Re: [expert] Kernel config file
Try installing some things as modules. Make careful decisions about what to put in as a module and what not to. One thing is, i think that some of the Mandrake kernels have been made with patches, so just getting the .config file might not be the only thing you need to do. j --- ninetysix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have the .config file used by Mandrake or something similar that closely resembles their kernels? I tried to compile my own kernel and it came out to about 2MB compared to 700k-800k for mandrake kernels. I though I already disabled most of the stuff that I don't need but I guess not :) Really puzzles me how those 700k/800k kernels has so much drivers in it. Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] configuring sb16
To configure it? Use sndconfig. Is it an isa card? In that case do something like this: cp /etc/isapnp.conf /etc/isapnp.conf.bak pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf Standard Advice: Read the man pages on those commands i mentioned :-) Good luck j --- Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is the standard way in Mandrake 8 to configure a sound blaster 16 ? (just doing modprobe sb works, but I don't wnat to write modprobe sb in any script, I would like to do it the right way, thank you). -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pupeno.com.ar __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] mars_nwe client?
Hello, How do I connect to Linux mars_nwe server from DOS? Current state: mars_nwe server is working sys/login/ catalog has nwnet.exe login.exe, and login (script) permissions 777 Server OK i can find it in network. Now clients: NwClient16 After connection i get: You are connected to DUNIXIPX (its my server name) And i get one letter, which is first available in net.cfg. This letter is my sys/login/ so i do have login.exe nwnet.exe and login. I type login Login: SUPERVISOR passwd: Output here: MAP H: = DUNIXIPX\CDROM: MAP Z: =DUNIXIPX\SYS:PUBLIC after it i'm checking with nwnet map and what i see is that i have just one letter witch was mounted connecting to server. So i thought my nwnet.exe is bad, i was trying map.exe from Novell-3.11 and 3.12 doesn't work. How do i use client from novell 3.11 i have no ideas: lsl 3c90x (lsl does not support...) Thank you. Dovydas
Re: [expert] Game-unfriendly is Mandrake 8.0
I almost hate to take the bait like this, but what the hell Praedor: Why'd you switch to 8.0 anyway? To get the latest, the greatest, right? But most any distro that puts out a new major version is going to have the cutting edge stuff - which is likely always going to be fairly buggy. So you can switch off to any other distro, and then when that distro comes out with the newest and bestest, you'll upgrade and likely have more problems. Or you could join the ranks of those who don't take 7.0 but wait for 7.1 and 7.2, and who don't take 8.0 but wait for 8.1 etc. But whatever, and good luck getting those games going! Have fun :-) j --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By all indications, it appears to me that the combination of Mandrake 8.0 and KDE 2.1.1 is the most game-unfriendly combination I have ever come across in the linux world. I have Terminus, Myth II, and Heretic II, all linux games. Not a single one of them will play properly under Mandrake 8.0 but they did play VERY well under 7.2. With Heretic II and Myth II, you have a choice: play the games without soundfx (because artsd will not release /dev/dsp so anything else can use it) OR kill artsd, which prevents the games from starting at all (don't ask me why this is). With Terminus, who know WHAT the problem is. I even tried deleting the whole thing and then reinstalling the game from scratch. No dice. The problem here is that the game wont produce ANY informational content at all. No error messages, nothing. No CPU activity of any kind. It is as if one is starting an empty binary, but this isn't the case. Under Mandrake 7.2, all three of these games played flawlessly. Among the problems that people have been coming across with the latest Mandrake release, add linux games don't work worth a damn in Mandrake 8.0. If this cannot be corrected in 8.0, then I will have to go to another distro (seriously). I specifically bought linux games to specifically support linux gaming and help drive further development of linux games (and to enjoy the games, of course). Please tell me there is a fix for this problem? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] hard drive experiences (was 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list))
I have heard a number of stories about Seagate's drives being fast, but having problems losing sectors outside of this list. It seems that most current hard drives very rarely loose sectors unless there is a significant defect and the drive is not going to last much longer. On the other hand I hear that it is not uncommon for a Seagate drive just to loose a few sectors here and a few sectors there. It is as if most drive manufactures find the limit of a particular manufacturing process and then back off of to the point where no data will be lost under normal use. Then Seagate comes along and tries to push the envelope a little more than anyone else on a particular process to get a little better density on those high end SCSI drives. (Higher RPMs usually mean lower density.) With predictive diagnostics and sector remapping, this shouldn't be too much of a problem, but I hear not all controllers (like SimBios) properly handle sector remapping. In a big file server with lots of little files, occasionally having two files share the same sector and overwriting each other is not too big of a problem. But when running a large DBMS system with hundreds, if not thousands of disks, a slip sector can cause many a bad hair day. (Please take note these are stories that I hear not first hand experience.) On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote: Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM, Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right? Okay, who has horror stories to tell about Seagate and Fujitsu? I've heard nasty stories about Fujitsu, but I had 2 of them (IDE) in my 486, and they outlived the power supply in its tower case. :) Regarding Seagate, I've had problems with them developing lots of badblocks. In the two systems I had functioning as servers w/ seagate drives (SCSI) they both began dropping blocks within 1-3 years. One of those has a fairly hard-hit RAID w/ 4 IBM drives the array. None of those have failed yet (after 3+ years) All of the new systems I've built in the past year or so (around five) have IBM drives now. None of those has had any problems at all, and some of them are servers with constant load. -pete
Re: [expert] Game-unfriendly is Mandrake 8.0
I almost hate to give this answer, but ... I have a few (simple) games for Linux, that won't play under Mandrake 8.0 w/KDE or Gnome. So as a test, I logged in under IceWM (I installed all of window mangers), and the games run great there! KDE Gnome are resource hogs. I'm not going to tell anyone to jump to a lighter weight desktop, but the games play there, when they won't under KDE... Ric Praedor Tempus wrote: By all indications, it appears to me that the combination of Mandrake 8.0 and KDE 2.1.1 is the most game-unfriendly combination I have ever come across in the linux world. I have Terminus, Myth II, and Heretic II, all linux games. Not a single one of them will play properly under Mandrake 8.0 but they did play VERY well under 7.2. With Heretic II and Myth II, you have a choice: play the games without soundfx (because artsd will not release /dev/dsp so anything else can use it) OR kill artsd, which prevents the games from starting at all (don't ask me why this is). With Terminus, who know WHAT the problem is. I even tried deleting the whole thing and then reinstalling the game from scratch. No dice. The problem here is that the game wont produce ANY informational content at all. No error messages, nothing. No CPU activity of any kind. It is as if one is starting an empty binary, but this isn't the case. Under Mandrake 7.2, all three of these games played flawlessly. Among the problems that people have been coming across with the latest Mandrake release, add linux games don't work worth a damn in Mandrake 8.0. If this cannot be corrected in 8.0, then I will have to go to another distro (seriously). I specifically bought linux games to specifically support linux gaming and help drive further development of linux games (and to enjoy the games, of course). Please tell me there is a fix for this problem? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Re: [expert] Game-unfriendly is Mandrake 8.0
I have Quake3 working flawlessly in Mandrake 8.0, just like I had it working flawlessly in 7.2. I'm having no sound problems whatsoever. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live, which I noticed doesnt give me any problems even while I'm playing MP3s in xmms and hearing sounds from other apps while I'm still playing Q3. On Monday 30 April 2001 16:26, John Wolford wrote: I almost hate to take the bait like this, but what the hell Praedor: Why'd you switch to 8.0 anyway? To get the latest, the greatest, right? But most any distro that puts out a new major version is going to have the cutting edge stuff - which is likely always going to be fairly buggy. So you can switch off to any other distro, and then when that distro comes out with the newest and bestest, you'll upgrade and likely have more problems. Or you could join the ranks of those who don't take 7.0 but wait for 7.1 and 7.2, and who don't take 8.0 but wait for 8.1 etc. But whatever, and good luck getting those games going! Have fun :-) j --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By all indications, it appears to me that the combination of Mandrake 8.0 and KDE 2.1.1 is the most game-unfriendly combination I have ever come across in the linux world. I have Terminus, Myth II, and Heretic II, all linux games. Not a single one of them will play properly under Mandrake 8.0 but they did play VERY well under 7.2. With Heretic II and Myth II, you have a choice: play the games without soundfx (because artsd will not release /dev/dsp so anything else can use it) OR kill artsd, which prevents the games from starting at all (don't ask me why this is). With Terminus, who know WHAT the problem is. I even tried deleting the whole thing and then reinstalling the game from scratch. No dice. The problem here is that the game wont produce ANY informational content at all. No error messages, nothing. No CPU activity of any kind. It is as if one is starting an empty binary, but this isn't the case. Under Mandrake 7.2, all three of these games played flawlessly. Among the problems that people have been coming across with the latest Mandrake release, add linux games don't work worth a damn in Mandrake 8.0. If this cannot be corrected in 8.0, then I will have to go to another distro (seriously). I specifically bought linux games to specifically support linux gaming and help drive further development of linux games (and to enjoy the games, of course). Please tell me there is a fix for this problem? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] thanks for the libsafe.so.1.3 file
Just to let anyone who cares know, someone emailed me the libsafe.so.1.3 file (THANKS KEN) and i copied it back and my linux box booted up without a hitch. I love that i can claw my way back from a totally broken system without having to reinstall. I have to write a script that will protect me from my stupidity..Thank god for this list! peace j __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] Jpilot in MDK8
Heres a cute one I just figured out Jpilot version .99 shipped with MDK8 jpilot-syncmal plugin 0.52 shipped with mdk8.0 However on the syncmal site...you can find the ever popular line of synchmal version 0.60 or greater is required for Jpilot .99 D'Oh Andrew
RE: [expert] weird network problem
John, The problem is solved. We managed to get the hang of the ex-administrator (poor system documentation by him) and enquired about the system he left. The switch hub need to be configured so that's what we did. The Linux server is working fine now. Thanks for the checklist... It does help us a lot. Best Regards, Joe RLU# 186063 Reading is the essence of knowledge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Wolford Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 02:07 PM To: Joe; Linux Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] weird network problem Joe, When you moved the linux server, did you carry the cables with it? Plugged into a hub, you must have used straight-through, but in the new location should it be crossover, perhaps? Or maybe it should be straight-through but for some reason it is crossover? In other words, good cables but bad physical configuration? Is it still on the same LAN, same network address? All sorts of problems could be causing it, if not. Is it plugging into a switch, or something that needs to be reconfigured to allow access? Does it have to go through a firewall, or a router access control list, that it didn't have to before? If you pull another test box into the room with the server, and you attatch a crossover cable between them and set up the ip address properly (same network), do you have connectivity? (If you use a hub in between the two, you need straight-through, not crossover). What i'm asking, is can you get the server to connect with ANYTHING in that room, other than plugging it into the connection which is not currently working? Was anything getting configured from the server, which is now not getting configured, and could that thing be causing loss of connectivity? Like, say, a router? I guess that would come back to it being on a different network. Can the server still ping its own network card (specified by its ip address, not by localhost)? If you can't then you can't ping anyone else either. Make sure your network card is up. If it's not, then maybe it gets its ip configuration from a DHCP server, which it is not able to reach for some reason (some physical-layer or layer-2 reason). Umi guess that's a mish-mash of suggestions: 1) physical (crossover vs straight-through cables; 2) layer-2 (switches, MAC-based filters); layer-3 (routers, ip-based firewalls, changed networks, changed gateway, ip address configuration (static vs dhcp). If nothing makes sense, then start looking very closely at the things you take for granted (cables, this, that, whatever). Sometimes just thinking of the things we take for granted and forcing ourselves to not take them for granted is the hardest part of trouble-shooting. Good luck, let us know any developments. It's fun stuff - for us anyway :-) j --- Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Linuxguys, We have a problem which we find rather weird. We have a Linux Server running our mail server in the office (we have leased line). This particular server worked well in the other room (server room1) but it does not work in another. To say that the cabling at the other room is faulty, it is not since we put other machines there and it worked fine... we can ping, access the service and all. Even the Windows clients worked there. Network card, we're sure nothing wrong with it too. But when I put the Linux server machine straight into the hub, it worked. We can't leave the server near the hub though, as we don't have anymore space. We have to put it somewhere else which apparently it does not work elsewhere except the hub... unable to ping, unable to access the service and all. Can anybody give us a checklist on what should we check? By the way, we are running LM7.0 without X Server, no KDE, no GNOME etc. We appreciate your assistance in any kind. Thanks! Best Regards, Joe RLU# 186063 Reading is the essence of knowledge __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [expert] Kernel config file
I to would like to find out what if any patches are made to the kernel. I think the reason for the size difference is the kernel image. What command did you use to create the kernel ifile? Did you use make bzimage? This will compress it down in size so it will fit on a floppy. If some one knows about any kernel patches Mandrake does or what kernel do they use (AC patches etc.), Please let me know... Stave Ackerman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of ninetysix Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Kernel config file Does anyone have the .config file used by Mandrake or something similar that closely resembles their kernels? I tried to compile my own kernel and it came out to about 2MB compared to 700k-800k for mandrake kernels. I though I already disabled most of the stuff that I don't need but I guess not :) Really puzzles me how those 700k/800k kernels has so much drivers in it. Thanks. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] MDK 8, Voodoo 3 and 3D
I'm afraid I can't help you. I just noticed the same thing on my gateway tonight. I haven't found any answers yet and was wondering if you have had any luck? -s On Thursday 26 April 2001 10:18 am, you wrote: I installed Mandrake 8.0 yesterday without problems but could not get any 3D game to run correctely (more than one frame every 2 seconds). I tried tuxracer, gltron, that tennis thing... I have a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card and chose Xfree 4.0.3 with 3D accel at install, since having this (and antialiased fonts in KDE) was one of my motivation to change from my Mandrake 7.1. Changing depth from 16 to 24 bits in the control center even lead to a complete freeze of my computer once, so I really suspect the X server. It's not a critic issue but if anybody could help me play with Mandrake I would greatly appreciate. Aris
[expert] Mandrake 8.0 mouse problems on IBM A20m Thinkpad
Hi, I encountered a rather strange problem when I tried to install the latest Mandrake on my laptop. The Thinkpad has a PS2 port, plus one of those pins in the middle of the keyboard. Mandrake would refuse to find my mouse. What was really really weird was that after installing it, I tried getting X up and running, with no luck because it was not able to find a mouse. However, xconf (my mind is not working today, so please do not flame me if there is no such program, it is a program that fires up X and allows you to set some settings (not xwidtune though, but something similar)) when that ran, would have a working mouse?!?!? I tried to disable the autosetting in my bios to see if that would have any effect, but nope. Anybody with any clues? I had to install RedHat 7.1 in the end (ug.) -Geir
Re: [expert] 8.0: cannot boot into Linux after the install
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks, your solution worked. I had picked to install VNC server, and I didn't disable it when I was asked what services were to run at boot-up. I'll look in the documentation about how to set up the server, so that I can have it start at boot-time. Thanks for your help, Kevin --- Andrew George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:06, Kevin Tambascio wrote: I have tried three times to install 8.0 on a box that previously ran 7.2. The only difference is that I am installing to the second IDE harddrive instead of the first, nothing else has changed. Here is what my system looks like: Dell PII-450 20 GB Quantum HD RIVA 128 TNT Video Card 128 MB Ram Linksys 10/100 eth card The install works fine, and I set up linux partitions like this: / - ~12 GB, reiserFS /home - ~8 GB, resiser /swap - 400 MB, swap When I reboot for the first time, and anytime after that, during the Aurora bootup, it says Starting X Font Server, and it just hangs for ever. Had something similarthe problem was that VNCServer needs a password to start., it kicks off right after XFS and dosn't pop up on Aroura until after it's successfully started If you've installed VNCServer, do a single user boot and either play with VNC's config file or stop it starting at boot time Andrew __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] Sound: Convert cat to mp3
Can anybody show me how to convert audio files I created using 'cat' into mp3? I tried using lame to do it, but the mp3 contained garbage. Here are all the commands I've tried: cat test | lame - - output cat /dev/dsp | lame -x -m s - ./test.mp3 cat /dev/dsp | lame -x -m s - - output.mp3 and none of them work.
Re: [expert] Game-unfriendly is Mandrake 8.0
Ooooh, sounds from multiple apps simultaneously eh, that's pretty nice --- Jeff Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Quake3 working flawlessly in Mandrake 8.0, just like I had it working flawlessly in 7.2. I'm having no sound problems whatsoever. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live, which I noticed doesnt give me any problems even while I'm playing MP3s in xmms and hearing sounds from other apps while I'm still playing Q3. On Monday 30 April 2001 16:26, John Wolford wrote: I almost hate to take the bait like this, but what the hell Praedor: Why'd you switch to 8.0 anyway? To get the latest, the greatest, right? But most any distro that puts out a new major version is going to have the cutting edge stuff - which is likely always going to be fairly buggy. So you can switch off to any other distro, and then when that distro comes out with the newest and bestest, you'll upgrade and likely have more problems. Or you could join the ranks of those who don't take 7.0 but wait for 7.1 and 7.2, and who don't take 8.0 but wait for 8.1 etc. But whatever, and good luck getting those games going! Have fun :-) j --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By all indications, it appears to me that the combination of Mandrake 8.0 and KDE 2.1.1 is the most game-unfriendly combination I have ever come across in the linux world. I have Terminus, Myth II, and Heretic II, all linux games. Not a single one of them will play properly under Mandrake 8.0 but they did play VERY well under 7.2. With Heretic II and Myth II, you have a choice: play the games without soundfx (because artsd will not release /dev/dsp so anything else can use it) OR kill artsd, which prevents the games from starting at all (don't ask me why this is). With Terminus, who know WHAT the problem is. I even tried deleting the whole thing and then reinstalling the game from scratch. No dice. The problem here is that the game wont produce ANY informational content at all. No error messages, nothing. No CPU activity of any kind. It is as if one is starting an empty binary, but this isn't the case. Under Mandrake 7.2, all three of these games played flawlessly. Among the problems that people have been coming across with the latest Mandrake release, add linux games don't work worth a damn in Mandrake 8.0. If this cannot be corrected in 8.0, then I will have to go to another distro (seriously). I specifically bought linux games to specifically support linux gaming and help drive further development of linux games (and to enjoy the games, of course). Please tell me there is a fix for this problem? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] SPARC: reviving an old sun4c...
Hi, Wanting to revive an old SPARCstation2 4/75, I tried RH6 which was a terrible disaster. Then I tried LM7.1 and this was better; but still not usable. The other day, I tried LM Corp. Server 1.0... Installed via NFS; very NICE smooth install!! Though it only installed about 260MB of stuff... The surprise though is that for all the comments about using ssh vs telnet, this Corp. *Server* distro installed telnetd; but there is no sign of ssh[d] (well... some man files) anywhere on either ISO image. MandrakeUpdate was not installed... resolved; but... Does anyone know if/where there are any updates for SPARC...? Using MU, I get this for every site I visit: --09:35:12-- ftp://ftp.sunet.se:21/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/7.1/sparc/descriptions = `-' Connecting to ftp.sunet.se:21... connected! Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == TYPE I ... done. == CWD pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/7.1/sparc ... done. == PASV ... done.== RETR descriptions ... No such file `descriptions'. --09:35:24-- ftp://ftp.sunet.se:21/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/7.1/sparc/ls-lR = `-' Connecting to ftp.sunet.se:21... connected! Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == TYPE I ... done. == CWD pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/7.1/sparc ... done. == PASV ... done.== RETR ls-lR ... done. Length: 89 (unauthoritative) 0K -[100%] 09:35:27 (1.55 KB/s) - `-' saved [89] Thanks, Pierre
[expert] SSH session timeout
Hi All, I'm having troubles with my SSH sessions on my Mandrake 8.0 box. For example if I SSH to another box(which is working fine for other users) I can successfully connect. However while this connection works OK for a while it will for no reason time-out. I'm also seeing the same thing if I SSH to the Mandrake server from a windoze pc running TTSSH. I've tried changing the keepalives but I've been unsuccessful making this connection stable. All boxes are on different subnets and behind firewalls. Does anyone else have any ideas. TIA, Jason begin:vcard n:Ross;Jason tel;cell:+ 44 (0)7990 562 207 tel;fax:+44 (0)870 126 7648 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.ozcom.co.uk org:ozcom limited version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;356/37 Store St=0D=0A;London;;;United Kingdom fn:Jason Ross end:vcard
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 mouse problems on IBM A20m Thinkpad
Yes, it failed to find both the trackpoint and the mouse. And as I said, RedHat found the mouse fine, and xconf foudn the mouse fine as well. I tried both disabling the trackpoint, and only have a mouse plugged in, and enabling the trackpoint, without a mouse (that is, not making it auto where it figures out if you have something on your PS2 port). By the way, for specially interested, it is a model 2628 of the IBM Thinkpad A20m, on of the ones where the soundcard is Linux supported by IBM. -Geir On Monday 30 April 2001 2:27 pm, you wrote: Geir, Did Mandrake fail to find *both* the trackpoint and the actual mouse? Was the mouse plugged into the correct PS/2 port at the time of installation? Did you try installing without a mouse plugged in, and only using the trackpoint? This last question is perhaps most important. My own ThinkPad works perfectly with both mouse and trackpoint, but I only added the mouse after installation. I used only the trackpoint during install.
[expert] mandrake 8 rpm
Hi, I just installed mandrake 8 and am trying to install rpms. However, whenever I run rpm -i file.rpm, it just seems to hang. I've also tried Gnome RPM and it also hangs. Has anyone else been having this problem? Any suggestions on how I could get rpms installed?
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[expert] Software and Hardware Inventory
Hello: There are several software packages for MSWindows which can assist the network administrator to keep track of software and hardware installed at each of the clients, but I have not been able to find a similar product for Linux. Anybody knows of any who can point the way? Thank you. -- Alfredo J. Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Re: [expert] Game-unfriendly is Mandrake 8.0
On Mon Apr 30, 2001 at 05:19:41PM +1000, Jeff Mills wrote: I have Quake3 working flawlessly in Mandrake 8.0, just like I had it working flawlessly in 7.2. I'm having no sound problems whatsoever. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live, which I noticed doesnt give me any problems even while I'm playing MP3s in xmms and hearing sounds from other apps while I'm still playing Q3. I bought and installed Heretic2 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 when I had cooker installed. Worked just fine then. Last week I put 8.0 final on (only updates are security updates; nothing from cooker), and I backed up my /usr/local directories and restored them after the fresh 8.0 install. Both Heretic2 and HoMM3 work fine here. Tried them both now... good speed, sound, everything works. Athlon 950, 512MB RAM, SB Live MP3 I did absolutely nothing to get these working... I restored my desktop icons in Nautilus when I restored /usr/local and they work fine. -- [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 kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 5 days 10 hours 15 minutes. PGP signature
Re: [expert] Installing Netscape 3.04 and libdl.so.1
John, Thank you very much! I now have Netscape 3.04 working (at least as root -- I have some more experimentation to do (for example, to see what happens if I share a mail directory with Windows -- will the line ending problem bite me?) but I appreciate the help to get over this hurdle). For reference, I downloaded ld.so-1.9.5-8.i386.rpm from rpmfind.net which was listed as being for Redhat 5.2. (There were no packages listed for Mandrake, and this seemed the most promising.) As it happens, I had done a fresh install of Mandrake 7.2 and then updated with Mandrakefreq since my previous email, so the libdl.so.1 link I had created to libdl.so.2.x.x was gone. Before I installed the library, I tried a variety of rpm queries (rpm -q --whatprovides, --whatrequires, --provides to see what required libdl.so.2, what provided libdl.so.2, etc.). Then I took a deep breath ... I used rpm -ivh --force ld.so-1.9.5-8.i386.rpm, followed by ldconfig -l /lib/libdl.so.1.9.5. (I didn't try installing Netscape before the ldconfig, so I'm not absolutely sure that the ldconfig step is necessary. The resulting library (libdl.so.1.9.5) worked fine -- I did not have to rename or link it to libdl.so.1. Thanks again! Randy Kramer John Wolford wrote: Hi Randy, Yes, go to rpmfind.net and look for an older version of libdl. You can also look at tuxfinder.com. Then have fun installing that older version. I DONT KNOW, but i would try something like rpm -ivh --force rpm package filename. Note that you are _installing_ it, not upgrading it, hence -ivh instead of -Uvh. If that works, then you should have two versions of that package installed. Read the man page of rpm, obviously, before you go pulling some stunt like that. And make sure that the worst that could happen is you would have to uninstall the misunderstanding and install the original package again. Good luck, j --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For compatibility with mail files on Windows systems, I want to use Netscape 3 (3.04) on my Mandrake 7.2 box. I've downloaded the tar.gz file, read the instructions, unzipped/untarred it and tried to install it. First problem: It says it needs libdl.so.1, and sure enough, it's not on Mandrake 7.2. Someone suggests that I create a softlink between libdl.so.1 and the libdl on Mandrake (libdl-2.1.3.so), so I did, and they also suggest running ldconfig. The soft link exists. At first ldconfig didn't appear to work, so then I did: ldconfig -l /lib/libdl.so.1 , and it seemed to work (no complaint messages). Now when I try to run the Netscape installer, I get: Segmentation fault (core dumped) Any suggestions? Thanks, Randy Kramer __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] xfs problems
Hi, I'm using Together J 4.0 on Mandrake 8.0. I've noticed that when I start it, it crashes the font server and a lot of applications stop working. Together J itself hangs during its start up sequence. I can figure out where the xfs erros are sent so I'm not really sure why this is happening. It also affects other apps, such as gvim. Anyone know what the problem is? L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chez nous, au moins, on se repère sur le soleil... Mais ici, ils ne l'ont pas encore inventé! -Dog Bull
Re: [expert] Game-unfriendly is Mandrake 8.0
I have Quake3 and Unreal Tournament working just fine on my 8.0 Final with a GeForce2 GTS. Is there a problem if you do a fresh install of Heretic II? Or did you do that just to save your settings and games? --- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon Apr 30, 2001 at 05:19:41PM +1000, Jeff Mills wrote: I have Quake3 working flawlessly in Mandrake 8.0, just like I had it working flawlessly in 7.2. I'm having no sound problems whatsoever. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live, which I noticed doesnt give me any problems even while I'm playing MP3s in xmms and hearing sounds from other apps while I'm still playing Q3. I bought and installed Heretic2 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 when I had cooker installed. Worked just fine then. Last week I put 8.0 final on (only updates are security updates; nothing from cooker), and I backed up my /usr/local directories and restored them after the fresh 8.0 install. Both Heretic2 and HoMM3 work fine here. Tried them both now... good speed, sound, everything works. Athlon 950, 512MB RAM, SB Live MP3 I did absolutely nothing to get these working... I restored my desktop icons in Nautilus when I restored /usr/local and they work fine. -- [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 kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 5 days 10 hours 15 minutes. ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] What does this gnome-terminal error message mean?
Using Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Ximian GNOME 1.4 I altered my Mandrake Security settings the other day, and now gnome-terminal will not start if I am logged on as an ordinary user. I can open an ordinary xterm, su as root, and then start gnome-terminal with no problem. gnome-terminal was working fine before I altered my security settings (changed to level 3). This is the error message: $ gnome-terminal --use-factory --start-factory-server Error: unable to fork: Interrupted system call Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). $ gnome-terminal Error: unable to fork: Interrupted system call Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Most other apps are working as before except kppp (the only KDE app I use), which now crashes if I start it as an ordinary user, but again can be started as root from an xterm without problem. This looks to me like an issue with how access to X display is set up. Can anyone advise me on what I need to look at to fix this problem? -- == D. D. Brierton Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb ==
Re: [expert] mandrake 8 rpm
Hi Anthony, You could try doing rpm -iv or -ivv, to get some verbose messages. Also you might try firing up another console when it hangs, do a detailed ps listing or run top or something like that, to see if you can find out what exact process is hanging, and if it's gobbling up all the memory, etc. Just a few ideas. j --- Anthony C. Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed mandrake 8 and am trying to install rpms. However, whenever I run rpm -i file.rpm, it just seems to hang. I've also tried Gnome RPM and it also hangs. Has anyone else been having this problem? Any suggestions on how I could get rpms installed? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] Mandrake 8.0 Kernel Frame Buffer
All; I've been fighting the good fight trying to get XFS to work on Mandrake 8.0 So, I'm at the point that XFS compiles works fine, but I have another problem with the kernel. On the default kernel, frame buffer works fine, and I get the full graphical boot on aurora. Then I grab the CVS kernel from SGI to get XFS. I copied the .config from the Mandrake kernel over and used it as a starting point. Ran make oldconfig to pick up the default Mandrake options (it was a good starting point). But even doing that, the frame buffer won't work on that kernel. So: Does anyone know what patches/changes Mandrake made to their stock kernel? Given a baseline of patches, I'll know what to apply to the SGI kernel. I've heard from some folks that frame buffer is working great on that same kernel (they have different graphics cards. I have an integated ATI Rage Pro (it detects as an Mach 64 chip).) But mine doesn't work. I know that this is more a problem for the SGI-XFS list. But I wanted to find out what's unique about the setup on the Mandrake kernel to cause this. Thanks! Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Ric
[expert] rpmdrake configuration
Where is the rpmdrake configuration (the configuration file), I would like to delete by hand some resources I added because rpmdrake dies when starting, it hags... maybe getting a list of rpm from a very slow ftp server or something like that. thank you. -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pupeno.com.ar
Re: [expert] MDK 8, Voodoo 3 and 3D
My favorite non-answer to this: Don't use KDE or Gnome. I was having the same problem with the games provided with the distribution. Then I logged in under IceWM, and tried the games, and they play just fine! KDE and Gnome are resource hogs. Try a lighter weight desktop, and the games come back to life. Ric s wrote: I'm afraid I can't help you. I just noticed the same thing on my gateway tonight. I haven't found any answers yet and was wondering if you have had any luck? -s On Thursday 26 April 2001 10:18 am, you wrote: I installed Mandrake 8.0 yesterday without problems but could not get any 3D game to run correctely (more than one frame every 2 seconds). I tried tuxracer, gltron, that tennis thing... I have a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card and chose Xfree 4.0.3 with 3D accel at install, since having this (and antialiased fonts in KDE) was one of my motivation to change from my Mandrake 7.1. Changing depth from 16 to 24 bits in the control center even lead to a complete freeze of my computer once, so I really suspect the X server. It's not a critic issue but if anybody could help me play with Mandrake I would greatly appreciate. Aris
Re: [expert] MDK 8, Voodoo 3 and 3D
Hey Folks, same here. Seems not to be due to Mandrake-8.0 as I had this Problem with Mandrake-7.2 updated to Xfree-4.0.3 with FAA support. It does not seem to be the 3d-Part making problem - but the resolution switchint. If I try switching to 800x600 or 640x480 mode - the X Server just terminates. The 3d-Part seems to work in a Window though. My Config: Asus A7V133, Athlon 1GHz, 512MB Ram, 30GB U-DMA 5 HD, 2x4GB U-SCSI Harddrives on a Buslogin BT948 Controller, Voodoo-3 3000 AGP Card, SB Live 1024 Soundcard. Well - hope this helps a little... Cheers The Smurph -- Help Mr. Wizard! -- Tennessee Tuxedo | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : Mobile Diax: +41(0)76 / 490 52 54 | | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | Home-Page: http://www.solsys.org
[expert] Corp Server 1.0.1 ApacheSSL and Vhosts setup
I am running a new install of Corp Server 1.0.1 with Apache and mod_ssl. I have about 5 virtual hosts set up and they are all working fine. I am now trying to setup ssl to work with all 5 vhosts and am not sure exactly how to do it in the conf files. I edited the ssl.default-vhost.conf file and it works for one site only. If I try to add another it chokes. Can anyone point me to an example of how this conf file is supposed to be set up for vhost by name? TIA Steve
Re: [expert] xfs problems
On 30 Apr, Praedor Tempus wrote: On Monday 30 April 2001 11:45, Laurent Duperval wrote: On 30 Apr, Praedor Tempus wrote: When it crashes xfs, if you have a working console app (like xterm? konsole?) start one and login as superuser. Then do /etc/xinit.d/xfs restart. If you cannot do this, try logging into a new session by doing Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in, go to superuser and do what I just wrote above...restart xfs. Ok, I had that going already. Whenever I have run into problems with xfs crashing, it has invariably been because it cannot find font: misc fixed for something along that line. This usually was associated with my using antialiased fonts. Ok, how do I fix that? [...] Hmpf. IS that the error you get? I believe it is cannot find font fixed: misc Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific] Exception occurred during event dispatching: java.lang.InternalError: java/langNullPointerException at sun.awt.motif.X11Graphics.pSetFont(Native Method) at sun.awt.motif.X11Graphics.setFont(X11Graphics.java:227) at java.awt.Component.getGraphics(Component.java:1691) at javax.swing.JComponent.getGraphics(JComponent.java:1086) more stack traces . . . That's what I get. I get a whole lot of the font.properties error then I start getting the NullPointerException's. As for fixing it...I was never able to - I ended up changing my fonts around in apps. You could try to load the font placed up for use in the expert group recently by akar 'th 'orrible: http://www.users.bigpond.com/trader2001 It is a fixed-width font that MAY fix your problem. Perhaps someone in the list can offer more specifics on fixing the problem (reording the font directories, etc). Well, I'll try it to see. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vous vendez vos brosses comme une chiffe! -Achille Talon
[expert] FW: [Cooker] ISDN Kernel 2.4
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric MC DECLERCK Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 9:30 AM To: cooker Subject: [Cooker] ISDN Kernel 2.4 Hi cooker, can't connect to my ISP: running kernel 2.4.3-20mdk on mdk 8.0 ISDN Card : Gazel ISA PNP Error message : (on boot) 'Approval certification failed because of unauthorized source code changes' What's this ? Eric MC
[expert] Anti-aliased font support with ATI Rage Mobility
Hello all, I've got a Dell Latitude CPxJ650 with an ATI Rage Mobility. All is well, with the exception of anti-aliased fonts. I've installed my Windows fonts, but I get the error that the RENDER extension is missing whenever I try to open up a QT application. I have enabled anti-aliasing in the KDE control panel. I know that not all video cards support this extension, but I've been getting mixed signals as to whether or not the ATI Rage Mobility includes RENDER support or not in XFree 4.03. Does anyone know if the Mobility chipset supports RENDER? If it does, any ideas of what I could have done wrong in my Mandrake 8 install? My apologies in advance if Outlook sends this in anything other than plain text. I've found where I *think* you tell it to send in ASCII only, but who knows what other options are buried in this thing Best regards, David
Re: [expert] buggy mouse/keyboard
Nima S. Panahi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had this problem with my mouse and keyboard that I have tried everything with it and still have problems. ... Can you try the offending hardware on another box? My first guess is that the mouse and/or the keyboard are/is failing. Otherwise I'm stumped (just call me Clue Challenged, its ok ;-) 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 ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W
[expert] samba RPM
Hi! can u put me on track on how to make samba run ? this whole book that came with the rpm is too boring for a beginner :( can u please tell me the steps in a easier way ? thanks a lot NB: i always have trouble using rpm cause in tutorials thaey assuming u've install it in /usr/local etc :( _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] rpmdrake configuration
I think it might help you to read the man page for rpm: man rpm, and see the related files. If you're looking for things specific to rpmdrake, try locate rpmdrake (assuming your database is up to date - update it with updatedb). Most of those things you will need to run as root. Hope that helps :-) j --- Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the rpmdrake configuration (the configuration file), I would like to delete by hand some resources I added because rpmdrake dies when starting, it hags... maybe getting a list of rpm from a very slow ftp server or something like that. thank you. -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pupeno.com.ar __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)
I don't have help for your specific errors. But at least make sure you are running X 4: X -version And that NVidia loaded properly: lsmod If you are definitely running X 4.0.x and NVidia shows up in the list of modules, right back with specific information about your hardware and Linux distribution. Also, list what version of the nvidia drivers you are using. --- Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have compiled and installed the Nvidia kernel GLX source code without any problems. In fact everything seems to work for a second or two, until the 3D image freezes or X Windows crashes (depending on the 'OpenGL' program I run). I have checked that GLX is loading correctly and that there are no conflicting libraries, have tried everything in the Nvidia documentation, and everything else I can think of. But X Windows continues brings up the following error (in its log) - RM failed to reinstate pixmap cache (I've also had warnings such as - Open APM failed Failure reading EDID parameters for head 0) I'd be very grateful if anyone with any idea of whats going wrong could let me know how to fix this. I have a Guillemot Max Gamer Cougar Riva TNT2 M64 Card, and have tried a similar card by a different manufacturer too, but had the same problem. It works fine under Windows, but I don't often need or want to use Windows for reasons everyone on this list I'm sure understands. Any help would be appreciated. Nathan Taylor __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] Mandrake 8.0 Voodoo DRI
Has anyone experienced any weirdness with 8.0 and a voodoo3 using DRI? I just did a vanilla install and have noticed that if I try to change resolutions with DRI running the xserver restarts, also if I try to run a program that uses DRI like Quake3 or Chromium in full-screen the xserver restarts. I swaped video cards and ended up having to go back to 7.2 to be able to use DRI correctly. -- // // / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer / / OpNIX, Inc. http://opnix.com / // / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / // // On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Todd Flinders wrote: I don't have help for your specific errors. But at least make sure you are running X 4: X -version And that NVidia loaded properly: lsmod If you are definitely running X 4.0.x and NVidia shows up in the list of modules, right back with specific information about your hardware and Linux distribution. Also, list what version of the nvidia drivers you are using. --- Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have compiled and installed the Nvidia kernel GLX source code without any problems. In fact everything seems to work for a second or two, until the 3D image freezes or X Windows crashes (depending on the 'OpenGL' program I run). I have checked that GLX is loading correctly and that there are no conflicting libraries, have tried everything in the Nvidia documentation, and everything else I can think of. But X Windows continues brings up the following error (in its log) - RM failed to reinstate pixmap cache (I've also had warnings such as - Open APM failed Failure reading EDID parameters for head 0) I'd be very grateful if anyone with any idea of whats going wrong could let me know how to fix this. I have a Guillemot Max Gamer Cougar Riva TNT2 M64 Card, and have tried a similar card by a different manufacturer too, but had the same problem. It works fine under Windows, but I don't often need or want to use Windows for reasons everyone on this list I'm sure understands. Any help would be appreciated. Nathan Taylor __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] rpmdrake configuration
On Monday 30 April 2001 15:25, you wrote: I think it might help you to read the man page for rpm: man rpm, and see the related files. If you're looking for things specific to rpmdrake, try locate rpmdrake (assuming your database is up to date - update it with updatedb). Most of those things you will need to run as root. I use rpm everyday, I wanted to try rpmdrake (the graphic utility), it started prety well and asked me for an on-line resource, I selected one, and then it didn't start anymore, it hangs, no more window refresh. I searched for rpmdrake config files with locate, but I couldn't find anything, i would like to remove that on-line resource and just leave the 2 cd-roms, at least, by now, how can I do it ? -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pupeno.com.ar
[expert] OT: Web based BIND Manager
Can anyone recommend a web based BIND manager? Thanks! Devin M. Rader Internet Technologies Consultant Partec Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.partecinc.com St. Louis .NET user Group Webmaster www.stlnet.org ICQ: 7389196 AIM: iynx01
[expert] keyboard repeat gone...
Some time since last night my keyboard repeat has gone... I'm baffled - I've been running 8.0rc1 since it appeared, and have been up and logged in for 16 days without problems. Symptoms are, well, no auto-repeat. If I change keyboard settings in the Gnome config tool and hit Try, auto-repeat comes back, but after an OK it vanishes again. It may be significant that I run W2K in VMware wherein auto-repeat *does* still work, but that VM has also been up for 16 days. 8.0rc1+Gnome+E on a Celeron 450 with keyboard set to uk102 (it's a proper clicky IBM :) Any ideas? Pete
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 Voodoo DRI
John, I have the same problems in 8.0, nor in 7.2; but in beta 2 and beta 3 I had it also; it seems a problem with XFree86 4.0..2 and 4.0.3, because using xine and videoland with xvideo activated (a way to use directly the graphic hardware without XFree86) I can get full screen. Ah! is not a problem with DRI, because programs that don't use DRI, like clanbomber, heretic II or pingus also crashes X. Perhaps we should communicate the problem to the XFree team, but we must be sure this is the cause of the X crashes! --- Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Lunes 30 Abril 2001 22:29, escribiste: Has anyone experienced any weirdness with 8.0 and a voodoo3 using DRI? I just did a vanilla install and have noticed that if I try to change resolutions with DRI running the xserver restarts, also if I try to run a program that uses DRI like Quake3 or Chromium in full-screen the xserver restarts. I swaped video cards and ended up having to go back to 7.2 to be able to use DRI correctly.
Re: [expert] keyboard repeat gone...
I'm having a similar problem, but mine didn't go away it just got slow. My machine has been up for about a week. Yesterday, I opened an editor and started typing and the key repeat rate was slow. I have no idea why. Do you know of any settings that control key repeat rate? Somewhere in the alphabet soup of config files? John On Monday 30 April 2001 16:51, you wrote: Some time since last night my keyboard repeat has gone... I'm baffled - I've been running 8.0rc1 since it appeared, and have been up and logged in for 16 days without problems. Symptoms are, well, no auto-repeat. If I change keyboard settings in the Gnome config tool and hit Try, auto-repeat comes back, but after an OK it vanishes again. It may be significant that I run W2K in VMware wherein auto-repeat *does* still work, but that VM has also been up for 16 days. 8.0rc1+Gnome+E on a Celeron 450 with keyboard set to uk102 (it's a proper clicky IBM :) Any ideas? Pete
Re: [expert] samba RPM
Hi Kaab, There must be a million tutorials, howto's and examples out there on exactly that. The first tutorial that i found is http://samba.linuxbe.org/en/index.html and i got that by doing a google search for samba tutorial quick start. I'm sure you can come up with a better search string than that :-) To find out where rpm put all the files that came with the samba package do something like rpm -ql samba. That will tell you where all the config files are etc, then just pretend that's where the tutorials think they are. Good luck, j --- kaab kaoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! can u put me on track on how to make samba run ? this whole book that came with the rpm is too boring for a beginner :( can u please tell me the steps in a easier way ? thanks a lot NB: i always have trouble using rpm cause in tutorials thaey assuming u've install it in /usr/local etc :( _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] OT: Web based BIND Manager
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Devin Rader wrote: Can anyone recommend a web based BIND manager? webmin has a nice bind8 module.
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 Voodoo DRI
You're right. This is what I've done thus far to try to isolate the problem: Problem: When changing resolutions X server crashes and restarts. when loading Quak3 xserver crashes and restarts. when loading Chroimium in windowed mode everything works fine including DRI, when Chromium is switched to fullscreen mode, X server crashes and restarts. Tests made: 1. Switched card with another known good Voodoo3. Same problem. 2. Commented our Load DRI from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Can switch resolutions without X server crashing, however Quake runs EXTRMEMLY slow becasue there is no DRI device to use. 3. Remove DRI comment and problem returns 4. Comment Load GLX from XF86Config-4. Problem persists. This may not be the best troubleshooting in the world, but it convinced me that the DRI in X 4.0.3 is what was causing my problems. Not to say that DRI is not working, because Chromium will work in windowed mode. More specifically I think the problem is that changing resolutions while using DRI is what is casuing the crash. This can be seen from step 2 above. what do you think? -- // // / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer / / OpNIX, Inc. http://opnix.com / // / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / // // On Tue, 1 May 2001, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: John, I have the same problems in 8.0, nor in 7.2; but in beta 2 and beta 3 I had it also; it seems a problem with XFree86 4.0..2 and 4.0.3, because using xine and videoland with xvideo activated (a way to use directly the graphic hardware without XFree86) I can get full screen. Ah! is not a problem with DRI, because programs that don't use DRI, like clanbomber, heretic II or pingus also crashes X. Perhaps we should communicate the problem to the XFree team, but we must be sure this is the cause of the X crashes! --- Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Lunes 30 Abril 2001 22:29, escribiste: Has anyone experienced any weirdness with 8.0 and a voodoo3 using DRI? I just did a vanilla install and have noticed that if I try to change resolutions with DRI running the xserver restarts, also if I try to run a program that uses DRI like Quake3 or Chromium in full-screen the xserver restarts. I swaped video cards and ended up having to go back to 7.2 to be able to use DRI correctly.
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 Voodoo DRI
John, have you try with games that don't use the DRI, like clanbomber or pingus, they also crashes X due to the full screen!!!, but your experiment dissabling DRI seems to be a very good clue, perhaps those games I mentioned before don't use DRI, but if it is activated DRI is the responsible of the resolution change and because that it hangs X. Very good experiment! according to the scientific method :-). I think the conclusions are very solid; I will send this message also to Guillaume Cottenceau, he said me that I was using a Voodo3 3000 (exactly the same that the mine) with XFree86 4.0.3 without problems; I thought that I could have a special problem due to my hardware, but the last messages are showing that the problem is generalizated with XFree86 4.0.3 (and I had the problem also in beta 2 with 4.0.2) and Voodoo3 3000 (also probably with 2000). I hope Guillaume could give as the way to solve the problem or the way to communicate it to XFree86 team. If some of us find the solution, this list could be a goog meeting point. See you soon --- Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Martes 01 Mayo 2001 00:44, escribiste: You're right. This is what I've done thus far to try to isolate the problem: Problem: When changing resolutions X server crashes and restarts. when loading Quak3 xserver crashes and restarts. when loading Chroimium in windowed mode everything works fine including DRI, when Chromium is switched to fullscreen mode, X server crashes and restarts. Tests made: 1. Switched card with another known good Voodoo3. Same problem. 2. Commented our Load DRI from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Can switch resolutions without X server crashing, however Quake runs EXTRMEMLY slow becasue there is no DRI device to use. 3. Remove DRI comment and problem returns 4. Comment Load GLX from XF86Config-4. Problem persists. This may not be the best troubleshooting in the world, but it convinced me that the DRI in X 4.0.3 is what was causing my problems. Not to say that DRI is not working, because Chromium will work in windowed mode. More specifically I think the problem is that changing resolutions while using DRI is what is casuing the crash. This can be seen from step 2 above. what do you think?
Re: [expert] rpmdrake configuration
Oh, ok. Maybe you can just uninstall rpmdrake and reinstall it? No package on my system depends on it, so that should be simple enough. Did you try anything that i suggested to debug/troubleshoot it? Taking a look at the files that come in the rpmdrake package i don't see any config files. Maybe it's stored in a massive drake config file somewhere? If you really want to get medival on dat thang, you can do a fgrep -r online-resource /* 2/dev/null, or maybe you could be a little more selective for the directories and so one for /usr, one for /etc, etc etc (no pun intended :-)). Basically that's just brainstorming, i hope something in there is helpful :-) j --- Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 April 2001 15:25, you wrote: I think it might help you to read the man page for rpm: man rpm, and see the related files. If you're looking for things specific to rpmdrake, try locate rpmdrake (assuming your database is up to date - update it with updatedb). Most of those things you will need to run as root. I use rpm everyday, I wanted to try rpmdrake (the graphic utility), it started prety well and asked me for an on-line resource, I selected one, and then it didn't start anymore, it hangs, no more window refresh. I searched for rpmdrake config files with locate, but I couldn't find anything, i would like to remove that on-line resource and just leave the 2 cd-roms, at least, by now, how can I do it ? -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pupeno.com.ar __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] OT: Web based BIND Manager
I like the WebMin Tool for Web Based access. Devin Rader wrote: Can anyone recommend a web based BIND manager? Thanks! Devin M. Rader Internet Technologies Consultant Partec Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.partecinc.com St. Louis .NET user Group Webmaster www.stlnet.org ICQ: 7389196 AIM: iynx01 -- Albert E. Whale - http://www.abs-comptech.com/aewhale.html -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Network, Security and Systems Consultant ANCE Managed Services - Member Company - http://www.ancegroup.com
Re: [expert] hard drive experiences
My experience with Seagate, while not exactly recent, soured me on them forever. In the early 90's I had many Seagate drives, all of which developed bad blocks at an alarming rate. Since then I have used WD almost exclusively; not once in the last 5 years have I had even one bad block. I still have some of the old WD drives, ranging from 280MB to 1.2GB. They all work fine, but are much too small for my purposes. At this time I have one 30GB WD, a 30GB Maxtor, and a 40GB Maxtor all in the same box and they're running just fine. The WD is on a different IDE port than the Maxtors, though, just to be safe. Jay DeKing Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] hard drive experiences (was 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list)) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:17:36 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have heard a number of stories about Seagate's drives being fast, but having problems losing sectors outside of this list. It seems that most current hard drives very rarely loose sectors unless there is a significant defect and the drive is not going to last much longer. On the other hand I hear that it is not uncommon for a Seagate drive just to loose a few sectors here and a few sectors there. It is as if most drive manufactures find the limit of a particular manufacturing process and then back off of to the point where no data will be lost under normal use. Then Seagate comes along and tries to push the envelope a little more than anyone else on a particular process to get a little better density on those high end SCSI drives. (Higher RPMs usually mean lower density.) With predictive diagnostics and sector remapping, this shouldn't be too much of a problem, but I hear not all controllers (like SimBios) properly handle sector remapping. In a big file server with lots of little files, occasionally having two files share the same sector and overwriting each other is not too big of a problem. But when running a large DBMS system with hundreds, if not thousands of disks, a slip sector can cause many a bad hair day. (Please take note these are stories that I hear not first hand experience.) On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote: Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM, Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right? Okay, who has horror stories to tell about Seagate and Fujitsu? I've heard nasty stories about Fujitsu, but I had 2 of them (IDE) in my 486, and they outlived the power supply in its tower case. :) Regarding Seagate, I've had problems with them developing lots of badblocks. In the two systems I had functioning as servers w/ seagate drives (SCSI) they both began dropping blocks within 1-3 years. One of those has a fairly hard-hit RAID w/ 4 IBM drives the array. None of those have failed yet (after 3+ years) All of the new systems I've built in the past year or so (around five) have IBM drives now. None of those has had any problems at all, and some of them are servers with constant load. -pete
[expert] Application failing under Mdk 8.0
Hello all, I know that this has already been mentioned but I don't recall seeing a fix. This is the error message that I get if I try to execute an application that previously ran OK under Mdk 7.2: ./mastermind: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory. The library does exist and is part of the egcs-c++ package. Can anyone help? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Anyone running 8.0 and play heretic2?
Have you tried changing your sound settings in KDE? There are different options and I know when I had it set to real time priority I couldn't get real audio to play sound because the sound device was busy. It's under configuration, kde, sound. On 29 Apr 2001 14:26:49 -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote: Crap. I simply cannot get soundfx working with heretic2 under MD 8.0. It will not do it. I have libSDL and all that installed and sound works fine in KDE but the game only provides CD music, no soundfx and it gives me this: Initializing SDL sound Cmd_AddCommand: play already defined Cmd_AddCommand: stopsound already defined Cmd_AddCommand: soundlist already defined Cmd_AddCommand: soundinfo already defined Couldn't open SDL audio: No available audio device I checked /dev/dsp and it has rw permissions set for everyone (I even did a chmod 666 on it to make sure). I did not have this problem with Mandrake 7.2. What has changed, presumably in artsd, which prevents it from allowing anything but itself from accessing/using the sound system? What else can be done? It is NOT a proper or good option to have to kill artsd every time you want to play a game, but this is what I am left with, it seems. On Sunday 29 April 2001 06:28, Jerry Sternesky wrote: I don't have heretic, but with Solider of Fortune, I had to change permissions on /dev/dsp to get sound working. I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp From a security stand point I honestly don't know if this is the best approach or not. Before doing this check to make your users are in the audio group, that fixed the problem for me when I had the same issue under 7.2. Jerry On Saturday 28 April 2001 22:52, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have Heretic2 from Loki. Under 7.2 I was able to play this game fine and had sound. Now, since installing Mandrake 8.0, I no longer have game sound. I have posted to the Loki games newsgroup but get no help. I have libSDL installed and the game recognizes this (just as with 7.2) but I get a message: Couldn't open SDL audio: No available audio device What is this? Artsd didn't used to completely monopolize my soundcard under 7.2. Now under 8.0, it appears to be unwilling to release the card for use. Anyone have 8.0 and heretic2 with properly working sound? Is there something I need to do to my system like make /dev/dsp read-writeable for users? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)
As root do a cat /proc/nv/card0 What is your agp status? Enabled or Disabled. and agp driver says NVIDIA You can also confirm which x is using by checking your /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If it is the one from the kernel you need to stop that from loading, so the nvidia one can get in there. I had to go into /etc/rc.sysinit and comment out the loading of agp to allow the nvidia one to get loaded. Jerry On 30 Apr 2001 11:17:23 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: I don't have help for your specific errors. But at least make sure you are running X 4: X -version And that NVidia loaded properly: lsmod If you are definitely running X 4.0.x and NVidia shows up in the list of modules, right back with specific information about your hardware and Linux distribution. Also, list what version of the nvidia drivers you are using. --- Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have compiled and installed the Nvidia kernel GLX source code without any problems. In fact everything seems to work for a second or two, until the 3D image freezes or X Windows crashes (depending on the 'OpenGL' program I run). I have checked that GLX is loading correctly and that there are no conflicting libraries, have tried everything in the Nvidia documentation, and everything else I can think of. But X Windows continues brings up the following error (in its log) - RM failed to reinstate pixmap cache (I've also had warnings such as - Open APM failed Failure reading EDID parameters for head 0) I'd be very grateful if anyone with any idea of whats going wrong could let me know how to fix this. I have a Guillemot Max Gamer Cougar Riva TNT2 M64 Card, and have tried a similar card by a different manufacturer too, but had the same problem. It works fine under Windows, but I don't often need or want to use Windows for reasons everyone on this list I'm sure understands. Any help would be appreciated. Nathan Taylor __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] hard drive experiences
Gotta say i aggree that seagates are prone to bad blocks. But i must mention a very unpleasant experience i had when working as a technician in a computer shop. Of a batch ( not shipped as a batch...just a big order) of around 40 WD drives of varying sizes , about 15 came back. problems were primarily motor related with non-spin ups and truly musical howling noises a speciality. One drive came in with its heads roaming free as if they had broken free of their tether/spring/whatever usually prevens free-roaming-head-syndrome, it was also quite unaccesable, perhaps part of the head mechanisim had gone AWOL and scraped the hell out of the write surface. One other came out of the box and never even made a soundtotally stillborn. It is worth poiting out that the boss, who had been there a lot longer than me , remarked that she had never seen this kind of thing from WD before. Me?, i stick with quantum, maxtor and a fujitsu i was given that seems pretty ageless despite being a gamers main drive for several years:) On Tuesday 01 May 2001 01:56, Jay DeKing wrote: My experience with Seagate, while not exactly recent, soured me on them forever. In the early 90's I had many Seagate drives, all of which developed bad blocks at an alarming rate. Since then I have used WD almost exclusively; not once in the last 5 years have I had even one bad block. I still have some of the old WD drives, ranging from 280MB to 1.2GB. They all work fine, but are much too small for my purposes. At this time I have one 30GB WD, a 30GB Maxtor, and a 40GB Maxtor all in the same box and they're running just fine. The WD is on a different IDE port than the Maxtors, though, just to be safe. Jay DeKing Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] hard drive experiences (was 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list)) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:17:36 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have heard a number of stories about Seagate's drives being fast, but having problems losing sectors outside of this list. It seems that most current hard drives very rarely loose sectors unless there is a significant defect and the drive is not going to last much longer. On the other hand I hear that it is not uncommon for a Seagate drive just to loose a few sectors here and a few sectors there. It is as if most drive manufactures find the limit of a particular manufacturing process and then back off of to the point where no data will be lost under normal use. Then Seagate comes along and tries to push the envelope a little more than anyone else on a particular process to get a little better density on those high end SCSI drives. (Higher RPMs usually mean lower density.) With predictive diagnostics and sector remapping, this shouldn't be too much of a problem, but I hear not all controllers (like SimBios) properly handle sector remapping. In a big file server with lots of little files, occasionally having two files share the same sector and overwriting each other is not too big of a problem. But when running a large DBMS system with hundreds, if not thousands of disks, a slip sector can cause many a bad hair day. (Please take note these are stories that I hear not first hand experience.) On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote: Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM, Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right? Okay, who has horror stories to tell about Seagate and Fujitsu? I've heard nasty stories about Fujitsu, but I had 2 of them (IDE) in my 486, and they outlived the power supply in its tower case. :) Regarding Seagate, I've had problems with them developing lots of badblocks. In the two systems I had functioning as servers w/ seagate drives (SCSI) they both began dropping blocks within 1-3 years. One of those has a fairly hard-hit RAID w/ 4 IBM drives the array. None of those have failed yet (after 3+ years) All of the new systems I've built in the past year or so (around five) have IBM drives now. None of those has had any problems at all, and some of them are servers with constant load. -pete
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 Voodoo DRI
Just a me too post. I've got the same bug, and reached the same conclusions you have. It looks like a DRI bug to me. I've seen reports of this bug in comp.os.linux.x, too but no solutions (other than revert to XFree 4.0.2) yet. On Monday 30 April 2001 17:44, John Kloian III wrote: You're right. This is what I've done thus far to try to isolate the problem: Problem: When changing resolutions X server crashes and restarts. when loading Quak3 xserver crashes and restarts. when loading Chroimium in windowed mode everything works fine including DRI, when Chromium is switched to fullscreen mode, X server crashes and restarts. Tests made: 1. Switched card with another known good Voodoo3. Same problem. 2. Commented our Load DRI from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Can switch resolutions without X server crashing, however Quake runs EXTRMEMLY slow becasue there is no DRI device to use. 3. Remove DRI comment and problem returns 4. Comment Load GLX from XF86Config-4. Problem persists. This may not be the best troubleshooting in the world, but it convinced me that the DRI in X 4.0.3 is what was causing my problems. Not to say that DRI is not working, because Chromium will work in windowed mode. More specifically I think the problem is that changing resolutions while using DRI is what is casuing the crash. This can be seen from step 2 above. what do you think? -- // / / / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer / / OpNIX, Inc. http://opnix.com / / / / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / / / // On Tue, 1 May 2001, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: John, I have the same problems in 8.0, nor in 7.2; but in beta 2 and beta 3 I had it also; it seems a problem with XFree86 4.0..2 and 4.0.3, because using xine and videoland with xvideo activated (a way to use directly the graphic hardware without XFree86) I can get full screen. Ah! is not a problem with DRI, because programs that don't use DRI, like clanbomber, heretic II or pingus also crashes X. Perhaps we should communicate the problem to the XFree team, but we must be sure this is the cause of the X crashes! --- Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Lunes 30 Abril 2001 22:29, escribiste: Has anyone experienced any weirdness with 8.0 and a voodoo3 using DRI? I just did a vanilla install and have noticed that if I try to change resolutions with DRI running the xserver restarts, also if I try to run a program that uses DRI like Quake3 or Chromium in full-screen the xserver restarts. I swaped video cards and ended up having to go back to 7.2 to be able to use DRI correctly. -- Madness takes its toll; please have exact change Will Reinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] hard drive experiences (Seagate)
I have gathered a little more information about more recent Seagates. One machine that was put together about 4 years ago using over 50 4 Gig drives lost three in two years. It's successor with half as many much bigger Seagate drives has been chugging away for the past two years and has yet to loose a drive.
[expert] sound and the new kernel
Greetings. Ever since I upgraded to the new kernel, 2.2.19-4 (?) , whatever was available on the MandrakeUpdate, I lost the sound support on the Thinkpad A20m. I also lost the modem support, but managed to get that back :) Kernel RPM installation went fine, as outlined by that 'security' web page of Mandrake, but still sound is lost. I since uninstalled alsa drivers with rpm -e, and installed the newer tarball. I still have no sound, meaning things complaining about cannot open /dev/dsp lsmod shows: Module Size Used by snd-pcm-oss34032 0 (autoclean) (unused) ppp_deflate40896 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp3904 0 (autoclean) ppp20496 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp] slhc4480 0 (autoclean) [ppp] ltmodem 349856 0 (autoclean) lockd 45456 0 (autoclean) (unused) sunrpc 61648 0 (autoclean) [lockd] ds 6384 2 i82365 22272 2 pcmcia_core45760 0 [ds i82365] usb-uhci 19056 0 (unused) usbcore43536 1 [usb-uhci] snd-mixer-oss 8720 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-cs46xx 67184 0 (unused) snd-rawmidi11072 0 [snd-cs46xx] snd-seq-device 3920 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd-pcm46400 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cs46xx] snd-timer 9280 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 18128 0 [snd-cs46xx] snd28800 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cs46xx snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 2608 0 [snd] nls_cp437 3920 4 (autoclean) vfat9648 2 (autoclean) fat31776 2 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 13072 2 (autoclean) ./proc/asound/cards says 'there are no soundcards' if I do a alsasound restart , this is what I get: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart Shutting down sound driver: /usr/sbin/alsactl: error in loading shared libraries: libasound.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory snd: Device or resource busy done ALSA driver is already running. Any ideas? Thanks, -turgut -- EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
[expert] Mandrake 80 problem with Adaptec AIC-7850
When I try to install Mdk 80, my PC hang-up when try to load the Adaptec SCSI card. My AIC-7850 was detected as AHA-7850. My motherboard is Asus P2B. I have no problem with MDK 7.2 I already try to skip the SCSI using the expert model, but still hang-up. Any suggestion ? Thx, Ase
