Re: [expert] X Startup from Console
Thank all. I copied the enclosed .xinitrc (from David Fox's email, thanks David) and created the file, it worked. The other suggestion about modifying a .wmrc file did not work. Thanks for all who replied. Any idea why I didn't have a .xinitrc to begin with? There must be anothe config file somewhere thar gets superceded by .xinitrc. thanks George. On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 04:33, David E. Fox wrote: In old version of Mandrake, there used to be a .xinitrc in the home directory where I can specify the WM I want to use. Unless you blew away /home, it should still be there. It's not something the distribution creates (it might the first time), but I've been using a stock .xinitrc for years, and I've done several installs over that time. I want to start twm (yes the bare minimum) without having to start kdm/gdm and all that goes with them. Start up your box in runlevel 3, by editing /etc/inittab, look for a line saying 'initdefault' and change the 5 to a 3. Save the file, and restart init (kill -1 1) or reboot the system. You should then be booted up to a console. You can start X with the 'startx' command and bypass all the kdm/gdm etc. stuff. Edit / create .xinitrc and at the bottom of the file there should be a line saying 'exec twm ' - that starts the window manager. I'll include my .xinitrc so you can see an example. I've basically used it for several different window managers, and each time I want to switch, I just comment out (with a # at the beginning of the line) the old wm and take the comment off the new wm line. George #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $ userresources=$HOME/.Xdefaults usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources sysmodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap # merge in defaults and keymaps if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then xmodmap $sysmodmap fi if [ -f $userresources ]; then xrdb -merge $userresources fi if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then xmodmap $usermodmap fi # turn on screen blanking (save $$) /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s blank # start some nice programs # exec /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep # gnome # exec /usr/bin/gnome-session #k window manager exec /usr/local/kde/bin/startkde # stable # exec /usr/bin/startkde David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- ---
[expert] forwarding
Hi im having trouble with SNF it doesnt forward anything . Licq dont work it times out after creating and opening local server (i forwarded udp 4000 and tcp 2000-2020) Unrealtournament: i get ping timeout when trying to get serverlist (i forwarded udp 6-64000) SNF doesnt forward anything sorry the NAAT option internet traffic where you can enter ports for public services and forward them to internal machines is worthless since it doesnt work cheers. Any suggestions ? Or: DID ANYONE MANAGE TO FORWARD PORTS TO THE INSIDE NETWORK USING SNF AND NAAT? Forian
Re: [expert] X Startup from Console
Any idea why I didn't have a .xinitrc to begin with? There must be anothe config file somewhere thar gets superceded by .xinitrc. locate xinitrc /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc /etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc /etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc.mwm man xinit :-)
[expert] Anomaly with tcsh on LM8
Hi all, I have just installed LM 8.0 (Standard boxed set) an noticed that when an ordinary user whose login shell is tcsh telnets in to the machine, the following message is displayed: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console If that same user is logged in to the console, the message does not appear when he telnets in. Is this because the xinetd.conf needs to have some other service enabled? In any case, what do I need to do to eliminate the messages. David Hoos
[expert] upgrading linux box
Hi, I am about to upgrade my computer to a K7, probably at 1GHz. I have 2 motherboards in mind and, as this is a very important key in a PC configuration, I would like to ask you your opinion about it. The 2 motherboards I am thinking of are: Gigabyte GA-7ZXR and ASUS A7V133. So, both of them have IDE ports. Is there any problem with linux detecting this configuration? And, I read some weeks ago a problem related with the Via chipset and linux mandrake. Do I have to worry? Both of them have the VT8363 North Bridge and the VT82C686B Soutth Bridge controller. Any general advice? Thanks in advance! -- La inteligencia en el mundo es una constante. La poblacion crece...
[expert] Supermount not supermounting?
Hi, I've got a problem after Freqing my 8.0 install If I've got a CDROM in the drive at boot, it mounts OK, But if I try to change the CD I get the following shoing in my logs Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 An earlier message that may be relevant is Jul 2 00:01:00 darkwing kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media. Meanwhile KFM shows the ever-popular locked folder. I checked the symlink, and device permissions, and fstab/mtab...can't see a problem Any thoughts anyone? Andrew
Re: [expert] Supermount not supermounting?
I had the same problem. Here is my fix: My original fstab (CDROM and FLOPPY lines only) after upgrading: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 With this configuration I had the same problem as you. I writed to this list and Steve Kieu wrote: I would suggest you check the /etc/fstab ; may be some *stupid* :-) configuration tool modify it and it is not right. But the lines he writes don't work, but gives me an idea: I done this sequence: - supermount -i disable - supermount -i enable And with some minor changes I had a correct lines in fstab for cdrom and floppy (but incorrect for windows partitions, but, hey, I solved it with my backup copy of fstab :-) And now, the correct lines for cdrom and floppy (in my system): /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermountfs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Salu2 Oscar. -- El Dom 01 Jul 2001 16:05, escribiste: Hi, I've got a problem after Freqing my 8.0 install If I've got a CDROM in the drive at boot, it mounts OK, But if I try to change the CD I get the following shoing in my logs Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 An earlier message that may be relevant is Jul 2 00:01:00 darkwing kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media. Meanwhile KFM shows the ever-popular locked folder. I checked the symlink, and device permissions, and fstab/mtab...can't see a problem Any thoughts anyone? Andrew
[expert] How to fix an X lockup?
I have Mandrake 8.0 with kernel-2.4.4-6mdk, glibc-2.2.3, XFree86-4.1.0, and DRI-CVS. My system is an Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 32MB and OpenGL is working well - for the most part. I periodically run into a very windows-ish problem when I play opengl games. If they crash (Terminus is particularly bad at this), they often take my system with them, for all practical purposes. Just a few moments ago, Terminus crashed on me (again). When it does this, the screen goes black and my system no longer accepts keyboard input or mouse input. I usually have to hard reboot at this point (VERY windows-ish) but this time round I had my laptop handy and was able to ssh into my locked up system. Once there, I had no idea what to do to get my system up and responsive to keyboard and mouse again - and get X back. I tried killall terminus thinking that terminus might be clogging the system but there was no terminus running any longer. I hoped that if I killed X then that I would at least get a CLI and be able to restart x from there. Unfortunately, the otherwise useful and nice top app is crap when you need to see what processes are not listed within your visable window - it wont scroll or page down so I could see what other processes might be ripe for killing and getting my system back. I ended up killing X from within top since it was the only relevant process that displayed and gave me a process number. Oops. Killing X REALLY wasted the system. I had to hard reboot it since it immediately quite responding to my ssh connection and wouldn't accept any more connections. Next time this happens and I am able to connect my laptop, what would be the best option in attempting to get X back? What command should I send to restart X/attempt to restart X? praedor
Re: [expert] upgrading linux box
On Sunday 01 July 2001 14:42, you wrote: configuration, I would like to ask you your opinion about it. The 2 motherboards I am thinking of are: Gigabyte GA-7ZXR and ASUS A7V133. So, both of them have IDE ports. Is there any problem with linux detecting this configuration? I meant 4 IDE ports... Sorry. I have an Abit KT7 with a Thunderbird 1.2Ghz, it's a great combination, i'm very happy with both. IMHO that the Abit is better than the Asus, i've seen both, and the Abit is a more complete product, you have an extra pci slot and a isa slot, it's very stable (the most important thing in a board) and quite fast. Mandrake works out of the box with the Abit and the Asus, i don't know about Gigabyte. Thanks in advance! -- Francisco Castanheiro EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: go.to/cdtracker Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger
[expert] rpm --rebuild is not working
Hallo! I'm running rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm and what i get is the same output as if it is run without parameters... I'm running MDK8 and rpm is version 4.0-29 Thanks!! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???
The mailing list software should really not pass on to the list messages that begin with out of office. It just needs to be configured that way. -- Stephen On Sunday 01 July 2001 01:47 am, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: What gives is that someone on the list (Wehling, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is out of office and let an automatic answer in his mailbox...
Re: [expert] iptables support
Did you install the iptables rpm ? -- Stephen On Saturday 30 June 2001 03:47 pm, Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: Hi, I am using LM 8, trying to configure firewall thro Linuxconf. I get an error kernel doses not support firewallling, something to that effect. Does the stock kernel with LM 8 come with firewall support. I think linuconf is using iptables. Also it cannot find ip_masq, ip_ftp modules. Sridhar
Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?
Praedor Tempus wrote: otherwise useful and nice top app is crap when you need to see what processes are not listed within your visable window - it wont scroll or page down so I could see what other processes might be ripe for killing and Try: top q c b n 1 | less No idea on X in a game scenario. HTH, Pierre
Re: [expert] Tape Backup
backup in order to re-instate my old system from tape. I would always backup the directories /root and /home, but if I restored say /usr, would I have all my old programs again...this is what I would like, but is this correct. Yeah, unless something went wrong, you'd have the old stuff still there. You'd at a minimum want to backup /home, /etc, /usr/local and other places where you'd typically make changes after the system is installed (a reinstall shouldn't touch /home or anything under /usr/local, but it certainly might put system defaults into /etc.) If any of you are using tape drives...what systems do you use. I've had a 2gb (not a whole lot for today's standards) 4mm DAT tape for a few years. During the time I've used it, I've tried a few different methods. I gave BRU and Arkeia a spin, thought they were pretty good. I tried Perfect Backup, which is pretty much a look feel clone of the old DOS Fastback Plus program (which is what I used to use when I had Windows). Unfortunately, I couldn't get the dmn thing to restore, so out it went. I've pretty much settled on tar and/or dump. Tar is pretty much the easier of the two, but dump isn't all too difficult either. The one important thing is that your data should be easily restorable. For most (especially X-based) backup systems, that means nearly a complete reinstall of the system plus the backup software, whilst tar/dump/restore can be put on a rescue floppy. I am using tar at the moment...is this the best choice? I can retrieve single files this way, but is there alternatives? Yes, but slowly. It's ok for select directories but if you are trying to resture a single file you might have to slog through the tape to get to it. Some of the alternative ones have waysto speed this process up: they can put index files on the tape, for instance. restore (the companion to dump) has a neat interactive shell where you can see what's on the tape, change directories, etc. The tape unit size is 14Gig, but this is with compression of 2:1, how do I get this compression, do I have to tar -zcvf for example. Is this a bad idea though? The drive might have a jumper you can set to enable compression - at least IIRC there's one on my HP DAT. But I would advise against compressing the whole stream, since a bit error in the middle can make the rest unusable. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[expert] tar question
Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ] PGP signature
[expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv
HELP!, ok, heres the details: lsmod results. msp340013904 0 (unused) tuner 4624 0 (unused) bttv 57648 0 (unused) i2c-algo-bit7200 0 [bttv] i2c-core 12720 0 [msp3400 tuner bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev4704 0 [bttv] /var/log/messages info. - Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.65 loaded Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: Bt848 (rev 17) at 00:0c.0, irq: 10, latency: 64, memory: 0xebbfe000 Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: model: BT848(Hauppauge old) [insmod option] Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: IRQ 10 busy, change your PnP config in BIOS Jul 1 16:18:16 jrh6pc kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. Jul 1 16:18:26 jrh6pc kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c msp3400 driver registered. For info below: My card is a hauppauge 848 card with the phillips NTSC tuner modules.conf contents - alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv card=2 tuner=2 options tuner debug=1 type=2 v4l-info output - When running v4l-conf, the following messages come through. v4l-conf v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0 dga: version 2.0 mode: 1280x1024, depth=16, bpp=16, bpl=2560, base=0xe0041000 can't open /dev/video: No such device ls -l /dev/video* ls -l /dev/video* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Apr 21 18:04 /dev/video - video0 crw-rw-rw-1 jrh sys 81, 0 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video0 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 1 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video1 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 2 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video2 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 3 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video3 Help! All the modules appear to be installed yet.. the device is not reacting.. ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv
JR, are you using Mandrake 8.0?, with MDK 8.0 I can't get the xawtv run, just a blue windows; I installed the rpm comming with MDK 7.2 and runs fine; perhaps is that your problem. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
Re: [expert] tar question
Its a limitation of most current filesystems including ext2fs and reiserfs to do with handing 32 bit instructions within the code. Pipe the output of smbtar through split with the appropriate arguments to create a multivolume archive. BillK On 01 Jul 2001 13:38:02 -0700, Julia A. Case wrote: Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ]
Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild is not working
And also, once that is done, try rpm -ivh file.src.rpm well, why I dont have to do that, I usually rpm --rebuild source.rpm ; it will extract soucre, run configure or whatever , make it and buil rpm binary package put it in /usr/src/RPM/.; I only run rpm -ivh for the newly built package then. May be it is needed to install the rpm-build package then rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm Civileme = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?
Since you have network and don't want to reboot the system with webmin, do a telnet to your locked system and kill the processes that are running under X... since you probably know the application that caused the lock, kill that app first... orlando Praedor S. Tempus wrote: Thank you, I forget I have that app. I will try it next time. I suppose that since no one has offered a suggestion, that I really am left with having to reboot the system rather than restarting X? Having to reboot the system leaves a bad taste in my mouth - that is one of the reasons I left (and enjoy not using) windoze anymore. On Sunday 01 July 2001 04:49 pm, civileme wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 11:01, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 with kernel-2.4.4-6mdk, glibc-2.2.3, XFree86-4.1.0, and DRI-CVS. My system is an Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 32MB and OpenGL is working well - for the most part. I periodically run into a very windows-ish problem when I play opengl games. If they crash (Terminus is particularly bad at this), they often take my system with them, for all practical purposes. Just a few moments ago, Terminus crashed on me (again). When it does this, the screen goes black and my system no longer accepts keyboard input or mouse input. I usually have to hard reboot at [...] Well your laptop should also be able to connect https://(ip address of your machine):1 login is root and pw is root pw. And from webmin you can force a peaceful reboot. Civileme .
Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?
On Sunday 01 July 2001 06:27 pm, you methodically organized electrons to state: Thank you, I forget I have that app. I will try it next time. I suppose that since no one has offered a suggestion, that I really am left with having to reboot the system rather than restarting X? Having to reboot the system leaves a bad taste in my mouth - that is one of the reasons I left (and enjoy not using) windoze anymore. That's an ugly truth about Linux. There are some misbehaving apps. Sometimes it takes Ctrl-Alt-SysReq-B to reboot. Hoyt
Re: [expert] tar question
Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for. ] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ] This is *not* a limitation of the filesystem. Greater than 2gig files are allowed when glibc is compiled against 2.4.x headers. This does not mean that everything will support greater than 2 gig. Samba and the gnome filemanager to name two.(in the 2.2.x era distros). I believe that all of the distros that ship with the 2.4.x kernel now support greater than 2 gig across the board. . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Michael Osten // \ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (| | ) Reefedge Inc. /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/
Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv
Hi, Have to go shortly so I can't take the time to look up things. I recall that in order to get the bttv chip working, you need to pass the module some parameters. The readme in the documentation subdir of the kernel sources is kind of handy. On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 07:52 AM, JR Lefty wrote: HELP!, ok, heres the details: lsmod results. msp340013904 0 (unused) tuner 4624 0 (unused) bttv 57648 0 (unused) i2c-algo-bit7200 0 [bttv] i2c-core 12720 0 [msp3400 tuner bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev4704 0 [bttv] /var/log/messages info. - Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.65 loaded Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: Bt848 (rev 17) at 00:0c.0, irq: 10, latency: 64, memory: 0xebbfe000 Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: model: BT848(Hauppauge old) [insmod option] Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: IRQ 10 busy, change your PnP config in BIOS Jul 1 16:18:16 jrh6pc kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. Jul 1 16:18:26 jrh6pc kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c msp3400 driver registered. For info below: My card is a hauppauge 848 card with the phillips NTSC tuner modules.conf contents - alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv card=2 tuner=2 options tuner debug=1 type=2 v4l-info output - When running v4l-conf, the following messages come through. v4l-conf v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0 dga: version 2.0 mode: 1280x1024, depth=16, bpp=16, bpl=2560, base=0xe0041000 can't open /dev/video: No such device ls -l /dev/video* ls -l /dev/video* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Apr 21 18:04 /dev/video - video0 crw-rw-rw-1 jrh sys 81, 0 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video0 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 1 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video1 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 2 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video2 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 3 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video3 Help! All the modules appear to be installed yet.. the device is not reacting.. ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
Re: [expert] Boot hangs with Super-IO Detection
All good questions. :-) I'm having the same thing happen to me while detecting Winbond chipset. I have an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard with an Intel 233Mhz CPU and I'm not sure why it's probing for a Winbond something or other. :-( If you find out the answers privately please let me know. ...Dave On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 17:46:10 -0400, Hoyt wrote: Once again this has happened to me. It's very frustrating. I have found no useful assistance by searching the archives. The computer hangs during boot at the Super-IO detection phase. What causes this? How do I fix it? Can I avoid it in the future? Hoyt
Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:20:23 +1000, Nathan Callahan wrote: Hi, Have to go shortly so I can't take the time to look up things. I recall that in order to get the bttv chip working, you need to pass the module some parameters. The readme in the documentation subdir of the kernel sources is kind of handy. Been there, and put the module options for bttv and tuner required into modules.conf as shown below. Thank you! Jay - On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 07:52 AM, JR Lefty wrote: HELP!, ok, heres the details: lsmod results. msp340013904 0 (unused) tuner 4624 0 (unused) bttv 57648 0 (unused) i2c-algo-bit7200 0 [bttv] i2c-core 12720 0 [msp3400 tuner bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev4704 0 [bttv] /var/log/messages info. - Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.65 loaded Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: Bt848 (rev 17) at 00:0c.0, irq: 10, latency: 64, memory: 0xebbfe000 Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: model: BT848(Hauppauge old) [insmod option] Jul 1 16:18:11 jrh6pc kernel: bttv0: IRQ 10 busy, change your PnP config in BIOS Jul 1 16:18:16 jrh6pc kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. Jul 1 16:18:26 jrh6pc kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c msp3400 driver registered. For info below: My card is a hauppauge 848 card with the phillips NTSC tuner modules.conf contents - alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv card=2 tuner=2 options tuner debug=1 type=2 v4l-info output - When running v4l-conf, the following messages come through. v4l-conf v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0 dga: version 2.0 mode: 1280x1024, depth=16, bpp=16, bpl=2560, base=0xe0041000 can't open /dev/video: No such device ls -l /dev/video* ls -l /dev/video* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Apr 21 18:04 /dev/video - video0 crw-rw-rw-1 jrh sys 81, 0 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video0 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 1 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video1 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 2 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video2 crw---1 jrh sys 81, 3 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/video3 Help! All the modules appear to be installed yet.. the device is not reacting.. ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ I am Popeye of BORG! You will be Askimiligrated!! ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
[expert] ppp help needed
I wrote up a chat script and fired it up. The logfile below shows that I got connected, but I can't ping anything. I don't seem to be able to pick up my /etc/resolv.conf file. What am I missing? What should I look for? Jul 1 19:40:10 bigdaddy kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1 Jul 1 19:40:10 bigdaddy pppd[1559]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: abort on (BUSY) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: abort on (VOICE) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: timeout set to 5 seconds Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: send (ATZ^M) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: expect (OK) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: ATZ^M^M Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: OK Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: -- got it Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: send (ATM0^M) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: expect (OK) Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: ^M Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: ATM0^M^M Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: OK Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: -- got it Jul 1 19:40:11 bigdaddy chat[1561]: send (ATDT111222^M) Jul 1 19:40:12 bigdaddy chat[1561]: timeout set to 40 seconds Jul 1 19:40:12 bigdaddy chat[1561]: expect (CONNECT) Jul 1 19:40:12 bigdaddy chat[1561]: ^M Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy chat[1561]: ATDT7242066100^M^M Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy chat[1561]: CONNECT Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy chat[1561]: -- got it Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy chat[1561]: send (TIMEOUT^M) Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy chat[1561]: expect (5) Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy chat[1561]: 115 Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy chat[1561]: -- got it Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy pppd[1559]: Serial connection established. Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy pppd[1559]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 1 19:40:40 bigdaddy pppd[1559]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Jul 1 19:40:50 bigdaddy pppd[1559]: Remote message: Login Succeeded Jul 1 19:40:50 bigdaddy kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered Jul 1 19:40:51 bigdaddy kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered Jul 1 19:40:51 bigdaddy pppd[1559]: local IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Jul 1 19:40:51 bigdaddy pppd[1559]: remote IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Jul 1 19:40:51 bigdaddy pppd[1559]: primary DNS address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- -=[cwa]=- Mandrake Linux 8.0
Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???
One filter at a time! This problem can only be solved at the user setting up the out of office reply. Their SW should check the 'Precedence:' header and not reply to bulk, list, etc. If their MUA can't do this then change it.
Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv
I have the same card, and here is my entries in /etc/modules.conf btw, I dont use xawtv, but I looked at it. seems to me it needed an extra module loaded. Reread the INSTALL doc that came with the source. Or use zapping, http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ # i2c alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options i2c-core i2c_debug=1 options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 # bttv-tv_tuner alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv card=2 radio=1 options tuner type=2 debug=1 . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Michael Osten // \ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (| | ) Reefedge Inc. /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/
Re: [expert] Supermount not supermounting?
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:39, Oscar wrote: I had the same problem. Here is my fix: My original fstab (CDROM and FLOPPY lines only) after upgrading: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 With this configuration I had the same problem as you. I writed to this list and Steve Kieu wrote: I would suggest you check the /etc/fstab ; may be some *stupid* :-) configuration tool modify it and it is not right. But the lines he writes don't work, but gives me an idea: I done this sequence: - supermount -i disable - supermount -i enable And with some minor changes I had a correct lines in fstab for cdrom and floppy (but incorrect for windows partitions, but, hey, I solved it with my backup copy of fstab :-) And now, the correct lines for cdrom and floppy (in my system): /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermountfs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Salu2 Oscar. -- El Dom 01 Jul 2001 16:05, escribiste: Thanks I've noticed the problem goes away when I use the 'old' mdk 8.0 kernel (2.4.3-20mdk) and using the old kernel actually fixes some iptables problems I'm having (as well as a usb crash) so I think I'll stick with that Andrew
Re: [expert] Boot hangs with Super-IO Detection
On Sunday 01 July 2001 07:32 pm, you methodically organized electrons to state: All good questions. :-) I'm having the same thing happen to me while detecting Winbond chipset. I have an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard with an Intel 233Mhz CPU and I'm not sure why it's probing for a Winbond something or other. :-( ...Dave If someone posts an answer or I find the answer somewhere else, I will post it to this list in a way that it can easily be found by others in the archives. 8) My hardware, should it matter: ASUS P5A-B mobo, AMD K6-2-550. Hoyt
Re: [expert] IPTABLES
Thanks, it worked, I was using the wrong chain, for the job. On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote: Orlando Reis wrote: Hi , I was wondering if someone has used iptables, i'm a having a problem filtering a IP adress, it's a proxy server, but I want the user's at my network to use another one, that's why I filtered it. I'm using one off the following comand lines, do the job: $IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d proxy1/32 -p ALL -j DROP $IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d proxy1/32 -p tcp --dport 2233 -j DROP Try to use the PREROUTING chain... =o) But the client browsers still pass, and I have no ideas what so ever, to what problem is. Can someone give me hand on this? Orlando Reis -- Orlando Reis --
Re: [expert] How do change the default WM in MDK8?
Uninstall gdm or kdm, change your runlevel to 3 (i.e. change your /etc/inittab file for runlevel 3), and create a .xinitrc file with exec twm in it. -- Stephen On Saturday 30 June 2001 04:13 am, George Abdo wrote: Hello all, In Mandrake 7, I edited my own .xinitrc to start twm (yes, the bare minimum). However, in MDK 8, I don't know where to do it. Does anyone know where I can find the config file? I want to start X usig startx not using kdm/gdm. Thanks George
Re: [expert] upgrading linux box
El Dom 01 Jul 2001 15:25, Jesus Roncero se atrevió a decir: Hi, I am about to upgrade my computer to a K7, probably at 1GHz. I have 2 motherboards in mind and, as this is a very important key in a PC configuration, I would like to ask you your opinion about it. The 2 motherboards I am thinking of are: Gigabyte GA-7ZXR and ASUS A7V133. So, both of them have IDE ports. Is there any problem with linux detecting this configuration? I meant 4 IDE ports... Sorry. Thanks in advance! -- Para ver la parte oculta del mensaje, pulsa ALTF4
Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?
Thank you, I forget I have that app. I will try it next time. I suppose that since no one has offered a suggestion, that I really am left with having to reboot the system rather than restarting X? Having to reboot the system leaves a bad taste in my mouth - that is one of the reasons I left (and enjoy not using) windoze anymore. On Sunday 01 July 2001 04:49 pm, civileme wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 11:01, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 with kernel-2.4.4-6mdk, glibc-2.2.3, XFree86-4.1.0, and DRI-CVS. My system is an Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 32MB and OpenGL is working well - for the most part. I periodically run into a very windows-ish problem when I play opengl games. If they crash (Terminus is particularly bad at this), they often take my system with them, for all practical purposes. Just a few moments ago, Terminus crashed on me (again). When it does this, the screen goes black and my system no longer accepts keyboard input or mouse input. I usually have to hard reboot at [...] Well your laptop should also be able to connect https://(ip address of your machine):1 login is root and pw is root pw. And from webmin you can force a peaceful reboot. Civileme
Re: [expert] tar question
On 01 Jul 2001 13:38:02 -0700, Julia A. Case wrote: Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with Sorry not to mention about your topic but it comes to my attention that you are using jfs, just from my own experience with jfs, you should stay away with this for now if you want to protect your dada. I test it one time, and when the computer hang ( as I test the latest kernel ) I have to power off, but when it gets back it can not repair the root partition. First check fsck long time, then inform me that the partition is totally damaged. SO what is the point of Journalling here? believe me, jfs is not stable at all. It is ironically that I had just post an email about its performance (it seems a bit better that Reiserfs in my comp.) If you want you can test XFS, I am using it now, and try to crash it several times, Good!; performance is a bit better than reiserfs (=jfs) but very fast recovering and quite stable. = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???
It's not that simple... Each person has a way to leave an auto-reply... and that list has users from all over the world, and I doubt that these people use messages in English, if they aren't from a English speaking country... So, how do you filter this??? orlando Stephen Boulet wrote: The mailing list software should really not pass on to the list messages that begin with out of office. It just needs to be configured that way. -- Stephen On Sunday 01 July 2001 01:47 am, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: What gives is that someone on the list (Wehling, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is out of office and let an automatic answer in his mailbox... .
Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild is not working
On Sunday 01 July 2001 23:18, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'm running rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm and what i get is the same output as if it is run without parameters... I'm running MDK8 and rpm is version 4.0-29 Thanks!! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 rpm --rebuilddb first. That is one of the symptoms of a corrupted database. Civileme
Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 00:28:00 +0200, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: JR, are you using Mandrake 8.0?, with MDK 8.0 I can't get the xawtv run, just a blue windows; I installed the rpm comming with MDK 7.2 and runs fine; perhaps is that your problem. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Yes, I am using Mandrake 8. I just now tried what you suggested.. I uninstalled xawtv as it comes with 8.0 and installed the version that comes with 7.2. Still have same problem. It can't open /dev/video... Thanks for suggestion! Ready for another! Jay ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???
One filter at a time! Randy Kramer jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: It's not that simple... Each person has a way to leave an auto-reply... and that list has users from all over the world, and I doubt that these people use messages in English, if they aren't from a English speaking country... So, how do you filter this??? orlando Stephen Boulet wrote: The mailing list software should really not pass on to the list messages that begin with out of office. It just needs to be configured that way. -- Stephen On Sunday 01 July 2001 01:47 am, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: What gives is that someone on the list (Wehling, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is out of office and let an automatic answer in his mailbox... .
Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild is not working
On Sunday 01 July 2001 23:18, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'm running rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm and what i get is the same output as if it is run without parameters... I'm running MDK8 and rpm is version 4.0-29 Thanks!! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 And also, once that is done, try rpm -ivh file.src.rpm then rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm Civileme
Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?
On Sunday 01 July 2001 11:01, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 with kernel-2.4.4-6mdk, glibc-2.2.3, XFree86-4.1.0, and DRI-CVS. My system is an Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 32MB and OpenGL is working well - for the most part. I periodically run into a very windows-ish problem when I play opengl games. If they crash (Terminus is particularly bad at this), they often take my system with them, for all practical purposes. Just a few moments ago, Terminus crashed on me (again). When it does this, the screen goes black and my system no longer accepts keyboard input or mouse input. I usually have to hard reboot at this point (VERY windows-ish) but this time round I had my laptop handy and was able to ssh into my locked up system. Once there, I had no idea what to do to get my system up and responsive to keyboard and mouse again - and get X back. I tried killall terminus thinking that terminus might be clogging the system but there was no terminus running any longer. I hoped that if I killed X then that I would at least get a CLI and be able to restart x from there. Unfortunately, the otherwise useful and nice top app is crap when you need to see what processes are not listed within your visable window - it wont scroll or page down so I could see what other processes might be ripe for killing and getting my system back. I ended up killing X from within top since it was the only relevant process that displayed and gave me a process number. Oops. Killing X REALLY wasted the system. I had to hard reboot it since it immediately quite responding to my ssh connection and wouldn't accept any more connections. Next time this happens and I am able to connect my laptop, what would be the best option in attempting to get X back? What command should I send to restart X/attempt to restart X? praedor Well your laptop should also be able to connect https://(ip address of your machine):1 login is root and pw is root pw. And from webmin you can force a peaceful reboot. Civileme
[expert] Boot hangs with Super-IO Detection
Once again this has happened to me. It's very frustrating. I have found no useful assistance by searching the archives. The computer hangs during boot at the Super-IO detection phase. What causes this? How do I fix it? Can I avoid it in the future? Hoyt
