Re: [expert] Supermount on upgrade
Theo, There are no packages - it's part of the kernel. It's just a matter of whether it's switched on or not. Your lilo settings handle this. Look at /etc/lilo.conf If your linux boot stanza includes "devfs=mount" then it's on. If it's "devfs=nomount" then it's off. Switch it on or off as you like by editing lilo.conf as root then running lilo. You can also use the supermount command as root to update /etc/fstab appropriately, or to just try things out without updating. Type "man supermount" to learn about this. HTH Brian On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 15:52, Theo Brinkman wrote: > I just upgraded my system from 8.0 to 8.2, and I'm having trouble > finding supermount. Could somebody let me know what the package name > is, and what CD it's on? > > Thanks, > - Theo > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Supermount on upgrade
I just upgraded my system from 8.0 to 8.2, and I'm having trouble finding supermount. Could somebody let me know what the package name is, and what CD it's on? Thanks, - Theo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Xine problem with 8.2
On stardate Sat, 13 Apr 2002, civileme wrote: >To the original question: > >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. > >Civileme Wouldn't you still need the software (DeCSS)? I was under the impression that the decoder board only took care of decoding the compression algorithm, not the encryption. tia, Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com < Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] best firewall
Steve wrote: > What is the best firewall to use with linux mandrake these days? > > Try your hand at writing your own firewall rules. There are a lot of tutorials on the web about using iptables or ipchains. One or both of these programs come pre-compiled and ready to go on Mandrake, and the kernel is compiled to work nicely with either one. With the release of the 2.4 kernel, most people find the iptables pretty straight forward to work with. Check some of your favorite search engines for how-to's on iptables or ipchains. Here is one to start with: http://www.boingworld.com/workshops/linux/iptables-tutorial/index.html You will be amazed at the flexibility of what you can do with rules for your particular setup. Sometimes people dismiss this activity as maybe just too daunting of a task but I hasten to add that screwing around with some of the frontend gui approaches to firewalling is far more intimidating, and mostly just wrecks your system. Just remember the backend to firewall administration is just a few simple rules. And, after your box is secure and tight, you will feel good about having done it yourself. Have fun Dr John, The Night Tripper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: japanese Konsole error
Hi Pablo, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > Kaixo! > >>$ man gcc >>/usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file >>/usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `nippon' >> > > This is due to the "man" program having a config file intended to use with > a "groff" program that has some japanese patches. > > Edit the file /etc/man.config and change the lines JNROFF and JNEQN so > they defin a command and parameters the same as in the lines NROFF and NEQN. I changed the file /etc/man.config as you suguested. However now I get "man gcc" partialy working out put is like this: -- If we find that the things in this man page that are out of date cause signifi? cant confusion - "man man" comes out in japanese only (which is surprising as i dont have man-pages-ja installed): man(1) man(1) 尚 man - オンラインマニュアルページを整形し表示する。 manpath - ユーザー個々のマニュアルページの検索パスを決める。 --- i tried using groff for JNROFF as well, but output was only in postscript, i added the -Tps option and it still did not work. This is the file options I have now, any sugestions welcome. Regards JG # TROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc JNROFF /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc EQN /usr/bin/geqn -Tps NEQN/usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1 JNEQN /usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1 TBL /usr/bin/gtbl # COL /usr/bin/col REFER /usr/bin/grefer PIC /usr/bin/gpic VGRIND GRAP PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrr CAT /bin/cat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] best firewall
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Re: [expert] OT--And now for the comic relief
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:20, James wrote: > 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 Amen, and pass the virus checker. L8R, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3 problems
On Sunday 14 April 2002 16:20 pm, synrat wrote: > boy do I regret installing the stupid thing. > I fixed 2 things so far. The menues ( update-menus) and arts server > ( using the latest rpms for arts ). Now Konqueror is completely out of > whack. It won't even start ( not in any mode ) and Kshell locks > everything up when I try to use it. Anyone with the same problems ??? I had multi problems with the rpms from the KDE download site. I went to Texstar and downloaded there rpms and everything now works real good. I also used a go by posted by CyberCFO dated 4/6/02. If you can't locate the HowTo just let me know and I'll email you acopy. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
> Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > >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... > > > >-JMS > > Hi, > > Valuable input. I've got an Intel chipset but indeed a bttv tv tuner and > a Firewire card from VIA technologies and suffer the same problems. > > Guy. just for the record. i've read Civileme's opinion abou WD drives. he scared me a bit, since i installed linux on a 30 GB WD drive and i can't afford to buy another.. so i just said "i'll use linux in this one till it dies or something..." that was a year ago. i'm still on my WD drive. i have /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home xfs defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb8 swap swap defaults 0 0 hdb being the mentioned WD drive. as you see, i use several filesystems. i've experienced power failures, hard freezes forcing me to push the reset button. you know.. the usual. and i'm still waiting for the day i get one single file corrupted. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3 problems
El Dom 14 Abr 2002 20:20, synrat escribió: > boy do I regret installing the stupid thing. > I fixed 2 things so far. The menues ( update-menus) and arts server > ( using the latest rpms for arts ). Now Konqueror is completely out of > whack. It won't even start ( not in any mode ) and Kshell locks > everything up when I try to use it. Anyone with the same problems ??? for the kicker bar freezing when you open up a konsole, the fix is simple. delete the konsole icon from the bar, and make it again. as for konqueror, what's the error message? HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 3 problems
boy do I regret installing the stupid thing. I fixed 2 things so far. The menues ( update-menus) and arts server ( using the latest rpms for arts ). Now Konqueror is completely out of whack. It won't even start ( not in any mode ) and Kshell locks everything up when I try to use it. Anyone with the same problems ??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
El Dom 14 Abr 2002 06:10, Guy Zelck escribió: > Mark Williamson wrote: > >I have seen this problem so many times.. you will have to switch off > >DMA on the IDE devices.. this is done by editing the /etc/lilo.conf > >file and by adding "ide=nodma" to the append line.. > > > >e.g > > > >image=/boot/vmlinuz > > label=linux > root=/dev/hda2 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > > >#this is were the change is made > >append="quiet devfs=mount ide=nodma" > >vga=788 > >read-only > > i've a question here. i've got an old 500mb quentum maverick, and i just can't boot my machine when it's plugged in. i wanted to use it as a backup for a few personal files how would be the command to disable DMA in that single drive? would something like adding "/dev/hdd=nodma" ok? thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
El Dom 14 Abr 2002 06:11, Guy Zelck escribió: > Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > >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... > > > >-JMS > > Hi, > > Valuable input. I've got an Intel chipset but indeed a bttv tv tuner and > a Firewire card from VIA technologies and suffer the same problems. > > Guy. just for the record. i've read Civileme's opinion abou WD drives. he scared me a bit, since i installed linux on a 30 GB WD drive and i can't afford to buy another.. so i just said "tha heck with it, i'll use linux in this one till it dies or something..." that was a year ago. i'm still on my WD drive. i have /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home xfs defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb8 swap swap defaults 0 0 hdb being the mentioned WD drive. as you see, i use several filesystems. i've experienced power failures, hard freezes forcing me to push the reset button. you know.. the usual. and i'm still waiting for the day i get one single file corrupted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A little vi help
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 13:19, dfox wrote: > I would first try: > > se wm=6 > > That's for setting the wrap margin. I should point out that it should be set > to the number of characters from the *right* margin. I.e., if you set wm to > 72, you'll end up with most of your words > on a new > line > like this :) > > > If you type a word that would not fit at the wrap margin, vi will > automatically move it to the next line. > > If you want to do more complicated formatting within vi, you can use the > Q command (at least in vim). Use the Q followed by a movement command, such as > } for paragraph, and voila, your paragraph will be formatted for the current > wrap margin setting. It won't justify though, but it's good for things like > when people can't use their editors and their text is turned into one long > line etc. More complicated things can be done if you pipe your text through > to 'fmt' which can even justify the text. > > IIRC that was the 'classic' way to do it before vim came along. Guess what. That worked! (ecstatic happy dance) Two words... woo and hoo. Ooops, that's three. What the hell... A big thanks to Dfox! You da man !! Gosh, from what I had read I thought it would take textwidth and wrapmargin together to make this work, but...I guess that's baloney. I do have textwidth set to 0 right now; is that going to cause some bad effects or shortcomings that I haven't seen yet? Thanks again dfox... LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: >Jason Guidry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Ralph Crongeyer wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a >6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. >>> >>I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a >>firewall soon. >> >>1st question, where is SNF82, and B, will it be available for FTP >>install (the cdrom on the box is toast)? >> >>-- >>Jason Guidry >>http://www.gmaestro.org >> > > >Jason You can also get the latest packages from Florin (the guy thats >putting together most of the firewall distro) at: > >http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/www/rpms/ > >Ralph > > >__ >Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the >convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ > >Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com/ > > Well, it will be ready when it is ready. The corporate project folks have a different standard of bugs acceptability--right around 0 for functional apps, with cosmetics minimized or hidden. In the mean time you do have SNF with the 2.2 kernel which does not offer stateful firewalling but otherwise is quite good. Just remember to take away the keyboard and monitor from the firewall box and make changes from the local LAN with a browser. Setting up the usual config files on SNF doesn't work because they are reloaded from other config files... Lots of experts tripped on that one. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....
Jason Guidry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ralph Crongeyer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a >6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. > >I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a >firewall soon. > >1st question, where is SNF82, and B, will it be available for FTP >install (the cdrom on the box is toast)? > >-- >Jason Guidry >http://www.gmaestro.org Check out this link. It should have all the answres for you. http://www.mandrakesecure.net/archives/snf/2002-02/ Ralph __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....
Jason Guidry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ralph Crongeyer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a >6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. > >I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a >firewall soon. > >1st question, where is SNF82, and B, will it be available for FTP >install (the cdrom on the box is toast)? > >-- >Jason Guidry >http://www.gmaestro.org Jason You can also get the latest packages from Florin (the guy thats putting together most of the firewall distro) at: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/www/rpms/ Ralph __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
sda wrote: > >I don't think anybody is worried about people giving it away sans the >Mandrake specific tools [if they were copyrighted - unfortunately they >aren't now]. FWIU GPL allows this, doesn't it? > They have copyright notices. Look at the source. Mandrake Tools are copyrighted, and licensed under GNU GPL, and Mandrakesoft is the copyright holder. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is the Speedtouch supported on the SNF?
Can someone tell me how to configure the Single Network Firewall for the Alcatel Speedtouch USB, or isn't it supported? Thanks, Wayne Bornall _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A little vi help
dfox wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 04:46, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > 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 would first try: > > se wm=6 > > That's for setting the wrap margin. I should point out that it should be set > to the number of characters from the *right* margin. I.e., if you set wm to > 72, you'll end up with most of your words > on a new > line > like this :) > > If you type a word that would not fit at the wrap margin, vi will > automatically move it to the next line. > > If you want to do more complicated formatting within vi, you can use the > Q command (at least in vim). Use the Q followed by a movement command, such as > } for paragraph, and voila, your paragraph will be formatted for the current > wrap margin setting. It won't justify though, but it's good for things like > when people can't use their editors and their text is turned into one long > line etc. More complicated things can be done if you pipe your text through > to 'fmt' which can even justify the text. > > IIRC that was the 'classic' way to do it before vim came along. > These are good instructions. The only thing you did wrong was to quote me in your posting. I did not ask that question but, if memory serves me well (not something you can take lightly at my age), I seem to recall that LX was looking for this info. There you go, LX J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Laptop suggestions
yeah, this may not be completely on-topic, but I need advice from users who are not necessarily winXP + Intel freaks. So, howbaaadit? I need to replace my trusty tuxtops K6 with a sub-$2K laptop. I'm going back and forth from a Sony FXA-49 and an iBook. while opinions on these two are welcome, I'm interested on opinions/experiences of any variety. Is there anything just on the horizon? stay away from brand X? good experiences from dealers, brands? thanks for your wisdom. -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a >6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a firewall soon. 1st question, where is SNF82, and B, will it be available for FTP install (the cdrom on the box is toast)? -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printer Setup HP LaserJet 4
> > If you use mdk 8.2 open K-panel->what to do->administer your system-> > configure your printer(s)... > Wel I've found out that reducing the quality to 300 dpi will solve the problem, of course I'd like to print using 600 dpi as the quality change is visible. Any idea what goes wrong? Is it related to gs or the driver? TIA Andreas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A little vi help
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 04:46, J. Craig Woods wrote: 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 would first try: se wm=6 That's for setting the wrap margin. I should point out that it should be set to the number of characters from the *right* margin. I.e., if you set wm to 72, you'll end up with most of your words on a new line like this :) If you type a word that would not fit at the wrap margin, vi will automatically move it to the next line. If you want to do more complicated formatting within vi, you can use the Q command (at least in vim). Use the Q followed by a movement command, such as } for paragraph, and voila, your paragraph will be formatted for the current wrap margin setting. It won't justify though, but it's good for things like when people can't use their editors and their text is turned into one long line etc. More complicated things can be done if you pipe your text through to 'fmt' which can even justify the text. IIRC that was the 'classic' way to do it before vim came along. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printer Setup HP LaserJet 4
> I have a okipage 6e that has a similar problem if I overload the memory. On a > graphics intensive page at 600 dpi only a portion prints out then the other > pages are garbage. Try lowering the resolution to something like 300 dpi to > see if that solves the problem. Thanx, this solved the problem somehow. The gs resolution is set to 600 dpi, and with the printer quality resolution set to 300 dpi the page is printed correctly.Do U have any suggestion how to make the printer print correctly with 600 dpi? 300 dpi looks somehow bad. Of course I'd prefer to use 600 dpi. It has to be a bug somewhere or not? TIA Andreas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....
It fails after Lilo is loaded. After the boot loader screen is loaded (and you have the chance to select Linux-Secure, Linux, Failsafe) when Linux-Secure is selected it gets about this far: Loading Linux-Secure... and then the system reboots. Ralph __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Is the Promise PDC20276 ATA133 RAID controllerchipsetsupported byMDK8.2
You might want to search the archives for Civilme's (in)famous tirade against Promise and integrated Raid devices... ...which are nothing more than "hoaxes" perpetrated against unsuspecting buyers... (see his posts). At his suggestion I tried the EXCELLENT Arco IDE raid controller. It works better than advertized and is OS transparent. They do cost though... 245.00. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of udo rader |Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 4:46 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [expert] Is the Promise PDC20276 ATA133 RAID |controller chipsetsupported byMDK8.2 | | |hi, | |I've got a soyo k7v dragon raid plus mobo here, and "raid" |stands for this useless promise "raid"-controller. | |*Without* raid features enabled, the controller works very |fast and reliable for ATA133. But it's raid feature is |definetively not worth playing around with it (I spent too |many hours with it) unless you do really have to (e.g. you |have already set up windoze to acess drives using the |"raid"-controller). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Fwd: Re: [expert] Sounds?
Yeap. If you're short of IRQ's you can also try to set things up so that the shared IRQ's are only being utilized by devices which are never used at the same time. E. G. You NORMALLY will not use the Network card and the TV tuner at the same time, unless you are capturing to a network, device. (This is just an example.) Or as another example, you may have a SCSI scanner. You probably will not be scanning and watching TV at the same time, so set the tuner and scanner to share IRQs. Moving the card from one slot to another changes which device it shares an IRQ with. If you have 5 slots and AGP... 54321A A (for AGP) and 1 normally share an IRQ with slot 5. 4 & 2 normally share and 3 has it's own. The exact sharing sequence is hardwired by the manufacturer, so it will vary according to the motherboard you have. In turn this confuses many people who erroneously assert that they can modify ALL IRQ's in the BIOS. You actually can't. You can change WHICH IRQ a shared set may get, but the sharing remains never the less. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of ed tharp |Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 11:20 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [expert] Sounds? | | |On Sunday 07 April 2002 11:11, you wrote: |> Sound problem fixed... |> Changed card to another slot...Got sound working... |> |> It was irq conflict... |> I just don't get,what changed irq? |> |> Jarmo |many motherboards set irq based on what slot the card is in, I |always stay |away from the slot closest to the agp slot(unless I am |installing a pci video |card) and some sorts of cards do not share the pci irq well |with others (vid, |USB, Vid capture, sound and network (in about that order) do |not seem to |share well) just my 2 cents. | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: >Hi all, > >I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a >6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. I installed MDK 8.2 with >the minimum install as suggested from the mailing lists and it installs with no >problems but on upon boot it will not boot with the secure kernel? I have the same >problem with another P166 with 128MB ram and a P200 with 64MB ram. The first machine >I metioned will not boot at all, while the other two will boot the standard and >failsafe images just not the secure kernel > >Any ideas why this might be?? > >Ralph > What sort of errors are you gettings? Where does the boot fail? At LILO, after the kernel loads, etc.?? > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] draknet -> isdn
Am Die, 2002-04-02 um 20.34 schrieb messmate: > Hello all, > I've very serious troubles to connect with isdn. > Running mdk 8.1 on a workstation without a local network.I've tryed isdn-light and >isdn4, no connection. > Draknet give me this troubles I think ! > Here are the error messages : > Configuring IP device ippp0 --> ippp0 0.0.0.0 pointopoint 0.0.0.0 -arp -broadcast > SIOCSIFDSTADDR: Cannot assign requested address > Any help would be very appreciated. > mess-mate Your not alone, i had similar problems with Mdk 8.1 and 8.2 doesn't fix it. No answers during the last 10 days, this supports my claim that the mandrake ISDN support is broken and nobody cares to fix it. I tried a lot, even the support i paid for faild to answer. That doesn't throw a good light on Mandrake. If you want working ISDN support out of the box try SuSE 7.3, it worked for me. Be aware that SuSE is a KDE distribution, their GNOME support is a quarter of a year old and not really polished. Haug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3; other chipsets?
It is true that the "nodma" option did solve the VIA disk corruption. This was in turn caused by a network hang-up the cause of which we have not yet located. Nothing was written to the syslog file. I have found 2 MBs for AMD processors that do not use the VIA chipset: (a) MicroStar 745 Ultra uses the SIS 745 chipset. (b) MicroStar K7N420 Pro uses the nVIDIA MCP-D chipset. Does anybody know if these chipsets have their own problems with the Linux kernel-2.4.18 ? Bjarne On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 11:11, Guy Zelck wrote: > Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > > >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... > > > >-JMS > > > > > Hi, > > Valuable input. I've got an Intel chipset but indeed a bttv tv tuner and > a Firewire card from VIA technologies and suffer the same problems. > > Guy. > > > > > > > > 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] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: >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... > >-JMS > > Hi, Valuable input. I've got an Intel chipset but indeed a bttv tv tuner and a Firewire card from VIA technologies and suffer the same problems. Guy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
Mark Williamson wrote: >I have seen this problem so many times.. you will have to switch off >DMA on the IDE devices.. this is done by editing the /etc/lilo.conf >file and by adding "ide=nodma" to the append line.. > >e.g > >image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img > #this is were the change is made >append="quiet devfs=mount ide=nodma" >vga=788 >read-only > > >Once you have edited the lilo.conf don't forget to run the lilo command, >or the changes will do nothing.. > >Cheers >Mark Thanks for the easy to apply solution. Guy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Is the Promise PDC20276 ATA133 RAID controller chipsetsupported byMDK8.2
hi, I've got a soyo k7v dragon raid plus mobo here, and "raid" stands for this useless promise "raid"-controller. *Without* raid features enabled, the controller works very fast and reliable for ATA133. But it's raid feature is definetively not worth playing around with it (I spent too many hours with it) unless you do really have to (e.g. you have already set up windoze to acess drives using the "raid"-controller). excerpt from the kernel documentation on controllers like the PDC one: CUT Say Y or M if you have an IDE Raid controller and want linux to use its softwareraid feature. You must also select an appropriate for your board low-level driver below. Note, that Linux does not use the Raid implemetation in BIOS, and the main purpose for this feature is to retain compatibility and data integrity with other OS-es, using the same disk array. Linux has its own Raid drivers, which you should use if you need better performance. CUT udo On Sam, 2002-04-13 at 02:03, Doug Gough wrote: > On the older promise cards, you had to pass some parameters to the kernel at > boot time. If you download the FastTrak66 Red Hat Linux Driver from thier > site, and untar it, you will find some readme files that explain what these > parameters are. I don't know if it will work for you, but it's worth a try. > > Doug Gough > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of msh > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Is the Promise PDC20276 ATA133 RAID controller chipset > supported byMDK8.2 > > > I have a MSI Ultra-ARU motherboard, which has the Promise PDC20276 > ATA133 RAID controller chipset on the mainboard, I've checked the > Promise website and they list the controller as being supported by > RedHat Linux, > > > > http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html also lists the chipset as > supported. > > When I hook up IDE drives to the onboard connectors controlled by the > PDC20276 Hardrake doesn't see them. > > Has anybody got any suggestions on what to try next? > > > > > > > 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
