Re: [expert-it] sis 630 su notebook
At 16.31 06/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: Alle 15:32, giovedì 6 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: Salve a tutta la ML, ho il seguente problema: ho comperato un portatile (non marcato) con chipset Sis 630 (perfettamente riconosciuto) ed LCD 14,1 TFT. Ebbene quando devo selezionare il monitor non riesco a trovare la sezione generic LCD (o qualcosa del genere...). Inizialmente ho provato a selezionare un monitor standard ma durante la prova di X l'LCD diventa un arcobaleno e l'unico modo per schiodare il portatile è riavviare... Non ci vedo bene o la lista è incompleta? Qualcuno sa darmi una mano? Grazie. Valerio Dai un'occhiata qui: http://www.maniac.nl/linuxlaptop.html Ciao Luca. Grazie Valerio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal --help cal: invalid option -- - usage: cal [-mjyV] [[month] year] [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal -m December 2001 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Hi, | | The default condition for the cal program used to | be with Sunday on the left. Now I noticed that with | 8.1, Monday is on the left. Previously, one could get | Monday on the left by using a flag, is there a similar | flag for the new standard? BTW, why did it change? | Please advise; thanks. | | Best Regards, | Chris Haidinyak | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 12:55PM up 49 days, 1:35, 5 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.06, 0.01 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] motherboards
Looks like everybody has joined the 'bandwagon!' AMD is the way to go. They do as much, if not more then lower end P4s. They're also, in some cases 40% of the price. (Depending on speed of course!) I mean I bought 1.2 Ghz Athlon for like $120 I believe. That's with 266 FSB as well. I just did a check on a local computer store's prices, that's now down to $105. Stay from onboard anything really. Unless it's on board ATI, and you don't need a really good graphics card, or on board 3Com. Even with the onboard 3Com NIC, you can run into problems. Onboard sound is always horrible. Most people do infact need to rely on MAGIC to get those onboard chips to work. I can't remember the model number to my motherboard, but it has an onboard IDE controller and it works very well. Though I know some people on the list have slammed it. I think it's the K7133-something. Works very well. With combined parts, I built a 1.2 Athlon, 512 RAM, 50 GB, dual NIC, 52x CD-ROM for right around $500. For the processor and 512 RAMBUS RAM, you will have spent about that I believe. (I already had one NIC, and one HDD I believe.) I would suggest going DDR. Real cheap, and performing very well! I think we'll move towards that, instead of RAMBUS like M$ and Intel seem to want us to. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I'm shopping for a motherboard and CPU. At least a Pentium III and maybe | I'll spend the bucks for a Pentium 4. I'll consider AMD also. Any | recommendations? The more PCI slots, the better. But, I want a board | that's 100% Linux compatible - I don't to spend a couple of months trying | to make stuff work. | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 11:14AM up 48 days, 23:53, 5 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] header filtering with Postfix
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 05:34, Mark Weaver wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:43:59 -0500 I'm currently experiementing with header filtering with postfix and I was wondering about something. the regex for doing this goes roughly something like this: /^HEADER_NAME: stuff you don't want/ REJECT Pierre, thank you for the response and the info. below is an example of one of the header_check rules in my header_check postfix file. below that is what posfix is writing in /var/log/syslog. what is it telling me? /^Received: from system.ssu.ac.kr/ REJECT Dec 12 13:29:51 mdw1982 postfix/cleanup[17410]: warning: /etc/postfix/hdr_chk_spamcontrol, line 93: unknown regexp option 'R' Dec 12 13:29:51 mdw1982 postfix/cleanup[17410]: warning: /etc/postfix/hdr_chk_spamcontrol, line 93: unknown regexp option 'E' Dec 12 13:29:51 mdw1982 postfix/cleanup[17410]: warning: /etc/postfix/hdr_chk_spamcontrol, line 93: unknown regexp option 'J' Dec 12 13:29:51 mdw1982 postfix/cleanup[17410]: warning: /etc/postfix/hdr_chk_spamcontrol, line 93: unknown regexp option 'E' Dec 12 13:29:51 mdw1982 postfix/cleanup[17410]: warning: /etc/postfix/hdr_chk_spamcontrol, line 93: unknown regexp option 'C' Dec 12 13:29:51 mdw1982 postfix/cleanup[17410]: warning: /etc/postfix/hdr_chk_spamcontrol, line 93: unknown regexp option 'T' Just based on what you've posted above as an example, shouldn't the regexp be enclosed in ? It seems to be assuming that REJECT is part of the regexp. t -- PGP key : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kapm-idled consuming all cpu
El mié, 12-12-2001 a las 23:47, Bill Kenworthy escribió: Also on a laptop is supposed to create power savings and reduced heat output from the cpu. Anyone know where the docs are for this? man kapm-idled produces nothing - easy to find documenmtation on the system via man, info etc is getting worse as Linux grows up! The docs are in the kernel documentation. I don't know the file name where this documentation is, but you can see it if you run make xconfig, go to General Setup and press the Help button of the option Make CPU idle calls when idle Salu2 óscar. -- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Usuario // \ \ de Linux (| | ) Registrado /'\_ _/`\ #227443 \___)=(___/ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!
BTW: The @ sign while permitted in the Workgroup Field, is reserved and causes problems for Netbios Samba for reasons I will not go into here, spaces and certain other characters are also no-no's. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert Boggs Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!! I have access to all my windows servers, however, they cannot see me. I have my netbios set as Robert in SWAT. The group name is set to @BOGGS. I just cannot figure what I'm doing wrong. I went in and changed the settings this list told me to, so I am lost. The two windows machines cannot se me. I see them and all their shared drives fine. I can even play MP#'s from them, GOOD GRIEF, what to do? RB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SCSI-emulation
If cdrecord doesnt work try it as root as this prog isnt available to non root as standard. Change its group to cdwriter and add yourself to cdwriter group to be able to use it from your standard user. si -Original Message- From: skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:03:47 -0400 (AST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SCSI-emulation On 12 Dec 2001, Oscar wrote: El mié, 12-12-2001 a las 10:13, Marek escribió: Hi Guys I am battling to get my cd-rw to read music disks and burn, how do i enable SCSI-emulation ? Cheers Marek 1. If the cdrw is in /dev/hdb, add hdb=ide-scsi to the append= line in lilo.conf. 2. Be sure this entry is in /etc/modules.conf: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi 3. Reboot. Salu2 óscar. You will need scsi emulation enabled or as a module in the kernel as well. Also the syntax to append in lilo.conf is append= hdb=ide-scsi. SCSI emulation is usually compiled as a Module in the stock mdk kernel anyhow, if thats what u are using. Then do cdrecord -scanbus to see if your drive is recognized as SCSI. If it is yer set. -- .-. .-. oo| Give Microsoft The Bird oo| /`'\ Use Linux!!!/`'\ (\_;/)(\_;/) - Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. --- Linus Torvalds Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org -- ___ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJurl=http://www.getpennytalk.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Strange ES1370 sound problem
Hello All, This problem has only occurred still MDK 8.1 was installed a couple of months ago and is something I have been able to live with until now. When my system is first started /dev/dsp does not exist and if I try to run kmix a message is displayed that says something like invalid es1370 sound card. Also the sound level is very low. I can overcome this problem by running the sound configure tool from Harddrake. Sometimes this also fails because sox can't play the configure sound message because /dev/dsp does not exist. Pressing the configure again usually gets the configuration under way if Harddrake doesn't lock-up. Stuffing around like this everytime I want to use /dev/dsp is very annoying. Can anyone offer a suggestion for a cure? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!
Windows logs into Samba utilizing the USERNAME and PASSWORD you enter when Windows first comes up. You must FIRST create Linux user accounts on your machine, using the same naming. Then use smbpasswd -a USERNAME for EACH Linux Account. Also make sure that SAMBA and your Windows machines are members of the same workgroup, (assuming you are not using Domains)... E.G. the spelling must be the same all CAPS for safety. Restart samba service smb restart Then try the logins locally on your Linux box... smbclient -L LINUX_BOX_NETBIOS_NAME -U WINDOWS_USER Where LINUX_BOX_NETBIOS_NAME is the Netbios name you gave your Samba server in /etc/smb.conf and WINDOWS_USER, is the LOGIN NAME you use AT YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE! Samba should ask for a password. Give it the same password you use at your windows machine. If this works, reboot Windows and map to the Samba shares. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert Boggs Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!! Could it be possible that I have something set up wrong in windows. Or maybe I need to name all my users on @BOGGS in some place. The HOMES section seems to give permission to get in. All my Hard drives are identified. It seems the windows machines just cannot see them. HELP! RB - Original Message - From: Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!! I have access to all my windows servers, however, they cannot see me. I have my netbios set as Robert in SWAT. The group name is set to @BOGGS. I just cannot figure what I'm doing wrong. I went in and changed the settings this list told me to, so I am lost. The two windows machines cannot se me. I see them and all their shared drives fine. I can even play MP#'s from them, GOOD GRIEF, what to do? RB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] motherboards [OT]
Tim: Mandrake Forum ran a poll last week that showed that about 60% of those responding use some kind of AMD CPU; only about 35% use Intel (Macs and others accounted for the rest). Evidently Linuxers aren't impressed by those little blue critters in the Intel TV ads. -- cmg On Wednesday 12 December 2001 11:22 am, Tim Holmes wrote: Looks like everybody has joined the 'bandwagon!' AMD is the way to go. They do as much, if not more then lower end P4s. They're also, in some cases 40% of the price. (Depending on speed of course!) I mean I bought 1.2 Ghz Athlon for like $120 I believe. That's with 266 FSB as well. I just did a check on a local computer store's prices, that's now down to $105. snip I would suggest going DDR. Real cheap, and performing very well! I think we'll move towards that, instead of RAMBUS like M$ and Intel seem to want us to. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I'm shopping for a motherboard and CPU. At least a Pentium III and maybe | I'll spend the bucks for a Pentium 4. I'll consider AMD also. Any | recommendations? The more PCI slots, the better. But, I want a board | that's 100% Linux compatible - I don't to spend a couple of months | trying to make stuff work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
Hi all, It seems people are talking about TV cards reception here. Maybe someone can help me with my problem. I am having a problem with reception of only Channel 14. The picture and sound are very fuzzy only on my computer, it's fine with the TV in the living room. I think it is a hardware problem, any idea? Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard Wenninger Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations You should make sure all your outlets are properly grounded... via that third prong. hold the tv cable, with it disconnected from your pc... and touch the metal part of the pc case... see if you get a little tingly... it may be that your're getting voltage bleeding in/out through your cable line, and it may not be enough to notice by touch. I have this same problem, and I CAN tell by touch. It makes for a very noisy picture. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 12:40 am, you wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:58, Ed Tharp wrote: Almoxt any brooktree848 based card should work good, my cheap winTV card works great for mem and does good video capture to. I believe the difference would be to have the PCI based card (as opposed to the USB). Does anyone who has a WinTV card have any secrets to share about how they cleaned up the picture? My card was recognized, and i am able to display video through it, but, the picture is distorted with line noise. The display is crawling with video worms. I can drive a TV set directly off the same coax and get a perfectly beautiful picture but when i display the signal through my WinTV card it looks really sloppy. I have tried iron torroids on the coax as well as replacing my standard coax with shielded, low noise coax, nothing seems to help. I am guessing that the WinTV card is picking up RF from inside my box but I would have thought that Hauppauge would have planned on that. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Traci _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange ES1370 sound problem
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Phil wrote: Hello All, This problem has only occurred still MDK 8.1 was installed a couple of months ago and is something I have been able to live with until now. When my system is first started /dev/dsp does not exist and if I try to run kmix a message is displayed that says something like invalid es1370 sound card. Also the sound level is very low. I can overcome this problem by running the sound configure tool from Harddrake. Sometimes this also fails because sox can't play the configure sound message because /dev/dsp does not exist. Pressing the configure again usually gets the configuration under way if Harddrake doesn't lock-up. Stuffing around like this everytime I want to use /dev/dsp is very annoying. Can anyone offer a suggestion for a cure? I can [sy|e]mpathize... This link shows my problems with ES1371 and includes a small script to overcome the problem. http://pfortin.com/Linux/LM8.1sound/ HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What can Mandrake KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface?
Hello I would like to pose a question, what can KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface? I am interested to know if the KDE developers have looked at OS X and other interfaces for ideas? After using OS X in a shop there are some nice features, when you are logged in for instance browse to the home dir and my user dir will show up with a house over the icon. Its little touches like this that impress some people and make it simpler to use for newbies. There are other nice features as well, i think it would be worth a look, Linux Format UK gave a very good review of BSD/OS X several months ago! Mandrake could you change the software manager application, now when you have finished installing/upgrading it says Quit that's a little abrupt, how about Finish Also when loading it puts a popup box title Input, that is not very informative, the text says In order to run rpmdrake with root's privileges, additional information is required that is a little ambiguous. How about 'Enter root password to run rpmdrake' ? that is better i think.. Anyway, just ideas, i know lots of effort is going into this already all the time. JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] telnets on port 992
Hi, I just ran nmap on my machine and it shows 'telnets' listening on port 992. Of course, telnet is disabled and there is no trace of telnetd or whatever running when doing ps -ef. Any idea what this could be ? Thanks, Thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] fun with vi. search command
The first ones, then when you hit n the next sequence and so on. This is, of course, dependent on the position of your cursor. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 23:23, Nguyen H.Vu wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:24:16 +0900 Nguyen H.Vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nguyen, thanks for the quickie lesson on pattern search with VI. I hadn't known how to do that before, but I completely missed the point. what was it? I don't know if it is a bug or I have used bad partten for searching. For example, when I type / to seach iii in a file that contains a lot of i's, which iii would matches? the first one, the second one or the last one? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MPlayer
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 16:49, Tom Brinkman wrote: best solution (I've tried both) is GC's rpm's for mplayer http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ -- Tom Brinkman _ South Texas, USA_ Do you mean that you not only want a wrong answer, but a certain wrong answer? -- Tobaben hmmm... I'll have to take a look. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
re:earlier comments on TV cards the ideal PC for using a tv card would be an old 286 machine, with nice slow clocks so the harmonmic content is limited to less than 100 MHz, catch 22 is that you need a fast graphics card which needs fast clocks. you could'nt put a tv receiver in a worse EMC envoironment if you tried !!! With any EMC problem you need to indentify the source. try removing all the cards that the PC dosn't need to run, and find the quietest slot on the motherboard for the TV card. bond any metal casing on the TV card to the metal casing on the PC, there's some nice copper adhesive tape made for doing this. Try changing the clock speeds in the bios, or jumper on the board, so that any clock harmonics dont coincide with the TV signal frequency. if and when you get acceptable pictures you can then put back the other cards one at a time, and change the slots they are in if need be. But why watch tv on the pc when there's another in the same room cya richard -Original Message- From: Robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations Hi all, It seems people are talking about TV cards reception here. Maybe someone can help me with my problem. I am having a problem with reception of only Channel 14. The picture and sound are very fuzzy only on my computer, it's fine with the TV in the living room. I think it is a hardware problem, any idea? Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard Wenninger Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations You should make sure all your outlets are properly grounded... via that third prong. hold the tv cable, with it disconnected from your pc... and touch the metal part of the pc case... see if you get a little tingly... it may be that your're getting voltage bleeding in/out through your cable line, and it may not be enough to notice by touch. I have this same problem, and I CAN tell by touch. It makes for a very noisy picture. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 12:40 am, you wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:58, Ed Tharp wrote: Almoxt any brooktree848 based card should work good, my cheap winTV card works great for mem and does good video capture to. I believe the difference would be to have the PCI based card (as opposed to the USB). Does anyone who has a WinTV card have any secrets to share about how they cleaned up the picture? My card was recognized, and i am able to display video through it, but, the picture is distorted with line noise. The display is crawling with video worms. I can drive a TV set directly off the same coax and get a perfectly beautiful picture but when i display the signal through my WinTV card it looks really sloppy. I have tried iron torroids on the coax as well as replacing my standard coax with shielded, low noise coax, nothing seems to help. I am guessing that the WinTV card is picking up RF from inside my box but I would have thought that Hauppauge would have planned on that. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Traci _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Andreas, Thanks for your suggestion, and yes its something I had tried. It still gives the same result, ie Monday on the left. Thats why I am convinced I want to have a look at the source, which is something I cant find. H H.McM wrote: I have been looking at this problem too, cause its something that bugs me as well. After looking at the man page for cal, I saw that start on Sunday is the default unless run with a -m option. Madrake seems to run with the -m option. I could however find no alias for cal='cal -m' on my system, or any other way of forcing it start on Sunday. So I decided to 'use the source Luke'. This then launched a whole heap of other problems. I found out that cal is part of the util-linux package, so I downloaded the util-linux src rpm. Only to find out that it only contains *patch* files. So now there is another burning question. All I want is cal.c, but where is it? Did you try to run \cal just in case there is an alias and you just didn't find it? Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:48:14 -0700 Andreas J. Guelzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas H.McM wrote: Andreas Andreas I have been looking at this problem too, cause its something that bugs me as well. Andreas Andreas After looking at the man page for cal, I saw that start on Sunday is the default unless run with a -m option. Madrake seems to run with the -m option. I could however find no alias for cal='cal -m' on my system, or any other way of forcing it start on Sunday. So I decided to 'use the source Luke'. Andreas Andreas This then launched a whole heap of other problems. I found out that cal is part of the util-linux package, so I downloaded the util-linux src rpm. Only to find out that it only contains *patch* files. Andreas Andreas So now there is another burning question. All I want is cal.c, but where is it? Andreas Andreas Andreas Andreas Did you try to run \cal just in case there is an alias and you just Andreas didn't find it? Andreas Andreas Andreas Andreas Andreas Andreas Andreas -- Andreas Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Andreas http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow Andreas Andreas I had util-linux-2.10s-3mdk installed on one system and it does the cal program correctly (you have a choice of starting day) while on another system util-linux-2.11h-3mdk did not. I downloaded and installed and it's working correctly again. -- Brian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Home Page: http://www.brimac.com/~brianmac Fine Photos: http://www.brimacphotography.com Art for Sale: http://www.artbrowser.com Classified Advertising: http://www.sellit2000.com A little ignorance can go a long way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
are you sure 'scantv .xawtv' found the right TV channels? On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:31:07PM -0800, Robin wrote: :Hi all, : :It seems people are talking about TV cards reception here. Maybe someone :can help me with my problem. I am having a problem with reception of :only Channel 14. The picture and sound are very fuzzy only on my :computer, it's fine with the TV in the living room. : :I think it is a hardware problem, any idea? : :Robin : :-Original Message- :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard Wenninger :Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:50 AM :To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations : : :You should make sure all your outlets are properly grounded... via that :third :prong. hold the tv cable, with it disconnected from your pc... and :touch the :metal part of the pc case... see if you get a little tingly... it may be :that :your're getting voltage bleeding in/out through your cable line, and it :may :not be enough to notice by touch. I have this same problem, and I CAN :tell :by touch. It makes for a very noisy picture. : :On Tuesday 11 December 2001 12:40 am, you wrote: : On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:58, Ed Tharp wrote: : Almoxt any brooktree848 based card should work good, my cheap winTV : card works great for mem and does good video capture to. I believe : the difference would be to have the PCI based card (as opposed to : the USB). : : Does anyone who has a WinTV card have any secrets to share about how : they cleaned up the picture? My card was recognized, and i am able to : display video through it, but, the picture is distorted with line : noise. The display is crawling with video worms. I can drive a TV set : directly off the same coax and get a perfectly beautiful picture but : when i display the signal through my WinTV card it looks really : sloppy. I have tried iron torroids on the coax as well as replacing my : : standard coax with shielded, low noise coax, nothing seems to help. I : am guessing that the WinTV card is picking up RF from inside my box : but I would have thought that Hauppauge would have planned on that. : Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. : : Traci : : : :_ :Do You Yahoo!? :Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com : : :Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? :Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM 8.1: Installing multiple versions of C++ compiler
I have LM 8.1 installed and am experiencing problems with the gcc 2.96 compiler. I tried using the 3.0.1 version that also says that it's installed (gcc -V 3.0.1 ...) but that gives an error, saying that it is incorrectly installed :-( (I didn't install it explicitly; it simply appeared when I first installed the system, but it seems that there's something not quite right with the default installation procedure.) Since I can't use 3.0.1, and 2.96 is producing weird run-time crashes, I'd like to install the old 2.95.3 from my LM 7.2 distro. Does anyone know _excatly_ how to do this without destroying 2.96? I tried the simple rpm -i gcc-c++-2.95.2-12mdk.i586.rpm off the LM 7.2 CD-ROM, but it complained that I needed gcc = 2.95.2 and gcc-cpp = 2.95.2. But of course I already have gcc and gcc-cpp installed with higher version numbers than this. If I remove the newer versions, then I am stuck with old versions when I try to run the 2.96 compiler. So how can I get the 2.95.3 (I dunno why the rpm says 2.95.2; the compiler reports itself as 2.95.3) and the 2.96 (and maybe even the 3.0.1) to co-exist and be selectable through the gcc -V mechanism? Doc Evans PS I thought about deleting everything and simply installing 3.1, but that seems like a big step. I'd much rather install a version that I know works (i.e., 2.95.3) and then add newer versions afterward. -- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax:+1 781 240 0527 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What can Mandrake KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface?
It takes time to polish everything, :) On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:58:05AM +0900, J Grant wrote: :Hello : :I would like to pose a question, what can KDE learn from the Mac OS X :interface? : :I am interested to know if the KDE developers have looked at OS X and :other interfaces for ideas? : :After using OS X in a shop there are some nice features, when you are :logged in for instance browse to the home dir and my user dir will show :up with a house over the icon. Its little touches like this that impress :some people and make it simpler to use for newbies. : :There are other nice features as well, i think it would be worth a look, :Linux Format UK gave a very good review of BSD/OS X several months ago! : :Mandrake could you change the software manager application, now when :you have finished installing/upgrading it says Quit that's a little :abrupt, how about Finish : :Also when loading it puts a popup box title Input, that is not very :informative, the text says In order to run rpmdrake with root's :privileges, additional information is required that is a little :ambiguous. How about 'Enter root password to run rpmdrake' ? that is :better i think.. : :Anyway, just ideas, i know lots of effort is going into this already all :the time. : :JG : :Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? :Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
It could be something causing interference on that specific frequency. I would try turning off any items near the pc... see if you can find the culprit. Also disconnect anything from your TV cable system which might be feeding back into the system. It could be that your TV has a stronger tuner than your pctv card. It could possibly be something IN the pc causing this as well. On Wednesday 12 December 2001 05:31 pm, you wrote: Hi all, It seems people are talking about TV cards reception here. Maybe someone can help me with my problem. I am having a problem with reception of only Channel 14. The picture and sound are very fuzzy only on my computer, it's fine with the TV in the living room. I think it is a hardware problem, any idea? Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard Wenninger Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations You should make sure all your outlets are properly grounded... via that third prong. hold the tv cable, with it disconnected from your pc... and touch the metal part of the pc case... see if you get a little tingly... it may be that your're getting voltage bleeding in/out through your cable line, and it may not be enough to notice by touch. I have this same problem, and I CAN tell by touch. It makes for a very noisy picture. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 12:40 am, you wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:58, Ed Tharp wrote: Almoxt any brooktree848 based card should work good, my cheap winTV card works great for mem and does good video capture to. I believe the difference would be to have the PCI based card (as opposed to the USB). Does anyone who has a WinTV card have any secrets to share about how they cleaned up the picture? My card was recognized, and i am able to display video through it, but, the picture is distorted with line noise. The display is crawling with video worms. I can drive a TV set directly off the same coax and get a perfectly beautiful picture but when i display the signal through my WinTV card it looks really sloppy. I have tried iron torroids on the coax as well as replacing my standard coax with shielded, low noise coax, nothing seems to help. I am guessing that the WinTV card is picking up RF from inside my box but I would have thought that Hauppauge would have planned on that. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Traci _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Fwd: cups and windows shared printer - stumped
I posted this to the newbie list and didn't receive any suggestions. Anyone care to take a stab at my problem? Thanks, Kathy Original Message Subject: [newbie] cups and windows shared printer - stumped Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:25:01 -0500 From: Kathy Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: University at Albany To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been trying for ages (or what seems like ages) to get CUPS to print to a Windows 2000 shared printer. I am stumped. I tried to use kups to configure the printer (since people reported success with kups), but to no avail. The following lines appear in my /var/log/cups/error_log file when I try to print to my default printer, an HP Laserjet 4L: I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Job 14 queued on 'hp4l' by 'root'. I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 3085) for job 14. I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 3086) for job 14. I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter (PID 3087) for job 14. E [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] PID 3087 stopped with status 1! I [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (PID 3088) for job 14. E [04/Dec/2001:14:00:34 -0500] Fatal error: Unable to load PPD file /etc/cups/ppd/hp4l.ppd! The file to which the error messages refer exists and is mode 644. The printer is physically attached to the Windows machine. I have no problem mounting a shared Windows directory on the Linux machine using my Windows network username and password. The command smbclient -L machine-name -U user says the printer is indeed there. I've no clue what to try next. Any pointers? Thanks, Kathy -- For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. - 2 Timothy 1:7 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] files starting with -
Hi all, I have seen a problem (?) when working with files starting with the - character, for example: -testfile.txt Commands like grep, rm... does not work properly. (LM 8.1 with XFS filesystem) Any comment? Salu2 óscar. -- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Usuario // \ \ de Linux (| | ) Registrado /'\_ _/`\ #227443 \___)=(___/ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] telnets on port 992.. more
Netstat indicates that ypbind is listening to this port. Any clue why nmap identified it as 'telnets' ?? Thanks, Thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Tim Holmes wrote: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal --help cal: invalid option -- - usage: cal [-mjyV] [[month] year] [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal -m December 2001 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Hi, | | The default condition for the cal program used to | be with Sunday on the left. Now I noticed that with | 8.1, Monday is on the left. Previously, one could get | Monday on the left by using a flag, is there a similar | flag for the new standard? BTW, why did it change? | Please advise; thanks. | | Best Regards, | Chris Haidinyak Just to be different from all other distros and UNIX flavors. In this fashion, the good folks at mandrake keep you on your toes -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW: The @ sign while permitted in the Workgroup Field, is reserved and causes problems for Netbios Samba for reasons I will not go into here, spaces and certain other characters are also no-no's. -JMS First thing I thought of, too. Also try and avoid underscores (_); use a dash (-) instead. Somewhere along the way, support for an underscored changed, I'm told, altho have not personally experienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPBj1cJq0HvZapbzfEQI7kQCeJpzmlTaVFTcWyyOc6PYQKGUjijoAn2tq BxDeLolSpmhAF41hr5M+ITIm =UfHr -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape just hangs there...
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:52:17 +0100 Jun Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: never had such a problem before, make sure there is no other dying netscape processes, use 'ps ax | grep netscape', if any, 'killall -9 netscape', then netscape should work happily. Jun, Thanks for the response. It was a really good suggestion, but it didn't work. Apparently there weren't any extra processes running. This has really got me stumped. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 6:05am up 3 days, 8:00, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] files starting with -
El jue, 13-12-2001 a las 19:00, Oscar escribió: Hi all, I have seen a problem (?) when working with files starting with the - character, for example: -testfile.txt Commands like grep, rm... does not work properly. (using wildcards like *) (LM 8.1 with XFS filesystem) Any comment? Salu2 óscar. -- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Usuario // \ \ de Linux (| | ) Registrado /'\_ _/`\ #227443 \___)=(___/ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Hi again, I still haven't heard a response as to why the program changed? Even so, it would have been nice to have a flag to put in the Sunday on the left scenario. Perhaps 8.2 won't be as invasive... Best Regards, Chris Haidinyak -Original Message- From: J. Craig Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:24 AM To: Tim Holmes Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program Tim Holmes wrote: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal --help cal: invalid option -- - usage: cal [-mjyV] [[month] year] [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal -m December 2001 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Hi, | | The default condition for the cal program used to | be with Sunday on the left. Now I noticed that with | 8.1, Monday is on the left. Previously, one could get | Monday on the left by using a flag, is there a similar | flag for the new standard? BTW, why did it change? | Please advise; thanks. | | Best Regards, | Chris Haidinyak Just to be different from all other distros and UNIX flavors. In this fashion, the good folks at mandrake keep you on your toes -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] files starting with -
You can rm it by using the -- option. rm -- -testfile.txt ls also has a -- option. See the man pages for ls and rm for this. Good idea is not to name a file beginning with a dash. Ron Oscar wrote: Hi all, I have seen a problem (?) when working with files starting with the - character, for example: -testfile.txt Commands like grep, rm... does not work properly. (LM 8.1 with XFS filesystem) Any comment? Salu2 óscar. -- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Usuario // \ \ de Linux (| | ) Registrado /'\_ _/`\ #227443 \___)=(___/ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ron Marriage Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User Group http://www.seidata.com/~seilug/ Blind Links http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Brian, Bingo! Updating to the cooker version fixed it for me. Thanks for the suggestion!!! H I had util-linux-2.10s-3mdk installed on one system and it does the cal program correctly (you have a choice of starting day) while on another system util-linux-2.11h-3mdk did not. I downloaded and installed and it's working correctly again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Modprobe configuration
I switched back to the kernel 2.2.19-20secure. Since, I have pb with modprobe my ethernet card. More precisely, modprobe try to load the old_tulip module (which doesn't work with my card, I tried) instead of the tulip one. Then, the interface eth0 doesn't load at boot time, even if told to do so. I checked /etc/modules.conf and nothing in there does an alias from tulip to old_tulip. Where are the other modprobe configuration files? How do I remove this alias? Guillaume. Details: I can get the card to work by doing: $ insmod pci-scan $ insmod tulip $ ifup eth0 On the other hand modprobe doesn't work: $ modprobe tulip modprobe: Can't locate modules tulip If I look at the configuration of modprobe, I find a line that doesn't please me: $ modprobe -c | grep tulip alias eth0 tulip alias tulip old_tulip The first line is fine, the second is not. The module old_tulip is not on my machine anymore as it didn't work with my card (I tried). There is no such line in my /etc/module.conf. Where does modprobe get this alias? How do I remove it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Uptime in the email
Scott grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email messages? What exactly do you mean? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] creating a TOC for an audio CD
Hi! Somebody can point me to a site or documentation that can teach me how to create a TOC for an audio CD? I want to get a few .WAV files and create the TOC to burn them in an audio CD, but I don't want to use some application like CDRECORDER or NERO or something like these. I want to learn how to create the TOC myself, the format needed, parameters! I opened some TOC files and did some of myself, with vi :-) but they didn't worked very well... some error messages in XCDroast... TIA orlando -- ,~~v~~,,~~v~~, ,'. .', ,'. .', === + ====== + === / ~ \ / ~ \ /\_m m_/\/\_m m_/\ .\ +--+ /. / ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! \ / +--+ \ `\m/ \m/' `\m/ \m/' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape just hangs there...
Mark, Disable the home page (I prefer a blank page), verify your /etc/resolv.conf file (8.1 draknet can clobber it), make sure your DNS server(s) is responding; you can also use ethereal to monitor the IP traffic (use the all interfaces option) to see what the system is doing. If all else fails, try another browser... I'm liking galeon much better so far... NS is to browsers as M$ is to OSs... :^) Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM 8.1: Installing multiple versions of C++ compiler
I've also had problems with the version of gcc mandrake installs. To install 2.95.3, I down loaded the source from gcc.gnu.org and compiled it. Just make sure to pass --prefix=/somedir/ to configure where somedir is not an install dir for your other versions of gcc. The install docs are pretty straight forward. Hope this helps, Randy On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, D. R. Evans wrote: I have LM 8.1 installed and am experiencing problems with the gcc 2.96 compiler. I tried using the 3.0.1 version that also says that it's installed (gcc -V 3.0.1 ...) but that gives an error, saying that it is incorrectly installed :-( (I didn't install it explicitly; it simply appeared when I first installed the system, but it seems that there's something not quite right with the default installation procedure.) Since I can't use 3.0.1, and 2.96 is producing weird run-time crashes, I'd like to install the old 2.95.3 from my LM 7.2 distro. Does anyone know _excatly_ how to do this without destroying 2.96? I tried the simple rpm -i gcc-c++-2.95.2-12mdk.i586.rpm off the LM 7.2 CD-ROM, but it complained that I needed gcc = 2.95.2 and gcc-cpp = 2.95.2. But of course I already have gcc and gcc-cpp installed with higher version numbers than this. If I remove the newer versions, then I am stuck with old versions when I try to run the 2.96 compiler. So how can I get the 2.95.3 (I dunno why the rpm says 2.95.2; the compiler reports itself as 2.95.3) and the 2.96 (and maybe even the 3.0.1) to co-exist and be selectable through the gcc -V mechanism? Doc Evans PS I thought about deleting everything and simply installing 3.1, but that seems like a big step. I'd much rather install a version that I know works (i.e., 2.95.3) and then add newer versions afterward. -- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax:+1 781 240 0527 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] SCSI Tape Issues
I am having problems using my Sony SDT-9000 DDS3 capable drive. Recently it appears that the drive will no longer seek. One item which was brought to my attention was the following messages (from dmesg) on boot. aic7xxx: Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter at PCI 0/9/0 aic7xxx: I/O ports already in use, ignoring. st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, s/g segs 16. Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Unable to get major 9 for SCSI tapes Has anyone experienced this before??? I have already checked the /dev directory and have the following: [root@access /root]# ls -l /dev/*st0 crw-rw1 root disk 9, 128 Sep 27 2000 /dev/nst0 crw-r--r--1 root root 9, 0 Dec 13 15:04 /dev/rst0 crw-rw-rw-1 root disk 9, 0 Sep 27 2000 /dev/st0 I created the /dev/rst0 device hoping to alleviate the problem, with no luck. TIA for your assistance. -- Albert E. Whale - http://www.abs-comptech.com/aewhale.html -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Network, OpenView and Systems Consultant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] network starting scripts.
Problem I have encountered was generated by new kernel (no matter which one - everyone) when I'm downloading the new kernels (offical one from www.kernel.org) than the network script on system startup fails already on 'lo' interface with comment address familly not supported by kernel which is strange because: 1. Never seen before... (mandrake 7.0) 2. When after trying to start all interfaces by hand with command: ifconfig if name up IP it starts w/o problems and any error message... The same problem I have with new Red Hat distro... Again it is not a kernel conf problem cause I do it with the same way (for the network setting) for the years now... Any suggestion??? -- _4ever_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Just a random thought... Since someone brought up that you used to be able to make Monday appear by using... cal +m Has anyone thought of trying to run it using... cal +s It probably won't work, but it's worth a try. ;) Ivan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What can Mandrake KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface?
Jun Liu grabbed a keyboard and wrote: It takes time to polish everything, :) Agreed. :-) But a few comments of my own, for J Grant (who you were replying to) On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:58:05AM +0900, J Grant wrote: : :Mandrake could you change the software manager application, now when :you have finished installing/upgrading it says Quit that's a little :abrupt, how about Finish Overly nit-pickey. Quit is no more abrupt than Finish is, IMO. :Also when loading it puts a popup box title Input, that is not very :informative, the text says In order to run rpmdrake with root's :privileges, additional information is required that is a little :ambiguous. How about 'Enter root password to run rpmdrake' ? that is :better i think.. Did you take the time to actually read the pop-up window? :-) Yes, it says that above the box where you type the password in, and then next to the box where you type it in, it says Password for root. I fail to see anything ambiguous about it. Sorry if I'm being blunt here, but if you want Mac OS X, then run a Mac with OS X. This is Linux, and the desktop environment you're talking about is KDE. Although I'm sure someone could create a Mac theme for it, assuming that one doesn't already exist for it :-) Linux has come a long way in the friendlyness department, and I'm sure it will go further still. But let's not get into a gee, this button says 'quit' when 'finish' would be sooo much better type of thing, or complain that a box which states outright that it wants you to type in the root password to proceed is ambiguous. Just my $.02. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Uptime in the email
Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email messages? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Chris, I guess its cause noone knows *why* it was changed, only that you can fix the problem as I did by installed a cooker version of util-linux, or as another poster did by installing a previous version. I did try to have a look at the actual source code, but that didnt work as I could actually find it, as stupid as that might sound. The source rpm only provided a patch. H Hi again, I still haven't heard a response as to why the program changed? Even so, it would have been nice to have a flag to put in the Sunday on the left scenario. Perhaps 8.2 won't be as invasive... Best Regards, Chris Haidinyak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SCSI Tape Issues
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Albert E. Whale wrote: I am having problems using my Sony SDT-9000 DDS3 capable drive. Recently it appears that the drive will no longer seek. One item which was brought to my attention was the following messages (from dmesg) on boot. aic7xxx: Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter at PCI 0/9/0 aic7xxx: I/O ports already in use, ignoring. st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, s/g segs 16. Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Unable to get major 9 for SCSI tapes Has anyone experienced this before??? I have already checked the /dev directory and have the following: [root@access /root]# ls -l /dev/*st0 crw-rw1 root disk 9, 128 Sep 27 2000 /dev/nst0 crw-r--r--1 root root 9, 0 Dec 13 15:04 /dev/rst0 crw-rw-rw-1 root disk 9, 0 Sep 27 2000 /dev/st0 I created the /dev/rst0 device hoping to alleviate the problem, with no luck. TIA for your assistance. My dmesg file is long overwritten by useless junk (wish the bootup copy was saved somewhere rather than clobbered), so all I can provide is what my two *old* tape drives look like... $ less /proc/scsi/scsi (snipped) Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: VIPER 150 21247 Rev: -005 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 01 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8500SMBANXH0 Rev: 0428 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 $ ls -l /dev/*st[01] lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Oct 8 20:58 /dev/nst0 - scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/mtn lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Oct 8 20:58 /dev/nst1 - scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/mtn lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Oct 8 20:58 /dev/st0 - scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/mt lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Oct 8 20:58 /dev/st1 - scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/mt $ ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target[23]/lun0/mtn crw-rw-rw-1 root root 9, 128 Dec 31 1969 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/mtn crw-rw-rw-1 root root 9, 129 Dec 31 1969 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/mtn HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Uptime in the email
using kmail, under the identy section you can add a signature, i added /bin/uptime, then checked the box that said this is a program, then as your composing a messged you can chose attachappend signature, if you want the signature on every message, under the settings choose composer, and check the box that says always append signatures, you could do this with any program you want mark On Friday 14 December 2001 00:35, you wrote: Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email messages? -- 2:08pm up 2:51, 3 users, load average: 0.33, 0.15, 0.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Uptime in the email
On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:35 pm, Scott wrote: Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email messages? You can create a text file and 'chmod -x' it to run any suitable executable, eg, /usr/bin/uptime. I do this with kmail by making my sig executable and placing /usr/games/fortune in it as the last line. So while it probly varies with email clients, it should be easy to do. my sig: echo Tom Brinkman _ South Texas, USA_ echo /usr/games/fortune FWIW, I'm just playin with it right now since GC just made many more fortune db's available on his website http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ -- Tom Brinkman _ South Texas, USA_ Consultant, n.: [From con to defraud, dupe, swindle, or, possibly, French con (vulgar) a person of little merit + sult elliptical form of insult.] A tipster disguised as an oracle, especially one who has learned to decamp at high speed in spite of a large briefcase and heavy wallet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Yeah I did try that :)) But as you suspected it didnt work... H Just a random thought... Since someone brought up that you used to be able to make Monday appear by using... cal +m Has anyone thought of trying to run it using... cal +s It probably won't work, but it's worth a try. ;) Ivan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] creating a TOC for an audio CD
Le Jeudi 13 Décembre 2001 20:36, vous avez écrit : Hi! Somebody can point me to a site or documentation that can teach me how to create a TOC for an audio CD? I want to get a few .WAV files and create the TOC to burn them in an audio CD, but I don't want to use some application like CDRECORDER or NERO or something like these. I want to learn how to create the TOC myself, the format needed, parameters! I opened some TOC files and did some of myself, with vi :-) but they didn't worked very well... some error messages in XCDroast... TIA orlando use some xterm to burn! it's the best GUI i know to do that ;-) i have not what u're searching. but some scripts to create toc.files from wav files exist. u can learn more by using one of them and looking at what it does. have a look here: http://www.msu.edu/user/johns776/tocgen.html bye jipe -- Ta mere est tellement grosse qu'elle se souvient meme plus de ses pieds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HELP: Installing Dual Boot MDK8.1 + FreeBSD 4.4
Hi, I have a computer with 2 20 GB hard disks, one each for mdk and freebsd. How do I go about doing this? For performance, would it be a good idea to use the other disk for the swap partition? i.e.: Disk 1 - Linux mdk8.1 - swap for freebsd Disk 2 - freebsd - swap for mdk8.1 I'm not sure how to get started, so step-by-step instrucitons would be appreciated. Thanks! Paul _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange problem with the POP server
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:38, you wrote:
Since xinetd tries to check ident for a pop connection, I would suspect
that it the problem, and with the linksys blocking wan requests it would
drop the packet for the ident request, and xinetd would wait for it to time
out.
So the other option is to change what xinetd tries to log for pop requests.
Thank you very much, George, disabling the Block Wan Request has solved the
problem for one user. I have yet to find out if the others are using a
Linksys DSL/Cable gateway.
I would recommend finding out what the problem really is rather than open
the local network to the world as a fix...
And I do agree with that. But right now, I'm more interested in a quick
fix that makes the problem go away and takes the pressure off. The client
was asking me to disable the Bastille firewall on the server, it was that
important to him. I'd *much* rather do that at the user end than at the
server end. Fortunately, I'd already done a test and found that Bastille
wasn't the cause of the problem.
I'll explain the issues to the individual users involved and let them make
the choice between security on their end with the concommittant delay in
collecting mail and the convenience of collecting mail quickly. I'm not
overly concerned about the security aspect as the Linksys is doing NAT/IP
masquerading afterall and that's a darn good firewall in and of itself.
In /etc/xinet.d/ipop3, it says:
service pop3
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
}
I presume is that the log_on statements are causing the delay when Block WAN
Request is enabled and that if I remove them, the problem will be resolved at
the expense of logging connections.
--
Cheers,
Rob
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Re: [expert] Strange problem with the POP server
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 08:34 am, you wrote:
In /etc/xinet.d/ipop3, it says:
service pop3
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
}
I presume is that the log_on statements are causing the delay when Block
WAN Request is enabled and that if I remove them, the problem will be
resolved at the expense of logging connections.
I changed USERID to HOST, since most windows boxes do not use ident it was
moot. I've not had anymore complaints from my users, but then it only
seemed to bother the ones using the Linksys
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Re: [expert] creating a TOC for an audio CD
thanks, jipe!! just what I needed :-) orlando jipe wrote: Le Jeudi 13 Décembre 2001 20:36, vous avez écrit : Hi! Somebody can point me to a site or documentation that can teach me how to create a TOC for an audio CD? I want to get a few .WAV files and create the TOC to burn them in an audio CD, but I don't want to use some application like CDRECORDER or NERO or something like these. I want to learn how to create the TOC myself, the format needed, parameters! I opened some TOC files and did some of myself, with vi :-) but they didn't worked very well... some error messages in XCDroast... TIA orlando use some xterm to burn! it's the best GUI i know to do that ;-) i have not what u're searching. but some scripts to create toc.files from wav files exist. u can learn more by using one of them and looking at what it does. have a look here: http://www.msu.edu/user/johns776/tocgen.html bye jipe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel
Hello: I've problems performing copies from first IDE channel to second one. After a few files copied the system freezes. I wonder if someone else has found similar problems because i cannot find any configuration error in the hardware. The box is an AMD Athlon 1.2 build with a Soltek mainboard (VIA Apollo KT266 series, South Bridge VT8233, North Bridge VT8366). I've enable DMA in both disks; and the filesystem is reiserfs. Any comment will be wellcome. Thank you. Fedneg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel
Are you using a Western Digital HD??? If you are... sorry... welcome to the club... WD are prone to give trouble when used with other IDE devices... Fedneg wrote: Hello: I've problems performing copies from first IDE channel to second one. After a few files copied the system freezes. I wonder if someone else has found similar problems because i cannot find any configuration error in the hardware. The box is an AMD Athlon 1.2 build with a Soltek mainboard (VIA Apollo KT266 series, South Bridge VT8233, North Bridge VT8366). I've enable DMA in both disks; and the filesystem is reiserfs. Any comment will be wellcome. Thank you. Fedneg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel
jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: Are you using a Western Digital HD??? If you are... sorry... welcome to the club... WD are prone to give trouble when used with other IDE devices... There's a reason why WD uses the term EIDE for their drives, while most other makers call theirs ATA. -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] test message
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:54:34 -0500 (EST) Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this thing on? I've been getting bounced messages every time I attempt to sentd something to the lists. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 2:05pm up 3 days, 16:00, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 This one came through just fine... Mike -- We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities. -- Robin Williams, _Good Morning Vietnam_ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What can Mandrake KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface?
Hi! David Guntner wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:58:05AM +0900, J Grant wrote: : :Mandrake could you change the software manager application, now when :you have finished installing/upgrading it says Quit that's a little :abrupt, how about Finish Overly nit-pickey. Quit is no more abrupt than Finish is, IMO. Just an example of how things could be. :Also when loading it puts a popup box title Input, that is not very :informative, the text says In order to run rpmdrake with root's :privileges, additional information is required that is a little :ambiguous. How about 'Enter root password to run rpmdrake' ? that is :better i think.. Did you take the time to actually read the pop-up window? :-) Yes, it says that above the box where you type the password in, and then next to the box where you type it in, it says Password for root. I fail to see anything ambiguous about it. It was overcomplicating the dialog box, dont fill it with info that is un-necessary was my point. Sorry if I'm being blunt here, but if you want Mac OS X, then run a Mac with OS X. This is Linux, and the desktop environment you're talking about is KDE. Although I'm sure someone could create a Mac theme for it, assuming that one doesn't already exist for it :-) I definitely do not want an OS X machine, I posed the question what can we learn as we all know the Linux system is not perfect (if it was there would not be revisions). All OS's have some good features, reviewing OS X for features to borrow MS/Apple style is a good idea IMO :) KDE is designed similarly to windows for the reason that windows does have a reasonably good interface. JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] telnets on port 992.. more
telnets is the SOCKified version of telnet I believe. Thomas Sourmail wrote: Netstat indicates that ypbind is listening to this port. Any clue why nmap identified it as 'telnets' ?? Thanks, Thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake on an old notebook
On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:33 pm, you wrote: I've got an old Toshiba portege that lacks both a network adapter and a CD-ROM drive. I'm considering putting LM on. Which option do people think will be easiest with Mandrake? 1) Installing it via PLIP through the parallel port? 2) Getting a network card for the PCMCIA slot 3) Finding a tiny distribution that can be installed via floppies? 4) remove the drive, use an adapter and put it in your desktop box. Install Mandrake. Reboot. Manually add the PCMCIA rpm. Put it back in the laptop. That's how I did it on my Toshiba 420. Happy ever since. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] test message
Mark Weaver wrote: is this thing on? I've been getting bounced messages every time I attempt to sentd something to the lists. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Did you try to read the header files? It would tell you in there. I hope this helps. --al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape just hangs there...
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:50:53 -0500 (EST) Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: Mark, Disable the home page (I prefer a blank page), verify your /etc/resolv.conf file (8.1 draknet can clobber it), make sure your DNS server(s) is responding; you can also use ethereal to monitor the IP traffic (use the all interfaces option) to see what the system is doing. If all else fails, try another browser... I'm liking galeon much better so far... NS is to browsers as M$ is to OSs... :^) Pierre Pierre, Thanks for the info. I've done the blank start page thing, but I'll definately check the other things you've mentioned. I hadn't thought of that yet. thanks -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 10:05pm up 4 days, 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test message
is this thing on? I've been getting bounced messages every time I attempt to sentd something to the lists. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 2:05pm up 3 days, 16:00, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
