. Thanks to Jerry kreps ,my linux unleashed book you guys i was able to learn linux without taking any courses at all. Now here are my questions for today what are the reason for diffrent boot levels in linux ? can anyone tell me how to make a full user"password,home directory" with editing files only like my passwd file.i was able to make a user but cant get it to map it to his home directory ? Tnank you Very Much
Re: [expert] Corporate Server 1.0 question
- Original Message - From: "Jeff Groves" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:47 PM Subject: [expert] Corporate Server 1.0 question Does anyone know which kernel version they use? Is it 2.2.15 (which requires an update to 2.2.16)? Or did they make it more useful and include the updates? Jeff Hello there, just installed Corporate Server 1.0 some minute ago. It is still kernel 2.2.15, more info coming if I am getting on on configuration. regards Burkhard Zombronner
Re: [expert] Kernel panic on boot
Mark Weaver a écrit : Nicolas Justin wrote: Hi! I installed the mdk7.1, and at the first boot I have a kernel panic: cannot mount root fs, just before init. I have this error message: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_check_descriptor: Block bitmap for group X not in group (block Y)! EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted! (where X and Y are differents from boot to boot) and sometimes: EXT2-fs: #fragments per group too big: 2147516416 With the rescue mode of the mdk CD I have execute an "e2fsck -fv" and it report no error, and I can mount and browse the partition with no problem. A low level format reveal no bad tracks. But there is *no* problem with the mdk7.0. I did an upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 and I obtain the same error, "EXT2-fs error blah blah" and Kernel Panic. I tested Lilo and Grub: same result. The hard-disk is relatively older: Western Digital Caviar 3.2Go. Sorry for my bad english ! Thanks. -- Nicolas Justin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicolas, It sounds like you're missing some files that the kernel is looking for when mounting the FS. Try reinstalling Mandrake again. This should take care of the problem. -- Mark Weaver IT Dept./Reapernet.com Destiny Image Publishers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I already made more than ten installs and always the same problem. I installed mdk7.1, with my own CDs, on two another box and there is *no* problem; so CDs error is out of the way. Maybe there is a different kernel configuration between mdk7.0 and 7.1 ? Or maybe a kernel bug with the mdk7.1 kernel ? -- Nicolas Justin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Annoying reboot problem
I have just moved over to mandrake 7.1 from red-hat 6.2 the machine that I have built does not clear out the /etc/mtab file when it reboots thus when the machine comes back up I get dropped into a shell prompt and I have to clear it out myself. Can any one suggest anything ? thanks Peter Church
Re: [expert] Windows after Linux???
At 04:39 PM 9/7/00 -0400, you wrote: Can i now install Windows NT4 wkstation on my existing windows partition? Yes. You'll have problems though as NT4 insists on putting its boot loader on the primary partition, which must be either FAT16 or NTFS. If the spare partition is the first one, then you are fine. If I install windows will it take priority over my grub boot loader? Yes. And if so how can I make it so that I can still choose to either boot to linux or windows in my grub? What you'll have to do is make a boot disk - just use KLILO (I don't know anything about GRUB) and save the boot loader to the disk. Then when you boot into Linux again after installing NT you can use KLILO to put the boot loader onto the MBR again. A word of warning - NT4 is dumb when it comes to large drives, particular if you have to use a BIOS patch to access it. Just don't cry too much if NT4 nukes your Linux partitions. -- Damien Mc Kenna, Paraprofessional The Computer Institute, 100 Waldon Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 407-328-4722 x3397
Re: [expert] web/email server
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Am I correct in assuming that POP, SMTP, Qmail, and Postfix run on top of sendmail?? Nope. postfix or Qmail replaces sendmail. SMTP is the protocol used by postfix, Qmail or sendmail. POP is a separate protocol, which allows transfer of mail data to clients computer independent of smtp. The popd to run the server side of this protocol is in the imap package, the client side is in netscape, outlook, eudora, pegasus, etc. Hope this helps. -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html
[expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
There are numerous books in the stores about Red Hat and almost none about Mandrake. Even though Mandrake is derived from RH, I understand there are significant differences including where files are kept. As a newbie, this strikes terror in that if I try to use a RH rpm, etc., I moght inadvertantly mess up my Mandrake 7.1 installation. Therefore my question is: what are the differences between RH and Mandrake that a user needs to be aware of to avoid causing problems. To include: file locations, config, etc.(I obviously do not know what else or I would not be asking the question). Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [expert] web/email server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: any preferences between postfix, QMail or sendmail? Yes. I've used postfix and qmail. I prefer postfix. This is because 1. postfix is easier to set up prevent an open relay "out of the box". 2. Is quite easy to configure, as long as you read the directions or are willing to visit the postfix web site when something doesn't work right because you didn't follow directions. 3. Has an active mailing list, which Wietse Venema (postfix author) actively contributes to. 4. It serves me well. We run mail for 10 or so active virtual hosts, probably about 1000msg/day, and postfix is set it up and forget it, all on an Pentium II 233MHz with 48M of ram. We run pop for most of the users (I use pine on the box itself). It is quite fast as well. Please note, qmail, which was written by Dan Bernstein, is also well regarded. I had a harder time setting it up, but then I was less experienced at the time. You won't go far wrong with either. Sendmail is a huge program, written when email was tranferred using a larger number of protocols and your MTA needed to support them all. Ergo, it is much harder to configure. Its bad reputation was probably founded by some security bugs (fixed for a while now), and the fact that many vendors shipped it as an open relay "out of the box" IIRC. I've never used it. These, of course, are my opinions, probably worth more or less what you're paying for them grin. -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html All opinions welcome =0) especially since I haven't figured out where to start Thanks -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, "Requires Windows 3.x or better", so I got Linux. Registered Linux user #1696600 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] web/email server
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: :~Finally got my gateway/router/firewall setup running with one of those :~single floppy packages (sorry Mandrake) and am looking to start on the :~web/email server and am looking for a place to start. :~ "Good place to start" is IMHO called "Corporate Server 1.0". cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: :~Therefore my question is: what are the differences between RH and Mandrake :~that a user needs to be aware of to avoid causing problems. To include: :~ :~file locations, config, etc.(I obviously do not know what else or I would :~not be asking the question). :~ As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot in the future, in order to be Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy compliant. Therefore, most of the the info about file-locations in these books will be wrong for ML 7.2. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot in the future, in order to be Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy compliant. Therefore, most of the the info about file-locations in these books will be wrong for ML 7.2. It sounds, then, like moving from an earlier version of mdk to 7.2 will entail a *lot* of file moving, which would break your system (i.e. PATH variables, fully qualified file names in scripts, etc.). Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, you wrote: As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot ^ in the future, in order to be Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy compliant. Therefore, most of the the info about file-locations in these books will be wrong for ML 7.2. It sounds, then, like moving from an earlier version of mdk to 7.2 will entail a *lot* of file moving, which would break your system (i.e. PATH variables, fully qualified file names in scripts, etc.). Ron -- snip Not yet is how I read this. Muzza. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] web/email server
Denis Havlik wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: :~Finally got my gateway/router/firewall setup running with one of those :~single floppy packages (sorry Mandrake) and am looking to start on the :~web/email server and am looking for a place to start. :~ "Good place to start" is IMHO called "Corporate Server 1.0". cu Denis Thanks, I missed the announcement - going to check it out now -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, "Requires Windows 3.x or better", so I got Linux. Registered Linux user #1696600 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] web/email server
POSTFIX is to slow when remotly checking mail. I use sendmail with a package called antispam which allows POP befor SMTP auth so my users can RELAY mail through the server. Sendmail is used by 75 % of server owners. - Original Message - From: "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [expert] web/email server [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: any preferences between postfix, QMail or sendmail? Yes. I've used postfix and qmail. I prefer postfix. This is because 1. postfix is easier to set up prevent an open relay "out of the box". 2. Is quite easy to configure, as long as you read the directions or are willing to visit the postfix web site when something doesn't work right because you didn't follow directions. 3. Has an active mailing list, which Wietse Venema (postfix author) actively contributes to. 4. It serves me well. We run mail for 10 or so active virtual hosts, probably about 1000msg/day, and postfix is set it up and forget it, all on an Pentium II 233MHz with 48M of ram. We run pop for most of the users (I use pine on the box itself). It is quite fast as well. Please note, qmail, which was written by Dan Bernstein, is also well regarded. I had a harder time setting it up, but then I was less experienced at the time. You won't go far wrong with either. Sendmail is a huge program, written when email was tranferred using a larger number of protocols and your MTA needed to support them all. Ergo, it is much harder to configure. Its bad reputation was probably founded by some security bugs (fixed for a while now), and the fact that many vendors shipped it as an open relay "out of the box" IIRC. I've never used it. These, of course, are my opinions, probably worth more or less what you're paying for them grin. -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html All opinions welcome =0) especially since I haven't figured out where to start Thanks -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, "Requires Windows 3.x or better", so I got Linux. Registered Linux user #1696600 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] expert ATT cable modem question
Is anyone else running Mandrake 7.1 with ATT@HOME cable modem service? Jason Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Halftech Internet Services Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] annoying boot problem
I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a PC with several other OSs. I use Power Quest's "BootMagic" to boot into the various OSs. There is one annoying problem. If a boot into Mandrake (through Boot magic) after a hard reset (PC off/on), there is no problem. But if I try to boot into Linux after a soft reset from NT4, the boot stops at the lilo. It seems that NT4 leaves something that corrupts the memory after shutdown (surprise! not). Is there a command that would clear the memory so that I do not have to do a hard reboot everytime I need to go from NT4 to Linux? (at least until I get Linux to take over my work). An aside: before installing Mandrake 7.1, I had Turbo Linux 6 and did not have that problem with it (many others though!). So it must have had something in its boot process that cleared the memory first. Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
That is scary, particularly for a newbie who would upgrade to the next version, but good in the long run. Where can one find a description of the new organizational system? What other differences are there between RH and Mke 7.1 that a novice user should be aware of to avoid disaster? Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Denis Havlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: liste.expert To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1 On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: :~Therefore my question is: what are the differences between RH and Mandrake :~that a user needs to be aware of to avoid causing problems. To include: :~ :~file locations, config, etc.(I obviously do not know what else or I would :~not be asking the question). :~ As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot in the future, in order to be Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy compliant. Therefore, most of the the info about file-locations in these books will be wrong for ML 7.2. cu Denis Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
Having used RedHat for a couple of years, and having recently (about half a year ago) switched to Mandrake, I don't think you can expect much problems running RH RPM's on your machine, or finding RH-specific text books invalid in the Mandrake environment. I haven't experienced any problems. The main difference is that Mandrake supply some additional services, such as the *drake programs partially replacing linuxconf/file editing, postfix option instead of sendmail, grub option instead of lilo, available security levels. (All this refers mostly to Mandrake 7.1, btw.) So: read you Red Hat books, and poke around in the file system, examine whatever interesting things you find there. Don't worry much about breaking something with Red Hat operations. That's my advice Jesper * On Friday, September 08, Jeff Malka wrote: That is scary, particularly for a newbie who would upgrade to the next version, but good in the long run. Where can one find a description of the new organizational system? What other differences are there between RH and Mke 7.1 that a novice user should be aware of to avoid disaster? Thank you. -- Jesper Holmberg"But how can one be warm alone?" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Annoying reboot problem
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:50:31PM +0100, peterc wrote: I have just moved over to mandrake 7.1 from red-hat 6.2 the machine that I have built does not clear out the /etc/mtab file when it reboots thus when the machine comes back up I get dropped into a shell prompt and I have to clear it out myself. Can any one suggest anything ? /etc/mtab should be cleared out as your computer unmounts file systems on shutdown; it is done in the unmount command. Check to see if your system is unmounting file systems during a shutdown. Also, make sure you don't have an /etc/mtab~ file, which might be a byproduct of editing the thing. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley PGP signature
Re: [expert] web/email server
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jason Smith wrote: POSTFIX is to slow when remotly checking mail. I use sendmail with a package called antispam which allows POP befor SMTP auth so my users can RELAY mail through the server. What do you mean "when remotely checking mail"? I'm not clear what you're trying to say. Sendmail is used by 75 % of server owners. I wouldn't be surprised if it were more than that, but that doesn't make it better. I think comparing sendmail to either qmail or postfix is like comparing apples and oranges. I think most people who are new to postmasterdom might do better off starting with postfix. YMMV -burk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Kernel panic on boot
Nicolas Justin wrote: Mark Weaver a écrit : Nicolas Justin wrote: Hi! I installed the mdk7.1, and at the first boot I have a kernel panic: cannot mount root fs, just before init. I have this error message: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_check_descriptor: Block bitmap for group X not in group (block Y)! EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted! (where X and Y are differents from boot to boot) and sometimes: EXT2-fs: #fragments per group too big: 2147516416 With the rescue mode of the mdk CD I have execute an "e2fsck -fv" and it report no error, and I can mount and browse the partition with no problem. A low level format reveal no bad tracks. But there is *no* problem with the mdk7.0. I did an upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 and I obtain the same error, "EXT2-fs error blah blah" and Kernel Panic. I tested Lilo and Grub: same result. The hard-disk is relatively older: Western Digital Caviar 3.2Go. Sorry for my bad english ! Thanks. -- Nicolas Justin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicolas, It sounds like you're missing some files that the kernel is looking for when mounting the FS. Try reinstalling Mandrake again. This should take care of the problem. -- Mark Weaver IT Dept./Reapernet.com Destiny Image Publishers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I already made more than ten installs and always the same problem. I installed mdk7.1, with my own CDs, on two another box and there is *no* problem; so CDs error is out of the way. Maybe there is a different kernel configuration between mdk7.0 and 7.1 ? Or maybe a kernel bug with the mdk7.1 kernel ? -- Nicolas Justin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hate to tell you this, but you very well may have a hardware conflict on this particular machine. It's quite possibly your hard drive. There are some changes in the HCL between Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 that you may want to check on at the Mandrake site. I seem to remember some talk of this problem here on the list sometime back. If I remember correctly WD hdd's were the point of the discussion. -- Mark Weaver IT Dept./Reapernet.com Destiny Image Publishers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] /tmp problem
Hi, I recall some problems with /tmp were already discussed on the list but I've got some new issues. I'm on a Mandarke 7.0.2 (Air) and I'm faced to something really weird - my /tmp drectory grows up to 100MB and I can't write to file start a X session, etc. Yesterday I had to wipe it out manually to get it working. It's a typical desktop install so I don't have any massive server process in here. As far as I know /tmp should be cleaned by init during each and every boot. However I've heard about some changes done to that unix dogma by mandrake people specially in this particular release. Does the change mentioned before -/etc/sysconfig/system - CLEAR_TMP=1 actually does the trick? Or perhaps I am supposed to make a complete upgrade? What is your experience? And more generally - are there any special tools meant to control the /tmp directory? -- Michal Kurowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
Dont know man i find both with there ups down - Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1 As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot in the future, in order to be Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy compliant. Therefore, most of the the info about file-locations in these books will be wrong for ML 7.2. It sounds, then, like moving from an earlier version of mdk to 7.2 will entail a *lot* of file moving, which would break your system (i.e. PATH variables, fully qualified file names in scripts, etc.). Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Internal Modem
I am a user of linux and I sympatise with you concerning the modem problem you are now having, However I may be of some assistance to you, that is if you are willing to invest in another modem, I have found that you can installed only jumper modems into linux and set it up on either com2 or com4 providing that your mouse is not using com2 then you can try com1 I have used modem with the Cirrus Loic Chipset and found that it could'nt work or refused to work so far only the rockwell chipsets jumper modems have worked so far. you can try this, and see what results you can achieve, Calvert Linux expert user Computer Mall Inc, for all your computer needs and more if we don't have it we'll order it within 5 working days. 784-485-6137 phone or fax 784-485-6586 Kingstown St Vincent YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 7.0 with Matrox 220... Blank Display...
yes there is a key combination you can try, press ctrl,alt and F1 this should do the trick Computer Mall Inc, for all your computer needs and more if we don't have it we'll order it within 5 working days. 784-485-6137 phone or fax 784-485-6586 Kingstown St Vincent YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
Out of the box Mandrake is optimized for Pentium class CPUs. If Redhat is cake, Mandrake is cake and ice cream. Mandrake ROCKS! - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "expert mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:53 AM Subject: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1 There are numerous books in the stores about Red Hat and almost none about Mandrake. Even though Mandrake is derived from RH, I understand there are significant differences including where files are kept. As a newbie, this strikes terror in that if I try to use a RH rpm, etc., I moght inadvertantly mess up my Mandrake 7.1 installation. Therefore my question is: what are the differences between RH and Mandrake that a user needs to be aware of to avoid causing problems. To include: file locations, config, etc.(I obviously do not know what else or I would not be asking the question). Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
I tried installing the latest redhat and the Xwindows installed in interlaced mode (jigjigjigglejigj). For some reason Mandrake 7.1 wouldn't install from the CD but it did install from the hard disk without problems. Mandrake also does a much better job sticking on the various programs that make Linux easier to use. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1 : That is scary, particularly for a newbie who would upgrade to the next : version, but good in the long run. Where can one find a description of the : new organizational system? : : What other differences are there between RH and Mke 7.1 that a novice user : should be aware of to avoid disaster? : : Thank you. : : Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Registered Linux user 183185 : : - Original Message - : From: Denis Havlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Newsgroups: liste.expert : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:47 AM : Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1 : : : On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: : : :~Therefore my question is: what are the differences between RH and : Mandrake : :~that a user needs to be aware of to avoid causing problems. To : include: : :~ : :~file locations, config, etc.(I obviously do not know what else or I : would : :~not be asking the question). : :~ : : As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM : and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot : in the future, in order to be Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy compliant. : : Therefore, most of the the info about file-locations in these books will : be wrong for ML 7.2. : : cu : Denis : : : : : Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: : Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. : Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk Mandrake
When a system starts up, it goes through the boot sequence encoded in ROM. At the end of this sequence it reads off of the first specified boot device that it finds for further instructions. If it hits a drive with LILO or GRUB on it, then you get the Linux prompt. If you select Linux or have it automatically boot Linux then LILO or GRUB will load the Linux kernel into memory. When the kernel starts, it bypasses the BIOS and accesses the hardware directly. There are a few parameters that are supposed to be read from CMOS if I remember correctly, but hardware that is not detected by the BIOS will get detected by the kernel. I think that what the kernel usually reads is how the disk geometry is set up in the BIOS so that Linux can be more compatible with dos/windows. I did notice on my 486 (back in the earlier days of Linux) that cylinders that could not be programmed into the CMOS and that DOS did not pick up, Linux picked up and I could use them. Linux's direct use of hardware has not under any circumstances, including usage of things that are shut off or not properly set up in CMOS, caused any stability problems for me or anyone that I know. (For my Dad it has been a real boon because one of his systems has win95, win98, and Linux between two drives and he can disable one of the drives all of the time to keep win95 and win98 from clobbering each other and still be able to move stuff between win95 and win98 without the hazards of enabling both drives at the same time.) "Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: This just ain't so. I got a 45 Gig IBM drive (the same that this thread was started on) to detect under linux on an Ultra33 controller when the turned off IDE drive detection in the BIOS. (The machine would hang on when it tried to detect the drive on boot.) OK, so you've got your BIOS set to something like ide0/slave = not installed And that gets you through the BIOS choking when you boot? And this works OK? Good to know. How does it work? Pretty well or flaky? MB Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
Please wrap your lines to 72 characters... On Fri, 5 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: I've recently attempted to write my own IP routing script (IPchains and IPmasquerading). I have some minor problems with my initial script and need some help from an experienced Linux user. First off, I have a cable modem for a receiving internet connection with an IP address that is provided via DHCP, second, I want my machine to serve as an outgoing DHCP server for the other machines on my network. The client machines will be using a class "C" network address and the DHCP server will only allow a fixed amount of clients to exist on the network for security reasons! For DHCP, try adding ... # Configuration line for DHCP configured server /sbin/ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p udp -s 0/0 67 -d 0/0 68 -j ACCEPT I wrote a script using several resources on the web, I have yet to read the IPMasquerading HOW-TO and the IPChains HOW-TO but plan to in the near future. Currently I am trying to figure out how in the hell to enable to outgoing DHCP server on my computer! I have tested out this script with no success! What should I add or change in order to make it work? IP port forwading is enabled in the kernel and this script is executed at boot up. Here is my script: rc.firewall #!/bin/sh # rc.firewall - IPChains and IPMasquerading, internet firewall/routing script # echo -n "Setting IP Chains..." add... # Load all required IP MASQ modules #Note: only load required modules that you need # # Needed to initially load modules /sbin/depmod -a # modules for IPMasquerading /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio change to... # Supports the masquerading of RealAudio over UDP. Without this module, # Real Audio WILL function but in TCP mode. This can cause # a reduction in sound quality. /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio ports=554,7070,7071,6970,6971 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/modprobe ip_vdolive disable irc and vdolive (vide conferencing) if you don't use them. # execute IP Forwading echo "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # enable host DHCP echo "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr Use this... # # Enable IP Forwarding, if it isn't already echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # Enable TCP SYN Cookie Protection echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies # Enable always defragging Protection echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag # Enable broadcast echo Protection echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts # Enable bad error message Protection echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses # Enable IP spoofing protection # turn on Source Address Verification for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do echo 1 $f done # Disable ICMP Redirect Acceptance for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/accept_redirects; do echo 0 $f done # Disable Source Routed Packets for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/accept_source_route; do echo 0 $f done # Log Spoofed Packets, Source Routed Packets, Redirect Packets for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/log_martians; do echo 1 $f done # # IPChains routing information /sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 160 /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.1/24 -d 192.168.0.1/24 -j ACCEPT /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.1/24 -d 192.168.0.2/32 -j MASQ /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.1/24 -d 192.168.0.3/32 -j MASQ or simply use this for local network... /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ # local network and then I add lines here to start PortSentry upon bootup (http://www.psionic.com) echo "Done!" BTW, I did not write any firewall rules as of yet, I know basically how to and which ports to block secure and I will do so once the Masquerading issue is solved! Hope that helps. Thanks... Dan. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] eMail synchronization with fetchmail/IMAP?
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:26:06PM +0200, Karsten Roemling (me) wrote: Hi all! I would like to synchronize all my email, which is received and split up and sorted on computer A with the help of procmail, onto computer B. This should Is something like this possible? Is this too simple or too complicated to be answered?!? Just wondering :) Karsten (who is still hoping for an answer...) -- - Why do we have to hide from the police, daddy? Because we use emacs, son. They use vi. - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] w³: http://www.k-fish.de/ gpg-key: http://www.k-fish.de/k.roemling.asc - Medienwissenschaftler in BS: http://www.tu-bs.de/institute/mewi/ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] X11 library
Hello, Does anybody know how can I re-install the X11/fonts library (or the whole X11 library) in the path /X11R6/lib/X11? I have the rpms (Xfree...). Thank you in advance. FG Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] telnet server not working...
A while back, I reported here that telnet server wasn't working. I got a couple of good suggestions, but they didn't work. Now I really need to have a telnet server working. I am running LM 6.0 and inetd. inetd.conf looks right and it appears to try to load in.telnetd when I try to connect via a telnet session. But the secure log shows that it was unable to load/execute /usr/sbin/in.telnetd. It's really there and has rwxr-xr-x permissions, which is correct. And that makes me assume that inetd is recognizing that there was an attempt to connect on tcp port 23 and did try to load in.telnetd correctly. Playing around, I found that I could load in.telnetd with the -debug 29 option and then connect successfully to a telnet session on tcp port 29. So (if my logic is correct) it appears that tcp port 23 is occupied by something. I cann't figure out what or how and my init.d scripts seem correct and I don't think I played with them at this level. Any suggestions to figure out what is loaded that would grab tcp port 23? I am not running portsentry or any other port monitoring software. I did install ncftpd for ftp and have the secure version of Apache running and have installed postfix(telnet was broke before postfix however). I installed a couple of other programs also, but nothing that I can think of that should grab tcp port 23 however. Thanks in advance, Lyle Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] telnet server not working...
One quick hint:
When I used Mandrake 6.1, I had to install a 15K RPM file called
"telnet-server" from the distribution CD in order to get telnet working.
Check to see if it's installed via "rpm -qa | grep telnet-server".
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Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: snip I have used PMFirewall as well, only it does not configure an outgoing DHCP server correctly, I intend to build my own firewall. snip I think that I'm going to read the entire IPChains HOW-TO and IPMasquerading HOW-TO this week-end :-D The IP Chains and Masquerading HOWTOs are the places to figure out the core of the packet filter system. Well written with examples that actually work :) However they will give you no information about DHCP. DHCP has nothing to do with firewalls, packet filtering or masquerading. There is a mini HOWTO I believe about setting up ISC's dhcp server and client under Linux. Mandrake includes these packages on the CDs . I have not had the need to set up a server so I cannot give better information about the process, but it would be necessary to install dhcpd and dhcp-client, and possibly dhcp-relay if you need to bounce packets across a subnet to the dhcp server. I would suggest the man pages (of course :) ) as well as ISC's web site http://www.isc.org/dhcp.html for further information since you are already spending the weekend in documentation... :) -- Matthew Micene Systems Development Manager Express Search Inc. www.ExpressSearch.com A host is a host from coast to coast, and no one will talk to a host too close Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung or dead Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
One thing I forgot to mention about ISC's DHCP client ... There exists a rather large security hole in the 3.0b1pl17 which I think is included in the Mandrake distro. Make sure if you do use the client get the one from the Mandrake update site and do not use the one on the CD. The server is not affected and should be fine to use. -- Matthew Micene Systems Development Manager Express Search Inc. www.ExpressSearch.com A host is a host from coast to coast, and no one will talk to a host too close Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung or dead Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] telnet server not working...
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: Any suggestions to figure out what is loaded that would grab tcp port 23? as root: lsof | grep 1024 will tell you what has bound to port 1024 (as well as some other stuff) as will netstat -nlp --inet to give you the list of open ports listening for both tcp and udp and the -p option will also attempt to give you the process name as well. A combination of these two methods should tell you whether or not something else is trying to run on port 23, tho I sincerely doubt anyone would stomp all over a well known port reservation like that -- Matthew Micene Systems Development Manager Express Search Inc. www.ExpressSearch.com A host is a host from coast to coast, and no one will talk to a host too close Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung or dead Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
If Redhat is cake, Mandrake is cake and ice cream. Mandrake ROCKS! You need to take a look at the RedHat 6.9.5 Pinstripe Beta. :-) --Greg __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Jesper Holmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1 Having used RedHat for a couple of years, and having recently (about half a year ago) switched to Mandrake, I don't think you can expect much problems running RH RPM's on your machine, or finding RH-specific text books invalid in the Mandrake environment. I haven't experienced any problems. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] telnet server not working...
Here's the line from netstat: tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 419/inetd I don't have lsof as a command. Was that a typo or an addon? The netstat printout makes sense as I know that inetd can see incoming packets and thinks they are for telnet, but cann't successfully start in.telnetd. (an aside to Asheesh, yes I have the telnet server installed. That's where in.telnetd comes from.) Lyle -Original Message- From: Matthew Micene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] telnet server not working... On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: Any suggestions to figure out what is loaded that would grab tcp port 23? as root: lsof | grep 1024 will tell you what has bound to port 1024 (as well as some other stuff) as will netstat -nlp --inet to give you the list of open ports listening for both tcp and udp and the -p option will also attempt to give you the process name as well. A combination of these two methods should tell you whether or not something else is trying to run on port 23, tho I sincerely doubt anyone would stomp all over a well known port reservation like that -- Matthew Micene Systems Development Manager Express Search Inc. www.ExpressSearch.com A host is a host from coast to coast, and no one will talk to a host too close Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung or dead Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
I downloaded Pinstripe beta one night. It was two disks. The first one was numbered Redhat 6.8 and would not install at all. The second disk was a copy of Mandrake 7.02 ?!?!?!? I don't have a lot of respect for redhat. Abe = Original Message From "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = If Redhat is cake, Mandrake is cake and ice cream. Mandrake ROCKS! You need to take a look at the RedHat 6.9.5 Pinstripe Beta. :-) --Greg _ _ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing
I just compiled Kernel 2.2.17 and found that xconfig had some features grayed out (like some network cards). Also, despite selecting "automount", it still won't handle supermount. Am I missing a step somewhere or is this kernel have those problems? Brent Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] telnet server not working...
I found the answer and it was very obviousNOT! Change this line inetd.conf from/to: telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd -L /bin/login Now that's an obvious answer isn't it? A good learning experience. I don't mind too much as it ends up being a huge learning experience, but I would really love to see some of this stuff in writing somewhere so I don't have to bug the experts around here... Thanks, Lyle -Original Message- From: Lyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 5:46 PM To: LM expert list (E-mail) Subject: [expert] telnet server not working... A while back, I reported here that telnet server wasn't working. I got a couple of good suggestions, but they didn't work. Now I really need to have a telnet server working. I am running LM 6.0 and inetd. inetd.conf looks right and it appears to try to load in.telnetd when I try to connect via a telnet session. But the secure log shows that it was unable to load/execute /usr/sbin/in.telnetd. It's really there and has rwxr-xr-x permissions, which is correct. And that makes me assume that inetd is recognizing that there was an attempt to connect on tcp port 23 and did try to load in.telnetd correctly. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
pablito wrote: [snip] problems. Mandrake also does a much better job sticking on the various programs that make Linux easier to use. [snip] Plz clarify this. Thanks, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
Tell us more about it. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1 If Redhat is cake, Mandrake is cake and ice cream. Mandrake ROCKS! You need to take a look at the RedHat 6.9.5 Pinstripe Beta. :-) --Greg __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
Stefan Srdic wrote: [snip] I have used PMFirewall as well, only it does not configure an outgoing DHCP server correctly, I intend to build my own firewall. I dont want to end up being a Windows Linux user. This OS is open sourced for a reason, so that you can learn and improve your computer skills. Thanks for all your help, I think that I'm going to read the entire IPChains HOW-TO and IPMasquerading HOW-TO this week-end :-D You should (or maybe u did...) email [EMAIL PROTECTED] about that dhcp bug. Good luck studying IPchains! Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
Hope that helps. Thanks... Dan. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Dan, you are a genious :-D I used the tips that you gave me to rewrite my rc.firewall file. I got IP Masquerading working, but I had to configure the Windows clients to a static IP address using my eth1 ip (192.168.0.1 ) as the default gateway, and they had to be pointed to my ISP DNS servers in order to work! Thanks a billion. I can only ask one more favor from you, please explain in minor detail what some of those advanced commands where. I dont need to know where they came from, but I'd like to know why it was necessary to configure IPChains to Disable ICMP redirections, Disable Source Routed Packets etc... Stef Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
You might want to try (argh, another distro!) e-smith at www.e-smith.org . peace of cake to det up, and just about perfect the first time. On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: snip I have used PMFirewall as well, only it does not configure an outgoing DHCP server correctly, I intend to build my own firewall. snip I think that I'm going to read the entire IPChains HOW-TO and IPMasquerading HOW-TO this week-end :-D The IP Chains and Masquerading HOWTOs are the places to figure out the core of the packet filter system. Well written with examples that actually work :) However they will give you no information about DHCP. DHCP has nothing to do with firewalls, packet filtering or masquerading. There is a mini HOWTO I believe about setting up ISC's dhcp server and client under Linux. Mandrake includes these packages on the CDs . I have not had the need to set up a server so I cannot give better information about the process, but it would be necessary to install dhcpd and dhcp-client, and possibly dhcp-relay if you need to bounce packets across a subnet to the dhcp server. I would suggest the man pages (of course :) ) as well as ISC's web site http://www.isc.org/dhcp.html for further information since you are already spending the weekend in documentation... :) -- Matthew Micene Systems Development Manager Express Search Inc. www.ExpressSearch.com A host is a host from coast to coast, and no one will talk to a host too close Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung or dead Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] glibc locale errors:
On Fri Sep 08, 2000 at 02:34:37PM +0100, Tony Smith wrote: Tony, please let me know how it goes. If there is a problem with 16mdk, we need to know and get it fixed ASAP. I'm going to be testing it here as well, so I'll see if I can reproduce your error. FYI... I just tried 16mdk on a 6.0 system and didn't experience any problems, so please let me know if you still do on your 7.0 system. Sorry Vincent, it's still happening. Here's what I get when I start an xterm: Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Looks like it needs a bit more work. My env contains: LC_ALL=en_GB LINGUAS=en_GB:en What xterm are you using? Are you using it from 7.0, or did you upgrade it to cooker? We have noticed problems using xterm built for XF4 with XF3... could that be it? I've tried this a few times myself and have absolutely no problem with the new glibc... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net // Danen Consulting Serviceswww.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org // MandrakeSoft, Inc. www.linux-mandrake.com 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux uptime: 1 day 10 hours 3 minutes. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Internal Modem
Calvert S Robertson wrote: I am a user of linux and I sympatise with you concerning the modem problem you are now having, However I may be of some assistance to you, that is if you are willing to invest in another modem, I have found that you can installed only jumper modems into linux This is just not true. I had an ISA PNP modem set up in my box till last week. I only changed when I started using a dedicated router with a single bootable linux floppy (Linux Router Project). I'm not quite advanced enough to figure out how to put the isapnp scripts into the bootable floppy. While I would certainly recommend a jumperable modem for ease of setup, a PNP hardware modem will work. Gene Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
The current RHBeta is 6.9.5, and yes it is 2 CDs... but I don't think the 2nd is a "copy" of MDK7.02. There are still many apps that RedHat just doesn't bother with, that Mandrake chooses to install whether you need them, want them, or would rather never see. Pinstripe is still a smaller full install than MDK. The kernel is a hybrid between 2.2.16 and 2.4 incorporating, i believe, full USB support among many other things. I haven't had that much time to explore the kernel's capabilities, but it also seems to handle CPU time and memory better than previous kernel versions. Inetd has been replaced with xinetd, and the inet services have each been broken up in a more organised and efficient manner. XFree864.0.1 is included (as I'm sure it will be in the next MDK), but doesn't include any of that annoying auto-menu crap that MDK 7.1 seems to enjoy. Overall, it's been stable as a rock And I've actually had a better time with it than my install of MDK7.1. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Abe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded Pinstripe beta one night. It was two disks. The first one was numbered Redhat 6.8 and would not install at all. The second disk was a copy of Mandrake 7.02 ?!?!?!? I don't have a lot of respect for redhat. Abe = Original Message From "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = If Redhat is cake, Mandrake is cake and ice cream. Mandrake ROCKS! You need to take a look at the RedHat 6.9.5 Pinstripe Beta. :-) --Greg ___ __ _ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Check ports
How can i check which ports on my computer are open i will be sitting on my server ? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Getting to like linux
faisal wrote: Hello everybody Yesterday i mailed you about how to boot from a floppy changed my password in linux thanks to you guys i was able to do that . I was gettig a bit bored with this NT gui user manager so now i am really getting to like linux. It only a matter of time before i remove NT installed linux on all my servers. Thanks to Jerry kreps ,my linux unleashed book you guys i was able to learn linux without taking any courses at all. Now here are my questions for today what are the reason for diffrent boot levels in linux ? can anyone tell me how to make a full user"password,home directory" with editing files only like my passwd file.i was able to make a user but cant get it to map it to his home directory ? Tnank you Very Much Have you found "useradd" yet? Check its man page. Pierre -- Linux (Up 47 days) -- Reboots are for system upgrades... Currently running 151 processes; CPU activity: user=0.5%, system=0.8% Last reboot reason: Installed new BackUPS power supply. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:19:49PM -0700, Brent Hawkins wrote: I just compiled Kernel 2.2.17 and found that xconfig had some features grayed out (like some network cards). Also, despite selecting "automount", it still won't handle supermount. Am I missing a step somewhere or is this kernel have those problems? When you make xconfig you need to go to the code maturity level options tab and answer y to prompt for development and/or incomplete code drivers. The greyed network cards will then be revealed. You need to compile supermount as a module under the filesystems tab - it will not work if compiled in because a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime disables it. Anyway, that's my story. I have had to use both steps to get 2.2.17 to work for me. HTH. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mob: 0419 535539 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ALSA, SB card and conf.modules
At 19:18 -0600 2000/09/06, D. R. Evans wrote:
Does anyone have a conf.modules file correctly configured to use ALSA with
either a Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128 or an Ensoniq 1371 card??
Just a note: i only had to start using ALSA drivers because esd seemed to
require them. Before I worked with the kernel drivers. But now i like most
alsa drivers than kernel ones (perhaps ALSA could become the standard drivers
instead of OSS/Free ???).
And now the stuff that matters...
My Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128 is configured this way and working (in
Makdrake 7.1 with many Cooker updates, so perhaps some things, as
loadig of modules in
/etc/modules from rc.modules does not work the same...try the latest
initscripts package):
/etc/modules.conf:
# Pure ALSA portion, for esd and so on
# WARNING: DON'T load the es1371 module from standard kernel
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_cards_limit=1 # I only have one...
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# OSS/Free emulation portion, needed for programs that don't know anyting
# about ALSA, but work with OSS
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
/etc/modules:
#agpgart
NVdriver
aha152x
#es1371 # COMMENTED, if you load it, alsa won't load
snd-card-ens1371
i2c-piix4
i2c-isa
w83781d
#rivatv
eeprom
#joy-analog
/etc/asound.conf: (edited only needed really to enable the joystick port)
soundcard("card1") {
control {
; The type is 'bool'.
switch("Joystick", true) Manually edited this...
; The type is 'word'.
; The accepted switch range is from 512 to 536.
; Available addresses - 0x200, 0x208, 0x210, 0x218
switch("Joystick Address", 0x200) ...and this
}
mixer("Cirrus Logic CS4297A") {
... mixer state saved automatically ...
}
Hope this works for you...
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Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
José Antonio Jiménez Berni wrote: There is a nice aplication for that ungly work. It's calles 'gfcc', it think it's installed by default (at least in my Mandrake 7.1). It's very simple to edit the rules and you can export directly to a sh script. Besides I know that there is file for the rules '/etc/sysconfig/ipchains' which is read by /etc/rc.d/.../ipchains' but I don't know the format for that file. Good Luck. Berni I know it nice to use a GUI to solve all of your problems, but I want to know the actuall syntax before downgrading myself. I have used GFCC before, it works nicely, you can load pre-configure rules for your system. But, those rules are not what I want, I want to write own script so that I learn what exactly IPChains is doing. BTW, the rc.firewall file is located in the /etc/rc.d directory, you can simply edit it with any text based editor to insert or add your own rules. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
There is a nice aplication for that ungly work. It's calles 'gfcc', it think it's installed by default (at least in my Mandrake 7.1). It's very simple to edit the rules and you can export directly to a sh script. Besides I know that there is file for the rules '/etc/sysconfig/ipchains' which is read by /etc/rc.d/.../ipchains' but I don't know the format for that file. Good Luck. Berni On Fri, 5 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: I've recently attempted to write my own IP routing script (IPchains and IPmasquerading). I have some minor problems with my initial script and need some help from an experienced Linux user. First off, I have a cable modem for a receiving internet connection with an IP address that is provided via DHCP, second, I want my machine to serve as an outgoing DHCP server for the other machines on my network. The client machines will be using a class "C" network address and the DHCP server will only allow a fixed amount of clients to exist on the network for security reasons! I wrote a script using several resources on the web, I have yet to read the IPMasquerading HOW-TO and the IPChains HOW-TO but plan to in the near future. Currently I am trying to figure out how in the hell to enable to outgoing DHCP server on my computer! I have tested out this script with no success! What should I add or change in order to make it work? IP port forwading is enabled in the kernel and this script is executed at boot up. Here is my script: rc.firewall #!/bin/sh # rc.firewall - IPChains and IPMasquerading, internet firewall/routing script # echo -n "Setting IP Chains..." # modules for IPMasquerading /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/modprobe ip_vdolive # execute IP Forwading echo "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # enable host DHCP echo "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr # IPChains routing information /sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 160 /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.1/24 -d 192.168.0.1/24 -j ACCEPT /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.1/24 -d 192.168.0.2/32 -j MASQ /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.1/24 -d 192.168.0.3/32 -j MASQ echo "Done!" BTW, I did not write any firewall rules as of yet, I know basically how to and which ports to block secure and I will do so once the Masquerading issue is solved! -- La frase célebre para hoy es El Tag se ha fugado con un GIF de Judith Masco... - | José Antonio Jiménez Berni | |C/ Músico Ziryab, 17 3-2 | | 14005 Córdoba | |Spain | | | |Phone: +34 957413730 | |GSM: +34 656255563 | |ICQ: 28939390 | | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -
Re: [expert] Fixed Freq Monitors
Daniel Bodanske wrote: I am installing Mandrake 7.1 (single disk version) for a friend, and am having trouble with the X config. He has a Sony GDM-1960 fixed frequency . Daniel, I have an almost equal set up at home (Sony GDM 1962 B with SUN label). I made it work with a Matrox G200 under LM 6.1 and 7.1 after studying the links listed below. Of course I had to use a normal monitor for installation, modify XFree86Config by hand, and must use runlevel 5 all the time, but the monitor is really good. Have a look at the links and let us know. Monday I'll also post my home Xfree86Config file, with modelines and all. Good luck, Marco http://searchlinux.com/cgi-perl/subjectview.pl?sidx=128701qidx=102775type=0from=/cgi-perl/search.pl%3Fqidx=102775 CNET Linux Help - Question http://www.si87.com/Support/s-to-z.html Monitor Manufacturers s-to-Z http://saturn.tlug.org/sunstuff/ffmonitor.html#ffreqUsing a fixed-frequency monitor on a PC http://www.sun.com/service/contacting/faq/index.htmlQuestions and Comments http://shin.nu/~maruyamh/sunspecific.html Sun Specific!! http://docs.sun.com/ http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/Sun_page.html SUN monitors. Monitor, video card, and cable information http://cvs.anu.edu.au:80/monitorconversion/ Use your old Workstation Monitors with Linux/XFree86 http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/vga2rgbs.html VGA to RGB+sync converter http://www.epox.com/support/bulletins/t-23.html EPoX Bulletin #23: Matrox G200 AGP video card problems with VIA MVP3 chipsets http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_ffmon.htmlSci.Electronics.Repair FAQ: Approaches to Using Fixed Frequency or Non-Standard Monitors on PCs http://www.pacwest.net/byron13/sam/ffmon.htm#ffmqad Approaches to Using Fixed Frequency or Non-Standard Monitors on PCs http://www.synergetech.co.jp/html/hal9000/display/1.txt http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=qkl=XXstype=stextq=GDM+1962+manualsearch.x=26search.y=6 AltaVista: Simple Query "GDM 1962 manual"
[expert] Best mpeg video player setup (for the archives)
While you read this, download mtv (or mtvp) from http://rpmfind.com/ freshmeat.com or other places on the net. GTV crashed, the new one I just upgraded to. The old one that comes stock in MDK7.1 used to work a little bit, and on some files, as long as you turned audio off. I got SDL 1.1 installed like they wanted (it's a "lib" so I could keep the old version too) but it crashed big time. No matter what I do it crashes. GTV used to crash sometimes when the sound was not right in the file, so I just turned off sound. So I went back and took a look at "mtv" mpeg player. The "mtvp" program is FREE, it's a command line version but works real good, the GUI interface has a nag screen. I just made a new application link for it in KDE (right click anywhere on your screen is one way), calling it like this (execute): /usr/bin/X11/mtvp -z and named it mtvp.kdelnk, and set the "mime" type to accept video/mpeg This makes the FREE command line version more automatic. Went and took out "video/mpeg" on all the other video things (there were three I think), GTV, "acton" or whatever it is sucks! (in kfm see "applications" at the bottom of the edit menu to get to your ap links easy). You have to do this so it picks mtvp as the only thing to play mpegs with. And now when I double click on a mpeg file in my file manager, it starts mtvp and plays X2 size (that's what the -z is for). NEVER CRASHES! plays sound great, reads files that GTV couldn't. You change the volume using "kmix" (the little button at the bottom of your screen) the only thing you lose is the ability to pause or back up. You can stop it anytime by closing. The RPM installs man pages, see them for further info. If anyone finds a better program, please post.
[expert] Best mpeg video player setup (for the archives)
While you read this, download mtv (or mtvp) from http://rpmfind.com/ freshmeat.com or other places on the net. GTV crashed, the new one I just upgraded to. The old one that comes stock in MDK7.1 used to work a little bit, and on some files, as long as you turned audio off. I got SDL 1.1 installed like they wanted (it's a "lib" so I could keep the old version too) but it crashed big time. No matter what I do it crashes. GTV used to crash sometimes when the sound was not right in the file, so I just turned off sound. So I went back and took a look at "mtv" mpeg player. The "mtvp" program is FREE, it's a command line version but works real good, the GUI interface has a nag screen. I just made a new application link for it in KDE (right click anywhere on your screen is one way), calling it like this (execute): /usr/bin/X11/mtvp -z and named it mtvp.kdelnk, and set the "mime" type to accept video/mpeg This makes the FREE command line version more automatic. Went and took out "video/mpeg" on all the other video things (there were three I think), GTV, "acton" or whatever it is sucks! (in kfm see "applications" at the bottom of the edit menu to get to your ap links easy). You have to do this so it picks mtvp as the only thing to play mpegs with. And now when I double click on a mpeg file in my file manager, it starts mtvp and plays X2 size (that's what the -z is for). NEVER CRASHES! plays sound great, reads files that GTV couldn't. You change the volume using "kmix" (the little button at the bottom of your screen) the only thing you lose is the ability to pause or back up. You can stop it anytime by closing. The RPM installs man pages, see them for further info. If anyone finds a better program, please post.
