Re: OLD [expert] Smoking Grass
J. Craig Woods said onto me: snip Well the truth be known, you probably did smoke to much grass. But as long as you did not hang out with Owsley, you should be ok... snip Just going through my old mail... Who's Owsley? -- °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] nautilus only copies zero byte files from cdrom
When mounting a cdrom nautilus pops up and you can copy/dragdrop etc. However, from a cdrom you only ever get a 0 byte file - I presume this is because the file on the cdrom is read only and the copy is abit too pedantic! However, copying from r/w file on the HD works as expected. Is there a way out of this - or can nautilus be stopped from from coming up whenever anything is mounted? BillK mdk 8.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Any monospaced sans serif fonts?
I guess you need Andale Mono (TrueType) font - it's available from Win98 of from MS Typography site. What's the Web address of the MS Typography site. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Any monospaced sans serif fonts?
www.microsoft.com/typography Mark Williamson wrote: I guess you need Andale Mono (TrueType) font - it's available from Win98 of from MS Typography site. What's the Web address of the MS Typography site. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Any monospaced sans serif fonts?
On Tuesday 23 Apr 2002 9:22 am, Mark Williamson wrote: I guess you need Andale Mono (TrueType) font - it's available from Win98 of from MS Typography site. What's the Web address of the MS Typography site. http://www.eu.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Whipping a dead horse (was Reading Email headers)
Damian G wrote: On 23 Apr 2002 01:39:07 -0400 i guess the all-caps sentences make me a little defensive... i guess i didn't really grasp the meaning of his answer. if this is the case, i'm sorry. Damian No apologies needed, Damian. If face to face communications is fraught with much misunderstanding, one might consider what we do here, attempting to communicate in *non* real time, akin to explicating quantum theory. And that aint easy. LX and Pierre were right about the point I was making, which was agreeing with you. Sometimes, as we all know, when a thread goes on for a bit of time on any list, it can get to a place of distortion. We were well into this tread when others were joining in with previously discussed points. That was why I was trying to bring it back to the main point. Silly me. However, I did get a kick out of civileme's response. I would say to anyone that thought about spamming you, civileme, that maybe they ought to pick on someone else Dr John aka J.C. Woods Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SOLVED adding new users causes X to restart on login - mdk 8.2
Just a quick update: after looking at .xsession-errors, it turned out that one of my shared libraries (libglu.so.1.2) wasn't readable to the new user. I changed the owner of that library to xgrp and allowed every member of the group reading and executing priviledge, and now everything's all hunky-doree. Thanks for telling me where to look! -Jason 4/22/2002 10:43:40 AM, Nick Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When a login fails, then its usually worth a look in /home/user/.xsession-errors. This is where all the console output ends up. Otherwise you could do a failsafe login (starts X and a terminal only) and run startkde (I assume your using KDE?). All the output from KDE will then appear in the terminal. Hopefully, one of these will show you a meaningful error message... Nick. Jason Earle Booz | Allen | Hamilton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] xine dvd player
I am having a hard time trying to play a dvd on mandrake 8.2. I bring up xine and pull up the files from the dvd player and it will play a small clip but not the whole movie. How do I get the whole movie to play? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kwintv -- no mute or volume control functions
I'm using Mandrake 8.2, Kwintv with an ATI TV Wonder VE. Now that I have the sound working by plugging in the ATI card to the sound card, I can't get it to function correctly. The mute and sound level functions of Kwintv do not work and it is necessary to mute the line-in (where the ATI card is connected) and adjust the volume using aumix. The mute button in Kwintv has a red X on it. I have found nothing in a Google search nor in the Kwintv docs that addresses this. Any advice? Thanks. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com All the Hoyt You'll Ever Need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] xine dvd player
I personally like ogle. I find it plays the best on my piii... Xine is always choppy And ogle supports dvd menus Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Dodd, David J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] xine dvd player I am having a hard time trying to play a dvd on mandrake 8.2. I bring up xine and pull up the files from the dvd player and it will play a small clip but not the whole movie. How do I get the whole movie to play? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cant stay connected
Here's the problem, for some reason my work box will disconnect from the gateway if I'm idle for more than 20 to 30 min. to get it to connect again, I have to reboot. what could be causing this pain in the butt problem? all my other boxes stay connected only my 8.0 box disconnects. Thanks in advance for all replies. Gavin Reg linux user# 199685 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cant stay connected
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:56:41 +0900 Gavin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the problem, for some reason my work box will disconnect from the gateway if I'm idle for more than 20 to 30 min. to get it to connect again, I have to reboot. what could be causing this pain in the butt problem? all my other boxes stay connected only my 8.0 box disconnects. Thanks in advance for all replies. Think you can provide any less info...? : We can make assumptions; but... 1 - LAN - dialup/other to gateway 2 - sessions *thru* gateway - sessions (telnet, rsh, ssh, tftp, ...) *to* gateway 3 - log entries - error messages 4 - just one application - all services (ifconfig output?) N - ... Just the facts... there's nothing worse than debugging both the problem and someone's interpretation... Pierre PS: Looks like the Mandrake mailer does not overwrite Reply-To: PS: headers... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: Sleuthing: Are you an unwitting web relay?
Hi,
At the risk of starting a thread that won't die... :^)
A few weeks ago, I noticed in my apache logs that someone was using my web
site to proxy their browsing. This was briefly discussed here:
Mar 10, see thread:
[expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough
http://www.mail-archive.com/expert%40linux-mandrake.com/thrd5.html#50886
Apr 21:
Sidebar: a while back, I started seeing a hacker using my web site to
hide his/her activities. Today, the packets continue (even if
unproductive due to my HoneyPort); but the emerging pattern is that
someone may be trying to boost click-through counts to affect
advertising charges... If anyone is seeing packets from 211.154.65.144,
I'd be interested in getting some info from you...
If you are running a web server, please check your
/var/log/httpd/access_log for lines that look like this:
GET http://.. HTTP/1.x
If, like me, you had/have proxying active and were successfully abused by
this scumbag, you will be on a permanent list and will not be able to stop
these probes... Even going silent via iptables does not stop the
probing.
So far, I've tracked the machine to somewhere in Asia Pacific (China?), so
counter-offensives are likely my only option.
I've been trying to find ways to respond which might give the attacker
some grief... if anyone has any ideas on how to croak a remote box that
is only listening to ports it opened, I'm interested... I've tried using
the anti-{CodeRed,Nimda} responses.
It seems that the more I give it responses, the more it tries... (again,
silence does not stop the attack) The last attempt was to overflow its
buffers and the probes stopped for an hour... though they've resumed. So
far, I can flood the attacker up to his window size of 17520.
Guess it's time to hunt down the old smurf code and modify it to beacon
the idiot...
Pierre
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RE: [expert] xine dvd player
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 07:22, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: I personally like ogle. I find it plays the best on my piii... Xine is always choppy And ogle supports dvd menus -Original Message- From: Dodd, David J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I am having a hard time trying to play a dvd on mandrake 8.2. I bring up xine and pull up the files from the dvd player and it will play a small clip but not the whole movie. How do I get the whole movie to play? I would have to agree, I had tired xine, and it never really played a DVD that good. I use ogle all the time and it great, even on my PII 400 it have smooth video. -- ...Rob = Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.com/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World = Registered Linux User #260513 1:10pm up 5:51, 2 users, load average: 0.38, 0.54, 0.53 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[expert] Is APM in 8.2's kernel?
Is APM (advanced power management) compiled into the Linux-Mandrake 8.2 kernel? How can I tell if it is? Is there a general form for determining such-and-such is compiled in? Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: OLD [expert] Smoking Grass
Fellini Days said onto me: |He was the guy who first made LSD, the only problem was he kept making it |when it became illegal! | |- Original Message - |From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: expert Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:38 AM |Subject: Re: OLD [expert] Smoking Grass | | | | | J. Craig Woods said onto me: | | snip | Well the truth be known, you probably did smoke to much grass. But as | long as you did not hang out with Owsley, you should be ok... | snip | | Just going through my old mail... Who's Owsley? | | | -- | °°° | David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 | Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com | °°° | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | | Gotcha. Thanks. BTW, does anyone know his full name? -- °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] [MAILER-DAEMON@trismegistus.net: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:07:59 -0500
From: J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sylvestre Taburet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AW: [expert] samba and ACls in 8.2
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i
Sylvestre,
I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL
support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you
were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple
question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an
install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has
completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my
OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find
a samba.spec file. BUT after doing a complete OS installation with
Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is
no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have
been used on Samba?
The originator of this thread stated that no ACL support was compiled
into the Samba that was installed while doing the system install. I
think I hear you saying, yes, it was. Again, my question is very
simple, how would I know what samba is compiled with since no
samba.spec will exist on the system?
BTW why is this thread not directed to the expert list?
Craig Woods
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:26:41PM +0200, Sylvestre Taburet wrote:
Le Mardi 23 Avril 2002 12:47, vous avez écrit :
Sylvestre Taburet wrote:
Okay.
Check the samba.spec and you'll see that the samba RPM provided with 8.2
was compiled with that option.
Ok, Sly, I give up. I installed Samba during a clean install of LMDK8.2.
Where would I find the samba.spec file?
Dr John
The Night Tripper
Here it is. We set up macros and flags for building the rpm with specific
options for 8.0, 8.1...
I compiled it for 8.2, that is with ACLs, winbind and nss_wins enabled. The
only thing that isn't enabled is ldap. If someone wants it, one could always
rebuild the SRPM by typing rpm --rebuild samba-xxx.src.rpm --with ldap
That's why I was a bit upset to read in the news that I didn't enable XFS
ACLs in my package. I enabled and tested it myself, and other developpers
also tested it, in fact, and it worked fine.
Now what is exactly the issue that is bothering you?
Cheers
samba.spec
---
%define ver 2.2.3a
%define rel 10mdk
#choose one of the following (by making it 1)
%define build_cooker 0
%define build_mdk82 1
%define build_mdk81 0
%define build_mdk80 0
%define build_mdk72 0
%define build_non_default 0
# Allow commandline option overrides (borrowed from Vince's qmail srpm):
# To use it, do rpm [-ba|--rebuild] --with 'xxx'
# The default distro is currently mdk82, so any other commandlinue must
# %define mdk82 0
%{?_with_cooker: %{expand: %%define build_cooker 1}}
%{?_with_cooker: %{expand: %%define build_mdk82 0}}
%{?_with_mdk82: %{expand: %%define build_mdk82 1}}
#%{?_with_mdk82: %{expand: %%define build_cooker 0}}
%{?_with_mdk81: %{expand: %%define build_mdk81 1}}
%{?_with_mdk81: %{expand: %%define build_mdk82 0}}
%{?_with_mdk80: %{expand: %%define build_mdk80 1}}
%{?_with_mdk80: %{expand: %%define build_mdk82 0}}
%{?_with_mdk72: %{expand: %%define build_mdk72 1}}
%{?_with_mdk72: %{expand: %%define build_mdk82 0}}
# Check to see if we are building for a non-default distro. This needs o
# be updated on occasion:
%if !%build_mdk82
%define build_non_default 1
%endif
# Set defaults for each version
%if %build_cooker
%define build_acl 1
%define build_winbind 1
%define build_wins 1
%define build_ldap 1
%endif
%if
Re: [expert] [MAILER-DAEMON@trismegistus.net: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find a samba.spec file. BUT after doing a complete OS installation with Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have been used on Samba? RPM spec files are found in the src.rpm package. If you do: rpm -ivh package_name.version.src.rpm then cd to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS you should see the file. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake
COOL!! i have a dual p2 and love it. quad would be even cooler! just think how many mp3/ogg files you can encode simultaneously.. not preemptively-task switching, but simultaneously. cool. maybe that isn't really a big deal to most people, but for some reason i get a real charge out of it. or work on cracking RC5 codes. moose. On April 22, 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: I just found out that I won a 4 processor 200mhz pentium Pro server with 1 gig of ram in it.We had some old equipment we are phasing out at work and we drew straws who gets what. Old, but more than sufficient for my playing around. I've never looked into mult processing with Linux. I know it is possible. Is it possible with Mandrake? It is an old ALR, so dunno about other compatibility issues. I know it has 1 or 2 raid controllers in it. DTP or something like that I hear. 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] Quad processor and Mandrake
Yes, where I work we have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 or 7.2 running on a (4)-processor 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon 1 MB L2 cache machine to do parallel experiments, and it runs fine ... Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Dewar Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake COOL!! i have a dual p2 and love it. quad would be even cooler! just think how many mp3/ogg files you can encode simultaneously.. not preemptively-task switching, but simultaneously. cool. maybe that isn't really a big deal to most people, but for some reason i get a real charge out of it. or work on cracking RC5 codes. moose. On April 22, 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: I just found out that I won a 4 processor 200mhz pentium Pro server with 1 gig of ram in it.We had some old equipment we are phasing out at work and we drew straws who gets what. Old, but more than sufficient for my playing around. I've never looked into mult processing with Linux. I know it is possible. Is it possible with Mandrake? It is an old ALR, so dunno about other compatibility issues. I know it has 1 or 2 raid controllers in it. DTP or something like that I hear. 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
[expert] Returned Mail--very strange and Samba too
I initially responded to a post by Slyvertre Taburet at [EMAIL PROTECTED] about Samba compiled with ACL support. I was sending a reply to him when I discovered it was going to Sly's address but not being posted to the expert list. So I did a cc to the expert list, and got back that bounce that I just forwarded to the list. Not sure why mtp.mandrax.org [63.209.80.242] would reject a msg being cc'ed to it. Anyway, when discussing a LMDK 8.2 issue, I thought it appropriate to post this to the list. Here is his response, and my response to his response. Convoluted, yes, but his response is really a response to an earlier poster who had stated that Samba did not come with ACL support compiled into it. I was just trying to get some clarification on Sly's point, which was all you need to do is look at the samba.spec file. Now if you are confused, good, so am I grinning ear to ear Sylvestre, I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find a samba.spec file. BUT after doing a complete OS installation with Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have been used on Samba? The originator of this thread stated that no ACL support was compiled into the Samba that was installed while doing the system install. I think I hear you saying, yes, it was. Again, my question is very simple, how would I know what samba is compiled with since no samba.spec will exist on the system? BTW why is this thread not directed to the expert list? Dr John aka Craig Woods UNIX SA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [MAILER-DAEMON@trismegistus.net: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find a samba.spec file. BUT after doing a complete OS installation with Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have been used on Samba? RPM spec files are found in the src.rpm package. If you do: rpm -ivh package_name.version.src.rpm then cd to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS you should see the file. SHEESH, Here we go again... Please try reading the question? Craig Woods Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: dual proc intel 840--was [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake
On Monday 22 April 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote: Nick Baker wrote: I'm having no luck getting an instal of mdk 8.0 or 8.0 to run to completion on a dual processor Intel OR840 motherboard-based machine. If you think you can help I can send the details. Let's here more details, esp. where during the install it has problems. I have two Intel dual MBs running but they are older than yours, and I have found Intel boards to be a bit of a pain. My dual Xeon was a bitch just to get both processors running and at full speed. The bios and jumpers didn't work the way the manual said. ;-( I have two Intel dual MBs running but they are older than yours, and I have found Intel boards to be a bit of a pain. My dual Xeon was a bitch just to get both processors running and at full speed. The bios and jumpers didn't work the way the manual said. ;-( As a bit of a side note ... The only times I have had installs hang during the installation was due to bad hardware, especially RAM Just a thought. Thanks for your help, Kevin. Here's the congfiguration: Intel OR840, dual p!!! 800, 1 gig Intel approved ram, IBM (adaptec 7881U) scsi adapter, 50 gig Seagate U2W drive, Sony CRX140E 8/4/32 CDRW, ATI Radeon 7500 AGP video, on-board NIC, on-board audio, external KVM sw to share video, mouse, keyboard with my IBM server. I want to set this machine up as a graphics workstation, and attempt to wean myself from 14 years of Photoshop/Mac addiction and and move my work to GIMP/Linux. I am also trying to develop an inexpensive office network and machine configuration package for non-profits. (Ironically, the cheap hardware has been less trouble !) Witht the OR840, have been through several sets of non-Intel-approved memory and also had originally tried to set this up with dual p!!! 933s using slockets, never could get that set up to even get to the bios :-( Finally broke down and got all Intel approved parts, and now it configures the SCSI card and the Intel bios just fine. OK. With the approved config, I have tried to install both 8.0 and 8.2, but they both do the same thing. The install runs smoothly through the partioning (root, home, usr, var) to the package instal. Near the end of installing whatever packages I have chosen, the install hangs either with a frozen mouse/keyboard or a blank screen. Progress!! this morning I was able to install the truely minimal option and can get to the command prompt. I then tried to upgrade installing KDE, but it hung as usual in the upgrade. When I restarted, there were a bunch of repairs requested, which I approved. I was then able to boot the minimal system again. My current thought is that this is a video/X problem, and have been rummaging about the ATI and Xfree sites for help, but have not found any joy there yet. I also suspect that the minimal system is utilizing only one of the processors. Later;;; Now that I have the minimal system running I've been trying to get additional pieces installed. The installer thinks Xfree is installed, but if I try to startx from the console I get: execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2) giving up . xinit: No such file or directory. (errno 2): Unable to connect to X server. xinit: No such process. (errno 3): Server error. then it dumps me back into the shell. If I run the installer now, with no packages selected for install, it hangs while the preparing bootloader message is on the screen. This is long enough for now... TIA for info and advice, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [MAILER-DAEMON@trismegistus.net: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: SHEESH, Here we go again... Please try reading the question? Craig Woods Very difficult to -- you quoted everything. Try quoting the relevant portions in context. I saw your message, it looked like you had a problem, I tried to help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: dual proc intel 840--was [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake
i don't suppose that you have a vanilla agp or even a pci card to swap the radeon out with. as you mentioned, to me it reeks of video card driver issues. i have been thinking of buying an 8500 but was holding off until i figured it would work without too many heachaches, anyways, i just recently ran across mention that the latest Xfree now supports those cards. i will try to find that link or remember how i got there so that i can supply more details and help out. it also seems to me that the i840 based boards were a no-show on 8.0, but i could be wrong about this. probably civileme would know right away. moose. On April 23, 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote: On Monday 22 April 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote: Nick Baker wrote: I'm having no luck getting an instal of mdk 8.0 or 8.0 to run to completion on a dual processor Intel OR840 motherboard-based machine. If you think you can help I can send the details. Let's here more details, esp. where during the install it has problems. I have two Intel dual MBs running but they are older than yours, and I have found Intel boards to be a bit of a pain. My dual Xeon was a bitch just to get both processors running and at full speed. The bios and jumpers didn't work the way the manual said. ;-( I have two Intel dual MBs running but they are older than yours, and I have found Intel boards to be a bit of a pain. My dual Xeon was a bitch just to get both processors running and at full speed. The bios and jumpers didn't work the way the manual said. ;-( As a bit of a side note ... The only times I have had installs hang during the installation was due to bad hardware, especially RAM Just a thought. Thanks for your help, Kevin. Here's the congfiguration: Intel OR840, dual p!!! 800, 1 gig Intel approved ram, IBM (adaptec 7881U) scsi adapter, 50 gig Seagate U2W drive, Sony CRX140E 8/4/32 CDRW, ATI Radeon 7500 AGP video, on-board NIC, on-board audio, external KVM sw to share video, mouse, keyboard with my IBM server. I want to set this machine up as a graphics workstation, and attempt to wean myself from 14 years of Photoshop/Mac addiction and and move my work to GIMP/Linux. I am also trying to develop an inexpensive office network and machine configuration package for non-profits. (Ironically, the cheap hardware has been less trouble !) Witht the OR840, have been through several sets of non-Intel-approved memory and also had originally tried to set this up with dual p!!! 933s using slockets, never could get that set up to even get to the bios :-( Finally broke down and got all Intel approved parts, and now it configures the SCSI card and the Intel bios just fine. OK. With the approved config, I have tried to install both 8.0 and 8.2, but they both do the same thing. The install runs smoothly through the partioning (root, home, usr, var) to the package instal. Near the end of installing whatever packages I have chosen, the install hangs either with a frozen mouse/keyboard or a blank screen. Progress!! this morning I was able to install the truely minimal option and can get to the command prompt. I then tried to upgrade installing KDE, but it hung as usual in the upgrade. When I restarted, there were a bunch of repairs requested, which I approved. I was then able to boot the minimal system again. My current thought is that this is a video/X problem, and have been rummaging about the ATI and Xfree sites for help, but have not found any joy there yet. I also suspect that the minimal system is utilizing only one of the processors. Later;;; Now that I have the minimal system running I've been trying to get additional pieces installed. The installer thinks Xfree is installed, but if I try to startx from the console I get: execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2) giving up . xinit: No such file or directory. (errno 2): Unable to connect to X server. xinit: No such process. (errno 3): Server error. then it dumps me back into the shell. If I run the installer now, with no packages selected for install, it hangs while the preparing bootloader message is on the screen. This is long enough for now... TIA for info and advice, Nick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; 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] [MAILER-DAEMON@trismegistus.net: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]
How do you use spell check in Kmail. I cannot find the option in my menu. RB - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [expert] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender] On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: SHEESH, Here we go again... Please try reading the question? Craig Woods Very difficult to -- you quoted everything. Try quoting the relevant portions in context. I saw your message, it looked like you had a problem, I tried to help. 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] KMail - check spelling, was Undelivered Mail
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Robert Boggs wrote: How do you use spell check in Kmail. I cannot find the option in my menu. RB From the online help: To check the spelling of your message, select Edit-Spelling KMail uses KSpell to check spelling, which is the KDE frontend to the ispell or aspell spelling checker. Note that you may need to configure the spellchecker using Settings-Spellchecker The menu option is not available unless you're in the message composition window. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [MAILER-DAEMON@trismegistus.net: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:12:09 -0500 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find a samba.spec file. BUT after doing a complete OS installation with Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have been used on Samba? The originator of this thread stated that no ACL support was compiled into the Samba that was installed while doing the system install. I think I hear you saying, yes, it was. Again, my question is very simple, how would I know what samba is compiled with since no samba.spec will exist on the system? You will not know. With an rpm pkg any option passed to configure must be done at the behest of the person building the rpm. After installation of an rpm your only way of knowing what options are/are not supported: if it works it is, if it doesn't it's not. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [MAILER-DAEMON@trismegistus.net: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote: I just cannot get spell check to work in Kmail. I have went down to it in settings, and still cannot get it to work. what am I doing wrong? RB On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:12:09 -0500 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find a samba.spec file . BUT after doing a complete OS installation with Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have been used on Samba? The originator of this thread stated that no ACL support was compiled into the Samba that was installed while doing the system install. I think I hear you saying, yes, it was. Again, my question is very simple, how would I know what samba is compiled with since no samba.spec will exist on the system? You will not know. With an rpm pkg any option passed to configure must be done at the behest of the person building the rpm. After installation of an rpm your only way of knowing what options are/are not supported: if it works it is, if it doesn't it's not. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] And the prize goes to Charles...
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:12:09 -0500 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find a samba.spec file. BUT after doing a complete OS installation with Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have been used on Samba? The originator of this thread stated that no ACL support was compiled into the Samba that was installed while doing the system install. I think I hear you saying, yes, it was. Again, my question is very simple, how would I know what samba is compiled with since no samba.spec will exist on the system? You will not know. With an rpm pkg any option passed to configure must be done at the behest of the person building the rpm. After installation of an rpm your only way of knowing what options are/are not supported: if it works it is, if it doesn't it's not. Charles Congratulations are in order for Charles. He actually read the email, and answered a very simple question. After many times reading the man on rpm, I suspected this was the answer but it seems like there should be a way to know what options are compiled into an rpm package that is installed at the time of the system install. Thanks Charles, Craig Woods UNIX SA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake
Cool! thanks Jeffrey. Jeffrey Twu wrote: Yes, where I work we have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 or 7.2 running on a (4)-processor 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon 1 MB L2 cache machine to do parallel experiments, and it runs fine ... Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Dewar Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake COOL!! i have a dual p2 and love it. quad would be even cooler! just think how many mp3/ogg files you can encode simultaneously.. not preemptively-task switching, but simultaneously. cool. maybe that isn't really a big deal to most people, but for some reason i get a real charge out of it. or work on cracking RC5 codes. moose. On April 22, 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: I just found out that I won a 4 processor 200mhz pentium Pro server with 1 gig of ram in it.We had some old equipment we are phasing out at work and we drew straws who gets what. Old, but more than sufficient for my playing around. I've never looked into mult processing with Linux. I know it is possible. Is it possible with Mandrake? It is an old ALR, so dunno about other compatibility issues. I know it has 1 or 2 raid controllers in it. DTP or something like that I hear. 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT (was Smoking Grass)
David wrote: Fellini Days said onto me: |He was the guy who first made LSD, the only problem was he kept making it |when it became illegal! | |- Original Message - |From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: expert Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:38 AM |Subject: Re: OLD [expert] Smoking Grass | | | | J. Craig Woods said onto me: | | snip | Well the truth be known, you probably did smoke to much grass. But as | long as you did not hang out with Owsley, you should be ok... | snip | | Just going through my old mail... Who's Owsley? | | | Gotcha. Thanks. BTW, does anyone know his full name? Fellini, I am impressed. I would only guess that you must be an older (45 years or older) individual that was raised on the west coast of the USA, and most likely the coast of California, either San Francisco or Los Angeles (or you read a lot). This is a very old post that David has given new life to, and when I wrote it, I figured no would understand what the hell I had writen (This is a state of affairs I am largely acclimated to) His name is Augustus Owsley Stanley III, and he was the son of a Californian Supreme Court Justice. He was a chemistry major at the University of California at Berkeley, and the rest is, as they say, history. I might add that if you are interested, I am writing a book that is going to chronical this time period in US History but if you are a bit impatient, I would suggest: The Haight-Ashbury, A History by Charles Perry (Vintage Books) Dr John, The night tripper (and now you know why) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] And the prize goes to Charles...
BUT after doing a complete OS installation with Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is no such file. Try installing the samba SRPM. It'll have the spec file in it and drop it in your /usr/src/rpm/spec folder. Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Radeon probs w/Xfree--Was: dual proc intel 840-
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 04:49 pm, you wrote: i don't suppose that you have a vanilla agp or even a pci card to swap the radeon out with. nope, wish I did--I'd be a few dollars less poor, as well as you mentioned, to me it reeks of video card driver issues. snip it also seems to me that the i840 based boards were a no-show on 8.0, but i could be wrong about this. probably civileme would know right away. moose. Thanks, Moose-- I'm not famiar with civileme but perhaps I should be. The video does seem to be the problem, but some chat on the web seems to indicate that the Radeo 7500 *should* work with Xfree86 4.2.0 Here is one resource I found--but in the minimal install I was able to do the files he mentions are pretty empty, with nothing that looks useful in them. I don't think the Radeon support is in there. - The ATI Radeon Mobility video card works when installing the default Mandrake settings but it uses a FrameBuffer Driver which does not use the accelerated graphics capabilities of the Card. You do not need to recompile the kernel to add the AGP and DRI, they come stock. But if you do like most of us and recompile *ASAP* remember to go into the Character Devices section and include the AGPGART, DRI and Radeon modules. The default kernel boot parameters in /etc/lilo.conf comes with the vga option set. For whatever reason (I am still trying to figure this out) the vga option caused my X server to fail, reason given: No screens found. So I took the vga option out of lilo.conf (It does nothing other than allow the Mandrake warm and fuzzy loader screen to display) and it worked. The only other modifications you need to make are to the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and /etc/modules.conf. Add the following line to the modules.conf file: options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1. A working XF86Config-4 file can be found here!. Note: there is reference to a USB mouse in the Input Device Section. Take this out if you do not have a USB Mouse. Any tips on how to get a Radeon 7500 to play nice w/Mandrake and Xfree86? TIA, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT (was Smoking Grass)
|He was the guy who first made LSD Wrong, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was first synthesized by the Dr. Albert Hofmann in 1938. He worked for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz Laboratories. You might want to read your drug history a bit more thoroughly. Adam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT (was Smoking Grass)
Here we go again. All those who pay-by-the-byte, start saving up your pennies. here comes another long WAY OT thread. Dave Adam and Christina Koch said onto me: | |He was the guy who first made LSD | |Wrong, | |LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was first synthesized by the Dr. Albert |Hofmann in 1938. He worked for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz |Laboratories. | |You might want to read your drug history a bit more thoroughly. | |Adam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Armagetron crashes SDL. Any suggestion?
Hi I've running 8.2 on my Vaio Z505S but when I try to run Armagetron it seqfaults and SDL exits. I've downloaded the source RPMS from SDL and armagetron and rebuilt them but I'm looking for suggestions on what else might be causing the crash? -Leinad __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
