[expert] Problems with the 12/10/32a Plexwriter

[Darryl Bleau]

Hi everyone. Sorry if this is the wrong list to post to, I did a few 
searches through the archives and it seemed like this would be the right 
place. If I'm wrong let me know.

I've been fighting with having my 12/10/32a Plextor Plexwriter (IDE) 
actually read cdrom's under mandrake 8.0. (Actually, I've had problems with 
any 2.4 kernel distro, with the exception of slackware. I can install say 
the old redhat and my plexwriter works fine, and as soon as I put in a 2.4 
kernel it stops).

But, back to the mandrake situation. I only have the burner in my system, 
no other drives. I install using the mandrake cd in that cdrom, and it 
installs fine, but when mandrake comes up after being installed I can't use 
the cdrom anymore. I've posted this as a question on mandrakeexpert.com but 
can't get it working, so this maliing list is my last resort. Here is what 
I posted on mandrakeexpert.com:

CD-ROM doesn`t work. I have three HD`s and one CD-ROM on a Asus CUSl2. The 
cd-rom is a Plexwriter 12/10/32A, IDE. I booted and installed off this 
cdrom. When Mandrake loads, it cannot access the cdrom. In a terminal if I 
try to cd to /mnt/cdrom it says there is an I/O error. In the hardware part 
of the control center it says I have two cdroms, one on /dev/hdc that is 
ATAPI/IDE and one on /dev/scd0 that is SCSI.

And I've received a few replies and tried what was suggested, nothing 
seemed to work. In the interest of brievety, here are the latest symptoms:

[root@terapro33-244 ide-scsi]# modprobe ide-scsi ; modprobe sr_mod 
[root@terapro33-244 ide-scsi]# cd /mnt/cdrom 

bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error 

[root@terapro33-244 /root]# cd /proc/ide/ide1/ 
[root@terapro33-244 hdc]# ls -l 
total 0 
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 3 23:07 capacity 
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 3 23:07 driver 
-r 1 root root 0 May 3 23:07 identify 
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 3 23:07 media 
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 3 23:07 model 
-rw--- 1 root root 0 May 3 23:07 settings 
[root@terapro33-244 hdc]# cd /proc/scsi 
[root@terapro33-244 scsi]# ls -l 
total 0 
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 3 23:11 ide-scsi/ 
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 3 23:11 scsi 
[root@terapro33-244 scsi]# cd ide-scsi/ 
[root@terapro33-244 ide-scsi]# ls -l 
total 0 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 3 23:08 0

ANY help at all on this would be very helpful.. I've been a hardcore 
slackware user since 2.x but I'm really liking this mandrake and I've made 
burns of every 8.0 beta, hoping that my cdrom would work with the final 
release, but to no avail.

Thanks!

Re: [expert] Hauppauge WinTV and Matrox G100

[jason-snyder]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Is it possible to make these two play friendly with each other?

Progress has been made.  I noticed that things work much better when I
change the color depth on the video card to 16 bit.

Now the main issue is that the console intermittently gets whacked out
when I dynamically change physical resolution in X.  This is to the
point where I see hacked up line segments of TV output still moving and
scattered about the screen and I can move the mouse, but absolutely
nothing more.  (Can't even Ctrl+Alt+F8 or F10 out.)  I have to remotely
log in and fix things from there.  Seeing that previous foul ups before
I changed the color depth caused massive corruption leading up to a
kernel panic, I became paranoid and just went straight to rebooting as
opposed to just killing the offending processes.  I was wondering if
other people have seen similar things or if I should start wondering if
something is fouled up on my machine.

[expert] Changing user's icon

[Stephen Boulet]

Does anyone know how to change the user icon shown in the kdm screen (the one 
that comes up by default if you boot directly into X)?

-- Stephen

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 vs 7.2 with mouse!

[A. Rick Anderson]

Well, the following steps finally did it:
1) downloaded 2.4.4 from: http://www.kernel.org/
2) Did a bunch of makes (suggestions from a variety of folks and sources)
a) make oldconfig (keeps the old values as defaults)
b) make dep
c) make bzImage
d) make modules
3) cp the bzImage to /boot.  (this file is way down in 
$KERNEL_UNZIP_DIR/arch/i386/boot.  It is NOT the file 'vmlinux', which is 
an executable that you will find in $KERNEL_UNZIP_DIR!!!)

at this point, the docs and lotsa folks said "run /sbin/lilo".  Well, I did 
just that it.  In fact, I did it several times, and it wasn't doing me any 
good.  I even tried fixing the links so that they pointed to the new image 
and then running lilo.  It looked like it was working, but it wasn't.

Then I received a pointer from someone to 
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/#1st  ie, a very polite RTFM :-)
This set of docs pointed me indirectly to the Control Center -> Boot 
Config, which allowed me to point lilo to the images I wanted to use 
without having to manually figure out and fix /etc/lilo.conf.

It took a couple of reboots and playing around, but the last step was 
making sure that the label for the new image was "linux" and that the video 
was set to 'normal'.  For some reason, it seemed to take two iterations 
within the configuration tool to get this to stick.  It kept wanting to 
leave the video on '788'.  I think that the trick to be sure and exit via 
the buttons and menu items, not by using the x button in the upper right of 
the window.

The BTL.
1) Download and unzip/untar the source from http://www.kernel.org/
2) As a minimum do 'make' steps a-c (see above).  Find the bzImage in the 
i386 directory and copy it to /boot.
3) Use the control center -> Boot Config to reset lilo and write the stuff 
to your boot sector.

exit, reboot, it does some more configuration during reboot,
you are in business and both the track point and a PS/2 mouse work like a 
champ.

BTW:  Be very, very sure that you have an emergency recovery disk before 
you start!!!

At 09:42 PM 5/11/2001 +0200, Luca Dentella wrote:
>Hello!
>
> > An approach taken by Turgut Kalfaoglu, posted here earlier, was to
>download
> > and recompile the original kernel.  I'm downloading the 2.4.4 kernel now,
> > so we will see how it goes.  According to Turgut , the directions made it
>a
> > piece of cake and now everything is working just fine.
>
>Thanks!
>I'm downloading the new ker now (15%...)... hope it works!
>Anyway I'm not very happy about what Mandrake folks did!
>bye

[expert] viewer for user-guide.ps or .mif

[Bill Kenworthy]

I am trying to read the user-guide.ps that comes with the berkely mpeg
tools.  None of the postscript viewers on Mandrake 7.2 will read it (it
is postscript created with framemaker according to the header, a damaged
file according to xpdf, others ask if it is encrypted(doubtful!), but I
think it more likely an incompatible format) - has anyone had any
success?  There is also a .mif version but I have no idea what reads
that files type.

BillK

Re: [expert] LILO no longer works

[Jay DeKing]

I have had to boot Linux with a floppy ever since I was forced to
reformat my Win98 drive (hda1). 

Before the unfortunate incident which precipitated the reformatting, I
had been using grub - very happily. Now, I have gone through
grub-install many times since then, which gives me a Stage1 Read Error
every time. I have also tried lilo (both graphical and command-line
methods) and klilo. Both of them give me screens full of 10 10 10 10 ...
ad infinitum.

Every time I look for an answer, I am always told the proper method for
installing GRUB and/or LILO. While I am thankful for the advice, I have
gone through both procedures, carefully, in letter-perfect fashion many,
many times, with precisely the same results every time.

My fstab, lilo.conf, and menu.lst have not changed since I had to
reformat; they should not need to, since the drives are configured
exactly the same way as they were when GRUB worked. The last time
somebody asked me to post my menu.lst file so they could see if anything
was wrong with it, I never heard another word about it. So, either there
was nothing interesting about it or I was forgotten.

Imagine my pleasure when I saw a new idea (Civileme's - see below)! I
tried it, and ... guess what? A screen full of 10 10 10 10 ... ad
infinitum. Sigh.

So, here is my menu.lst file again:

timeout 5
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
i18n (hd1,0)/boot/grub/messages
keytable (hd1,0)/boot/us.klt
altconfigfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.once
default 4

title linux
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-secure root=/dev/hdb1  hdg=ide-scsi
hdd=ide-floppy vga=788

title linux-up
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1  hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy

title failsafe
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1  hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy
failsafe

title hack
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-hack root=/dev/hdb1  hdg=ide-scsi
hdd=ide-floppy vga=788
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-hack.img

title windows
root (hd0,0)
map (0x81) (0x80)
map (0x80) (0x81)
makeactive
chainloader +1


And my lilo.conf:

boot = /dev/hda
map = /boot/map
timeout = 200
prompt
  vga = normal
  read-only
image = /boot/vmlinuz-secure
  label = linux
  append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
  root = /dev/hdb1
image = /boot/vmlinuz
  label = linux-up
  append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
  root = /dev/hdb1
image = /boot/vmlinuz
  label = failsafe
  append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy failsafe"
  root = /dev/hdb1
image = /boot/vmlinuz-hack
  label = hack
  append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
  root = /dev/hdb1
other = /dev/hda1
  label = windows
  table=/dev/hda


Oh great Linux masters, can you help ?

Thanks
Jay DeKing



Civileme wrote:
> 
> If you do NOT have reiser, then the mbr is probably damaged with respect to
> the new Mobo.  To fix this use the 7.1 install CD, hit F1, type "rescue"
> without the quotes, and ...  when the system comes up
> 
> # mount /dev/hdax /mnt   ## where x is the number for your / partition
> # chroot /mnt
> # /sbin/lilo
> 
> EVEN if you were using grub, which you obviously were not.
> 
> You should then be bootable from the hard disk, take out the CD and type
> 
> # reboot
> 
> Civileme

-- 

There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.4 !

[A. Rick Anderson]

Following the directions in the README, I
make config
make dep
make bzImage
According to the README, you're supposed to replace the exisiting kernel 
image with the new image.  But the current image is simple a link to 
vmlinuz in /boot.  So I copied the new image to /boot/vmlinux-2.4.4 and 
moved the link from linuz-2.3... to the new kernel image.

Now my machine won't boot off of the new kernel.  Fortunately, I had my 
recovery disk, but I obviously missed a step in there somewhere.

At 03:15 PM 5/11/2001 +0300, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:

>A success story: Kernel recompilation is very easy! I just did it :)
>It comes with a great README, and I just followed it.
>I had to re-install my linmodem (Thinkpads are blessed with linmodems!)
>but that was the only thing.
>
>..and my Trackpoint mouse now works :)
>
>Thanks to everyone that helped!
>-turgut
>
>-
>Turgut Kalfaoglu:  http://www.kalfaoglu.com
>EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr
>All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
>
>On 11 May 2001, Bartlomiej Muryn wrote:
>
> > On 10 May 2001 16:05:21 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >  Can anyone offer an *easy* solution to the trackpoint mouse in 
> Mandrake 8
> > > (Trackpoint mouse is seen as a PS/2 mouse in Windoze) ? I'm getting tired
> > > of lugging the serial mouse around :)
> > >
> > > Thanks, -turgut
> > Yes - download the original kernel from www.kernel.org - compile it and 
> it will work automatically...
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > _4ever_
> >
> >

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 20:18 -0400, A V Flinsch wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2001 09:34, Ken Lierman wrote:
> > Interesting i was getting the same messages, but my computer hung
> > (i didn't try cntrl-c, that might have help).  I recompiled my kernel
> > and turned off the winbond stuff.
> >
> > I also was NOT getting this behavior on earlier mdk versions, only 8.0.
> >
> 
> The lm_sensors patch is causing this, I don't think that the patch was 
> part of previous releases.

And the computer doesn't hang there. I get this message just behind the
login prompt and it only looks like the computer hangs. You just type in
your login id just like this messages were not there at all. You hit
enter and get a passw prompt. You don't have to punch in ^C because after
the message is printed on stdout the causing program is finished anyway.
Also, if you look into /var/log/messages you'll see the same lines very
early during the bootup.
 
I have this on all 8.0 installations (several different pcs and a
Thinkpad). 

wobo
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Re: [expert] Reiserfsck

[A V Flinsch]

On Friday 11 May 2001 04:53, Tommy Lawton wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  The system crashed last night (I think reiserfs in 8.0 is slightly
> unstable?) and the root partition has some kind of screwed-up journal
> bug. Does anyone have a copy of reiserfsck (preferably stand-alone so I
> don't have to play with libraries) I can run off my vfat partition? And
> advice for the future? I'm considering ditching reiser...
>

You can boot off the install cdrom as a rescue disk and run it from 
there, no need to screw around with the vfat partition.

I had the same problem with 8.0, and reinstalled several times. I ended 
up reconverting everything back to ext2.

Are there any plans to include sgi's xfs or ibm's jfs in the future, both 
seem to be more stable than reiserfs (especially with flaky disk drives)



-- 
Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command

Re: [expert] Can't install Mandrake 8.0?? (Uable to mount root fs...)

[Civileme]

On Friday 11 May 2001 11:54, Alen Salamun wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on DOZEN machines so far no problem. But on
> on this particular one it won't install!
> It is a rackmount Intel machine with normal IDE disk! No scsi, radi...
>
> No matter if I boot from CD, Floppy, do text or graphics install, do NET or
> CDROM installlNothing helps, always same result!
>
> I get:
>
> Cannot open root device "" 08:05
> ...
> Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs
>
> It seems like it can't mount the ram drivers it created!?
>
> Bye, Alen

OK can you boot up the CD in rescue mode?  F1 at splash screen and "rescue"  
Or do you also get the kernel panic message?  Sorry for previous post--I 
missed that it was not installed at all.

Civileme

[expert] Hauppauge WinTV and Matrox G100

[jason-snyder]

Is it possible to make these two play friendly with each other?

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console

[A V Flinsch]

On Friday 11 May 2001 09:34, Ken Lierman wrote:
> Interesting i was getting the same messages, but my computer hung
> (i didn't try cntrl-c, that might have help).  I recompiled my kernel
> and turned off the winbond stuff.
>
> I also was NOT getting this behavior on earlier mdk versions, only 8.0.
>

The lm_sensors patch is causing this, I don't think that the patch was 
part of previous releases.

-- 
Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command

RE: [expert] REBUILT RPM Mystery -- Solved!

[Dave]

Actually, Benjamin, there should have been no need for ./configure, make,
etc. If it had built correctly, you would have had the rpm in the
appropriate sub-dir of /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/[i386, i486, i586, i686, k6, or
noarch].

Dave.

On 11-May-2001 Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Todd and friends:
> 
> My thanks to Todd Flinders for figuring this out. He was right on
> target.
> 
> My rebuilt rpm, that is, rebuilt from source rpm, is in
> /usr/src/RPM/BUILD!
> 
> But it isn't an rpm, but rather requires the usual ./configure, make,
> make install installation.
> 
> Fabulous!
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Benjamin
> -- 
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
11-May-2001
19:02:01
-

Re: [expert] mkinitrd & 2.2.19 & reiserfs

[Civileme]

On Friday 11 May 2001 05:00, you wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I have to use kernel 2.2.19 in my laptop (to be able to use a driver),
> and i'm using reiserfs in both / and /home partitions, so i've installed
> kernel-2.2.19-10mdk.
>
> But i get a cannot mount root partition.
>
> I've tryed then running mkinitrd --preload reiserfs
> /boot/initrd-2.2.19-10mdk.img 2.2.19-10mdk
>
> And mkinitrd creates the .img file ... but i get the same error on
> startup.
>
> I haven't told mkinitrd where to find /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-10mdk... is
> this important?  8?
>
> Thanks!  ;)


Ummm you need to do a minimal install 8.0 -NON REISER-  Very tiny / partition

Then the following steps:

1.  Get your 7.2 install CD and mount it and install reiserfs-utils from it  
(rpm -e the reiserfs-progs from 8.0)

2.  make your other partitions ext2 and format them

3.  reboot to kernel 2.2.19

4.  mkreiserfs on those partitions (/home, /usr, /var )

5.  edit your /etc/fstab to add the partitons you have made as follows

/dev/hda7   /spvar reiserfs -notail 1 2
/dev/hda8  /spusr reiserfs -notail 1 2
/dev/hda9 /sphome reiserfs -notail 1 2

(numbers are an example--use your own)

6.  mount /spvar && cp -a /var/* /spvar && umount /spvar
 mount /spusr && cp -a /usr/* /spusr && umount /spusr
 mount /sphome && cp -a /home/* /sphome && umount /sphome

7.  Edit the /etc/fstab again and take off the "sp" in the mount points

8.  Now do the following

mv /var /oldvar && mkdir /var && mount /var 
mv /usr /oldusr && mkdir /usr && mount /usr
mv /home /oldhome && mkdir /home && mount /home

9.  Test it to make sure it works.  Then

rm -r /oldhome -f && rm -r /oldvar -f && rm -r /oldusr -f

The reason you have difficulty now is that the version of reiserfs supplied 
with 8.0 does NOT work with 2.2 kernel, only the older version does.

you can use "defaults" instead of "-notail" and save some space but you will 
take a performance hit.  Once a reiser partition has been mounted -notail it 
must always be mounted that way because the mount option describes a 
fundamental difference in the way files are stored.
 
Civileme
>
> --
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Re: [expert] Can't install Mandrake 8.0?? (Uable to mount root fs...)

[Alen Salamun]

Hi!

No I CAN'T even install it And there is nothing between quotes! I tried
installation from CD, boot disk...Mayn compinations...No success...What is
the "real" root for the installation? I mean probably it is ramdisk or?

Should I try somethin like "linux root=/dev/ramdisk??"

Bye, Alen

- Original Message -
From: "Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alen Salamun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Can't install Mandrake 8.0?? (Uable to mount root
fs...)


> You really get nothing between the quotations?  Not even a meaningless
"308"
> or something?
>
> I have never seen this...you can install it fine, just not boot into it?
> Incidently, I did a mkbootdisk during 8.0 install and it became a useless
> boot disk because it made the root fs = "308".  After getting Mandrake
> running I had to do mkbootdisk again and ensure that root was set properly
> (it was at THIS point: root=/dev/hda instead of root="308").  Worked like
a
> charm after that.
>
> How is/are your drives setup?  /dev/hda, dev/hdb, etc...
>
> On Friday 11 May 2001 12:54, Alen Salamun wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on DOZEN machines so far no problem. But
on
> > on this particular one it won't install!
> > It is a rackmount Intel machine with normal IDE disk! No scsi, radi...
> >
> > No matter if I boot from CD, Floppy, do text or graphics install, do NET
or
> > CDROM installlNothing helps, always same result!
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > Cannot open root device "" 08:05
> > ...
> > Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs
> >
> > It seems like it can't mount the ram drivers it created!?
> >
> > Bye, Alen
>
> --
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
> --
>
>

Re: [expert] Forcing 2.2.19 to be installed?

[Eric MC]

have the 2 installed. + 2.4.4

First installed the souces of 2.4.3 and compilde them. 
(to preserve at leat 1 kernel installed)

Then removed the 2.4.3 binary installed by teh install of mdk8.

Then installed 2.2.19-xx

eric MC

On Saturday 12 May 2001 02:27, you wrote:
| Hallo!
|
| Is there any way to force kernel 2.2.19 to be installed instead of
| 2.4.3 ??
|
| Thanks!  ;)
|
| --
| Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain
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| Linux: usuari registrat 190.783

Re: [expert] REBUILT RPM Bermuda Triangle Mystery -- Where is it?

[Todd Flinders]

Look in /usr/src/RPM/BUILD.  If there are scripts
still in there, see if you can install them.

./configure 
make
make install

Something seems to have gone wrong.

The only time this has happened to me ./configure
bottomed out, but I didn't notice any error.  Give it
a try.

--- Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear friends:
> 
> I just rebuild a Red Hat source rpm on LM 8.0. What
> I find curious is
> that a) I am not sure it was a success and b) if it
> was a success, where
> is the new rebuilt Mandrake RPM file?
> 
> Here is the data:
> 
> 1) RPM --REBUILD BK2SITE.XXX.SRC.RPM. Does the data
> show this rebuilding
> to be a success? If so, please see section 2 below.
> I know that rebuilt
> rpms should be in /usr/src/... (See data for that
> below). Well, they are
> nowhere in sight. I would appreciate if you could
> take a look below and
> help me interpret the data. Actually, interpret it.
> As an ordinary user,
> I can't tell if it is a success. 
> 
> I rebuilt a program called bk2site:
> 
> [root@sher07 sher]# rpm --rebuild
> bk2site-1.1.6-1.src.rpm
> Installing bk2site-1.1.6-1.src.rpm
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27751
> + umask 022
> + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
> + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
> + rm -rf bk2site-1.1.6
> + /bin/gzip -dc
> /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bk2site-1.1.6.tar.gz
> + tar -xvvf -
> drwxrwxrwx 0/0   0 2000-12-20 07:42:26
> bk2site-1.1.6/
> -rw-rw-r-- 0/0   16559 2000-12-20 07:42:26
> bk2site-1.1.6/Makefile.in
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5001208 1999-10-26 13:26:42
> bk2site-1.1.6/README
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500  10 2000-12-15 17:06:03
> bk2site-1.1.6/stamp-h.in
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 769 2000-12-15 17:11:57
> bk2site-1.1.6/AUTHORS
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500   17989 1999-07-29 16:15:02
> bk2site-1.1.6/COPYING
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500   36905 2000-12-20 07:41:38
> bk2site-1.1.6/ChangeLog
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5008756 2000-01-06 21:16:43
> bk2site-1.1.6/INSTALL
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5004058 2000-12-15 16:47:56
> bk2site-1.1.6/Makefile.am
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500   0 1999-07-29 16:15:14
> bk2site-1.1.6/NEWS
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 980 2000-01-06 20:34:32
> bk2site-1.1.6/TODO
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500  31 1999-09-05 16:00:52
> bk2site-1.1.6/acconfig.h
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5004652 2000-12-15 17:05:56
> bk2site-1.1.6/aclocal.m4
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 878 2000-01-06 21:17:07
> bk2site-1.1.6/config.h.in
> -rwxrwxr-x 500/500   62499 2000-12-15 17:05:57
> bk2site-1.1.6/configure
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5001402 2000-12-15 16:55:11
> bk2site-1.1.6/configure.in
> -rwxrwxr-x 500/5005584 1999-09-05 15:51:55
> bk2site-1.1.6/install-sh
> -rwxrwxr-x 500/5006274 1999-09-05 16:02:38
> bk2site-1.1.6/missing
> -rwxrwxr-x 500/500 730 1999-09-05 16:01:55
> bk2site-1.1.6/mkinstalldirs
> -rw-r--r-- 500/500   15640 2000-12-15 17:52:56
> bk2site-1.1.6/bk2site.C
> -rw-r--r-- 500/500   60768 2000-12-15 17:45:57
> bk2site-1.1.6/reference.C
> -rw-r--r-- 500/500   10357 2000-12-15 17:45:57
> bk2site-1.1.6/reference.H
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500   10587 2000-01-04 09:51:19
> bk2site-1.1.6/element.C
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5004218 2000-01-02 21:23:52
> bk2site-1.1.6/element.H
> -rw-r--r-- 500/500   12366 2000-05-24 09:31:08
> bk2site-1.1.6/iwebstream.C
> -rw-r--r-- 500/5002139 2000-02-14 17:00:06
> bk2site-1.1.6/iwebstream.H
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5003637 2000-01-04 10:03:31
> bk2site-1.1.6/channel.C
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5002731 1999-11-12 18:10:12
> bk2site-1.1.6/channel.H
> -rw-r--r-- 500/5007418 2000-02-06 13:49:45
> bk2site-1.1.6/funstring.C
> -rw-r--r-- 500/5003055 2000-02-06 13:49:45
> bk2site-1.1.6/funstring.H
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5001644 2000-02-07 20:56:29
> bk2site-1.1.6/indexbase.html -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 
>   1245 2000-02-07
> 20:56:40 bk2site-1.1.6/otherbase.html -rw-rw-r--
> 500/500 891
> 1999-09-05 16:15:53
> bk2site-1.1.6/searchbase.html-rw-rw-r--
> 500/5001176 2000-02-07 20:56:52
> bk2site-1.1.6/newbase.html
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 111 1999-09-05 16:11:09
> bk2site-1.1.6/new.gif
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/5006862 2000-02-01 07:28:15
> bk2site-1.1.6/dot.bk2siterc
> -rwxr--r-- 500/500   17609 2000-11-30 06:52:32
> bk2site-1.1.6/search.pl
> -rwxrwxr-x 500/5001277 2000-08-15 21:51:37
> bk2site-1.1.6/redirect.pl
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 303 1999-09-05 16:11:09
> bk2site-1.1.6/closeup.gif
> -rwxr--r-- 500/500   25086 2000-04-10 15:36:20
> bk2site-1.1.6/check-meta.pl
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500   39530 2000-12-15 17:17:50
> bk2site-1.1.6/bk2site.html
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 102 1999-09-05 16:11:09
> bk2site-1.1.6/cool.gif
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 156 1999-09-05 16:11:09
> bk2site-1.1.6/cool2.gif
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 104 1999-09-05 16:11:09
> bk2site-1.1.6/disk.gif
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500  79 1999-09-05 16:11:09
> bk2site-1.1.6/earth.gif
> -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 172 1999-09-05 16:11:09
> bk2site-1.1.6

[expert] REBUILT RPM Mystery -- Solved!

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Todd and friends:

My thanks to Todd Flinders for figuring this out. He was right on
target.

My rebuilt rpm, that is, rebuilt from source rpm, is in
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD!

But it isn't an rpm, but rather requires the usual ./configure, make,
make install installation.

Fabulous!

Thanks again.

Benjamin
-- 
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
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[expert] 2.2.19 & mdk8

[Joan Tur]

Hi!

I have to install 2.2.19 under mdk 8 in order to use my ethernet card
(no support for it under 2.4.x kernels).  I've installed
kernel-2.2.19-10mdk and made a:

mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.19-10mdk.img 2.2.19-10mdk

and pointed lilo.conf to use /boot/vmlinuz-2.2 and
/boot/initrd-2.2.19-10mdk.img (and run lilo).  I get the following error
after reboot:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
[] Loading module /lib/reiserfs.o
Invalid session number or type of track
reiserfs_read_super: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on dev 03:08
reiserfs_read_super: try to find super block in old location
reiserfs_read_super: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on dev 03:08
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08

Partitions are: 20MB /boot, / and /home (/ and /home are reiserfs; /boot
is ext2)...

Thanks in advance!  ;)

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[expert] Can't install Mandrake 8.0?? (Uable to mount root fs...)

[Alen Salamun]

Hi!

I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on DOZEN machines so far no problem. But on on
this particular one it won't install!
It is a rackmount Intel machine with normal IDE disk! No scsi, radi...

No matter if I boot from CD, Floppy, do text or graphics install, do NET or
CDROM installlNothing helps, always same result!

I get:

Cannot open root device "" 08:05
...
Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs

It seems like it can't mount the ram drivers it created!?

Bye, Alen

[expert] Forcing 2.2.19 to be installed?

[Joan Tur]

Hallo!

Is there any way to force kernel 2.2.19 to be installed instead of
2.4.3 ??

Thanks!  ;)

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Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 vs 7.2 with mouse!

[A. Rick Anderson]

An approach taken by Turgut Kalfaoglu, posted here earlier, was to download 
and recompile the original kernel.  I'm downloading the 2.4.4 kernel now, 
so we will see how it goes.  According to Turgut , the directions made it a 
piece of cake and now everything is working just fine.

http://www.kernel.org/

At 02:56 PM 5/11/2001 +0200, Luca Dentella wrote:
>hellO!
>
>
> > This is becoming a FAQ :-)
>
>I'm sorry... I asked this in many forums and ng but noone (except you) was
>able to give me an answer. :-)
>
> >Mandrake broke the PS/2 code because their
> > developers had weird keyboards with empty PS/2 ports that were causing
> > everything to lock up during boot time since they weren't using those
> > ports.  So they disabled it.
>
>So let me see if I undestood: folks at Mandrake, as therir developers had
>bad hardware, "broke" (what does this exactly mean? They simply removed? Or
>changed?) PS/2 code in the kernel image used for installation... is this
>right?
>
> > Some folks have been able to get it to work, but most folks with Thinkpads
> > ( only 5% of the "market" according to Mandrake) are not able to get their
> > trackpoints or PS/2 mice to work.
>
>Fabulous :-/
>
> > The workaround is to pick up a cheap serial mouse and just plug it into
>the
> > serial port.  Mandrake will spot it during boot time and you should be
>good
> > to go.
>
>Good! I did it (withour reinstalling, I simply changed /dev/mouse link to
>the serial device and modified the line in XF86Config-4)... but it's useless
>have a LapTop if I could use X only with an external mouse! Is there
>anything I can do to fix it? Maybe downloading new kernel source and
>recompiling? At which level Mandrake folks changed PS/2 support?
>Thanks!

[expert] REBUILT RPM Bermuda Triangle Mystery -- Where is it?

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

I just rebuild a Red Hat source rpm on LM 8.0. What I find curious is
that a) I am not sure it was a success and b) if it was a success, where
is the new rebuilt Mandrake RPM file?

Here is the data:

1) RPM --REBUILD BK2SITE.XXX.SRC.RPM. Does the data show this rebuilding
to be a success? If so, please see section 2 below. I know that rebuilt
rpms should be in /usr/src/... (See data for that below). Well, they are
nowhere in sight. I would appreciate if you could take a look below and
help me interpret the data. Actually, interpret it. As an ordinary user,
I can't tell if it is a success. 

I rebuilt a program called bk2site:

[root@sher07 sher]# rpm --rebuild bk2site-1.1.6-1.src.rpm
Installing bk2site-1.1.6-1.src.rpm
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27751
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
+ cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
+ rm -rf bk2site-1.1.6
+ /bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bk2site-1.1.6.tar.gz
+ tar -xvvf -
drwxrwxrwx 0/0   0 2000-12-20 07:42:26 bk2site-1.1.6/
-rw-rw-r-- 0/0   16559 2000-12-20 07:42:26
bk2site-1.1.6/Makefile.in
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5001208 1999-10-26 13:26:42 bk2site-1.1.6/README
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500  10 2000-12-15 17:06:03
bk2site-1.1.6/stamp-h.in
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 769 2000-12-15 17:11:57 bk2site-1.1.6/AUTHORS
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500   17989 1999-07-29 16:15:02 bk2site-1.1.6/COPYING
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500   36905 2000-12-20 07:41:38
bk2site-1.1.6/ChangeLog
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5008756 2000-01-06 21:16:43 bk2site-1.1.6/INSTALL
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5004058 2000-12-15 16:47:56
bk2site-1.1.6/Makefile.am
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500   0 1999-07-29 16:15:14 bk2site-1.1.6/NEWS
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 980 2000-01-06 20:34:32 bk2site-1.1.6/TODO
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500  31 1999-09-05 16:00:52
bk2site-1.1.6/acconfig.h
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5004652 2000-12-15 17:05:56
bk2site-1.1.6/aclocal.m4
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 878 2000-01-06 21:17:07
bk2site-1.1.6/config.h.in
-rwxrwxr-x 500/500   62499 2000-12-15 17:05:57
bk2site-1.1.6/configure
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5001402 2000-12-15 16:55:11
bk2site-1.1.6/configure.in
-rwxrwxr-x 500/5005584 1999-09-05 15:51:55
bk2site-1.1.6/install-sh
-rwxrwxr-x 500/5006274 1999-09-05 16:02:38 bk2site-1.1.6/missing
-rwxrwxr-x 500/500 730 1999-09-05 16:01:55
bk2site-1.1.6/mkinstalldirs
-rw-r--r-- 500/500   15640 2000-12-15 17:52:56
bk2site-1.1.6/bk2site.C
-rw-r--r-- 500/500   60768 2000-12-15 17:45:57
bk2site-1.1.6/reference.C
-rw-r--r-- 500/500   10357 2000-12-15 17:45:57
bk2site-1.1.6/reference.H
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500   10587 2000-01-04 09:51:19
bk2site-1.1.6/element.C
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5004218 2000-01-02 21:23:52
bk2site-1.1.6/element.H
-rw-r--r-- 500/500   12366 2000-05-24 09:31:08
bk2site-1.1.6/iwebstream.C
-rw-r--r-- 500/5002139 2000-02-14 17:00:06
bk2site-1.1.6/iwebstream.H
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5003637 2000-01-04 10:03:31
bk2site-1.1.6/channel.C
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5002731 1999-11-12 18:10:12
bk2site-1.1.6/channel.H
-rw-r--r-- 500/5007418 2000-02-06 13:49:45
bk2site-1.1.6/funstring.C
-rw-r--r-- 500/5003055 2000-02-06 13:49:45
bk2site-1.1.6/funstring.H
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5001644 2000-02-07 20:56:29
bk2site-1.1.6/indexbase.html -rw-rw-r-- 500/5001245 2000-02-07
20:56:40 bk2site-1.1.6/otherbase.html -rw-rw-r-- 500/500 891
1999-09-05 16:15:53 bk2site-1.1.6/searchbase.html-rw-rw-r--
500/5001176 2000-02-07 20:56:52 bk2site-1.1.6/newbase.html
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 111 1999-09-05 16:11:09 bk2site-1.1.6/new.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/5006862 2000-02-01 07:28:15
bk2site-1.1.6/dot.bk2siterc
-rwxr--r-- 500/500   17609 2000-11-30 06:52:32
bk2site-1.1.6/search.pl
-rwxrwxr-x 500/5001277 2000-08-15 21:51:37
bk2site-1.1.6/redirect.pl
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 303 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/closeup.gif
-rwxr--r-- 500/500   25086 2000-04-10 15:36:20
bk2site-1.1.6/check-meta.pl
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500   39530 2000-12-15 17:17:50
bk2site-1.1.6/bk2site.html
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 102 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/cool.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 156 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/cool2.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 104 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/disk.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500  79 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/earth.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 172 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/ltbulb.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500  96 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/mailto.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 968 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/mana_red.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 102 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/news.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 173 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/note.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 102 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/question.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500  89 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/smiley.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 500/500 100 1999-09-05 16:11:09
bk2site-1.1.6/thumbs_down.gif-rw-rw-r-- 500/500   34362

[expert] How do you upgrade postgres from 7.0.? to 7.1.1

[Laurent Duperval]

Hi,

Mandrake 8.0 comes with postgresql 7.0. I want to upgrade it to 7.1.1 using
the MDK tools. How do you do that? Yes, I could always go to rpmfind.net and
download all the rpms and install them. But I'm more interested in doing it
thru the Software Manager or something. For the time being, the only
packages I can see with SM ore the postgres 7.0 files. How do I ask it to
got on the 'net to find me versions of 7.1.x?

Thanks,

L

-- 
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On prend le bon air qui vivifie et qui se répand dans les cavités thoraciques
de l'honnête homme comme du miel sur la tartine d'un affamé!
 -Achille Talon

[expert] Transparent panel menu

[ninetysix]

Anyone know how to get this transparent panel menu like on this screenshot 
@themes.org.  It really looks cool :)



http://www.themes.org/php/pic.phtml?src=shots/989550503.jpg

Re: [expert] Naughty fonts!

[uli]

Am Freitag 11 Mai 2001 15:56 schrieben Sie:
> On Thursday 10 May 2001 11:45, Todd Flinders wrote:
> > To turn on anti-aliasing go into the KDE Control
> > Center.  Click LookNFeel->Style.  Click the checkbox
> > for anti-aliasing (in the middle).
>
> Hi,
>
> When I turned on anti-aliasing as above, I couldn't log back into KDE. I
> had to run kcontrol from Gnome and turn off antialiasing before I could log
> back into KDE. I have a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0. Anyone had a similar
> problem?
>
> Sujeet

I had the same problem. I have edited /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig and there 
I have removed all Asian font-entries, now kde works again with antialiasing.

Uli

Re: [expert] Naughty fonts!

[Sujeet Bhatt]

On Friday 11 May 2001 10:43, Todd Flinders wrote:
> Maybe your video driver doesn't support anti-aliasing?
>  What video card are you using?
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >On Thursday 10 May 2001 11:45, Todd Flinders wrote:
> > >> To turn on anti-aliasing go into the KDE Control
> > >> Center.  Click LookNFeel->Style.  Click the
> >
> > checkbox
> >
> > >> for anti-aliasing (in the middle).
> > >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >When I turned on anti-aliasing as above, I couldn't
> >
> > log back into KDE. I
> > had
> >
> > >to run kcontrol from Gnome and turn off
> >
> > antialiasing before I could log
> > back
> >
> > >into KDE. I have a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0.
> >
> > Anyone had a similar
> >
> > >problem?
> > >
> > >Sujeet
> >

My card is an ATI Rage 128 AGP with 16 MB RAM. Hardware acceleration is 
supported.

Sujeet

[expert] rc.firewall.... rules

[Alen Salamun]

Hi!

I think there should be first flush of all rules in rc.firewall...that is
made by drakgw! If I wish to restart network suppose I get duplicated rules
in iptables and if I only wich to restart firewall rules ofcourse same
happens.

There should be

iptables -F INPUT
iptables -F OUTPUT
iptables -F FORWARD
iptables -F -t nat

in the start (when kernel is 2.4)! Don't you think so?

Bye, Alen

Re: [expert] Install Oracle Enterprise Edition 8.1.7 Release 3 on Linux Mandrake 8.0

[Todd Flinders]

Well, jre is refering to java (Java Runtime
Environment, I believe).  Mandrake comes with kaffe
which is not very current at all.  Maybe if you
install a newer java, that might help.

Try http://www.blackdown.org.

--- Babam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I try to install oracle817 on linuxbox LM 8 i
> got error ini jre 1.1.8.
> anyone have tips and trick to install oracle 8.1.7
> on LM 8.0
> 
> i have read OFA recommndation from ORACLE install
> procedure, and it's no matter.
> create user oracle is done
> create /u01 is done
> create /u02 is done
> 
> 
> i have modified for root .bash_profile, it's no
> problem.
> i have modified for orace .bash_profile, it's no
> problem
> 
> my compie spec:
> ABITKT7-RAID
> AMD Duron 700 Mhz
> 256 MB SDRAM
> HDD 30 GB Quantum ATA/100
> 
> using linuxswap 256 MB (is there enough for swap
> using oracle 8.1.7)
> when i invoke ./runInstaller got error :
> 
> your lib home, bla bla bla is not owned.
> 
> why
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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[expert] Text mode bootup not wanted

[Gavin]

People, I could use a little help, I proud to say that I have 8.0 running on 
my system now! I want to view the new aurora bootup, I checked if off in the 
boot config and re-booted the system, the system still boots in text mode 
(black and white) what could be the reason for this? 
I'm using an onboard video card, my motherboard is a  ASUS CUSL2 JUMPERFREE 
PC133 Agp Pro/4x  Intel 815e chipset.
PnP is off, should I check anything else?
Grasshopper could use a little guidence from Master Po and Friends.

Sincerely,
Gavin (grasshopper)  Japan

Re[2]: [expert] Mandrake 8 vs 7.2 with mouse!

[Rusty Carruth]

"A. Rick Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is becoming a FAQ :-)  Mandrake broke the PS/2 code because their 
> developers had weird keyboards with empty PS/2 ports that were causing 
> everything to lock up during boot time since they weren't using those 
> ports.  So they disabled it.

Ok.  I hereby propose that at least one developer at Mandrake be given
a functional keyboard and a PS/2 mouse that works so that we have at
least one person there who realizes that disabling something because
YOUR hardware is broken is not a solution

No real flame intended, but it does sound pretty lame.  (The least they could
have done is to re-enable it before shipping, you'd think)

rc


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[expert] HSP 56 micromodem and Mandrake 8.0

[Eduardo Mendes]

Hello

I checked winmodem for linux and it seems that my modem, a
HSP 56, can work under linux. I have donwloaded the files
and compiled but a lot of errors come out and the module is
not loaded.  I think that this is because the modules is for
the 2.2.X series and not for 2.4.X  per chance, have someone
managed to get pctel working with Mandrake 8.0?

Many thanks

Eduardo

/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol bh_mask
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol request_region
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol bh_active
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol release_region
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol kfree_s
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol timer_table
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol bh_base
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol check_region
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol timer_active
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/pctel.o: unresolved
symbol bh_mask_count


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Re: [expert] Naughty fonts!

[Todd Flinders]

Maybe your video driver doesn't support anti-aliasing?
 What video card are you using?

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 10 May 2001 11:45, Todd Flinders wrote:
> >> To turn on anti-aliasing go into the KDE Control
> >> Center.  Click LookNFeel->Style.  Click the
> checkbox
> >> for anti-aliasing (in the middle).
> >>
> >Hi,
> >
> >When I turned on anti-aliasing as above, I couldn't
> log back into KDE. I
> had
> >to run kcontrol from Gnome and turn off
> antialiasing before I could log
> back
> >into KDE. I have a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0.
> Anyone had a similar
> >problem?
> >
> >Sujeet
> >
> Yes when I switched to anti-aliasing I had only
> courrier fonts avalaible...
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
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Re: [expert] mkinitrd & 2.2.19 & reiserfs

[Kheb]

Maybe you not run lilo, and if you try it, check that have a line like this
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.17-21mdk.img

in the paragraph of you kernel image, here is an example, that I found in my
/etc/lilo.conf
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=old_linux
root=/dev/hda9
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.17-21mdk.img
append=" ide1=autotune ide0=autotune"
read-only

Hope that help


On Fri, 11 May 2001 08:00:13 -0400, Joan Tur said:

> Hallo!
>  
>  I have to use kernel 2.2.19 in my laptop (to be able to use a driver),
>  and i'm using reiserfs in both / and /home partitions, so i've installed
>  kernel-2.2.19-10mdk.
>  
>  But i get a cannot mount root partition.
>  
>  I've tryed then running mkinitrd --preload reiserfs
>  /boot/initrd-2.2.19-10mdk.img 2.2.19-10mdk
>  
>  And mkinitrd creates the .img file ... but i get the same error on
>  startup.
>  
>  I haven't told mkinitrd where to find /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-10mdk... is
>  this important?  8?
>  
>  Thanks!  ;)
>  
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[expert] packet writing and Mandrake 8.0

[Eduardo Mendes]

Hello
Have anyone manged to get Axboe's packet writing working
with Mandrake 8.0?

Many thanks

Eduardo

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Re: [expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console

[Ken Arromdee]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Occasionally when I boot up to the console (runlevel 3), I see the
> following strange message on the screen:
> 
> sher07 login: Winbond Super-IO detection now testing ports 3F0, 370,
> 250, 4E, 2E, SMSC Super -IO detection now testing Ports 2F0, 370.
> 
> I then have to type CntRL-C to return to my usual logon screen with the
> prompt, so I can log INTO KDE with startx.

I get this message 100% of the time (booting up into the console).  Ctrl-C
isn't necessary for me, I can just type my login and password on top of these
messages... it seems to be some kind of background process.

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console

[Kheb]

How can I remove these message?

Thanks
On Fri, 11 May 2001 13:09:20 +0300 (EET DST), Turgut Kalfaoglu said:

> Benjamin: That must be the serial drivers coming to life.. nothing to
>  worry about, and you dont have to do a CTRL-C; just keep typing; those are
>  just messages being blurted out; I get them too.. -t
>  
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Re: [expert] Naughty fonts!

[bmuryn]

>On Thursday 10 May 2001 11:45, Todd Flinders wrote:
>> To turn on anti-aliasing go into the KDE Control
>> Center.  Click LookNFeel->Style.  Click the checkbox
>> for anti-aliasing (in the middle).
>>
>Hi,
>
>When I turned on anti-aliasing as above, I couldn't log back into KDE. I
had
>to run kcontrol from Gnome and turn off antialiasing before I could log
back
>into KDE. I have a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0. Anyone had a similar
>problem?
>
>Sujeet
>
Yes when I switched to anti-aliasing I had only courrier fonts avalaible...

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[expert] Kernel 2.4.4 !

[Turgut Kalfaoglu]

A success story: Kernel recompilation is very easy! I just did it :)
It comes with a great README, and I just followed it.
I had to re-install my linmodem (Thinkpads are blessed with linmodems!)
but that was the only thing. 

..and my Trackpoint mouse now works :)

Thanks to everyone that helped!
-turgut

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On 11 May 2001, Bartlomiej Muryn wrote:

> On 10 May 2001 16:05:21 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >  Can anyone offer an *easy* solution to the trackpoint mouse in Mandrake 8
> > (Trackpoint mouse is seen as a PS/2 mouse in Windoze) ? I'm getting tired
> > of lugging the serial mouse around :)
> > 
> > Thanks, -turgut
> Yes - download the original kernel from www.kernel.org - compile it and it will work 
>automatically...
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console

[Ken Lierman]

Interesting i was getting the same messages, but my computer hung (i 
didn't try cntrl-c, that might have help).  I recompiled my kernel and 
turned off the winbond stuff.

I also was NOT getting this behavior on earlier mdk versions, only 8.0.

Ken

Re: [expert] Naughty fonts!

[Sujeet Bhatt]

On Thursday 10 May 2001 11:45, Todd Flinders wrote:
> To turn on anti-aliasing go into the KDE Control
> Center.  Click LookNFeel->Style.  Click the checkbox
> for anti-aliasing (in the middle).
>
Hi,

When I turned on anti-aliasing as above, I couldn't log back into KDE. I had 
to run kcontrol from Gnome and turn off antialiasing before I could log back 
into KDE. I have a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0. Anyone had a similar 
problem?

Sujeet

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console

[Turgut Kalfaoglu]

Benjamin: That must be the serial drivers coming to life.. nothing to
worry about, and you dont have to do a CTRL-C; just keep typing; those are
just messages being blurted out; I get them too.. -t

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Re: [newbie] where's a RealPlayer for LM-8.0 rpm

[Mehmet KARAKAYA]

Its easy to answer that...You find realplayer on download.com...you find 
there for all linux and unix versions...
  c.FrOsT


>From: Kit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Newbie-LM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Expert-LM 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [newbie] where's a RealPlayer for LM-8.0 rpm
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:52:41 -0400
>
>Hey...where can I find a RPM  for realplayer
>that will install/run on Mandrake 8.0
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Re: [expert] What to do with Trackpoint Mouse in Mandrake 8?

[Turgut Kalfaoglu]

> Yes - download the original kernel from www.kernel.org - compile it and it will work 
>automatically...

Many thanks!
is there anything I should watch out for? I never built a kernel before!
thanks, -turgut

Re: [expert] What to do with Trackpoint Mouse in Mandrake 8?

[Bartlomiej Muryn]

On 10 May 2001 16:05:21 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  Can anyone offer an *easy* solution to the trackpoint mouse in Mandrake 8
> (Trackpoint mouse is seen as a PS/2 mouse in Windoze) ? I'm getting tired
> of lugging the serial mouse around :)
> 
> Thanks, -turgut
Yes - download the original kernel from www.kernel.org - compile it and it will work 
automatically...



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[expert] javacc won't work && linux odbc feature

[kaab kaoutar]

Hi!
i have uncompressed the java rpm from the manrake CDROM, but it still does 
not compile! what to do?
I want to access a remote odbc database in linux from an NT station
how to configure the linux_ odbc?
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[expert] Reiserfsck

[Tommy Lawton]

Hi,

 The system crashed last night (I think reiserfs in 8.0 is slightly
unstable?) and the root partition has some kind of screwed-up journal bug.
Does anyone have a copy of reiserfsck (preferably stand-alone so I don't
have to play with libraries) I can run off my vfat partition? And advice
for the future? I'm considering ditching reiser...

(send binaries etc to this email, it's not a modem account so I don't
mind)

many thanks,

tom

[expert] Install Oracle Enterprise Edition 8.1.7 Release 3 on Linux Mandrake 8.0

[Babam]

When I try to install oracle817 on linuxbox LM 8 i got error ini jre 1.1.8.
anyone have tips and trick to install oracle 8.1.7 on LM 8.0

i have read OFA recommndation from ORACLE install procedure, and it's no matter.
create user oracle is done
create /u01 is done
create /u02 is done


i have modified for root .bash_profile, it's no problem.
i have modified for orace .bash_profile, it's no problem

my compie spec:
ABITKT7-RAID
AMD Duron 700 Mhz
256 MB SDRAM
HDD 30 GB Quantum ATA/100

using linuxswap 256 MB (is there enough for swap using oracle 8.1.7)
when i invoke ./runInstaller got error :

your lib home, bla bla bla is not owned.

why

[expert] LM 8.0 "halt" bug -- Fortin's Solution

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friens:

Thanks to the great troubleshooting efforts of Pierre Fortin, we have a
new "halt" file to replace the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file IN CASE YOU
HAVE HAD A PROBLEM SHUTTING DOWN YOUR SYSTEM. 

If your shutdown works fine, i.e. without any error messages, with all
OK check marks and ending properly with all filesystems unmounted
("System halted"), then skip this. This bug may or may not affect all LM
8.0 users. It was a serious problem for me. So, it may affect your
system, too. My system consists of an AMD K6-2, 400 MHz, 128 megs of RAM
and LM 8.0.

On the other hand, if you have a problem with shutdown, try Fortin's
modified version of "halt."

This new "halt" file also takes into consideration any supermount you
might have in /etc/fstab (usually /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy and /mnt/zip)

The problem seems to have something to do with LM 8.0's /boot partition.
This may involve a kernel bug, according to Fortin.

Before you do anything, rename the halt file that's on your system (just
in case) as follows:

[init.d]#mv halt halt.old

WHERE TO GET THE NEW HALT FILE:

You can get the new "halt" file at:

http://www.pfortin.com/

(bottom of page)

First, cd to /etc/rc.d/init.d/

To save it, hold the SHIFT key while clicking on the "halt" link and
choose Save as. The file name will appear in your browser.

After saving it, open up a console or xterm and copy the file as
follows:

[home/user]#cp halt /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt

Now, you MUST change the permissions on the file as follows:

[init.d]#chmod 755 halt

Or, from your home directory:

[user/home]#chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt

(Either way will work)

NOW REBOOT to allow the new changes to take effect. Ignore any error
messages at this point. 

After you reboot to the console (runlevel 3) or directly to your GUI
(KDE, Gnome, etc), insert a zip cartridge into your zip drive, a floppy
into your floppy drive and a CD into your cd drive (yes, all
simultaneously). Now, test the new "halt" script by shutting down your
system with:

#shutdown -h now

The shutdown should be perfect with all green OK and you should be able
to see the new script unmount each partition INDIVIDUALLY:

DEBUG: Unmounting /home OK
DEBUG: Unmounting /zip OK
DEBUG: Unmounting /floppy OK
DEBUG: Unmounting /cdrom OK
DEBUG: Unmounting /boot OK

etc.

The script should end with either just the last line above ("Unmounting
/boot OK") or else with

"System halted"

or with 

"Power down."

Now, be sure you remove your floppy (if your floppy is, as usual, the
first drive indicated in your BIOS). 

Fortin's "halt" script should also work better with rebooting your
system (Cnt+Alt+Del or "shutdown -r now"). Automatica rebooting on my
system does not always work. The majority of times it does. But
sometimes it doesn't. That is, on occasion, it hangs on "Please stand by
while Linux reboots...

Fortin's "halt" script doesn't fully solve the reboot issue. However,
when you manually power down and then power up and reboot, you should
have a perfect reboot without any error messages (all green check marks,
no "cleanly unmounted, check forced" messages which need to be fixed
(with red check marks). Instead, you should see "/hda1 clean" ("hda1" is
my /boot partition).

The same thing happens after a proper shutdown. When you power up, your
bootup should be perfect with all green check marks and "hda1 clean" (or
whatever your /boot partition is called). That's how you can tell that
the new "halt" script is working properly.

All the best.

Benjamin

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[expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

Occasionally when I boot up to the console (runlevel 3), I see the
following strange message on the screen:

sher07 login: Winbond Super-IO detection now testing ports 3F0, 370,
250, 4E, 2E, SMSC Super -IO detection now testing Ports 2F0, 370.

I then have to type CntRL-C to return to my usual logon screen with the
prompt, so I can log INTO KDE with startx.

This doesn't happen all the time but most of the time. I can't see any
clear pattern as to when it happens and when it doesn't except to say
that I have a similar problem with reboot: sometimes Cnt+Alt+Del (or
shutdown -r now) will result in an automatic reboot. But sometimes it
hangs on "Stand by while Linux tries to reboot...". I can't perceive any
pattern here either. And I don't know if they are connected.

I have been told that I should use some sort of hardware diagnostic tool
to troubleshoot this problem. By the way, I have never had this problem
on any earlier version of Linux-Mandrake.

I would really appreciate help from one of the experts on our list. 

Thank you in advance.

Benjamin

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Re: [expert] LM 8.0 installation freezes

[John Wolford]

Well this isn't really help, but you *might* consider pulling devices/hardware
in different combinations, and see if that makes any difference(s)...

Good luck :-)
j

--- Steven Bradtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I have a problem installing either RH 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0.
> 
> In either case, installation never really starts.  I'm
> allowed to choose installation mode, after which the initial
> boot system is loaded from the CD ROM and the hardware
> system is checked over.  However, when it comes time for the
> installation utility to come up, the system just hangs.  For
> example, in Mandrake 8.0 installation, I finally get a
> message about drinking eggs and welcome to linux
> mandrake. Then the system completely freezes.  Selection of
> any other installation mode, such as expert, rescue, or text all
> lead to a freeze up at the same point.  RH 7.1 exhibits the same
> behavior.
> 
> I had no problems at all installing RH 7.0 or Mandrake 7.2
> on the same system.  I`m using an Abit VP6 dual processor
> motherboard, with 2 P-III 800`s, 3 HDD`s (windows installed
> on 1), a cdrom, and a cd-rw.  Using an SB Live sound card,
> and an Asus AGP-7100 graphics card.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> ===
> Steven Bradtke  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [expert] Snail's Pace

[John Wolford]

I would be very tempted to isolate this problem to fetchmail, or a particular
program in the chain of events (man strace). Have you set up a sniffer to watch
the network activity while the mail is downloading? That could tell a lot.

j

--- SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hopefully someone knows of the following problem and email's the
> answer to ,
> because my mailing list address is blocked with 9,300 messages.
> 
> Somehow my email is downloaded at a snail's pace.  For every one
> message, it is taking approximately one minute to download from
> the ISP.
> 
> I recently upgraded from LM7.0 to LM8.0.  LM7.0 work just fine!
> A module is loaded that allows ipchains to fully function under
> kernel 2.4.3-20.  Sendmail 8.11.3-1 is the MTA and fetchmail 5.7.4-5
> retrieves the email from the ISP.  All the messages are filtered
> and separated into their individual slots with procmail 3.15.1-2.
> *None* of the configurations used in sendmail, fetchmail, or procmail
> have changed and no errors were reported.
> 
> It's not necessary to abide by the below attached "Note:" (it's a
> standard attachment).  The first paragraph address is sufficient
> enough for *my* messages.
> 
> Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing
>   list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:.
> 
> *
> Signed,
> SoloCDM
> 


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