[expert] Re: [SLE] Linuxconf ?
On Saturday 30 December 2000 11:31, funkyrasta wrote: Is it possible to run Linuxconf on SuSE 7.0... Tia... Dre I don't know if it possible, everything is possible, but I don't understand why someone would be interested in using it at all, you got YaST if you're not interested in tweeking with the config files yourself. I also run a Linux OS that has Linuxconf but I never use it. ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux KDE ~~@
[expert] Which file to change between gdm kdm login?
Which file is it I use to change the default login page from gdm to kdm in Mandrake 7.2? ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux KDE ~~@
Re: [expert] One BIG anoying Pain in the A**
rant-on Actually, at this point it means that I'm going to get some friggin C4 and blow this machine to hell and back because I'm just tired of fussing with it. KDE2.0.1 will NOT install on here no matter what I do. I've tried every way known to man to do the upgrade and now it's good and broke. Some things work, some things don't, and some things, like kpm don't work at all. Hell! they don't even exist on the system anymore. AARRRG! So, I'm most likely looking at a reinstall just so I can get this mess sorted out. aaah! /rant-on Ok...I'm done...might as well get busy. I really don't care that it didn't work but I would really like to know "why" it didn't work and what in the world is going on. the last time I attempted to upgrade KDE on my system it made a mess. There's got to be a better way. Mark pablito wrote: doesn't that mean that you've gotta go UNINSTALL kdelibs-sound, etc., before going on? I assume you are installing the KDE upgrades that don't require glibc 2.2 or whatever that is in the cooker. I used gnome or icewm instead of KDE to do this (if you are in KDE it either won't work or you'll crash.) When I got to that point I used rpmdrake to uninstall the offending 2.0-5 packages. Then I installed kdebase or kdelibs or whatever it was. You've got to install the libs before the base, as I recall. At that point the useful kpackage utility disappeared and I then had to use rpm commands in a terminal window to install the rest of the packages. (I could have used the rpm uninstall command instead of rpmdrake but I couldn't get it right.) At that point I logged out, logged back in as KDE and it worked, except there was still no kpackage. I used rpmdrake again and found that there were some uninstalled miscellaneous little kde files left over from version 2.0-5, which I reinstalled and then kpackage reappeared. Trying to install one of the later KDE versions that require glibc 2.2 is much harder and I think pretty much requires downloading all of the cooker files. -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, December 29, 2000 7:57 AM Subject: [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] kernel-2.4 hdd errors
Svante Signell wrote:
I'm getting errors like this when booting kernel 2.4.0-x, eg x=0.14mdk
They does not happen with kernels 2.2.x. Do I have to compile a kernel
on my own, not using the precompiled ones?
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
more of the above...
Try to disable DMA (.config) when compiling your kernel.
Eric MC
[expert] Tv and radio cards
I am looking to by a Tv and radio card. What would the people here say is the one that works best with linux. Mark Hillary
[expert] Firewall....
hi, can anyone recommand a firewall application with a web administration interface? thank's.
[expert] KDE 2.1 CVS Update RPM's for 7.2 (and 7.1 and 7.0, with some work)
Hello, I have made a set of update RPM's for 7.2 available for KDE 2.1 CVS code. The RPM's are made from CVS code of 12-29-2000. These RPM's are NOT supported by MandrakeSoft. Please report bugs in the code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the bug reporting utilities found on Help--Report Bugs in any KDE application. Please report any packaging problems to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages posted in the mailling lists regarding these RPM's will be ignored. You can find these rpm's at: FTP: ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ (primary) ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde/KDE_UPDATE/ (mirror) HTTP: http://www.nebsllc.com/KDE_UPDATE/ (primary) The source RPM's are available as well but are 100% unsupported. I will ignore any messages regarding these, they built here but as the code is beta at this time some of them needed some help compiling. (hint: look up the --short-circuit flag). User's of MandrakeUpdate can point to any of the above directories but please remember that MandrakeUpdate can not install dependencies. The directory also includes an update to cups, qtcups, and kups which adds some dependencies. While these are NOT required for the KDE update you may want to consider doing these updates manually. Again, these are unsupported and just provided because I needed to do them anyways. For install instructions see: http://www.kde.org/install-binaries.html Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 Users: These RPM's should work for you as well but you will need to find several dependencies to get them to install. You can find the directions for these at: http://kde2.newmail.ru/mandrake_rpms.html - I have not tested this, but am told it works. -Chris
Re: [expert] IRQ steering?
Thank you Bug! for your reply, The three devices using IRQ 5 are: Sound card on main board: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1968 Maestro 2 Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device b0b8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 2000 Ethernet controller card on PCI bus: 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 2800 Video card on AGP (=PCI?) bus: 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 Memory at 4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at 4200 (32-bit, prefetchable) I/O ports at 1000 Capabilities: [54] AGP version 1.0 I'm using X4.0.2 with DRI enabled. According to the log files and glxinfo the card is HW accelerated. However, even though Q3A and gears run OK, HG2, Heretic2, UT does _not_. Do the Banshee (tdfx) driver require an IRQ? If not everything should be OK, or can three devices share the same IRQ? W98 on the same computer have no problems with three devices at IRQ5. Further comments below. Thanks, Svante Bug Hunter writes: If you have PCI cards, IRQ sharing will work. Otherwise, you may have to force the card not to be PNP and then tell it what IRQ to be on. You usually have to run the DOS setup disk to get this to happen. I've not found any option to control the PNP behavior in the BIOS. Do the IRQ steering apply to ISA cards? This computer does not have any ISA slots :( On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Svante Signell wrote: 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? ... 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.
[expert] virus scanning and postfix
Hi, I am using the standard postfix/imap setup for Mandrake 7.2 for mail and wish to start virus scanning incoming email (navidad and kak were sent to me recently! - how many passed through wthout being spotted?). How do I get the mail transport in postfix (cyrus according to the config file) to run email through "anomy" which I have, or perhaps "amavis". The postfix website lists procmail instead of cyrus which does not help a lot. BillK
RE: [expert] IRQ steering?
Check your BIOS again. In the PNP/PCI Configuration. Be sure the PnP OS is set to NO. You should also have an option listed as something alone the lines of Resources Controlled By. It is set to auto. Change the setting to Manual and you can then manually set the IRQ for your Pnp devices. Before you change anything record all your current values. Leave your vid card as IRQ 5 and change the values for your NIC and sound. They can share an IRQ. The vid is what is causing the conflict. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bug Hunter Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 4:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] IRQ steering? If you have PCI cards, IRQ sharing will work. Otherwise, you may have to force the card not to be PNP and then tell it what IRQ to be on. You usually have to run the DOS setup disk to get this to happen. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Svante Signell wrote: 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.
[expert] testing
-- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux KDE ~~@
[expert] Re: [SLE] Suse and Lilo
My experience is that it's useless to install lilo with YaST, I always do it manually and I've never had any difficulties with the 1024 limit (SuSE 6.3, 6.4 7.0). Please give us some more details on what error messages lilo is giving you. ei On Saturday 30 December 2000 15:23, Irwan Hadi wrote: I just bought SuSE 7.0 personnal edition, and try to run in in partition more than 1024 cylinder / 8 giga (it starts from 10 Gb), but seems the Lilo doesn't support. I just wonder, whether I need to download newer LILO and install it, because this seems not usual for me, either Slackware 7.1, Mandrake 7.1 or 7.2 and Debian 2.2 I installed in this computer in partition for root / (including /boot) 10 Gb run flawlessly ? Thanks -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux KDE ~~@
[expert] Re: [SLE] Suse and Lilo
At 04:37 PM 12/30/00 +0100, EagleIce wrote: My experience is that it's useless to install lilo with YaST, I always do it manually and I've never had any difficulties with the 1024 limit (SuSE 6.3, 6.4 7.0). Please give us some more details on what error messages lilo is giving you. Well, not error actually but the LILO was not installed at all, because at the time I set it up, yast said (If I'm not wrong) "your / is on position bigger than 1024 cylinders, and LILO won't work"
RE: [expert] KMail: import files (OT?)
What you've got with your xfmail setup, as you've described it, are "mh" type mailboxes. I have the same thing. You want to convert your "mh" mailboxes to "mbox" type mailboxes. The docs for Kmail talk about a conversion utility (mh2kmail) "that's included with the source", which seems to mean cvs, as Kmail is otherwise only available as part of the kdenetwork package. For other means of conversion see: http://kmail.kde.org/manual/secimporting.html (not much help) and man packf (this seems to be *the* utility, but I've not used it) dave . On 29-Dec-2000 Guido Milanese wrote: 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 + + + + + + + --
[expert] Bit-for-bit CD's
If I wanted to make a bit-for-bit copy of my (free) Mandrake 7.2 CD's (install + extension), what would be the best program to use? Note, I have an IDE CD (which would read the source) and a SCSI CD-R. I've tried CDRecord, but it can't seem to find my IDE CD. Thanks in advance, Ron ./.
Re: [expert] NAT on linux
If you're using Mandrake, you use DrakConf's "internet connection sharing" command. I'm using "pmfirewall" which does NAT (IP masquerading) as well as a firewall. If you're just after documentation at this point, you could read the IPCHAINS howto. M. On Friday 29 December 2000 14:58, you wrote: Where would I find some good docs for setting up NAT on linux? Mandrake 7 EOL Tib -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [expert] Disk partitioning and Disk Drake
Just wanted to note something Windows NT and Windows 2000 will allow you to create up to 4 primary partitions on a single drive. This isn't supported by DOS fdisk either, yet no one claims that it needs work. Personally, I think thatdiskdrake is functioning properly. Thanks 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). There's plenty of semicolons to go around
[expert] LS120, CDROM Drives (SCSI Problem)
Hi, I have an LS120 Floppy Drive, a CDROM drive and a CD-RW. They were working for the most part, but I couldn't access the CDROM to read from in X-CD-ROAST or other burner apps to duplicate CDs (CD-RW would write). The CD-RW was hda, the CDROM was hdb and the LS120 was hdc. I thought things would work better with the CD drives on a different IDE channel so I made the LS120 hda, the CDROM hdb and the CD-RW hdc (swapped the floppy and rewriter). Now I can read from the CDs from my created Desktop CD Icons, can't access the LS120 at all (thinks it's a CDROM) and X-CD-Roast sees the LS120 as the only SCSI device so I can't burn CDs at all with any software. 'dmesg' shows: ide_setup: hda-ide-scsi I thought I had changed the /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf files correctly, but obviously I don't know what I'm doing and I didn't find any info. on the Website when I searched for 'LS120'. P.S. 'dmesg' also shows: hda: LS-120 Vers 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hdb: CD-540E, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: IMATIONCD-RW IMW 040420, ATAPI CDROM drive (all correct) hde: IBM. hdf: IBM.(Both hard drives, working fine). Also getting 'VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) " " " " ide0(3,64) Is there a way to force the system to update everything or do I need to change the config. files ? Could anyone help me please ? I tried posting to the 'newbie' group, but it doesn't seem to be working right. Thought I'd try it here. I included the /etc/fstab /etc/lilo.conf Thank You, Jeff /dev/hdf5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/hda 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdf1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdf6 swap swap defaults 0 0 boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hdc=ide-scsi hda=ide-floppy" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hdc=ide-scsi hda=ide-floppy" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf5 append=" hdc=ide-scsi hda=ide-floppy failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hdf1 label=windows2 table=/dev/hdf map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/hda label=floppy unsafe
[expert] NAT for linux
Sorry for the repeat post (if this actuall got through the first time, never saw it come up), but where can I find docs or instructions to setup NAT for mandrake 7? EOL Tib
Re: [expert] RPM 4 nightmare, Updating ?
Julián Muñoz Domínguez wrote: Thank you Onur, the problema is that I have Mandrake 7.1, and I can't upgrade at this moment. Last week I dowloaded rpm-3.0.5-27mdk, the one which comes with 7.2: rpm -Uvh rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libbz2.so.1 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-27mdk menu 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk I think that the new rpm should not force us to upgrade the entire distribution... -- __o _ \_ (_)/(_) Saludos de Julián EA4ACL I'm on 7.1 as well just completed my rpm upgrade to that same version. I went to the rpm ftp site where they keep all their previous versions. Do an incremental upgrade - and don't worry about using RH versions in between. I believe there were 2 (maybe 3 at the most) steps before getting to the 3.0.5-27. Along the way I added a libbzip2 pkg which includes the needed libbz2 file didn't require upgrading that pkg as well - which would carry other dependency issues. The whole thing took less than an hour over a 56k dialup. Believe me, it's well worth the effort to get to that version of rpm. begin:vcard n:Piety;Bill x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Bill Piety end:vcard
Re: [expert] IRQ steering?
since you don't have any ISA slots, you don't have an IRQ sharing problem, and you can't steer your IRQ's using the BIOS. Since Win98 works well, then it is a driver problem in Linux, or it is an interfacing problem with the game software. You would need to locate a linux gaming list (sorry, I don't know of one), and they can probably help you. bug On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Svante Signell wrote: Thank you Bug! for your reply, The three devices using IRQ 5 are: Sound card on main board: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1968 Maestro 2 Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device b0b8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 2000 Ethernet controller card on PCI bus: 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 2800 Video card on AGP (=PCI?) bus: 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 Memory at 4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at 4200 (32-bit, prefetchable) I/O ports at 1000 Capabilities: [54] AGP version 1.0 I'm using X4.0.2 with DRI enabled. According to the log files and glxinfo the card is HW accelerated. However, even though Q3A and gears run OK, HG2, Heretic2, UT does _not_. Do the Banshee (tdfx) driver require an IRQ? If not everything should be OK, or can three devices share the same IRQ? W98 on the same computer have no problems with three devices at IRQ5. Further comments below. Thanks, Svante Bug Hunter writes: If you have PCI cards, IRQ sharing will work. Otherwise, you may have to force the card not to be PNP and then tell it what IRQ to be on. You usually have to run the DOS setup disk to get this to happen. I've not found any option to control the PNP behavior in the BIOS. Do the IRQ steering apply to ISA cards? This computer does not have any ISA slots :(
[expert] Fwd: KDE 2.1 CVS Update RPM's for 7.2 (and 7.1 and 7.0, with some work)
Hello, I have made a set of update RPM's for 7.2 available for KDE 2.1 CVS code. The RPM's are made from CVS code of 12-29-2000. These RPM's are NOT supported by MandrakeSoft. Please report bugs in the code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the bug reporting utilities found on Help--Report Bugs in any KDE application. Please report any packaging problems to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages posted in the mailling lists regarding these RPM's will be ignored. You can find these rpm's at: FTP: ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ (primary) ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde/KDE_UPDATE/ (mirror) HTTP: http://www.nebsllc.com/KDE_UPDATE/ (primary) The source RPM's are available as well but are 100% unsupported. I will ignore any messages regarding these, they built here but as the code is beta at this time some of them needed some help compiling. (hint: look up the --short-circuit flag). User's of MandrakeUpdate can point to any of the above directories but please remember that MandrakeUpdate can not install dependencies. The directory also includes an update to cups, qtcups, and kups which adds some dependencies. While these are NOT required for the KDE update you may want to consider doing these updates manually. Again, these are unsupported and just provided because I needed to do them anyways. For install instructions see: http://www.kde.org/install-binaries.html Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 Users: These RPM's should work for you as well but you will need to find several dependencies to get them to install. You can find the directions for these at: http://kde2.newmail.ru/mandrake_rpms.html - I have not tested this, but am told it works. -Chris ---
RE: [expert] IRQ steering?
See Below... -Original Message- From: Svante Signell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] IRQ steering? Thank you JMS for your very informative reply. Further comments/questions below. Se also my reply to Bug Hunter (funny name :). Thanks, Svante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Initially the BIOS handles setting up the IRQ's for your cards as the system comes up. The OS can modify this allocation as needed, within certain limits. The problem is that you are running up against one of the most often mis-understood limits. Here goes: Yes, as people here will indicate, you can CHANGE the IRQ utilized for a card, -BUT- in so doing you will not change the assignment of that one card. You will change the assignment of MULTIPLE devices or slots! Huh? PCI was initially designed to handle only three devices. As a result as manufacturers started adding PCI slots, they took to wiring two or more PCI slots together. Thus your AGP slot almost always shares an IRQ with the first PCI slot. Why? Well in their infinite wisdom, they deemed that if you were using an AGP video card, you would NOT also be using a video card in slot one and vice versa. Ugh, so you normally can use one or the other, but not both without resorting to some trickery called IRQ Steering. On newer motherboards two or more PCI slots may share an IRQ allocation with integrated devices. Thus, in your case the PCI slot you put the ethernet card into WILL ALWAYS share the same IRQ with your motherboard's integrated audio. NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, this will be the case. You can change the allocation to say 11, but now your audio and eth0 will go to 11... ugh. This would be OK if the video card does not require an IRQ, or can more than two devices share the same IRQ? (W98 on the same machine have no problems with three devices at IRQ5) --- Sharing an IRQ depends upon several things. 1) The BIOS and OS must be able to determine which device initiated an IRQ in the first place and service the request. 2) No two devices being active at the same time, or masking the IRQ's. (Something which a lot of driver manufacturers are fond of doing...) 3) Full support for this in the OS. 4) Low IRQ handling latency. Linux is relatively new to IRQ sharing. While it seems to be able to handle some IRQ sharing there are problems. Sound, Video Ethernet cards sharing IRQ's with other devices seem to be fairly problematic. So much so that often the drivers will disable cards that are sharing IRQ's with other devices. Hopefully 2.4 kernels will deal with this better. --- I'm using X4.0.2 with DRI enabled. According to the log files and glxinfo the card is HW accelerated. However, even though Q3A and gears run OK, HG2, Heretic2, UT does _not_. Do the Banshee (tdfx) driver require an IRQ? --- Yes the Banshee does require an IRQ for VGA type output (not for when it switches to 3D mode though...). Lacking an IRQ might make it impossible for the card to switch in and out of VGA/SVGA modes from 3D mode and vice-versa. If not everything should be OK, or something else is causing the complete slowdown, maybe DMA? --- Slowdown? You didn't state this initially. If you are referring to a low frame rate, this may be due to other problems. Normally the main cause for this is that the program is trying to do something in 3D which the card cannot handle. This causes the graphics engine to resort to utilizing software rendering features that put a large drain on the CPU cycles. Your best bet is to drop all 3D features to their lowest, then crank them up one at a time until you get acceptable gameplay. Remember the Banshee is barely able to do 800x600x16BPP. If you set the resolution higher then graphics engine is working in software mode... Your only choice is to move the ethernet card to another slot to avoid sharing IRQ's. ISA PNP cards don't suffer from this. In a way they are more flexible with resource allocation. What happens if I exchange the Ethernet card (IRQ 5) with the PCTV card (IRQ 3)? Then according to your info IRQ 5 will be allocated to the sound device, the TV card and the Banshee (AGP) card and IRQ 3 to the Ethernet card. --- Correct. --- If all devices requires an IRQ, no solution is obtained this way!? --- Maybe not. The TV card is not being used when your Banshee is in 3D mode. Ideally your Ethernet card, Banshee and sound card should all have their own IRQ's for optimal performance. In turn the TV card is NEVER used when the Banshee is in 3D mode or you are accessing your LAN. So the TV card and Ethernet card sharing an IRQ would be good candidates to try... If you are using an ISA PNP card you might be able to change the IRQ it uses with software provided by the manufacturer... This software modifies the "hint"
Re: [expert] Bit-for-bit CD's
On Saturday 30 December 2000 11:38, you wrote: If I wanted to make a bit-for-bit copy of my (free) Mandrake 7.2 CD's (install + extension), what would be the best program to use? Note, I have an IDE CD (which would read the source) and a SCSI CD-R. I've tried CDRecord, but it can't seem to find my IDE CD. cdrecord will find your ide cd only if it has been emulated as ide-scsi. What you need to do is change the add a append "hd?=ide-scsi" line in lilo.conf to have it detected. Basically you need to follow the same instructions as those folks (like me) who have ide cd writers. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [expert] Firewall....
can anyone recommand a firewall application with a web administration interface? Just about any Linux distribution and pmfirewall work great. Just be sure to make sure you examine the firewall rules after the pmfirewall install an *UNDERSTAND* what's going on. Then you can decide if you need to modify it. The default install does a great job, but security at *YOUR* site is *YOUR* responsibility. Don't blindly assume that the author understands *YOUR* particular circumstance. You probably fit under the bell curve, but it's up to you to decide that.
Re: [expert] Which file to change between gdm kdm login?
Submitted 30-Dec-00 by EagleIce: Which file is it I use to change the default login page from gdm to kdm in Mandrake 7.2? /etc/sysconfig/desktop Contents of the file should be only one word, KDE, GNOME, or AfterStep (capitaliation is important). These correspond to kdm, gdm, and xdm respectively. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Do not meddle in the affairs of the undead, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
[expert] Q. Media Performance Sound Server Tuning
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mandrakers, Q. I have been trying to get Mandrake 7.2 to play mp3 files (with either xmms or kaiman) without suffering noticeable hiccups as I open other windows or even delete an email from KMail but I have yet been unable to do so. I have adjusted the Sound Server settings to: Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup Run soundserver with realtime priority Response time: Don't care (large!) My system is fairly robust with the main multimedia components of: PII-266MHz 440BX 256MB PC100 SDRAM 6.8GB EIDE 5400RPM drive SB Live! 1024 I have tuned my hard disk with hdparm to the following results: [root@mypc /root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.76 seconds = 72.73 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.66 seconds = 11.31 MB/sec Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions on improving this would be greatly appreciated. I have tried sparse window managers (like XFCE) and it to suffers the hiccup. Running the newest KDE (2.0.1-1 rpms) if that helps. Thanks in advance. Cheers. - -- ___ (_B_)__ ~(@ @)~ +-oOOo-(_)-oOOo-+ | "I played before the greatest fans in baseball, the Boston| | fans, and I know what you're going to say about that: Old | | Teddy Ballgame loved those fans, all right." --- Ted Williams | ++--+ | Tony K. Olsen | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ++--+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjpPWhUACgkQ9WMVqtlY7NUr+QCfSQrQ2Rpj0HU9UOj2NYen79F4 1oIAnj9XoUgxj/+xy0wOVEM0sQrZfNgg =/w+J -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [expert]
** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:36:14 +0200 hi, that's the default password for the vnc client, in case i didnt configure one ? root's doesnt work... VNC forces you to set a password the first time it is started, as I recall. You can also use "vncpasswd" to reset the password, however you need to know the original password first! Is vncserver actually running? John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
Re: [expert] NAT on linux
** Reply to message from Tib [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:58:50 -0800 (PST) Where would I find some good docs for setting up NAT on linux? Mandrake 7 EOL Tib Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] for starters. There is usually a good amount of info on the list about NAT, firewalling, and other ipmasq'ing topics. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
Re: [expert] Boot CD (was Bit-for-bit CD's)
"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: Okay folks, I figured out how to make a regular cd using mkisofs and cdrecord (still couldn't get any of the GUI routines to work correctly, but the command line routines are still available and still work). In any case, the last trick that I need is to get the install disk to act as a boot disk. Is there some special incantation with cdrecord that I need in order to make the install disk bootable? I DID read the man page for cdrecord, but it wasn't terribly enlightening. I presume that the image that needs to be booted is /boot/vmlinuz in the install CD. Question that I have (aside from making it a boot CD) is how to get it to boot that image. Thanks in advance, Ron ./. If I wanted to make a bit-for-bit copy of my (free) Mandrake 7.2 CD's (install + extension), what would be the best program to use? Note, I have an IDE CD (which would read the source) and a SCSI CD-R. I've tried CDRecord, but it can't seem to find my IDE CD. Thanks in advance, Ron ./.
[expert] optermisations
What is the best setting to compile stuff on a K6-2 Mark Hillary
[expert]KDE behaves like KDM from non home dir startx
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: KDE behaves like KDM from non home dir startx Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:31:42 + From: stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would some kind person please tell me how I restore the startx behaviour from M7.1/KDE1.x ? I usually startx from a sub dir, and expect my apps to pickup that dir as the current working dir not $HOME. If i wanted kdm based behaviour I would use a KDM login screen. It has to be a silly. Many thanks Stephen Parkinson ---
[expert] Printer Problem
Installed Mandrake 7.1 along with HPLaserjet 4l printer (non-postscript). WordPerfect runs the printer without a problem. But, when I try to print a test.txt file $lpr text.txt I get: lpr: lp:: printer unknown. #printtool reveals that the printer is indeed there at lp0. It prints a Ascii test file directly to port, but nothing happens when I simply run the Print Ascii test page. Even installing PDQ and running it does not solve the problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated.. (Yes, the printer is connected.) Michael Coady
[expert] windows discovered me
hey does anyone know a way to get win98 to stop seeing my linux partition as a win drive d: that just needs to be formatted? i'd much prefer windows to not see linux at all...in order to keep it from getting it's poor little unsophisticated mind all confused and stuff... aric
Re: [expert] Printer Problem
Sounds like lpr is trying to use lp instead of lp0. Try lpr -Plp0 test.txt. On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, mcoady wrote: Installed Mandrake 7.1 along with HPLaserjet 4l printer (non-postscript). WordPerfect runs the printer without a problem. But, when I try to print a test.txt file $lpr text.txt I get: lpr: lp:: printer unknown. #printtool reveals that the printer is indeed there at lp0. It prints a Ascii test file directly to port, but nothing happens when I simply run the Print Ascii test page. Even installing PDQ and running it does not solve the problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated.. (Yes, the printer is connected.) Michael Coady
Re: [expert] Boot CD (was Bit-for-bit CD's)
You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been able to boot with an ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on my scsi bus are bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a linux cd in either cdrom drive and reboot my system. Tom Berkley "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: Okay folks, I figured out how to make a regular cd using mkisofs and cdrecord (still couldn't get any of the GUI routines to work correctly, but the command line routines are still available and still work). In any case, the last trick that I need is to get the install disk to act as a boot disk. Is there some special incantation with cdrecord that I need in order to make the install disk bootable? I DID read the man page for cdrecord, but it wasn't terribly enlightening. I presume that the image that needs to be booted is /boot/vmlinuz in the install CD. Question that I have (aside from making it a boot CD) is how to get it to boot that image. Thanks in advance, Ron ./. If I wanted to make a bit-for-bit copy of my (free) Mandrake 7.2 CD's (install + extension), what would be the best program to use? Note, I have an IDE CD (which would read the source) and a SCSI CD-R. I've tried CDRecord, but it can't seem to find my IDE CD. Thanks in advance, Ron ./.
Re: [expert] windows discovered me
"Aric S. Bergren" a écrit : hey does anyone know a way to get win98 to stop seeing my linux partition as a win drive d: that just needs to be formatted? i'd much prefer windows to not see linux at all...in order to keep it from getting it's poor little unsophisticated mind all confused and stuff... Are you really sure this D drive is a linux formated partition. The normal behavior of windows is not to see partitions formatted with a non-microsoft fs.
RE: [expert] windows discovered me
It sounds as though you created your Linux partition as Primary rather than as Extended/Logical. If you have PM or such, launch it, and select your D partition. Under Tools/Advanced select Hide. Once you reboot Windows will no longer see the partition. Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aric S. Bergren Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] windows discovered me hey does anyone know a way to get win98 to stop seeing my linux partition as a win drive d: that just needs to be formatted? i'd much prefer windows to not see linux at all...in order to keep it from getting it's poor little unsophisticated mind all confused and stuff... aric
Re: [expert] windows discovered me
On Sunday 31 December 2000 04:30 pm, you wrote: "Aric S. Bergren" a écrit : hey does anyone know a way to get win98 to stop seeing my linux partition as a win drive d: that just needs to be formatted? i'd much prefer windows to not see linux at all...in order to keep it from getting it's poor little unsophisticated mind all confused and stuff... Are you really sure this D drive is a linux formated partition. The normal behavior of windows is not to see partitions formatted with a non-microsoft fs. I don't know about ME, but Win2K has the same behavior on my system. There's a part of my hard drive Windows can see, but not access. -- Brian Hartman, MLS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Start X with no login
Hi, I have an application that runs under X, that I would like to start automagically on boot-up. Unfortunately X always wants we to log in. Is there a way to start x in an rc.xxx file, which in turn will start the application, prior to any login taking place? Thanks Barry
Re: [expert] PlexWriter 12/10/32A
I believe the Plextors are listed on the Mandrake web site www.linux-mandrake.org, but you might be right, this one may not be listed. I am ordering the Plextor 8X/4X/32X (PX-W8432TI) Any IDE atapi device should work with Mandrake I am told. Hope this helps. Vic On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Brian Hartman wrote: Can anyone tell me if the PlexWriter 12/10/32A is supported in Linux? I'm looking to buy a CD-RW drive, and that one has been recommended to me. -- Brian Hartman, MLS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] PlexWriter 12/10/32A
By the way, if the cd recorder has problems, give this page a look. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ It should show how to correct a problem with it. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Brian Hartman wrote: Can anyone tell me if the PlexWriter 12/10/32A is supported in Linux? I'm looking to buy a CD-RW drive, and that one has been recommended to me. -- Brian Hartman, MLS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] windows discovered me
I'm getting the same errors. I had a FAT32 partition I wrotew a reiserfs filesystem over and the reiserfs drive shows up in Windows, as a drive with lots of crap in it thta needs formatting. Basicallly, mkreiserfs didn't set the partition ttype properly. Check this out [the partition is /dev/hda5] [root@sexbomb wine]# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 2 986 7912012+ 5 Extended /dev/hda2 * 987 2854 15004710c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 2855 3619 6144862+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 3620 3649240975 82 Linux swap /dev/hda5 2 986 7911981b Win95 FAT32 [root@sexbomb wine]# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 6144640 4685620 1459020 76% / /dev/hdd1 8233232 7262304970928 88% /mnt/data /dev/hda2 14990048 13678496 1311552 91% /mnt/windows /dev/hda5 7911720 7361304550416 93% /usr/local /proc/bus/usb 1977930 1977930 0 100% /proc/bus/usb Basically, you need to use fdisk to chnage the partition ID to reiserfs [or Ext2 if you're stuck in the stone ages]. I'm gonna check and lodge a bug report when I can be bothered. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, pgeorges wrote: "Aric S. Bergren" a écrit : hey does anyone know a way to get win98 to stop seeing my linux partition as a win drive d: that just needs to be formatted? i'd much prefer windows to not see linux at all...in order to keep it from getting it's poor little unsophisticated mind all confused and stuff... Are you really sure this D drive is a linux formated partition. The normal behavior of windows is not to see partitions formatted with a non-microsoft fs.
Re: [expert] Firewall....
On Friday 29 December 2000 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, can anyone recommand a firewall application with a web administration interface? thank's. Take a look at http://www.e-smith.com RH based gateway/router/firewall/samba solution that ANYONE can install and configure. (Yes, browser based administration as well...) -- Steve
Re: [expert] NAT for linux
I believe there is an ip-masquerade HOWTO. If not, then use the IPCHAINS HOWTO. Dave At 12:07 PM 12/30/00 -0800, you wrote: Sorry for the repeat post (if this actuall got through the first time, never saw it come up), but where can I find docs or instructions to setup NAT for mandrake 7? EOL Tib 0101 1010 0111 01101100 0110 01100111 01101001 01110011 01100100 01100101 0111 01100100 01001110 0110 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01110100 0111 01101100 (Go figure it out.)
[expert] Off Topic - Help needed with multiple tape cpio failure and RH v6.2!
My apologies since this concerns a Red Hat v6.2 system and not a Mandrake one but I may be some kind sole could help with this one. I'm backing up a RH system using an old Exabyte 2500SX 8mm DAT (SCSI) which requires using several tapes. When I back up the system, it works fine - when it hits the end of the tape it asks for a another tape - the problem I have is when I go back to verify that at the end of the first tape I get: "cpio: read error: Input/output error" and it stops there. I tried using different tapes and cleaning the tape heads. This is the command line I use to backup the fs find ... | cpio -o -C 65536 - H newc -O /dev/st0 and here is my verify: cpio -ivt -C 65536 -H newc -I /dev/st0 My next step is to look for a different controller to connect it to - it is currently connected to a Adaptec 1542CF via the external interface. Anyone run into or heard of similar problems? I know that Red Hat (and hence Mandrake) cpio for RH v6.1 had an issue with the '-v' flag where the standard out would get included in the archive and hence corrupt it - but I've tried it both ways.
Re: [expert] Boot CD (was Bit-for-bit CD's)
Are you sure, I believe it depends on your BIOS first and foremost, if you can set it to boot in a priority of cd-rom, floppy,HD. Al --- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been able to boot with an ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on my scsi bus are bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a linux cd in either cdrom drive and reboot my system. Tom Berkley "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: Okay folks, I figured out how to make a regular cd using mkisofs and cdrecord (still couldn't get any of the GUI routines to work correctly, but the command line routines are still available and still work). In any case, the last trick that I need is to get the install disk to act as a boot disk. Is there some special incantation with cdrecord that I need in order to make the install disk bootable? I DID read the man page for cdrecord, but it wasn't terribly enlightening. I presume that the image that needs to be booted is /boot/vmlinuz in the install CD. Question that I have (aside from making it a boot CD) is how to get it to boot that image. Thanks in advance, Ron ./. If I wanted to make a bit-for-bit copy of my (free) Mandrake 7.2 CD's (install + extension), what would be the best program to use? Note, I have an IDE CD (which would read the source) and a SCSI CD-R. I've tried CDRecord, but it can't seem to find my IDE CD. Thanks in advance, Ron ./. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Boot CD (was Bit-for-bit CD's)
It's a BIOS issue. ide cd-rom's can be bootable, too (mine is), but your bios needs to be set for it. You need to have a bios that supports bootup from cdrom and you need to set the boot sequence so that the cdrom is looked for first to boot from, rather than the hard drive. On Monday 01 January 2001 12:23 am, you wrote: Are you sure, I believe it depends on your BIOS first and foremost, if you can set it to boot in a priority of cd-rom, floppy,HD. Al --- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been able to boot with an ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on my scsi bus are bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a linux cd in either cdrom drive and reboot my system. Tom Berkley -- Brian Hartman, MLS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
