[expert] printing euro symbol

[Oscar]

Hi all
I can see the euro symbol (¤) but I can't print it.
Any help?
Thanks
óscar.

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[expert]

[jean pierre picat]

Hi All

I just tried to install Linux on a Presario 1211 and got some trouble. I 
found messages on the net with similar problems. Do anyone succeed in 
installing Linux and how doing that successfully

Thank you

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Re: [expert] Help urgent

[Oscar]

El mié, 09-01-2002 a las 22:05, richard escribió:
> Hi all, gotta problem,
> in trying to upgrade abiword, to a version which dos'nt crash when more than
> 4 pages in a doc, I have really srcrewed gnome..
> 
> Galeon, nice browser, wont start, evolution 1.0 lost all mail and crashes,
> icons gone from desktop..
> 
> Is there a way of downloading a safe verion of gnome and automatically
> forfilling any dependancies as required and overwrinting files that have got 
> corrupted...
> I think but not sure that rpm is not 100% functional, KDE is still 
> functional; luckily
> 
> 
> TIA 
> BG ,,,grovel grovel grovel
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 

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Gnome is working great here.
What version of LM do you have?
try exiting gnome, removing ~/.gnome/session and restart.

or if you are more radical (eliminates all config files! Do it *at your
own risk*!) you can do:

  cd ~/
  rm -r .gnome*
  rm -r .galeon
  rm -r evolution
  rm -r .nautilus*

If the version of mandrake does not work for you, you can use ximian
gnome.
Saludos,
óscar.
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[expert] PCMCIA Config mdk 8.0 ifconfig/ifup question

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Good morning all,

I have just plugged a Netgear card into MDK 8.0 laptop for the first time. The system 
automatically detected the card correctly. It then attempted to   modprobe using the 
correct driver. However the command fails.


 executing: './network start eth0'
 + usage: ifup
 start cmd exited with status 1



When I try to run the ifup command it also fails when it cannot find a eth0 device. I 
looked at /dev/eth0 but that dos not exist. Not having any
experiance with Linix PCMCIA, but I would normally use the following to bring
up an interface.

 ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.99 etc..

This does appear to work, I can ping the IP, but I do not have a network cable at the 
moment to do a proper test.

Is the above supposed to be...or is their a problem with my setup. Searching on the 
web, most assume that the ifup command would work.

Any suggestions (polite) would be appreciated.

TIA
Dave


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Re: [expert] PCMCIA Config mdk 8.0 ifconfig/ifup question

[J. Craig Woods]

At 06:54 AM 1/10/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Good morning all,
>
>I have just plugged a Netgear card into MDK 8.0 laptop for the first time. 
>The system automatically detected the card correctly. It then attempted 
>to   modprobe using the correct driver. However the command fails.
>
>
>  executing: './network start eth0'
>  + usage: ifup
>  start cmd exited with status 1
>
>
>
>When I try to run the ifup command it also fails when it cannot find a 
>eth0 device. I looked at /dev/eth0 but that dos not exist. Not having any
>experiance with Linix PCMCIA, but I would normally use the following to bring
>up an interface.
>
>  ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.99 etc..
>
>This does appear to work, I can ping the IP, but I do not have a network 
>cable at the moment to do a proper test.
>
>Is the above supposed to be...or is their a problem with my setup. 
>Searching on the web, most assume that the ifup command would work.
>
>Any suggestions (polite) would be appreciated.

Without your cable connection to an network, you are limited in what you 
can do. What does "ifconfig -a" display? Do you have Bcast, Mask set up? By 
looking at the appropriate logs, can you tell if there is an IRQ conflict? 
How about your DNS & FQDN entries (once you get your card hooked up to a 
network)? This is kind of a starting place for you... And you better check 
out the HOW TO for PCMCIA. It can get tricky

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Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

[daRcmaTTeR]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:54:47 -0500
Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:

> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:24:05 -0500, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:08:42 -0500
> > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to
> > ponder:
> > 
> > > Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > James may be on his way to becoming a hero for this one!
> > > > Great job!!
> > > > 
> > > > Ric
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Man! now i can't wait to get home and try it out on my copy of
> Mozilla!> 
> > ops...spoke too soon. didn't make a bit O difference on this
> machine.
> 
> I now have a great speedup...  here's how:
> 
> 1. installed sylpheed and galeon
> 
> 2. dumped Nuts-crash
> 
> Tried switching to pine exclusively (since I regulary do mail remotely
> (via pine)); but sylpheed is *way* faster than pine...
> 
> :^)
> Pierre
> 
> 

I went back to using regular Netscape. works just fine. it's the new
netscape that runs like a slug on a hot side walk for me. Galeon was
sluggish for me too.

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Re: LinkSys problems -- Re: [expert] DSL Connection

[Randy Kramer]

Pierre,

I understand -- thanks!  

And thanks for the web site -- I've looked at the main page, now going
to look at some of the linked pages (like the traces).   The page is
good for two reasons: what I can learn from it about traces, etc., and
to provide useful feedback to potential buyers of such products. 
Thanks!

Randy Kramer

Pierre Fortin wrote:
> True; but for monitoring the Internet side on my DSL router, I need to see
> all packets, not just broadcast/multicast packets.  I described the
> problems on my web pages (http://pfortin.com/Linux/LinkSys/)



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Re: [expert] upgrading rpm packages

[richard]

Hi Bill & Jameswell in trying to upgrade I've givem myself some big
probs..

Screwed gnome up quite a bit,, had to reload evolution, galeons nearly
sorted, managed to get the last mdk version of abiword installed, but
that crashes faster than 0.9.2.
I've downloaded the tarball from abi 0.9.6.1, but glib is the wrong
version for it , I ve tried load the glib 1.2.10 ximian rpm need by
abiwordbut get this

sri cut and paste now not function,,,but install failing due to conflict
from

libglib 1.21...mdk.


I also have to be carefull now as I cant shut the beast down , getting 
" unregistered_netdevice:waiting for ax0 to become free usage count =3"

and the only way past that is to hit the reset button, I'm not the only
person seeing  that ..maybe time to put a mail to cooker ??


Unless maybe I could unmount the hard drive before shutting down the app
which conflicts with the kernel (2.4.16)

TIA 
Richard


On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 03:31, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Gave up on the mandrake and cooker rpms - in my case would not print
> past page 4 (just repeated page 3) or crashed when trying to load a file
> saved by the prev version.  Downloaded the latest generic rpm's from
> abiword themsleves yesterday and installed.  Fixed those probs - but
> spell and fonts need sorting still.
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 10:43, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > This doesn't always work but I've found a short way around the crash. 
> > at the command line type abiword [filename]  Seems that if they start
> > together crashes are less likely.  Second don't save the doc as an
> > abw... Don't know why but txt and rtf files work better than the
> > "native" format. *sigh*
> > 
> > James
> >  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

[Alexander Arzberger]

> I went back to using regular Netscape. works just fine. it's the new
> netscape that runs like a slug on a hot side walk for me. Galeon was
> sluggish for me too.

I use Opera 5.0. It's much more faster than Netscape and doesn't crash.
Only drawback: it has no Java.

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RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1

[Mike & Tracy Holt]

Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN enlightened the whole world with this utterance:

>
>Is there a reason you can't boot with lilo. My desktop system
>Multiboots. Win 98, Win 2k, and three linux's. Lilo works fine.
>I use Mandrake's Graphical boot screen.
>
>Brian D. Klar - CVE
>OTS
>WPAFB
>

I've personally never had much luck using lilo to boot nt of any kind.  It
seemed to work fine when I just had it booting win98, but when I added
win2k, it actually was easier to go the route already explained on this
thread.  Are you using ntfs with your win2k?  I think I remember reading
that lilo couldn't boot an ntfs partition?

Mike

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RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1

[Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN]

No, I am not using NTFS for the 2k partition. I saw no
reason to since it is just there wasting disk space on my
home computer. Someone on the irc channel though uses
NTFS with his multiboot and no problems with that he said

Brian D. Klar - CVE
OTS
WPAFB

-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 9:04 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1


Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN enlightened the whole world with this utterance:

>
>Is there a reason you can't boot with lilo. My desktop system
>Multiboots. Win 98, Win 2k, and three linux's. Lilo works fine.
>I use Mandrake's Graphical boot screen.
>
>Brian D. Klar - CVE
>OTS
>WPAFB
>

I've personally never had much luck using lilo to boot nt of any kind.  It
seemed to work fine when I just had it booting win98, but when I added
win2k, it actually was easier to go the route already explained on this
thread.  Are you using ntfs with your win2k?  I think I remember reading
that lilo couldn't boot an ntfs partition?

Mike

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RE: [expert] more information was needed Samba and WinXP woes

[Buchan Milne]

I am not sure if this has been resolved yet (subscribed in digest, and 
some digests don't make it from imap to mozilla ...), but I have been 
using Windows XP Pro RC1 with a Mandrake 8.1 box running samba-2.2.2. I 
have just received a final Windows XP Pro which I will try and test with 
shortly.

I specifically setup the machine for testing joining of XP Pro to samba 
domains, so I applied the reg patch (available in samba's docs dir and 
from  http://mandrakuser.org/connect/csamba6.html#winxp) before doing 
anything else.

Here are some quick links:
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.2/docs/Registry/WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/samba_xp_domain_member.reg

If someone can confirm whether this helps, I will update some of the 
docs on Mandrakeuser.org ... any other way we can get this out in 
general knowledge?

Buchan

> Subject:
> RE: [expert] more information was needed Samba and WinXP woes
> From:
> "Todd Zashin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:
> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:02:16 -0700
> To:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Thanks Larry but yes we are aware of that article and dont use XP HOME
> anywhere HOME or the OFFICE.  We only use XP Professional.
> 
> Todd
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry
> Sword
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 7:55 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] more information was needed Samba and WinXP woes
> 
> 
> Todd Zashin wrote:
> 
>>
>> sorry guys I guess I should have given more information.
>>
>> I have a LM 8.1 Samba 2.2.2 (latest release with updated security patch
> 
> from
> 
>> Mandrake Update site) set to Share level security no netlogons or domain
>> controllers enabled because we are in a workgroup not a domain.  I want
> 
> one
> 
>> WinXP client to open up its network neighborhood (which is totally weird
> 
> but
> 
>> that is a different story) and see that the Samba box is there to share
>> files.  I dont want the Samba box to provide print services either.  All I
>> want the Samba box to do is provide file server services to one WinXP
>> client.  My other M$ boxes are connecting to the Samba box just fine.  The
>> WinXP box is not at all.  AM I missing a smbpasswd or encrypted password
> 
> or
> 
>> registry change somewhere?  Do you know where I can find an up to date
> 
> HOWTO
> 
>> on Samba and WinXP communications?  Thank You.
>>
>> -Todd
> 
> I don't use nor have I tested WinXP home, so don't know if the attaches
> link to article is correct.
> 
> http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2820882,00.html
> 
> Larry
> 


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RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1

[Scott Thurmond]

I use grub rather than lilo to boot between win2k and linux.  I had
absolutely no problems with it.

-Scott

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Subject: RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1


Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN enlightened the whole world with this utterance:

>
>Is there a reason you can't boot with lilo. My desktop system
>Multiboots. Win 98, Win 2k, and three linux's. Lilo works fine.
>I use Mandrake's Graphical boot screen.
>
>Brian D. Klar - CVE
>OTS
>WPAFB
>

I've personally never had much luck using lilo to boot nt of any kind.  It
seemed to work fine when I just had it booting win98, but when I added
win2k, it actually was easier to go the route already explained on this
thread.  Are you using ntfs with your win2k?  I think I remember reading
that lilo couldn't boot an ntfs partition?

Mike

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Re: [expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake

[kwan]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Tim Holmes wrote:

> There are quite a number of differences between BSD and Mandrake.
>
> For one, BSD isn't Linux.  It's more UNIX if you have to classify it,
> but BSD is, well, BSD.  Yeah, they all move along the same lines with
> the kernel, but it's closer to UNIX then it is Linux.  A lot of people
> say BSD is a scaled down UNIX.
>
Cool, I guess FreeBSD finally was able to pay for the "Unix" moniker.
I've always found it amazing that some big companies can purchase a
license, and no matter for deviant their OS is, they can claim to be
Unix.

> Linux has gone and created things like /etc/rc.d/init.d/ for users to
> make it easier more "intuative" to restart services etc;.  BSD has
> somethings that are like that, but basically stick with the regular
> means of starting up processes and starting them.  However, check out
> /usr/share/etc/rc.d for a list of scripts that do things like
> /etc/init.d/network start.

I agree -- I do find the Linux system more intuitive. There are
differences among the distributions though. In fact, I'm at this moment
trying to build a new distribution and sorting out the init scripts to
use.

>
> FreeBSD is a true 128 bit OS.  Others claim they are, but not to the
> true extent.  BSD is very robust and is frankly a warrior.  It can take
> the same hardware a Linux OS has, and handle much more stress.

Is FreeBSD 128bit? Can you explain what that means? Is it running on
IA-64 or similar processors or does that matter?  What other processors
does FreeBSD run on? I would enjoy loading it on one of the Itaniums
here to see how it stacks up.
>
> Recent, professional tests, we've tried to build and maintain a Linux
> box that every 15 minutes or so, xinet would crash/restart.  The server
> was basically used for mail server, webserver, IMAP server.  Same
> hardware working with the same servers, including FTP, webmail, and
> others, took the load and is now going to be taking on more tasks.
>

Hmmm... There may be something hosed with your xinetd configuration. I
can help you tune it if you'd like. I've run Linux with thousands of
connections per hour using xinetd without any stability problems. What
sort of load/hardware/kernel revision were you using?

> FreeBSD, specifically, is used at a lot of ISPs.  Webservers, DNS
> servers, mail servers, and more.
>
> Yes, Linux can do well in that platform, but for after some hefty
> configurations, and rebuild kernels.
>
> FreeBSD kernel is very easily rebuilt.  And reboots (which you should
> never have to do.) in about 25 seconds.  That's shutdown, then booted
> to a prompt.  I don't remember EVER seeing a Linux box shutdown in that
> amount of time, let alone reboot.
>
The Linux kernel is also pretty easy to rebuild. If you need help with
it, I have a guide at:
  http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/kernel.html

You can also do a rebuild of new sources with your defalult
configurations with maybe five commands.

It can down quickly; but as you know, the shutdown time depends upon
what's been started up. The main problem I have with many distributions
(Mandrake included) is that many unneeded services are enabled by
default. This has gotten much better than before, though. I understand
the reasoning from an ease-of-use perspective, but firmly believe that
if a person wants to load a particular protocol/service, she should have
enough knowledge to turn it on herself. FreeBSD, by default, starts fewer
services and thus is faster to shutdown. In my case it doesn't matter
a bit. My machines run for months at a time and a minute here or there
is inconsequential.

As for slow shutdowns, verify that your DNS configuration is good. The
usual suspects (and this applies to Solaris, BSD/OS, etc) is often NFS
problems or misconfigurations.

> I know quite a number of people that use FreeBSD as their
> router/firewall.  It's great for that.  Does a lot better at that then
> Linux.  A lot of people have FreeBSD on a floppy, boot the server, and
> there you go with your firewall and router.
>
The FreeBSD TCP/IP stack has a good reputation. I once used it for my
website and had absolutely no complaints. However, can you explain how
it's better than ipchains or iptables? Please be as technical as you'd
like; in fact, I would prefer it... :)

BTW, Linux also has a router on a floppy. I've booted it once or twice,
mostly at customer sites when demonstrating routing.

> FreeBSD, right up the the most recent release, 4.4, will run on any
> hardware.  P100's and slower, no problem.  Is it even possible to
> install Mandrake 8.1 or RedHat 7.x on anything that slow?  (IT may be
> possible, I've never heard it being done, or the machine being usable.)
>
I've installed RedHat 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron P100/64M. It runs well as a
router/firewall/http/DNS server.  Mandrake 8.0 powers my CVS, MySQL, NFS
and Samba servers on a similar machine.  Most Linuxes will run fine on
older machines; of course, no matter if you use FreeBSD or Linux, if you

Re: [expert] Any gurus on PDF printing?

[Andreas J. Guelzow]

Derek Jennings wrote:

> On my 8.1 system I have two PDF printers defined.
> The first is the pseudo printer defined by KDE which uses ps2pdf to generate 
> PDF files. With this printer I have had disappointing results when printing 
> complex spreadsheets from StarOffice6.0 with the resulting pdf files being 
> unreadable by either gv or Acrobat4.05, or else them being readable but of 
> poor quality with columns wandering all over the place.
> 
> The second pdf printer I added by selecting the Adobe Distiller2017.801 
> printer driver from the list offered by printerdrake.  This printer does not 
> seem to work at all. If I put a postscript file into it, a postscript file 
> comes out again, but with a slightly different header.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> Would it help for example to use the non GPL but freely available 
> ghostscript7.x instead of the GPL'd ghostscript6.51 supplied with Mandrake?
> 


It depends on the content of the spreadsheets, but one possibility would 
be to transfer the spreadsheet to gnumeric (1.0.0 or better) for example 
by saving them as excel files and opening them in gnumeric. Then to save 
the sheet as a LaTeX file and run that file through pdflatex. THe 
created pdf file can be opened by acrobat or xpdf. (At least I haven't 
found something that doesn't.) The problem is that exporting as a LaTeX 
file looses information, but it depends on whetehr you are using that info.



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Re: LinkSys problems -- Re: [expert] DSL Connection

[Pierre Fortin]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:54:21 -0500, Randy wrote:

> Pierre,
> 
> I understand -- thanks!  
> 
> And thanks for the web site -- I've looked at the main page, now going
> to look at some of the linked pages (like the traces).   The page is
> good for two reasons: what I can learn from it about traces, etc., and
> to provide useful feedback to potential buyers of such products. 
> Thanks!

You're welcome!  If I find time, I'll try to put up some pages covering
the basics of packet tracing...  let me know if there are some specifics
that would interest you...

Pierre

> Randy Kramer
> 
> Pierre Fortin wrote:
> > True; but for monitoring the Internet side on my DSL router, I need to
see> > all packets, not just broadcast/multicast packets.  I described the
> > problems on my web pages (http://pfortin.com/Linux/LinkSys/)
> 
> 



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Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

[Ric Tibbetts]

daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:54:47 -0500
> Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> 
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:24:05 -0500, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:08:42 -0500
> > > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to
> > > ponder:
> > >
> > > > Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > James may be on his way to becoming a hero for this one!
> > > > > Great job!!
> > > > >
> > > > > Ric
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Man! now i can't wait to get home and try it out on my copy of
> > Mozilla!>
> > > ops...spoke too soon. didn't make a bit O difference on this
> > machine.
> >
> > I now have a great speedup...  here's how:
> >
> > 1. installed sylpheed and galeon
> >
> > 2. dumped Nuts-crash
> >
> > Tried switching to pine exclusively (since I regulary do mail remotely
> > (via pine)); but sylpheed is *way* faster than pine...
> >
> > :^)
> > Pierre
> >
> >
> 
> I went back to using regular Netscape. works just fine. it's the new
> netscape that runs like a slug on a hot side walk for me. Galeon was
> sluggish for me too.

I've never been a big fan of Netscape 6.x, way to slow for my taste.
Netscape 4.x is much better in that respect, but even it has issues. For
my usual web browsing, I'm running Galeon now. It "seems" a lot more
stable, and faster than Netscape, or Mozilla (although removing the
debug code from the script did help on the speed issue).

As for Opera: In a world of free browsers, I refuse to pay for one. :)


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Re: [expert] Java Developement Kit

[Oscar]

El jue, 10-01-2002 a las 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
> Hi,
> I would like to be able to use the JDK1.3.1_02 or any JDK on my Mandrake.
> I tried to install it but I couldn't cause the extension was rpm.bin
> Can anyone tell me what to do.
> Thanks a lot in advance

You must chmod u+x the rpm.bin file, then run it and (after accepting
the license terms that will be displayed to you) the "real" rpm will be
unpacked on the same folder.
Saludos,
óscar.

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[expert] Problems after adding a SCSI card.

[Steve Helder]

I have an IBM eseries 230 server that has onboard SCSI and an IBM ServeRaid
adapter.  The raid adapter has 3 hdd's and the onboard scsi has a tape
backup drive on it.

I have had no problems and really love this server and Mandrake 8.1.  I have
been using Linux for awhile and am no where near an expert, in fact this is
the first time I have added hardware to a linux box.

I have added an Adaptec 2940U scsi adpater so that I could connect a 7 CD
MDI SCSI Tower.
When I boot up I can see all 7 of the drives as LUN 0 - 6
This is my present /proc/scsi/scsi

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: E-IDEModel: CD-ROM 48X/AKU   Rev: U23
  Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: DAT06240-XXX Rev: 8160
  Type:   Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor:  IBM Model:  SERVERAID   Rev:  1.0
  Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 01
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 15 Lun: 00
  Vendor:  IBM Model:  SERVERAID   Rev:  1.0
  Type:   ProcessorANSI SCSI revision: 01
Host: scsi3 Channel: 01 Id: 15 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM  Model: CaHv3 S2 Rev: 0
  Type:   ProcessorANSI SCSI revision: 02

First of my problems is that I can only see 1 cdrom and it is the first one
on Lun: 00.  How can I add the rest of them so that I can use the ones on
LUN 1 to 6?

Secondly, the adapter that I added became Host0 which bumped the internal
adapter to Host1 which has messed up my /dev/st0 which points to Host0.
This means no backups until I can get this fixed.  Is there a way that I can
correct all my broken links without going through each one? (I might miss
one, heh.)

Any assistance or guidance to the right direction would be greatly
appreciated.

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RE: [expert] Java Developement Kit

[David Joham]

Did you download the RPM version? I usually install the tar.gz version
since I need multiple JDK's on my system.

What happens when you just execute the bin file from a command prompt?

David

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Subject: [expert] Java Developement Kit


Hi,
I would like to be able to use the JDK1.3.1_02 or any JDK on my
Mandrake.
I tried to install it but I couldn't cause the extension was rpm.bin
Can anyone tell me what to do.
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Re: [expert] Java Developement Kit

[Ric Tibbetts]

It's a "self extracting archive" if you will. It will need to be
executed to run. Just change the permissions to allow that, then run it.

#> chmod 755 xxx.yyy.rpm.bin
#> ./xxx.yyy.rpm.bin

That should result in either the .rpm file being "extracted", and
dropped on your hard drive, OR, it will just install it for you. I'm
personaly not a huge fan of these things, but a few places are packaging
them this way.

Hope that helps.


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> I would like to be able to use the JDK1.3.1_02 or any JDK on my Mandrake.
> I tried to install it but I couldn't cause the extension was rpm.bin
> Can anyone tell me what to do.
> Thanks a lot in advance
> 
>   
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Re: [expert] Java Developement Kit

[jipe]

Le Jeudi 10 Janvier 2002 18:08, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
> I would like to be able to use the JDK1.3.1_02 or any JDK on my Mandrake.
> I tried to install it but I couldn't cause the extension was rpm.bin
> Can anyone tell me what to do.
> Thanks a lot in advance

why to install by this way?
j2sdk1.3.1 from blackdown.org is avaible here:
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.3.1/i386/FCS/j2sdk-1.3.1-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2

all what u have to do is:
to choose a directory to unpack it. /usr/local or /opt or any other
then to unpack with tar xvfj
at this point, java is installed. but it's better 
to set PATH in .bashrc or /etc/profile or any other file where variables are 
initialized, by editing and adding this:
PATH=//j2sdk1.3.1/bin:$PATH
export PATH

if u r not satisfied with it, u can remove the repertory where java is 
installed with rm -rf. it's easier than any "make uninstall" ;-)

bye
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Re: [expert] Java Developement Kit

[Ken Thompson]

On Thursday 10 January 2002 10:08 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to be able to use the JDK1.3.1_02 or any JDK on my Mandrake.
> I tried to install it but I couldn't cause the extension was rpm.bin
> Can anyone tell me what to do.
> Thanks a lot in advance
Try a dot slash *./* in front of it in a console window (as root)
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Re: [expert] Any gurus on PDF printing?

[Derek Jennings]

On Thursday 10 January 2002 16:05, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> Derek Jennings wrote:
> > On my 8.1 system I have two PDF printers defined.
> > The first is the pseudo printer defined by KDE which uses ps2pdf to
> > generate PDF files. With this printer I have had disappointing results
> > when printing complex spreadsheets from StarOffice6.0 with the resulting
> > pdf files being unreadable by either gv or Acrobat4.05, or else them
> > being readable but of poor quality with columns wandering all over the
> > place.
> >
> > The second pdf printer I added by selecting the Adobe Distiller2017.801
> > printer driver from the list offered by printerdrake.  This printer does
> > not seem to work at all. If I put a postscript file into it, a postscript
> > file comes out again, but with a slightly different header.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > Would it help for example to use the non GPL but freely available
> > ghostscript7.x instead of the GPL'd ghostscript6.51 supplied with
> > Mandrake?
>
> It depends on the content of the spreadsheets, but one possibility would
> be to transfer the spreadsheet to gnumeric (1.0.0 or better) for example
> by saving them as excel files and opening them in gnumeric. Then to save
> the sheet as a LaTeX file and run that file through pdflatex. THe
> created pdf file can be opened by acrobat or xpdf. (At least I haven't
> found something that doesn't.) The problem is that exporting as a LaTeX
> file looses information, but it depends on whetehr you are using that info.

Thanks for the suggestion. I was wondering if LaTeX might be able to help.
As it happens I tried out the AFPL version of Ghostscript7.03, and that 
produced  pdf files which Acrobat displayed perfectly.  gv still had 
minor problems displaying the files. A document written in Landscape format 
would be 'chopped off' regardless of whether I displayed it in portrait or 
landscape. However installing the GSView4.1 pdf viewer worked perfectly, 
although the UI is not as nice as gv.

Thanks again

derek



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RE: [expert] Java Developement Kit

[Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN]

just chmod +x filename.bin, then ./filename

Brian D. Klar - CVE
OTS
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To: expert; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Java Developement Kit


Hi,
I would like to be able to use the JDK1.3.1_02 or any JDK on my Mandrake.
I tried to install it but I couldn't cause the extension was rpm.bin
Can anyone tell me what to do.
Thanks a lot in advance






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Re: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1

[John]

On Thursday 10 January 2002 07:04 am, you wrote:
> Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN enlightened the whole world with this utterance:
> >Is there a reason you can't boot with lilo. My desktop system
> >Multiboots. Win 98, Win 2k, and three linux's. Lilo works fine.
> >I use Mandrake's Graphical boot screen.
> >
> >Brian D. Klar - CVE
> >OTS
> >WPAFB
>
> I've personally never had much luck using lilo to boot nt of any kind.  It
> seemed to work fine when I just had it booting win98, but when I added
> win2k, it actually was easier to go the route already explained on this
> thread.  Are you using ntfs with your win2k?  I think I remember reading
> that lilo couldn't boot an ntfs partition?
>
> Mike


 I have never had any problems booting win2k with LILO. The only problems I 
had was trying to use ntloader to boot Linux.

John Wheat



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[expert] re:help abiword rpms etc

[richard]

Hi all 
getting worse if possible, gnome has with more than a little help from me got 
to unstable to use , after more efforts of getting abi word installed.
I ve just attempted to download ximian gnome..
more probs
ximian's installer produces an error message that its unable to download
package set info.. :(

1. Is this a mdk incompatabilty  with ximian ?
2 has anyone managed to get abiword running stabily with mdk 8.1 ?
3 is there a way of getting either urpmi or rpm to remove gnome , its libs etc
so I've have a clean plartform to reinstall from ?

mdk 8.1 is not idiot proof , I've just prooved it !!!

TIA 
BG richard



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Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

[Mike Leone]

> > As for Opera: In a world of free browsers, I refuse to pay for one. :)

You don't *have* to pay for Opera. Paying only gets rid of the banner ad at
the top. It's fully functional without paying.






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[expert] Java Developement Kit

[carcour]

Hi,
I would like to be able to use the JDK1.3.1_02 or any JDK on my Mandrake.
I tried to install it but I couldn't cause the extension was rpm.bin
Can anyone tell me what to do.
Thanks a lot in advance





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Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

[Ken Thompson]

On Thursday 10 January 2002 10:02 am, you wrote:
> daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:54:47 -0500
> >
> > Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to 
ponder:
> > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:24:05 -0500, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:08:42 -0500
> > > > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words
> > > > to
> > > >
> > > > ponder:
> > > > > Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> > > > > > James may be on his way to becoming a hero for this one!
> > > > > > Great job!!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ric
> > > > >
> > > > > Man! now i can't wait to get home and try it out on my copy of
> > >
> > > Mozilla!>
> > >
> > > > ops...spoke too soon. didn't make a bit O difference on this
> > >
> > > machine.
> > >
> > > I now have a great speedup...  here's how:
> > >
> > > 1. installed sylpheed and galeon
> > >
> > > 2. dumped Nuts-crash
> > >
> > > Tried switching to pine exclusively (since I regulary do mail remotely
> > > (via pine)); but sylpheed is *way* faster than pine...
> > >
> > > :^)
> > >
> > > Pierre
> >
> > I went back to using regular Netscape. works just fine. it's the new
> > netscape that runs like a slug on a hot side walk for me. Galeon was
> > sluggish for me too.
>
> I've never been a big fan of Netscape 6.x, way to slow for my taste.
> Netscape 4.x is much better in that respect, but even it has issues. For
> my usual web browsing, I'm running Galeon now. It "seems" a lot more
> stable, and faster than Netscape, or Mozilla (although removing the
> debug code from the script did help on the speed issue).
>
> As for Opera: In a world of free browsers, I refuse to pay for one. :)

Opera 6.0 is better than any of the past releases of Opera..
I've never cared much for it but have to say that 6.0 works OK and has flash 
&etc...
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RE: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

[Franki]

I have both the download edition and the powerpack, no difference in speed
in either that I can tell, which makes sense since its the same base rpm
packages being installed.

I am running 8.1 on many different systems..

one has only 32MB of ram, and the cpu's I have running are:

166mmx,  (dns server n stuff)
200mmx   (firewall/samba)
233mmx   (firewall/samba/postfix)
Ppro200  (firewall/samba/postfix/http)
Celery450 (testing)
Athlon1000 t'bird (firewall/samba/postfix/http)
Athlon1800XP (firewall/samba/postfix/http)

working great on all of them, my home samba server/firewall/mailserver is
only a 233MMX with 160MB ram, and it runs great, GUI and all, (I use icewm
mostly, but KDE works ok too.)



rgds

Frank

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 9:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable


i think there was a problem with the download edition, I have downloaded it
3
times for 3 different computers, on each computer is was slooow and very
unstable ( i was lucky to have a 1 day uptime ).  I think we should take a
vote to figure out what is wrong, Tell me if 8.1 is giving you problems or
working great and was it the download edition, powerpack, gaming, etc?

mark

On Wednesday 09 January 2002 07:16 am, you wrote:
> We are going nowhere.  People are addicted to Windblows, they will
> experiment with Linux on a "marginal" box, and then, because it is so much
> better, move it to a more powerful box.  If the "marginal" box part craps
> out, no powerful box for you... Microsloth wins.
>
> mg
>
> On Monday 07 January 2002 23:18, Michael Leone wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:03, mike wrote:
> > > One of the virtues of Linux over Windblows was that the hardware
> > > requiremtns were less stringent, no?
> >
> > There's a difference between "less stringent" and "marginal".
> >
> > > mg
> > >
> > > On Monday 07 January 2002 22:37, Michael Leone wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 16:52, Davor Cengija wrote:
> > > > >   So, concensus would be that I have some hardware related
> > > > >   problems, which is quite unusual since Mdk 7.2 worked just
> > > > >   fine without any problem.
> > > >
> > > > Not necessarily PROBLEMS; just that Mdk 8.1 is more STRICT, and
won't
> > > > tolerate (perhaps) marginal hardware, and 7.2 will.
> > >
> > > 
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> > > 
>
> 
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[expert] Gnome Problems

[carcour]

Hi,
I do have problems with Gnome.When i log in ,the bar at the bottom doesn't show.
I think it's a problem with pilot conduits because when i boot under Gnome, Pilot 
conduits appear with the bar, and then the bar disappear.
Can anyone help please.
Thanks a lot in advance






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Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

[Ric Tibbetts]

Mike Leone wrote:
> 
> > > As for Opera: In a world of free browsers, I refuse to pay for one. :)
> 
> You don't *have* to pay for Opera. Paying only gets rid of the banner ad at
> the top. It's fully functional without paying.

yeah, but the banner ad is annoying. ;)


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RE: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

[Franki]

I don't know, yes, unix is more server oriented, but I think that saying
that linux "isn't" is not true.


I have linux boxes with uptimes of a year or more...(not so much any more
because I tend to update more often now, but several months of high load
usage is not unusual.)

and fileservers, webservers, dns servers and other stuff, some all running
on the same box, also firewall and nat.. and it handles it nicely. I have
one box, that does all of that and serves 7 different domains and a large
internal network with alot of traffic, and its uptime is currently one
month, and thats just because I last updated the kernel a month ago..

they all have a very basic GUI (icewm,) but it isn't running unless there is
a reason for it to be..

all the user stuff either isn't installed or isn't running...

works great as a server platform, and linux has been shown in many cases to
seriously outperform solaris and other "unix's"
 in many areas, one of which is the filesystems, and I saw a recent test
case in the postfix list, that showed postfix on linux as the fastest
example when compared to several uxicies and even freebsd.. so it has its
uses...
(I am pretty sure that I saw an webserver cgi test that showed that linux
had the highest performance of various cgi languages across platform as
well, (think that was on a mod perl site..) it looked at asp, php, perl,
java and others on different platforms, and linux was consistantly the
fastest... (of the unix based OS's, winblows wasnt' included and I suspect
the results wouldn't have changed if it was.)

linux tends to develop faster then other OS's, mostly because of the sheer
number of developers... so I think it will have a significant advantage in
performance that will only grow...

personally, I find some of the linux changes to be a great benefit in speedy
admin, like the init scripts...

I will keep using it for servers till I find something as cost effective and
performance of a similiar level.

rgds

Frank

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Sent: Friday, 11 January 2002 3:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable


for server  environment?? ...I would use a unix instead of linux..being
that linux isnt  really geared toward the server
environment.

BSD rulZ
B

Franki wrote:

>I have both the download edition and the powerpack, no difference in speed
>in either that I can tell, which makes sense since its the same base rpm
>packages being installed.
>
>I am running 8.1 on many different systems..
>
>one has only 32MB of ram, and the cpu's I have running are:
>
>166mmx,  (dns server n stuff)
>200mmx   (firewall/samba)
>233mmx   (firewall/samba/postfix)
>Ppro200  (firewall/samba/postfix/http)
>Celery450 (testing)
>Athlon1000 t'bird (firewall/samba/postfix/http)
>Athlon1800XP (firewall/samba/postfix/http)
>
>working great on all of them, my home samba server/firewall/mailserver is
>only a 233MMX with 160MB ram, and it runs great, GUI and all, (I use icewm
>mostly, but KDE works ok too.)
>
>
>
>rgds
>
>Frank
>
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark D'voo
>Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 9:46 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable
>
>
>i think there was a problem with the download edition, I have downloaded it
>3
>times for 3 different computers, on each computer is was slooow and very
>unstable ( i was lucky to have a 1 day uptime ).  I think we should take a
>vote to figure out what is wrong, Tell me if 8.1 is giving you problems or
>working great and was it the download edition, powerpack, gaming, etc?
>
>mark
>
>On Wednesday 09 January 2002 07:16 am, you wrote:
>
>>We are going nowhere.  People are addicted to Windblows, they will
>>experiment with Linux on a "marginal" box, and then, because it is so much
>>better, move it to a more powerful box.  If the "marginal" box part craps
>>out, no powerful box for you... Microsloth wins.
>>
>>mg
>>
>>On Monday 07 January 2002 23:18, Michael Leone wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:03, mike wrote:
>>>
One of the virtues of Linux over Windblows was that the hardware
requiremtns were less stringent, no?

>>>There's a difference between "less stringent" and "marginal".
>>>
mg

On Monday 07 January 2002 22:37, Michael Leone wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 16:52, Davor Cengija wrote:
>
>>  So, concensus would be that I have some hardware related
>>  problems, which is quite unusual since Mdk 7.2 worked just
>>  fine without any problem.
>>
>Not necessarily PROBLEMS; just that Mdk 8.1 is more STRICT, and
>
>won't
>
>tolerate (perhaps) marginal hardware, and 7.2 will.
>

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Re: [expert] Help urgent

[richard]

Thanks for the answer. I'd prefer to try and keep the config files if
poss.
Evolution 1.0 runs but is not too stable, forgets what mail is in the
system, galeon is now unstable.
abiword , well ! it thinks it 0.9.6.1, but that would not compile as
glib was'nt in, 
urpmi says glib is install , rpm -q says not.

not a stable situation any more !, but if it was any winrubbish it would
have alreay gone past the stage of reinstall 

bg 
richard
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 09:18, Oscar wrote:
> El mié, 09-01-2002 a las 22:05, richard escribió:
> > Hi all, gotta problem,
> > in trying to upgrade abiword, to a version which dos'nt crash when more than
> > 4 pages in a doc, I have really srcrewed gnome..
> > 
> > Galeon, nice browser, wont start, evolution 1.0 lost all mail and crashes,
> > icons gone from desktop..
> > 
> > Is there a way of downloading a safe verion of gnome and automatically
> > forfilling any dependancies as required and overwrinting files that have got 
> > corrupted...
> > I think but not sure that rpm is not 100% functional, KDE is still 
> > functional; luckily
> > 
> > 
> > TIA 
> > BG ,,,grovel grovel grovel
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Gnome is working great here.
> What version of LM do you have?
> try exiting gnome, removing ~/.gnome/session and restart.
> 
> or if you are more radical (eliminates all config files! Do it *at your
> own risk*!) you can do:
> 
>   cd ~/
>   rm -r .gnome*
>   rm -r .galeon
>   rm -r evolution
>   rm -r .nautilus*
> 
> If the version of mandrake does not work for you, you can use ximian
> gnome.
> Saludos,
> óscar.
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> 
> 

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[expert] ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon and Mandrake 8.1

[Jesse Stay]

I can't seem to get my ATI-All-In-Wonder Radeon (32 Mb PCI) to work 
with Mandrake 8.1. I install Mandrake as usual, 
enabling XFree86 4.1.0 with 3D graphics 
support, and the test screen works fine. However, when I finish the install, 
reboot, login, and startx, all I get is a blank screen with my arrow on it. 
XFree86 doesn't produce any errors. Is there any way to get this to work 
using Mandrake's rpms? Or is there just a setting I need to change? Any 
ideas on how to fix this?

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Re: [expert] Help urgent

[Tobias Marx]

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[expert] 8.1 install and aftermath

[Deryk Barker]

I've just finished installing 8.1 on two machines - both previously
running 7.2

Although I am pleased with the look and feel of the new system there
are some definite shortcomings (IMHO) in the install/update process
(if anyone from MDK is listening).

First and this has been brought up before, why is there no "install
everything" option? I dedicated a 40GB hard drive to this
installation, I'd much prefer to have installed everything and then
removed what I didn't want.

Upgrading (which I attempted at work) is unreliable: as had happened
once before, on a previous upgrade, everything seemed to go OK until
the pwconv setp at which point the system seemed to go into a loop - I
despaired after about 15 minutes and hit the reset and decided to do a
complete install instead. Has anyone else had trouble here?

Unfortunately, because of my first point above, I am mow spending
hours (literally) cleaning up and installing everything I missed. I
mean, I clicked on every possible box in the main install process and
still got no command line mail reader installed!

My biggest beef, though, is: what happened to Zope? It came on the
download disk set for 7.2 but there don't seem to be any 8.2 RPMs
anywhere on the disks or the Mandrake site.

Come on folks, this is still open source and you used to supply it. An
"upgrade" which doesn't include functionality you used to provide is
no upgrade.

I'm hoping not to have to go through with this by using the software
manager function, although that too can be a little hard to understand
and doesn't seem to offer me the chance to install new packages, at
least not obviously.

In short this has been a very disappointing process. My initial
enthusiasm at the ease of installation at home, was first ameliorated
buy the post-instal process there, then came the one at work, and I'm
still in the post-install.

Am I simply howling at the moon?

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Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

[nds]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor Cengija wrote:
>
>>  I'm having a really hard time with this new 8.1
>>  distribution. It is very unstable and unpredictable (something
>>  I wouldn't expect from Mandrake Linux). Anyone experienced
>>  similar problems, say:
>>
>>- kicker dies without obvious reason
>>- konqueror segfaults with libstdc++ errors in debug stack trace
>>- the X server freezes while the rest of the system works fine (say,
>>  internet connection). However, mouse and keyboard are dead (since
>>  they're controlled by X, of course)
>>- xemacs segfaults with different errors, in different states
>>
>>  There are some other problems as well. I'll skip pasting stack
>>  traces, etc for now.
>>
>>  The strange thing is that everything works just fine after
>>  reboot (like in windows :-). So, I'd say that either kernel or
>>  some standard lib (glibc, libstdc++ or whatever) is
>>  broken. Sometimes one error in say konqueror is followed by
>>  xemacs' segfault.
>>
>
>Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case
>fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been
>solid.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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the other problem could be that you need to change your CMOS battery. 
That was my case a few months back. It got to the point that my kernel 
was spitting getty errors left and right. or something about my computer 
was syncing too fast.HTH

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Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

[nds]

Ken Hawkins wrote:

> I posted a rant on this very subject about 1 month ago. My laptop 
> continues to run just fine on 7.2, after a looonng day of attempting 
> to install 8.1 I KNOW its not hardware because I haven't had a hiccup 
> at all, and 7.2 autodetected all components, which 8.1 failed to 
> accomplish.
>
> Ken
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor Cengija wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having a really hard time with this new 8.1
>>> distribution. It is very unstable and unpredictable (something
>>> I wouldn't expect from Mandrake Linux). Anyone experienced
>>> similar problems, say:
>>>
>>> - kicker dies without obvious reason
>>> - konqueror segfaults with libstdc++ errors in debug stack trace
>>> - the X server freezes while the rest of the system works fine (say,
>>>  internet connection). However, mouse and keyboard are dead (since
>>>  they're controlled by X, of course)
>>> - xemacs segfaults with different errors, in different states
>>>
>> Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case
>> fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been
>> solid.
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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It could be the kernel. Try to install LM 8.1 with 2.2.19 instead of 
2.4.8. Maybe that will help and fix your installation blues. HTH

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Re: [expert] FTP clients

[nds]

Alexander Skwar wrote:

>So sprach »nds« am 2002-01-07 um 03:06:17 -0600 :
>
>>I would like to know "expert" information like can you do a single line 
>>command to execute more than one task at once like you can regularly in 
>>linux? Example:
>>
>
>Ah. Okay, ncftp isn't the way to go in this case, but you might want to
>give lftp a try:
>
>Suppose I want to login to ftp.gnome.org and get the directory listings
>of / and of /pub (lacking any other decent example *G*):
>
>[askwar@teich askwar]$ lftp -c 'open ftp.gnome.org ; ls -la / ; ls -la /pub'
>
>Of course you can also upload this way (put) and anything else.  
>
>lftp does not only handle ftp, but also http.  Futher, it somehow also
>seems to be able to do ssh.  Although I haven't tried that yet:
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=lftp+ssh&num=100&sourceid=Galeon
>
>Is that what you meant?
>
>Alexander Skwar
>
>
>
>
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That is exactly what I am talking about! I love you... man!

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Re: [expert] offset on system clock

[nds]

Mark Chou wrote:

>That thought had occurred to me earlier, so I check my BIOS time on
>every reboot, which is every ~10min. when tracking down this time
>issue.  BIOS clock is correct local time evey reboot, but this timeshift
>still occurs.
>
>In addition, perhaps I didn't make my self clear, the time zone is off
>in the other (more westerly direction).  Instead of Greenwich my system
>thinks its ~Fiji; "date"="hwclock"-9 hours.
>
>In a sense you're correct:  If I set my BIOS clock to GMT then I won't
>have such complaints.  But I occasionally do dual boot into that other
>operating system from Redmond.  And that clock would get messed up if I
>set my BIOS clock to GMT.  
>
>I think somehow on this system Linux insists on *thinking* that hwclock
>is in GMT on return from suspend/standby even though it is *told* that
>hwclock is local time.
>
>My /etc/sysconfig/clock:
>UTC=false
>ARC=false
>ZONE=US/Pacific
>
>
>
>
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Do you have rdate or ntp set and running on your system? Both at the 
same time? If either one, remove and then reinstall those programs and 
run them again. If both, choose. If neither, try one and force that 
program to sync your computer. That should fix your problem.IHTH

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Re: [expert] Help urgent

[nds]

Tobias Marx wrote:

>what version of mandrake are you using? did you install rpms from cooker?
>
>
>
>
>
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Yes, I do ftp installs thanx majorally to my broadband connection. I 
make disc images as they are posted on the website. I have the first LM 
8.2 beta on this system (that will be remedied shortly and the second 
beta on my other computer.HTH

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[expert] urpmi.update problem

[bascule]

i posted this problem a while ago but beyond suggestions that i uninstall and 
reinstall no-one could help me, i'm still having the problem of urpmi 
u[dating a local source and it apparently being 'empty' the out put of 
urpmi.update clearly shows that it finds refernces to rpms and then 
immediately deletes them from its database, i'm getting to the point where 
iam seriously considering doing a clean install just to get one application 
to work (i've done an upgrade already but this didn't fix it), but of course 
this would be silly wouldn't it? 
i have upgraded urpmi, rpmdrake, autoirpm, gurpmi, grmpi (and rebooted, 
windows style) to the latest versions but i still get the output below

snip---
/mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/yadex-1.5.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
/mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/webalizer-2.01.09-2mdk.i586.rpm
/mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/xsidplay-libsidplay2-1.6.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
/mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/libid3lib3.8_0-devel-3.8.0-0.pre2.1.1mdk.i586.rpm
choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive 
/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.localcooker.cz
real archive size of /var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.localcooker.cz is 
19104482
reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.localcooker.cz]
keeping only files referenced in provides
reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.localcooker.cz]
built hdlist synthesis file for medium "localcooker"
found 3370 headers in cache
removing 3370 obsolete headers in cache
write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]
[root@mycroft RPMS]#

--snip-
apart from the last 2 penultimate lines of output the prog seems to work 
perfectly

any more ideas anyone?

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Re: [expert] 8.1 install and aftermath

[Charles A Edwards]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:47:36 -0800
Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've just finished installing 8.1 on two machines - both previously
> running 7.2
> 
> Although I am pleased with the look and feel of the new system there
> are some definite shortcomings (IMHO) in the install/update process
> (if anyone from MDK is listening).
> 
> First and this has been brought up before, why is there no "install
> everything" option? I dedicated a 40GB hard drive to this
> installation, I'd much prefer to have installed everything and then
> removed what I didn't want.


Even distros such as SuSE and RH which offer an Everything selection, still
do not install all the pkgs. 

With Mandrake during package selection you can toggle to flat list and 
manually select every package included in the CDs.

Be forewarned the installation will only check pkgs for depends, it will 
not check for conflicts.
So if you select it, it will be installed and you Will end up with apps
and programs that will not work. 


> 
> Upgrading (which I attempted at work) is unreliable: as had happened
> once before, on a previous upgrade, everything seemed to go OK until
> the pwconv setp at which point the system seemed to go into a loop - I
> despaired after about 15 minutes and hit the reset and decided to do a
> complete install instead. Has anyone else had trouble here?


Even when 8.0 was released it was recommended that it be done as a Clean
install not as an upgrade to 7.2.
Since 7.2 both the directory structure and the rpm version have been changed.

> 
> Unfortunately, because of my first point above, I am mow spending
> hours (literally) cleaning up and installing everything I missed. I
> mean, I clicked on every possible box in the main install process and
> still got no command line mail reader installed!
> 
> My biggest beef, though, is: what happened to Zope? It came on the
> download disk set for 7.2 but there don't seem to be any 8.2 RPMs
> anywhere on the disks or the Mandrake site.
> 
> Come on folks, this is still open source and you used to supply it. An
> "upgrade" which doesn't include functionality you used to provide is
> no upgrade.

Zope was dropped because of its poor security record.
Check Quanta which is included in 8.1 and it performs better than Zope.

 
 
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[expert] Re:

[civileme]

On Thursday 10 January 2002 12:57 am, jean pierre picat wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I just tried to install Linux on a Presario 1211 and got some trouble. I
> found messages on the net with similar problems. Do anyone succeed in
> installing Linux and how doing that successfully
>
> Thank you
>
> Jean Pierre Picat

at the splash screen hit F1

then type

linux noauto

That's all it takes.

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Re: [expert] Help urgent

[Tobias Marx]

nds schrieb:

> Yes, I do ftp installs thanx majorally to my broadband connection. I
> make disc images as they are posted on the website. I have the first LM
> 8.2 beta on this system (that will be remedied shortly and the second
> beta on my other computer.HTH

wouldn´t the cooker mailing list be a better place to ask for this? ;)

i remember some problems with libpng that caused gnome to loose all icons.
but i dont´t know the exact reason nor the solution for this. i suggest to
have a look at the cooker mailing list archive:
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[expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[Ric Tibbetts]

Has anyone tried any of these yet?
I'm thinking about getting one, and was wondering how Linux deals with
them.

For example, my digital camera is a USB device. When I hook it up, Linux
recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, and maps it out. I just
mount it up, and access it. (slick!).
Can I look for the same with the MP3 players? If so, has anyone had any
good/bad experiences with any in particular?

TIA!

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Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

[Tobias Marx]

Ric Tibbetts schrieb:

> Mike Leone wrote:
> >
> > > > As for Opera: In a world of free browsers, I refuse to pay for one. :)
> >
> > You don't *have* to pay for Opera. Paying only gets rid of the banner ad at
> > the top. It's fully functional without paying.
>
> yeah, but the banner ad is annoying. ;)

imho not really (at least with dsl) and it´s a fine way to support this great
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Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

[Ronald J. Hall]

Mark D'voo wrote:

> I tried also to increase linux awareness by giving away cd's, but my story is
> more funny.  A couple of months ago some dumbass rep from microsoft came to
> talk to the computer club at my university about .NET.  A bunch of people
> showed up because they were giving everyone a full version copy of visual
> studio .NET.  I showed up early with a couple of Mandrake CD's in my pocket,
> grabbed a bunch of the Visual Studio .NET packets, switched out the cds with
> Mandrake, and sat down watching some very confused people open up a microsoft
> packet with Linux Cd's inside : )
> 
> mark

Hahaha, thats funny! ;-)

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Re: [expert] 8.1 install and aftermath

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Charles A Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:47:36 -0800
> Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I've just finished installing 8.1 on two machines - both previously
> > running 7.2
> > 
> > Although I am pleased with the look and feel of the new system there
> > are some definite shortcomings (IMHO) in the install/update process
> > (if anyone from MDK is listening).
> > 
> > First and this has been brought up before, why is there no "install
> > everything" option? I dedicated a 40GB hard drive to this
> > installation, I'd much prefer to have installed everything and then
> > removed what I didn't want.
> 
> 
> Even distros such as SuSE and RH which offer an Everything selection, still
> do not install all the pkgs. 
> 
> With Mandrake during package selection you can toggle to flat list and 
> manually select every package included in the CDs.
> 
> Be forewarned the installation will only check pkgs for depends, it will 
> not check for conflicts.
> So if you select it, it will be installed and you Will end up with apps
> and programs that will not work. 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Upgrading (which I attempted at work) is unreliable: as had happened
> > once before, on a previous upgrade, everything seemed to go OK until
> > the pwconv setp at which point the system seemed to go into a loop - I
> > despaired after about 15 minutes and hit the reset and decided to do a
> > complete install instead. Has anyone else had trouble here?
> 
> 
> Even when 8.0 was released it was recommended that it be done as a Clean
> install not as an upgrade to 7.2.
> Since 7.2 both the directory structure and the rpm version have been changed.
> 
> > 
> > Unfortunately, because of my first point above, I am mow spending
> > hours (literally) cleaning up and installing everything I missed. I
> > mean, I clicked on every possible box in the main install process and
> > still got no command line mail reader installed!
> > 
> > My biggest beef, though, is: what happened to Zope? It came on the
> > download disk set for 7.2 but there don't seem to be any 8.2 RPMs
> > anywhere on the disks or the Mandrake site.
> > 
> > Come on folks, this is still open source and you used to supply it. An
> > "upgrade" which doesn't include functionality you used to provide is
> > no upgrade.
> 
...
> Zope was dropped because of its poor security record.
> Check Quanta which is included in 8.1 and it performs better than Zope.

If this was a good enough reason to drop zope, why is snedmail still
on the CD?

The point is that I recall seeing no warnings, no nothing telling me
that if I was running a semi-production website via zope (which I
am/was) then I'd be facing a fair amount of work to keep it running.

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RE: [expert] 8.1 install and aftermath

[David Joham]

<>

Huh?

Zope is an application server. Quanta is a text editor. Your statement
doesn't make any sense. Would you please elaborate?

Thanks

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Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[gnerd]

Tools for loading them with music are pretty sparse.  I have a Rio 600, 
and the only tool I've found to deal with it is rioutil 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioutil/).  It doesn't have any polish 
like the ability to make upload lists or the ability to automagically 
keep track of how much storage space you've used...things like that.

Essentially, you  use the command line to upload a tune, then do it 
again to upload another, etc.  You have to occasionally list the 
contents of the Rio to see how much space you have left.  It's spartan 
but functional, and meets my needs.

I recall having an issue with needing id3lib to compile rioutil.  I 
downloaded the source and compiled, but later found some Mandrake rpms 
for it at rpmfind.net.

My take on it is that it could be a lot better, but it's certainly 
adequate the way it is.

Mike


Ric Tibbetts wrote:

> Has anyone tried any of these yet?
> I'm thinking about getting one, and was wondering how Linux deals with
> them.
> 
> For example, my digital camera is a USB device. When I hook it up, Linux
> recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, and maps it out. I just
> mount it up, and access it. (slick!).
> Can I look for the same with the MP3 players? If so, has anyone had any
> good/bad experiences with any in particular?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[Charlie Bebber]

Hi Ric,

I've had a Creative Nomad for more than a year now and no, it's not linux
kosher.  From what I understand, Creative won't/can't release the specs for
these devices because of pressure by the RIAA.  There's been some
development on a linux solution, but it's really not yet ready for the
primetime.

HTH,

-Charlie

Ric Tibbetts said:
> Has anyone tried any of these yet?
> I'm thinking about getting one, and was wondering how Linux deals with
> them.
>
> For example, my digital camera is a USB device. When I hook it up,
> Linux recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, and maps it out. I
> just mount it up, and access it. (slick!).
> Can I look for the same with the MP3 players? If so, has anyone had any
> good/bad experiences with any in particular?
>
> TIA!
>
> --
> Ric Tibbetts
>
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> If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to
> http://counter.li.org/


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Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

[Michael Scottaline]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:59:02 -0800
Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously:

> Mike Leone wrote:
> > 
> > > > As for Opera: In a world of free browsers, I refuse to pay for
> > > > one. :)
> > 
> > You don't *have* to pay for Opera. Paying only gets rid of the banner
> > ad at the top. It's fully functional without paying.
> 
> yeah, but the banner ad is annoying. ;)
Hit F11 and get nothing but page!!  No interface (use keys or mouse to
navigate and perform functions) no banner adds.  None, nada, zilch
(visible). Mike
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Re: [expert] 8.1 install and aftermath

[Charles A Edwards]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:51:49 -0700
"David Joham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> < Check Quanta which is included in 8.1 and it performs better than
> Zope.>>
> 
> Huh?
> 
> Zope is an application server. Quanta is a text editor.
 Your statement
> doesn't make any sense. 


My only excuse can be the onset of senility.
I realized what I had said only after it had been sent.

Security though, is the reason that was given by the development team
as to why Zope was dropped from the distro.


Charles


> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 




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Re: [expert] Help urgent

[richard]

On Thursday 10 January 2002 8:50 pm, you wrote:
> what version of mandrake are you using? did you install rpms from cooker?
some of the rpms were installed from cooker, 
curent ver mdk 8.1 kernenel 2.4.16

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Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[Jerry Sternesky]

Timely topic since I just started looking around for mp3 players.  I
followed the link and saw the Rio 600 and 800 is supported by this.  How
do you like the 600, I am looking for something will be compact enough
to wear while working out in the gym?

Actually the rio riot looks just like what I have been looking for, fm
tuner with mp3 playback.  But it doesn't look like that is supported. :(


On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 17:43, gnerd wrote:
> Tools for loading them with music are pretty sparse.  I have a Rio 600, 
> and the only tool I've found to deal with it is rioutil 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioutil/).  It doesn't have any polish 
> like the ability to make upload lists or the ability to automagically 
> keep track of how much storage space you've used...things like that.
> 
> Essentially, you  use the command line to upload a tune, then do it 
> again to upload another, etc.  You have to occasionally list the 
> contents of the Rio to see how much space you have left.  It's spartan 
> but functional, and meets my needs.
> 
> I recall having an issue with needing id3lib to compile rioutil.  I 
> downloaded the source and compiled, but later found some Mandrake rpms 
> for it at rpmfind.net.
> 
> My take on it is that it could be a lot better, but it's certainly 
> adequate the way it is.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone tried any of these yet?
> > I'm thinking about getting one, and was wondering how Linux deals with
> > them.
> > 
> > For example, my digital camera is a USB device. When I hook it up, Linux
> > recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, and maps it out. I just
> > mount it up, and access it. (slick!).
> > Can I look for the same with the MP3 players? If so, has anyone had any
> > good/bad experiences with any in particular?
> > 
> > TIA!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
> > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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[expert] RAR de/compressor for PPC?

[isaac]

hello,

is there one?  i couldn't find any, and couldn't get
the source rpm to compile ("arch ppc not included" or something like
that). and inside that srpm is a .sfx file (what's that?).

i suppose one could boot up MOL, transfer the RAR file to the mac side
with netatalk, and use the MacOS version of RAR. But what a pain!

thanks for any advice.
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[expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound

[Paul Sue]

Hi,

I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems.
For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk.
Most of the time when I play thm with xmms, they
sound fine.  However, once in awhile it sounds awful
(stuttering sort of sound).

I'm running LM8.1; my AX4BS MB has on-board
AC97 support.

Any ideas as to what's causing the problem?

Thanks,

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[expert] Joystick Detection

[Jason Guidry]

I'm not finding much in the way of documentation here...I'm trying to get LM8.1 to 
recognize my logitech joystick (digital 3D).  It is attached to my SB live! soundcard 
gameport.  the soundcard is detcted fine under the 2.4.8-34 kernel according to 
harddrake.

after making the appropriate ritual sacrifice to google, the only thing I found in 
searching told me to 'modprobe ns558' and entering that yielded the following:

[root@localhost input]# modprobe ns558
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz: init_module: No 
such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO 
or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz: insmod ns558 failed
[root@localhost input]# harddrake
Can't open file `/dev/fd1' for reading!
Can't open file `/proc/parport/0/autoprobe' for reading!
[root@localhost input]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.8-34.1mdk #1 Mon Nov 19 12:40:39 MST 2001 i686 unknown
[root@localhost input]# 

I went ahead and included the errors when launching harddrake if that helps out the 
elders.  any ideas?

the only other thing that came up was when jose reccomended configuring the sound card 
from the control center.  doing that gives me...

/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-emu10k1.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-emu10k1.o.gz: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-emu10k1.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-emu10k1.o.gz: insmod sound-slot-0 failed

quite frustrating.



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Re: [expert] Joystick Detection

[bascule]

there is a module with that name in the correct directory, i.e. under the 
directory tree for the kernel you are using?

bascule

On Friday 11 January 2002 1:10 am, you wrote:
>
> after making the appropriate ritual sacrifice to google, the only thing I
> found in searching told me to 'modprobe ns558' and entering that yielded
> the following:
>
> [root@localhost input]# modprobe ns558
> /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz:
> init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect
> module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz: insmod
> ns558 failed [ro



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Re: [expert] RAR de/compressor for PPC?

[Ric Tibbetts]

isaac wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> is there one?  i couldn't find any, and couldn't get
> the source rpm to compile ("arch ppc not included" or something like
> that). and inside that srpm is a .sfx file (what's that?).
> 
> i suppose one could boot up MOL, transfer the RAR file to the mac side
> with netatalk, and use the MacOS version of RAR. But what a pain!
> 
> thanks for any advice.
> -i
> 
>   
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The source is available at:

http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm

Near the bottom of the page is the linux version.
What you download is rarlnx28.sfx

Once you have it, cd to what-ever directory you downloaded it to and do:
(as root)

#> chmod 755 rarlnx28.sfx
#> ./rarlnx28.sfx

That will create a sub directory rar

#> cd rar
#> make

That will install:
/usr/local/bin/rar
/usr/local/bin/unrar
/usr/local/lib/default.sfx

And away you go!



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Re: [expert] Help urgent

[richard]

On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:29 pm, you wrote:
just noticed two people put out mail with the same  subject, also similar  ???

> On Thursday 10 January 2002 8:50 pm, you wrote:
> > what version of mandrake are you using? did you install rpms from cooker?
>
> some of the rpms were installed from cooker,
> curent ver mdk 8.1 kernenel 2.4.16
>
> bg richard



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[expert] rpm /urpmi

[richard]

hi all.
trying to rebuild ths damn mess,
it would help if there wernt many conflicts 
As I understand it the later kernels 2.4.14 > require a later version of 
initscripts to be loaded..

initscripts requires a later version of setup
which conflicts with dhcpcd 1.3.21pl1
so just keep going round in bloody circles   !!!

It appears thart 8.1 may be stable if you do nowt with it, but god help 
anyone that upgrades a package that dos'nt work in the first place.
this is border line on a complete reinstall and use my windows box for text 
processing..
ans as for the bloody man page on urpmi , its bloody useless,
going to bed before i throw this sodding pc out the window

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Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[Mark D'voo]

you could always get an mp3 player that plays cd's of mp3s, they've become 
very cheap ( the rio mp3 player is under $100).  I just got a compaq (i hate 
compaq :)  ) that plays 8cm cd's of mp3s, it holds aroudn 40-50 songs and i 
don't have to worry about linux support, I just buy small 8 cm for $.50 a 
piece and burn them with cdrecord, no probs at all.  I never got my rio 
pmp300 to work correctly

mark

On Friday 11 January 2002 06:19 am, you wrote:
> Timely topic since I just started looking around for mp3 players.  I
> followed the link and saw the Rio 600 and 800 is supported by this.  How
> do you like the 600, I am looking for something will be compact enough
> to wear while working out in the gym?
>
> Actually the rio riot looks just like what I have been looking for, fm
> tuner with mp3 playback.  But it doesn't look like that is supported. :(
>
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 17:43, gnerd wrote:
> > Tools for loading them with music are pretty sparse.  I have a Rio 600,
> > and the only tool I've found to deal with it is rioutil
> > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioutil/).  It doesn't have any polish
> > like the ability to make upload lists or the ability to automagically
> > keep track of how much storage space you've used...things like that.
> >
> > Essentially, you  use the command line to upload a tune, then do it
> > again to upload another, etc.  You have to occasionally list the
> > contents of the Rio to see how much space you have left.  It's spartan
> > but functional, and meets my needs.
> >
> > I recall having an issue with needing id3lib to compile rioutil.  I
> > downloaded the source and compiled, but later found some Mandrake rpms
> > for it at rpmfind.net.
> >
> > My take on it is that it could be a lot better, but it's certainly
> > adequate the way it is.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried any of these yet?
> > > I'm thinking about getting one, and was wondering how Linux deals with
> > > them.
> > >
> > > For example, my digital camera is a USB device. When I hook it up,
> > > Linux recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, and maps it out. I
> > > just mount it up, and access it. (slick!).
> > > Can I look for the same with the MP3 players? If so, has anyone had any
> > > good/bad experiences with any in particular?
> > >
> > > TIA!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---
> > >-
> > >
> > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
> >
> > 
> >
> >
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Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[Ric Tibbetts]

Yeah, I looked at the MP3 CD player. Not a bad way to go, but it's too
much like what I'm doing now.
Now, I burn then onto an audio CD, and play them via my CD Player
(portable). I can get 10-12 on a CD. My Cd player will play CD=RWs, so I
use those, and when I get tired of one, I just erase it, and make a new
one.

Besides, writing the CDs is slow. It would be quicker to just blast them
out to a memory device, like an MP3 player. (yup, I'm lazy!). Also, the
MP3 players are small, and light enough to fit in my pocket while I'm
excersizing.

There are a lot of players out there. I'm just looking for one that I
can use with Linux. So far it sounds like the RIO is the best choice.
Loading the files could be scripted easily enough to automate that...

Thanks to everyone for their input so far.
Still, if someone has had some good (or bad) luck with MP3 players &
Linux, drop a note!

Ric

Mark D'voo wrote:
> 
> you could always get an mp3 player that plays cd's of mp3s, they've become
> very cheap ( the rio mp3 player is under $100).  I just got a compaq (i hate
> compaq :)  ) that plays 8cm cd's of mp3s, it holds aroudn 40-50 songs and i
> don't have to worry about linux support, I just buy small 8 cm for $.50 a
> piece and burn them with cdrecord, no probs at all.  I never got my rio
> pmp300 to work correctly
> 
> mark
> 
> On Friday 11 January 2002 06:19 am, you wrote:
> > Timely topic since I just started looking around for mp3 players.  I
> > followed the link and saw the Rio 600 and 800 is supported by this.  How
> > do you like the 600, I am looking for something will be compact enough
> > to wear while working out in the gym?
> >
> > Actually the rio riot looks just like what I have been looking for, fm
> > tuner with mp3 playback.  But it doesn't look like that is supported. :(
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 17:43, gnerd wrote:
> > > Tools for loading them with music are pretty sparse.  I have a Rio 600,
> > > and the only tool I've found to deal with it is rioutil
> > > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioutil/).  It doesn't have any polish
> > > like the ability to make upload lists or the ability to automagically
> > > keep track of how much storage space you've used...things like that.
> > >
> > > Essentially, you  use the command line to upload a tune, then do it
> > > again to upload another, etc.  You have to occasionally list the
> > > contents of the Rio to see how much space you have left.  It's spartan
> > > but functional, and meets my needs.
> > >
> > > I recall having an issue with needing id3lib to compile rioutil.  I
> > > downloaded the source and compiled, but later found some Mandrake rpms
> > > for it at rpmfind.net.
> > >
> > > My take on it is that it could be a lot better, but it's certainly
> > > adequate the way it is.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> > > > Has anyone tried any of these yet?
> > > > I'm thinking about getting one, and was wondering how Linux deals with
> > > > them.
> > > >
> > > > For example, my digital camera is a USB device. When I hook it up,
> > > > Linux recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, and maps it out. I
> > > > just mount it up, and access it. (slick!).
> > > > Can I look for the same with the MP3 players? If so, has anyone had any
> > > > good/bad experiences with any in particular?
> > > >
> > > > TIA!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---
> > > >-
> > > >
> > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > >
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Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[gnerd]

I like my Rio 600 a lot.  I use mine when I'm working out...it's 
certainly better than a portable cassette player.  It comes with a 
spandex holder with a belt clip that makes it considerably thicker, but 
you can place it in such a way as to be unintrusive.

Mine is 64M, but it seems like they have one that's 128M.  Given 
hindsight I wish I'd gone that route.  You can purchase memory expansion 
units for them that have rechargeable batteries built in, but they're 
pretty pricey.  Check out Rio's web site for details.

I guarantee you wouldn't want to use rioutil to load up the Riot.  It 
would take a whole weekend.  If you want one of those, best to just use 
the windows tools Rio ships (if you have a M$ PC).

If you get a 600 or 800, ditch the earphones immediately and get some of 
those over-the-ear-around-the-back-of-the-head headphones or traditional 
buds.  Rio's earphones hurt like the dickens after half an hour.

That's about all I can think of to tell you.  I like mine.

Mike

Jerry Sternesky wrote:

> Timely topic since I just started looking around for mp3 players.  I
> followed the link and saw the Rio 600 and 800 is supported by this.  How
> do you like the 600, I am looking for something will be compact enough
> to wear while working out in the gym?
> 
> Actually the rio riot looks just like what I have been looking for, fm
> tuner with mp3 playback.  But it doesn't look like that is supported. :(
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 17:43, gnerd wrote:








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Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[Michael Leone]

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 22:13, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> 
> Besides, writing the CDs is slow. It would be quicker to just blast them

I have a 12X SCSI CD-RW; writes out a 70+ min CD in about 7 minutes. Any
faster CD-RWs are available. That's not slow.

Converting from MP3 to WAV - now, THAT'S slow! :-)

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Re: [expert] MP3 Players on USB interfaces

[Ric Tibbetts]

Michael Leone wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 22:13, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> >
> > Besides, writing the CDs is slow. It would be quicker to just blast them
> 
> I have a 12X SCSI CD-RW; writes out a 70+ min CD in about 7 minutes. Any
> faster CD-RWs are available. That's not slow.

Sweet! Mine's a bit older, and will only write RWs at 4x. It takes a
while to convert the MP3s, and write them.
All of which I'm looking at MP3 players. :)

> 
> Converting from MP3 to WAV - now, THAT'S slow! :-)

Nah, I can convert them at the same speed I write them --- 4x. So with
my current system it's a wash.
But overall, it's just to slow to keep writing CDs.

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Re: [expert] Joystick Detection

[Jason Guidry]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:35:39 +
bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> there is a module with that name in the correct directory, i.e. under the 
> directory tree for the kernel you are using?

ok, perhaps you have something.  i cannot find that module [whereis ns558].  I updated 
the kernel as per directions on the LM website with rpms, and since then, rpmdrake 
still says i need to update my kernel.  could this and my joystic trouble be because 
I've missed something in my kernel upgrade?  should I have changed where something 
points, for example instead of /usr/src/linux/kernel it (whatever it is) should point 
to /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/kernel?

as soon as I think I know something...I add a peripheral

> 
> On Friday 11 January 2002 1:10 am, you wrote:
> >
> > after making the appropriate ritual sacrifice to google, the only thing I
> > found in searching told me to 'modprobe ns558' and entering that yielded
> > the following:
> >
> > [root@localhost input]# modprobe ns558
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz:
> > init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect
> > module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz: insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz failed
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz: insmod
> > ns558 failed [ro
> 
> 



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