Re: [expert] How to set up a printer with CUPS/KUPS?
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:42:30 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ric Tibbetts grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 06:57, Kevin wrote: On Wednesday 06 February 2002 08:43 pm, you wrote: Hello all, Hopefully, *someone* can help me out here Probably someone can, but I suggest modifying the subject line a little to reflect your problem. I know you're frustrated, but subjects like that usually get ignored. Frustrated doesn't *begin* to describe it. :-) But you make a good point, and I've modified the subject line accordingly. When you try to print something, do a: tail /var/log/messages and see if there's anything in there relating to the print (i.e. errors on lp0, permissions, etc.) I did a tail -f /var/log/messages and then started KUPS. Told it to Test Printer - no messages in /var/log/messages. There may also be a CUPS error log somewhere. Look in /var/log or /var/spool/cups or lpd. I did find /var/spool/cups, which had a error_log file in it. I checked that, and found the following entries from when I told KUPS to send a test print to the printer: I [time] Job 10 queued on 'lp' by 'root'. I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4888) for job 10. I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic (PID 4889) for job 10. I [time] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 4890) for job 10. E [time] PID 4889 stopped with status 32! (Where I have [time] is where the timestamp appeared in the log. But since I'm typing this by hand, I figured that the timestamp wasn't that important. :-) I'm indenting where something was actually part of the line that's before it, since my mail program was wrapping in a way which might have made it harder to follow.) That last line seems to indicate a problem, but it doesn't exactly explain what is causing it. When I do a lp some-text-file, I get the same log entries in error_log as above, but with an extra line saying: I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops with the PID and job number. Everything else is the same, including the error message for the cupsomatic PID. Any thoughts on where I should look next? Another useful place for errors is $HOME/.xsession-errors. I recently went through some problems with my printer, and found some good info there. Try doing a tail -f .xsession-errors, and then launching a print, and see if you can capture anything useful. When doing that test print function from within KUPS, I saw the following lines in the .xsession-errors log: which: no openProfile in (directories in my $PATH) which: no webbrowsing in (directories in my $PATH) /usr/bin/kfmclient QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range undecodable token: \001b(hex)[361 QObject::connect: No such slot CupsdServerSecurityPage::cleanupEventFilter() QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') Don't know if this will help but I'm noticing that sender/reciever unamed. I had a problem before setting up a printer through samba and found that using kups I had to Name the printer calling it lp didn't work I acutally had to give it a name (mines called Epson) as for location I used the samba name for the print share. I know yours' is local... but it might need a unique name. When I did the lp some-text-file, no new messages showed up in the .xsession-errors file. Any thoughts on this? I know these things can be frustrating. But with enough information, the answer can be found. :) I sure hope so. :-) I'd like to be able to actually *use* my printer with my Linux machine --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
Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top
J.P. As popular as this Question is maybe we should: A. Post the answer once a week for the heck of it. *grin* B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. C. Every one put the link below into their sig so that people can find it all the time *double grin* James On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:31:19 -0600 J.P. Pasnak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2002 16:36, you wrote: I wonder what the process kapm-idled, which shows up when I run the top command as the process using the most cpu resources. Is this a necessary process or can I be removed. I also run freeBSD and the CPU in this last one looks a lot less loaded since it doesnt have kapm-idled running. Repeat slowly to yourself: Check the archives Check the archives Check the archives Check the archives Check the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=andformat=shortconfig=expert_linux-mandrake_comrestrict=exclude=words=kapm-idled -- Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth. -- J.P. Pasnak, CD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca Kernel version: 2.4.17-13mdk Current Linux uptime: 2 days 22 hours 28 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 05:40:37 +0200 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can tell me a better way to make the module permanent please tell me. There is the Mandrake way to do this... As stated before add to /etc/modules.conf: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx and then add to /etc/modules: scsi_hostadapter and the magic begins... Have a nice weekend! Juhani -- There is NO business, show business... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Xdos crashing in kernels 2.4: SOLVED
Well, the problem seems to be different, is the package of xdos-dos of mandrake. If I use the packages from Mandrake 7.2 (xdosemu-1.0.1-6mdk.i586.rpm) Xdos runs fine, but if I use the packages of 8.0, 8.1 (is the number 8) or 8.2 (I don't remember the number, perhaps 10?) xdos crashes. BTW; if would be very interesting solve this in the beta 2 Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Viernes, Febrero 8, 2002 0:09 am Asunto: [expert] Xdos crashing in kernels 2.4? I have Xdos runing in computers with kernel 2.2 (Mandrake 7.2), but in computers runing kernels 2.4 (8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 beta) the windows open for less than a second and then crashes with the next error: kernel CPU speed is 801000834 Hz Running on CPU=586, FPU=1 ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()! trapno: 0x0e errorcode: 0x0006 cr2: 0x37abbd7c eip: 0x08228009 esp: 0xb6c8 eflags: 0x00010206 cs: 0x0023 ds: 0x002b es: 0x002b ss: 0x002b Page fault: write instruction to linear address: 0x37abbd7c CPU was in user mode Exception was caused by non-available page The dos system is installed in /var/lib/dosemu/dos to have acces to theharddrive and in fact using dos it runs fine. Does anyone been capable of runing Xdos with Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 or 8.2? Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCAnywhere for Linux?
If using vnc is not an option, I would recommend downloading and evaluating vmWare for Linux (www.vmware.com). That will allow you to run an Windows system under Linux, where you can run PC Anywhere to do what you want. If it works, the price for registering vmWare is fairly reasonable. On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 02:24, James wrote: YES, The best version as far as speed I've used can be dl'd at www.tightvnc.com (despite the com it's a gpl'd app) Originally designed by the Olivetti Research labs in England, it rocks. Windows/Linux/Freebsd clients in the tight version Mac and WinCE in the standard version. Best situation is using a windows box as a client to VNC into a linux box. Tight VNC also has links on the front page to the ORL site on VNC. My suggestion is leave PCAnywhere on whatever box it's on. Install VNC along side of it (they are compatible) and then run the desktop. As long as no one tries to use PCAnywhere at the same time you are using VNC (no multitasking in windwoze) you are in great shape. James On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:14:12 -0700 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2002 11:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a PC Anywhere client (NOT a host) port for Linux? I'd like to be able to stay in Linux when having to dial-in to various Winders machines I have to take care of. Yes, I know about the various other programs that exist that do the same thing, but I need to be able to talk to a PC ANywhere Host. I have no idea if there is anything that can play nice with PCAnywhere. PCAnywhere under Wine? Citrix Winframe for linux? There is no linux PCAnywhere client but there may be other ways to do it from linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX Key fingerprint = BBDA 3A2A 4483 BD0D 7CED B8A9 D183 C8F6 B0AF 66AE -- The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] HDPARM in 8.2Beta
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 19:08, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: It would be really nice to have some searchable database that you could scan to find what RPM has a given file... Bob If the RPM is already on your system, a simple rpm -q --whatprovides path_to_given_file works. If the RPM is not installed, I usually just go to www.rpmfind.net and type in the program I'm looking for. rpmfind.net does a pretty good job of finding the RPM I need, even for libs. -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX Key fingerprint = BBDA 3A2A 4483 BD0D 7CED B8A9 D183 C8F6 B0AF 66AE -- The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top
On Friday 08 February 2002 02:58, you wrote: J.P. As popular as this Question is maybe we should: A. Post the answer once a week for the heck of it. *grin* B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. C. Every one put the link below into their sig so that people can find it all the time *double grin* James D. Dedicate the entire Mandrake website to kapm-idled E. Buy a Powerpack everytime somebody asks 'the kapm-idled question' F. Drink a shot of Jack Daniels everytime somebody asks 'the kapm-idled question' The last one is my personal favourite. -- Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth. -- J.P. Pasnak, CD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca Kernel version: 2.4.17-13mdk Current Linux uptime: 3 days 10 hours 40 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS corruption due to usb mouse/eth0 crash
Hi Mike, Thanx, I stupid, it's right in front of me! But what exactly does [ctrl+alt+SysRq] do? On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, mike wrote: It share a key with PrtScn. On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:46, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Oh, great subject. I have a Toshiba laptop. First, quite hard to install MDK 8.1. I still have many RPMs that fail to install, maybe a corrupted CD, I'll see later. But I have a Zip USB and I got suprised to see it working pretty well. Well, till I shutdown and I have the exactly same problem, but I use ext2. About XFS, you won't need fsck anymore, since XFS is journalist filesystem. About USB hanging out. I'm suspecting about devfs. So, you can try it (I try later tonight): Go to /etc/lilo.conf and change 'devfs=mount' by 'devfs=nomount' execute lilo and reboot. See what happen. But what is 'ctrl+alt+SysRq', I cannot find 'SysRq' in my keyboard. On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, J. Grant wrote: Hello, A rather odd error has started occuring on my now XFS empowered laptop mdk8.1. During the day 1 or 2 times the usb mouse stops working, and the usb ethernet. I have to force exiting and reboot to fix the error. No lost data.. yet.. When I shutdown at the end of the day when the usb mouse has been working fine it gets stuck on items like usb.c: unplug device or so.. The only way i can get it to stop is to ctrl+alt+SysRq with Sync, Umount and reBoot. (sorry the errors are not exact, today I will write them down, as unfortunatly they are not in the log) Several times the Pannel in the bottom right of KDE looses icons and also my mozilla profile has been corrupted. I have not been able to find a way to fsck the disk without using another bootdisk. Is there a way to check it? before often ext2 went into check mode after a crash, but now I cant find a way to do it. even in single usermode etc $ ls /sbin/*xfs* reveals only 3 programs /sbin/fsck.xfs* /sbin/mkfs.xfs* /sbin/xfs_repair* And I have the problem that I cant fix it while I am mounted. Also I suspect that because I Unmount, Sync and reBoot its not getting recorded that the system crashed a little on shutdown.. Any ideas or sugestions are welcome. JG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Matrix screensaver install.
Thanks, I will download and get it a try. Dwaine -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Matrix screensaver install. 8:57pm... Dwaine Felch carefully chose these words: Thanks, that works but it still is not the screensaver I expected; cmatrix runs like a game any ideas how to make the screensaver part work? Dwaine For some reason, mandrake has chosen not to include xmatrix in their xscreensaver package. I extracted it from another distro though, and its on my ftp server if you want it. ftp://ftp.holt-tech.net/pub/xmatrix Once you get the package, drop it in your /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver directory (assuming you have xscreensaver installed). Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
Why not modprobe aic7xxx. It loads all other modules for aic as well. For some reason on my MDK 8.1 box, rc.local won't run anything I have added into it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] how to make insmod permanent Hi I got my umax scanner working today by installing a aha-2906 scsi card, and doing insmod aic7xxx after which xsane finds and uses the scanner fine everything works great. however when I rebooted it appears to have lost some setting and I had to insmod aic7xxx and find-scanner again before it would work. The error was there was no device. how can I make what I - insmod - ed, permanent. so i don't have to redo this everytime I reboot for some reason. Any suggestions? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake
no ads wrote: I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. Can anyone help? Thanks minbari Hey, another B5 fan, eh? Cool. Anyways, if you are just wanting to start an application (for example Starcraft), then it would go something like this (from a shell): wine /path/application So on my system, it goes like this: wine /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Starcraft/starcraft.exe Note that some of the funny looking forward/back slashes are for spaces in the filenames/paths... Using KDE, you can also open a window to your app, then right-click on the executable, and choose open with and type in wine there...that should work as well. I finally got tired of typing in those longish commands and put them as aliases into my /home/darklord/.bashrc file, like this: #My alias's alias diablo2='winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Diablo\ II/Game.exe' alias starcraft='winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Starcraft/starcraft.exe' So that just typing in starcraft or diablo2 starts the games. Now...if you want to do other things with wine, then from a shell, type in wine and hit the tab key. It will bring up a list of wine commands that you can use. Also, just typing in wine and hitting enter will bring up a dialog with some syntax that you might want to look at as well... Hope this helps! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Matrix screensaver install.
I copied kmatrix from RH disc. Besides the kss file you also need the kmatrix.desktop file. My system locked up once and I had to power down. Mandrake seems to have some script to check on things cause after reboot kmatrix.desktop was gone. I now keep a copy in my home dir, just in case. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 904-2280 -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Matrix screensaver install. Thanks, that works but it still is not the screensaver I expected; cmatrix runs like a game any ideas how to make the screensaver part work? What you see on the console Is ( AFAIK - as far as I know ) all it does. If you maximize the console and run it, it IS the screensaver. I use it this way sometimes because I liked the regular martix screensaver that was part of 7.2's xscreensaver. but since 8.0 none available. there is supposed to be one out for the 8.1, or probably more likely 8.2 distro. the rpm is very small , you can try it but I couldn't get it to work look for kde-matrix-1.0tex.i686.rpm If you can't find it I can send it privately Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1
David Joham wrote: With all due respect, instead of arbitrary complaints, perhaps a I tried this and it didn't work-any suggestions? Email might be more constructive :) Unless you were just venting. In that case, I understand. My experience with winex has been very good. It doesn't need much configuration because it tries to guess all of the configuration itself, for better or worse. Maybe I got lucky. What are you trying to accomplish? David Ditto here. Works great. I did change my config file to add my CDRW as well as my first CD (which is a DVD) but other than that...flawless, even allowing me to play networking with Diablo 2: LOD with my sons Windoze boxes... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1
Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. I don't get it. WineX is supposed to be REAL compatible with Mandrake 8.1 (it is the heart of the gaming edition). Virtually ANY version of regular wine will run notepad, wordpad, and my IE but this version of wine in particular wont do anything at all. What is the trick here? I do a winex path and executable and nothing happens, not even error messages. praedor Hi. I'm surprised it doesn't at least give an error message...but...go into your /home/user/.transgaming directory and open up config (its a text file). Make sure that the paths/settings are correct for your system. Maybe they wouldn't configured right during installation? I used that version of Winex before upgrading to 1.0-3, and it worked fine here on Starcraft and Diablo 2: Lord of Destuction. I've not tried anything else. I did use the prebuilt RPMs...did you roll your own? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1
Praedor Tempus wrote: I'm venting. What I am trying to accomplish is to simply get it to work, period. I install it, run winex, and it doesn't do anything - OK, it DOES create a config file in my .transgaming directory but it does NOT create a fake c:\windows drive and it apparently doesn't install a critical library that it needs to run: libMFC42.so. Doing a search on my system and there is NO libMFC42 anywhere. This is a very winex-specific file but it apparently didn't install it? Or if it did, it doesn't know where it stuck its own file? THIS pisses me off. Finally, there is a winesetup binary in the /usr/lib/transgaming/winex/bin directory. Running this app produces a tk window similar to something you'd see with codeweavers. It doesn't do anything but error out because it cannot find yet another file that it should have installed itself (otherwise why include this broken binary in the first place?). All this together is frustrating me to the point of yelling. I paid Transgaming money and have tried to use their winex several times over the months and there is apparently no change at all in the result. There is absolutely NO documentation. No instructions. Nothing. There isn't even anything useful in regards to my problems on their website under the various Support headings. I looked. Where is libMFC42 and why can't it find it? It is a winex file! I didn't do anything wierd, just installed the rpm. Why didn't it create a fake c:\windows directory or, barring that, why isn't there any documentation or instructions on creating all this oneself? There. praedor Okay, my /home/darklord/.transgaming directory -does- have a fake c_drive folder in it (and inside of that, /Program Files and /windows) and it did this from the RPM install, so dunno what happened with your setup...try reinstalling maybe? As far as libMFC42 or libMFC42.so goes, whereis, locate, and find produced no results on my system...its not here... Wish I could help more... ;-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
On Friday 08 February 2002 15:17, you wrote: Why not modprobe aic7xxx. It loads all other modules for aic as well. For some reason on my MDK 8.1 box, rc.local won't run anything I have added into it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Is your rc.local file executable? Jarmo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
yes lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Oct 30 15:34 /etc/rc.local - rc.d/rc.local -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1766 Dec 15 17:31 rc.local Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: jarmo kettunen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent On Friday 08 February 2002 15:17, you wrote: Why not modprobe aic7xxx. It loads all other modules for aic as well. For some reason on my MDK 8.1 box, rc.local won't run anything I have added into it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Is your rc.local file executable? Jarmo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] L/M 8.0 FTP
Gentlemen ( Ladies), I've got several L/M 8.0 boxes on a LAN along with a couple of other linux boxes (web/email servers) on the same LAN / different segment. With the L/M 8.0 boxes I can ping all machines on the LAN and ftp to the web and email servers but I cannot FTP from one L/M box to the other nor can I FTP to the L/M 8.0 box from the M$ boxes. I'm sure that it's just a simple setting somewhere but it's hiding from me (playing snake waiting to byte me ;-) ). Thanks, -- \\\|/// / \ ( 0...0 ) ---oOOo-(_)-oOOo-- Joseph Gardner Supervisor, CAD Group Kirby Co. Cleveland, OH 216-228-2400 ext. 5318 (voice) 216-228-8146 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) -Oooo- oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1
I installed the prebuilt rpm. I tried: WineX-1.0-2 and WineX-1.0-3 rpms, the latest preview 5 of codeweavers-wine, and the latest stripped winehq binary. Upon installing a new wine version I always run a quick test to get a general feel as to how well it will likely do the job. Basically, I try to run any 3 or so of the following: notepad, wordpad, IE, mspaint, solitaire and minesweeper. If the new wine has no trouble running these then I know that it wasn't broken from previous releases (ALL the winehq and codeweaver releases over the last year have no problem with these simple apps). I also assume that it will do a reasonable job of running other apps of more importance (these are just my testers). I then might try Diablo, StarCraft, Half-Life to make sure they work. I haven't ever gotten this far with WineX. WineX cannot run a single one of the test apps. This tells me 2 things, 1) WineX is LESS functional than any of the freely available versions of wine - but it costs money, and 2) it isn't likely to have much luck with/cannot be trusted to be able to handle ANY other app. I do not just want a few games to work (they work with the other variants afterall), but I also wan't/need for non-game apps to work too. With WineX you are assured that whether an app works or not is a total, complete crapshoot with poorer odds than any other wine variant. My beef involves several things. If you are going to charge for it, it damn-well better be AT LEAST of equal functionality to any of the freely available variants (and I've repeatedly demonstrated that it is actually less functional). Another beef is the absolute lack of ANY documentation/instructions to go with it...or the complete lack of any message output for why things aren't working. I had to do straces to get any useful information out of winex - only to find that it requires something that it isn't supplying (but EVERY other free non-winex version DOES supply/doesn't need, to whit, libMFC42 and /usr/lib/mmx, whatever THAT is). Finally, it does NOT get along with an already installed windoze. It insists on one choice: install the fake windoze. So, this means that if you already have apps/games installed via windoze, they are useless to you. You are expected to reinstall all of them into your linux system, usually into your individual HOME directory. So, if you want to use winex as it appears to be designed, you have to allocate gigabytes of space to each HOME directory so there is enough space to install huge games or other apps that may already happily reside somewhere else on your system - installed via windoze. All the other wine variants have no problem with this. WineX apparently does. It would be one thing if winex was functional enough that you could safely remove windoze entirely from your system (that would be nice) but it clearly isn't (can't run notepad!? C'MON!). I paid my Transgaming subscription fee so I could access their fully functional WineX. The cvs source is freely available but lacks certain capabilities - which really doesn't bode well since their fully-capable pay-to-download version appears, by all measures I've tried, to be less capable overall than any other freely available wine. I mean C'MON! It can't even run mspaint?! How hard is that? It can't handle a very trivial windoze app and I should trust that it will handle non-trivial, more important apps? ALL other wine variants over the last year (at least) can handle this simple little test and then run a number of others to boot. I checked and rechecked the config file...no problems there that I could see (and of course there is that totaly lack of documentation or instructions too). The first time I installed it, I tried to get around its insane requirement that it install into your personal HOME directory instead of ONE install for everyone to access. That didn't work even though by logic it should have. I then uninstalled it, installed preview-5 of codeweavers and viola! Worked like a champ, provides the very informative and friendly configuration process with lots of messages and information (more than you really need actually). I then uninstalled it and tried WineX-1.0-3. No worky again on my test apps. Out it went and back went codeweavers. If I really need it, I can always download a daily build from winehq and be reasonably certain that it will be more functional out of the chocks than winex has ever proven to be for me. I paid money for this (winex). THAT irritates me no end. On Friday 08 February 2002 06:32 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. [...] Hi. I'm surprised it doesn't at least give an error message...but...go into your
Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
On Thursday 07 February 2002 07:34 pm, J. Grant wrote: I dont remember exactly, but i seem to remember there was a command to regenerate the module list? like ldconfig does for shared libs or something similar? Better than having to add it to rc.local for every module i thought.. In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be better to have the function of the module as it SHOULD be working (but isn't) than to do it the proper Mandrake way. The proper way seems to be failing in this case for some reason. Until figuring out why this is the case, there is no need to go without the module and its functionality nor is it necessary to manually install the module every time you bootup. It is a workable temp fix until the real problem can be determined. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to set up a printer with CUPS/KUPS?
James grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:42:30 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There may also be a CUPS error log somewhere. Look in /var/log or /var/spool/cups or lpd. I did find /var/spool/cups, which had a error_log file in it. I checked that, and found the following entries from when I told KUPS to send a test print to the printer: I [time] Job 10 queued on 'lp' by 'root'. I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4888) for job 10. I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic (PID 4889) for job 10. I [time] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 4890) for job 10. E [time] PID 4889 stopped with status 32! (Where I have [time] is where the timestamp appeared in the log. But since I'm typing this by hand, I figured that the timestamp wasn't that important. :-) I'm indenting where something was actually part of the line that's before it, since my mail program was wrapping in a way which might have made it harder to follow.) That last line seems to indicate a problem, but it doesn't exactly explain what is causing it. When I do a lp some-text-file, I get the same log entries in error_log as above, but with an extra line saying: I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops with the PID and job number. Everything else is the same, including the error message for the cupsomatic PID. Any thoughts on where I should look next? Another useful place for errors is $HOME/.xsession-errors. I recently went through some problems with my printer, and found some good info there. Try doing a tail -f .xsession-errors, and then launching a print, and see if you can capture anything useful. When doing that test print function from within KUPS, I saw the following lines in the .xsession-errors log: which: no openProfile in (directories in my $PATH) which: no webbrowsing in (directories in my $PATH) /usr/bin/kfmclient QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range undecodable token: \001b(hex)[361 QObject::connect: No such slot CupsdServerSecurityPage::cleanupEventFilter() QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') Don't know if this will help but I'm noticing that sender/reciever unamed. I had a problem before setting up a printer through samba and found that using kups I had to Name the printer calling it lp didn't work I acutally had to give it a name (mines called Epson) as for location I used the samba name for the print share. I know yours' is local... but it might need a unique name. Tried that, it made no difference. /var/log/cups/error_log showed the same messages as before, but .xsession-errors was quiet. In fact, other than that one time, it's continued to be quiet. I'm not sure at this point that the message I did get that one time is actually related to the problem at all It's really weird - it can detect which printer I've got hooked up to the computer, but it won't actually send anything to it. I wish I knew what status 32 meant, since it continually tells me in the error_log that the cupsomatic pid is exiting with that status... Any other ideas? --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] try agp_try_unsupported=1 ?
I have the following messages in the syslog: Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 691M Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Unsupported AMD chipset (device id: 700e), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1. Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found. My question is, I . . . might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1 where, exactly? Thanks Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to set up a printer with CUPS/KUPS?
Followup to myself, but directed to James or anyone else with a clue (since I'm definitely lacking one here :). While looking at /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic, I descovered that it has a debug option that writes tons of stuff to an output file. I tried running another test printer function from within KUPS, and the last entries in the trace file said this: Printer escp2-c80 is not a known model Printer escp2-c80 is not a known model Unable to open the initial device, quitting Ok, so how come KUPS (and the printers option under the system part of the tree in control-panel) can figure out what the printer is, but when a job is passed off to CUPS itself, it doesn't know what the printer is? How do I go about giving CUPS the information that it needs?? --Dave David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: James grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:42:30 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There may also be a CUPS error log somewhere. Look in /var/log or /var/spool/cups or lpd. I did find /var/spool/cups, which had a error_log file in it. I checked that, and found the following entries from when I told KUPS to send a test print to the printer: I [time] Job 10 queued on 'lp' by 'root'. I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4888) for job 10. I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic (PID 4889) for job 10. I [time] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 4890) for job 10. E [time] PID 4889 stopped with status 32! (Where I have [time] is where the timestamp appeared in the log. But since I'm typing this by hand, I figured that the timestamp wasn't that important. :-) I'm indenting where something was actually part of the line that's before it, since my mail program was wrapping in a way which might have made it harder to follow.) That last line seems to indicate a problem, but it doesn't exactly explain what is causing it. When I do a lp some-text-file, I get the same log entries in error_log as above, but with an extra line saying: I [time] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops with the PID and job number. Everything else is the same, including the error message for the cupsomatic PID. Any thoughts on where I should look next? Another useful place for errors is $HOME/.xsession-errors. I recently went through some problems with my printer, and found some good info there. Try doing a tail -f .xsession-errors, and then launching a print, and see if you can capture anything useful. When doing that test print function from within KUPS, I saw the following lines in the .xsession-errors log: which: no openProfile in (directories in my $PATH) which: no webbrowsing in (directories in my $PATH) /usr/bin/kfmclient QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range undecodable token: \001b(hex)[361 QObject::connect: No such slot CupsdServerSecurityPage::cleanupEventFilter() QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') Don't know if this will help but I'm noticing that sender/reciever unamed. I had a problem before setting up a printer through samba and found that using kups I had to Name the printer calling it lp didn't work I acutally had to give it a name (mines called Epson) as for location I used the samba name for the print share. I know yours' is local... but it might need a unique name. Tried that, it made no difference. /var/log/cups/error_log showed the same messages as before, but .xsession-errors was quiet. In fact, other than that one time, it's continued to be quiet. I'm not sure at this point that the message I did get that one time is actually related to the problem at all It's really weird - it can detect which printer I've got hooked up to the computer, but it won't actually send anything to it. I wish I knew what status 32 meant, since it continually tells me in the error_log that the cupsomatic pid is exiting with that status... Any other ideas? -- 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
Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
Praedor Tempus wrote: In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be better to have the function of the module as it SHOULD be working (but isn't) than to do it the proper Mandrake way. The proper way seems to be failing in this case for some reason. Until figuring out why this is the case, there is no need to go without the module and its functionality nor is it necessary to manually install the module every time you bootup. It is a workable temp fix until the real problem can be determined. How can the real problem be determined ? What steps can I take? Or would it be better just to recompile the module into the kernel? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] try agp_try_unsupported=1 ?
Thursday, February 07, 2002, 10:25:24 AM, you wrote: HD I have the following messages in the syslog: HD Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann HD Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp HD memory: 691M HD Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Unsupported AMD chipset (device id: HD 700e), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1. HD Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found. HD My question is, I . . . might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1 where, HD exactly? HD Thanks HD Hoyt add options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 to /etc/modules.conf Regards, Onur Kucuk _ 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] how to make insmod permanent
J. Grant wrote: I dont remember exactly, but i seem to remember there was a command to regenerate the module list? like ldconfig does for shared libs or something similar? Better than having to add it to rc.local for every module i thought.. please let me know if this command exists :) JG Ref: man depmod -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] try agp_try_unsupported=1 ?
On Friday 08 February 2002 11:52 am, you wrote: add options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 to /etc/modules.conf Regards, Onur Kucuk Thanks, Onur. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1
On Friday 08 February 2002 08:15 am, you wrote: I installed the prebuilt rpm. I tried: WineX-1.0-2 and WineX-1.0-3 rpms, the latest preview 5 of codeweavers-wine, and the latest stripped winehq binary. Upon installing a new wine version I always run a quick test to get a general feel as to how well it will likely do the job. Basically, I try to run any 3 or so of the following: notepad, wordpad, IE, mspaint, solitaire and minesweeper. If the new wine has no trouble running these then I know that it wasn't broken from previous releases (ALL the winehq and codeweaver releases over the last year have no problem with these simple apps). I also assume that it will do a reasonable job of running other apps of more importance (these are just my testers). I then might try Diablo, StarCraft, Half-Life to make sure they work. I haven't ever gotten this far with WineX. WineX cannot run a single one of the test apps. This tells me 2 things, 1) WineX is LESS functional than any of the freely available versions of wine - but it costs money, and 2) it isn't likely to have much luck with/cannot be trusted to be able to handle ANY other app. Something is definately wrong on your system, as I use winex, and it works better than any wine I've tried, having tried all the above. I do not just want a few games to work (they work with the other variants afterall), but I also wan't/need for non-game apps to work too. With WineX you are assured that whether an app works or not is a total, complete crapshoot with poorer odds than any other wine variant. My beef involves several things. If you are going to charge for it, it damn-well better be AT LEAST of equal functionality to any of the freely available variants (and I've repeatedly demonstrated that it is actually less functional). Another beef is the absolute lack of ANY documentation/instructions to go with it...or the complete lack of any message output for why things aren't working. I had to do straces to get I agree with you here. The documentation sucks/is non-extistant. any useful information out of winex - only to find that it requires something that it isn't supplying (but EVERY other free non-winex version DOES supply/doesn't need, to whit, libMFC42 and /usr/lib/mmx, whatever THAT is). Finally, it does NOT get along with an already installed windoze. It insists on one choice: install the fake windoze. So, this means that if you already have apps/games installed via windoze, they are useless to you. I use winex to run programs on my native windows partition without problems. You are expected to reinstall all of them into your linux system, usually into your individual HOME directory. So, if you want to use winex as it appears to be designed, you have to allocate gigabytes of space to each HOME directory so there is enough space to install huge games or other apps that may already happily reside somewhere else on your system - installed via windoze. All the other wine variants have no problem with this. WineX apparently does. Not true. It would be one thing if winex was functional enough that you could safely remove windoze entirely from your system (that would be nice) but it clearly isn't (can't run notepad!? C'MON!). Yes it can. I paid my Transgaming subscription fee so I could access their fully functional WineX. The cvs source is freely available but lacks certain capabilities - which really doesn't bode well since their fully-capable pay-to-download version appears, by all measures I've tried, to be less capable overall than any other freely available wine. I mean C'MON! It can't even run mspaint?! How hard is that? It can't handle a very trivial windoze app and I should trust that it will handle non-trivial, more important apps? ALL other wine variants over the last year (at least) can handle this simple little test and then run a number of others to boot. I checked and rechecked the config file...no problems there that I could see (and of course there is that totaly lack of documentation or instructions too). The first time I installed it, I tried to get around its insane requirement that it install into your personal HOME directory instead of ONE install for everyone to access. That didn't work even though by logic it should have. I then uninstalled it, installed preview-5 of codeweavers and viola! Worked like a champ, provides the very informative and friendly configuration process with lots of messages and information (more than you really need actually). I then uninstalled it and tried WineX-1.0-3. No worky again on my test apps. Out it went and back went codeweavers. If I really need it, I can always download a daily build from winehq and be reasonably certain that it will be more functional out of the chocks than winex has ever proven to be for me. I paid money for this (winex). THAT irritates me no end. I run Return to Castle
[expert] artwiz fonts for fluxbox
I have been trying to get the flxubox artwiz fonts to work in mdk 8.1 and have taken the steps i could find about how to do it and asked questions on the fluxbox-users list w/o any success. This is what I have done: -put the fonts in /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts/ -ran mkfontdir in that dir -added this to XF86Config-4: FontPath unix/:-1, /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts -set LC_ALL=C -ran xset fp rehash I was told to only have the artwiz font path in XF86Config-4 w/o the unix/:-1 but X doesn't start when i do that. How can I add the artwiz-fonts to all the rest which are loaded by unix/:-1? -- Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most. -- Ozzy Osbourne Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.18-pre9 #2 Thu Feb 7 21:14:23 AST 2002 i686 unknown 2:40pm up 2:44, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.10, 0.20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
mike wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be better to have the function of the module as it SHOULD be working (but isn't) than to do it the proper Mandrake way. The proper way seems to be failing in this case for some reason. Until figuring out why this is the case, there is no need to go without the module and its functionality nor is it necessary to manually install the module every time you bootup. It is a workable temp fix until the real problem can be determined. How can the real problem be determined ? What steps can I take? Or would it be better just to recompile the module into the kernel? Mike If the correct entries are in the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules then you may want to preload the scsi device via initrd. mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as Linux initial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used for preloading the block device modules (such as IDE, SCSI or RAID) which are needed to access the root filesystem. mkinitrd automatically loads IDE modules, all scsi_hostadapter entries and all modules in a probeall scsi_hostadapter .. line in /etc/modules.conf, and raid modules if the system's root partition is on raid, which makes it simple to build and use kernels using modular device drivers. Any module options specified in /etc/modules.conf are passed to the modules as they are loaded by the initial ramdisk. Ref: man mkinitrd Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] no job control errors during compile src.rpm
Do you think an upgrade of RPM and RPM-BUILD would solve the problem as well? Sometimes rpm changes some things, for whatever reason, including incompatibility with certain packages. Regards, marc Brian Schroeder wrote: I have found this by trial and error, so I don't know if my solution is valid or if it will break something else - however it appears to work. The cooker rpm stuff seems to have some new things that are not present in the default 8.1 distro. Look in the spec file for the string%makeinstall_std and change it to %makeinstall This will probably fix it (although there may be other problems in the spec file as well). Brian. From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] no job control errors during compile src.rpm Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 13:27:04 +0100 Sometimes during a compile of a mandrake (cooker) src.rpm package I get the error: no job control: fg Looks like a shell problem but cannot find what's wrong, Already upgraded latest fileutils and bash, but this does not solve the probl;em, also installed tsch , but still have errors. Any one seen this during compiling. BTW I am running MDK 8.1 with gcc-2.96-0.74 regards, marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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
Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
So sprach »mike« am 2002-02-07 um 21:40:37 -0600 : and if it works fine what's the harm? Nice argument :( The correct way to do this, is to add the name of the module to /etc/modules in Mandrake. This file will be parsed at startup, and every module mentioned there will be auto loaded. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 12 hours 18 minutes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent
Larry Sword wrote: If the correct entries are in the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules then you may want to preload the scsi device via initrd. mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as Linux initial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used for preloading the block device modules (such as IDE, SCSI or RAID) which are needed to access the root filesystem. mkinitrd automatically loads IDE modules, all scsi_hostadapter entries and all modules in a probeall scsi_hostadapter .. line in /etc/modules.conf, and raid modules if the system's root partition is on raid, which makes it simple to build and use kernels using modular device drivers. Any module options specified in /etc/modules.conf are passed to the modules as they are loaded by the initial ramdisk. Ref: man mkinitrd After reading the man mkinitrd and all the other related man pages, modprobe, depmod, kerneld , etc... this is as clear as mud. It like being given a three page recipe for a cake with fifty ingredients and only given the last page of the recipe which only tell about the last 12 things to add. These man pages pre-suppose the one reading it will know everything it's talking about. Partial information is really worse than no information, because no information gives me nothing to try so I don't change anything. partial info only helps me break things. Is it really this hard to make my aic7xxx module load on boot? I have been using the temp fix of adding insmod aic7xxx to /etc/rc.local and it works. larry, what would be the correct entries for /modules.conf and /modules ? then do I simply do a mkinitrd ? If you or anyone else can , a simple put this here, type this, then this, and reboot etc. at this point would be nice. Sorry to be a pain. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sites with up to date apt *.cooker files?
Hello, After trying to use the Mandrake update tools urpmi, rpmdrake, etc and finding them more or less unusable (at least to follow cooker), I tried apt(-rpm) and these tools are. Or should be, as expected from the apt tools in Debian (used on my other boxes; no probs eg to follow unstable), _if_ the ftp sites had updated *.cooker files! But they do not, for example ftp.sunet.se shows: mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake: RPMS.cooker 0 04/28/01 02:00:00 mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base: pkglist.cooker 10719066 12/24/01 20:54:00 srclist.cooker 883823 07/27/01 02:00:00 The same situation applies for other Mandrake mirrors (and other sites). Whatever the vendors say, now when apt is ported to rpm based distributions (by connectiva), why can't we use best tools available for the task at hand, in this case to follow the unstable (or development branches) of Debian, Mandrake, Redhat etc. The situation is maybe different for people purchasing a distribution and doing bug/security/etc updates from there, using Mandrake rpmdrake, redhat up2date etc, thats another issue. Just a thought, sincerely Svante (Recently replaced a box running Redhat RawHide with Debian unstable/sid. Still keeping the box with Mandrake Cooker, but who knows?). (Also, maybe apt should be moved from RPMS2 to RPMS, at least for cooker??) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sites with up to date apt *.cooker files?
On Friday 08 February 2002 21:29, Svante Signell wrote: After trying to use the Mandrake update tools urpmi, rpmdrake, etc and finding them more or less unusable (at least to follow cooker), I tried apt(-rpm) and these tools are. Or should be, as expected from the apt tools in Debian (used on my other boxes; no probs eg to follow unstable), _if_ the ftp sites had updated *.cooker files! But they do not, for example ftp.sunet.se shows: mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake: RPMS.cooker 0 04/28/01 02:00:00 mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base: pkglist.cooker 10719066 12/24/01 20:54:00 srclist.cooker 883823 07/27/01 02:00:00 Looks about right - apt worked great for me until last Christmas, and hasn't worked at all since, on any cooker site. I suspect the guy at mandrake who used to do this has left, and they never bothered to assign the task to someone else. (Also, maybe apt should be moved from RPMS2 to RPMS, at least for cooker??) Not much point in that if they aren't going to maintain the .cooker files, is there? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printer Issues.
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:36:41 -0500 Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: I've just upgraded to 8.1, and I'm having printing issues again. The only driver I could get to work under Mandrake 8.0 for my setup (HP DeskJet 855c slung off the print server of my SMC Barricade 7004ABR) was the HP 600 driver labled as being from HP. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which package that came from, as successful printing that time was the result of a long, and tortured night of swapping back and forth between various printing systems (lprNG, CUPS, LPR, etc...). Can anybody tell me what rpm I've got to install to get the HP drivers *from* HP? - Theo I have used my HP855c with Mandrake since 6.x now on versions 8.1 and 8.2b. What cups, gimp-print, foomatic related rpms do you have installed? I found more than once the install did NOT install all the necessary rpms and I had to go back and manually add them !!?? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] artwiz fonts for fluxbox
you need to remove the font line from the line that starts unix/: and put it in another file, /etc/X11/fs/config running chkfontpath --add dirname will do this too. what sort of font is it? is it a true type? if so there is something else to be done. I have been trying to get the flxubox artwiz fonts to work in mdk 8.1 and have taken the steps i could find about how to do it and asked questions on the fluxbox-users list w/o any success. This is what I have done: -put the fonts in /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts/ -ran mkfontdir in that dir -added this to XF86Config-4: FontPath unix/:-1, /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts -set LC_ALL=C -ran xset fp rehash I was told to only have the artwiz font path in XF86Config-4 w/o the unix/:-1 but X doesn't start when i do that. How can I add the artwiz-fonts to all the rest which are loaded by unix/:-1? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] L/M 8.0 FTP
What is the output of ifconfig -a on each L/M boxes. Do you have different IP addresses for each or did you use some default. How about your /etc/hosts file, do you ping these machines per name or IP address. And /etc/resolv.conf. Gérard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 08 February 2002 8:56, Joseph Gardner wrote: Gentlemen ( Ladies), I've got several L/M 8.0 boxes on a LAN along with a couple of other linux boxes (web/email servers) on the same LAN / different segment. With the L/M 8.0 boxes I can ping all machines on the LAN and ftp to the web and email servers but I cannot FTP from one L/M box to the other nor can I FTP to the L/M 8.0 box from the M$ boxes. I'm sure that it's just a simple setting somewhere but it's hiding from me (playing snake waiting to byte me ;-) ). Thanks, -- \\\|/// / \ ( 0...0 ) ---oOOo-(_)-oOOo-- Joseph Gardner Supervisor, CAD Group Kirby Co. Cleveland, OH 216-228-2400 ext. 5318 (voice) 216-228-8146 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) -Oooo- oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) -- Gérard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] artwiz fonts for fluxbox
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, H. McM wrote: you need to remove the font line from the line that starts unix/: and put it in another file, /etc/X11/fs/config running chkfontpath --add dirname will do this too. what sort of font is it? is it a true type? if so there is something else to be done. I have been trying to get the flxubox artwiz fonts to work in mdk 8.1 and have taken the steps i could find about how to do it and asked questions on the fluxbox-users list w/o any success. This is what I have done: -put the fonts in /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts/ -ran mkfontdir in that dir -added this to XF86Config-4: FontPath unix/:-1, /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts -set LC_ALL=C -ran xset fp rehash I was told to only have the artwiz font path in XF86Config-4 w/o the unix/:-1 but X doesn't start when i do that. How can I add the artwiz-fonts to all the rest which are loaded by unix/:-1? I had already added the font dir to /etc/X11/fs/config after doing a little searching on where the font config file was. They are recognized as I have gotten a message that at least it is trying to load some of the fonts as follows: BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font '-artwiz-mintsmild-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-90-iso646.1991-irv' BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font '-artwiz-snap-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-90-iso646.1991-irv' BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font '-artwiz-snap-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-90-iso646.1991-irv' BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font '-artwiz-snap-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-90-iso646.1991-irv' This is the output of chkfontpath --list: # chkfontpath --list Current directories in font path: 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts:unscaled 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-fonts:unscaled /* --new fonts */ 10: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 11: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives 12: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western I'v tried them as just normal and :unscaled. I'm not sure if they are truetype. For some reason they can't be loaded meaning there is something further I must do. They are fonts for the fluxbox and blackbox window managers. -- Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most. -- Ozzy Osbourne Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.18-pre9 #2 Thu Feb 7 21:14:23 AST 2002 i686 unknown 7:20pm up 7:24, 2 users, load average: 0.83, 0.57, 0.28 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] FW: Matrix screensaver install.
-Original Message- From: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Matrix screensaver install. Mike, I downloaded matrix from yours (ftp), put it in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/ and made it executable (chmod +x). But when I start xscreensaver I can't select it because doesn't appear in the screensaver as selectable. Do I need to do anything else? Thanks in advance for your help.. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Vie 08 Feb 2002 14:09, escribió: Thanks, I will download and get it a try. Dwaine -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Matrix screensaver install. 8:57pm... Dwaine Felch carefully chose these words: Thanks, that works but it still is not the screensaver I expected; cmatrix runs like a game any ideas how to make the screensaver part work? Dwaine For some reason, mandrake has chosen not to include xmatrix in their xscreensaver package. I extracted it from another distro though, and its on my ftp server if you want it. ftp://ftp.holt-tech.net/pub/xmatrix Once you get the package, drop it in your /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver directory (assuming you have xscreensaver installed). Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] fetchmail problem - learning more, still not working
Hi everyone. First, thanks for all the on list off list replies. Thanks to your input I have managed to fix a few little things with my fetchmail configuration (and for those who asked, yes I have been using fetchmailconf to set that up. I have made progress and fetchmail is now working. However, since this isn't going to be easy, I have discovered that sendmail must pass the mail from fetchmail to pygmy (the email reader). Am I right about that? So now it seems that sendmail doesn't work. Can anyone tell me According to Linux In A Nutshell sendmail is suppose to have a config file called /etc/sendmail.cf -- well, I have no such thing. I do have a /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/ directory with a load of subdirectories and a README file which was written for people much smarter than I am. At this point I'm assuming (take cover) that I need to set up sendmail. Can anyone clue me on how to do this? I love Linux, but this sure is a lot of work to read some emai. Can sendmail be set up as part of the install process? Or is there a reason that can not be done? Thanks again for all the help. Skippi -- - Skippi On The Fly Photography http://204EastSouth.com Meditation -- Yoga -- Linux -- Muffins The Secrets of Life -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a C++ L++(+++) P E- W++ !N o? K- w--- o@ M+ PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP- t++@ 5+++ X++ R+ tv-- b++ DI D+ G e+ h+ r- y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FW: Matrix screensaver install.
3:49pm... Dwaine Felch carefully chose these words: Mike, I downloaded matrix from yours (ftp), put it in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/ and made it executable (chmod +x). But when I start xscreensaver I can't select it because doesn't appear in the screensaver as selectable. Do I need to do anything else? Thanks in advance for your help.. Open a terminal and type xscreensaver-demo -prefs under the graphics demos tab, you should see a list of installed screensavers and on the right lower part ot that window, there lies a box under the phrase Command Line: In that box, type xmatrix -root and them put a check in the box next to the word enabled. Restart xscreensaver and it should stick. Thats about all I did and now its managed to integrate itself. Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
