Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)
Todd, Thanks for any help you can give on this problem, The X Version is 4.0.3 Lsmod tells me that the NVdriver is loaded (size 630112, used 0) The driver is version 0.9-769 (14 March 2001) My hardware is as follows - AMD K6-2 (3D Now) 500 Mhz (Super Socket 7 on a 100 Mhz MSI Mboard) 96 MB SDRAM DIMMs (they are 66mhz, but have tried 32mb 100mhz to see if faster memory improves problem) 14 Monitor at 800x600, 65,000 colours I'm running Mandrake 8 (although others seem to get their Nvidia cards working fine on this distro) If you have any ideas please pass them on, Nathan On Monday 30 April 2001 14:17, you 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.
Re: [expert] DRI and voodoo3 - a *better* workaround
BTW, I did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 tonight and tried aging the startx from console and low-and-behold it things work again. not the way I'd like them 'casue for my workstation i like the graphical login but at least I can play quake III so I'll stick with 8.0 from here on out! -- // // / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer / / OpNIX, Inc. http://opnix.com / // / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / // // On Tue, 1 May 2001, Will wrote: After a little more testing, I found that GDM doesn't cause a crash on mode-switch, so if you have Gnome installed, you can still have a graphical login. Maybe this bug is an interaction between the Voodoo3 driver and KDM? A related bug - I changed /etc/sysconfig/desktop from KDE to Gnome, and my login manager did not change. No luck setting it to GNOME either, so I added the line preferred=gdm at line 38 of /etc/X11/prefdm. Hard-coding the login manager is hardly the optimum solution, but it works for me. On Tuesday 01 May 2001 23:37, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Guillaume, Will Reinhart ,another user of Mandarke 8.0 with a Voodoo3 3000, has made a very interesting discover; I has started in text mode (console mode) and runing then startx the problem of full screen has dissapeared. I have tested that and actually works (full screen in Clanbomber, Pingus, Pinguin command, Gltron, Tuxracer, Quake III ^_^ ; so perhaps the problem is not exactly the DRI in XFree86 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 in a computer using Voodo3 3000; it is possible that the graphical login (kdm?) is having conflict in this equipments. What do you think? and what can we do (I actually like the graphical login!). Is there any way to start in a different graphical login to test that? Thanks for your attention, yours sincerely -- Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Mar 01 May 2001 15:26, escribiste: Not a real fix, but running startx from the console instead of booting directly into X seems to work around the problem. I was able to play tuxracer in fullscreen mode without crashing now. 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? --
[expert] Using iso image for 8.0
Hi. Can someone tell me how to get the iso image to work? I have downloaded it and then wrote it to a cd but I can't get it to work. Is there supposed to be some kind of formatting to the iso image that I am supposed to do before burning the cd? At the moment I have a cd with: mandrake80-inst.iso readme.txt md5sums I get the impression that the mandrake80-inst.iso image supposed to be opened up before I burn it? Kind of like untarring it. What makes it worse is that I am using windoze to do the download and it is driving me nuts. Patrick Shirkey. -- Boost Hardware. Importing Korean Computer Hardware to New Zealand. Http://www.boosthardware.com for latest stock and prices.
[expert] Replying to the mailing list with kmail
It may sound stupid, but when I want to reply to some post coming from this mailing list in kmail, if I simply hit reply the editor window opens with the to field already set to the initial author's mail address. What I would like is that it opens with the to field set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this possible?
[expert] compiling the 2.4.4 kernel]
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
Hi,
I ran into this error while compiling version 2.4.4 of the kernel:
look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the
same
of the initrd
Then it errors. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Do I have to
have an
updated mkinitrd package?
Cheers,
Sheldon.
--
Actually, a little more detail goes along way but first let us see if
we
can feel our way to the solution. I have had a similiar problem when
I
compiled my 2.4.4 kernel. I have a K6-2 450MHz 64MB RAM and I ran mine
with K6/K6II/K6III processor family support. My error occured in the
make install phase of my kernel compile. I ran my commands in this
order:
make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make
bzImage make install make modules make modules_install
My error was along the lines:
There is no root= defined you are going in trouble
There is an error when regenerating lilo, you may have to check
your
/etc/lilo.conf
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/2.4.4/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [install] Error 2
I went into /etc/lilo.conf and discovered that yes, root= had no
information for my new kernel entry. I manually added the same
information as was in my previous kernel for the same line;
root=/dev/hda9
I next ran the command from this point like so:
make install make modules make modules_install
I watched the screen closely reading the output seeing what will
happen
when the make install program will reach that same point. It gave the
error of the first four lines of the original error but underneath that
it said that the entry had already existed and continued with the
compilation. Did any of this help? Also before I began to compile my
2.4.4 kernel, I read the Documentation/Changes and discovered that
only one package of my LM 8.0 distribution needed updating;
reiserfsprogs.3.x.0j (Mine was reiserfsprogs.3.x.0i). This is very
important and dear to me as my whole linux OS is running off of a full
reiserfs journaling file system. I hope I was helpful if not
informative.
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--
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Re: [expert] compiling the 2.4.4 kernel
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
Hi,
I ran into this error while compiling version 2.4.4 of the kernel:
look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same
of the initrd
Then it errors. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Do I have to have an
updated mkinitrd package?
Cheers,
Sheldon.
--
Actually, a little more detail goes along way but first let us see if we
can feel our way to the solution. I have had a similiar problem when I
compiled my 2.4.4 kernel. I have a K6-2 450MHz 64MB RAM and I ran mine
with K6/K6II/K6III processor family support. My error occured in the
make install phase of my kernel compile. I ran my commands in this
order:
make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make
bzImage make install make modules make modules_install
My error was along the lines:
There is no root= defined you are going in trouble
There is an error when regenerating lilo, you may have to check
your
/etc/lilo.conf
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/2.4.4/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [install] Error 2
I went into /etc/lilo.conf and discovered that yes, root= had no
information for my new kernel entry. I manually added the same
information as was in my previous kernel for the same line;
root=/dev/hda9
I next ran the command from this point like so:
make install make modules make modules_install
I watched the screen closely reading the output seeing what will happen
when the make install program will reach that same point. It gave the
error of the first four lines of the original error but underneath that
it said that the entry had already existed and continued with the
compilation. Did any of this help? Also before I began to compile my
2.4.4 kernel, I read the Documentation/Changes and discovered that
only one package of my LM 8.0 distribution needed updating;
reiserfsprogs.3.x.0j (Mine was reiserfsprogs.3.x.0i). This is very
important and dear to me as my whole linux OS is running off of a full
reiserfs journaling file system. I hope I was helpful if not
informative.
--
.--. `
|__| .---. Altoine Barker
|=.| |.-.| Maximum Time, Inc
|--| ||$mend|| Chicago Based Enterprise
| | |'-'| http://www.maximumtime.com
|__|~')_('
Re: [expert] Using iso image for 8.0
you shouldn't have to open the iso to make a bootable cd. what program did you use to burn the cd with? if you use cdrecord you should just be able to use cdrecord -v -speed# dev=/burning/device Mandrake80-inst.iso and things should work. if you're using somekind of graphical tool you might need to tell it your burning an iso. it sounds like your burn program just thought you wanted to burn reagular old data files, which would explain the contents of the CD. -- // // / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer / / OpNIX, Inc. http://opnix.com / // / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / // // On Wed, 2 May 2001, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Hi. Can someone tell me how to get the iso image to work? I have downloaded it and then wrote it to a cd but I can't get it to work. Is there supposed to be some kind of formatting to the iso image that I am supposed to do before burning the cd? At the moment I have a cd with: mandrake80-inst.iso readme.txt md5sums I get the impression that the mandrake80-inst.iso image supposed to be opened up before I burn it? Kind of like untarring it. What makes it worse is that I am using windoze to do the download and it is driving me nuts. Patrick Shirkey.
[expert] what does Gfcc do ?
there is a program called Gfcc in mandrake 7.2 in kde environment . What does it do ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Using iso image for 8.0
iso image is just a lump sum file for all those small files. you need to select create CD from iso image for what ever CDR program you got. From: Patrick Shirkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Using iso image for 8.0 Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:19:05 -0400 Hi. Can someone tell me how to get the iso image to work? I have downloaded it and then wrote it to a cd but I can't get it to work. Is there supposed to be some kind of formatting to the iso image that I am supposed to do before burning the cd? At the moment I have a cd with: mandrake80-inst.iso readme.txt md5sums I get the impression that the mandrake80-inst.iso image supposed to be opened up before I burn it? Kind of like untarring it. What makes it worse is that I am using windoze to do the download and it is driving me nuts. Patrick Shirkey. -- Boost Hardware. Importing Korean Computer Hardware to New Zealand. Http://www.boosthardware.com for latest stock and prices. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages
From: D. R. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 15:51:59 -0600 On 1 May 01, at 14:25, Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It used to be (in 7.2) that you could search for a file and it would tell you what package to find it in. That functionality seems to have disappeared form the Software Manager. Is that a fact or am I not doing things properly? Specifically, I'm looking for the package which has nslookup in it. L If this really has disappeared from 8.0, then that's very bad news. It almost makes me glad that I'm running only 7.2. I use that feature at least once per day. Doc Evans -- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax:+1 781 240 0527 -- The way in presenting installable and removable rpms is different from b4. Some packages like telnet(client) is included in pine rpm. Looks like nslookup is going to be remove from next version of MDK, seems like ppl are abusing it :P However, MDK message recommend us to use host or dip as subs, which are pretty handy too. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] Replying to the mailing list with kmail
Le Mercredi 2 Mai 2001 12:44, SteveC a écrit : On Wednesday 02 May 2001 09:12, you wrote: It may sound stupid, but when I want to reply to some post coming from this mailing list in kmail, if I simply hit reply the editor window opens with the to field already set to the initial author's mail address. What I would like is that it opens with the to field set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this possible? Use reply-all...should work (will/should give you the posters mail AND the mailing list as recipients) It didn't work on this one: I only got your adress and mine! In fact I just had a look at the complete header of your last mail and the mailing list address doesn't appear anywhere. Could it be server related? Aris
Re: Re: Re: [expert] MDK 8, Voodoo 3 and 3D
Of course I do, I just ment that since you were addressing specifically to me... well I guess it's pointless to continue arguing about this. By the way, if you have a clue about my other prob: subject: Replying to the mailing list with KMail I'm tired of deleting and replacing the To field each time. Thanks for all your help. Aris It's the same time here (Spain) and I am also at work. I think is interesting for all the mandrake users with a Voodo3 3000 solve the problem as a group, in this way kde or the responsibles of the bug (I think is kdm from kde, but not absolutely sure) will work faster in repair the bug, don't you? Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: vahlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 2, 2001 10:37 am Asunto: Re: Re: [expert] MDK 8, Voodoo 3 and 3D Ok, I was looking at all the voodoo or 3D related threads anyway. I'll try this this evening (in France where I leave it's 11:30 and I'm at work). Could it be related to some kdm config file or is it simply a bug? Thanks for replying specifically to me. I guess you could have used my personal address in that case, but I very much appreciated. Aris Vahlas Vahlas, the change for activate gdm is the next: File /etc/X11/prefdm Edit as root and add in the line 38 (empty line): preferred=gdm Its all. Francisco Alcaraz
Re: [expert] DRI and voodoo3 - workaround
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 07:59, vahlas wrote: I have a working and logical solution to the gaming problem, I have explained to someone on Mandrakeuser. The problem is clear by now, see other threads: mode switching doesn't work with DRI enabled. By the way DRI is enabled if you're using a 16 bit color depth. But games using DRI are unplayable without it (way too slow) i.e. in higher color depths. What happens is that if you launch a game in fullscreen mode whose default resolution is different from th current resolution, it will try to switch its default mode and crash the X server. So you must either force window mode by some command line parameter or by editing the config file of the game or force the game to use a different resolution from the beginning by one of the two wyas above. With tuxracer I couldn't find aby command line parameter and the .tuxracer directory containing the options file gets created only if you run it successfully once. I didn't check if there was some default options file somewhere, so here is what I did: configured X to run in 24 bits color depth (edit XF86Config-4, don't rely on XFDrak) restarted X , aunched tuxracer and quit ( with some patience since mouse movement is awfull). reconfigured X to 16 bits DefaultColorDepth, restarted X, and modified the .tuxracer/options file : set x_resolution 1024 ( my x resolution) set y_resolution 768 ( my y resolution) or alternatively set fullscreen false (from memory, I'm not on my home linux box right now). Played tuxracer. A bit stupid but worked very fine for me and a friend of mine. Theoretical advantage: consistent with the understanding of the problem. I managed to play gltron in fullscreen as well with command line options to set the resolution. ( You may try that first, if it works the rest will follow). General rule: since the X server won't adapt its resolution to the program being run, adapt the program's resolution to that of your screen. Good luck good luck That is NOt a fix, that is avoidance ( must admit that i used the same trick to get UT working) . As far as i can tell, all my voodoo function is there until i mess with kde control centre or any/some of mandrakes config applets. Even where settings being change are totally unrelated to video???. I can be more specific because continually crashing my penguin to prove a point seems cruel:). What i can say is thisonce u get the voodoo working ( by fair means or foul) just reboot, do your game playing and then get on woth your other linux stuff. Do not decied to have a quick blast at tuxracer after u have been using linux for a while. it goes boom. looks like it sould well be kde from what otheres have said, however, ( thread had arrived here in pieces..thanks email:() i am a litle confused as to why the login manager itself is under suspicion. is this not like blaming a plane crash on the tree you landed in:) ( dont bother shouting at me, i know that u must have a good reason)
[expert] ntpdate
Anyone know which rpm package for Mandrake 8.0 has ntpdate? Thanks, Bill
Re: [expert] Using iso image for 8.0
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 07:17, John Kloian III wrote: you shouldn't have to open the iso to make a bootable cd. what program did you use to burn the cd with? if you use cdrecord you should just be able to use cdrecord -v -speed# dev=/burning/device Mandrake80-inst.iso and things should work. if you're using somekind of graphical tool you might need to tell it your burning an iso. it sounds like your burn program just thought you wanted to burn reagular old data files, which would explain the contents of the CD. Since u are using windows i shant explain about cdrecord. Basically an iso is a binary image of a cd. You dont open if as such but needs to be processed by the burning software to turn it back into a cd . The option u want is burn image or birn from image or burn iso in nero for instance the option is ... fileburn image ( dont be put off by nero wanting to look for its image format, if u click show all files and select your mandrake isoyou're off and running. the md5sums file is a checksum to verify that your cd was correctly downloaded, if u wish to check a cd ( say after u burn it right and it goes wierd) there is program available for DOS ( check mandrake site) that will read your iso, calculate its checksum and then tell u whether or not there were any errors in your download, by comparing it with the correct checksum listed besdide the iso on mandrakes site. good luck, you are going to like what u see when u put that cd in:)
[expert] Midnight Commander under LM 8.0
Hi, I have just installed LM8.0 (download 2 CD version), and experienced the following problem Using Mindnight Commander: When I (try to) open an RPM file or .tar.gz (etc.) file. It doesn't open correctly showing its contets, but its seems if it is opens with "more" (or less) and also giving a row of error messages that it find invalid character etc. I have checked mc"s "ini" files but I didn' find anything which couls cause this. I also tried to downgrade mc to the version from LM7.2, without result, so it seems that the problem is not really in mc itself. Have somebody faced already to this problem? Is so please share me the experiences. Imre
[expert] XF86 died today.
No idea why; today startx refuses to start, and /var/log/messages showed it complaining about two things, missing 100dpi font directory, and cant locate module binfmt-. Indeed, I did not have that 100dpi directory. Well, I reinstalled the 100dpi font from the CD, and it did not help. I re-installed the XF86 server, and now I'm a happy camper, X works again. Last night I was tinkering with reinstalling Mesa-3, I wonder if that caused it. I'll never know :) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages
On 1 May, D. R. Evans wrote: On 1 May 01, at 15:14, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: Command Line: $ whereis nslookup nslookup: /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/share/man/man8/nslookup.8.bz2 $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/nslookup bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk Well, yes. If you happen to be looking for certain classes of files that happen to be in some more-or-less standard place. It's better than nothing, but not really much of a replacement when you can think of only a substring, which is typically the way that I use the graphical thingy. This works well if the file you're looking for is installed already. My problem is that the file isn't installed and I want to find it. In 7.2, I could do a search for the file and it would tell me what package needs to be installed in order to have that file on my system. This is no longer feasible in the Software Manager. All the other suggestions I got (thanks!) required me to load up the CD and search the manifest file (oir its equivalent) to locate my program. It's doable but not as user friendly as what was available in 7.2. I haven't tried the KDE version of the package manager so maybe I'll try that next time. I also wasn't aware that dip and host were replacements for nslookup. I'll take a look at that also. Thanks to all! L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Coulez-vous sur mes pas avec la circonspection du serpent marchant sur des oeufs! -Achille Talon
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)
It looks like you are having an issue with the agpgart (agp) stuff, during the install Mandrake loads a kernel driver based on the chipset it detects, by commenting out what Mandrake detected and loads I was able to get the nvidia agp driver to load. I just check my /etc/rc.sysinit using vi, in my script the entry was at line 796 here is what it looks like: # Load agpgart here. This is a hack, and will probably go away soon. #if grep driver: agpgart /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /dev/null 21 ; then # modprobe agpgart /dev/null 21 #fi I had to add # to the last three lines, and I hate to say this but rebooting the system will be a lot easier than trying to stop and restart services. Be warned, if you upgrade your scripts any changes you makes to this file will be overwritten. Since you indicated that you followed the Nvidia instructions, I am guessing you made the edits to XF86Config-4 to add glx and change the chipset from nv to nvidia. Also you checked to make sure none of the other gl stuff (mesa) is conflicting with glx. There used be a good writeup on mandrakeuser.org about setting up nvidia cards, but since the site changed I no longer have the link to refer you to. Good Luck Jerry On 02 May 2001 06:31:05 -0400, Nathan wrote: Jerry, Thanks for trying to help with this, if I manage to fix this problem I'll probably give up Windows all together. What is your agp status? Enabled or Disabled. and agp driver says NVIDIA cat /proc/nv/card0 brings up the following - NVRM Version: 1.0-769 Model: Riva TNT2 Ultra IRQ 11 AGP status: Disabled AGP driver: Bridge: Ali M1541 SBA: Supported [Disabled] FW: Unspoorted [Disabled] Rates: 2x 1x I had to go into /etc/rc.sysinit and comment out the loading of agp to allow the nvidia one to get loaded. in /etc/rc.sysinit there is no reference to AGP I'd be grateful for any ideas you might have, Nathan On Monday 30 April 2001 21:59, Jerry Sternesky wrote: 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/
[expert] ALSA sound in new kernel
It seems impossible to get alsa sound working in Thinkpad A20m with the new kernel (.19). I think I tried everything now; it appears to load, but artsd fails to start with /dev/dsp cannot be opened, although I have snd-pcm-oss mentioned in modules.conf, and I even tried modprobe manually for it. I give up :( -t - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot
On 1 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. Laurentclick on the desktop icon labled Mandrake Control Center. When the control center has opened it's window (probably after you've supplied the root password) then expand the tree under Boot and choose the option called Boot Config. In the upper right corner of the resulting window there will be a button called Configure click on it and a sub-window will open. Choose the radio button marked LILO with text menu. Then click on the button labled Advanced. In the scrolling list for the setting, Video mode scroll to the very bottom and choose the selection Normal. Now click on the OK button and the sub-window will close. Finally click on the main window's OK button and you're done. The next time you power up or re-boot you should boot in text mode. I'd done that already and it doesn't work. The LILO screen is text but the entire boot sequence is still in graphical mode. I hear my multi-sync monitor mode-switch (it clicks) after I select linux from the LILO screen. Normally, I'm supposed to get LILO boot: when LILO starts. Now I get some gibberish: !(@*TBASD boot: where the first part is composed of smiley faces and stuff. Then, after I hit Return, the graphical stuff starts. There is a big Welcome banner at the top of the screen and at the bottom there is the normal status display that appears at boot time. This is the part I don't want. Wait a minute. What if Ok, now to reboot. Y E S HOUSTON WE HAVE LIFTOFF The video mode for the linux entry in LILO was set to 794 so setting the other value to text had no real effect. Now I've got everything back to normal, almost. The only thing I want now, is to set the default font of the consoles to a smaller font. I liked the way the text looked in mode 794. There weas a lot more information on the screen than there is at 80x25. What the best way to test new console fonts? I thought linuxconf had that in 7.2 but it doesn't look like it in 8.0. Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Coulez-vous sur mes pas avec la circonspection du serpent marchant sur des oeufs! -Achille Talon
[expert] CD/DVD-Rom install
I downloaded the LM 8.0 iso and tried to install it on a Compaq with a 700 Duron. It would not boot from the CD so I made a cdrom.img boot disk. It recognizes the Cdrom as Hdc: LTN403 ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive. Is there hope for this or do I have to plug another cdrom into it to install?
Re[2]: [expert] Replying to the mailing list with kmail
vahlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Use reply-all...should work (will/should give you the posters mail AND the mailing list as recipients) It didn't work on this one: I only got your adress and mine! In fact I just had a look at the complete header of your last mail and the mailing list address doesn't appear anywhere. Could it be server related? Actually, I'm going to guess that the person you replied to sent the email directly to you and not through the list, as I don't remember seeing his (his? her?) reply, so that's probably what happened. Try reply all to this one... On a slightly related note, I notice again that those bogus extra reply-to addresses are (still?) gone. Hooray. ;-) 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
Re: [expert] version6.5-majordomo rpm
try www.rpmfind.net, maybe u can find it there From: KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED],Linux-Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] version6.5-majordomo rpm Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:22:23 -0400 Does anyone have the majordomo rpm that was on the CD of version 6.5 of mandrake...or was it, 7.0... when 7.02 came out...they didn't include it anymore... I need a domo RPM for the mandrake system...one that is at least 1.94.5 -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST) _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[expert] adding a new user fails
HI! i try to access a shared directory in linux from windows NT server, without using the root password! i tried to add user typingsmbpasswd -a db2admin but it fails ! i also tries doing it from swat but it gives user .. does not exist in ..can't add account without a valid local system user! THanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[expert] samba windows NT server
HI! THANKS FOR ALL OF U GUYS FOR THE HELP U GAVE ME ! I have a strange problem, beside the fact that i 'm not able to create new users to samba, we have two local networks one of NT workstations and the othre of windows 98/95. The second one shows, however the second one , as the s erver in NT it requires an authentication beside the one of samba! i do fill the passwords but it displays nothing! it gives no error of authentication but it gives me a n empty network ! any idea ? THanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] ALSA sound in new kernel
Turgut, I am having exactly the same problem, with my ThinkPad 1400. The soundcard worked fine with kernel 2.2.17, but when I upgraded to 2.2.19, it stopped working. The modules load with no errors that I have found, but I still have no sound. I am seriously thinking of going back to the 2.2.17 kernel. Dave On Wednesday 02 May 2001 09:19, thus spake Turgut Kalfaoglu: It seems impossible to get alsa sound working in Thinkpad A20m with the new kernel (.19). I think I tried everything now; it appears to load, but artsd fails to start with /dev/dsp cannot be opened, although I have snd-pcm-oss mentioned in modules.conf, and I even tried modprobe manually for it. I give up :( -t - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
[expert] Misdetected GeForce2 MX XFree86 4.0.3
Hi, I've installed LM8.0, and most things seem to be working well. The biggest problem (and maybe the cause of the others) is the video card. I have a GeForce2 MX video card, but the installer is detecting it as a GeForce DDR. I thought this might simply be the nVidia driver issue, so I downloaded installed nVidia's drivers, and edited the XFree86Config- 4 file. I then restarted X, but found no difference! I quickly discovered that it is using XFree86Config instead of XFree86Config-4, and X -showconfig confirmed that I am in fact running 3.3.6 instead of 4.0.3!?! BTW: There is no XFree86 log file either. rpm -qa | grep XFree shows several 4.0.3 RPMs installed. I looked on the install CD and found a 4.0.3 server RPM which wasn't listed in my query. I installed it as an upgrade (rpm -U) When I restart X, still nothing! I'm still running 3.3.6! How do I get it to use 4.0.3? Should I uninstall all XFree RPMs and start from scratch? Thanks Eric
Re: [expert] CD/DVD-Rom install
Heck, I had to resort to a network install. Actually didn't take that much longer than usual,an hour and a half from start to finish. (and 5 minutes was finding the right sytax for the ftp site input) :-) [It was my first time.] Anyway, just a suggestion if you have a fairly fast connection. -s On Wednesday 02 May 2001 12:10 pm, you wrote: I downloaded the LM 8.0 iso and tried to install it on a Compaq with a 700 Duron. It would not boot from the CD so I made a cdrom.img boot disk. It recognizes the Cdrom as Hdc: LTN403 ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive. Is there hope for this or do I have to plug another cdrom into it to install?
Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages
I usually login to http://rpmfind.net and search for the binary filename there. It will show you all packages that contain the file. -- Stephen Lawrence Jr. - Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] California Animal Health Food Safety Laboratory System, UC Davis (530)-752-4614 Laurent Duperval wrote: On 1 May, D. R. Evans wrote: > On 1 May 01, at 15:14, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: > >> Command Line: >> >> $ whereis nslookup >> nslookup: /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/share/man/man8/nslookup.8.bz2 >> >> >> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/nslookup >> bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk >> >> > > Well, yes. If you happen to be looking for certain classes of files > that happen to be in some more-or-less standard place. It's better than > nothing, but not really much of a replacement when you can think of > only a substring, which is typically the way that I use the graphical > thingy. > This works well if the file you're looking for is installed already. My problem is that the file isn't installed and I want to find it. In 7.2, I could do a search for the file and it would tell me what package needs to be installed in order to have that file on my system. This is no longer feasible in the Software Manager. All the other suggestions I got (thanks!) required me to load up the CD and search the manifest file (oir its equivalent) to locate my program. It's doable but not as user friendly as what was available in 7.2. I haven't tried the KDE version of the package manager so maybe I'll try that next time. I also wasn't aware that dip and host were replacements for nslookup. I'll take a look at that also. Thanks to all! L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Coulez-vous sur mes pas avec la circonspection du serpent marchant sur des oeufs! -Achille Talon
[expert] LM 8.0 install without a mouse - don't try this at home!
It hurts. There are some windows that DO NOT WORK without a mouse (that works)! Like, selecting whether or not you want x to start up. I suppose that's what I get for allowing it to go graphical, eh? So - if you either do not have a mouse, or your mouse only moves the mouse pointer in one direction (up-down or left-right), then choose text! I've not tried that, but it HAS to be nicer than trying it with a flaky mouse under the gui! 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
Re: [expert] Misdetected GeForce2 MX XFree86 4.0.3
Run XFdrake -expert After installing X 4.0.3, you'll need to edit your XF86Config-4 file again. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Re[2]: [expert] Replying to the mailing list with kmail
This started happening after mandrake's servers overloaded from supposedly all the email going thru. You remember when people were getting kicked off the list left and right and had to go resubscribe? Then the forum's servers went down and was off line for about a week? A couple of months before that I remember when someone moderating the 'crashtesters' list came back with a update on things and said something to the effect of 'now when you hit reply, it automatically shows the name of mailing list instead of the original posters addy' (implying it was in the coding and something they fixed). So put 2 2 together, and come to the conclusion that mandrake did this to cut down on all the email going thru their server. I can understand in a way, yet when we buy the boxed sets we are supposed to get support. And this list is it. And now they are slowly pulling that. Just about every question I've asked or replied to gets answered to in my regular email. Which is fine for me, but think about all the fixes, workarounds, and discussions that are not being shared with everyone. Psuedo-rant over. Just a paranoid's thoughts. -s ps: if you right click on a folders name in the left pane of kmail, you can chose to modify it. And it there is a setting for 'mailing-list?' and 'mailing list addy'. This feature is being overridden on my mandrake lists, yet function as intended for others. More food for thought.. On Wednesday 02 May 2001 09:37 am, you wrote: vahlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Use reply-all...should work (will/should give you the posters mail AND the mailing list as recipients) It didn't work on this one: I only got your adress and mine! In fact I just had a look at the complete header of your last mail and the mailing list address doesn't appear anywhere. Could it be server related? Actually, I'm going to guess that the person you replied to sent the email directly to you and not through the list, as I don't remember seeing his (his? her?) reply, so that's probably what happened. Try reply all to this one... On a slightly related note, I notice again that those bogus extra reply-to addresses are (still?) gone. Hooray. ;-) 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] disk read 7.2
I have 7.2 installed on a laptop -AMD 380, 64Mb RAM 4GB HDD. The problem is EXTENSIVE disk access. Disk activity will occur for up to 5 minutes, with very little interruption. This will occur regardless of what programs are open, how many are open, and what desktop I am using. I have installed Reiser FS on all partitions except swap...is this a contributing factor? Any pointers would be appreciated. (PS I already tried a google search, with little result, though I may have phrased my search wrong) K begin:vcard n:Hawkins;Ken tel;work:(250)635-6511x5365 x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Network Adminstrator org;quoted-printable:NWCC;Microsoft is not the answer, it is the question.=0D=0AThe answer is NO! x-mozilla-cpt:;-22080 fn:Ken Hawkins end:vcard
[expert] No mouse and keyboard response in mandrake logon
Hi i am having trouble with linux mandrake 7.1 . My problem is when i boot into the gui (log in screen) there is no mouse or keyboard response. The cursor still flashes so i figure the system hasnt frosen. There was a similar problem with the linux installer however i got arroud it by using the cd and going into Xdrake (the installer program) streight from windows and it worked fine. Any help that you can give me would be very apreciated. My system configuration is as follows: Dell Dimention XPS R400 -PII 400mHz -96MB ram -ps/2 keyboard and mouse -12 gb hd. 1.5GB dedicated to linux -Dimond Viper 770Ultra VidCard -TB Montego A3d 1.0 Sound card -modem (56k) The system is configured as a dewal boot system with windows 98 and linux mandrake 7.1. Windows runs without any problems. My email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] keyboard repeat gone...
* Pete Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010501 16:14]: Well, if I do that, I don't even get autorepeat in the Eterm I typed the command into. Still works in this here VMware box though. Oh, I had assumed you were testing in a console... I'll try shutting the VM down... [later] Nope, no change... Further, repeat *does* work in a console so it seems to be an X thing. Very odd. I think KDE tries to help us here by tweaking the X server input settings from its own configuration file. Try going into the KDE control panel and poking around there. Pete Joshua Rodman
[expert] Does the Software Manager Work?
Hi, everyone. Has anyone been able to use the Software Manager to update packages in LM 8.0? I am able to install packages from the installation CDs, but whenever I try to add a source for updates, it gets ignored. That is, when I hit Reload lists only CD 1 and CD 2 get analysed and not the online resource. I have tried the Security Updates, ftp and http types of sources, all with the same results. I have also tried it with machines that have been upgraded and machines with fresh installs. The only clue I can provide is that when I run rpmdrake from the command line I get a bunch (150) bad format errors, e.g. compssUsers.flat: bad format I know there are updates (nedit and gftp, for example) but I can't see them with rpmdrake. Have I forgotten something? Thanks, Jason Chaffey Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Fwd: Re: [expert] ALSA sound in new kernel
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] ALSA sound in new kernel Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:15:47 -0600 From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had that problem with Mandrake 8.0, kernel-2.4.3-20mdk, and alsa when I first built it. It works now. What I did was go to Kcontrol - Sound-Sound server and change it (I think it is on the second tab) from Autodetect to OSS. I also added a bunch of lines to my modules.conf to get all that damn oss-compatibility modules to load...and I had to add a line to my rc.local to specifically load the correct snd-card module. For my system, that is an AC97 soundcard (via686a). So, I added this line to rc.local: insmod snd-card-via686a That did it. You could try and find the module for your soundcard/system in the /lib/modules/2.2.x/misc directory and then add a similar line to your rc.local. Even with EVERYTHING loaded except that soundcard module, artsd would complain as it has for you...and of course I would get no sound because I didn't have the driver loaded. On Wednesday 02 May 2001 10:22, Dave Sherman wrote: Turgut, I am having exactly the same problem, with my ThinkPad 1400. The soundcard worked fine with kernel 2.2.17, but when I upgraded to 2.2.19, it stopped working. The modules load with no errors that I have found, but I still have no sound. I am seriously thinking of going back to the 2.2.17 kernel. Dave On Wednesday 02 May 2001 09:19, thus spake Turgut Kalfaoglu: It seems impossible to get alsa sound working in Thinkpad A20m with the new kernel (.19). I think I tried everything now; it appears to load, but artsd fails to start with /dev/dsp cannot be opened, although I have snd-pcm-oss mentioned in modules.conf, and I even tried modprobe manually for it. I give up :( -t - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. -- --- -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. --
Re: [expert] Application failing under Mdk 8.0
* Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010430 19:04]: 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? No ideas. What does 'ldd mastermind' say? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joshua Rodman
[expert] KDE font trouble
What is the default font that KDE uses if it can't find the font requested by an html page? I have set the fonts in kde control center and in konqueror prefs to adobe-helvetica, but some web pages and HTML mail messages still display in an absolutely hiseous 8-pixel-high bitmapped font. How do I get rid of this? -- Madness takes its toll; please have exact change Will Reinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot
On 2 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurentput the vga=794 back in your /etc/lilo.conf and uninstall the Aurora RPM from your system. Uhh... Ok... To test console fonts put vga=ask instead of vga=normal or vga=xxx in /etc/lilo.conf. vga=ask will prompt you for the console setting at boot time and provide a list from which you may choose. Oh, OK. Will it save it for the next boot? Probably not, I'll have to manually edit it, I guess. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sachez qu'un Talon ne recule jamais d'un orteil et que celui qui me marche sur les pieds peut toujours courir, mossieu! -Achille Talon
Re: [expert] Replying to the mailing list with kmail
Since i didn't see Steve's message, i assume he sent it to you personally and it was never addressed to the list. I have, however, and so if you hit the reply-to-all then it should work (not that you have to send it, necessarily). :-) j --- vahlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mercredi 2 Mai 2001 12:44, SteveC a écrit : On Wednesday 02 May 2001 09:12, you wrote: It may sound stupid, but when I want to reply to some post coming from this mailing list in kmail, if I simply hit reply the editor window opens with the to field already set to the initial author's mail address. What I would like is that it opens with the to field set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this possible? Use reply-all...should work (will/should give you the posters mail AND the mailing list as recipients) It didn't work on this one: I only got your adress and mine! In fact I just had a look at the complete header of your last mail and the mailing list address doesn't appear anywhere. Could it be server related? Aris __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)
Did you do this while in X? You get different values, if you do this from the command line while not in X. As an example, mine says the same thing yours does, if I cat /proc/nv/card0 from the command line before starting X. However, if I do it in a shell from within X, the AGP *is* enabled, and there is a driver name listed. - Original Message - From: Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jerry Sternesky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:31 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia) Jerry, Thanks for trying to help with this, if I manage to fix this problem I'll probably give up Windows all together. What is your agp status? Enabled or Disabled. and agp driver says NVIDIA cat /proc/nv/card0 brings up the following - NVRM Version: 1.0-769 Model: Riva TNT2 Ultra IRQ 11 AGP status: Disabled AGP driver: Bridge: Ali M1541 SBA: Supported [Disabled] FW: Unspoorted [Disabled] Rates: 2x 1x I had to go into /etc/rc.sysinit and comment out the loading of agp to allow the nvidia one to get loaded. in /etc/rc.sysinit there is no reference to AGP I'd be grateful for any ideas you might have, Nathan On Monday 30 April 2001 21:59, Jerry Sternesky wrote: 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] Misdetected GeForce2 MX XFree86 4.0.3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've installed LM8.0, and most things seem to be working well. The biggest problem (and maybe the cause of the others) is the video card. I have a GeForce2 MX video card, but the installer is detecting it as a GeForce DDR. I thought this might simply be the nVidia driver issue, so I downloaded installed nVidia's drivers, and edited the XFree86Config- 4 file. I then restarted X, but found no difference! I quickly discovered that it is using XFree86Config instead of XFree86Config-4, and X -showconfig confirmed that I am in fact running 3.3.6 instead of 4.0.3!?! BTW: There is no XFree86 log file either. rpm -qa | grep XFree shows several 4.0.3 RPMs installed. I looked on the install CD and found a 4.0.3 server RPM which wasn't listed in my query. I installed it as an upgrade (rpm -U) When I restart X, still nothing! I'm still running 3.3.6! How do I get it to use 4.0.3? Should I uninstall all XFree RPMs and start from scratch? Thanks Eric Ericclick on the deksktop icon called 'Mandrake Control Center. Expand the 'Hardware' tree and choose 'Display'. Click on the 'Expert Mode' button and from there you'll be able to change your Xserver version. -- Alan
Re: [expert] KDE font trouble
* Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010502 13:19]: What is the default font that KDE uses if it can't find the font requested by an html page? I have set the fonts in kde control center and in konqueror prefs to adobe-helvetica, but some web pages and HTML mail messages still display in an absolutely hiseous 8-pixel-high bitmapped font. How do I get rid of this? This is a matter of the browser configuration, not KDE at large. If you are using the kde konqueror web browser, go to the web settings within KDE, or go to its preferences via the pulldown menus in the browser. Netscape has its own system of font selection, which is .. confusing. I personally just try to blot it out. Of course, fundamentally, any web page with FONT tags should be scrubbed out of existence by the avenging eyries of interoperability, but unfortunately my best attempts at summoning them into corporeal form have not been successful. :-( Joshua Rodman -- Madness takes its toll; please have exact change Will Reinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot
Laurent Duperval wrote: On 2 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurentput the vga=794 back in your /etc/lilo.conf and uninstall the Aurora RPM from your system. Uhh... Ok... You don't need to uninstall it, just to stop using it. Go through Mandrake control panel, and just turn it off if you don't want it. -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __
Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot
Laurent Duperval wrote: On 1 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. Laurentclick on the desktop icon labled Mandrake Control Center. When the control center has opened it's window (probably after you've supplied the root password) then expand the tree under Boot and choose the option called Boot Config. In the upper right corner of the resulting window there will be a button called Configure click on it and a sub-window will open. Choose the radio button marked LILO with text menu. Then click on the button labled Advanced. In the scrolling list for the setting, Video mode scroll to the very bottom and choose the selection Normal. Now click on the OK button and the sub-window will close. Finally click on the main window's OK button and you're done. The next time you power up or re-boot you should boot in text mode. I'd done that already and it doesn't work. The LILO screen is text but the entire boot sequence is still in graphical mode. I hear my multi-sync monitor mode-switch (it clicks) after I select linux from the LILO screen. Normally, I'm supposed to get LILO boot: when LILO starts. Now I get some gibberish: !(@*TBASD boot: where the first part is composed of smiley faces and stuff. Then, after I hit Return, the graphical stuff starts. There is a big Welcome banner at the top of the screen and at the bottom there is the normal status display that appears at boot time. This is the part I don't want. Wait a minute. What if Ok, now to reboot. Y E S HOUSTON WE HAVE LIFTOFF The video mode for the linux entry in LILO was set to 794 so setting the other value to text had no real effect. Now I've got everything back to normal, almost. The only thing I want now, is to set the default font of the consoles to a smaller font. I liked the way the text looked in mode 794. There weas a lot more information on the screen than there is at 80x25. What the best way to test new console fonts? I thought linuxconf had that in 7.2 but it doesn't look like it in 8.0. Thanks, L Laurentput the vga=794 back in your /etc/lilo.conf and uninstall the Aurora RPM from your system. To test console fonts put vga=ask instead of vga=normal or vga=xxx in /etc/lilo.conf. vga=ask will prompt you for the console setting at boot time and provide a list from which you may choose. -- Alan
[expert] Mylex raid OS install troubles
I have a problem. I have an array I am trying to install mandrake 8.0 on and I can't! The controller I am using is a dac960p the error messages I get when the install detects my card are: insmod'ing module DAC960 failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 557 and later an error occured - no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems the array is already created with the raid card, so it does exist just as a comparison, I know it works and everything is setup...meaning the array and the controller cause it works installing windows on it. can anyone give me any input? I would really appreciate it! thanks _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] LM 8.0 install without a mouse - don't try this at home!
Hi Rusty, * Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010502 10:59]: It hurts. There are some windows that DO NOT WORK without a mouse (that works)! Like, selecting whether or not you want x to start up. I suppose that's what I get for allowing it to go graphical, eh? I can't be sure what you are describing here beyond some sort of trouble with a mouse. My guess is you've got the wrong mouse protocol selected. I'd edit the XF86config file, but I suspect linuxconf or drakconfig or some such will let you reconfigure this. If your mouse is plugged into the PS/2 port, try IntelliPS/2 or normal PS/2 (whichever you haven't selected now). If it's on a serial port, try Microsoft, Logitech, Mouseman, MSystems. So - if you either do not have a mouse, or your mouse only moves the mouse pointer in one direction (up-down or left-right), then choose text! I've not tried that, but it HAS to be nicer than trying it with a flaky mouse under the gui! 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 Respectfully, Joshua Rodman ASL -- www.aslab.com -- Redefining Linux Performance
[expert] samba trouble
HI guys! I'm still having trouble with samba! *first: I still ave problems accessing windows NT server/domain, i 'm quite sure it's a problem of passwords authentication! in the smb.conf i set the security level to user and authentication to yes. I have created a new user account similar to the one of the windows NT server admin beside the root user account, but still i enter the passwords twice, one for samba and one for the server/domain but in vain *second: Is it possible to access a windows files while connected to the same machine but in linux os, and vice-versa(access shared linux files while logged in windows nt in the same machine). Thanks NB both linux mandrake7.2 and windows nt are installed in my machine. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] Application failing under Mdk 8.0
* John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010502 14:30]: [john@homer licq-console-1.0.3]$ licq -p cosole 12:27:40: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 3684) 12:27:40: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (cosole): /usr/lib/licq/licq_cosole.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. So what happens when i delete the stale lockfile? It works! I don't get that ERR message anymore. The lockfile is just a file that the program writes when it starts up, then if it's started up a second time and the first one is not closed, the second one will see the lockfile and exit, so that there's not two copies of the same thing running. So obviously that error is't neccessarily caused by the library not being there, despite what it may (seem to) say. I don't know what is going on in this situation, but i think that might help you a bit. j That message is an application which cannot load a plugin, via the ldopen() call. It is manually and explicitly attempting to link in a dynamic object. The problem reported relating to libstdc++ is almost certainly relating to the automatic dynamic loader. I really hope no program is explicitly loading the standard C++ library as a plugin.. that would be a _very_ _very_ odd program. Thus these two problems are unrelated, even though both mention shared objects. Joshua Rodman
[expert] httpd
Hi, I installed Mandrake 8, and I cannot get the apache server to start. httpd always fails at start up. Any ideas on how I can get it running? Thanks
Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel
It appears Turgut and I share the same (or similar) problem. As I have noted in previous posts, my own alsa sound driver appears to be loading properly during boot, yet I have no sound. When I try /etc/rc.d/init.d/sound restart I get several OK responses as the mixer settings are saved, the sound driver unloads and then reloads, and the mixer settings then reload. /var/log/messages shows no errors during loading of alsa sound driver and mixer settings. When I run lsmod, my output is almost exactly the same as Turgut's (quoted below). When I launch RealPlayer as a user, I get the error Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it. But when I run it as root, I get no such error message. However, sound still does not work. /proc/asound/cards correctly shows my sound card. I ran sndconfig, but it told me my card is not supported -- same as Turgut, and we both had working sound before the upgrade to kerner 2.2.19! Any experts out there who might be able to help? Dave 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] PCMCIA nic shutdown troubles
Linux Mandrake 8.0 Final detected and installed my EtherJet Cardbus pcmcia NIC just fine. But the problem is when I go to restart or shutdown it hangs and the machine will not shutdown!! I think its the dhcp software causing this, here is the message it never gets past dhcpcd[637]: terminating on signal 1 can anyone advise? thanks
[expert] Oracle8i and Oracle9i IAS
Is there Oracle8i 8.1.7 and IAS9i can run on Mandrake 8.0
[expert] kdelibs 2.1.2
Anyone compile this yet? Mandrake rpms is not available yet from kde and I just want to know if anyone had sucessfully compiled the source.
