[expert] ram issue
Hi all, Have an issue with my ram and would like a solution to this issue. 2.3.2 Specifying Memory Size in GRUB Edit the file /boot/grub/menu.1st as root and find the line which specifies your kernel. It should look similar to: kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 Append "mem=nnnM" to the end of this line (where nnn is the number of megabytes of RAM installed in your machine) and reboot. This is what I found on mandrakeuser.org. Question I have is how do I edit the file ? I understand that I open pico then what ? Thank you, Chronos. _ Email your boss can't read - sign up for free disinfo.net email at http://www.disinfo.com, your gateway to the underground
[expert] Fwd: MandrakeUpdate vs Helix
I'm forwarding the following message since it never appeared on the list after I sent it. In fact, neither did two other messages, one of which was a reply to another message that appeared on the list. ** Forwarding message from "John J. LeMay Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:04:34 -0500 I've recently upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 (from 7.1) and I have installed Helix 1.0. When updating packages, several packages appear (in similar forms) in both Helix and the MandrakeUpdate lists. Which should be used? John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
[expert] FlightGear help?
I've just discovered FlightGear, which seems to be a great flight simulator. The only problem is, I can't figure out the controls, and flightgear.org seems to be defunct. Can anyone point me towards a help page or man page? Thanks. -- Brian Hartman, MLS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] tv software
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:33:21AM -0800, Tom Berkley wrote: > win98se or win2k using the ati drivers. > > tom berkley > > ps > > sorry, just couldn't resist. I use an ati pci tv card in my win2k box > primarily because linux does not have any support for that card yet. > > Steve Young wrote: > > > i have an all in wonder 128 pro and i was wondering if anyone knew of > > software that would make the tv inputs and output work > gatos is installed on LM 7.2 my version is gatos-0.0.6-0.2303.5mdk With the proper connections pluged in user# gatos see if anything happens Go to http://www.freshmeat.net search for gatos You nay-sayers may be surprised My All-in-Wonder PCI works I know of others working fine as well! Being in the nature of things, sometimes its "plug it in and fire it up" other times you pound your fist on the keyboard and sell out to the "Dark Side" :) William Bouterse Talkeetna
[expert] Konqueror & samba share
I tried to access my windows share on local network with Konqueror and I see some problem with Long File names and file names with mixed case names. For example, if I enter a URL smb:/win1/ in Konq. location bar, it asks me for user name and password. When I enter that it shows me the windows shares. I click on one of the shares and Konq shows the whole directory listing. I have long file names in this directory. One directory for example is "Internet Downloads". Konq. shows this as "INTERNE~". If I click on that name to see the directory contents, it complains that no such directory exists. But if I enter the complete URL with that directory name as 'smb:/win1/cdrive/Internet Downloads' it works properly. How do I tell konqueror to show the long file names properly, instead of DOS 8.3 format. Other observation is that if I mount that windows share with usual mount command and browse Konq shows everything properly with long file names. Can somebody help? Thanks, amit _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [expert] Recursive symlinks in /usr/bin?
Weird. I *do* have /usr/bin/mh which seems to duplicate the contents of /usr/bin, and both directories have mh -> ./ . A security thing maybe?? Dave. On 29-Dec-2000 Larry Marshall wrote: > Tom Eastman wrote: >> >> [tom@celleste bin]$ ls -ld /usr/bin/mh >> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root1 Dec 29 2000 /usr/bin/mh -> >> ./ >> >> Why is there a symlink in /usr/bin called mh which points straight back >> to /usr/bin??? >> >> Is this kind of recursive symlink a bad thing? or can I just ignore >> it? > > Can't imagine why it's there or how it could be useful. For what it's > worth, I have no such link on my system. Any idea what mh is or is > supposed to be? > > Cheers --- Larry
Re: [expert] tv software
Has anyone tried gatos with that card. It's supposed to work with it. cu;-) Spence Rusty Carruth wrote: > > > Steve Young wrote: > > > > > i have an all in wonder 128 pro and i was wondering if anyone knew of > > > software that would make the tv inputs and output work > > Has anyone tried using VMWare to boot one of those 'other' OS's > and making it so that other os could fiddle with the tv inputs > and outputs? (Probably won't work, but its a thought...) > > rc > > Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE > FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 > Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825
Re: [expert] A little KDE 2.1 problem
But it's a folder/directory. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no program for it to call, but the desktop is supposed to just open another kfm (konqueror) window for it. - Original Message - From: "Al Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [expert] A little KDE 2.1 problem > Can you right click and look at the properties and > make sure it's calling the correct program? > > --- Robin Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yesterday I installed the KDE 2.1-0.20001213 > > packages from > > ftp://ftp.nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ on my > > otherwise stock 7.2 system and > > almost everything is working great. Much better in > > fact than 2.0. The only > > trouble I am having is that folders on the desktop > > won't open. When I click > > on one I see Konqueror show up briefly on the task > > bar, then it goes away > > and no window is opened. This happens on things > > like the Trash icon as > > well. > > > > I tried creating a new user in order to get a fresh > > set of kde settings and > > for that user the "Open with..." dialog pops up when > > I click on a desktop > > folder. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > -- > > Robin Dunn > > Software Craftsman > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? > > http://wxPROs.comRelax with wxPython! > > > > > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > >
[expert] Disk partitioning and Disk Drake
If you are installing linux on a clean hard drive, Disk Drake may be okay. If you are installing linux on a system with windows on it, like a lot of people will be, and are trying to create a linux partition out of unused space on the drive, sorry, Mandrake, but someone needs to work on this. I have found that various versions of Disk Drake will create partition errors, anything from minor errors that don't seem to affect the drive to real goofball errors on some cooker versions. Whatever you do, don't create a linux "primary" partition using Disk Drake. Disk Drake doesn't resize the extended Dos partition that the dos fdisk originally set up. Instead, it creates linux partitions in the extended Dos partition. This kind of bothers me. Shouldn't the linux partition be created as totally separate from the Dos partition? "Extended" seems to be the default choice in Disk Drake. If you try to create a "primary" linux partition in the extended Dos partition, you'll end up with a truly goofed-up partition table. I fixed this with a third party program called Partition Commander but was freaked for a short while, thinking I'd lost everything. It is safer to use something like Partition Commander to set up the linux partitions, and then install linux. You can change the default file system in the linux partition to reiserfs when you install linux. If you install linux as a secondary os on a laptop, careful, because you might not even be able to boot from a floppy if things go wrong. There is no bios setup in the Sony VAIO laptop I have, it seems to be a stupid windows program! Grub got stuck and wouldn't boot anything, just displayed a "grub" on the screen, even though I'd set the stupid windows Bios configuration to boot CD-floppy-hard disk in that order. The only way to fix this was to stick in the linux installation cd and reinstall or upgrade without selecting files so you can redo grub or whatever. I really think the Mandrake versions of linux are great -- the only ones that were ever easy to install and use -- and I hate to have to rely on third party software to fix things, but that's just the way it is. Partition Commander is pretty cheap (I picked one up for about $30).
Re: [expert] One BIG anoying Pain in the A**
On Friday 29 December 2000 05:16 am, you wrote: > Anyway, heres the console message when testing the KDE RPM upgrade > installation; > > [root@mdw1982 KDE2.0.1]# rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm > error: kdebase-2.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed > error: failed dependencies: > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdk > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk Ahh, fuel for the fire of the RPM flamewar :) This is one of my biggest gripes about the RPM System in general. It is complaining about the dependencies of the kdepackages that are *already* installed. By installing the *new* version of kdelibs (i.e. 2.0.1) you will break three packages that rely on the *old* version of kdelibs (i.e. 2.0). The work around is simple, since I am assuming you are also going to be upgrading the kdelibs-sound, -devel, and -sound-devel packages to 2.0.1 as well. Either rpm -e kdelibs-sound, -devel, and -sound-devel, or use the --nodeps option. ONLY use the last option if this is the only dependency failure, or if all of the dependency failures are non-failures. The RPM debate has flown all over this list as well as many others but this is a PRIME example of why the RPM system needs to be changed. It does NOT properly deal with dependencies. I realize that package management is complex and there are times when the admin needs to make a decision to override the standard install method and that RPM has the flexibility to do that. But the ease of installation of new software packages is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for people who would switch from MS to Linux in various situations. From what I gather, apt has a very good system for dependecy determination and satisfaction. And that part of the problem with RPM is poorly crafted rpms. And this is a necessary tool for administration purposes. Ah well, its Friday... -- Matthew Micene A host is a host from coast to coast, Systems Development Managerand no one will talk to a host too close Express Search Inc.Unless the host that isn't close www.ExpressSearch.com is busy, hung or dead
[expert] IRQ steering?
No response so far, trying again. Anyone knows how IRQ 5 is chosen both for my eth0 (tulip, external card) driver and sound (maestro, on motherboard) on my Compaq Presario 5640/5670 when other interrupts are available: 4,6,7,9,10,11? Also the graphics card is allocated to IRQ5: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo Banshee (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Guillemot Corporation Maxi Gamer Phoenix Flags: VGA palette snoop, 66Mhz, fast devsel, IRQ 5 How to steer away one of the units from IRQ 5 to avoid interrupt sharing/conflicts? In the documentation to both the tulip and maestro driver I have not found any option to control the IRQ. What unit takes care of allocating IRQ's if the card driver does not require one, the kernel or the BIOS? The BIOS for this computer has very limited number of options, and as mentioned above the sound hardware is on the motherboard. Also only two PCI slots are available (one with the ethernet card, the other with a PCTV card, IRQ 3), so shuffling cards is not much to try.
Re: [expert] One BIG anoying Pain in the A**
I had the same problem over a week ago and, although I may be wrong, it appears as though the 2.0.1 versions of the three RPMs noted in your message are no longer in the download directory. Hopefully, I'm wrong. But anyone who downloaded the 2.0.1 update when it was first posted could probably confirm this. M. On Friday 29 December 2000 02:16, you wrote: > Ok...I've followed the directions, done everything that was to be done, and > still I get the same stinking, anoying, almost M$-like error. I've got ALL > the KDE2.0.1 RPM's downloaded and in the same dir. And STILL there's a > problem of one type or another. Theres something I'm just not getting. > > Anyway, heres the console message when testing the KDE RPM upgrade > installation; > > [root@mdw1982 KDE2.0.1]# rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm > error: kdebase-2.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed > error: failed dependencies: > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdk > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk > > I know what it looks like on the surface, but I've grabbed everything I can > possibly think of to satisfy any dependency issues and still the same > message persists. What now? This is SO frustrating. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [expert] One BIG anoying Pain in the A**
On Friday 29 December 2000 11:16, you wrote: > Ok...I've followed the directions, done everything that was to be done, and > still I get the same stinking, anoying, almost M$-like error. I've got ALL > the KDE2.0.1 RPM's downloaded and in the same dir. And STILL there's a > problem of one type or another. Theres something I'm just not getting. > > Anyway, heres the console message when testing the KDE RPM upgrade > installation; > > [root@mdw1982 KDE2.0.1]# rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm > error: kdebase-2.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed > error: failed dependencies: > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdk > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk > > I know what it looks like on the surface, but I've grabbed everything I can > possibly think of to satisfy any dependency issues and still the same > message persists. What now? This is SO frustrating. Ummm, which KDE2.0 do you have? OK here--The UGLY method === #!/bin/bash for i in `rpm -qa|grep kde` do rpm -e $i done rpm --rebuilddb # I am assuming your downloaded rpms are in /home/mark/KDE201 cd /home/mark/KDE2.01 rpm -ivh k*rpm = paste the lines between the s into a text editor, change the directory to the path and name where you have saved your downloads, and save the text file somewhere creative like /home/mark/foo then open a terminal and su - to root cd to the directory where you saved foo ./foo Civileme
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
On Fri Dec 29, 2000 at 05:23:45AM -0700, Traci Collins wrote: > > Hi Traci. Can you, from a console, give me the results of: > > > > rpm -qa|grep Zope > > > > I think you must still have a Zope package installed somewhere because > > there should be no conflicts (in fact, if you had everything from Zope > > removed from the system, it shouldn't show up in MandrakeUpdate at > > all). You might be missing something somewhere... please give me the > > results of that output, then maybe I can see what the problem is. > > This is the problem. Thanks. Zope is now gone from the database and > also from the update. Now, on the off chance that I would like to > have the updated, secure, zope, how do you download and install > updates (in this case a replacement) for packages you don't have > installed? I could reinstall zope and get it back on the list but > that obviously isn't going to get me what I would like since I would > be back with a Mandrake Update program that wasn't working. Any > suggestions? Manually log into the mirror and go into the updates/7.2/RPMS directory and download Zope* and then do rpm -ivh *.rpm to upgrade them. With Zope, you'll need to remove Zope-zserver or Zope-pcgi before doing this since you can only have one or the other installed. But that's what you would do for any package that you don't currently have installed and wanted to install. Doing the install from the CD and then using MU to update would work as well, but it's one extra step as far as I'm concerned, and one you really don't need to do. > > Of course, the other problem might be that the mirror you're looking > > at hasn't cleaned out the old Zope updated packages yet... are there > > two different versions for each package? Ie a -1.1mdk and a -1.2mdk? > > If so, select only the -1.2mdk packages. The mirrors should have > > removed the -1.1mdk packages (old and obsolete now), but some of them > > haven't yet. > > There was only one version of each package, they had a 7.2 > subdirectory so I don't think that the 1.1mdk packages would have > been in the particular place. Since you know about the mirrors, could > you answer a question? What is happening to the update mirrors? I > haven't been able to get a list of updates from any of the American > mirrors, I am always a little nervous about transatlantic updates > just because I find that ftp from those distances often fails at some > point during the process. Have the hosts decided not to host Mandrake > updates any longer? That's a question I don't have an answer for. I don't know what's going on with the mirrors (although I've heard some people say it's fixed now?), as I don't have anything to do with the mirrors. I just deal with updates, so I keep an eye on that sort of thing. One thing you can do if you are concerned, is manually ftp (use ncftp or some other gui ftp client that resumes) the updates and then just point MU to the local directory where you downloaded them. That way if you do run into trouble, you can resume the download if you need to. FYI, I've rarely had problems with overseas sites, and sometimes they are faster than mirrors closer to home (I'm in Canada). Hope that helps somewhat. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD - Danen Consulting Serviceswww.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org - MandrakeSoft, Inc. Security www.linux-mandrake.com Current Linux uptime: 6 days 9 hours 5 minutes.
Re[2]: [expert] without using LRP, how to get WIndows to route our router?
Bill Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I presume you have masq etc set up? Then try "route" and see what is > the default gateway device. On my machine, on bootup it could only find > eth0 (internal), and made that the permanent gateway, and not ppp0, so > it looped. > > BillK > (Blast, I hate Ishmail sometimes! I was 2 words away from finishing the reply, and got my fingers in the wrong place, and Ishmail DUMPED everything! Crud crud crud! Oh, well, here goes again) I finally got the time to try and see if the linux box was correctly routing, and it appears to be fine, as I can ping the linux router's ethernet card just fine from a dialin client (also linux ;-). Or, put another way, I have verified that packets from the linux RAS can travel from the RAS client to the (windows-only) network segment, but that no reply comes back. Add that to the fact that, when the windows machine I'm trying to reach (at, for example, 172.27.4.1) does the following: c:\windows> ping 172.27.5.1 Pinging 172.27.5.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 157.130.224.69: Destination host unreachable. Request timed out. That pretty much says to me that I need to tell the windows machines about the new route. So, how do I do that? (I'd like to do it 'automatically' and not have to manually set the routing tables in the windows machines!) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825
[expert] Mandrake Update
Wow, looks like someone at Mandrakesoft has been watching this list. Last night I download the list of mirrors for updates for mdk7.2, and there were about 2 dozen sites listed. This is much better. For those who responded to me regarding the problem I was having with mandrakeupdate and the installation of packages, it would seem that the problem is solved now. I reinstalled, and set / to ext2 instead of ReiserFS, tossed in the additional RAM, and now there are no problems that I can see with this installation. This hsould be the one I keep until the next version of Mandrake is released. Cheers There's plenty of semicolons to go around
Re: [expert] Default 7.2 SMP kernel speed
Sadin Nurkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > ... > kernel that comes with 7.2 (mdk-secure) and the system > under X was unbelievably slow. (not so much slow as delayed... > it took something like 30-40 seconds for any sort of action to start, > like starting an xterm or something). After getting the newest > stable kernel and recompiling everything seems normal like > before on 7.1... > I was just wondering if anyone is able to point me to the > source of this bottleneck. I'd guess it has to do with authentication somewhere. i.e. some process somewhere is either asking some (probably non-existent or at least non-responsive to that request) remote machine for some kind of information. Like an NFS mount (or samba, or ...), or an AUTH request, or the like. (One of my machines at home takes up to a minute or more for the first incoming FTP connection to get to the username prompe! After making it there once, new incoming FTP connections (from the same remote machine) start up just fine. Never have bothered finding who/what/where, maybe I should just for the education ;-). There also may be something in your .login or .cshrc/.bashr/.whateverrc that is triggering some kind of authentication/connection with some service that does the above... Or maybe its something else entirely ;-) / 2 rusty Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825
Re[2]: [expert] Laptop recommendations -- becoming sorta OT...
Mike MacCana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Stodden wrote: > > and that the > > industry standard is 800 x 600 (480,000 pixels). > > That's not. You'll be hard pressed to find any PCs that aren't at least > caoable 1024 x 768 still in use [okay, you won't but they're still > massively outnumbered]. well, maybe, but my Toshiba 435 laptop still hums along (mostly) just fine and dandy (with only 32 meg of ram! gasp! ;-) (and I've got a friend asking me if I know of anybody selling 486 laptops for under $20 (preferably less) - B/W fine! So don't throw away those useless computers! Find some crazy idiot...er, umm.. wild person who will take your old junker and find a use for it! (anybody have one of these they want to unload ... er... sell?)) > > So that is all there is, sorry! > > Um, no. Just because 1024 x 768 is common, it doesn't mean I can't buy a > monitor that can do 1600 x 1200 if I wish to pay the money. Why would it? ^^^ I think you meant 'display'. ;-) > I suggets purchasing one of the Dell or IBM models certified by Red Hat. > They can both do 1024 x 768. The Dell can do 1600 x 1200 IIRC [its a huge > 16 inch, equivalent to a desktop 17/19 inch] Yow! Wish I could get the company to buy me one of THOSE! ;-) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825
Re[2]: [expert] tv software
> Steve Young wrote: > > > i have an all in wonder 128 pro and i was wondering if anyone knew of > > software that would make the tv inputs and output work Has anyone tried using VMWare to boot one of those 'other' OS's and making it so that other os could fiddle with the tv inputs and outputs? (Probably won't work, but its a thought...) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825
[expert] linux mail gateway to internal networks
Hi , i have tried to configure my sendamail for receive my [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send this to my internal exchange server. But when de email is received and tries route to my internal networks the mail is given back whit the error the host 192.0.0.3 is unknown. My linux box have 2 ethernet cards external 200.*.*.* and internal 192.0.0.5 my exchange server is 192.0.0.5 i configured sendmail whit virusertable and whit domain table and the two no work they know the problem? Maximo Monsalvo Guspamar S.A Responsable Sistemas
[expert] One BIG anoying Pain in the A**
Ok...I've followed the directions, done everything that was to be done, and still I get the same stinking, anoying, almost M$-like error. I've got ALL the KDE2.0.1 RPM's downloaded and in the same dir. And STILL there's a problem of one type or another. Theres something I'm just not getting. Anyway, heres the console message when testing the KDE RPM upgrade installation; [root@mdw1982 KDE2.0.1]# rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm error: kdebase-2.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdk kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk I know what it looks like on the surface, but I've grabbed everything I can possibly think of to satisfy any dependency issues and still the same message persists. What now? This is SO frustrating. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [expert] Recursive symlinks in /usr/bin?
Tom Eastman wrote: > > [tom@celleste bin]$ ls -ld /usr/bin/mh > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root1 Dec 29 2000 /usr/bin/mh -> ./ > > Why is there a symlink in /usr/bin called mh which points straight back to >/usr/bin??? > > Is this kind of recursive symlink a bad thing? or can I just ignore it? Can't imagine why it's there or how it could be useful. For what it's worth, I have no such link on my system. Any idea what mh is or is supposed to be? Cheers --- Larry
[expert] X problems at X-mas, Now: gdm to kdm
I've found out that the problem is related to gdm, when using kdm as a login page these things don't happen and I can log into whichever desktop or windowmanager as user. Now I need to know where I can change the default login page from gdm to kdm, in SuSE this is done in /etc/rc.config, in Mandrake I can't find any file do do this. Cheers, ei On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:57:37PM +0100, EagleIce wrote: > Hi all! > > One day when I wanted to boot into Mandrake 7.2 as user on my homebox, I > couldn't get into KDE2 or HelixGnome or anything else at the login page. As > root it was OK, so I changed /etc/inittab into runlevel 3, boot again and > tryed to log into X using 'kde' as command, but it didn't work. Only 'startx' > works and then I get into Enlightenment, to my great relief I can change > windowmanager to Icewm from there. > But I want to use KDE2 and HelixGnome! Is there someone out there who can > inform me about what I can do about this? > > Thank's in advance, > ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
[expert] KMail: import files (OT?)
I do not know if this question is OT -- if so, please forgive me. I had been using xfmail for some time, after migrating to Linux. Now I find the new version of KMail very stable and reliable, so I'm using this other program. The problem: xfmail archives mail making a folder for each category you want, and mail is stored with numbered files under each directory (e.g. /home/guido/mail/mandrake/1, /home/guido/mail/mandrake/2 and so on). Kmail does not use one file for each message, but archives mail using one "large" file for each category, so there will be only one directory with "large" files, e.g. /home/guido/Mail/mandrake. Question: is there a program to merge the old mail files (xfmail output) with the new ones (kmail output)? or should I write a little utility do perform this task? thanks! guido, italy -- E-Mail: Guido Milanese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua, Genova, Italia Homepage: http://fly.to/arsantiqua + + + + + + NON NOBIS DOMINE + + + + + + + --
Re: [expert] Disappearing Gnome
On Friday 29 December 2000 13:26, you wrote: > Salane wrote: > > you didn't upgrade your Gnome to helix did you? > > I actually did it several different ways. Since I had the problem on > four different fresh installs (down to the point of deleting and > recreating partitions), I was able to experiment. I did upgrade > Mandrake gnome to Helix at least once but I also installed Mandrake > without selecting the gnome package and did a clean install of helix > at least once. I had the same problem after a reboot that time as I > had when I upgraded gnome to helix. > > Traci Helix and the 7.1/7.2 menu structure are incompatible. There _may_ be a fix at the helix site. They prefer to support their own. Civileme
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
Adam Clater wrote: > > Have you considered just downloading the rpms and installing them > manually? > If I don't use the Mandrake updates, where are the rpms located? That will probably be necessary now that I have completely removed all the zope packages and it no longer shows up in update. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
Holly Henry-Pilkington wrote: > > If you can shift the window enough to get the top of the screen, you can > maximize it which will actually resize it for your screen and you can see > the error. Thanks for this trick. Someone else helped me find the problem package but I didn't know that maximize would do that. Getting to the top of the window was never a problem, just getting to the bottom. I could have maximized at any time. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Disappearing Gnome
Salane wrote: > > you didn't upgrade your Gnome to helix did you? > I actually did it several different ways. Since I had the problem on four different fresh installs (down to the point of deleting and recreating partitions), I was able to experiment. I did upgrade Mandrake gnome to Helix at least once but I also installed Mandrake without selecting the gnome package and did a clean install of helix at least once. I had the same problem after a reboot that time as I had when I upgraded gnome to helix. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link and Zope
Vincent Danen wrote: > > Hi Traci. Can you, from a console, give me the results of: > > rpm -qa|grep Zope > > I think you must still have a Zope package installed somewhere because > there should be no conflicts (in fact, if you had everything from Zope > removed from the system, it shouldn't show up in MandrakeUpdate at > all). You might be missing something somewhere... please give me the > results of that output, then maybe I can see what the problem is. This is the problem. Thanks. Zope is now gone from the database and also from the update. Now, on the off chance that I would like to have the updated, secure, zope, how do you download and install updates (in this case a replacement) for packages you don't have installed? I could reinstall zope and get it back on the list but that obviously isn't going to get me what I would like since I would be back with a Mandrake Update program that wasn't working. Any suggestions? > Of course, the other problem might be that the mirror you're looking > at hasn't cleaned out the old Zope updated packages yet... are there > two different versions for each package? Ie a -1.1mdk and a -1.2mdk? > If so, select only the -1.2mdk packages. The mirrors should have > removed the -1.1mdk packages (old and obsolete now), but some of them > haven't yet. There was only one version of each package, they had a 7.2 subdirectory so I don't think that the 1.1mdk packages would have been in the particular place. Since you know about the mirrors, could you answer a question? What is happening to the update mirrors? I haven't been able to get a list of updates from any of the American mirrors, I am always a little nervous about transatlantic updates just because I find that ftp from those distances often fails at some point during the process. Have the hosts decided not to host Mandrake updates any longer? Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[expert] boot up problem
Hi, I asked this question before under a different subject, but I still haven't found a solution yet. My problem is that when I do a cold boot, the system slowly freezes after starting X. I see the splash screen slowly start to come up, and after a bit the desktop icons come up in the same spot(one on top of the other) at this point, you cannot get to a console as no keys work. If I do a reset, the system does a fsck and afterwards comes up like it's supposed to. This happens with KDE and Gnome. If I don't use the autologin but use kdm or gdm, the same thing happens. If I start the system in run level 3 instead of 5, I get the same thing. Any idea what the problem could be, or where I should look? Hopefully, Jerry -- Gerald Williams Words Matter! Bangkok, Thailand
Re: [expert] Disappearing Gnome
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: > See what /usr/sbin/chksession -l says. If it does not have Gnome, some > thing is broken in your install. Yes, I think we can agree on that . > mdk rebuilds gui available envs each time it boots. Look at > /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime > It calls /usr/sbin/fndSession, which in turn calls /usr/sbin/chksession. > All of them work based on some mdk specific files (eg, list of wm > installed), that must be updated each time you insall a wm. So if > you install an rpm from rhat or helix, perhaps it does not all the > things needed to let the system knoe theres a new wm. Do you know the name and location of the file which contains the list of installed wm? As a quick and dirty fix I could manually update this file to get gnome and sawfish back since they are both present and operational on my system. It may be the Helix install which isn't updating this file. They don't officially support 7.2 yet and if the file has changed since 7.1 their automagical program may have simply goofed. There are several 7.2 users who are also Helix users so I am surprized not to have heard about this 'feature' of the combination. I guess I must just whine faster . In any event, thanks for an education on how the process works. Traci -- Traci Collins, MA, CCAI, CCNA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[expert] Correction on CD-RW streaming errors
The line to try is hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hdc if hdc is where your burner is. Please report results. Civileme
Re: [expert] tv software
win98se or win2k using the ati drivers. tom berkley ps sorry, just couldn't resist. I use an ati pci tv card in my win2k box primarily because linux does not have any support for that card yet. Steve Young wrote: > i have an all in wonder 128 pro and i was wondering if anyone knew of > software that would make the tv inputs and output work
Re: [expert] Laptop recommendations
Mike MacCana wrote: > > Ron Stodden wrote: > > > Mark Belanger wrote: > > > > > > Can anyone recommend a laptop that will > > > work well with Linux/Mandrake? > > > > > > I'd prefer a modem that works, a screen resolution > > > greater than 1024x768. The cost is not really an issue. > > > > My understanding is that laptop screen resolution is fixed in > > manufacture by the number of TFT pixel elements, > > Yes, that's true > > > and that the > > industry standard is 800 x 600 (480,000 pixels). > > That's not. You'll be hard pressed to find any PCs that aren't at least > caoable 1024 x 768 still in use [okay, you won't but they're still > massively outnumbered]. > > > So that is all > > there is, sorry! > > Um, no. Just because 1024 x 768 is common, it doesn't mean I can't buy a > monitor that can do 1600 x 1200 if I wish to pay the money. Why would it? > > > Unlike a CRT monitor, pixels may fail in a laptop > > and there is no way of repairing them. > > That's true as well. But it still doesn't justify the above statement. > > > Regards, > > > Ron. [AU] > > I suggets purchasing one of the Dell or IBM models certified by Red Hat. > They can both do 1024 x 768. The Dell can do 1600 x 1200 IIRC [its a huge > 16 inch, equivalent to a desktop 17/19 inch] Thanks - I'm glad to be educated! -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
Re: [expert] Laptop recommendations
Take a good look at the Dell Inspiron 7500 or whatever is equivalent today. I have a 7000 and it has run both redhat and mandrake very very well. Forget the internal modem for now although there have been some rumors that I have not followed up on regarding linux using the winmodem. There is a project somewhere on this. The 3Com 3CCM156 pcmcia modem works just fine but be careful if you look at the combo nic/modem pcmcia (actually cardbus) some have winmodems. I have not used my modem since last January when my dsl line was installed so I am not very current with the modem stuff.The 7500 has a megabay which will accept the cdrom/floppy drive or an additional 30gb hard drive or a battery and you have two megabays. With a 30gb internal drive you can have 90 gb total (possibly 96 by now!!). Dell has served me well with my 7000 and the 15 inch lcd has 1024x768 but the 7500 goes up to something like 1400x1050 or something close to those numbers. You will very much like the 15 inch lcd. Its BIG. You can also get an adaptec 1480 cardbus scsi adapter and connect up a cdburner and whatever else pleases you to the scsi bus. It requires nothing special. Linux pcmcia software will find all the stuff there and make accessing it transparent for you. Do not sweat the lack of Dell providing you linux. Its cheaper to get the box with windows and then install linux yourself in a dual boot mode. I have mandrake 7.1 on my 7000 currently but with the problems that I have had with 7.2 on my desktop box, I do not wholeheartedly recommend it yet. Either stick with the 7.1 mandrake or use redhat 7.0. The bugs are pretty much worked on rh7 and its rock stable on my desktop. They have even updated the glibc to 2.2 now and there are no problems bringing in the development software, if you're into the fun of new software.growl, nash, yeehah...8-) Have fun with it Tom Berkley Mark Belanger wrote: > Can anyone recommend a laptop that will > work well with Linux/Mandrake? > > I'd prefer a modem that works, a screen resolution > greater than 1024x768. The cost is not really an issue. > > BTW: Dell has "temporarily" stopped offering linux > on their laptops. A sales rep told me that the > would be offering it again soon. > > I've been considering the Micron Transport GX+ even though > the modem is not likely to work. > > TIA, > > -Mark > > -- > Mark Belanger > LTX Corporation
