[expert] OK a little OT humor for slow night
Ya, well it takes all kinds... Dr John, The Night Tripper I have not heard anyone explain this as well as Cliff Clavin on Cheers. One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. Here's how it went: Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is theslowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] turnoff monitor after 5 minutes
run kcontrol a.k.a. KDE Control Center. Go to PowerControl - Energy. faisal gillani 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 ? thanks faisal = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Xine problem with 8.2
On 7 Apr 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; Ok, not exactly on topic, but I'm hoping that someone here will know this one. I'm trying to play DVD's with xine. It plays mpegs ok, but I get the following error on DVDs: There is no available plugin to handle dvd://video_ts.vob I've checked the home page for xine looking for answers, an found nothing. Can someone point me to an answer for this? Since you posted this I'm assuming that you found the other pages to the different demuxers. I'm curious as to what sort of performance you're getting and what are your hardware specs. My laptop has a P/400 but video is too jerky to be watchable. It runs fine on an Athlon 900 though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] StarOffice 6 printing multiple copies problem
Hi All, I wonder if anyone has this problem.. I use a Epson900 printer, ever since the later releases of the Gimp print drivers I haven't been able to print multiple copies of a document.. I see that Star Office Ver 6 now supports the CUPS printing system.. Anyone know how to fix this problem.. The only way that I can print multiple copies of a document, is print to a file, may be call it print.ps, then use lpr like lpr -#5 print.ps to get my 5 copies.. anyone know a method around this, as all I would like to do is select 5 copies from the dialog straight out of StarOffice..OpenOffice also has the same problem.. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any issues with Cyber Drive CD writer?
Phil wrote: At long last I have made a move to buy a CD R/W drive. A local store sells a Cyber Drive that is affordable. It is an IDE device and according to the box, and Cyber Drive's web site, it Linux compatible. I was wondering if anyone knows of any issues that I should be aware of? Do a test: Ynder Linux, write a CR-RW from an image file using cdrecord directly, then do an md5sum on both the image file and the device (/dev/scd0?). You cannot do this under Windows because the Windows md5sum has no ability to operate at the device level. If they match, you are in luck. If the device check always ends in a read error, don't buy it. Recent changes to the CD writer firmware across all manufacturers have implemented a read-ahead feature that errors at the last sector as it tries to read ahead past the end of data. Stupid, eh? I have been through 4 drives from different manufacturers all of which showed this problem. Older drives are OK. -- Ron. [au] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OK a little OT humor for slow night
J. Craig Woods wrote: Ya, well it takes all kinds... Dr John, The Night Tripper --- I have not heard anyone explain this as well as Cliff Clavin on Cheers. One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. lol I love it! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can't mount floppy drive
I can't mount floppy drive I found this mesg: [root@lods kicho]# mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device [root@lods kicho]# mount /dev/fd0 mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device I saw it and lokking for boot mesg: [root@lods kicho]# dmesg | grep floppy ide-floppy driver 0.97 floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f0 in use ide-floppy driver 0.97 I believe 0x03f0 is the problem and: [root@lods kicho]# dmesg | grep 3f0 PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0x3f0-0x3f2 ok floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f0 in use I don't know what PNP is, I saw it in BIOS and may be it have a relationship with ISA devices? I don't have any ISA device here. I put no irq and no address in BIOS for PNP settings, but the problem still goin on Anyone please... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Monitoring cybercafe connections from the clients
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Sáb 13 Abr 2002 10:17, escribiste: Hi I'm in my way to use Mandrake-Linux as a server in a cybercafe to share the internet connection, share the printers, etc, etc. Also I'm very interested whether exist a software that could monitor the beginning of an internet connection from a client, count the time she or he is online, and if's needed end the connection from that client due to a time excess. I am not interested in develop it so, i'd like to find it!!! TIA Nicolas Gomez P.D: Sorry, but my english is badly Take a look a http://www.ltsp.org for an Internet Cafe Billing system. It's free. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems) http://www.clshonduras.com (Linux Hardware) PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8uGtbu5DxuPWE298RAgriAJ9Z1TnuqEgb1TCfgDCUQZ0NQDDi5QCeLtQf 8qkTsCvPDxiF+Ws/NtaKnJg= =gy6O -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Xine problem with 8.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 Apr 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; Ok, not exactly on topic, but I'm hoping that someone here will know this one. I'm trying to play DVD's with xine. It plays mpegs ok, but I get the following error on DVDs: There is no available plugin to handle dvd://video_ts.vob I've checked the home page for xine looking for answers, an found nothing. Can someone point me to an answer for this? Since you posted this I'm assuming that you found the other pages to the different demuxers. I'm curious as to what sort of performance you're getting and what are your hardware specs. My laptop has a P/400 but video is too jerky to be watchable. It runs fine on an Athlon 900 though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com To the original question: Xine does not have a decoder for the Content Scrambling System because MPAA won't license any open-source decoder. If you look around the web with the search key DeCSS you will learn about greedy corporations, bought and paid-for laws, and the fact that LinDVD is unavailable except to OEMs for hardware-specific cases, and that PowerDVD just doesn't work that well. Either buy a decoder card (the Dxr2 from Creative is supported) or make a decision to be an outlaw and download the source for DeCSS and compile it as a plug-in for Xine or abandon the idea of playing encrypted DVDs. PowerDVD, a system for windows, I have tried. It is licensed by MPAA, and on a 1G Athlon with 256M RAM and a good interface, it still gave jerky motion. PowerDVD for linux does not appear to work at all. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Xine problem with 8.2
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:42:14 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 Apr 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; Ok, not exactly on topic, but I'm hoping that someone here will know this one. I'm trying to play DVD's with xine. It plays mpegs ok, but I get the following error on DVDs: There is no available plugin to handle dvd://video_ts.vob I've checked the home page for xine looking for answers, an found nothing. Can someone point me to an answer for this? Since you posted this I'm assuming that you found the other pages to the different demuxers. I'm curious as to what sort of performance you're getting and what are your hardware specs. My laptop has a P/400 but video is too jerky to be watchable. It runs fine on an Athlon 900 though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com To the original question: Xine does not have a decoder for the Content Scrambling System because MPAA won't license any open-source decoder. If you look around the web with the search key DeCSS you will learn about greedy corporations, bought and paid-for laws, and the fact that LinDVD is unavailable except to OEMs for hardware-specific cases, and that PowerDVD just doesn't work that well. Either buy a decoder card (the Dxr2 from Creative is supported) or make a decision to be an outlaw and download the source for DeCSS and compile it as a plug-in for Xine or abandon the idea of playing encrypted DVDs. For an outlaws view on libdvdcss. I have dled, built, and installed libdvdcss to use with ogle. My understanding of the law is that it is illegal to distribute DeCSS as a program, but that it is not illegal to offer the source code but even were it to be I would still have little qualm using it. I am using it to play in Linux DVDs I purchased on a system for which I purchased the dvd drive and the graphics card. The graphics card was bundled with a 'licensed' soft DVD player. Simply because I choose to play the DVD in linux rather than in windows my feelings are that the 'license' covers this system, regardless of the OS I run or the player I use. PowerDVD, a system for windows, I have tried. It is licensed by MPAA, and on a 1G Athlon with 256M RAM and a good interface, it still gave jerky motion. PowerDVD for linux does not appear to work at all. PowerDVD is not very good even on a faster system nor is the HollywoodMagic decoder card much better. The best player I have seen is that which ATI ships with their vid card, it rivals that of a DVD player and in linux ogles performance is on that same level. To get a little better understanding of DeCSS http://vialink.com.br/~jcastro/decss/info.html It not too long, boring, or dry and gives and overview of the situation. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Box security
Jay wrote: I am running Mandrake 8.2 with ports 22(ssh), 25(smtp), 80 (http), 443(secure-http) open. Does anyone know a a good site, or a few good sites that will explain different types of hack attempts on these ports so that I can make sure my box is secure. I do have a firewall up and running with servers running on each of those ports but there may be round-about ways of attacking them I am not aware of. Thanks -Jay Well that is a tall order because it depends on a lot of veriable, i.e. what version of ssh, what kind of MTA (sendmail, postfix, etc.) and what version, what kind and version of a web server. You are probably running apache (I am not going to check) for your web server. You could start by looking at web pages for the particular servers you are running. These pages, for example, apache or sendmail, will tell you about possible exploits and updates. In general, you might want to look at http://www.snort.org. They have a lot of links for the kind of stuff you might want to be aware of, and the have one hell of a nice program for monitoring all packets coming at these open ports called snort. I think I saw some package MDK 8.2 is coming with, something called prelude. I am a confirmed user of snort but prelude, and their home page should help also. HaPPy Snorting Dr John, The Night Tripper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
sda wrote: RS has no problem with this at all, free as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer. The heart of GNU/Linux is still free as in beer, however the ease of use necessarily isn't or shouldn't be IMHO. But RMS's license states that once I buy, download, whatever some GPL'd code, I am now free to give away this software however I please. Mandrake could run people off of their ftp servers if they wish, but they can't keep the latest versions out of the hands of the non-payers, unless they start writing code from scratch. This code would have to be totally non-derived from anything GPL'd and this would allow an alternative license. This of course would be seen as most unfriendly The situation is a little more complicated than this, but this is it in a nutshell. -- Kevin O'Connor People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun ... The GNU Manifesto - Copyright (C) 1985, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
I'm not an expert, but doesn't Mandrake only have to provide the source for all the modifications Mandrake did. Can Mandrake NOT provide the ISOs for free? And does Mandrake need to provide the source for all the other applications, etc that they bundle up in the Mandrake distrio. The source for these programs can be found elsewhere. Can somebody please explain this to me? What does Mandrake need to provide to comply with the GPL? Thanks, Robert --- KevinO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sda wrote: RS has no problem with this at all, free as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer. The heart of GNU/Linux is still free as in beer, however the ease of use necessarily isn't or shouldn't be IMHO. But RMS's license states that once I buy, download, whatever some GPL'd code, I am now free to give away this software however I please. Mandrake could run people off of their ftp servers if they wish, but they can't keep the latest versions out of the hands of the non-payers, unless they start writing code from scratch. This code would have to be totally non-derived from anything GPL'd and this would allow an alternative license. This of course would be seen as most unfriendly The situation is a little more complicated than this, but this is it in a nutshell. -- Kevin O'Connor People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun ... The GNU Manifesto - Copyright (C) 1985, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Soundwrapper
What is the purpose of soundwrapper? For example, the Kmenu has [soundwrapper xmms] as a command to run Xmms. Why not just xmms as a command? Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Soundwrapper
Sevatio wrote: What is the purpose of soundwrapper? For example, the Kmenu has [soundwrapper xmms] as a command to run Xmms. Why not just xmms as a command? My understanding is that only one process can have access to the sound device at a time. To allow multiple applications to use the sound device, a single process grabs the /dev/dsp (probably esd does this) and then provides access to the other applications. Soundwrapper is likely wrapping xmms in a manner allowing it to use esd. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions
Telnet in from another machine and do a ps -ef. On Friday 12 April 2002 22:11, David Relson wrote: At 09:49 PM 4/12/02, mike wrote: There really aren't THAT many. Just preview the screensavers, one at a time, from the xscreensaver-demo gui. Turn on the ones you like, turn off the ones you don't (or that don't work). True. There are a lot of 'em, but the number is manageable. Call me lazy, but I'd like an easy answer to What's the name of that cool one running RIGHT NOW? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Monitoring cybercafe connections from the clients
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:31:02 -0600 Alfredo Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Sáb 13 Abr 2002 10:17, escribiste: Hi I'm in my way to use Mandrake-Linux as a server in a cybercafe to share the internet connection, share the printers, etc, etc. Also I'm very interested whether exist a software that could monitor the beginning of an internet connection from a client, count the time she or he is online, and if's needed end the connection from that client due to a time excess. I am not interested in develop it so, i'd like to find it!!! TIA Nicolas Gomez P.D: Sorry, but my english is badly Take a look a http://www.ltsp.org for an Internet Cafe Billing system. It's free. Check this out too... http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/ Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions
At 10:44 PM 4/13/02, you wrote: Telnet in from another machine and do a ps -ef. Mike, An interesting idea ... I have been running top via a telnet session. Sometimes the screensaver is seeable in top's output and sometimes I don't see it (in a 25 line display), so that wasn't getting the job done. A little experimentation with ps, grep, and perl lead to the script below. It executes nicely via rsh. #!/usr/bin/perl # # show.screensaver - identify and display xscreensaver # $ps_ef=`ps -ef | grep xscreensaver | grep -v grep`; $xscreensaver = substr($ps_ef,9,5); $proc=`ps alxw | grep $xscreensaver | grep -v grep | tail -1`; $command=substr($proc,69); ($program)=split( , $command); print $program; So far, it has shown 'lisa', 'gltext', 'cynosure', 'xlyap', and 'ripples'. Could be, it'll actually work! Thanks for the suggestion. It was an inspiration! David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel panic on cardctl eject with buslink card
Hi, Last weekend I installed the 8.2 download edition. In general I am impressed. However, I can't install on my wife's machine until the following shutdown issue is addressed: I get a kernel panic when cardmgr tries to shut down. My machine is a Sony Vaio F-340, and the card in question is a BusLink wireless network card (uses the ray_cs driver). The desktop machine which I haven't tried yet has a similar card, WebGear Aviator PRO. Both cards and both machines work fine with Mandrake 8.1, except that (for both 8.1 and 8.2) I had to manually change the essid in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts despite setting it during installation. My kernel panic looks like this: - [root@grover root]# service pcmcia stop Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgrUnable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ccc6a0001 *pde = 0b0d4067 *pte = Oops: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[ccc66fd5] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: ebx: caad3440 ecx: cb6bda00 edx: ccc6a000 esi: cb0fa800 edi: 0003 ebp: cb7b1c04 esp: cb6b1bb4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process cardmgr (pid: 819, stackpage=cb7b1000) Stack: caad3440 0001 0003 c010836a 0003 cb6bda00 cb7b1c04 cb7b1c04 0003 c02bb960 caad3440 c01084ed 0003 cb7b1c04 caad3440 ccc5e000 0580 cabdf00c ccc5a0c8 c022af98 ccc5e000 0200 05d0 0580 Call Trace: [c010836a] [c01084ed] [ccc5a0c8] [ccc5a0c8] [ccc50018] [ccc5892c] [ccc5821d] [ccc5a0c8] [ccc500a3] [ccc51c29] [ccc65c3a] [ccc68d20] [ccc65308] [ccc60875] [ccc611aa] [ccbb8481] [ccbabd19] [ccbada5f] [c01c4f67] [c0176b4a] [c0125334] [c01258ca] [c0114de8] [c0125d0d] [c01260b4] [c0141617] [c0106f23] Code: 8a 42 01 84 c0 79 0c 89 74 24 10 5b 5e 5f e9 e8 0b 00 00 3c 0Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing - I get the same thing when doing just cardctl eject. But if I take the card out manually, the drivers clean themselves up just fine. If there's anything I can do to help track this down please let me know. I'd like to see this addressed in updates or at least have a way to hack the scripts to work around it so that my wife can start using some of the new features of 8.2 on her machine. Thanks for an otherwise great distro, Aaron Peromsik [EMAIL PROTECTED] please CC me directly on any replies Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel panic: unable to handle paging requests /
NULL pointer In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 14) Cuyahoga Valley XEmacs Lucid Seems that Aaron's problem is more substantial than just cardmgr. I also started to get kernel Oops of the kind (pcmcia unrelated): Unable to handle paging request Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in Mandrake Linux Release 8.2 (Bluebird) kernel 2.4.18-6mdk It looks like the virtual memory management system is buggy (just a guess). Question: is it Mandrake's or www.kernel.org problem and who could be interested in getting/fixing such bug reports? Aaron Peromsik writes: Hi, Last weekend I installed the 8.2 download edition. In general I am impressed. However, I can't install on my wife's machine until the following shutdown issue is addressed: I get a kernel panic when cardmgr tries to shut down. My machine is a Sony Vaio F-340, and the card in question is a BusLink wireless network card (uses the ray_cs driver). The desktop machine which I haven't tried yet has a similar card, WebGear Aviator PRO. Both cards and both machines work fine with Mandrake 8.1, except that (for both 8.1 and 8.2) I had to manually change the essid in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts despite setting it during installation. My kernel panic looks like this: - [root@grover root]# service pcmcia stop Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgrUnable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ccc6a0001 *pde = 0b0d4067 *pte = Oops: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[ccc66fd5] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: ebx: caad3440 ecx: cb6bda00 edx: ccc6a000 esi: cb0fa800 edi: 0003 ebp: cb7b1c04 esp: cb6b1bb4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process cardmgr (pid: 819, stackpage=cb7b1000) Stack: caad3440 0001 0003 c010836a 0003 cb6bda00 cb7b1c04 cb7b1c04 0003 c02bb960 caad3440 c01084ed 0003 cb7b1c04 caad3440 ccc5e000 0580 cabdf00c ccc5a0c8 c022af98 ccc5e000 0200 05d0 0580 Call Trace: [c010836a] [c01084ed] [ccc5a0c8] [ccc5a0c8] [ccc50018] [ccc5892c] [ccc5821d] [ccc5a0c8] [ccc500a3] [ccc51c29] [ccc65c3a] [ccc68d20] [ccc65308] [ccc60875] [ccc611aa] [ccbb8481] [ccbabd19] [ccbada5f] [c01c4f67] [c0176b4a] [c0125334] [c01258ca] [c0114de8] [c0125d0d] [c01260b4] [c0141617] [c0106f23] Code: 8a 42 01 84 c0 79 0c 89 74 24 10 5b 5e 5f e9 e8 0b 00 00 3c 0Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing - I get the same thing when doing just cardctl eject. But if I take the card out manually, the drivers clean themselves up just fine. If there's anything I can do to help track this down please let me know. I'd like to see this addressed in updates or at least have a way to hack the scripts to work around it so that my wife can start using some of the new features of 8.2 on her machine. Thanks for an otherwise great distro, Aaron Peromsik [EMAIL PROTECTED] please CC me directly on any replies Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sergei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
