Re: [expert] Need a recording utility !!!

[S. Moreau]

> OK, I'm asking for some help now.  I've got to record sound coming from
> the sound card into wav or mp3 format.  I've looked at krecord but I
> can't install it on this LM81 system; it won't recognize my artsd
> library as valid.
> 
> Has anybody else got some recommendations for something that will work?
> It would be nice to get it recording into mp3 format so that the hard
> drive won't be filled with one big wav.
> 
> Does Xmms have a recording plugin that I've missed?  Info?  Suggestions?
> Anybody?
> 
> 
> Tanks,
> 
> LX
> 
> 
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[expert] Need a recording utility !!!

[Lyvim Xaphir]

OK, I'm asking for some help now.  I've got to record sound coming from
the sound card into wav or mp3 format.  I've looked at krecord but I
can't install it on this LM81 system; it won't recognize my artsd
library as valid.

Has anybody else got some recommendations for something that will work? 
It would be nice to get it recording into mp3 format so that the hard
drive won't be filled with one big wav.

Does Xmms have a recording plugin that I've missed?  Info?  Suggestions?
Anybody?


Tanks,

LX



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Re: [expert] popup local chat

[s]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 02:08 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> Oh Thank you very much.
>
>   Look likes a winpopup clone, doesn't it?  But, I cannot find
> winpopup in my Windoze 2000 version.

I also just ran across another on freshmeat:
http://freshmeat.net/releases/80612/

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Re: [expert] A little vi help

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 04:46, J. Craig Woods wrote:

> Yes, Mike so true. Many, many tools. And the best way to learn them is 
> one at a time. That is why, in my *very* original post, I did not 
> enumerate all the different ways to use the stdout process for different 
> programs i.e. TeX, LaTeX, etc. As you have seen from some very good 
> examples, provided by the list members here, there is always great 
> flexibility in doing what you want to get done in UNIX/Linux. I would 
> only caution you to learn vi as well as you can. Learn the keystrokes, 
> insert mode, search patterns, bringing text in and out, etc. Once you 
> feel good about these vi functions, you can take your data from vi to 
> almost anywhere you want to go. Hey there is a jingo here: "where do you 
> wanna go, today"? Truly, the choices are with us who work in UNIX/Linux.
> 
> The web page I posted on vi is a very simple means for learning some 
> basic vi stuff.

Ok, I've got to ask here about something that's been bugging me cause I
can't make it happen yet.  I'm trying to set the margin in Vi(m) so that
the text will wrap with words (at about 70 chars across or so) instead
of just on a per-letter basis.

I figure if someone else has been using it for word processing stuff
then someone must have an idea of what options to set.

I've played with "wrapmargin" and "textwidth", but so far have not
hitting a winning combination.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

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[expert] Removing BSD Partition Table

[James]

All,

  got some old drives I've been putting linux on for a local group.
(they give them away at install fests.)  Now comes the problem  3
drives that apparently at some time in there life had FreeBSD on
them.  Using Linux Fdisk you always see the old BSD partition
table... but can't do anything with it.  DOS fdisk sees a small
primary 1 partition and the rest as extended logical. Can't remove
the logical partitions because it says there aren't any.  Cant
remove/replace the extended DOS partition because DOS fdisk says
there are logical partitions.  Took the drive to a friend who runs
FreeBSD He said that fdisk there showed one big dos partition (it
had win95 on it) He blew it away gave it back to me.  And voila. 
Linux still sees FreeBSD partitions etc. Gave the drive back to my
friend.  He did cat dev/zero to the whole drive 2 times (only 850
megs each) reformated them as one big partion gave them back
Fdisk still sees the freebsd partitions.  DOS still sees 2 one
primary one logical.  Is my best bet just scream hockey puck and get
out the sticks or is there a better way.  BTW Mandrakes graphical
install see's thing correctly  but even after running
that regular fdisk sees ... yep  FreeBSD!


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Re: [expert] turnoff monitor after 5 minutes

[Pierre Fortin]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:40:27 -0700 (PDT) faisal gillani
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> i am using mandrake 8.2/gnome 1.4 & i would like to
> turn off my monitor after 5 minutes of inactivity ... 
> i know how to do it in windows but not on linux can
> you tell me how ?

Probably depends on which window manager; but this transcends them all:
"man xset" and/or "xset" -- look for dpms

"xset q" to get current values.
  
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Re: [expert] OT--And now for the comic relief

[James]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 22:59:36 -0900
civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and hopefully I read right:

> http://www.itworld.com/Sec/2199/020329nt2000hole/
> 
> Why isn't this news exciting?
> 
> Civileme

When Gates said "security is now priortiy 1 at MS" he didn't mean
secure codeing, he meant running around like chickens with thier
heads cut off trying to fix all the security holes already found.

James

> 
> 
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Re: [expert] configurin Samba

[Larry Sword]

Larry Sword wrote:
> 
> Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Following indications for using 'smbclient' to broadcast a message
> > (thanks people) I found out this on my Linux Box (Windoze worked fine):
> > ---
> > smbclient -M my_Linux_box
> > load_client_codepage: filename /etc/codepages/codepage.860 does not exist.
> > added interface ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.157 bcast=XXX.XXX.XXX.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Got a positive name query response from XXX.XXX.XXX.162 ( XXX.XXX.XXX.162 )
> > Got a positive name query response from XXX.XXX.XXX.162 ( XXX.XXX.XXX.162 )
> > message start: ERRSRV - ERRmsgoff (Not receiving messages.)
> 


> First check to insure that samba.conf is pointed to the correct path for
-CORRECTION---
The above line should read ..that smb.conf is pointed
> code pages, mine is locate at /var/lib/samba/codepages/
> 
> Second you may have problem sending message to server, try sending a
> message to another linux box to see if it works.
> 
> > ---
> >
> > More;
> > ---
> > smbclient //my_Linux_box/
> > load_client_codepage: filename /etc/codepages/codepage.860 does not exist.
> > added interface ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.157 bcast=XXX.XXX.XXX.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> > session request to MY_LINUX_BOX failed (Not listening for calling name)
> > session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name)
> > ---
> >
> > So there're two problems:
> >
> > 1st and more important: My Linux box is not accepting connection :-(
> >
> > 2nd: My language is portuguese, codepage 860, as set in smb.conf but
> > there's no /etc/codepages/codepage.860 file!
> >
> > Any help in one of both topics would be very appreciated.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance
> >
> > ---
> > Alan Wilter S. da Silva
> > ---
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> >   Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
> >Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
> > Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
> >
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Re: [expert] configurin Samba

[Larry Sword]

Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> Following indications for using 'smbclient' to broadcast a message
> (thanks people) I found out this on my Linux Box (Windoze worked fine):
> ---
> smbclient -M my_Linux_box
> load_client_codepage: filename /etc/codepages/codepage.860 does not exist.
> added interface ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.157 bcast=XXX.XXX.XXX.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Got a positive name query response from XXX.XXX.XXX.162 ( XXX.XXX.XXX.162 )
> Got a positive name query response from XXX.XXX.XXX.162 ( XXX.XXX.XXX.162 )
> message start: ERRSRV - ERRmsgoff (Not receiving messages.)

First check to insure that samba.conf is pointed to the correct path for
code pages, mine is locate at /var/lib/samba/codepages/

Second you may have problem sending message to server, try sending a
message to another linux box to see if it works.


> ---
> 
> More;
> ---
> smbclient //my_Linux_box/
> load_client_codepage: filename /etc/codepages/codepage.860 does not exist.
> added interface ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.157 bcast=XXX.XXX.XXX.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> session request to MY_LINUX_BOX failed (Not listening for calling name)
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name)
> ---
> 
> So there're two problems:
> 
> 1st and more important: My Linux box is not accepting connection :-(
> 
> 2nd: My language is portuguese, codepage 860, as set in smb.conf but
> there's no /etc/codepages/codepage.860 file!
> 
> Any help in one of both topics would be very appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks in advance
> 
> ---
> Alan Wilter S. da Silva
> ---
>  Laboratório de Física Biológica
>   Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
>Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
> Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
> 
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[expert] turnoff monitor after 5 minutes

[faisal gillani]

i am using mandrake 8.2/gnome 1.4 & i would like to
turn off my monitor after 5 minutes of inactivity ... 
i know how to do it in windows but not on linux can
you tell me how ?

thanks
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[expert] obj-prelinked kde3 rpms for mdk 8.1

[pesarif]

Hi!  Does anyone know where I can get obj-prelinked kde3 rpms for mdk8.1?  I 
looked at textstar's ones but he only had obj-prelinked ones for mdk8.2

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Re: [expert] Visor USB problems (yet again)

[mike]

Have you rebooted?  Look at ps -ef and see if all of the sync processes are 
still alive.  If they are kill one or more and try again.  If you have 
rebooted this will probably (I say PROBABLY, I have seen processes think they 
survived a reboot) not be the case.  I would use "fuser -k " to get them all at once and clear away any stuck handles, etc.

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On Monday 08 April 2002 15:41, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Sorry if this is a repeat. I posted it yesterday, but it never came
> back to me.
>
> -
>
> When I couldn't get my brand-new Visor to sync, I went back and read the
> threads on USB and Visor syncing, especially the stuff related to devfs,
> and thought that by following the instructions I had solved my problems,
> since the Visor started to sync properly.
>
> However, I found that it will sync a grand total of 16 times, and after
> that syncing appears to stop.
>
> Here's the setup, garnered from the prior posts:
>
> 0. Using LM8.1. I have never used USB with Linux before, so this is my
> first foray into new territory.
>
> 1. I have turned off devfs at boot time
>
> 2. The default USB devicde is /dev/visor, which is linked to
> /dev/usb/ttyUSB1
>
> 3. The first 16 attempts to sync (with jpilot) all worked.
>
> 4. All attenpts after the first 16 (using jpilot and gnome-pilot) fail.
>
> 5. Pressing the hotsync button causes a message to appear on the Visor
> (after a while) that says that communication could not be established
> with the desktop.
>
> 6. jpilot gives the error message:
>   pi_bind illegal seek
>   Check your serial port and settings.
>   If you use a USB pilot press the Hotsync
>   button before and repush the button Sync
> exiting with status -10
>
> 7. Pressing various combinations of the hotsync button the cradle and
> the sync button in jpilot always seems to give the above error, no
> matter what order I do them in.
>
> 8. gnome-pilot doesn't give an error; it just seems to sit there
> waiting forever.
>
> 9. When it was working (the first 16 times), I would see a message
> "Handspring Visor convertor now attached to ttyUSB0" and "Handspring
> Visor convertor now attached to ttyUSB1" in the system log; after use I
> would see "USB disconnect on device ", where  incremented by one
> each time, each time the sync was complete. The highest value of 
> was 16. Now that it has stopped working, I no longer see the "now
> attached" messages. So I am pretty sure that this is a USB issue. I
> know nothing about USB, but it looks like there is some limit of 16
> devices that may be used and for some reason the computer now thinks
> that all 16 are in use.
>
> Does anyone have clues? I would really hate to have to admit defeat and
> use a Windoze box to sync the Visor.
>
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>
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[expert] More on KDE3

[falcaraz]

I ever get a crash when I do that under KDE·:

 1) Start KDE3 as user
 2) Open a terminal, it doesn't matter if it is konsole, xterm,
aterm
 3) su... 
 4) Type konqueror and Return
 5) Results:

 DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
 QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (-1)
 konqueror: WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter
 attributes) 8
   Major opcode: 42
 konqueror: WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter
 attributes) 8
   Major opcode: 42
 konqueror: WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter
 attributes) 8
   Major opcode: 42
 konqueror: WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter
 attributes) 8
   Major opcode: 42
 KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2
 KCrash: Application Name = konqueror path =  pid = 6980

 Ever CRASHES

 Could be a kde bug or a Mandrake one?


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[expert] kicker sig11 & kdm problems with Mandrake 8.2

[Adrian Head]

A couple of things:

I have greped the mailing lists and have not
found simular problems and I have looked for
a bug database on the Mandrake site but did
not find one.  (I spent 10mins)

1) kdm does not keep settings.  It always shows
users even when the Control Center shows that
it is configured not to.  Sometimes it defaults
to show users and Logo - not my settings clock
and just dialog - no show users.
2) Kicker dies with a sig11 on inital login
It maybe works 1 every 4 times.
Here is the Backtrace:
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
 [10's of lines cut from here]
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...0x40e59409 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#0  0x40e59409 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x40ed898c in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x4063298e in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3
#3  0x40dcc478 in killpg () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x081a05a0 in ?? ()
#5  0x0025 in ?? ()

So where can I go next to try and solve the problem.

Details Mandrake 8.2.
Gateway Laptop 5300
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Re: [expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[civileme]

Nick Thompson wrote:

> So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on 
> CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly, I assume 
> my pristine MDK installation has suddenly become vunerable to Word 
> Macro viruses. The Linux kernel doesn't have windows anti-virus 
> protection to save me from this, so is there anything I can do to 
> protect myself? I could backup each time I want to run it I suppose 
> ;-)  Or maybe I've got it all wrong... Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick.
>
>
>
>
>
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VERY wrong...  

First of all, you won't get word to run on WINE because WINE handles 
only standard APIs, not the secret ones that Microsoft uses, which gives 
word and its macro facility DIRECT access to the Windows kernel.

Crossover only emulates the access, certainly gives no access to the 
linux-kernel because it has only the privileges of the user running 
it...  And unless you are running as root, you CAN'T WRITE TO /bin 
/usr/bin or anything else sitting in your executable path except perhaps 
your home directory.  You might get a virus but
it couldn't propagate.

EVEN IF you were able to run as root (and deal with the poison red 
screen), and you were running Word, and you had a macro virus, it 
couldn't do very much because it isn't the windows kernel.  The most 
likely result would be a segfault/kernel oops or a message about 
privilege violation.

True, the linux kernel has no anti-virus features.  They aren't needed. 
 viruses are theoretically possible, and a few have been written, but 
they can't propagate, so they remain academic curiosities.  Worms are 
theoretically possible, and a few have been written and they have played 
nasty games with systems that didn't stay updated (Yes, you can update 
easily without rebooting), but usually those exploits come out about 6 
months after the fix is available.

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Re: [expert] popup local chat

[heatheri]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:46:14 -0400 (EDT)
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
>   I'm wondering if exists a kind of program which allow us to
> communicate to others terminals (both Windoze and Linux, if possible),
> something like ICQ does over whole Internet, but in this case only on
> my network and would be very simple.  I mean I would like to broadcast
> a message to others terminals and a window popup message, or on
> console, like a 'talk' request, would appear there.  If I could keep a
> chat, even better.
>   BTW, 'talk' is quite close of what I'm looking for, but I don't
> think it can works with windoze, and I want to broadcast to all
> terminals, no matter who is there.  Maybe something over Samba would
> do it.
> 
>   Any ideas?  Many thanks in advance,
> 
>

Try Jabber.  I heard from some reputable magazines *Notably Linux
Journal* that it's very good.

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Re: [expert] klyx error

[civileme]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Is anyone running the Klyx latex frontend? Since at least the version
>shipped with KDE 2.0 it has been unusable because the background and
>foreground colors are black. If I do a highlight of the text area it
>will show that there is in fact proper text, but it is impossible to
>use. I'm checking this on Mandrake 8.2 Download, but have noticed the
>problem as far back as 8.0.
>
>If someone doesn't mind, can you please start Klyx, create a new
>document, then check if the text is visible.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Kwan
>
>
>
>
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OK--loaded KLyX under 8.2 and the error you cited doesn't reproduce 
here, _BUT_, I have the KDE settings as follows

KDE Control Center=>LookNFeel=>Style=>Apply fonts and Colors to Non-KDE 
Apps (That is UNchecked, because I don't like KDE colors in my emacs)

Changing that made no difference--I still have black on Peach. Usually 
it is possible to set the background and foreground colors with a 
selection in the WM or in themes.

Civileme


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Re: [expert] klyx error

[kwan]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, civileme wrote:

> Ummm  KLyX was written in a marathon session at TrollTech to demonstrate
> the power of the Qt widget set. much like Qtzilla.  AFAIK, it has
> horrendous pagination problems on long documents, forgetting to print
> large chunks of text, and the authors don't maintain it.  LyX, OTOH,
> works nicely though it lacks some of the bells and whistles of KLyX.


I use LyX on occasion. I've noticed that sometimes if I do an image
insert then later remove the image it will not completely remove the
tags. This has happened on a couple occasions and required manually
editing the source in vi to clear the tags. Unfortunately, I don't have
a test case to show the developers.
>
> Still, for sheer power, I am unable to beat the combo of emacs and LaTeX
> though for convenience I often use sdf and its output-any-format capability.
>

I do just about all my editing directly with TeX/vi, but have been
playing around with Texmacs. What I'd really like is something like
Quanta++ for TeX.

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Re: [expert] klyx error

[civileme]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Is anyone running the Klyx latex frontend? Since at least the version
>shipped with KDE 2.0 it has been unusable because the background and
>foreground colors are black. If I do a highlight of the text area it
>will show that there is in fact proper text, but it is impossible to
>use. I'm checking this on Mandrake 8.2 Download, but have noticed the
>problem as far back as 8.0.
>
>If someone doesn't mind, can you please start Klyx, create a new
>document, then check if the text is visible.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Kwan
>
>
>
>
>
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Ummm  KLyX was written in a marathon session at TrollTech to demonstrate 
the power of the Qt widget set. much like Qtzilla.  AFAIK, it has 
horrendous pagination problems on long documents, forgetting to print 
large chunks of text, and the authors don't maintain it.  LyX, OTOH, 
works nicely though it lacks some of the bells and whistles of KLyX.

Still, for sheer power, I am unable to beat the combo of emacs and LaTeX 
though for convenience I often use sdf and its output-any-format capability.

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Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3

[Hoyt]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 06:05 pm, you wrote:

My A7V266 is now my daughters' Wndows computer because it was so unreliable 
for Linux.

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RE: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3

[Jose M. Sanchez]

Just to chime in on this subject...

The AliMagic and VIA based motherboards have "broken" chipsets.

I've spoken to both companies engineers about this issue.

This discussion arose because both chipsets have problems with DMA
overlays when using the BT8xx type TV tuner cards... 

The problem is with clock timing (the famous broken clock timer chip!!!)
and DMA xfers. As you push the udma speed the spurious clock pulses
wreak havoc with the memory writes.

The Windows drivers try to make the OS work around the problem...

This may be why people are seeing corruption. Couple this with Civilme's
statement on WD drives and lack of CRC DMA data checking, and it's a
wonder that Linux even runs on these systems.

Turning OFF DMA or reducing UDMA to 33 seems to help with this
problem...

Your milage may vary though...

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|Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:39 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
|
|
|On Wednesday 10 April 2002 21:21, Bjarne Thomsen wrote:
|
|>This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb
|>file from the file system on computer A to the file
|>system on computer B by the program cp on the PC
|>running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2
|>file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence).
|>
|> Ist this problem caused by
|> (a) the VIA chipset?
|> (b) the AMD processor?
|> (c) the UDMA setting?
|> (d) the IDE driver?
|> (e) the ext2/ext3 FS?
|> (f) the NFS system?
|> (g) or something else?
|
|My experiences on my system:
|a, c and g. g for buggy ide controller on motherboard (belongs 
|actually 
|to category a).
|
|BIOS update helped a little, still random corruption occurs especially 
|when copying from CD-ROM to HD. So to be sure when copying 
|files around I 
|switch DMA off. I've noticed that combination of WD disk and 
|VIA chipset  
|is lethal. When the hardware is piece of crap, even Linux 
|can't save your 
|ass.
|
|Advice for people buing new HW: if it's cheap (in price), 
|think again if 
|you can afford it! And to make your decision easier remember that 
|exceptions make the rule. ;)
|
|I've been considering IDE or SCSI controller (to PCI-bus), 
|could someone 
|tell if it's a solution to my problems or does the buggy mobo chipset 
|affect the PCI-bus too? 
|
|Cheers,
|J.
|
|>
|> We have the advantage that we know how to
|> produce the corruption?
|>
|>   -- Bjarne Thomsen
|
|




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RE: [expert] Wireless PC Card configuration

[Dodd, David J]

yea I have a orinoco card and use pcmcia-cs and the tar file from the
orinoco site.  I just boot up my laptop and
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d/
./pcmcia
./network
sometimes twice and Im good to go.


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From: Nicolas ROBAUX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:38
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Wireless PC Card configuration


Hi !

Does anybody know if MDK 8.2 has a built-in network configuration
hability, 
for PCMCIA ? Or do I need to use the pcmcia-cs script ? For I have the 
network script but no network.opts in my /etc/pcmcia directory...

Thank you very much your help,

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Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3

[Brandon Long]

Has he checked his logs to find the source of the crash? I had a web server 
that received moderate  traffic that would crash for apparently no reason and 
at random times. The server was an AMD 900. after replacing the processor to 
an Intel, the server has been running without one incident.  Check kernel 
logs to see if you are getting any kernel oops. The AMD problem for me caused 
all sorts of problems with fragged files and mysql corruption.


On Wednesday 10 April 2002 14:21, you wrote:
> I have a colleague who has just gotten a PC
> based on the ASUS A7V266-E motherboard and
> an 80GB IBM IDE disk for fast numerical work.
> He is running LM 8.2 without modifications.
> The IDE disk is partitioned into ext3 and xfs
> partitions. / and /usr are ext3 are ext3,
> the rest are xfs. In addition he has mounted
> file systems on two different computers (A and B) using NFS.
>
> He has 3 times consistently been able to crash the
> OS resulting in a file corruption on the IDE disk.
>
> This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb
> file from the file system on computer A to the file
> system on computer B by the program cp on the PC
> running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2
> file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence).
>
> Ist this problem caused by
> (a) the VIA chipset?
> (b) the AMD processor?
> (c) the UDMA setting?
> (d) the IDE driver?
> (e) the ext2/ext3 FS?
> (f) the NFS system?
> (g) or something else?
>
> We should appreciate very much if any of you
> could give us any advice on how to proceed.
>
> We have the advantage that we know how to
> produce the corruption?
>
>   -- Bjarne Thomsen

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Re: [expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[Michael Scottaline]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:28 +0200
Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> If these programs can import a word doc and - after editing - export it
> into M$ Word without any loss of format, then I will happily switch to
> the Linux Office World.

SO has been able to do this AT LEAST since version 5.0.  I do it all the
time working in an M$ environment and using Linux for te last three years.
 No one has ever complained about being unable to open a document I have
sent them in .doc or Excel format from SO.

Mike

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Re: [expert] ps2pdf problem in Mandrake 8.2

[kwan]

On 10 Apr 2002, Laura Conrad wrote:

>
> Is anyone else having problems with ps2pdf in Mandrake 8.2?  I have
> some files that aren't converting right.  I don't think I had a
> problem like this before I upgraded.  I can email a pointer to the
> files to anyone who wants to look at them.
>

I tried also and got a garbage PDF.




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Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3

[Jussi Aalto]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 21:21, Bjarne Thomsen wrote:

>This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb
>file from the file system on computer A to the file
>system on computer B by the program cp on the PC
>running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2
>file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence).
>
> Ist this problem caused by
> (a) the VIA chipset?
> (b) the AMD processor?
> (c) the UDMA setting?
> (d) the IDE driver?
> (e) the ext2/ext3 FS?
> (f) the NFS system?
> (g) or something else?

My experiences on my system:
a, c and g. g for buggy ide controller on motherboard (belongs actually 
to category a).

BIOS update helped a little, still random corruption occurs especially 
when copying from CD-ROM to HD. So to be sure when copying files around I 
switch DMA off. I've noticed that combination of WD disk and VIA chipset  
is lethal. When the hardware is piece of crap, even Linux can't save your 
ass.

Advice for people buing new HW: if it's cheap (in price), think again if 
you can afford it! And to make your decision easier remember that 
exceptions make the rule. ;)

I've been considering IDE or SCSI controller (to PCI-bus), could someone 
tell if it's a solution to my problems or does the buggy mobo chipset 
affect the PCI-bus too? 

Cheers,
J.

>
> We have the advantage that we know how to
> produce the corruption?
>
>   -- Bjarne Thomsen



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[expert] Seagate Tapestor 20Gb - howto?

[Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes]

Hello

Sorry for the newbie question, but I wonder whether someone could tell me how 
to use Seagte Tapestor 20GB - Scsi.  The drive is working fine; I run the 
diag tools from seagate on linux and the test was ok.

I have no idea of:

a) mount the tape and save files to it.  Does it make sense?
b) Any backup software tha works with ti?

Many many thanks

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[expert] ps2pdf problem in Mandrake 8.2

[Laura Conrad]

Is anyone else having problems with ps2pdf in Mandrake 8.2?  I have
some files that aren't converting right.  I don't think I had a
problem like this before I upgraded.  I can email a pointer to the
files to anyone who wants to look at them.

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[expert] configurin Samba

[Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva]

Hi List,

Following indications for using 'smbclient' to broadcast a message
(thanks people) I found out this on my Linux Box (Windoze worked fine):
---
smbclient -M my_Linux_box
load_client_codepage: filename /etc/codepages/codepage.860 does not exist.
added interface ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.157 bcast=XXX.XXX.XXX.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Got a positive name query response from XXX.XXX.XXX.162 ( XXX.XXX.XXX.162 )
Got a positive name query response from XXX.XXX.XXX.162 ( XXX.XXX.XXX.162 )
message start: ERRSRV - ERRmsgoff (Not receiving messages.)
---

More;
---
smbclient //my_Linux_box/
load_client_codepage: filename /etc/codepages/codepage.860 does not exist.
added interface ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.157 bcast=XXX.XXX.XXX.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
session request to MY_LINUX_BOX failed (Not listening for calling name)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name)
---

So there're two problems:

1st and more important: My Linux box is not accepting connection :-(

2nd: My language is portuguese, codepage 860, as set in smb.conf but
there's no /etc/codepages/codepage.860 file!

Any help in one of both topics would be very appreciated.

Many thanks in advance

---
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Re: [expert] Cannot compile 8.2 kernel! HELP!

[K Montgomery]

Did you do a "make mrproper" before starting the whole compilation? 
I've gotten similar errors in the past and that has solved them.  (Note:
I believe this will wipe out any existing /usr/src/linux/.config you
have.  But as you're loading a file from elsewhere, this shouldn't be a
concern.)

- Kathy

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:25, Calin Culianu wrote:
> 
> 
> I am having problems compiling the mandrake 8.2 kernel on a mandrake 8.2 
> system I just installed.
> 
> 
> I am testing out some mods to the kernel.  I haven't modified the 
> 2.4.18-mdk6 sources yet.. as a first step I am just trying to compile the 
> mandrake kernel sources as a test, using the gcc 2.96.76 compiler that comes 
> with mandrake 8.2
> 
> Using the default config that the installer installed in my /boot directory, 
> i did make oldconfig, then make dep.  make bzImage works fine, but as soon 
> as i do make modules, I get the following errors:
> 
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include  -Wall 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer 
> -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS 
> -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/modversions.h  
> -DKBUILD_BASENAME=loop  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c loop.c
> In file included from 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
>  from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/list.h:6,
>  from 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/module.h:12,  
> 


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Re: [expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 21:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But Wolfgang, OOo and Staroffice 6 are fully compatible with Microsofts
> Office files; you can read or save files in powerpoint, word or excel
> format. Perhaps more problems about access.
> 
> And you can share files between computers runing linux, macs, solaris
> and windows.
> 
> In our laboratory all we work with latex or with OOo/Staroffice; some of
> the documents need to be saved in M$Office formats (mainly word) and we
> have not problems to do that.
 
More often than not I try it with the new versions: Get a spreadsheet
created in Excel, consisting of several sheets which are connected
through formulas and links. Import it into StarCalc, edit some links and
export it again as Excel file. As soon as you open it with Excel and
start working with it some links are broken.

Get a Word doc with footnotes and images. Import it into StarWriter, edit
some footnotes and insert a page or two. Export it as a Word file and
open it with Word. You'll have to do a lot of editing to get it right
again.

I don't say it's StarOffice's fault. It may rather be M$ Office to blame
but who cares? 

The problem is NOT the ability of StarOffice to import and edit M$ Office
files. The problem is the ability of M$ Office to import StarOffice
files. And guess who gets the blame?
 
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Re: [expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 15:26 -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:28 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Not because the standard is better quality but because you
> > don't want to have your customers or business partners on the phone
> > complaining they can't read your calculations or documents.
> 
> Then why, when M$ comes out with the next version which has
> features/changes intended to force others to upgrade, would you accept
> their "standard"?  If the new version is not compatible with your
> "customers or business partners" cuz they're still on the previous
> version; how do you justify moving forward to the next M$ version... using
> your same arguments...?

It used to be the way things go: As soon as M$ launched a new Office
version the reports started coming in "We use Office X.X now and we have
problems with your documents. When will you upgrade?" And the boss says
"Why didn't we upgrade yet?".

I don't know who starts this every time and again. There must be a bunch
of corporations which upgrade their whole office software as soon as the
new version is out. And from there it spreads very fast all over the
world.

In our time of global networks and corporations nobody is an island any
more where you can do as you like.

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Re: [expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[Pierre Fortin]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:28 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Not because the standard is better quality but because you
> don't want to have your customers or business partners on the phone
> complaining they can't read your calculations or documents.

Then why, when M$ comes out with the next version which has
features/changes intended to force others to upgrade, would you accept
their "standard"?  If the new version is not compatible with your
"customers or business partners" cuz they're still on the previous
version; how do you justify moving forward to the next M$ version... using
your same arguments...?

Not trying to start a war...  just (still) trying to understand the
thinking that lets people walk both sides of this fence...

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[expert] Cannot compile 8.2 kernel! HELP!

[Calin Culianu]

I am having problems compiling the mandrake 8.2 kernel on a mandrake 8.2 
system I just installed.


I am testing out some mods to the kernel.  I haven't modified the 
2.4.18-mdk6 sources yet.. as a first step I am just trying to compile the 
mandrake kernel sources as a test, using the gcc 2.96.76 compiler that comes 
with mandrake 8.2

Using the default config that the installer installed in my /boot directory, 
i did make oldconfig, then make dep.  make bzImage works fine, but as soon 
as i do make modules, I get the following errors:

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include  -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer 
-pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS 
-include /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/modversions.h  
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=loop  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c loop.c
In file included from 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/list.h:6,
 from 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/module.h:12,  
from loop.c:64:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/asm/processor.h:51: warning: 
parameter names (without types) in function declaration
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/asm/processor.h:51: field 
`loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str' declared as a function
In file included from loop.c:64:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in 
number and not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in 
number and not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in 
number and not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/linux/module.h:183

I looked at the cpp output of the above and the first thing it dies on is 
the following:

# 33 "/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk-rtl/include/asm/processor.h"
struct cpuinfo_x86 {
__u8 x86;
__u8 x86_vendor;
__u8 x86_model;
__u8 x86_mask;
char wp_works_ok;
char hlt_works_ok;
char hard_math;
char rfu;
int cpuid_level;
__u32 x86_capability[4];
char x86_vendor_id[16];
char x86_model_id[64];
int x86_cache_size;

int fdiv_bug;
int f00f_bug;
int coma_bug;
unsigned long loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str(ba497f13);
unsigned long *pgd_quick;
unsigned long *pmd_quick;
unsigned long *pte_quick;
unsigned long pgtable_cache_sz;
} __attribute__((__aligned__((1 << ((5));

The above loops_per_jiffy struct member looks funky.

Anyone else manage to successfully compile this mandrake kernel?  Anyone 
else have this problem?

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[expert] Radeon problems with DRI and OpenGL

[Victor]

I have an ATI Radeon 64MB DDR Vivo card and have been running into some 
problems with certain OpenGL programs. The programs that I have 
encountered problems with so far are:
/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/starwars from the xscreensaver-gl package (a 
few others don't work)
csmash-0.6.3-2mdk
bzflag-1.7e4-2mdk
I'm sure there are others butt these are the ones I've found so far.
After running these programs my mouse, keyboard, video freeze up. I can 
log into my computer using ssh to restart, but I haven't figured out how 
to recover my X session. ctrl-alt-bksp, ctrl-alt-fx don't work. 
alt-sysreqs work sometimes.

When I disable DRI these programs run but at insanely slow speeds due to 
software rendering. So these programs do work.

Is it possible to only enable certain gl extensions? How about recover 
my X session so I can have an easier time debugging?

Here is my configuration:
2x366 celeron PII on an Abit p2b board
kernel-smp-2.4.18-6mdk-1-1mdk
fairly standard linux mandrake 8.2 install

mesa packages:
libMesaglut3-4.0.1-4mdk
libMesaGLU1-4.0.1-4mdk
Mesa-demos-4.0.1-4mdk

output from glxinfo:

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20010402 AGP 2x x86/MMX
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_object, 
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_MESA_resize_buffers,
GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_PGI_misc_hints, GL_SGIS_pixel_texture,
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
--
0x23 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x24 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Slow
0x25 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x27 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x28 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Slow
0x29 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x2a 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow

Any help is appreciated,
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Re: [expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[falcaraz]

But Wolfgang, OOo and Staroffice 6 are fully compatible with Microsofts
Office files; you can read or save files in powerpoint, word or excel
format. Perhaps more problems about access.

And you can share files between computers runing linux, macs, solaris
and windows.

In our laboratory all we work with latex or with OOo/Staroffice; some of
the documents need to be saved in M$Office formats (mainly word) and we
have not problems to do that.

Francisco Alcaraz
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Re: [expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 13:12 -0500, J. Craig Woods wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Why you don't forget M$ Word and try with OpenOffice or Staroffice 6.0?
> >
> >Francisco Alcaraz
> >Murcia (Spain)
> >
> 
> The Spaniard is RIGHT ON
> 
> Free yourself from the shackles of servitude, break away from the billy 
> gang, liberate you soul from the world of micro$oft. Do it now before it 
> is too late

Yes, wunderful, right. But let's be realistic.

If you are in your own home/office you may use whatever wordprocessor you
like. When you are in business or working in a corporate environment M$
Office is still the standard. If you want to share documents with other
companies by ways apart from printouts you have to comply to the
standard. Not because the standard is better quality but because you
don't want to have your customers or business partners on the phone
complaining they can't read your calculations or documents.

You can use StarOffice, OpenOffice or Abiword or what ever as long as
these programs produce documents readable by M$ Office.

If these programs can import a word doc and - after editing - export it
into M$ Word without any loss of format, then I will happily switch to
the Linux Office World.

It's the same with motorcars. If I find a gas station where I can get
alternative fuels everywhere I will at once buy a car with alternative
motor. Until then I'll have to buy a car which runs on gasoline.

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Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3

[Guy Zelck]

Bjarne Thomsen wrote:

>I have a colleague who has just gotten a PC
>based on the ASUS A7V266-E motherboard and
>an 80GB IBM IDE disk for fast numerical work.
>He is running LM 8.2 without modifications.
>The IDE disk is partitioned into ext3 and xfs
>partitions. / and /usr are ext3 are ext3,
>the rest are xfs. In addition he has mounted
>file systems on two different computers (A and B) using NFS.
>
>He has 3 times consistently been able to crash the
>OS resulting in a file corruption on the IDE disk.
>
>This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb
>file from the file system on computer A to the file
>system on computer B by the program cp on the PC
>running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2
>file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence).
>
>Ist this problem caused by
>(a) the VIA chipset?
>(b) the AMD processor?
>(c) the UDMA setting?
>(d) the IDE driver?
>(e) the ext2/ext3 FS?
>(f) the NFS system?
>(g) or something else?
>
>We should appreciate very much if any of you
>could give us any advice on how to proceed.
>
>We have the advantage that we know how to
>produce the corruption?
>
>  -- Bjarne Thomsen
>
There where some threads about ths without any solutions yet  though, 
see "Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for thefilesystem" 
(there a several of them) and "XFS and Linux-Mandrake". I've got a P4 
system with a Quantum Fireball 8GB and have all my fs in xfs, except 
/boot. I can reproduce it easily by doing an unclean shutdown. All my 
open files at the time of the crash, hang or power-off get corrupted 
(mostly kde config files in /home). I have a md8.1 with kernel 2.4.8.
More and more problems like this are emerging it seems.
Greetings,
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Re: [expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[J. Craig Woods]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why you don't forget M$ Word and try with OpenOffice or Staroffice 6.0?
> 
> Francisco Alcaraz
> Murcia (Spain)
> 

The Spaniard is RIGHT ON

Free yourself from the shackles of servitude, break away from the billy 
gang, liberate you soul from the world of micro$oft. Do it now before it 
is too late

Dr John,
The night tripper...




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[expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3

[Bjarne Thomsen]

I have a colleague who has just gotten a PC
based on the ASUS A7V266-E motherboard and
an 80GB IBM IDE disk for fast numerical work.
He is running LM 8.2 without modifications.
The IDE disk is partitioned into ext3 and xfs
partitions. / and /usr are ext3 are ext3,
the rest are xfs. In addition he has mounted
file systems on two different computers (A and B) using NFS.

He has 3 times consistently been able to crash the
OS resulting in a file corruption on the IDE disk.

This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb
file from the file system on computer A to the file
system on computer B by the program cp on the PC
running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2
file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence).

Ist this problem caused by
(a) the VIA chipset?
(b) the AMD processor?
(c) the UDMA setting?
(d) the IDE driver?
(e) the ext2/ext3 FS?
(f) the NFS system?
(g) or something else?

We should appreciate very much if any of you
could give us any advice on how to proceed.

We have the advantage that we know how to
produce the corruption?

  -- Bjarne Thomsen








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RE: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy

[Chris Slater-Walker]

I used to manage an M$ proxy and it always used to be the case that you
needed to install a piece of software called the "Winsock Proxy Client"
on all windows machines using the proxy server. This enabled them to
use, e.g., ftp, news etc. The Proxy Client was not necessary to use
http, however.

Also, MS Proxy allows you to permit or deny use of it with NT Domain
authentication, that is, it checks the user from whom an outbound
request is received using some kind of M$ authentication scheme. I'm
afraid that's all I can tell you about that. This would seem to be the
problem you're experiencing.

Perhaps you could use Samba to join the relevant NT domain and see if
that works? Somehow I doubt that it will but it might be worth
experimenting!

Regards

Chris Slater-Walker
==
Chris Slater-Walker CCNP CCDA
Cisco, Linux, DNS
French & German spoken
==


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes
Sent: 10 April 2002 14:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy


I have set it up at the application level putting in the proxy server,
etc. I am getting a proxy error page telling me that it could not
authenticate me. HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication Required. The proxy admin
is anti Linux, and won't help what so ever, unless I can tell him what
needs to be done.

-Original Message-
From: Lars Nordin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 10 April 2002 14:22
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tony S. Sykes
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy


I have that situation with my ISP and I have to configure proxying at
the 
application level - so I have to configure netscape/konqueueror for web
and 
ftp proxy.

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 03:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 April 2002 20:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake and msproxy
>
> Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> > I am using Mandrake 8.1 behind a ms proxy server. How do I get it to

> > authenticate my user ID and password to allow me out onto the net?
 
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[expert] thank you all "apache web iste on a local win32 partition"

[faisal gillani]

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[expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[falcaraz]

Why you don't forget M$ Word and try with OpenOffice or Staroffice 6.0?

Francisco Alcaraz
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Re: [expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[KevinO]

Nick Thompson wrote:
> So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on 
> CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly, I assume my 
> pristine MDK installation has suddenly become vunerable to Word Macro 
> viruses. The Linux kernel doesn't have windows anti-virus protection to 
> save me from this, so is there anything I can do to protect myself? 

1) Create a user account, just for that purpose. This will limit the scope of 
what the process running the macro can do. It would also make backing up and 
restoring the one user's home directory a snap. Do not run it as root, or even 
as your regular user name.

2) Tell us home you did it. ;-)

KevinO





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Re: [expert] socket error on remote dial-up

[Pierre Fortin]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:28:48 -0600 Frederick Gleicher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Pierre:
> 
> Thanks for the tip, I will check into that. I need to get other things
> done right now, and will get back to this list later. Is the memory leak
> in kppp or the pppd ? When I dial into this linux server remotely, I use
> both linux and windows clients.

When you click on the KDE Internet icon, you get user owned kppp, which
invokes a root owned kppp which fires up pppd...  It's the user owned kppp
that leaks...  I believe the leak is related to the graphing; if you turn
graphing off, the leak is not as bad, though still there.  I haven't had
time to dig into it; but I suspect it may be related to the debug logging,
even when debug is not enabled.  The clue is that there is a minimal log
posted if the modem drops and offers to enable debugging.

One of my remote users does this:
- kppp to start connection
- as root: "killall -9 kppp" to avoid leak
-  "killall -9 pppd" (or power off modem) when done

Since reverting to her internal modem, she was unable to power off the
modem and the kill -9 (pppd will not terminate on kill -15...) once left
the modem online...  had to talk her through using minicom and "+++ath"...

HTH,
Pierre

> Thanks again for the tip, I am sure it saved me hours of frustrating
> headscratching. I will be letting you know the results.
> 
> Frederick Gleicher
> 
> 



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Re: [expert] Installing LM 8.2 as 3rd OS w/Partition Magic

[falcaraz]

Have you tryed with ACRONIS 5.0? It manages perfectly even NTFS-XP
partitions, XFS, Reiserfs and lots more ^_^

Francisco Alcaraz
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Re: [expert] popup local chat

[Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva]

Oh Thank you very much.

Look likes a winpopup clone, doesn't it?  But, I cannot find
winpopup in my Windoze 2000 version.

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, s wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:46 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I'm wondering if exists a kind of program which allow us to
> > communicate to others terminals
>
> > Any ideas?  Many thanks in advance,
>
> I saw linpopup on the cds and description sounds like what you're looking for.
>
> -s
>
>
>

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---
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  Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
   Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil




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Re: [expert] popup local chat

[J. Craig Woods]

Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
>   I'm wondering if exists a kind of program which allow us to
> communicate to others terminals (both Windoze and Linux, if possible),
> something like ICQ does over whole Internet, but in this case only on my
> network and would be very simple.  I mean I would like to broadcast a
> message to others terminals and a window popup message, or on console,
> like a 'talk' request, would appear there.  If I could keep a chat, even
> better.
>   BTW, 'talk' is quite close of what I'm looking for, but I don't
> think it can works with windoze, and I want to broadcast to all terminals,
> no matter who is there.  Maybe something over Samba would do it.
> 
>   Any ideas?  Many thanks in advance,
> 

On all UNIX/Linux machines wall with work. It is simple just type wall 
and your msg. Example: wall hello all you f**k***

With your Window stuff, set samba server up and do a smbclient -M host 
hello all you f**k***

Have fun,
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[expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

[Nick Thompson]

So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on 
CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly, I assume my 
pristine MDK installation has suddenly become vunerable to Word Macro 
viruses. The Linux kernel doesn't have windows anti-virus protection to 
save me from this, so is there anything I can do to protect myself? I 
could backup each time I want to run it I suppose ;-)  Or maybe I've got 
it all wrong... Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nick.




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Re: [expert] popup local chat

[kwan]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:

> Hi List,
>
>   I'm wondering if exists a kind of program which allow us to
> communicate to others terminals (both Windoze and Linux, if possible),
> something like ICQ does over whole Internet, but in this case only on my
> network and would be very simple.  I mean I would like to broadcast a
> message to others terminals and a window popup message, or on console,
> like a 'talk' request, would appear there.  If I could keep a chat, even
> better.

You can use the smbclient utility to send a WinPopup message.

smbclient -M windows_machine

Type CTRL-D to end the message and send it.




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[expert] socket error on remote dial-up

[Frederick Gleicher]

Pierre:

Thanks for the tip, I will check into that. I need to get other things
done right now, and will get back to this list later. Is the memory leak
in kppp or the pppd ? When I dial into this linux server remotely, I use
both linux and windows clients.

Thanks again for the tip, I am sure it saved me hours of frustrating
headscratching. I will be letting you know the results.

Frederick Gleicher



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[expert] Visor USB problems (yet again)

[D. R. Evans]

Sorry if this is a repeat. I posted it yesterday, but it never came 
back to me.

-

When I couldn't get my brand-new Visor to sync, I went back and read the
threads on USB and Visor syncing, especially the stuff related to devfs,
and thought that by following the instructions I had solved my problems,
since the Visor started to sync properly.

However, I found that it will sync a grand total of 16 times, and after
that syncing appears to stop.

Here's the setup, garnered from the prior posts:

0. Using LM8.1. I have never used USB with Linux before, so this is my
first foray into new territory.

1. I have turned off devfs at boot time

2. The default USB devicde is /dev/visor, which is linked to 
/dev/usb/ttyUSB1

3. The first 16 attempts to sync (with jpilot) all worked.

4. All attenpts after the first 16 (using jpilot and gnome-pilot) fail.

5. Pressing the hotsync button causes a message to appear on the Visor 
(after a while) that says that communication could not be established 
with the desktop.  

6. jpilot gives the error message:
  pi_bind illegal seek
  Check your serial port and settings.
  If you use a USB pilot press the Hotsync
  button before and repush the button Sync
exiting with status -10

7. Pressing various combinations of the hotsync button the cradle and 
the sync button in jpilot always seems to give the above error, no 
matter what order I do them in.  

8. gnome-pilot doesn't give an error; it just seems to sit there 
waiting forever.

9. When it was working (the first 16 times), I would see a message 
"Handspring Visor convertor now attached to ttyUSB0" and "Handspring 
Visor convertor now attached to ttyUSB1" in the system log; after use I 
would see "USB disconnect on device ", where  incremented by one 
each time, each time the sync was complete. The highest value of  
was 16. Now that it has stopped working, I no longer see the "now 
attached" messages. So I am pretty sure that this is a USB issue. I 
know nothing about USB, but it looks like there is some limit of 16 
devices that may be used and for some reason the computer now thinks 
that all 16 are in use.  

Does anyone have clues? I would really hate to have to admit defeat and
use a Windoze box to sync the Visor.

  Doc Evans



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Re: [expert] A little vi help

[Alfredo C. Lopez]

Greetings from a guy living in Argentina and a user of vi. 
I  never imagine I could do that with vi.
 I always cut and paste to insert a figure. you give me a lot of 
ideas.. This helper scripts are very cool. 
Even to edit a source code (may be fortran or c or whatever) is very 
usefull. ! May be to create a IF THEN ELSE skeleton to use... 

THANKS!!!
ALF


El Lun 08 Abr 2002 11:51, escribiste:
> Not built in, true, but I do almost all my documentation in vi/TeX. One
> nice thing about vi is that you can filter sections of text through
> external programs, or read directly from the stdout of any program. This
>
> allows me to format a section of text by doing (trivial example):
>  :10,50! fmt
>
> For TeX code I've created a bunch of little helper scripts to do things
> like plug in an image or format columns. E.g.:
>
>
> #/bin/sh
>   # epsinsert
> GEOMETRY=`grep -A1 "% Image geometry" $1|tail -1`
> # echo $GEOMETRY
> WIDTH=`echo $GEOMETRY|cut -d' ' -f1`
> HEIGHT=`echo $GEOMETRY|cut -d' ' -f2`
>
> echo \\begin\{figure\}[label]
> echo \\centering
> echo \\includegraphics[height=${HEIGHT}pt,width=${WIDTH}pt]{$1}
> echo \\caption\{ CAPTION \}
> echo \\label\{label\}
> echo \\end\{figure\}
>
> This can be called with:
>   :r! epsinsert images/somefile.eps




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RE: [expert] popup local chat

[Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN]

hmmm, I could have swore talk broadcast's to win machines. 
I recall my girlfriend getting a big laugh when I did it.

Brian D. Klar - CVE
OTS
WPAFB

-Original Message-
From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] popup local chat


Hi List,

I'm wondering if exists a kind of program which allow us to
communicate to others terminals (both Windoze and Linux, if possible),
something like ICQ does over whole Internet, but in this case only on my
network and would be very simple.  I mean I would like to broadcast a
message to others terminals and a window popup message, or on console,
like a 'talk' request, would appear there.  If I could keep a chat, even
better.
BTW, 'talk' is quite close of what I'm looking for, but I don't
think it can works with windoze, and I want to broadcast to all terminals,
no matter who is there.  Maybe something over Samba would do it.

Any ideas?  Many thanks in advance,

---
Alan Wilter S. da Silva
---
 Laboratório de Física Biológica
  Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
   Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil





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Re: [expert] popup local chat

[s]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:46 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> Hi List,
>
>   I'm wondering if exists a kind of program which allow us to
> communicate to others terminals 

>   Any ideas?  Many thanks in advance,

I saw linpopup on the cds and description sounds like what you're looking for.  

-s




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Re: [expert] Installing LM 8.2 as 3rd OS w/Partition Magic

[Ron Stodden]

Ashley Reynolds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, David Rankin wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any pointers or gotchas that I should watch out
> > for? This is my first attempt with partition magic.

Partition Magic 6.0 always hangs for me at the completion of each
batch.  The task appears to be completed correctly though.

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[expert] popup local chat

[Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva]

Hi List,

I'm wondering if exists a kind of program which allow us to
communicate to others terminals (both Windoze and Linux, if possible),
something like ICQ does over whole Internet, but in this case only on my
network and would be very simple.  I mean I would like to broadcast a
message to others terminals and a window popup message, or on console,
like a 'talk' request, would appear there.  If I could keep a chat, even
better.
BTW, 'talk' is quite close of what I'm looking for, but I don't
think it can works with windoze, and I want to broadcast to all terminals,
no matter who is there.  Maybe something over Samba would do it.

Any ideas?  Many thanks in advance,

---
Alan Wilter S. da Silva
---
 Laboratório de Física Biológica
  Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
   Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil




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Re: [expert] External screen in laptop

[Pierre Fortin]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:38:40 +0200 Rodolfo Canet-Castelló <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Hi experts:
> 
> I'd like to start using my Toshiba Satellite 1800-750 to give 
> presentations without reverting to Windows, but the Fn-F5 key 
> combination does not work under Linux. Did anyone of you a similar 
> problem and knew how to solve it?

Have you checked the BIOS...?  My ancient Toshiba T500CDT has an option
for using int, ext, or both screens.  Not as handy; but if "both" works,
just pull the plug to blank the external screen... :^)

Pierre



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[expert] Wireless PC Card configuration

[Nicolas ROBAUX]

Hi !

Does anybody know if MDK 8.2 has a built-in network configuration hability, 
for PCMCIA ? Or do I need to use the pcmcia-cs script ? For I have the 
network script but no network.opts in my /etc/pcmcia directory...

Thank you very much your help,

N.




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[expert] External screen in laptop

[Rodolfo Canet-Castelló]

Hi experts:

I'd like to start using my Toshiba Satellite 1800-750 to give 
presentations without reverting to Windows, but the Fn-F5 key 
combination does not work under Linux. Did anyone of you a similar 
problem and knew how to solve it?

Thanks.
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Re: [expert] Vim: numeric keypad

[kwan]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:

> Why do not the numbers on numeric keypad work in Vim? I dont understan this.
> They produce something like Op for zero, Oq for one. Mapping
> these in Vim would break other things.
> Writing the sequence in bash produces the corresponding number, as does
> hitting the key.
> In cat I get exactly the sequence when I type it but hitting the key
> still produces the number. This is the desired behavior. But how do I
> get this in bash or vim? And why is it ever broken?
>
Works fine here.. What does the "Keyboard" section of your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 show? Are you using a non-US keyboard?




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Re: [expert] smbmount error

[J. Craig Woods]

Bo O. Erichsen wrote:
> This is related to Codepage translation so if the drive you mount holds files 
> with names that doesn't have foreign language characters in them you 
> should'nt have any problem.. You can test it by creating a file with a name 
> like testæøå on the mounted drive.
> 
> /bo
> 

Thanks BO, your parsimonious response was indeed very well done...

Dr John





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[expert] Vim: numeric keypad

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

Why do not the numbers on numeric keypad work in Vim? I dont understan this.
They produce something like Op for zero, Oq for one. Mapping 
these in Vim would break other things.
Writing the sequence in bash produces the corresponding number, as does 
hitting the key.
In cat I get exactly the sequence when I type it but hitting the key 
still produces the number. This is the desired behavior. But how do I 
get this in bash or vim? And why is it ever broken?




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RE: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy

[Tony S. Sykes]

I have set it up at the application level putting in the proxy server,
etc. I am getting a proxy error page telling me that it could not
authenticate me. HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication Required. The proxy admin
is anti Linux, and won't help what so ever, unless I can tell him what
needs to be done.

-Original Message-
From: Lars Nordin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 10 April 2002 14:22
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tony S. Sykes
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy


I have that situation with my ISP and I have to configure proxying at
the 
application level - so I have to configure netscape/konqueueror for web
and 
ftp proxy.

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 03:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 April 2002 20:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake and msproxy
>
> Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> > I am using Mandrake 8.1 behind a ms proxy server. How do I get it to
> > authenticate my user ID and password to allow me out onto the net?
 
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Re: [expert] Mobile Postfix Accounts

[Lars Nordin]

Postfix is just an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) and all it does is route mail. 
It sounds like you are talking about a MRA (Mail Retrieval Agent) which gives 
a user remote access to their mail box - you want to look into imap or pop3 
servers and their configuration. If you just want users to pick thier mail 
then allowing internet access for the correct network ports for your pop3 or 
imap server is what you need, but if you want remote users to be able to send 
messages as well, then you will need either SMTP authentication (SSL 
connections or POP-before-SMTP) or have the user join the network via VPN. 

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:03 am, nDiScReEt wrote:
> Anyone know how to configure postfix or provide a link on how to setup
> postfix so that my users can check their mail from within the internal
> network and abroad on the road?



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Re: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy

[Lars Nordin]

I have that situation with my ISP and I have to configure proxying at the 
application level - so I have to configure netscape/konqueueror for web and 
ftp proxy.

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 03:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 April 2002 20:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake and msproxy
>
> Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> > I am using Mandrake 8.1 behind a ms proxy server. How do I get it to
> > authenticate my user ID and password to allow me out onto the net?



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[expert] HP 1200 and Mdk 8.2

[S. Moreau]

Does anyone try to use the HP 1200 printer with mdk 8.2 ?

my printer worked perfectly with 8.1 Under 8.2 it is also easily install and
the printer test pages are fine. However I am unable to print another file
following this test. Apparently the job is in queue and I can only start the
printer with the w3 administarion tool (log as root). Then the file is
printed. As expected then the printer is not available for another job. I
have to start the printer with the w3 tools at each job. I upadte my 8.2
printerdrake according to mandarke (bufix) but I am still unable to run
properly my printer.

Has somebody any solution before I come back to 8.1 !!!





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Re: [expert] Mobile Postfix Accounts

[Randy Kramer]

nDiScReEt wrote:
> Anyone know how to configure postfix or provide a link on how to setup
> postfix so that my users can check their mail from within the internal
> network and abroad on the road?

There is probably more than one way to do it.

For the ways I'm thinking of, your local email server must be visible on
the Internet.  Then install a pop3 or imap daemon on your local email
server and let your users connect and get their mail that way. 
(Actually, imap is probably the best choice, as your email queues are
maintained on the server.)

Or, use your ISP's email server / imap daemon and leave the mail on his
server -- it will be accessible from anywhere on the Internet just like
mail on your (Internet visible) server would be.

Sorry I don't have immediately have any links.

You might want to look at this unfinished page (with possibly some
mistakes):

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailServerSketches

Randy Kramer



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Re: [expert] HELP-weird log messages appearing every 15 seconds or so

[David Relson]

At 12:32 AM 4/10/02, you wrote:
>To add to a previous post... check all your nics to see if perhaps it IS one
>of your own boxes. If it is then it makes the search much easier. The next
>step will be if you want to dig deeper is to do a packet trace of this traffic
>and find out what the payload is. That will be useful to determine why it is
>happening.

To determine if the message is caused by a local machine or by a remote 
machine, you could disabling your internet connection for an hour.  If you 
disconnect the phone/cable/DSL connection and continue to get the weird 
messages, you'll know that the messages are caused by a local machine.  If 
disconnecting causes the messages to stop, the source is a remote machine.




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Re: [expert] Installing LM 8.2 as 3rd OS w/Partition Magic

[Ashley Reynolds]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, David Rankin wrote:

> Does anyone have any pointers or gotchas that I should watch out
> for? This is my first attempt with partition magic.

Yeah, the Western Digital. ;)

Ashley

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Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem,(a step further)

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

> It's me again with some conclusions.
>
> First of all, the problem has nothing to do with the SCSI card 
> (remember my linux os runs on a IDE disk but I also have a scsi card). 
> The fact I can't get  to my scsi-card BIOS anymore is due to the fact 
> that the PCI slots share  IRQs. My old AHA-2940 card can't handle this 
> seemingly.

What about putting the card into different slot? I think PCI irq lines 
should be shifted between slots.

> Even when indicating to my mb BIOS that I do not have a pnp capable os 
> and resetting its build up irq database there's no way I can get to 
> the scsi-card bios (ctrl-A on bootup), the card reports it can't find 
> itself!
> I took out this SCSI card altogether and waited for file corruptions 
> to emerge after inpromptu shutdowns. I didn't have to wait long, same 
> file corruptions (files filled with nulls, ^@) were detected.
> So the first conclusion is that there is sth. wrong with xfs in the 
> 2.4.8 kernel.
>
> My next step will be to try out the latest version of xfs; either 
> compiled in 2.4.8 or in 2.4.18.
>
Interesting. I didnt have any fs corruption with XFS and 2.4.8 kernel 
but with 2.4.17 I turned off the computer and one of my partitions could 
not be mounted at all. After fsck it went online again, but I dont know 
what got lost in the process.





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[expert] setting KDEDIRS, icon problems

[Robby Stephenson]

Hi all,

I've just gotten Mandrake 8.2 installed and am generally super excited about 
it. Everything looks great so far, except for this one small nagging problem. 
So I have a small question about what I believe to be a problem with the 
KDEDIRS variable.

Here's the problem. I have compiled and installed some kde applications using 
--prefix=/usr/local. After a boot and first login to KDE, some .desktop links 
and the menu items which use icons in /usr/local/share/icons show the 
"unknown" icon, the question mark. If I logout and log back in, the icons are 
fine, they are what they should be.

After researching the problem, I've come to believe it has something to do 
with the KDEDIRS variable. I've tried setting it in $HOME/.profile, 
$HOME/.bash_profile, /etc/profile and /usr/bin/startkde but it hasn't helped. 
After the first login, the variable is properly set if I query it in the 
konsole window. KDEDIR (notice no 's') is properly set to /usr.

So maybe there's some other problem. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks!
Robby Stephenson



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Re: [expert] smbmount error

[Bo O. Erichsen]

This is related to Codepage translation so if the drive you mount holds files 
with names that doesn't have foreign language characters in them you 
should'nt have any problem.. You can test it by creating a file with a name 
like testæøå on the mounted drive.

/bo

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 02:18, J. Craig Woods wrote:
> Brad Felmey wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:54, K Montgomery wrote:
> >>On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:36, Bo O. Erichsen wrote:
> >>>found the patch for the bug:
> >>>http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/00-smbfs-2.4.18-codepage.patch.gz
> >>>
> >>>i guess it's patched in the next kernel package.. ?
> >>
> >>Thanks for posting this!
> >>
> >>Whenever I mounted a Samba share after installing 8.2 (with the 2.4.18
> >>kernel), an "ls" of the share directory would hang, and then ls anywhere
> >>would hang. I was never able to kill the processes, and eventually I
> >>would have to reboot.  This patch solved the problem!
> >
> > This is fixed in 2.4.18.7mdk, which is nothing more than the stock 8.2
> > kernel with the smbfs codepage fix. I still don't know why this isn't
> > errata.
>
> OKAY, maybe I am on a toot but I have not experienced any difficulty
> with mounting win2000 shares. I am using kernel 2.4.18-6mdk. I am using
>   samba 2.2.3a-10mdk. What gives? Shit, if you guys need a patch, I want
> one too
>
> Hell, I forgot who I am
> whoami=cwoods




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[expert] Mandrake and msproxy

[Tony S. Sykes]

-Original Message-
From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 09 April 2002 20:27
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake and msproxy


Tony S. Sykes wrote:

> I am using Mandrake 8.1 behind a ms proxy server. How do I get it to 
> authenticate my user ID and password to allow me out onto the net?
>
> < behavior="slide" direction="down" id="Marquee1" loop="1" 
> scrollamount="1" scrolldelay="20" style="height: 27px; width: 300px;" 
> truespeed="" border="2"> 
> __
> < behavior="slide" direction="up" height="56" id="Marquee2" loop="1" 
> scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="45" width="218" border="0">
> * Best Regards,*
>
> ** 
>
> *Tony Sykes.*
>
>
> < behavior="slide" direction="up" id="Marquee6" loop="1" 
> scrollamount="1" scrolldelay="45" style="height: 31px; width: 240px;" 
> truespeed="" border="0">
>
> Support Analyst
> *Business Computer Projects Ltd*
>
>
> < behavior="slide" id="Marquee3" loop="1" scrollamount="1" 
> scrolldelay="5" style="font-size: 10pt; height: 17px; width: 142px;" 
> truespeed="" border="0">
> Tel: 0161 355 3000
>
> Fax: 0161 355 3001
>
>
> < behavior="slide" id="Marquee4" loop="1" scrollamount="1" 
> scrolldelay="5" style="font-size: 10pt; height: 18px; width: 152px;" 
> truespeed="" border="0">
> Web: www.bcpsoftware.com 
>
>
> < behavior="slide" direction="down" id="Marquee5" loop="1" 
> scrollamount="1" scrolldelay="20" style="height: 21px; width: 300px;" 
> border="2">
>  
>
>  
>
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>
> Business Computer Projects Ltd
>
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>
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>
> Stockport
>
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>
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>
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>
> Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001
>
> Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com
>
Well, if you were using MandrakeSecurity Single Network Firewall to 
protect a Windows Workstation I could answer; however, I believe 
Microsoft is keeping the authentication process secret to prevent the 
use of competing platforms.  

The password encryption employed by Microsoft has a number of articles 
on the net about how it can be decoded, and perhaps a few on how it can 
be encoded.  Samba does nicely in keeping up with the CIFS password 
encryption, but the authentication on the proxy server, IIRC, is 
supposed to detect Microsoft platforms, just like their own version of 
Kerberos.

May I suggest asking this question on the expert list?  More SAs  are on
that list who may have had the same experience, though most of them 
probably put linux on the server first.

Civileme


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