Re: [expert] avifile
Does your ISP offer Usenet access? Look for newsgroups with multimedia in them. Try a search for avi in a search engine. hollywood.com also had AVIs, want to some ASFs? Try http://www.gammaquad.com/sg1/ I successfully compiled avifile and the xmms plugin for avifile. Can anyone tell me where I can get avi files to use for a test. The sites I tried, downloads have not been successful for one reason or another. Thanks, Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
Re: [expert] RealPlayer
did you run the scripts as user? Op maandag 08 januari 2001 01:05, schreef u: On Sunday 07 January 2001 05:59 pm, you wrote: mine works properly even the link you mentionned I've installed realplayer and executed these two files in the /usr/local/Realplayer dir type sh mimeinstall.sh sh pluginstall.sh and restart your graphic shell hope it works for you now Luk Luk, This still doesn't work for me. It still asks me to save the file when I click on it. -- Luk Vermeylen Putse Baan 84 2040 Antwerpen 4 03/295.00.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux counter: #186539
Re: [expert] RealPlayer
try this link and get the bin package. install this one ftp://kittypuss.org/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin maybe you have to make it executable chmod u+x rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin and then as root ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin and then execute the files as mentionned before Luk Op maandag 08 januari 2001 01:05, schreef u: On Sunday 07 January 2001 05:59 pm, you wrote: mine works properly even the link you mentionned I've installed realplayer and executed these two files in the /usr/local/Realplayer dir type sh mimeinstall.sh sh pluginstall.sh and restart your graphic shell hope it works for you now Luk Luk, This still doesn't work for me. It still asks me to save the file when I click on it. -- Luk Vermeylen Putse Baan 84 2040 Antwerpen 4 03/295.00.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux counter: #186539
[expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?
Thank you for your usefull help. The Telnet-server wasn't installed indeed and now it works. Pierre Hello, I've just installed Mdk 7.2 and the telnet doesn't work. A friend explained me to check that the telnet service is enable in /etc/xinetd/telnet but this file doesn't exist. Someone could explain me what I've to do to active this service after the installation? And Happy New year! Pierre ** This message may contain confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose, use, disseminate or copy this message. The information contained in this message is subject to Systemat's General Terms and Conditions. Any personal opinion expressed in this message reflects the opinion of the sender and not Systemat's opinion. **
[expert] KWinTV - Vol Control Doesn't Work.
I just installed LM7.2 and I'm trying to get Volume Controls to work in KwinTV. Everything else works fine including the volume control on Xawtv. Is there a way to get KwinTV's volume to work? Seve
Re: [expert] VPN
try http://www.freeswan.org On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Luis Chardon wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:50:58 -0400 (AST) From: Luis Chardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VPN Does anyone know which softwares exists on linux so a linux box can connect to a VPN? Thanks, Luis -- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )XIntercomp Ltd. (m_m) fax : 09-9526170 | |ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ Office : 09-9526993. | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| | |_)_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\ visit us at www.legacy2web.com.
Re: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
** Reply to message from Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:38:40 -0700 This is a compaq... I think I need a disk to get into the BIOS (I recall having to do this with a Compaq 386 I had years ago). Hitting ESC or F1 results in a keyboard error (go figure). I didn't see anything on the mobo specs to indicate a jumper to control the video. Upon booting, when the blinking cursor jumps from the left side of the screen to the right, hit and hold F10 for a second or two. Should put you right into the bios. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
[expert] ftp, not telnet
hi, i'm wondering if it's possible to add users to mandrak 7.1 and they should only be allowed to login via ftp, not via telnet/ssh. (creating a new user enables telnet). thanks in advance, sebastian
Re: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
if the systempartition is on the hd look at the compaq site to download the diagnostics Op maandag 08 januari 2001 12:37, schreef u: ** Reply to message from Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:38:40 -0700 This is a compaq... I think I need a disk to get into the BIOS (I recall having to do this with a Compaq 386 I had years ago). Hitting ESC or F1 results in a keyboard error (go figure). I didn't see anything on the mobo specs to indicate a jumper to control the video. Upon booting, when the blinking cursor jumps from the left side of the screen to the right, hit and hold F10 for a second or two. Should put you right into the bios. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. -- Luk Vermeylen Putse Baan 84 2040 Antwerpen 4 03/295.00.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux counter: #186539
[expert] where is fstream.h ?
Hello ! I tried to compile the kfontinst under 7.2 and when I runned make it complained that it couldn't find fstream.h and it can't compile TtfPsNameFixer.cpp without it. I installed all the required packages(devels and others). Could anyone recommend something to me ? Bye, Ago
Re: [expert] ftp, not telnet
well, one of the groups you have defined in madrake is ftp, which has no login privilages, except via ftp. add that user to that group (and to that group only) and he will be able to ftp only. On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:55:36 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] ftp, not telnet hi, i'm wondering if it's possible to add users to mandrak 7.1 and they should only be allowed to login via ftp, not via telnet/ssh. (creating a new user enables telnet). thanks in advance, sebastian -- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )XIntercomp Ltd. (m_m) fax : 09-9526170 | |ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ Office : 09-9526993. | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| | |_)_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\ visit us at www.legacy2web.com.
[expert] mandrake 7.2 trouble
Hi,I have a some problems with linux mandrake 7.2. For example when I click on drakconf onthe desktop nothing happens. Or when I try to run Pingus, mandrakeupdate, rpmdrake,usbview, mixer and so on I have tried several types of installations. From recommencedto expert from small install to biggest install, always the same programs that dont workWhat I also get with every type of install is during bootup a lot of command not foundmessages like this:/etc/aurora/rc: grep: command not foundbooting aurora.../etc/rc.d/rc: egrep: command not foundStarting cups:/etc/rc.d/rc: egrep: command not foundStarting sound:/etc/rc.d/rc: egrep: command not foundStarting usb:/etc/rc.d/rc: egrep: command not foundStarting inet:And a lot of things like this. I think all things that I choose to boot at startup Butmost get a green V But one gets a red X. And when linux is quiting I get another 3 red X.Also I get this everytime at bootup/etc/rc.sysinit: grep: Command not foundChecking root filesystem/dev/hda6 was not cleanly unmounted check forcedThis takes about 1 minute and I dont think this is supposed to happen.My system is:Asus CUSL2 (Intel 815E chipset)Intel Pentium 3 Coppermine 800 MHz (not overclocked) (100 x 8 )128 SDRAM PC100Geforce 32 SDRSB Live! Player 10243com 3C905B-TX PCILogitech Mouseman wheel USBLexmark 3200 printerLogitech internet keyboard4x/4x/32x Philips CD-RW3,5inch floppy drive300W powersupplyMaxtor 52049H4: 20 GB, 7200RPM, U100- 10 GB Windows- 5 GB extra for windows- 4,xx Linux native- 141 Linux swapI dont know what wrong and I CAN boot linux and it works accept some programs and I likeit and I want it to completly work. I hope you can help me.Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 81660554Thanks!Jelle Twerda
Re: [expert] CUPS and KMail from KDE2.1
Update qt to the version 2.2.3 that I have in the unsuported dir. This will solve this problem. On Saturday 06 January 2001 12:51, civileme wrote: Oh My It happened right here in the main office. I have been printing copies of responses to my recruitmet notices using KMail and CUPS First of all, KMail starts off with a bad attitude. It comes up pointing at a printer from a list of available printers and the 'OK' button is grayed out. To solve this, simply flip it to file printing then back to printer printing... The OK becomes active. You have to do this EVERY session. Next, my emails were beheaded--the very upper portion was chopped off. This was due to a mental lapse--mine. The printer is set for A4 and is loaded with A4 paper and KMail is expecting A4 but the intervening cups server it was pointing to by default had the information that it was a 'Letter Size' I pointed to the right server which knew the printer was A4 and the print cleaned up right away. Does any of this seem familiar? I believe I have seen posts about it. I still find that more than 90% of the bugs I think I find have their tiny little fingertips on the sensitive keys of my very own keyboard. Civileme
Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1
On Sunday 07 January 2001 17:43, Mark Weaver wrote: Tom, When you upgraded was kpm added to the menu? I have it also, but it's not listed in the menu anymore. So tell the packager :-) I will solve on my next kdeutils update. -Chris
Re: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
Men what a project this will cost you double my usual fee. first the link : - creative : http://www.linuxboxen.com/viewproduct.php4?partid=69 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/sound/soundcard/README.sblive+mutiple http://opensource.creative.com/ http://americas.creative.com/sound/live-platinum-51/req.html others not classified http://ximp.iscool.net/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/5699/ http://www.mp3pump.de/english/index.html http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/9049/ http://www.sdf.se/~dj/ http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~sivann/mp3ophono/ http://www.mp3pc.co.uk/ http://www.mobilejukebox.com/ http://www.linuxlinks.com/local/mp3/mp3review.shtml http://www.x10.com/mp3_x10/mp3_anywhere.htm http://www.x10.com/mp3_x10/specifications.htm http://hardware.mp3.com/hardware/individual/174.html - remote control : http://www.animax.no/ http://www.evation.com/irman/index.html http://www.dpotter.com/irmp3/info.html http://www.lirc.org/index.html http://www.mindpath.com/Products/fx2000.htm http://www.pcremotecontrol.com/info.html - software : http://www.mp3machine.com/linux/ http://www.evation.com/software/linux.html http://www.linuxcare.com/exec/sw_catalog?category_id=307 - tv : http://www.linuxtv.org/ http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml http://www.multimedia4linux.de/ to help with price search: www.mysimon.com http://www.mysimon.com/isrch/index.jhtml?c=soundcardspgid=shopInputKeyword=soundblaster+platinumkey=UC_20010108_040114_0111681667sort=Pricedir=ipg=1 canadien site low price http://www.compusmart.com/shop/default.asp?iStockID=792990 if the remote work with linux thats the biggest question, the sounblaster live platinum is the best product. otherwise irman is working under linux and you can use any remote for the tv out I dont know, I know it work I just dont know that this particular machine add a card that did tv out probably another expense since you are installing a network card and you have 2 gig I know you can install lm 7.2 on it , do you have a cd-rom ? frankly if you add a 20 gig or a better machine with dvd rom I would see the point because if you look at www.mp3.com there is a lot of mp3 player audio theater http://hardware.mp3.com/hardware/individual/3305.html wich is the same price as the sounblaster live __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
[expert] Kde
Hi all...first time in here! I hope you dont have got this q be4 :( (so you dont have to answer it all the time) When i install 7.2 all goes fine. But when i try to start Kde, i dont have any icons and i cant start anything whit out erorrs. Tommi ps Sorry my bad Eng :( .ds
RE: [expert] More info on install problem
-Original Message- From: Paul Stear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi, Thanks for the info so far. I still can't understand why 7.2 will not install when 7.1 installs perfectly and gives me access to all of my drives. It seems wrong for a distribution like Mandrake to produce a new version that will not work on hardware that the previous version had no problems with. It should be getting better NOT worse. I agree here. In version 7.1 my tv card worked with no hitches. In 7.2 not at all. There seem to be a lot of people with issues between the two. Let's just hope the next release works like 7.1 did. Brian
RE: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1
I have a problem with packages updated from nebsllc.com. I downloaded the 010101 packages, and the rest were 1229 packages. Restarted system, KDE worked fine. Then for some reason the system totally locked up and the only hope was to press reset as I could not even get to a console window. After restart no user account is able to log in, only root is allowed. I get some error stating couldn't open/get (memory) /var/lock/console/ brian.. And some connection refused error. How do I get my useraccounts reenabled now. Brian -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1 On Saturday 06 January 2001 15:16, you wrote: Ok...So where does one get the 2.1 packages? your favorite mirror/Mandrake-devel/unsupported or ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE Civileme
[expert] mpg123 - device busy
I have a cron wake up call set for each morning, monday to friday, using mpg123. Friday it worked just fine. Then this morning (monday), there was no wake up call. Log shows an error from mpg123 - audio: device or resource busy. I have no idea what could be the source of this problem. Xmms and record both work fine, and anyhow mpg123 worked last week. Anyone have any ideas on what could be the cause or (almost as good) any solutions? yoroshiku -- Chris Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.openhistory.org gratuitous quote: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] cdrecord dying with loss of streaming
On Saturday 16 December 2000 21:49, you wrote: Hi All, I decided to reinstall our P75 redhat 6.2 printserver/intranetserver/cd-writing server to Mandrake 7.2 today (if you want to know why I would break something that's working, it is that our other 2 servers run Mandrake, I have a new admin to train up - best not to confuse him with different distros yet - plus we have a local Mandrake updates mirror - which makes it a lot less effort to keep up with updates). Anyway, after about 3 hours of work I had the machine back up and running with everything working, but now all partitions except boot as ReiserFS. Well, testing webCDwriter (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~jhaeger/webCDwriter/) proved that not all is well. I get errors saying "loss of streaming" from cdrecord. Note that I have never had this sort of error on this machine, even when people are printing on both printers and browsing the intranet page at the same time. First I suspected the CD, due to the "Medium error", so tried with a new rewriteable, and then with "simulate" which passes -dummy to cdrecord. Then I suspected ReiserFS, so reformatted the spool directory webCDwriter uses to ext2. Same error. Then I suspected the version of webCDwriter I was using (note there are now RPMS for 7.2 on the RPMS page for webCDwriter), so downgraded to the previous version I had compiled for the box when it was Redhat 6.2 I think I actually used the mdk 7.2 rpms for cdrecord and mkisfs on the bosx when it was Redhat, since I had problems finding RPMs of the specific versions for Redhat 6.2. So I am not sure if I should try different versions. Well, I guess that only leaves the kernel that would have change (well, the only thing in the equation). The spool drive is on the same IDE channel as the CD-RW drive (but it was before), and I am not using udma. Has anybody had similar problems on 7.2? The only hardware change I made was upgrading the network card to 100Mbps (no, this can't be it, webCDwriter makes an iso image first using mkisofs, and then just writes the iso to CD). I will attach the error messages. I will go home and do some testing there ... Regards, Buchan http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~civileme/ DL the kernel rpm there and test it for streaming please. Civileme
Re: [expert] ftp, not telnet
So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:55:36PM +0100: only be allowed to login via ftp, not via telnet/ssh. Set the shell for these users to /bin/false Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 1 day 4 hours 38 minutes
RE: [expert] cdrecord dying with loss of streaming
I believe you are correct in the kernel issue, however I was able to remove the cdrecord rpm, and instead install it from tar, and that fixed a lot of my probs with 7.2 cd burning. Brian -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] cdrecord dying with "loss of streaming" On Saturday 16 December 2000 21:49, you wrote: Hi All, I decided to reinstall our P75 redhat 6.2 printserver/intranetserver/cd-writing server to Mandrake 7.2 today (if you want to know why I would break something that's working, it is that our other 2 servers run Mandrake, I have a new admin to train up - best not to confuse him with different distros yet - plus we have a local Mandrake updates mirror - which makes it a lot less effort to keep up with updates). Anyway, after about 3 hours of work I had the machine back up and running with everything working, but now all partitions except boot as ReiserFS. Well, testing webCDwriter (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~jhaeger/webCDwriter/) proved that not all is well. I get errors saying "loss of streaming" from cdrecord. Note that I have never had this sort of error on this machine, even when people are printing on both printers and browsing the intranet page at the same time. First I suspected the CD, due to the "Medium error", so tried with a new rewriteable, and then with "simulate" which passes -dummy to cdrecord. Then I suspected ReiserFS, so reformatted the spool directory webCDwriter uses to ext2. Same error. Then I suspected the version of webCDwriter I was using (note there are now RPMS for 7.2 on the RPMS page for webCDwriter), so downgraded to the previous version I had compiled for the box when it was Redhat 6.2 I think I actually used the mdk 7.2 rpms for cdrecord and mkisfs on the bosx when it was Redhat, since I had problems finding RPMs of the specific versions for Redhat 6.2. So I am not sure if I should try different versions. Well, I guess that only leaves the kernel that would have change (well, the only thing in the equation). The spool drive is on the same IDE channel as the CD-RW drive (but it was before), and I am not using udma. Has anybody had similar problems on 7.2? The only hardware change I made was upgrading the network card to 100Mbps (no, this can't be it, webCDwriter makes an iso image first using mkisofs, and then just writes the iso to CD). I will attach the error messages. I will go home and do some testing there ... Regards, Buchan http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~civileme/ DL the kernel rpm there and test it for streaming please. Civileme
Re: [expert] Kde
First, I would double check that you have the right media to install from (whether it a $2 CD or a self-burnt CD). Second, go for a recommended workstation install, you can customize packages later with a reboot and install cd or your favorite rpm manager (rpmdrake). Even the lm7.2 box set sold in the stores comes with a reasonably functional kde2. If you're confident that this is not where the problem lies, go grab the latest KDE2.0.1 rpms, or even the KDE2.1-Cooker rpms. Al --- Tommi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all...first time in here! I hope you dont have got this q be4 :( (so you dont have to answer it all the time) When i install 7.2 all goes fine. But when i try to start Kde, i dont have any icons and i cant start anything whit out erorrs. Tommi ps Sorry my bad Eng :( .ds __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] mandrake 7.2 trouble
Hi Jelle, Let's start off by confirming that you have proper install media, whether that be double checking self-burnt CDs, or buying some cheap from a place like linuxcentral.com (all their CDs always worked for me). Secondly, I wouldn't recommend using Aurora, it always seems slow and uninformative. Furthermore, I've experienced some shutdown/reboot problems with Aurora hanging. Now for the install, I always start all my installs with either Recommended Workstation or Development, for I like to pick and choose my servers -- a good idea, unconfigured default servers can create security holes. You can go back later and add/remove packages, either with the install CD update or just a package manager (rpmdrake). For some reason going through a custom install the first time leads things to break, even being knoweledged of all the packages you need/want (with dependencies too!). The root filesystem check sounds like you don't properly shutdown your system. Try 'shutdown -h now' before flipping that power switch. Hopefully this will help, if I made a mistake or someone has better info, please correct me! Al --- Jelle Twerda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a some problems with linux mandrake 7.2. For example when I click on drakconf on the desktop nothing happens. Or when I try to run Pingus, mandrakeupdate, rpmdrake, usbview, mixer and so on I have tried several types of installations. From recommenced to expert from small install to biggest install, always the same programs that don't work What I also get with every type of install is during bootup a lot of command not found messages like this: /etc/aurora/rc: grep: command not found booting aurora... /etc/rc.d/rc: egrep: command not found Starting cups: /etc/rc.d/rc: egrep: command not found Starting sound: /etc/rc.d/rc: egrep: command not found Starting usb: /etc/rc.d/rc: egrep: command not found Starting inet: And a lot of things like this. I think all things that I choose to boot at startup But most get a green V But one gets a red X. And when linux is quiting I get another 3 red X. Also I get this everytime at bootup /etc/rc.sysinit: grep: Command not found Checking root filesystem /dev/hda6 was not cleanly unmounted check forced This takes about 1 minute and I don't think this is supposed to happen. My system is: Asus CUSL2 (Intel 815E chipset) Intel Pentium 3 Coppermine 800 MHz (not overclocked) (100 x 8 ) 128 SDRAM PC100 Geforce 32 SDR SB Live! Player 1024 3com 3C905B-TX PCI Logitech Mouseman wheel USB Lexmark 3200 printer Logitech internet keyboard 4x/4x/32x Philips CD-RW 3,5inch floppy drive 300W powersupply Maxtor 52049H4: 20 GB, 7200RPM, U100 - 10 GB Windows - 5 GB extra for windows - 4,xx Linux native - 141 Linux swap I don't know what wrong and I CAN boot linux and it works accept some programs and I like it and I want it to completly work. I hope you can help me. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 81660554 Thanks! Jelle Twerda __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] No logs since 24 Dec
On Friday 05 January 2001 10:27 pm, you wrote: Anyone have any idea what would have killed my logging? /var/log/messages, /var/log/kern.log, and a few others are 0 bytes since 24 December. Check your version of the syslog package. It was updated some time ago because of a problem with klogd not properly restarting. Also check the logrotate scripts (if you are using log rotate). Sending syslog the -HUP signal does not properly restart the daemon, you should use /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart (or just check out that script to see what the proper signal is). -- 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
Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 bootup problem
In addition to updating the mod-utils package, the new DEVFS may be causing the problems with the sound cards and the ppp daemon. The new device filesystem is very different from the old system and may break things. There are warnings about this and a userspace daemon to try to maintain backwards compatibility with older drivers that haven't been updated. I haven't built/run a 2.4 kernel in a while so I can't speak to specifics, but it is something to check up on. -- 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] ssh update probs
I updated ssh via Mandrake Update. I now have an issue that I can log in once. After about 1 hour I seem to lose connection. I am unable to login again as any user at all. I can however use ssh locally and all is fine. This problem never happened before update though. It matters not if I choose SSH1 or 2 Any help? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)
[expert] Problems with framebuffer and Number Nine video card
Hi, I have recently updated my linux-box to Mandrake 7.2. Last mandrake distribution installed perfectly but the X configuration, it was no big surprise, many other different distributions failed. I finally managed to install the rpm's from Corel dist., that worked fine, I still don's know what's the difference. I know Number Nine cards are not supported, but I hoped they would work with a SVGA Server. As I said before Corel rpms hit the jackpot. With Mandrake 7.2 I tried the new Vesa Frame Buffer with XFree 4.0. First I tried lilo related-stuff with framebuffers, the logo was perfect on start-up. But with XFree86 4.0, although it appears to work fine, when the display is supposed to show up, the screen remains black, and all the information available in the output is a problem with some invalid argument in ioctl, the type of ioctl is FBIOPAN_DISPLAY. Although this information is pretty precise, I cannot do anything with it. More additional data: Video Card: Number Nine Revolution 3D Ticket 2 Ride (T2R) with 8MB. XFree release: the one that comes with Mandrake 7.2 (that is 4.0.1, I think). Does anybody know anything about it? Thanks in advance, Manuel A. Fernandez
Re[2]: [expert] No logs since 24 Dec
Matthew Micene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 January 2001 10:27 pm, you wrote: Anyone have any idea what would have killed my logging? /var/log/messages, /var/log/kern.log, and a few others are 0 bytes since 24 December. Check your version of the syslog package. It was updated some time ago Also, immediately go and see if you've been hacked into - losing your log files is a symptom of a breakin! But lets hope that's not what happened... 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] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1
On Monday 08 January 2001 06:49 am, Christopher Molnar wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 17:43, Mark Weaver wrote: Tom, When you upgraded was kpm added to the menu? I have it also, but it's not listed in the menu anymore. So tell the packager :-) I will solve on my next kdeutils update. -Chris I'm using Chris' KDE 2.1 20010103 and kpm is in the menu as Applications | Monitoring | Process management BTW, thanks again Chris for packaging these upgrades. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re[2]: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 bootup problem
Brian Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 12:51 pm, you wrote: It sounds as though you don't have the ppp support compiled into your kernel. Go back to the configuration and check to make sure it's turned on. I tried compiling it in, but that doesn't seem to do anything either. :( dumb question, but you never know: I assume you also installed the new kernel, ran lilo (making sure lilo got the new kernel! - I've missed this step before!), and rebooted? Miss any one of these and you won't get your new kernel... (well, ok, if you run 'make install' you've hit most of the steps ;-) (assuming you're /etc/lilo.conf is set 'right') 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] RPM Hell
OK it seems I have gotten myself into a twist that I can not get past. I have Mandrake 7.1 installed. I wanted to use gnome-pilot for my visor, so I had to download src rpms and recompile with the --enable usb-visor. This all went fine and dandy and installed. So did the devel packages and conduits. Where I got myself into trouble is with pilot-link. The stock install puts pilot-link-0.9.3-15mdk.i586.rpm in. I figured since I was downloading I would grab the source rpm for pilot-link-0.9.5-0.3.2mdk.i686.rpm. It compiled with no problems and I had shiny new rpm. When I tried to install the new rpm with -Uvh, I got some dependancy error (don't recall exact error). But with several success's in the day, I pushed my luck and went for rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs. The install happened and looked normal. Well I am still having problems with gnome-pilot, so I wanted to go to ground zero and uninstall everything and reinstall. Used kpackage (kde2) to get everything out, except pilot-link. It complained of multiple packages. I looked and sure enough both pilot-link packages were listed. To the command line I went, rpm -e tells me neither package is installed, rpm -i slaps me with packages installed. rpm -rebuilddb ran, but didn't fix the deal. rpm -e --justdb pilot-link (either version) returns package not installed. Any thoughts? Ideas? This is basiclly a scream for HELP! Jerry S.
Re: [expert] reiser FS support
On Sunday 07 January 2001 01:45 pm, Robert Fox wrote: 2.4 doesn't have support for Reiserfs - but a patch is available. Check out: http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/Mandrake.htm for more details. Robert Fox I installed kernel-2.4.0-0.15mdk.i586.rpm It had ReiserFS support, broke supermount and ppp tho. I didn't investigate, just went back to 2.2.18 -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay At 11:17 07/01/2001 -0500, you wrote: I comiled a new kernel for my Mandrake 7.2 System and the kernel didnt have support for reiser FS on my computer. Im not sure if I missed soemthing or not , but then I installed your kernel devolpment update, (which I know you do not suport) but the update didnt support the Reiser FS either. Is there something I can do to change this? Or when you offer the 2.4 kernel as a normal update will it have support for reiserFS?
Re: [expert] Disk partitioning
Courtesy bcc to Neal also "Neal Lippman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering what advice and/or thoughts people might have regarding disk partitioning for a brand new install. I have just finished assembling the hardware, and have a fully blank and unformatted 45GB disk, and I'd like to plan out my partitions before starting on the install. I was figuring - a small boot partition to contain /boot - a /home partition for /home - a /var partition so that log files, etc, are limited and the disk cannot get flooded by logs if there are mail spam attacks or something like that - a /tmp partition for temp files - large enough that i can create the images for cd's prior to burning, so it will need to be at least a few GB - a /vmwin98 partition for a vmware parition to contain a win98 virtual machine install (for Quicken and Word, which I still need to use) - a root partition to contain /, of course, and all of its usually stuff including /usr, with mount points for /home, /var, /tmp, /boot, /vmwin98 I cannot make up my mind regarding another partition that is either FAT16 or FAT32 for a bootable windows install. I've been planning to run windows only under vmware, but then I got to thinking that maybe I might need a way to boot into windows for some reason or another... Its a bit tricky (and I forget how I did it!), but you can get vmware to use a pre-existing (bootable) w98 partition. Any one with pointers or advice on this scheme, how large to make each partition, etc? You may want to add another partition for a test '/', for upgrading or trying things that you have an idea may break you badly... lets see. /boot - 20 M (way more than you'll ever need, but hey, its a tiny percentage! ;-) /home - 5Gig (you DON'T want to see my home dir!) /var - 1G (just a guess) /tmp - 3G (you want to have an ISO image, why not also have the original tree also?) /vmwin98 - 2G (can you REALLY install all that crud in 2G?) /root - 3 to 5G (yeah, you can easily make that in 1-2 gig, but why squeeze?) /root2 - 3 to 5G (your test root partition) total: up to 21Gig. Adjust the sizes up from there to fit your own preferences. (I'd much rather have EXTRA space than have to move things around because I ran OUT! (been there, done that, real pain)) I also have a /usr/src partition on some of my machines, but that's only for those with limited disk... 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] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
"John J. LeMay Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Reply to message from Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:38:40 -0700 This is a compaq... I think I need a disk to get into the BIOS (I recall having to do this with a Compaq 386 I had years ago). Hitting ESC or F1 results in a keyboard error (go figure). I didn't see anything on the mobo specs to indicate a jumper to control the video. Upon booting, when the blinking cursor jumps from the left side of the screen to the right, hit and hold F10 for a second or two. Should put you right into the bios. Which brings up a good point (implicitly, anyway). Compaq (which is REALLY GOOD at being 'almost compatible' - which is why I try REALLY HARD to avoid using compaq for anything!) has, as John says, their 'bios setup' STORED ON DISK in a special partition. WIthout that partition, you CANNOT set your bios options! (Well, not entirely true - you can perhaps find on their web site the (dos) boot disks that have the bios setup on them, so you can boot from floppy to config your machine, but its kinda painful). As John said, the secret decoder is to HOLD F10 down when the cursor jumps to the right side. So, whatever you do - if you have a compaq DO NOT allow fdisk to delete the stupid bios boot partition (which has some really strange label on it, as I remember). (For the amusement of those easily amused - the bios setup programs run under dos!) 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] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
Luk Vermeylen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if the systempartition is on the hd look at the compaq site to download the diagnostics Oh, I forgot on my last tirade - you CAN re-install the diag partition (which I think destroys everything else, but maybe not) 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: Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1
that's strange cause I got mine from the same FTP server...I think I did??? crap...now I'm confused.. Tom...whats the address of the FTP server that you got them from? Mark From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:28:36 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1 On Monday 08 January 2001 06:49 am, Christopher Molnar wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 17:43, Mark Weaver wrote: Tom, When you upgraded was kpm added to the menu? I have it also, but it's not listed in the menu anymore. So tell the packager :-) I will solve on my next kdeutils update. -Chris I'm using Chris' KDE 2.1 20010103 and kpm is in the menu as Applications | Monitoring | Process management BTW, thanks again Chris for packaging these upgrades. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy
On 8 Jan, Chris wrote: I have a cron wake up call set for each morning, monday to friday, using mpg123. Friday it worked just fine. Then this morning (monday), there was no wake up call. Log shows an error from mpg123 - audio: device or resource busy. I have no idea what could be the source of this problem. Xmms and record both work fine, and anyhow mpg123 worked last week. Anyone have any ideas on what could be the cause or (almost as good) any solutions? yoroshiku Possibly that you have a flash animation or realaudio running or some other type of process that uses the sound card. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Dual monitor with Matrox G400 card and LM 7.2
Hi, My uncle is trying to get his dual monitor setup to work with LM 7.2. He's tried to do what matrox describes in its README but whenever he tries to start X, his second monitor clicks and turns itself off, as if it has no signal or is in suspended mode. Does anyone have any hints on what extra stuff needs to be taken care of to ensure that this'll work? Thanks, L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] Printer woes again
Warning: unable to get official name for local machine lduperva.uforce.internal Warning: lp is down: waiting for 192.168.5.10 to come up Warning: lp queue is turned off Warning: no daemon present Hi, Why do I get the above messages from my system even if the printer works from Windows (for other people at least -- I ain't tried it for myself). Here's the printcap entry: ##PRINTTOOL3## DIRECT lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:\ :pw#80:\ :pl#66:\ :px#1440:\ :mx#0:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\ :lp=:\ :rm=192.168.5.10:\ :rp=RAW:\ :lpr_bounce: L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED -- UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
[expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager
Hello, I just installed the mdk kde 2.1 beta. The release notes say that 2.1 now contains a Theme Manager. Does anyone know where this is, or what the command is? Thanks, Ron __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager
Yes, it's in the Control Center, the last item under Look and Feel. I'm not sure it's functional yet, though -- or else I just don't know how to use it properly. I downloaded the Acqua-KDE2.0 theme from themes.org, but Themes Manager doesn't seem to work with it (unpacked or not). I keep getting a message saying "no themerc". What does this mean? (For that matter, several of the themes that come in the 2.1 beta also produce this message and can't be displayed...) Cheers. M. On Monday 08 January 2001 08:40, you wrote: Hello, I just installed the mdk kde 2.1 beta. The release notes say that 2.1 now contains a Theme Manager. Does anyone know where this is, or what the command is? Thanks, Ron __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [expert] CUPS and KMail from KDE2.1
I am running qt 2.2.3 and see no change for either of these problems (grey-out OK button and A4 by default). I've installed the KDE 2.1 beta and updated printing RPMs: qt2-2.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm qt2-devel-2.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm qt2-doc-2.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm cups-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm cups-common-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-1.0-2.1mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-module-X-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-utils-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm kups-0.8-27.1mdk.i586.rpm kups-devel-0.8-27.1mdk.i586.rpm libcups1-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm libcups1-devel-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm libqtcups1-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm libqtcups1-devel-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm qtcups-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm M. On Monday 08 January 2001 04:48, you wrote: Update qt to the version 2.2.3 that I have in the unsuported dir. This will solve this problem. On Saturday 06 January 2001 12:51, civileme wrote: Oh My It happened right here in the main office. I have been printing copies of responses to my recruitmet notices using KMail and CUPS First of all, KMail starts off with a bad attitude. It comes up pointing at a printer from a list of available printers and the 'OK' button is grayed out. To solve this, simply flip it to file printing then back to printer printing... The OK becomes active. You have to do this EVERY session. Next, my emails were beheaded--the very upper portion was chopped off. This was due to a mental lapse--mine. The printer is set for A4 and is loaded with A4 paper and KMail is expecting A4 but the intervening cups server it was pointing to by default had the information that it was a 'Letter Size' I pointed to the right server which knew the printer was A4 and the print cleaned up right away. Does any of this seem familiar? I believe I have seen posts about it. I still find that more than 90% of the bugs I think I find have their tiny little fingertips on the sensitive keys of my very own keyboard. Civileme -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: Re[2]: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
Oh, I forgot on my last tirade - you CAN re-install the diag partition (which I think destroys everything else, but maybe not) The partitions you're talking about exist only on Compaq servers. The workstations have a softbios which requires a single boot disk to access it. Thanks I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
Re: Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1
On Monday 08 January 2001 10:20 am, Mark Weaver wrote: that's strange cause I got mine from the same FTP server...I think I did??? crap...now I'm confused.. Tom...whats the address of the FTP server that you got them from? I just saw a notification today that all the old ftp sites for Chris' KDE 2.1 are being taken down. From now on they're available on any cooker mirror in the /unsupported/ dir. There's a list here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 There's a lot of stuff mixed in including 2.01 upgrades, so you'll need to sort. This is a situation where I _really_ like nt (Webdownloader), available on /contrib/ mirrors nt-1.19-1mdk. Best installation advice I've seen(search the newbie archive, Jan 3rd) Re: [newbie] need help with installing KDE 2.1 Beta 1 From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW, slight correction to my post below, my kdeaddutils is 0103, but my kdeutils is kdeutils-2.1-0.20001229.1mdk -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:28:36 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1 On Monday 08 January 2001 06:49 am, Christopher Molnar wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 17:43, Mark Weaver wrote: Tom, When you upgraded was kpm added to the menu? I have it also, but it's not listed in the menu anymore. So tell the packager :-) I will solve on my next kdeutils update. -Chris I'm using Chris' KDE 2.1 20010103 and kpm is in the menu as Applications | Monitoring | Process management BTW, thanks again Chris for packaging these upgrades. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: Re[2]: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
On Mon Jan 08, 2001 at 08:52:48AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote: This is a compaq... I think I need a disk to get into the BIOS (I recall having to do this with a Compaq 386 I had years ago). Hitting ESC or F1 results in a keyboard error (go figure). I didn't see anything on the mobo specs to indicate a jumper to control the video. Upon booting, when the blinking cursor jumps from the left side of the screen to the right, hit and hold F10 for a second or two. Should put you right into the bios. Which brings up a good point (implicitly, anyway). Compaq (which is REALLY GOOD at being 'almost compatible' - which is why I try REALLY HARD to avoid using compaq for anything!) has, as John says, their 'bios setup' STORED ON DISK in a special partition. Yeah, well, like I said.. this thing was free. Trust me, I would not willingly pay for a Compaq anything anymore... =) WIthout that partition, you CANNOT set your bios options! (Well, not entirely true - you can perhaps find on their web site the (dos) boot disks that have the bios setup on them, so you can boot from floppy to config your machine, but its kinda painful). Yes, I've done this before... on an old 386 I had, there were three floppies that were required to make any BIOS changes. It was extremely slow and, like you, said, kinda painful. =) As John said, the secret decoder is to HOLD F10 down when the cursor jumps to the right side. Once I've got a few minutes, I'm going to try that. So, whatever you do - if you have a compaq DO NOT allow fdisk to delete the stupid bios boot partition (which has some really strange label on it, as I remember). Well, I installed 7.2 using text mode since it crapped out in graphics mode. It auto-created the partitions, so I have a feeling that if the system partition was on there, it's gone now... =) (For the amusement of those easily amused - the bios setup programs run under dos!) Yup... gotta love compaq... =) -- [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: 10 hours 16 minutes.
Re: Re[2]: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
On Mon Jan 08, 2001 at 08:53:50AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote: Luk Vermeylen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if the systempartition is on the hd look at the compaq site to download the diagnostics Oh, I forgot on my last tirade - you CAN re-install the diag partition (which I think destroys everything else, but maybe not) I think it's gone... I'll have to go to compaq's site and nose around I think. -- [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: 10 hours 16 minutes.
Re: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
On Mon Jan 08, 2001 at 05:06:25AM -0800, - - wrote: Men what a project this will cost you double my usual fee. Geez man... you're nuts! =) [*Many* links snipped...] if the remote work with linux thats the biggest question, the sounblaster live platinum is the best product. otherwise irman is working under linux and you can use any remote Well, I'm thinking of a remote keyboard/mouse idea now... not as nice as using a small remote, but it'll do the trick. Then I can also use that machine for a little bit more than mp3 playing, and it gives me decent access to it since I don't want it running any servers so it will be untouchable via the internet/lan other than it running the samba client to mount an already-existing share on my machine (shared for my win machine). for the tv out I dont know, I know it work I just dont know that this particular machine add a card that did tv out probably another expense 640x480 VGA monitor hiding in the cabinet. =) No expense. I've decided to forgo the new video card (they are all much more pricey than I want to spend). since you are installing a network card and you have 2 gig I know you can install lm 7.2 on it , do you have a cd-rom ? Yup. 7.2 is on it already now. frankly if you add a 20 gig or a better machine with dvd rom I would see the point because if you look at www.mp3.com there is a lot of mp3 player audio theater Well, I don't need the DVD rom since I've got a real DVD player already connected... I don't really need two (plus then I'm buying the rom and the hardware decoder card so that it will actually play decently). Right now, I figure I can spend about half of the money I would on the alternatives. I've also decided to go for a SB16 ($40) instead of the platinum. I figure since my CD player is only connected to my amp using stereo cabling (not digital) and it sounds pretty awesome, I figure I'll do the same for the mp3 box. This also saves me about $150. Since the speakers and the amp have a lot to do with the sound quality (and this is a $5k stereo system that sounds unbelievable... everyone should have Nuance speakers), I figure the sound should be pretty good from a SB16 to this rig. And it saves me quite a bit. Maybe I'll get a platinum for myself in the future, and one of those creative desktop 5.1 theater deals for my own machine... =) Then I can put the x-gamer into the win machine and connect the altec speakers on there and play diablo2 in style... =) http://hardware.mp3.com/hardware/individual/3305.html wich is the same price as the sounblaster live Which is why I'm going for the SB16... =) -- [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: 10 hours 34 minutes.
Re: [expert] Pain in the Arse - Linux Stability
Al Baker wrote: I have always found 7.1 to be completely stable. Well a comment like that begs a reply. I found 7.1 to be stable from a kernel perspective but most of my usual "addons" would not compile at all. All kinds of package conflicts and bad versions... I never did find the magic sequence of updates to make it work. I've had none of these problems with 7.2 duane
Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager
On Monday 08 January 2001 10:40 am, Ron Heron wrote: I just installed the mdk kde 2.1 beta. The release notes say that 2.1 now contains a Theme Manager. Does anyone know where this is, or what the command is? Control center | Look'n Feel | Theme manager It's the last item under Look'n Feel on my system. I don't know how well it works, I don't use themes -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [expert] Memory problems
Luis Chardon wrote: Oh, I was just concerned since I upgraded from 160M to 672M and at the time, I wasn't using up the whole 160, but now, I'm not using the whole 672, but using most of it and I was wandering where the memory was going to. Luis Chardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:687708 489396 198312 0 198588 139984 -/+ buffers/cache: 150824 536884 Swap: 401584 0 401584 You might want to run xosview to watch system performance. The "mem" graph has four colors green(user+sharedlibs), orange(file buffer cache), red(paging cache), and the background color (unused memory). Green memory is the stuff that is actively being used by applications, orange and red is memory used to improve performance. When new apps load or kernel mallocs occur and there is no free memory, orange and red memory is used and "converted" to green. And when the entire bar is green and more memory is needed paging will begin and swap will start to grow. I have 640M in my desktop and run vmware so the right side of my mem bar is always red (vmware keeps as much of the windows virtual memory space in the page cache as possible). But I can still run new Linux apps with no problems. duane
Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy
Chris wrote: I have a cron wake up call set for each morning, monday to friday, using mpg123. Friday it worked just fine. Then this morning (monday), there was no wake up call. Log shows an error from mpg123 - audio: device or resource busy. I have no idea what could be the source of this problem. Xmms and record both work fine, and anyhow mpg123 worked last week. Anyone have any ideas on what could be the cause or (almost as good) any solutions? I can't tell if this is the module load "device or resource busy" or if it is an application complaining. If it is an app conflict, was RealPlayer left running? I know that one hogs and hangs onto the sound device. xmms may do this too. Try combinations of apps to see which ones hog /dev/dsp. duane
Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager
On Monday 08 January 2001 11:40, Ron Heron wrote: Hello, I just installed the mdk kde 2.1 beta. The release notes say that 2.1 now contains a Theme Manager. Does anyone know where this is, or what the command is? Ron, It's in control panel under look N Feel.
Re: [expert] CUPS and KMail from KDE2.1
civileme wrote: Oh My It happened right here in the main office. I have been printing copies of responses to my recruitmet notices using KMail and CUPS First of all, KMail starts off with a bad attitude. It comes up pointing at a printer from a list of available printers and the 'OK' button is grayed out. To solve this, simply flip it to file printing then back to printer printing... The OK becomes active. You have to do this EVERY session. Next, my emails were beheaded--the very upper portion was chopped off. This was due to a mental lapse--mine. The printer is set for A4 and is loaded with A4 paper and KMail is expecting A4 but the intervening cups server it was pointing to by default had the information that it was a 'Letter Size' I pointed to the right server which knew the printer was A4 and the print cleaned up right away. Does any of this seem familiar? I believe I have seen posts about it. I still find that more than 90% of the bugs I think I find have their tiny little fingertips on the sensitive keys of my very own keyboard. Hey don't beat yourself up so much! ;) There are many levels of bugs, maybe 90% of the ones you find are not considered problems by the most elite but lets go back to the whole reason computers exist *at all*: They (are supposed to) make our lives easier. Which means having to flip some mode to activate the printer option EVERY time you use a program, and having to remember that the last mode you left the printer in will chop off 2/3s of your current output, runs counter to The Goal. btw, the degree to which a vendor can handle the small stuff these days is what can set them apart from the hordes. So far Mandrake seems to be doing a relatively smashup job. duane
[expert] Latptop - using removeable devices
Is there anything I can do on my laptop to have the kernel remove and or reprobe devices? ie. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 which I'm running Mandrake 7.2, this notebook has a removeable device which I share between the CDRW and the floppy drive. I boot with the CDRW in and I can hot swap to floppy fine and use the floppy drive. When I swap back the the CDRW my machine freezes.
Re: [expert] More info on install problem
Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN a crit : I agree here. In version 7.1 my tv card worked with no hitches. In 7.2 not at all. There seem to be a lot of people with issues between the two. Let's just hope the next release works like 7.1 did. Same for me, but solved it by adding the following line in /etc/modules.conf (for a BT848 card PCTV RAVE studio from Pinnacle): options bttv card=1 options tuner type=3
Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?
Note that one of the major reasons telnet is not (istalled/enabled) in a default install (ie you didn't select the telnet-server package) is that is a totally insecure protocol. You should rather be setting up ssh (even on a closed network - just so that you get used to using ssh) than opening yourself to password-sniffing. Buchan -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 808 2497 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za
Re: [expert] Tv and radio cards
Mark Hillary wrote: 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 The Bt 848 ?? -based cards seem to work ok, I got my drive into a machine that has one of these (TNT2 card) and both XawTV and KWinTV worked, except in full-screen mode. Didn't try with radio, but after runnung "make xconfig" in /usr/src/linux, I see that the Zoltrix cards are supported ... Buchan -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 808 2497 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za
RE: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager
The themes didn't work for me. Kept stating there was no theme.rc file I believe. Brian -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager On Monday 08 January 2001 10:40 am, Ron Heron wrote: I just installed the mdk kde 2.1 beta. The release notes say that 2.1 now contains a Theme Manager. Does anyone know where this is, or what the command is? Control center | Look'n Feel | Theme manager It's the last item under Look'n Feel on my system. I don't know how well it works, I don't use themes -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[expert] apcupsd - losing the serial connection
I am trying to setup apcupsd for a backUPS 300Va. I received the serial cable directly from APC for the simple UPS. It seems to start okay, but about 5 seconds after it starts, I can see that there is an error stating "Serial communications with UPS lost" in /var/log/messages. Does anyone know what might cause this? I am using the rpm from the 7.2 distribution (3.7.0) The output I get from apcaccess status is: DATE : Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969 HOSTNAME : igor.aerobuilders.com RELEASE : 3.7.0 CABLE: APC Cable 940-0020B MODEL: BackUPS UPSMODE : Stand Alone LINEFAIL : OK BATTSTAT : OK END APC : Mon Jan 08 14:15:03 EST 2001 Also, I get an rwall message saying that the serial connection was lost. Any help would be much appreciated Andy
[expert] Corp Server 1.0.1 out
I don't see an official announcement about it yet, but CS 1.0.1 (kernel 2.2.17) is out. I am downloading it from the .fr mirror, though the links are not updated on the mandrake download page yet. Cheers, --chris
Re: [expert] KWinTV - Vol Control Doesn't Work.
Sevatio Octavio a crit : I just installed LM7.2 and I'm trying to get Volume Controls to work in KwinTV. Everything else works fine including the volume control on Xawtv. Is there a way to get KwinTV's volume to work? I have the same problem, and uses kmix to set the sound volume for kwintv. There is a module that may help : /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/tvmixer.o But did not manage to use it. If you find something, let us know ! Thanks.
Re: [expert] SMB with Konqueror trying to access Windows NT 4.0 shares
I think Konqueror's smb support is very bad. I have a netbios name != to my hostname, and so can't browse anything on the network. I will try this at some stage. michael schmidt wrote: I have a small problem and I believe it has to do with Konqueror. I can see a list of my Windows NT shares in Konqueror but when I try to access them Konqueror shows an error dialog: "The file or directory smb:/SCHMIDT/DIMENSION/H does not exist" SCHMIDT = Workgroup DIMENSION = Workstation H = Share name I know my SMB is setup correctly. I can mount the shares using mount -t smbfs ... I can also use XSMBrowser to browse the shares, but I would like to be able to browse with Konqueror. I also have the same username and password on both the Linux and NT box. Additional note: I am using LM 7.2 with KDE 2.1beta1 Thanks for any help, - mike -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 808 2497 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za
Re: [expert] Tv and radio cards
The Bt 848 ?? -based cards seem to work ok, I got my drive into a machine that has one of these (TNT2 card) and both XawTV and KWinTV worked, except in full-screen mode. Didn't try with radio, but after runnung "make xconfig" in /usr/src/linux, I see that the Zoltrix cards are supported ... Buchan I was able to use full screen with xawtv, the latest bttv driver and linux-2.4. With 2.2.17 I was not able to get full screen. Balaji
Re: [expert] Kernel upgrade to 2.2.16 WRECKED USING UPDATEMGR
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: On January 3, 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote: Hi guys, I did a stupid thing. I tried to update the Kernel from 2.2.X to 2.2.16 using the Update manager. Little needs to be said -- it didn't work. In fact my system won't boot anymore. I get a System Panic can't mount root fs on 08:05. Anyway I need to back out of the Kernel upgrade. Does update manager move the old Kernel and system.map ..etc to backups or does it overwrite everything...? I know I need to run a recovery shell. I'm using 'tomsrtbt ver 2.0.37' I can boot with a floppy but I can't seem to mount the root (/) sda5 disk where my original Linux is stored. Any help beyond this point would be great, especially when I finally get the /boot mounted what do I do to repair the flubbed-up Kernel upgrade? Anyone have any answers...? Did you make a boot disk on install? If you did, boot off of this disk and then reinstall the 7.2 kernel RPMS. Or just boot off the install CD and choose upgrade ... If not, mount the root file system somewhere else and possibly copy over the appropriate files by hand. Fernando Proietto Linux 7.1 PII-350-128M
RE: [expert] Tv and radio cards
The hauppague Win TV/radio work-ed in 7.1, but I can not get it to work in 7.2. When it worked, it was great. TV and radio worked, radio being the hardest to get right Brian -Original Message- From: Buchan Milne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Tv and radio cards Mark Hillary wrote: 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 The Bt 848 ?? -based cards seem to work ok, I got my drive into a machine that has one of these (TNT2 card) and both XawTV and KWinTV worked, except in full-screen mode. Didn't try with radio, but after runnung "make xconfig" in /usr/src/linux, I see that the Zoltrix cards are supported ... Buchan -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 808 2497 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.0 and ReiserFS Patch
You have to enable "Prompt for Experimental Modules" or something to that effect. I don't remember the exact text of that option. You find that at the very biginning. Original Message Follows From: "Tony K. Olsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Kernel 2.4.0 and ReiserFS Patch Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 23:23:17 -0500 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mandrakers, Its late and I am really tired so I might have forgotten something (other than the cardinal rule of never trying to build a new kernel when you are in this state) but I can't get the kernel config to register that I have applied the reiserfs patches. I downloaded the new kernel source tarball. Untarred to /usr/src/linux which was a clean folder. Tar -xvf worked fine and no problems noted. - -rw-r--r--1 root root 106455040 Jan 6 22:12 linux-2.4.0.tar I downloaded the reiserfs patch for 2.4.0 and patched the kernel source with no errors. - -rwxrwxrwx1 root root 1311206 Jan 6 22:17 linux-2.4.0-reiserfs-3.6.24-patch [src]# patch -p0 linux-2.4.0-reiserfs-3.6.24-patch patching file linux/Documentation/Configure.help patching file linux/fs/Config.in patching file linux/fs/Makefile patching file linux/fs/buffer.c patching file linux/fs/inode.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/Makefile patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/README patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/buffer2.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/dir.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/do_balan.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/file.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/hashes.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/inode.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/ioctl.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/item_ops.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/lbalance.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/objectid.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/prints.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/resize.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/stree.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/super.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/Makefile patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/README patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/Makefile patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/README patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo.sh patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_compare.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/README patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/map5.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/mongo.pl patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/mongo_compare.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/mongo_read.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/mongo_slinks.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/reiser_fract_tree.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/run_mongo patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/summ.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_read.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/reiser_fract_tree.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/run_mongo patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_compare.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/README patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/map5.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/mongo.pl patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/mongo_compare.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/mongo_read.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/mongo_slinks.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/reiser_fract_tree.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/run_mongo patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_pl/summ.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/mongo_read.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/reiser_fract_tree.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/benchmarks/run_mongo patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/debugreiserfs/Makefile patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/debugreiserfs/README patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/debugreiserfs/debugreiserfs.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/debugreiserfs/unpack.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/emu/Makefile patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/emu/emu.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/fsck/Makefile patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/fsck/check.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/fsck/check_tree.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/fsck/info.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/fsck/journal.c patching file linux/fs/reiserfs/utils/fsck/main.c patching file
[expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers
Would some one please reco either an Epson or HP printer in the US$500 range for use with Mandrake 7.2 and up. TIA
Re: [expert] No logs since 24 Dec
John J LeMay Jr wrote: Anyone have any idea what would have killed my logging? /var/log/messages, /var/log/kern.log, and a few others are 0 bytes since 24 December. I know something was hosed around that time, but I've rebooted and been running fine since (or so it seems). However, I don't know where to start looking for something that would be preventing logs. If you've lost ALL logging, it is possible you've been hacked. It happened to me when I was evaluating Caldera OpenLinux 2.3... That said, there is a problem with syslogd on LM7.2 that I am chasing on one of my systems: syslogd does not accept logging from remote systems. I remember finding and fixing this once; but have since forgotten the fix... In my case, when triggering a logable event on my firewall, I get: # tcpdump -vvs 1500 '(udp and port 514) or icmp' tcpdump: listening on eth0 16:11:33.722662 fw.57655 pfortin.syslog: udp 88 (ttl 255, id 37708) 16:11:33.722845 pfortin fw: icmp: pfortin udp port syslog unreachable [tos 0xc0] (ttl 255, id 43813) netstat -l shows that udp/514 is indeed not listening. Anyone remember how to fix this..? Pierre John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
Re: [expert] rpm error msg?
Larry Marshall wrote: Can someone tell me what it means to have a conflict between a new package and an old one of the same name? Can only occur if you are trying to install both packages. Chris Molnar's RPMs unfortunately (and inexcusably) include duplicate RPMs. I download the RPMs with rsync and then manually separate them out to another place and into subdirectories by product (cups, kde2.1, alsa, XFree86, etc), in the process removing older duplicates. I then open a terminal on, say, the KDE2.1 directory and: rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm Unfortunately this does not get all the updates (bug in rpm 3), so I then check and (for example): rpm -Uvh --nodeps kdebase-*.rpm for each of the missed updates. this is all done in a terminal under KDE, but of course clobbers the KDE files, so you must immediately logout and back in again (reboot not necessary). -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
[expert] kwintv 0.8.5 build/make problems under Mandrake 7.2...
Hi,I wonder if someone can help me
?... I'm having problems building/making wintv. Any help will be much
appreciated as I've run out of ideas.I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and
download kwintv-0.8.5. The configure script failed as it was
unable to find my 'qt2' libraries. I modifed it and replaced all
references "/qt" with "/qt2" plus I added "/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6" to the
"g++" line:ac_link='${CXX-g++} -o conftest${ac_exeext}
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext
$LIBS 15' ...the configurescript then worked
fine.However, when I run the make it fails
with:make[3]: Leaving directory `/hmake[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/john/kwintv/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/icons'make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/john/kwintv/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..
-I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/qt2/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -c
wintvchannel.cppIn file included from
wintvchannel.cpp:1210:wintvchannel.moc:45: new declaration `static void
winSlider::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:57: ambiguates old declaration
`static class QMetaObject * winSlider::staticMetaObject()'In file
included from wintvchannel.cpp:1210:wintvchannel.moc:316: new declaration
`static void winMixer::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:117: ambiguates old
declaration `static class QMetaObject *
winMixer::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.moc:489: new declaration `static
void winProgramList::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:181: ambiguates
old declaration `static class QMetaObject *
winProgramList::staticMetaObject()'ome/john/kwintv/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/icons'make[3]:
Entering directory `/home/john/kwintv/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'g++
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/qt2/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -c
wintvchannel.cppIn file included from
wintvchannel.cpp:1210:wintvchannel.moc:45: new declaration `static void
winSlider::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:57: ambiguates old declaration
`static class QMetaObject * winSlider::staticMetaObject()'In file
included from wintvchannel.cpp:1210:wintvchannel.moc:316: new declaration
`static void winMixer::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:117: ambiguates old
declaration `static class QMetaObject *
winMixer::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.moc:489: new declaration `static
void winProgramList::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:181: ambiguates
old declaration `static class QMetaObject *
winProgramList::staticMetaObject()'etc.Any ideas
?Ta very much,john
Re: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers
On Monday 08 January 2001 02:33 pm, you wrote: Would some one please reco either an Epson or HP printer in the US$500 range for use with Mandrake 7.2 and up. TIA I'm using both the HP 842c ($149.00) and the HP 648c ($99.00) printers. CUPS recognizes both and both do an exceptional job. -- Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services Payette, Idaho Ph. (208) 642-7101 - 1- (888) 642-7101 Web: http://www.nwaa.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Tv and radio cards
On Monday 08 January 2001 15:51, you wrote: The hauppague Win TV/radio work-ed in 7.1, but I can not get it to work in 7.2. When it worked, it was great. TV and radio worked, radio being the hardest to get right Brian Brian I have the the Hauppague Win TV (not the radio card) card and it works under MDK 7.2 with Kwintv. It was the stock rpm that came with MDK. I run KDE 2.1 and it shows up in the menu but I have to su to root to run it.. There is a new Kwintv program out to run with KDE2 but not in rpm yet. The su to root is not an issue yet as I'm sure MDK 7.3 is not to far off and will handle everything much better. John. Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
Re: [expert] No logs since 24 Dec
** Reply to message from Matthew Micene [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:49:21 -0500 Check your version of the syslog package. It was updated some time ago because of a problem with klogd not properly restarting. Also check the This was (kind of) it. Turns out syslog/klogd weren't running. In fact, the only S*syslog was in /etc/rc.d/rc4.d. There were no refs to it in any other section of runlevel scripts. I dropped it in rc3.d, which is how I run here. Started it up and it's logging fine. Now if I could figure out why /var/log/mail and /var/log/news end up with hundreds of thousands of entries in them. Took me about 3 hours to delete here on a SCSI-160 system with a P-III 700. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
[expert] Problem with Motorola Modem
Hi list ! I'am writing you from beautifull greece. I have a problem with my MOTOROLA MC 143450 RDK MODEM. I am calling to an ISP and i can get in i'm writing the username and password and i choose PPP protocol for my internet connection . After then i get lots of unknown words like "@#%)#^$%^$" and my connection breaks H E L P ! ! ! PS I am using Mandrake 7.0 Thank you for your time GREATING FROM GREECE !
[expert] bringing up virtual interfaces at boot
My machine has one interface (tried putting more in, but the pci expansion bus is next to impossible to deal with) and so I've had to create virtual interfaces to create the illusion of a separated network for firewall security etc.. The problem is this though. If I put a line in rc.local of 'ifconfig blahblahblah' then it doesn't create the interface in time for services like dhcp and samba to start up, so they try to start and bind to an interface that doesn't exist, and die. Plus, named doesn't bind to that interface either which means I have to hand restart (or script, whatever) 3 services in order for it to work properly. As mentioned above, I've scripted a work around, but that means that should that script for some reason fail - I'm screwed unless I'm at the terminal. Is it possible to setup files under the network-scripts path that are for the virtual interfaces? ie: ifcfg-eth0:1 etc scripts? I created some modeled off of ifcfg-eth0, but haven't rebooted yet. will this work or should I just rely on my scripts? EOL Tib
[expert] kernel-2.4.0 and supermount patch
I have tried patching the 2.4.0 kernel with with supermount patch, partial text below, but it fails. I get rejects and then no patch. Is there something obviously wrong with this patch? Running patch against linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2: [root@localhost kpatches-2.4.0]# patch -p0 linux-2.4.0-test12-supermount-0.5.patch can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- linux/fs/Config.in.chmou Thu Nov 9 19:04:42 2000 |+++ linux/fs/Config.in Wed Dec 6 13:20:54 2000 -- File to patch: /usr/src/source/kernel/linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 patching file /usr/src/source/kernel/linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 Hunk #1 FAILED at 7. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/src/source/kernel/linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2.rej can't find file to patch at input line 14 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- linux/fs/Makefile.chmouMon Oct 2 14:54:11 2000 |+++ linux/fs/Makefile Wed Dec 6 13:20:54 2000 -- Text of patchfile through line 14: --- linux/fs/Config.in.chmouThu Nov 9 19:04:42 2000 +++ linux/fs/Config.in Wed Dec 6 13:20:54 2000 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ bool 'Quota support' CONFIG_QUOTA tristate 'Kernel automounter support' CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS tristate 'Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)' CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS - +tristate 'Supermount removable media support' CONFIG_SUPERMOUNT dep_tristate 'ADFS file system support' CONFIG_ADFS_FS $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dep_mbool ' ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)' CONFIG_ADFS_FS_RW $CONFIG_ADFS_FS $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL --- linux/fs/Makefile.chmou Mon Oct 2 14:54:11 2000 +++ linux/fs/Makefile Wed Dec 6 13:20:54 2000 @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ Is it simply that I am using the wrong strip option? I am in my patch directory, /usr/src/kpatches-2.4.0 and running patch from there. I enter "patch -p0 patchfile" and when it asks for what file to patch I enter: /usr/src/source/kernel/linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 Is there something wrong with this? I have never patched before so I don't know if I am really doing something evil or not. - Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain Praedor
Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager
On Monday 08 January 2001 02:06 pm, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: The themes didn't work for me. Kept stating there was no theme.rc file I believe. Brian OK, I just tried it. Of the 10 themes, 5 give the 'no themerc' error. The rest work. I still don't like 'em tho ; Like I posted, I hadn't tried this before, so I don't even know when Theme manager first appeared. I'm usin the mix of 20001229, 20010101, and all the 20010103 upgrades... whatever's the latest for the corresponding rpm. ... now I'm gonna haft'a put it back the way I liked it ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager On Monday 08 January 2001 10:40 am, Ron Heron wrote: I just installed the mdk kde 2.1 beta. The release notes say that 2.1 now contains a Theme Manager. Does anyone know where this is, or what the command is? Control center | Look'n Feel | Theme manager It's the last item under Look'n Feel on my system. I don't know how well it works, I don't use themes
Re: [expert] Pain in the Arse - Linux Stability
Well, I speak from a purely development-tuned install (started w/ recommended and went from there). Compiled my own apache/mysql/php/modperl/modssl/openssl/mm just fine. Didn't do much in the way of multimedia on it except for hardware detection. --- duane voth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Baker wrote: I have always found 7.1 to be completely stable. Well a comment like that begs a reply. I found 7.1 to be stable from a kernel perspective but most of my usual "addons" would not compile at all. All kinds of package conflicts and bad versions... I never did find the magic sequence of updates to make it work. I've had none of these problems with 7.2 duane __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
[expert] openssl-0.9.6-4mdk causes bootup error
Installing this rpm disabled my previously successful ssl setup with error message on bootup: httpd: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/mod_ssl.conf: Jan 8 15:25:34 home httpd: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so: undefined symbol: sk_X509_NAME_value Jan 8 15:25:34 home AESctl: httpd startup failed LM 7.2 Any suggestions? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska
[expert] ATI Mobility and X
Hi, I have a Dell CPxH running Mandrake 7.2 I am using framebuffer by inserting VGA=792 in lilo.conf. Strange problem though. When I enter X, and then exit my screen just rolls and flickers Anyone else seen this ? I am assuming it has somehting to do wiht a modeline and the LCD because when docked it works fine. ANyone know a fix for this ? Thanks Jim G
Re: Re[2]: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 bootup problem
On Monday 08 January 2001 10:35 am, you wrote: Brian Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 12:51 pm, you wrote: It sounds as though you don't have the ppp support compiled into your kernel. Go back to the configuration and check to make sure it's turned on. I tried compiling it in, but that doesn't seem to do anything either. :( dumb question, but you never know: I assume you also installed the new kernel, ran lilo (making sure lilo got the new kernel! - I've missed this step before!), and rebooted? Miss any one of these and you won't get your new kernel... (well, ok, if you run 'make install' you've hit most of the steps ;-) (assuming you're /etc/lilo.conf is set 'right') rc As far as I know, I got all that right. I don't think I had made the changes to modules.conf the last time I compiled the kernel from scratch, so maybe I should try that again. 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: Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1
Hi Tom, I did some checking and as it turns out I've got KDE 2.1 installed already. I was sure at first but according to the packages I've got in my archive they're version 2.1beta1. Goodness, KDE has come such a long way since the RedHat 5.2 days...AWESOME! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 Tom Brinkman spake passionately saying: On Monday 08 January 2001 10:20 am, Mark Weaver wrote: that's strange cause I got mine from the same FTP server...I think I did??? crap...now I'm confused.. Tom...whats the address of the FTP server that you got them from? I just saw a notification today that all the old ftp sites for Chris' KDE 2.1 are being taken down. From now on they're available on any cooker mirror in the /unsupported/ dir. There's a list here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 There's a lot of stuff mixed in including 2.01 upgrades, so you'll need to sort. This is a situation where I _really_ like nt (Webdownloader), available on /contrib/ mirrors nt-1.19-1mdk. Best installation advice I've seen(search the newbie archive, Jan 3rd) Re: [newbie] need help with installing KDE 2.1 Beta 1 From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW, slight correction to my post below, my kdeaddutils is 0103, but my kdeutils is kdeutils-2.1-0.20001229.1mdk
Re: [expert] cdrecord dying with loss of streaming
civileme wrote: DL the kernel rpm there and test it for streaming please. I can confirm streaming problems with both 2.2.17-21mdk and 2.2.17-28mdk kernels, since resolved (for me) by shifting my IDE ATAPI CD Writer to the other IDE channel. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager
Control center | Look'n Feel | Theme manager It's the last item under Look'n Feel on my system. I don't know how well it works, I don't use themes Tom, I'm not a theme-oriented guy so I never looked for this. But I just checked my installation (KDE2.1-0101) and it's not there. Is there something that has to be done to pick this up? I downloaded all the rpms from Chris's packages and did the normal rpm update install with an update-menus -v (all done from outside X). Cheers --- Larry
Re: [expert] kwintv 0.8.5 build/make problems under Mandrake 7.2...
QT2 doesn't seem to be setup properly in Mandrake, try adding these lines to
your bash_profile or your rc.local
Make sure you tell ldconfig to add your qt lib directory to its path and then
run ldconfig.
kwintv then compiled fully for me.
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I can't remember if this is the program that required qt-mt libraries, but if
it is you can find it on rpmfind.net (i think connective made some static
ones)
Hope this rambling helps
Regards
Ali
On Monday 08 January 2001 9:57 pm, you wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if someone can help me ?... I'm having problems building/making
wintv. Any help will be much appreciated as I've run out of ideas.
I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and download kwintv-0.8.5.
The configure script failed as it was unable to find my 'qt2' libraries. I
modifed it and replaced all references "/qt" with "/qt2" plus I added
"/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6" to the "g++" line:
ac_link='${CXX-g++} -o conftest${ac_exeext} /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
$CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS 15'
the configure script then worked fine.
However, when I run the make it fails with:
make[3]: Leaving directory `/hmake[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/john/kwintv/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/icons'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/john/kwintv/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/qt2/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -c wintvchannel.cpp
In file included from wintvchannel.cpp:1210:
wintvchannel.moc:45: new declaration `static void
winSlider::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:57: ambiguates old declaration
`static class QMetaObject * winSlider::staticMetaObject()'
In file included from wintvchannel.cpp:1210:
wintvchannel.moc:316: new declaration `static void
winMixer::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:117: ambiguates old declaration
`static class QMetaObject * winMixer::staticMetaObject()'
wintvchannel.moc:489: new declaration `static void
winProgramList::staticMetaObject()'
wintvchannel.h:181: ambiguates old declaration `static class QMetaObject *
winProgramList::staticMetaObject()'
ome/john/kwintv/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/icons'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/john/kwintv/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/qt2/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -c wintvchannel.cpp
In file included from wintvchannel.cpp:1210:
wintvchannel.moc:45: new declaration `static void
winSlider::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:57: ambiguates old declaration
`static class QMetaObject * winSlider::staticMetaObject()'
In file included from wintvchannel.cpp:1210:
wintvchannel.moc:316: new declaration `static void
winMixer::staticMetaObject()'wintvchannel.h:117: ambiguates old declaration
`static class QMetaObject * winMixer::staticMetaObject()'
wintvchannel.moc:489: new declaration `static void
winProgramList::staticMetaObject()'
wintvchannel.h:181: ambiguates old declaration `static class QMetaObject *
winProgramList::staticMetaObject()'
etc.
Any ideas ?
Ta very much,
john
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Re: [expert] CUPS and KMail from KDE2.1
this has been true for me also... -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds REPLY BELOW On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 Michael O'Henly spake passionately saying: I am running qt 2.2.3 and see no change for either of these problems (grey-out OK button and A4 by default). I've installed the KDE 2.1 beta and updated printing RPMs: qt2-2.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm qt2-devel-2.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm qt2-doc-2.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm cups-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm cups-common-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-1.0-2.1mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-module-X-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-utils-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm kups-0.8-27.1mdk.i586.rpm kups-devel-0.8-27.1mdk.i586.rpm libcups1-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm libcups1-devel-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm libqtcups1-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm libqtcups1-devel-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm qtcups-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm M. On Monday 08 January 2001 04:48, you wrote: Update qt to the version 2.2.3 that I have in the unsuported dir. This will solve this problem. On Saturday 06 January 2001 12:51, civileme wrote: Oh My It happened right here in the main office. I have been printing copies of responses to my recruitmet notices using KMail and CUPS First of all, KMail starts off with a bad attitude. It comes up pointing at a printer from a list of available printers and the 'OK' button is grayed out. To solve this, simply flip it to file printing then back to printer printing... The OK becomes active. You have to do this EVERY session. Next, my emails were beheaded--the very upper portion was chopped off. This was due to a mental lapse--mine. The printer is set for A4 and is loaded with A4 paper and KMail is expecting A4 but the intervening cups server it was pointing to by default had the information that it was a 'Letter Size' I pointed to the right server which knew the printer was A4 and the print cleaned up right away. Does any of this seem familiar? I believe I have seen posts about it. I still find that more than 90% of the bugs I think I find have their tiny little fingertips on the sensitive keys of my very own keyboard. Civileme
Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager
Michael, The .themerc file is the file that tells the theme manager how and what to go do with itself so it knows how to setup the theme with the window manager. Without this file Theme manager can't display the theme. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds REPLY BELOW On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 Michael O'Henly spake passionately saying: Yes, it's in the Control Center, the last item under Look and Feel. I'm not sure it's functional yet, though -- or else I just don't know how to use it properly. I downloaded the Acqua-KDE2.0 theme from themes.org, but Themes Manager doesn't seem to work with it (unpacked or not). I keep getting a message saying "no themerc". What does this mean? (For that matter, several of the themes that come in the 2.1 beta also produce this message and can't be displayed...) Cheers. M. On Monday 08 January 2001 08:40, you wrote: Hello, I just installed the mdk kde 2.1 beta. The release notes say that 2.1 now contains a Theme Manager. Does anyone know where this is, or what the command is? Thanks, Ron __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed
Vincent Danen wrote: Yeah, I was looking at the MP3 live 5.1 card (about half the price of the platinum since the remote for the platinum won't do me much good anyways). Do you know what kind of digital outs those cards have? Are they coax or optical? My DVD player is connected to the sole optical input on the amp, but I have two coax inputs that I can use. And thanks for the tip... I'll have to check FS's website... Right now I'm just gonna put a 640x480 monitor in a covered space beneath the TV until a better solution presents itself. =) Probly optical, I'm not sure, like I said before I'm still using an SB16 ISA :-D Take a look over at: http://www.soundblaster.com/products/mp35.1/specs.asp You might be able to find the info that your looking for there :-D Two things worth mentioning, Creative only supports drivers for Windows 9.x and NT, and, I also saw a SoundBlaster LIVE Platinum OEM with digital outs over at CompuSmart for 80 bucks... Stef
Re: [expert] reiser FS support
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 courtesy cc to author On Monday 08 January 2001 10:42, you wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 01:45 pm, Robert Fox wrote: 2.4 doesn't have support for Reiserfs - but a patch is available. Check out: http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/Mandrake.htm for more details. Robert Fox I installed kernel-2.4.0-0.15mdk.i586.rpm It had ReiserFS support, broke supermount and ppp tho. I didn't investigate, just went back to 2.2.18 - -- Tom, Same situation here. I downloaded a new version of rp-pppoe to install that and still couldn't get anywhere -- back to 2.2.18. 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 iEYEARECAAYFAjpafEoACgkQ9WMVqtlY7NW+9gCff2Y7rA+aAstEgbXxqXHwlVx8 728AnRUvLhssdGCvomqa2bQ4Pbq+Sam/ =tyJT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [expert] Seagate travan 20 IDE for tape backup
On Saturday 06 January 2001 20:33, you wrote: I am in the market to get an IDE tape drive (no loot for SCSI) for backup and was wondering if anyone had used the Seagate travan 20 and what you think of it for small networks. I got an HP surestore DAT 4mm drive for not all that much a few years ago. Personally, it depends on how much backups you're planning on doing, but usually SCSI turns out to be cheaper in the long run. The Travan tapes tend to be rather expensive. On the other hand, one can get the 4mm tapes for about 5-6 dollars a piece. Andy -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[expert] Helix Gnome and MDK 7.2
Hi all, I've just downloaded and installed Helix Gnome on my MDK 7.2 system. After the install 'kdm' stopped allowing me to access Gnome at all. (It doesn't show up in the window managers list at all.) How do I go about getting it back on the list so that I can use Gnome instead of KDE? I've seen elsewhere, where someone suggested that you create a file in /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ called '02gnome' which had the contents: NAME=Gnome ICON=gnome-wmsession.xpm DESC=Gnome Desktop Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/gnome-session SCRIPT: exec /usr/bin/gnome-session I tried that and when that didn't work, I manually edited usr/share/config/kdmrc and added Gnome to the list. Of course that added Gnome to the list, but caused 'kdm' to load up IceWM, instead of Gnome. I then used the 'Login Manager' application that came with KDE to edit the list, and put Gnome back in the list, but it only got the same results as putting it in manually. That's the extent of my travels so far. Any help would be appreciated. I guess the full extent of my question would be how to get Gnome to start up, and how to get Mandrake's menus to 'see' my Gnome software again. Thanks for your help. -Mannequin*
Re: [expert] apcupsd - losing the serial connection
there is an update apcupsd-3.8.0-1.1mdk.i586.rpm. you may want to get it before you spend a lot more time messing with it. tom berkley Andrew Judge wrote: I am trying to setup apcupsd for a backUPS 300Va. I received the serial cable directly from APC for the simple UPS. It seems to start okay, but about 5 seconds after it starts, I can see that there is an error stating "Serial communications with UPS lost" in /var/log/messages. Does anyone know what might cause this? I am using the rpm from the 7.2 distribution (3.7.0) The output I get from apcaccess status is: DATE : Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969 HOSTNAME : igor.aerobuilders.com RELEASE : 3.7.0 CABLE: APC Cable 940-0020B MODEL: BackUPS UPSMODE : Stand Alone LINEFAIL : OK BATTSTAT : OK END APC : Mon Jan 08 14:15:03 EST 2001 Also, I get an rwall message saying that the serial connection was lost. Any help would be much appreciated Andy
Re: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers
"James W. McComas" wrote: Would some one please reco either an Epson or HP printer in the US$500 range for use with Mandrake 7.2 and up. Look at the new HP 970Cxi - it is the only inkjet printer with duplex (prints on both sides of each sheet, one after the other) capability. Works well with CUPS. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
Re: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers
Would some one please reco either an Epson or HP printer in the US$500 range for use with Mandrake 7.2 and up. TIA Im using an Epson Stylus Color 740 that I found on sale for US$100. Prints at 1440x720, works w/ CUPS (which btw is just fabulous), and Ive never had a problem w/ it. Spending US$500 on a printer seems excessive unless you need the ability to print large (12" width) at very high resolutions... Best suggestion I can give is to check out the respective websites for specs and compare w/ what you actually need (as opposed to your dream printer). Regards Kevin
[expert] Helix Gnome cd
anyone know where i can download an iso image of the gnome cd? moe __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Latptop - using removeable devices
May depend on how Dell wired the floppy, maybe not. If it uses an atapi driver thru the ide channel then when you swap, the cdrw needs the ide-scsi emulation on the ide channel. No compatibility to be had there and you have created a demand for a hot swap ide driver module. But it could just be that the floppy module needs to be unloaded and then a new module loaded for the cdrw. If the devices have modules that can be unloaded, you could manage them yourself. Look in the kernel configuration (/usr/src/linux then make xconfig) where the ide stuff is located, I don't recall the page titles. If the floppy and ide-scsi stuff has module options then you could compile a custom kernel and try to unload the module for the floppy before you unplug it and then after you plug in the cdrw you could load the module for the ide-scsi. Don't know if this would work but it would be worth a shot. You will want to learn about lsmod, insmod, modprobe, and kernel compilation. Have fun. Tom Berkley Jason Straight wrote: Is there anything I can do on my laptop to have the kernel remove and or reprobe devices? ie. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 which I'm running Mandrake 7.2, this notebook has a removeable device which I share between the CDRW and the floppy drive. I boot with the CDRW in and I can hot swap to floppy fine and use the floppy drive. When I swap back the the CDRW my machine freezes.
Re: [expert] ssh update probs
ssh changes its connection encryption key every hour and it sounds like your connection is not getting the key change updated correctly. The connection then becomes very stupid because it cannot understand anything. don't know where to check for this. may be better off -Uvh --oldpackage but communicate to the ssh.org just to be certain. tom berkley Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I updated ssh via Mandrake Update. I now have an issue that I can log in once. After about 1 hour I seem to lose connection. I am unable to login again as any user at all. I can however use ssh locally and all is fine. This problem never happened before update though. It matters not if I choose SSH1 or 2 Any help? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)
[expert] a.d. mono font
Just compiled 2.4 on my 7.2 install with reiserfs several days ago. Everything went well and works fine with the new kernel and I would like to keep this install as my main one I use but it had problems from the original install. This one is with my fonts. No matter where I change the fonts (control center or settings in konqueror browser settings) (as root) the browser loads this a.d. mono font that is very difficult to read. I've noticed the font explorer in kde control center font manager is also stuck on this font also - probably just because it opens with the first one alphabetically. How do I get reset this font in my browser?
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 from hard disk...
Does 'linux7.2' have a subdirectory called 'i586'? If you do, try typing in the full path to that level. If you renamed the 'i586' directory 'linux7.2', you need to change it back again, as this is the folder name that the installer is looking for. The 'i586' directory has 8 subdirectories: boot, doc, dosutils, images, lnx4win, Mandrake, misc and tutorial, as well as 11 other miscellaneous files. Good luck! Anthony Kat wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.2 from the hard disk. I have downloaded the entire package from the net and it is stored in my hard disk (in the linux partition). I created a boot floppy by using the command: dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 Then, when I boot from this floppy, it asks me for the location of the Mandrake directory. When I give the path to where it is located (in my case, it's in /linux7.2 directory), it gives me an error like this: Error reading second stage ram disk The system hangs at this point and I am not able to proceed further. Any help regarding this pblm would be highly appreciated. Thanks Kat.
