Re: [expert] GTK Font Override in 9.0?

[Vox]

Jerry A! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I set a custom font in my .gtkrc (via gtk-switch-themes) and I'm
> noticing incosistent behavior applying the custom font.
>
> For instance, xmtr, Samsung's printer utility, SJog, all work
> correctly.  However, aumix, gkrellm, AbiWord, Gnumeric don't respect the
> .gtkrc setting.
>
> Now the odd part is that the rest of the stuff set in .gtkrc does work
> correctly (widgets, buttons, colors, .etc).  It's just the fonts that
> seem to be flaky.
>
> This is the same setup that I've always used and have also used on other
> OS's w/out any problems.
>
> So, I wondering, has anyone seen similar behavior?  Could I be missing a
> package to affect applying the settings?  Etc...

  rmmod ipchains 

  Then try again


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[expert] Problem with iptables

[Olivier Monod]

Hello,

I am trying to use "iptables" with the Mandrake 8.2, but I have this
message:

# iptables -L
/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o.gz:
init_module:
Device or resource busy
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters
modprobe: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o.gz
failed
modprobe: insmod ip_tables failed
iptables v1.2.5: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables
who? (do
you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

Could you please tell me why and how can I change that.
Thank you for our answer
Best regard

Olivier Monod








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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Dale Huckeby]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote:

> On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote:
>>> I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after
>>> quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm
>>> beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think I'm
>>> going to disable firewire, usb and some other stuff and see what happens.
>>> ??
>>
>>   Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960?  I tried the new ones,
>> it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button.  I went back to 
>> 2960 and everything's hunky dory.
> 
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz, so I guess 3123. Hmm well it sure is woth the 
> try. I have had such trouble with this, that I feel like it is two years ago 
> when Linux was less mature. I had no idea that Nvidia was so poorly 
> supported! 
> 
> Where did you go to get the older drivers?

  Same place as the new ones, .  Click on "DOWNLOAD DRIVERS",
then under "For Linux Users" click on "Linux Display Drivers", and you'll
see a list, with 3123 at the top and 2960 right under it.  Or you can
click on this: .
I always download the tar files into /home/spock/Nvidia, become root or
cd there as root from another console, copy the files to /usr, cd to /usr, 
untar the files and do make install in the kernel and GLX directories, 
go to /etc/X11, do: mv XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.old, cd to
/home/settings where I keep a copy of the XF86Config-4 file from past
installs, cp it to /etc/X11, and I'm good to go.  

HTH,
Dale





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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:46 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 pm, Lorne wrote:
> > >   Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960?  I tried the
> > > new ones, it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button.
> > > I went back to 2960 and everything's hunky dory.
> >
> > HOT DAMN! You are the man Thank you thank you thank you
> > This is it guys. There must be some sort of bug in the new Nvidia
> > driver that my system doesn't like! Woo hoo!! I've pissed away an
> > afternoon trying to get this thing to work I used the older tar as
> > you suggested and bam, startx loads just fine.
> >
> > I'm going to go play with Mandrake 9.0 :)
>
> well fsck a duck!  I'm glad you got it sorted.  congrats.
> -s
thanks to you too for all your suggestions and help. The mouse service thing 
is kind of strange. It seems solid once X is running. ?? Dunno, but it has 
run solid now for an hour. having fun once again. Now I have to copy all my 
files from my home directory on this ol 200mhz pentium pro over to my main 
box. 



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[expert] GTK Font Override in 9.0?

[Jerry A!]

I set a custom font in my .gtkrc (via gtk-switch-themes) and I'm
noticing incosistent behavior applying the custom font.

For instance, xmtr, Samsung's printer utility, SJog, all work
correctly.  However, aumix, gkrellm, AbiWord, Gnumeric don't respect the
.gtkrc setting.

Now the odd part is that the rest of the stuff set in .gtkrc does work
correctly (widgets, buttons, colors, .etc).  It's just the fonts that
seem to be flaky.

This is the same setup that I've always used and have also used on other
OS's w/out any problems.

So, I wondering, has anyone seen similar behavior?  Could I be missing a
package to affect applying the settings?  Etc...

Thanks in advance.

--Jerry

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...It's much more important than that!



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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 pm, Lorne wrote:

> >   Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960?  I tried the
> > new ones, it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button. 
> > I went back to 2960 and everything's hunky dory.
>
> HOT DAMN! You are the man Thank you thank you thank you
> This is it guys. There must be some sort of bug in the new Nvidia
> driver that my system doesn't like! Woo hoo!! I've pissed away an
> afternoon trying to get this thing to work I used the older tar as
> you suggested and bam, startx loads just fine.
>
> I'm going to go play with Mandrake 9.0 :)

well fsck a duck!  I'm glad you got it sorted.  congrats.
-s



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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:31 pm, s wrote:

> > I'm so stinking close to getting X to start, but no joy yet. If I
> > use that config took you suggest, it says it works fine in test
> > mode, but then when I try to fire up the xwindows it dies. I've
> > been tweaking the config file for over an hour now. It seems that
> > the config tool is making improper lines to the config file.
>
> What hardware do you have exactly?  mobo, soundcard, exactly nvidia
> card, bttv... etc.   Please post results of cat /proc/interrupts
> too.
>
> In the meantime, try setting your agp to 2x in bios and report
> back. 

Sorry, this got attached to the wrong thread (I started looking back 
to see if you had stated what your hardware was and got lost I 
guess).  

Anyway, you could also try to disable agp thru the config file:  
Option "NvAGP" "0"
of course it will probably kill 3d acceleration, but X might start.
-s




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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote:
> > I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after
> > quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm
> > beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think I'm
> > going to disable firewire, usb and some other stuff and see what happens.
> > ??
>
>   Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960?  I tried the new ones,
> it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button.  I went back to 2960
> and everything's hunky dory.

HOT DAMN! You are the man Thank you thank you thank you This is it 
guys. There must be some sort of bug in the new Nvidia driver that my system 
doesn't like! Woo hoo!! I've pissed away an afternoon trying to get this 
thing to work I used the older tar as you suggested and bam, startx loads 
just fine. 

I'm going to go play with Mandrake 9.0 :)



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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:34 pm, Lorne wrote:
> Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can
> use the mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm
> only at the bash prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work
> and then paste it to the command line. When this process dies, then
> I can no longer do that either.
>
> I'm so stinking close to getting X to start, but no joy yet. If I
> use that config took you suggest, it says it works fine in test
> mode, but then when I try to fire up the xwindows it dies. I've
> been tweaking the config file for over an hour now. It seems that
> the config tool is making improper lines to the config file.

What hardware do you have exactly?  mobo, soundcard, exactly nvidia 
card, bttv... etc.   Please post results of cat /proc/interrupts too.

In the meantime, try setting your agp to 2x in bios and report back.
-s



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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote:
> > I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after
> > quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm
> > beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think I'm
> > going to disable firewire, usb and some other stuff and see what happens.
> > ??
>
>   Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960?  I tried the new ones,
> it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button.  I went back to 2960
> and everything's hunky dory.
>
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz, so I guess 3123. Hmm well it sure is woth the 
try. I have had such trouble with this, that I feel like it is two years ago 
when Linux was less mature. I had no idea that Nvidia was so poorly 
supported! 

Where did you go to get the older drivers?

> Dale Huckeby



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Re: [expert] Motherboard Question

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 11:22, tarvid wrote: 
> Much wisdom in the reponse but...
> 
> 1) Stability is an issue but most of my problems show up in the disk 
> subsystem. I have had some nasty crashes which went away when I replaced the 
> drives.

The only time I have noticed this phenomenon is when some drives were
mishandled, without proper static protection.  And there were crashes.

I have seen DOA's, but they've been rare.

> 2) Performance is an issue but I suspect that too is in the disk subsystem. 
> Processing HTTP logs is the biggest single burder on my servers. That 
> generates tons of stuff few people read, so I think changing content of log 
> analysis will take care of that one. Mail is a close second but that one is 
> solved by judicious non-use of synced log files.

Raid 0+1 would seem a good approach for this.
 
> 3) When I rebuild a server, newer technology is better than older and larger 
> aggregates of RAM are better than smaller. The latter is probably the more 
> important of the two so I would rather use single 512MB PC2100 than two 256MB 
> faster SDRAMs.

I agree with the SDRAM sentiment, but I do not agree that newer is
always better.  It always takes the linux driver contributors time to
catch up to the latest chipsets.  The HPT373 Raid chipset is a prime
example of this.  A concern because my next system board will have one;
and I'd like to be running a distro that can use that IDE bus.

So staying behind the front lines with a mobo that's going to run Linux
is offtimes a smart move.  It gives the manufacturers time to work the
lemons out of the boards and the developers time to write the hardware
support in.
 
> 4) Workstations are a different matter. I am content with much less than a 
> game player but I do have an urge for decent multimedia - DVD , 6 channel 
> sound, fast ripping. The most notable performance issue is fast program 
> loading. That too is in the disk subsystem.

If you are doing mp3 or video encoding then you need FPU speed; and the
"game" benches are once again the way to go.

> So much of Tom's hardware doesn't speak to me. I'd like to avoid spending a 
> lot of time on both hardware compatibility and software installation issues, 
> I have lots of things to do.

Well, I don't think the speaking is the problem, it's the listening part
that is.  I've been using this site as a resource for a long time,
because there is a need to evaluate mobos from the standpoints that I've
given URL's for.  The secret is that by the time these mobos pass their
tests and give their performance results, you can be pretty sure that
you've got a mobo that will work, especially if there are other mobos
out there with the same chipset that are running Linux.  

Red Hat in the past has said that there are very few mobos that don't
run their distro (the only one I've seen that they listed as problematic
was a Supermicro), and that holds true for Mandrake, as long as you are
choosy about where you get your information from.  Roundup reviews are
the best reviews that exist for mobos.  A single mobo review that does
not allow a system board to compete with other boards is *useless*.
(Unless you originally located the mobo with a roundup.) True mobo
evaluation does not occur in a vacuum, it occurs within the context of
competition; and that means other system boards. Roundup reviews are
*expensive* to conduct.  Therefore they are rare.  So when you do find
one, like this eighteen motherboard review, it's worth your while to sit
up and pay attention.

The reason I do is because as the guy in charge of a computer
fabrication line, it was my task to order 20 or more mobos for
evaluation at a time (plus R&D them) before the prototyping and launch
of a new model.  There was no internet, there were no mobo reviews, and
the trade rags were for locating and ordering, not judging.  So we did
it the hard way; and it cost big bucks, and big time.  Basically I was
doing roundup reviews at the time and did'nt realize it.

Now we have the internet and the advantage of performance and stability
reviews.  To me, THD is like a free ride.  So yes, I'm damn sure going
to take advantage of them; and if I'm somewhat skittish for any reason,
I'll fire up google and see if anybody's had direct linux experience
with the board.  Not hard to do. So far I have not needed to because
there are very few linux incompatible boards out there and almost none
of them make it to the THD roundup reviews.  If anybody's inclined, they
can certainly do a double check on the web.  If another quality board
with the same chipset as the one you are considering is running Linux,
then that puts you in the middle of the ball park anyway.  Which is the
case with just about the entire review here. I also went thru a real
bunch of sites before I took THD serious, so it's not like I haven't
been looking around.

> Unfortunately, what we see are reports of people having problems and others 
> speculating on the latest whiz bang techno

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Dale Huckeby]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote:

> I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite 
> some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to 
> think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think I'm going to disable 
> firewire, usb and some other stuff and see what happens. ??

  Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960?  I tried the new ones,
it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button.  I went back to 2960
and everything's hunky dory.

Dale Huckeby




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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:11 pm, you wrote:

> Well, number one, you're logging into window manager as root.  please
> try user.  Also, add Option "NvAGP" "1" to your config file Section
> "Device" and try again as user.
>
This didn't seem to make any difference. I'm going to reboot again and see if 
that somehow helps.  (nope)
>
> Well, they say it can conflict with some set ups.  If that option
> doesn't work, as root at that bash prompt, try:  service gpm stop
> first and see it that is the problem.  Log in as user.

Here is a strange twist. Remember how I said I actually got sound and the 
first log on setup screens? Nothing since. Just the blue wallpaper and the 
little mouse clock until about 2 minutes later it pops back to a bash prompt.

The mouse service stops quite a bit.  Trying service gpm stop won't work, 
saying "failed"  since it is already stopped. You can do a start and it will 
respond with ok. Anybody have any ideas why this service would stop on a 
regular basis? While X is loading the mouse service is running because I can 
move the clock/mouse pointer while it is trying fire up. Right this very 
instant, it will not stay loaded. ??

I'm using a Gigabyte MB with a Promise raid controller, USB 2.0, Firewire. I 
disabled all the above to see if that made a difference. none. ??

I'm really stumped on this one. I'm thinking I need to increase the debug 
level so we can get more info on the error log. I've been looking but so far 
I've not found the switch to do so. Xfree.org's web site pretty much is 
spartan. Very hard to find anything there.



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[expert] USB CD Writer

[PlugHead]

Has anyone managed to get a USB (1.1) cd-rw working with Mandrake?

I have an Acer (6424, I think--6x4x24 anyhow) and I can _read_ CDs from it, 
just fine.  However, cdrecord -scanbus hangs (with usb-uhci) or (with uhci) 
says:

[root@jack-in jdyer]# cdrecord -scanbus debug=9
dev: '(NULL POINTER)' speed: -1 fs: -1 driveropts '(NULL POINTER)'
Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg 
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scg__open() -1,-1,-1
PP Bus: -2
Bus: 0 cookie: 
Bus: 1 cookie: 

Bus: 14 cookie: 
Bus: 15 cookie: 
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI 
driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are 
root.

When I go into MCC/Mount Points/CD Burner, it says "Device: scd0"...  I've 
tried cdrecord dev=/dev/scd0 (and "/dev/scd0:0,0,0", "/dev/sg0", 
"/dev/sg0:0,0,0" and "0,0,0") to no avail.  I've tried un-plugging my usb 
printer.  Am I missing something obvious?

Suggestions anyone?

Thanks,
-Jason

Output of lsmod:

[root@jack-in jdyer]# lsmod
Module  Size  Used byTainted: P
ide-floppy 13316   0  (autoclean)
sd_mod 11788   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ide-scsi8212   0  (autoclean)
isofs  25652   1  (autoclean)
inflate_fs 17892   0  (autoclean) [isofs]
udf85472   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod 15096   2  (autoclean)
ide-cd 28712   0  (autoclean)
cdrom  26848   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
floppy 49340   0  (autoclean)
parport_pc 21672   1  (autoclean)
lp  6720   0  (autoclean)
parport23936   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
printer 6944   0  (unused)
agpgart31840   3  (autoclean)
NVdriver  989312  10  (autoclean)
snd-seq-oss26176   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event  3208   0  [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq33264   2  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-seq-device  3836   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd-pcm-oss36932   0
snd-mixer-oss   9016   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via8233 5772   0
snd-ac97-codec 25508   0  [snd-via8233]
snd-pcm55808   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-via8233]
snd-timer   9964   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd24804   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq 
snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via8233 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm 
snd-timer]
soundcore   3780   0  [snd]
nfsd   66576   0  (autoclean)
lockd  46480   0  (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 60188   0  (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
af_packet  13000   2  (autoclean)
ip_vs  74328   0  (autoclean)
8139too14472   1  (autoclean)
mii 1152   0  (autoclean) [8139too]
ext3   73736   1  (autoclean)
jbd38608   1  (autoclean) [ext3]
nls_iso8859-1   2844   4  (autoclean)
nls_cp850   3580   2  (autoclean)
vfat9588   2  (autoclean)
fat31864   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 14340   3  (autoclean)
usbnet  8602   0  (unused)
reiserfs  169840   3  (autoclean)
usb-storage51952   1
scsi_mod   90372   4  [sd_mod ide-scsi sr_mod usb-storage]
uhci   24688   0  (unused)
usbcore58304   1  [printer usbnet usb-storage uhci]
rtc 6560   0  (autoclean)
xfs   491712   2
xfs_dmapi  33052   0  [xfs]
xfs_support 7986   0  [xfs xfs_dmapi]

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parallel universes - Up and Down, Right and Left, Backward and Forward, Past 
and Future...
But normal directions don't work in the multiverse, which has far too many 
dimensions for anyone to find their way. So new ones have to be invented so 
that the way can be found.
Like: East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Or: Behind the North Wind.
Or: At the Back of Beyond.
Or: There and Back Again.
Or: Beyond the Fields We Know.
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Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

[et]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 12:41 pm, you wrote:
> How would I go about doing that?
can you boot from cd2?


>
> Joe
> - Original Message -
> From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 6:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
>
> > On Sunday 29 September 2002 02:02 am, you wrote:
> > > Don't 8.2/9.0 use different kernel images?
> >
> > the defualt kernel in either 8.2 or 9.0 is a 2.4.x kernel, while earlier
> > versions (7.2 and back for sure, others may or may not have,) installed a
> > 2.2.x series kernel. one of the differences was in how USB was handled.
>
> there
>
> > is a way to chose which of a few kernels are used at the install.
> >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:08 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
> > >
> > > > On Saturday 28 September 2002 09:59 pm, you wrote:
> > > > > Is there any suggestions left?
> > > >
> > > > have you tried to boot with an alternate kernel inage from the 2.2.x
> > >
> > > series
> > >
> > > > kernels?
> > > >
> > > > > Joe
> > > > >
> > > > > > > - Original Message -
> > > > > > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:03 PM
> > > > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't
> > > > > > > > > remember:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the
> > > > > > > > > betas/RC's, the 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer
>
> after
>
> > > > > > > > > my mouse initializes
> > > > >
> > > > > and
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard
> > > > > > > > > drives,
> > >
> > > it
> > >
> > > > > > will
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but
>
> nothing
>
> > > > > > happens.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS
> > > > >
> > > > > checksum,
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > > default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that
> > >
> > > nature.
> > >
> > > > > > > > > Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS.  With
> > >
> > > Win2k
> > >
> > > > > and
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux
>
> would
>
> > > > > interact
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something
>
> weird.
>
> > > But
> > >
> > > > > > > > this would be highly unlikely.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing
> > > > > > > > a problem when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the
> > > > > > > > case
>
> you
>
> > > can
> > >
> > > > > > > > try disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then
>
> doing
>
> > > > > > > > a test reboot.
> >
> > -
> >-
>
> -
>
> > >- 
> > >
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Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 08:19 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>   I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements.  But
> the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem.  I'm looking
> for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware modem.  Can you
> recommend any.


well, the 3com/usr 5610 is a good one.  I'm on my second one.  

this is the only review I've run into so far.
http://laxton.net/blog/archive.php?blogid=1&y=2002&m=09&d=28

-s



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Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

[Damian G]

>well, the 3com/usr 5610 is a good one.  I'm on my second one.  
> 
> this is the only review I've run into so far.
> http://laxton.net/blog/archive.php?blogid=1&y=2002&m=09&d=28
> 
> -s
> 

did you read the one comment at the end? is anybosy having
problems with USB and 9.0 ?? 


Damian

> 


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Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

[Vox]

"Sridhar G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Are internal PCI modems not linux friendly, or is there any perfromance
> problems?

  Most PCI modems are winmodems, which means either they don't work or
  only work with propietary drivers, with a very few
  exceptions.

  Vox

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Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

[tarvid]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:41 pm, Vox wrote:
> "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware
> > requirements.  But the only thing I am having trouble with is the
> > Modem.  I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware
> > modem.  Can you recommend any.
>
>   None. Internal PCI modems suck. Get an external one. USRobotics
>   external is a good choice.
>
>   Vox
Gee. modems suck. Hang some antennas and share a decent connection.

The actiontec "call waiting" modems have Lucent chipsets and a real hardware 
engine. With 8.2 you needed a makedev/setserial script to get them going. I 
will try 9.0 in a couple of days.

The one "topic" I tried was "ok". If I spent some more time with it, I might 
have even gotten to like it.

Vox is right in that externals are the easiest to use, If you are doing a lot 
of interactive stuff, the connect times on a v.34 are quicker than v.90 or 
v.92. If you are doing a lot of downloads, try to find a better connection. 
Even ISDN is a delight compared to analog.

I'd be interested in your results. I am on a crusade to learn what works for 
regular people as opposed to the technical issues between "x" and "y" 
chipsets and motherboard features.

Jim Tarvid

I have had good luck with Lucent win-modems for about a year.

Jim Tarvid



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Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:11 pm, Damian G wrote:
> >well, the 3com/usr 5610 is a good one.  I'm on my second one.
> >
> > this is the only review I've run into so far.
> > http://laxton.net/blog/archive.php?blogid=1&y=2002&m=09&d=28
> >
> > -s
>
> did you read the one comment at the end? is anybosy having
> problems with USB and 9.0 ??

I'm not, both my scanner and web cam are doing just fine.  But I've 
read of ppl having trouble with their zips and usb 2.0 stuff.  I 
think the zips are incorrect entries in fstab tho mostly.  and I 
don't have an usb 2.0 stuff to test on it.  
-s



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[expert] apache modules install -how?

[bascule]

i'm looking onto Namp!:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=105929

and it seems i have to install some apache modules, i'm not sure what i'm 
supposed to do here, i think i know the modules concerned  - MP3::Info but 
all i can seem to find to download is a .pm file?

is this right, if so what do i do with it, i can't find any rpm for this at 
least not mandrake and given that apache is one of the things that different 
distros package differently i wouldn't want to use another even if i found 
one,

i need some pointing please:-)

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Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

[Sridhar G]

Are internal PCI modems not linux friendly, or is there any perfromance
problems?

Sridhar

- Original Message -
From: "Vox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0


"Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware
> requirements. But the only thing I am having trouble with is the
> Modem. I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware
> modem. Can you recommend any.

  None. Internal PCI modems suck. Get an external one. USRobotics
  external is a good choice.

  Vox

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messenger
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Kind
of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite 
some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to 
think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think I'm going to disable 
firewire, usb and some other stuff and see what happens. ??

On Sunday 29 September 2002 04:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> An easy way out is use: Driver 'vesa'.
> Another way is to download the drivers from nvidia.com; uncompress them
> and run 'make', then use: Driver 'nividia'
>
> I have a laptop with the geforce4 420 chipset.
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:41 am
> Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4
>
> > I have tried all the Nvidia drivers that mandrake had built in.
> > There were
> > like 6 of them. Did you mean nvidia linux drivers? I haven't found
> > those yet.
> >
> > On Saturday 28 September 2002 06:47 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Saturday 28 September 2002 18:57, Lorne wrote:
> > > > Anybody else having trouble installing the Nvidia chipset 440
> >
> > 128MB of
> >
> > > > ram? It absolutely will not install for me. ? This card is an
> >
> > MSI card
> >
> > > > and it is supposed to be fully supported I thought. ?? I keep
> >
> > getting a
> >
> > > > (EE) No devices detected error message.
> > >
> > > I'm fairly sure you're gonna /have/ to use the nvidia drivers as
> >
> > gf4's> aren't supported by XFree86 yet.
> >
> > > -s



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Re: [expert] [Help!]Can't Print on MDK9.0

[Larry Sword]

g884414 his wrote:

>[Sorry, I use Linux for a long while, but I'm not a expert,
>so I send this to "newbie" & "Expert".]
>
>Mandrake 9.0 is a really nice distribution. I think it's a
>important milestone that Linux is also good to be used for
>"End Users", at least in Chinese environment. As a loyal
>Linux fan, I will not feel embarrassed to introduce the
>end users to use it anymore, at least in Taiwan, after
>the MDK9.0 published. ^_^
>
>But I have an problem in printing, and I want to ask for help.
>My printer is HP Laser Jet 1000, and I install the driver
>which MDK 9.0 recommended (GhostScript + pbmtozjs).
>
>At first, it could correctly print out the test paper and a
>Chinese HTML file once. After it, the printer will not do
>anything anymore. I set it up again and again, push the
>buttom "print" of the Mozilla again and again,and I could
>see the queues of the printer. But the printing processes
>seem just "gone" or "ignored" by the printer. I can't
>get any output or the error message. I just don't know what's
>the problem. the driver? or the MDK9.0 or KDE3.0 ?
>So I don't know where to look for the troubleshooting to read.
>
>Sorry, I don't know if I express enough details or not. But
>I really want to know how to figure out this problem.
>Without this, MDK9.0 is the greatest distribution I 've ever
>met, and I will promote it very proudly to all my friends
>and others who are still trapped in M$-Windows. ^_^
>
>Thanx for your help!
>I'll appreciate it very much!
>
>Best Regards.
>
>Ger, Huang-Bin
>
>Graduate Student of the History Institute, NTHU, Taiwan.
>  
>
Have you looked in your /var/log/cups/ error_log?






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Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

[Vox]

"Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi All,
>
>     I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware
> requirements.  But the only thing I am having trouble with is the
> Modem.  I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware
> modem.  Can you recommend any.

  None. Internal PCI modems suck. Get an external one. USRobotics
  external is a good choice.

  Vox

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Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 RC2 problems

[Sandeep Khanna]

Hey,

Thanks a lot for answering my question. Didn't think anyone would answer
it after this long. Yes, I had already figured out the relevant things a
couple of days back and had it working. Thanks anyways.

Altough, The upgrade is working fine over the past 2 weeks. But, I still
feel that a complete fresh install is always the best way to go. Maybe it's
just pyschological !!

1. My laptop Compaq 12XL125 (30 Gb HDD, 192 Mb RAM with 8 Mb shared Video
RAM) has the trident i7/DSTN graphics card. I always found that in Windows
my laptop runs super smooth with the graphics but, in Linux it is pretty
slow and draggy. Why?? According to XFree86, the "trident" driver is accelerated.
But, it sure doesn't feel like it. My current resolution is 1024x768 with
16 bpp which gives bearable system (GUI) performance for now. I also found
that on desktops or laptops with dedicated Graphics cards, Linux was super-duper
fast !!! This is driving me crazy and I am thinking of buying a new laptop
now.

2. Also, the laptop never shuts down completely !! it shuts down for a moment
and the Hard disk starts up instantly without starting the computer. I have
to manually shut the laptop. Looks like some Power management problem.

Any tips, suggestions, tweaks?

Regards,
Sandeep Khanna
Gnome User



Bill Shirley wrote:

  
  
  
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sandeep Khanna
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 2:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 RC2 problems


Hi,

I just upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to Mandrake 9.0 RC2.

1. Mandrake Control Center

[root@sandeepk sandeepk]# mcc
gdk-pixbuf library is not available at 
/usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk.pm line 762.
[root@sandeepk sandeepk]


2. rpmdrake

[root@sandeepk sandeepk]# rpmdrake
Base class package "URPM" is empty.
(Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package
first.) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm line 5
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/rpmdrake.pm line 26.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/rpmdrake.pm line 26.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 40.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 40.
[root@sandeepk sandeepk]#

  
  Did you get this fixed?

You need to install (with "rpm -Uvh" ):
perl-URPM
urpmi
rpmdrake

Hope this help,

Bill Shirley

  
  

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Sandeep




  
  

  


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[expert] Modem for MDK9.0

[Craig Williamson (ENZ)]

Title: Modem for MDK9.0





Hi All,


    I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements.  But the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem.  I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware modem.  Can you recommend any.

    Also, I am trying to find some reviews on Mandrake9.0 but other than the ones on Mandrakeforum I can't find any.  How have you guys found it so far or can you post some web addresses.  Thanks in advance.

Craig

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:44 pm, Lorne wrote:

>
> WOW! I was of the mistaken opinion that running that config tool
> would rewrite/overwrite the XF86Config. NOT! I did as you suggested
> and renamed the original files this time. Still no go. Same thing
> as before.

> What happens is X starts to load, looking beautiful, I see an
> Nvidia full scren logo, then I get a red wallpaper
> screen, I see the little please wait clock that moves if I move the
> mouse. I see lots of hard drive activity for probably about two
> minutes and then it pops back to the bash prompt with the error log
> I attached. That is what makes me think I'm so darned close.

Well, number one, you're logging into window manager as root.  please 
try user.  Also, add Option "NvAGP" "1" to your config file Section 
"Device" and try again as user.  

> I just tried it via a regular user account and it "seemed" to go
> farther. I got audio of the startup wave file, I even got the first
> time you log in asking me for setup information to send to
> Mandrake. I cancelled out of that, got lots of hard drive activity
> then poof, back to the bash prompt. No mouse again.

OH you did, well, try that AGP option mentioned above.

> That said, I'm not beginning to think that the mouse GPM service
> that is dying may be related to my problems. Maybe I need to figure
> out why this is dying first. ??

Well, they say it can conflict with some set ups.  If that option 
doesn't work, as root at that bash prompt, try:  service gpm stop 
first and see it that is the problem.  Log in as user.





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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:00 pm, s wrote:
> On Sunday 29 September 2002 04:11 pm, Lorne wrote:
> > I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at
> > you. Here is a copy of the config file and error log file.
> >
> > # File generated by xf86config.
>
> Ok,  see here, one should XFdrake with mandrake - really!  I'm not
> gonna name names , but one "minor - guru" who recently
> switched to nvidia never did get X going using xf86config.  The first
> time he finally took my advice and tried XFdrake - BAM!  In like
> flynt.

WOW! I was of the mistaken opinion that running that config tool would 
rewrite/overwrite the XF86Config. NOT! I did as you suggested and renamed the 
original files this time. Still no go. Same thing as before. 
>
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "device1"
> > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
> > Option "power_saver"
> > EndSection
>
> you need a driver section above in your card device section.
> Driver "nvidia"
>
> > Section "Screen"
> > Driver "svga"
> > Device "device1"
> > Monitor "A110"
> > DefaultColorDepth 24
>
> not sure about that svga entry.  I'd comment it out and see if it were
> me.
>
> > 
> > Error log file:
>
> I didn't see any errors there.  What was the problem again?  No 3d
> acceleration?
>
What happens is X starts to load, looking beautiful, I see an Nvidia full 
scren logo, then I get a red wallpaper 
screen, I see the little please wait clock that moves if I move the mouse. I 
see lots of hard drive activity for probably about two minutes and then it 
pops back to the bash prompt with the error log I attached. That is what 
makes me think I'm so darned close. 

I just tried it via a regular user account and it "seemed" to go farther. I 
got audio of the startup wave file, I even got the first time you log in 
asking me for setup information to send to Mandrake. I cancelled out of that, 
got lots of hard drive activity then poof, back to the bash prompt. No mouse 
again. 

That said, I'm not beginning to think that the mouse GPM service that is 
dying may be related to my problems. Maybe I need to figure out why this is 
dying first. ?? 

> Anyway, my advice is to rename this file whateveritis.bak and exit out
> of X to init3 (terminal) and run XFdrake --noauto --expert, choose
> geforce4 (generic).  Edit XF86Config-4 file (make sure Load "glx" is
> there and change "nv" to "nvidia".  Then rmmod NVdriver,  modprobe
> NVdriver (just to be on the safe side presuming you've already
> installed nvidia drivers - have you?).  and startx.
>
> -s

I think this may start taking a turn away from XF86Config. See what you think.

I do a service GPM restart and it says failed to stop and then starts up. 
If I move the mouse it will usually say
===ERROR===: [mice.c(1727)]:
imps2:PS/2 mouse failed init

If I reboot it it fine. The only thing that doesn't add up, is the config 
file says to bring up X even if the mouse fails! So i'm a little perplexed on 
why X is failing after such a long period of attemtping to load, but no 
errors. maybe I'll have to increase the debug level?



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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[becklesw]

An easy way out is use: Driver 'vesa'.
Another way is to download the drivers from nvidia.com; uncompress them 
and run 'make', then use: Driver 'nividia'

I have a laptop with the geforce4 420 chipset.


- Original Message -
From: Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:41 am
Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

> I have tried all the Nvidia drivers that mandrake had built in. 
> There were 
> like 6 of them. Did you mean nvidia linux drivers? I haven't found 
> those yet.
> 
> On Saturday 28 September 2002 06:47 pm, you wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 September 2002 18:57, Lorne wrote:
> > > Anybody else having trouble installing the Nvidia chipset 440 
> 128MB of
> > > ram? It absolutely will not install for me. ? This card is an 
> MSI card
> > > and it is supposed to be fully supported I thought. ?? I keep 
> getting a
> > > (EE) No devices detected error message.
> >
> > I'm fairly sure you're gonna /have/ to use the nvidia drivers as 
> gf4's> aren't supported by XFree86 yet.
> > -s
> 
> 


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Re: [expert] lpd isn't running but works??

[Praedor Tempus]

I've run into a bit of a problem concerning printing myself so I'll jump into 
this thread and ask away.

I always go with cups anymore.  I don't even care to install anything for the 
old lpr/lpd system.  I don't know when or how this occured but lately I am 
stuck with lpr and cannot go back to cups.  I can START cups OK, and it is 
set to start at bootup, but if I open up kcontrol and try to change the print 
system from lpr to cups, it refuses to let me even if I am logged in as root.  
It flashes quickly and goes right back to lpr-based printing.  

I am running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1.  I have the following cups-related 
rpms installed:
cups-1.1.14-2mdk
cups-drivers-1.1-48.1mdk
libcups1-1.1.14-2mdk
cups-common-1.1.14-2mdk

The switch to kde 3.0.1 was relatively recent and MAY have coincided with the 
loss of ability to use/print through cups.  How do I get cups back?  I have 
tried running printerdrake whatnot but am not able to get cups back as my one 
and only printing system.

On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:17 pm, Randall Jonasz wrote:
> Hi,
> yes, if you chose CUPS during install lpr is a symlink to lpr-cups
> Cheers,
> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 14:05, SainTiss wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Lpd isn't running on my system, but yet KDE seems to be configured as a
> > "Generic UNIX LPD printing system", and it works!
> > Also, lpr works (I thought that was an lpd command too?)
[...]

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[expert] Mdk 9.0 Remember Windows Positions?

[Chuck Stuettgen]

Okay, I give up...

I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing
that is driving me crazy.

In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left
corner, no matter where I position the window, the next time I open it
the application are alway in the upper left corner.  Some of the apps
will remember their size, but none will remember their last position.

Anyone have any ideas on how to get Gnome2 to remember the size and
positions of the windows??







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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:18 pm, et wrote:

>
> with a geforce 4 and MAndrake before 9.0, you are not going to have
> a working Xfree -4 setup, you will be useing framebuffer and
> xfree3.3.6

he can have one if he uses the nvidia drivers.  I upgraded to gf4 from 
and gf2 while running 8.2 and iir I didn't have to do anything - but 
I've already using nvidia drivers.  That's why I told him at the very 
beginning of this adventure he would /have/ to use them.  

tho I never entertained the notion of him using XFree86-3.3.6.  I'm 
not sure of his goals, but guessing he'd like 3d acceleration tho, or 
else could have gotten alot cheaper card.  In which case he's gonna 
have to use XFree86-4.X.x & nvidia drivers.

Some people just really have a hard time with getting those drivers 
working the first couple of times they have to, even tho it's gotten 
soo easy now.  I remember when we had to hunt down all the 
conflicting libraries ourselves and make our own links for other apps 
to be able to use them - when tarballs were all there were and had to 
read the readme to get the compiling options - and we were grateful 
for 'em!   
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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[et]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 02:09 am, you wrote:
> Please try these:
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g
>z
>
> ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms.  just untar these and type:
> 'make' as root without single quotes in each resulting directory.
> Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change "nv" to "nvidia"
> under the graphic section for your driver.
>
> If you are in X, please log out and back in.
>
> hth,
> -s
with a geforce 4 and MAndrake before 9.0, you are not going to have a working 
Xfree -4 setup, you will be useing framebuffer and xfree3.3.6

>
> On Sunday 29 September 2002 12:41 am, Lorne wrote:
> > I have tried all the Nvidia drivers that mandrake had built in.
> > There were like 6 of them. Did you mean nvidia linux drivers? I
> > haven't found those yet.
> >
> > > I'm fairly sure you're gonna /have/ to use the nvidia drivers as
> > > gf4's aren't supported by XFree86 yet.
> > > -s



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[expert] [Help!]Can't Print on MDK9.0

[g884414 his]

[Sorry, I use Linux for a long while, but I'm not a expert,
so I send this to "newbie" & "Expert".]

Mandrake 9.0 is a really nice distribution. I think it's a
important milestone that Linux is also good to be used for
"End Users", at least in Chinese environment. As a loyal
Linux fan, I will not feel embarrassed to introduce the
end users to use it anymore, at least in Taiwan, after
the MDK9.0 published. ^_^

But I have an problem in printing, and I want to ask for help.
My printer is HP Laser Jet 1000, and I install the driver
which MDK 9.0 recommended (GhostScript + pbmtozjs).

At first, it could correctly print out the test paper and a
Chinese HTML file once. After it, the printer will not do
anything anymore. I set it up again and again, push the
buttom "print" of the Mozilla again and again,and I could
see the queues of the printer. But the printing processes
seem just "gone" or "ignored" by the printer. I can't
get any output or the error message. I just don't know what's
the problem. the driver? or the MDK9.0 or KDE3.0 ?
So I don't know where to look for the troubleshooting to read.

Sorry, I don't know if I express enough details or not. But
I really want to know how to figure out this problem.
Without this, MDK9.0 is the greatest distribution I 've ever
met, and I will promote it very proudly to all my friends
and others who are still trapped in M$-Windows. ^_^

Thanx for your help!
I'll appreciate it very much!

Best Regards.

Ger, Huang-Bin

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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:34 pm, Lorne wrote:
> Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can
> use the mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm
> only at the bash prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work
> and then paste it to the command line. When this process dies, then
> I can no longer do that either.

Oh, okay. service gpm restart
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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can use the 
mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm only at the bash 
prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work and then paste it to the 
command line. When this process dies, then I can no longer do that either. 

I'm so stinking close to getting X to start, but no joy yet. If I use that 
config took you suggest, it says it works fine in test mode, but then when I 
try to fire up the xwindows it dies. I've been tweaking the config file for 
over an hour now. It seems that the config tool is making improper lines to 
the config file. 

On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:54 am, you wrote:
> > If the mouse process dies, how does one restart it without
> > rebooting the system? For some reason every now and then my mouse
> > process is dying. ??
>
> The mouse is handled by X too, so restart X.
> -s



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Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

[Ron Stodden]

Randall Jonasz wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 08:49, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> 
>>Sheesh...  sorry; I was pretty tired when I wrote this...  using CUPS.
>>I've even tried cat'ing data directly to the printer; no action at all
>>from the printer...  Canon products :^P and I just don't seem to get
>>along...  
>>
> 
> No problem.  Have you tried using the admin page at localhost port 631? 
> If not, see the status of the printer, and try printing a test page. 
> You can also add and configure printers from there. Other than that, I'm
> not sure what to say.  I have an old Canon BJ-20 which works without a
> problem, so I've never had to troubleshoot.

I have found the best of the lot for me:

In a root terminal window enter: printerdrake

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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 04:11 pm, Lorne wrote:
> I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at
> you. Here is a copy of the config file and error log file.

> # File generated by xf86config.

Ok,  see here, one should XFdrake with mandrake - really!  I'm not 
gonna name names , but one "minor - guru" who recently 
switched to nvidia never did get X going using xf86config.  The first 
time he finally took my advice and tried XFdrake - BAM!  In like 
flynt.


> Section "Device"
> Identifier "device1"
> BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
> Option "power_saver"
> EndSection

you need a driver section above in your card device section.  
Driver "nvidia"

> Section "Screen"
> Driver "svga"
> Device "device1"
> Monitor "A110"
> DefaultColorDepth 24

not sure about that svga entry.  I'd comment it out and see if it were 
me.

> 
> Error log file:

I didn't see any errors there.  What was the problem again?  No 3d 
acceleration?

Anyway, my advice is to rename this file whateveritis.bak and exit out 
of X to init3 (terminal) and run XFdrake --noauto --expert, choose 
geforce4 (generic).  Edit XF86Config-4 file (make sure Load "glx" is 
there and change "nv" to "nvidia".  Then rmmod NVdriver,  modprobe 
NVdriver (just to be on the safe side presuming you've already 
installed nvidia drivers - have you?).  and startx.

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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at you. Here 
is a copy of the config file and error log file.

# File generated by xf86config.

#
# Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
# THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
# OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
# SOFTWARE.
#
# Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall
# not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
# dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the
# XFree86 Project.
#

# **
# Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **

# **
# Module section -- this  section  is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **
#

Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.

Load "dbe"  # Double buffer extension

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"

# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.

Subsection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubsection
EndSection
# **
# Files section.  This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **

Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
# If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or 
other
# programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo 
directory
# to the end of this list (or comment them out).
#

# FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# The module search path.  The default path is shown here.

# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
# **
# Server flags section.
# **

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection
# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
# received.  This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging

# Option "NoTrapSignals"

# Uncomment this to disable the  server abort sequence
# This allows clients to receive this key event.

# Option "DontZap"

# Uncomment this to disable the / mode switching
# sequences.  This allows clients to receive these key events.

# Option "Dont Zoom"

# Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
# it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
# but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
# receive a protocol error.

# Option "DisableVidModeExtension"

# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client.

# Option "AllowNonLocal

Re: [expert] 9.0 Supermount nightmare

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:30 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> > I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0:
> >
> > Ah!; in my laptop the problem also appears.
> >
> > Any idea about where the problem arises and how can it bee solved?
>
> yeah, I get that too.  I've noticed it since at least rc2.  Anyway, I
> consider that a small thing and disable it - and that's about all you
> can do really.  supermount -i disable.
> -s

Thats exactly what I do - and be prepared to renew some links that get killed 
when you do this. For example, I had to relink my CD's to /mnt/cdrom or 
/dev/cdrom because my CD player wouldn't play afterwards.

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Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

[Stefano Pogliani]

I have 2SCSI Adaptors for the Hard Disks. The CDW is IDE.

/stefano

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

>On Saturday 28 September 2002 07:27 pm, you wrote:
>  
>
>>cdrecord -scanbus gives me the following:
>>
>>Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
>>Schilling
>>Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
>>Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
>>scsibus0:
>>0,0,0 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST318203LW  ' '0001' Disk
>>0,1,0 1) 'QUANTUM ' 'ATLAS IV 9 WLS  ' '0808' Disk
>>0,2,0 2) *
>>0,3,0 3) *
>>0,4,0 4) *
>>0,5,0 5) *
>>0,6,0 6) *
>>0,7,0 7) *
>>scsibus2:
>>2,0,0   200) 'SONY' 'CD-RW  CRX100E  ' '1.0m' Removable CD-ROM
>>2,1,0   201) *
>>2,2,0   202) *
>>2,3,0   203) *
>>2,4,0   204) *
>>2,5,0   205) *
>>2,6,0   206) *
>>2,7,0   207) *
>>
>>which seems correct.
>>
>>
>
>You've got 2 SCSI Adaptors, is that right? I've only got one...
>
>  
>
>>It is NOT ONLY the ISO which does not burn. I was not able to burn also
>>other data files.
>>Would an ISO make difference on respect to being able to burn ?
>>
>>/stefano
>>
>>
>
>Okay, I was thinking if it was just ISO's that maybe they were the same 
>problems that some other users have had. Guess not.
>
>  
>
>
>
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Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 22:08 +0200, Stefano Pogliani wrote:
> I have 2SCSI Adaptors for the Hard Disks. The CDW is IDE.
> 
> /stefano
> 
> Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> 
> >On Saturday 28 September 2002 07:27 pm, you wrote:
> > 
> >>cdrecord -scanbus gives me the following:
> >>
> >>  2,0,0   200) 'SONY' 'CD-RW  CRX100E  ' '1.0m' Removable CD-ROM

Have you tried the command line?

Try this:

# cdrecord -v dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -eject -data 

where 'dev=2,0,0' is the info I read from your -scanbus above and
 is the location and file of the iso image.

You may also change the speed to your CDRW's abilities. OTOH I'd keep
the speed rather conservative, meaning low to avoid too amyn coasters.
You can always increase speed after the first trials.

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Re: [expert] lpd isn't running but works??

[SainTiss]

Actually, I can select "CUPS printing system" in KDE, but when I do
that, it no longer works well... I just get faulty output...

Hans

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 20:14, James Sparenberg wrote:
> Hans,
> 
>I don't think cups printer list is in the code for KDE, so it does
> just say the Generic... works here too.
> 
> As for lpd and lprm (lprm and lpq too)  I'm under the impression that
> cups used the command that everyone knew rather than create new commands
> we have to learn...
> 
>  Most important... if it works  don't complain! :)
> 
> James
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 11:05, SainTiss wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Lpd isn't running on my system, but yet KDE seems to be configured as a
> > "Generic UNIX LPD printing system", and it works!
> > Also, lpr works (I thought that was an lpd command too?)
> > 
> > I thought MDK used cups (which *is* running)
> > 
> > Or are all lpd related things just "redirected" to cups?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Hans
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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[expert] well done - mandrake 9.0

[jerry]

i have a laptop (dell inspiron 8100)

i had bought the 8.2 Pro and i tried over and over trying to get the right X 
Config to make it work and couldn't no matter what the settings i tried.

I downloaded the 9.0 ISO images out of desperation and voile' it came up with 
flat panel display and it tested good.

now i am happily in X with the gui of my choice.

thankyou mandrake, now i have mandrake on my server AND my laptop!!!

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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

OOPS! Let me try this again. 

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Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:32:19 -0700
From: Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:32 am, you wrote:
> On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote:
> > Please try these:
> > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz
> > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar
> >.g z
> >
> > ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms.  just untar these and type:
> > 'make' as root without single quotes in each resulting directory.
> > Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change "nv" to "nvidia"
> > under the graphic section for your driver.
> >
> > If you are in X, please log out and back in.
>
> While you're editing XF86Config-4 add a line:
>  Load  "glx"
> in Section "module"

I notice that this is mentioned in the 64 page readme file that came with the
driver.

The problem I'm having now is that they make some assumptions about what my
config file looks like and I'm having trouble reading between the lines. the
first time I guessed at what I needed, it started to come up but died. I
wonder if I might be wiser to use XF86configurator to make fresh one, but
what tool do I use to configure XF86config-4? it seems the old tools just
modify the old one. It has been quite awhile since I've fooled with the old
manual way of doing things. :) Since they have gone to 4.x of Xfree I've not
kept up.

> I agree that this way is so much easier, and it works no matter what
> version or kernel you are running.

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RE: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

[Bill Shirley]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 2:22 PM
> To: Expert List
> Subject: Re: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER
>
>
> Unfortunately when you are connected to a remote box its the
> same as if
> you were on the console of that remote box.  In other words
> it has none
> of the facilities of the box your keyboard is attached to.  In short a
> telnet or ssh session is really just like having a very very
> long cable
> from that computer to your monitor.  So if you print a file
> on that box
> it will go to that boxes printer.  Now if that box and yours
> are on the
> same lan it would be possible to install a remote cups
> printer or samba
> printer on it so that it can access your printer.  But over
> the net this
> isn't the case.  Your best bet is to ftp it to the box

It IS possible over the internet.  I have two severs connected by
the internet and can print from my Windows98 box on my LAN
behind my firewall or from the server which runs CUPS
to a printer on the other server running CUPS (printer is
attached to a Windows98 box).  Really, neat stuff!

If anyone wants to know how to make this magic, contact me.

Hope this helps,

Bill Shirley

> connected to your
> keyboard and print it locally.
>
> James
>
>
> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 06:52, Carlos Cifuentes wrote:
> > I am conected with telnet to a remote server. How i
> > can
> > print files of this server in my local printer?
> >
> > Is possible some like to cat file > /dev/lp0?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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Re: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

[James Sparenberg]

Unfortunately when you are connected to a remote box its the same as if
you were on the console of that remote box.  In other words it has none
of the facilities of the box your keyboard is attached to.  In short a
telnet or ssh session is really just like having a very very long cable
from that computer to your monitor.  So if you print a file on that box
it will go to that boxes printer.  Now if that box and yours are on the
same lan it would be possible to install a remote cups printer or samba
printer on it so that it can access your printer.  But over the net this
isn't the case.  Your best bet is to ftp it to the box connected to your
keyboard and print it locally.

James


On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 06:52, Carlos Cifuentes wrote:
> I am conected with telnet to a remote server. How i
> can
> print files of this server in my local printer?
> 
> Is possible some like to cat file > /dev/lp0?
> 
> Thanks  
> 
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> 
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Re: [expert] lpd isn't running but works??

[Randall Jonasz]

Hi,

yes, if you chose CUPS during install lpr is a symlink to lpr-cups

Cheers,

Randy

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 14:05, SainTiss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Lpd isn't running on my system, but yet KDE seems to be configured as a
> "Generic UNIX LPD printing system", and it works!
> Also, lpr works (I thought that was an lpd command too?)
> 
> I thought MDK used cups (which *is* running)
> 
> Or are all lpd related things just "redirected" to cups?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Hans
> 
> 





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Re: [expert] Unable to sync Handspring Visor on 9.0: SOLVED!

[Dale Morris]

Not sure what I did, tryed to sync with kpilot and got a connection, 
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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:49 pm, Lorne wrote:
> On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 am, you wrote:
> > OOPS! Let me try this again.
>
> If the mouse process dies, how does one restart it without
> rebooting the system? For some reason every now and then my mouse
> process is dying. ??

The mouse is handled by X too, so restart X.
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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 am, you wrote:
> OOPS! Let me try this again.
>
If the mouse process dies, how does one restart it without rebooting the 
system? For some reason every now and then my mouse process is dying. ??

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>
> Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:32:19 -0700
> From: Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:32 am, you wrote:
> > On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote:
> > > Please try these:
> > > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.
> > >gz
> > > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.t
> > >ar .g z
> > >
> > > ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms.  just untar these and type:
> > > 'make' as root without single quotes in each resulting directory.
> > > Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change "nv" to "nvidia"
> > > under the graphic section for your driver.
> > >
> > > If you are in X, please log out and back in.
> >
> > While you're editing XF86Config-4 add a line:
> >  Load  "glx"
> > in Section "module"
>
> I notice that this is mentioned in the 64 page readme file that came with
> the driver.
>
> The problem I'm having now is that they make some assumptions about what my
> config file looks like and I'm having trouble reading between the lines.
> the first time I guessed at what I needed, it started to come up but died.
> I wonder if I might be wiser to use XF86configurator to make fresh one, but
> what tool do I use to configure XF86config-4? it seems the old tools just
> modify the old one. It has been quite awhile since I've fooled with the old
> manual way of doing things. :) Since they have gone to 4.x of Xfree I've
> not kept up.
>
> > I agree that this way is so much easier, and it works no matter what
> > version or kernel you are running.
>
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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:33 pm, Lorne wrote:

> I notice that this is mentioned in the 64 page readme file that
> came with the driver.
>
> The problem I'm having now is that they make some assumptions about
> what my config file looks like and I'm having trouble reading
> between the lines. the first time I guessed at what I needed, it
> started to come up but died. I wonder if I might be wiser to use
> XF86configurator to make fresh one, but what tool do I use to
> configure XF86config-4? it seems the old tools just modify the old
> one. It has been quite awhile since I've fooled with the old manual
> way of doing things. :) Since they have gone to 4.x of Xfree I've
> not kept up.

Well, if you feel it's necessary, I would use XFdrake --noexpert 
--noauto  and choose the closest to gf4 (seems like that might even 
be in there now).Yeah, the format has changed recently slightly, 
but I'm not so sure it's not a mandrake thing.  But I got to tell you 
that every distros XF86Config-4 looks different from the examples 
seen and from each other.  suse's is a big ole ugly mess with a 
warning not to edit it manually!  redhat's is called XF86Config and 
looks strange.   But one common thread is the basic items are there 
even if they look a little different.

[s@tuxmachine]:docs$ cat XF86Config-4
# File generated by XFdrake.

# 
**
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# 
**

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated 
together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server 
independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable  (server abort)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the 
mouse doesn't work
#DontZoom # disable / (resolution 
switching)
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer   <- this is the glx line that XFdrake adds,
# but if not there, add yourself 
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Hitachi, Ltd."
ModelName "Hitachi CM611"
HorizSync 31.0-92.0
VertRefresh 50.0-120.0

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1024x480"65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344   480  488  494  
563 -hsync -vsync

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  
630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  
616
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia" # <- this is where you change "nv" to "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
Option "NvAGP" "1"# <-  here & following are all options 
Option "NoLogo" "on"
Option "CursorShadow" "on"
Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "64"
Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "2"
Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "1"

EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 16

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" 
"640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" 
"640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" 
"640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" 
"640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection





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Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 10:17 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

> > > Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200
> > > Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200
> > >
> > > OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm
> > > not a native english speaker so for me the meaning of the words
> > > is the same.
> >
> > there's no difference in ordinary English (smile).
>
> Thanks Philip, I needed that smile (and chuckle) today!

Yeah, I wondered about that too.  man & info don't say.  
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Re: [expert] 9.0 Supermount nightmare

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0:

> Ah!; in my laptop the problem also appears.
>
> Any idea about where the problem arises and how can it bee solved?
>

yeah, I get that too.  I've noticed it since at least rc2.  Anyway, I 
consider that a small thing and disable it - and that's about all you 
can do really.  supermount -i disable.
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[expert] lpd isn't running but works??

[SainTiss]

Hi,

Lpd isn't running on my system, but yet KDE seems to be configured as a
"Generic UNIX LPD printing system", and it works!
Also, lpr works (I thought that was an lpd command too?)

I thought MDK used cups (which *is* running)

Or are all lpd related things just "redirected" to cups?

Thanks

Hans





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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Lorne]

thank you very much for the information form all of you. I'm not ignoring 
you. I have downloaded the files and will work on them as I have time. I will 
report back on how it goes. 

On Saturday 28 September 2002 11:09 pm, you wrote:
> Please try these:
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g
>z
>
> ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms.  just untar these and type:
> 'make' as root without single quotes in each resulting directory.
> Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change "nv" to "nvidia"
> under the graphic section for your driver.
>
> If you are in X, please log out and back in.
>
> hth,
> -s
>
> On Sunday 29 September 2002 12:41 am, Lorne wrote:
> > I have tried all the Nvidia drivers that mandrake had built in.
> > There were like 6 of them. Did you mean nvidia linux drivers? I
> > haven't found those yet.
> >
> > > I'm fairly sure you're gonna /have/ to use the nvidia drivers as
> > > gf4's aren't supported by XFree86 yet.
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Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

[James Sparenberg]

Been running them both on 8.2 and 9.0 without conflict since beta 2 ...

James


On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 10:05, Alastair Scott wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2002 17:20:26 +0100 Andy Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other
> > apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following
> > problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In
> > 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 & 8.2 I had no problems at all...! Here is the blurb:
> 
> This is a classic, and predictable, problem with Linux closed source (where
> you're only given binary files and can't compile from scratch).
> 
> The Gnu C(++) compiler and libraries has been upgraded to version 3.2 in
> Mandrake 9.0. Unfortunately, a lot of commercial applications have been
> compiled to expect gcc 2.9x so will fail with the default installation of
> 9.0.
> 
> The trick is to install 2.96 as well as 3.2 by doing, as root,
> 
> urpmi gcc2.96
> urpmi gcc2.96-cpp
> urpmi gcc2.96-colorgcc
> urpmi gcc2.96-c++
> 
> Now, before you do that, can someone confirm having gcc 2.96 and gcc 3.2
> installed at the same time won't cause problems?
> 
> Alastair
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [expert] 9.0 Supermount nightmare

[Randall Jonasz]

Hi,

I've changed my fstab file to eliminate problems with supermount on my
cdrom to the following
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0

man fstab will give you the particulars

Hope that helps

Randy

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 06:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0:
> 
> 1- With supermount enabled, when I try to copy several files sometimes,
> after few minutes, some of the files in the cdrom are not recognized
> ("the file Toshiba... is not valid).
> 
> 2. I have dissabled supermount in my dvd-drive; now I can mount and
> umount as a user, the problem of files dissapearing is solved, but when
> Mandrake start ther is an error message: Fault: mount device not found.
> To eliminate the message is enought activating again supermount to that
> drive.
> 
> There you have my fstab file; I have to harddisks (hda with two vfat
> partitions and two xfs partitions; and hdb with the main linux paritions
> 
> /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hdb7 /disk xfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdb8 /home xfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0
> none /mnt/floppy supermount
> dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hdb13 /object xfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda7 /otros xfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda6 /pelis xfs defaults 1 2
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb11 /tmp xfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdb6 /usr xfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdb9 /usr/share ext3 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdb10 /var xfs defaults 1 2
> none mnt/cdrom supermount
> dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hdb12 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 
> 
> Ah!; in my laptop the problem also appears.
> 
> Any idea about where the problem arises and how can it bee solved?
> 
> Thanks so much in advance
> 
> 
> Francisco Alcaraz
> Murcia (Spain)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

[James Sparenberg]

On my system this was fixed by instaling gcc2.96-2.96-0.80mdk.i586.rpm 
>From the disk... (along with and dependencies it had.)

James

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 09:20, Andy Weller wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other
> apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following
> problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In
> 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 & 8.2 I had no problems at all...! Here is the blurb:
> 
> --
> 
> [root@b55-aw cdrom]# ./install-unix 
> 
> HALCON 6.0 for UNIX installation.
> Copyright (C) 1997-2000 MVTec Software GmbH.
> All rights reserved.
> 
> It looks as though you are running Linux 2.4.
> Warning: You will need g++ version 2.95 for using the HALCON/C++
> interface!
> 
> Which directory would you like to install HALCON in [/usr/local/halcon]
> /opt/halcon
> /opt/halcon does not exist.  Would you like it to be created (Y/n)? Y
> 
> Installing the HALCON binaries and support files into /opt/halcon
> tar: ./filter: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./lut: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./ocr: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./release_notes.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./readme.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./doc/html/icons: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./doc/macros: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> The HTML help files must be installed if the help functionality of
> HDevelop is to work.  It is highly recommended that these files are
> installed.
> Would you like to install the HTML help files (Y/n)? Y
> tar: ./doc/html/manuals: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./doc/html/reference/hdevelop: Cannot stat: No such file or
> directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./doc/html/reference/cpp: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> tar: ./doc/html/reference/c: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> The PDF documentation files may be installed if a high-quality version
> identical to the printed manuals is desired online for reading with
> the Adobe Acrobat reader.
> Would you like to install the PDF documentation files (y/N)? y
> tar: ./doc/pdf: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> Optionally, you can install parts of the documentation in German.
> At the moment, only the reference manuals are available, either as
> HTML or PDF.  No user's manuals and no detailed documentation for
> individual framegrabbers are available.
> Would you like to install any part of the German documentation (y/N)? N
> 
> The HALCON example images may be installed if the demo programs are
> to be run.  However, they can be read in from the HALCON CD if the
> environment variable HALCONIMAGES is set to $CDROM/images, where
> $CDROM is the directory where the HALCON CD is mounted.
> Would you like to install the example images (Y/n)? Y
> foreach: No match.
> [root@b55-aw cdrom]# 
> 
> --
> 
> It then bums out at the end. My PC is:
> 
> P3 800
> 256Mb RAM
> 20Gb HD, partitioned as:
> 
> ~5Gb '/' (as ReiserFS)
> ~400Mb swap
> ~14Gb 'home' (as ReiserFS)
> 
> Does anyone out there have any clues? Maybe there a problem with tar!?!
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 

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RE: [expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop

[falcaraz]

Dear Andy;
I had a similar problem with my laptop using Mandrake 7.2 and the
problem arised in the fact that the BIOS had the PCMCIA configurated as
"automatic"; I changed this and it runed well.

I hope this will help you to solve the problem; mandrake 9 is really
impressive.

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)

- Mensaje Original -
Remitente: Andy Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Domingo, Septiembre 29, 2002 6:24 pm
Asunto: [expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm in the process of installing 9.0 on my laptop. Unfortunately, the
> installation bums out at:
> 
> "Enabling PCMCIA extension cards..."
> 
> and decides to go no further!
> 
> My laptop (Chicony MP995) is:
> Celeron 333
> 64Mb RAM
> 6Gb HD
> 
> Not too sure what the problem is here... Any help would be 
> appreciated.
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 




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Re: [expert] Themes in Mcc 9.0

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Have the themes for Mandrake control center dissapeared in 9.0?; I
> have used the rpms for 8.2 from plf, but the menu of mcc doesn't
> show "themes" anywhere?

No, I have it in mine.  I did notice that the screensavers were sparce 
until I installed kdeartwork from cooker after install.  It's in the 
package check list, but isn't in isos or something cuz it don't get 
installed.   So, maybe they are in that same kdeartwork rpm. 
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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[s]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:51 am, John McQuillen wrote:

> > > directory. Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change
> > > "nv" to "nvidia" under the graphic section for your driver.
> > >
> > > If you are in X, please log out and back in.
> >
> > While you're editing XF86Config-4 add a line:
> >  Load  "glx"
> > in Section "module"

that's put in there by X setup lately, is why I didn't mention it. 

> IMHO, it is also cool to add:
>
> Option "Cursor_Shadow" "on"
>
> to section "Device"

Yeah, I use that one.  :D  And NoLogo & NvAGP too.

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Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

[Darwin Gottfried]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:05:00 +0100
Alastair Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[..]

> The trick is to install 2.96 as well as 3.2 by doing, as root,

The software is looking for 2.95 not 2.96.  This might be an issue to the software.  
In my experience software demanding 2.95 does not accept 2.96.

> 
> urpmi gcc2.96
> urpmi gcc2.96-cpp
> urpmi gcc2.96-colorgcc
> urpmi gcc2.96-c++
> 
> Now, before you do that, can someone confirm having gcc 2.96 and gcc 3.2
> installed at the same time won't cause problems?

It shoudln't as past releases have had more than one version available.  The issue 
_might_ be, if indeed the software accepts 2.96, will it also accept it when it won't 
be the default version.  3.2 will still be linked to gcc.

-- 
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Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

[Alastair Scott]

On 29 Sep 2002 17:20:26 +0100 Andy Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other
> apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following
> problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In
> 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 & 8.2 I had no problems at all...! Here is the blurb:

This is a classic, and predictable, problem with Linux closed source (where
you're only given binary files and can't compile from scratch).

The Gnu C(++) compiler and libraries has been upgraded to version 3.2 in
Mandrake 9.0. Unfortunately, a lot of commercial applications have been
compiled to expect gcc 2.9x so will fail with the default installation of
9.0.

The trick is to install 2.96 as well as 3.2 by doing, as root,

urpmi gcc2.96
urpmi gcc2.96-cpp
urpmi gcc2.96-colorgcc
urpmi gcc2.96-c++

Now, before you do that, can someone confirm having gcc 2.96 and gcc 3.2
installed at the same time won't cause problems?

Alastair



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RE: [expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop

[falcaraz]

Dear Andy;
I had a similar problem with my laptop using Mandrake 7.2 and the
problem arised in the fact that the BIOS had the PCMCIA configurated as
"automatic"; I changed this and it runed well.

I hope this will help you to solve the problem; mandrake 9 is really
impressive.

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)


- Mensaje Original -
Remitente: Andy Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Domingo, Septiembre 29, 2002 6:24 pm
Asunto: [expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm in the process of installing 9.0 on my laptop. Unfortunately, the
> installation bums out at:
> 
> "Enabling PCMCIA extension cards..."
> 
> and decides to go no further!
> 
> My laptop (Chicony MP995) is:
> Celeron 333
> 64Mb RAM
> 6Gb HD
> 
> Not too sure what the problem is here... Any help would be 
> appreciated.
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 


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Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

[Randall Jonasz]

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 08:49, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> 
> Sheesh...  sorry; I was pretty tired when I wrote this...  using CUPS.
> I've even tried cat'ing data directly to the printer; no action at all
> from the printer...  Canon products :^P and I just don't seem to get
> along...  
> 
No problem.  Have you tried using the admin page at localhost port 631? 
If not, see the status of the printer, and try printing a test page. 
You can also add and configure printers from there. Other than that, I'm
not sure what to say.  I have an old Canon BJ-20 which works without a
problem, so I've never had to troubleshoot.

Cheers,

Randy





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[expert] Drakprofile for 9.0???

[falcaraz]

Dear friends,
One of the more impressive things we cand did with Mandrake was swicht
the internet conection profiles on laptops using drakprofile.
I had two profiles, one for home and the other for office and was very
eassy change the internet parameters using drakprofile. But, under 9.0
there is not a new drakprofile rpm and the old one give me lots of
errors when I try to create new profiles and also when I try to switch
from one to another. So, is not runing at all (perhaps I am wrong, but I
think that this is related with the news draktools relesed wih 9.0).

Will mandrake release a new drakprofile release for 9.0?

If not; there is or there will be another way to easily switch between
profiles?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help;

Yours sincerely


Francisco Alcaraz 
Murcia (Spain)




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Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

[Joseph Stegner]

How would I go about doing that?

Joe
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Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error


> On Sunday 29 September 2002 02:02 am, you wrote:
> > Don't 8.2/9.0 use different kernel images?
> the defualt kernel in either 8.2 or 9.0 is a 2.4.x kernel, while earlier
> versions (7.2 and back for sure, others may or may not have,) installed a
> 2.2.x series kernel. one of the differences was in how USB was handled.
there
> is a way to chose which of a few kernels are used at the install.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
> >
> > > On Saturday 28 September 2002 09:59 pm, you wrote:
> > > > Is there any suggestions left?
> > >
> > > have you tried to boot with an alternate kernel inage from the 2.2.x
> >
> > series
> >
> > > kernels?
> > >
> > > > Joe
> > > >
> > > > > > - Original Message -
> > > > > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:03 PM
> > > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote:
> > > > > > > > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't
> > > > > > > > remember:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the
> > > > > > > > betas/RC's, the 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer
after
> > > > > > > > my mouse initializes
> > > >
> > > > and
> > > >
> > > > > > > > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard
> > > > > > > > drives,
> >
> > it
> >
> > > > > will
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but
nothing
> > > > >
> > > > > happens.
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS
> > > >
> > > > checksum,
> > > >
> > > > > > > > default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that
> >
> > nature.
> >
> > > > > > > > Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS.  With
> >
> > Win2k
> >
> > > > and
> > > >
> > > > > > > > Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux
would
> > > >
> > > > interact
> > > >
> > > > > > > with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something
weird.
> >
> > But
> >
> > > > > > > this would be highly unlikely.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing a
> > > > > > > problem when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the case
you
> >
> > can
> >
> > > > > > > try disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then
doing
> > > > > > > a test reboot.
> >
>
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[expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop

[Andy Weller]

Dear all,

I'm in the process of installing 9.0 on my laptop. Unfortunately, the
installation bums out at:

"Enabling PCMCIA extension cards..."

and decides to go no further!

My laptop (Chicony MP995) is:
Celeron 333
64Mb RAM
6Gb HD

Not too sure what the problem is here... Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy




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[expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

[Andy Weller]

Dear all,

I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other
apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following
problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In
7.2, 8.0, 8.1 & 8.2 I had no problems at all...! Here is the blurb:

--

[root@b55-aw cdrom]# ./install-unix 

HALCON 6.0 for UNIX installation.
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 MVTec Software GmbH.
All rights reserved.

It looks as though you are running Linux 2.4.
Warning: You will need g++ version 2.95 for using the HALCON/C++
interface!

Which directory would you like to install HALCON in [/usr/local/halcon]
/opt/halcon
/opt/halcon does not exist.  Would you like it to be created (Y/n)? Y

Installing the HALCON binaries and support files into /opt/halcon
tar: ./filter: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./lut: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./ocr: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./release_notes.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./readme.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./doc/html/icons: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./doc/macros: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The HTML help files must be installed if the help functionality of
HDevelop is to work.  It is highly recommended that these files are
installed.
Would you like to install the HTML help files (Y/n)? Y
tar: ./doc/html/manuals: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./doc/html/reference/hdevelop: Cannot stat: No such file or
directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./doc/html/reference/cpp: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: ./doc/html/reference/c: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The PDF documentation files may be installed if a high-quality version
identical to the printed manuals is desired online for reading with
the Adobe Acrobat reader.
Would you like to install the PDF documentation files (y/N)? y
tar: ./doc/pdf: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Optionally, you can install parts of the documentation in German.
At the moment, only the reference manuals are available, either as
HTML or PDF.  No user's manuals and no detailed documentation for
individual framegrabbers are available.
Would you like to install any part of the German documentation (y/N)? N

The HALCON example images may be installed if the demo programs are
to be run.  However, they can be read in from the HALCON CD if the
environment variable HALCONIMAGES is set to $CDROM/images, where
$CDROM is the directory where the HALCON CD is mounted.
Would you like to install the example images (Y/n)? Y
foreach: No match.
[root@b55-aw cdrom]# 

--

It then bums out at the end. My PC is:

P3 800
256Mb RAM
20Gb HD, partitioned as:

~5Gb '/' (as ReiserFS)
~400Mb swap
~14Gb 'home' (as ReiserFS)

Does anyone out there have any clues? Maybe there a problem with tar!?!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy




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Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

[Rick Friedman]

I would think that it most certainly is possible to run 8.2 with the
2.4.19 kernel. I'm running 8.1 with that kernel. 

Rick

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 04:34, hans schneidhofer wrote:
> hi list, 
> is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ?
> have now 2.4.18
> 
> thanks and bye
> hans
> 
> 
> 

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[expert] Unable to sync Handspring Visor on 9.0

[Dale Morris]

I am unable to sync my handspring visor on Mandrake 9.0. I know I don't 
have it set up properly, but can't find what USB port to link it to. 
There is no /dev/USB* listed to make the symlink to /dev/pilot.

Is there a different way of doing this in 9.0? Is there something I need 
to change in the boot config file?

I have looked everywhere for instruction on this, searched google and 
Mandrake forum, but can't find anything..

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Re: [expert] Motherboard Question

[tarvid]

Much wisdom in the reponse but...

1) Stability is an issue but most of my problems show up in the disk 
subsystem. I have had some nasty crashes which went away when I replaced the 
drives.

2) Performance is an issue but I suspect that too is in the disk subsystem. 
Processing HTTP logs is the biggest single burder on my servers. That 
generates tons of stuff few people read, so I think changing content of log 
analysis will take care of that one. Mail is a close second but that one is 
solved by judicious non-use of synced log files.

3) When I rebuild a server, newer technology is better than older and larger 
aggregates of RAM are better than smaller. The latter is probably the more 
important of the two so I would rather use single 512MB PC2100 than two 256MB 
faster SDRAMs.

4) Workstations are a different matter. I am content with much less than a 
game player but I do have an urge for decent multimedia - DVD , 6 channel 
sound, fast ripping. The most notable performance issue is fast program 
loading. That too is in the disk subsystem.

So much of Tom's hardware doesn't speak to me. I'd like to avoid spending a 
lot of time on both hardware compatibility and software installation issues, 
I have lots of things to do.

Unfortunately, what we see are reports of people having problems and others 
speculating on the latest whiz bang technology. It would be much more useful 
if someone maintained a database of "this worked for me".

Jim Tarvid



On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:59 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:58, Ralph F De Witt wrote:
> > Hi:
> > I am contemplating building a new system. The two motherboards that I am
> > looking at are, one a MSI  KT3 Ultra2 w/o raid, lan, and video, and two a
> > MSI KT4 Ultra w/o raid, lan, and video. This will be my primary
> > workstation. I am wondering will these boards will work with Mandrake 9.0
> > and how well the built in audio works on both. And your preferences.
> > - --
> > Yours,
> > Ralph.
>
> I can see right off that you've been doing your homework.  Not bad.
> There are some concerns with the newer DDR400 based mobos, though.  This
> is evident by looking at the following:
>
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q3/020905/kt400-11.html#opengl_be
>nchmarks
>
> And the Directx benchmarks as well.  The conclusion of this article is
> interesting:
>
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q3/020905/kt400-16.html
>
> But not truly "conclusive".  Because if later day bios upgrades are able
> to fix the memory standards that as of right now have not been
> finalized, then the KT4 Ultra may well be the best choice for the
> future.  As you can see right now the KT333's are showing faster
> benches.  A bios upgrade may well fix that, however.
>
> Regarding the KT3 Ultra, this pick is perhaps a little confusing.  If
> you are considering a mobo with KT333 architecture, there are many more
> superior choices available.  Here are the benchmarks for a roundup of 18
> mobos that includes the KT3 Ultra:
>
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q2/020509/kt333-29.html
>
> This in fact was the roundup that I was using to choose my next mobo.
> As of now tho, the memory architecture has moved onward and I will
> probably wait for Abit to release a KT400 mobo.  The advantage with this
> set of mobos is that they have been out for awhile and they are better
> known personalitywise.  It is very unlikely that you will see any
> problems with the top performers in this list.  Speaking of performance,
> the KT3 Ultra is in the bottom half of both the opengl and directx
> benchmarks. Dis is not good.
>
> When I was planning on getting one of these, I was looking at three:
>
> 1) Epox EP-8K3A+ -- Pros:  Top performer, solid brand, reputation for
> dependability
>
> Cons:  Unsure of overclocking virtues compared to Abit AT7
>
> 2) Enmic 8TTX2+  -- Pros:  German manufacturer, looked solid, top
> performer; real fast and stable
>
> Cons:  New company, no history, unsure of overclocking virtues compared
> to AT7
>
> 3)   Abit AT7  -- Pros:  I have extensive prior experience with this
> brand and know the overclocking and stability virtues of this brand, the
> quality has never let me down.
>
> Cons:  Not a top performer (unless overclocked !) hehe
>
> In which case it can theoretically exceed the default performance of any
> of the 18.  Depending on CPU limitations.
>
> Let me smash a few myths right off the bat. 1) An overclocking mobo is
> typically superior stability (and quality) wise to a mobo that is
> typified as a "server board", AKA Tyan mobos.  The overclockers HAVE to
> be more stable in worse situations than the much overpriced and
> underperforming "server boards". Anything marketed as a server board is
> probably going to be a money pipeline waiting for you to give your
> frogskins away to the manufacturer.  Synopsis:  The overclockers are
> better server boards than the server boards.
>
> 2) Since they are marketed to h

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 020929 Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200
> > Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200
> > 
> > OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm not a
> > native english speaker so for me the meaning of the words is the same.
> 
> there's no difference in ordinary English (smile).

Thanks Philip, I needed that smile (and chuckle) today!

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Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

[Philip Webb]

020929 Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200
> Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200
> 
> OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm not a
> native english speaker so for me the meaning of the words is the same.

there's no difference in ordinary English (smile).

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[expert] Digital Cert, ALA Webmin

[Franki]

Hi guys,

Got a small problem,

we have a test server, using http over a high port. (eg mydomain.com:10001)

its actually a win2000 box, but I the question is basically a linux one..

If i generate a keypair request on the win box, can I use that to create a
self signed Cert that I can install on the winblows box???

Also, can I bind a cert to a domain/port setup?? or must I create a sub
domain without the port number and bind the cert to that..???
(meaning i don't want the cert bound to the normal domain, it must be the
domain/port or a subdomain...

How does webmin do it??

I don't want to go the MCS route because its already setup for a trusted CA
for our verisign cert.

Any tips would be fantastic here...


many thanks..

rgds

Franki




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[expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

[Carlos Cifuentes]

I am conected with telnet to a remote server. How i
can
print files of this server in my local printer?

Is possible some like to cat file > /dev/lp0?

Thanks  

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Re: [expert] Postfix configuration question??

[Randy Kramer]

I consider myself a newbie, but I did (finally) manage to get a mail 
server installed using postfix in a situation somewhat similar to 
yours.  (I have a private LAN without a registered domain name and need 
to relay my mail to my ISP for (SMTP) delivery.)

Try looking at 
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailInterimUpdate#Notes in the 
paragraph on postfix -- it lists the three or four parameters I had to 
change (on Mandrake 7.2) to get a mail server working.  

(I have a lot more information on a postfix based email server on 
WikiLearn, but a lot of it is very disorganized at this point -- I am 
trying to straighten it out.  The following pages may be somewhat 
helpful as well:
   * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailServerSketches
   * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailOverviewSketch   

Randy Kramer

On Saturday 28 September 2002 02:16 pm, Dale Morris wrote:
> I need to configure Postfix so I can use mutt and slrn. Postfix seems
> pretty simple but I'm a little gunshy because the only other time I
> configured it, it worked fine but I ended having my root mail go
> directly to the administrator at mail provider. He got pretty upset
> after a while..
>
> Here is my scenario:
> machine name: lymond.lvcm.com
> email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> user directory:  /home/dlm
> smtp forwarding address: smtp.lvcm.com (I would prefer to send mail
> directly from my machine and not use lvcm.com)
>
>
> According to the way I understand the documentation, all I have to do
> is edit my /etc/postfix/alias file and change the file to reflect:
>
> root: postfix (change to)  root: 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> then I need to postalias command to rehash the alias database.. Is
> that all or have I missed something?
>
> thanks
> dale



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[expert] where's libqt.so?

[SainTiss]

Hi,

it seems like libqt.so isn't included in MDK9...
I can only find libqt-mt.so, which is the threaded version...

It might just work fine, but the problem is that qmake.conf lists:
QMAKE_LIBS_QT   = -lqt
QMAKE_LIBS_QT_THREAD= -lqt-mt

so any non-threaded app built with qmake, still wants libqt...

Is this a "bug" in qmake.conf?

Thanks

Hans





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Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

[Pierre Fortin]

On 28 Sep 2002 23:07:25 -0400 Randall Jonasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Which printing system are you using?  I've only used CUPS without any
> problems.  If you're using CUPS, direct your browser to
> http://localhost:631   You can manage your printer from there.

Sheesh...  sorry; I was pretty tired when I wrote this...  using CUPS.
I've even tried cat'ing data directly to the printer; no action at all
from the printer...  Canon products :^P and I just don't seem to get
along...  

Pierre

> Cheers,
> 
> Randy
> 
> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 22:24, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> > 
> > Recently converted another M$ user to LM8.2 and have a problem...
> > 
> > The printer is a Canon C5500 multifunction printer which works fine
> > under W9x.  Under LM8.2, everything *appears* to work -- file seems to
> > be sent to printer, long files stay queued/active for longer time vs
> > short files, etc. -- yet nothing prints -- there is NO activity from
> > the printer...
> > 
> > Anyone have one of these beasts?  Any ideas?  -- If I could sniff the
> > printer port, I would... :^)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Pierre
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[John McQuillen]

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:32, Tim C wrote:
> On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote:
> > Please try these:
> > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz
> > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g
> >z
> >
> > ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms.  just untar these and type:
> > 'make' as root without single quotes in each resulting directory.
> > Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change "nv" to "nvidia"
> > under the graphic section for your driver.
> >
> > If you are in X, please log out and back in.
> >
> 
> While you're editing XF86Config-4 add a line:
>  Load  "glx"
> in Section "module"
> 
IMHO, it is also cool to add:

Option "Cursor_Shadow" "on"

to section "Device"




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[expert] Themes in Mcc 9.0

[falcaraz]

Have the themes for Mandrake control center dissapeared in 9.0?; I have
used the rpms for 8.2 from plf, but the menu of mcc doesn't show
"themes" anywhere?


Francisco Alcaraz
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Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

[kwan]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, hans schneidhofer wrote:

> hi list, 
> is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ?
> have now 2.4.18

Works fine. You might also want to look at the low-latency and
pre-emptible kernel patches if you're using the stock Linus kernel.




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Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

[Tim C]

On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote:
> Please try these:
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g
>z
>
> ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms.  just untar these and type:
> 'make' as root without single quotes in each resulting directory.
> Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change "nv" to "nvidia"
> under the graphic section for your driver.
>
> If you are in X, please log out and back in.
>

While you're editing XF86Config-4 add a line:
 Load  "glx"
in Section "module"

I agree that this way is so much easier, and it works no matter what version 
or kernel you are running.

-- 
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Re: [expert] problems starting kde

[hans schneidhofer]

hi,
have to answer my own question here:
after removing the old kickerc-files in 
/usr/share/mdk/kde/root-interface/kickerrc and in my userdirectory the the 
startphase is fine - no old kde-looksalike and no stucks of kde during 
runtime.

thanks anyway to this expert-folks for helping and spent time into my problem

bye hans

Am Sonntag, 29. September 2002 09:52 schrieb hans schneidhofer:
> hi list,
> have now an updated kde3 and am having now discovered that after starting
> my mdk8.2 box - it is starting automated, I get always the old startsymbol
> of kde2 - then starts the kde3, but an old layout as well as in english,
> not in german. logout again and login a newone time I get the new
> kde3-outfit. So - now my question :
> where I have to look for change this behavior and the settings ?
> I really doesn't find any old kde2-related rpms.
>
> One thing I have tried, was in mandrake-control-center, looking, which
> settings there are, but I also see KDE3, so now I really don't know, where
> I can find anymore.
>
> my system uses kernel 2.4.18 and have installed kde 3.0.3 also as
> mdk-related rpms.
>
> thanks for helping and bye
> hans




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Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

[hans schneidhofer]

hi jason,
as you wrote, you have done that - is it worth to do that ? is it more stabil 
? - that is really interesting for me, because have some problems with 
stability with kernel 2.4.18 now.

thanks and bye
hans

Am Sonntag, 29. September 2002 12:40 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> It is possible (I have done it) but there are a couple of dependencies
> that must be resolved as well (can't remember those off the top of my
> head) but other than that, no sweat.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
> hans schneidhofer wrote:
> > hi list,
> > is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ?
> > have now 2.4.18
> >
> > thanks and bye
> > hans
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
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Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

[et]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 02:02 am, you wrote:
> Don't 8.2/9.0 use different kernel images?
the defualt kernel in either 8.2 or 9.0 is a 2.4.x kernel, while earlier 
versions (7.2 and back for sure, others may or may not have,) installed a 
2.2.x series kernel. one of the differences was in how USB was handled. there 
is a way to chose which of a few kernels are used at the install. 






> - Original Message -
> From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
>
> > On Saturday 28 September 2002 09:59 pm, you wrote:
> > > Is there any suggestions left?
> >
> > have you tried to boot with an alternate kernel inage from the 2.2.x
>
> series
>
> > kernels?
> >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > > > - Original Message -
> > > > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:03 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote:
> > > > > > > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't
> > > > > > > remember:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the
> > > > > > > betas/RC's, the 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after
> > > > > > > my mouse initializes
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > > > > > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard
> > > > > > > drives,
>
> it
>
> > > > will
> > > >
> > > > > > > hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing
> > > >
> > > > happens.
> > > >
> > > > > > > After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS
> > >
> > > checksum,
> > >
> > > > > > > default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that
>
> nature.
>
> > > > > > > Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS.  With
>
> Win2k
>
> > > and
> > >
> > > > > > > Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux would
> > >
> > > interact
> > >
> > > > > > with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something weird.
>
> But
>
> > > > > > this would be highly unlikely.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing a
> > > > > > problem when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the case you
>
> can
>
> > > > > > try disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then doing
> > > > > > a test reboot.
>
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Re: [expert] Motherboard Question

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:58, Ralph F De Witt wrote:

> 
> Hi:
> I am contemplating building a new system. The two motherboards that I am 
> looking at are, one a MSI  KT3 Ultra2 w/o raid, lan, and video, and two a MSI 
> KT4 Ultra w/o raid, lan, and video. This will be my primary workstation. I am 
> wondering will these boards will work with Mandrake 9.0 and how well the 
> built in audio works on both. And your preferences.
> - -- 
>   Yours,
>   Ralph.

I can see right off that you've been doing your homework.  Not bad. 
There are some concerns with the newer DDR400 based mobos, though.  This
is evident by looking at the following:

http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q3/020905/kt400-11.html#opengl_benchmarks

And the Directx benchmarks as well.  The conclusion of this article is
interesting:

http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q3/020905/kt400-16.html

But not truly "conclusive".  Because if later day bios upgrades are able
to fix the memory standards that as of right now have not been
finalized, then the KT4 Ultra may well be the best choice for the
future.  As you can see right now the KT333's are showing faster
benches.  A bios upgrade may well fix that, however.

Regarding the KT3 Ultra, this pick is perhaps a little confusing.  If
you are considering a mobo with KT333 architecture, there are many more
superior choices available.  Here are the benchmarks for a roundup of 18
mobos that includes the KT3 Ultra:

http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q2/020509/kt333-29.html

This in fact was the roundup that I was using to choose my next mobo. 
As of now tho, the memory architecture has moved onward and I will
probably wait for Abit to release a KT400 mobo.  The advantage with this
set of mobos is that they have been out for awhile and they are better
known personalitywise.  It is very unlikely that you will see any
problems with the top performers in this list.  Speaking of performance,
the KT3 Ultra is in the bottom half of both the opengl and directx
benchmarks. Dis is not good.

When I was planning on getting one of these, I was looking at three:

1) Epox EP-8K3A+ -- Pros:  Top performer, solid brand, reputation for
dependability

Cons:  Unsure of overclocking virtues compared to Abit AT7

2) Enmic 8TTX2+  -- Pros:  German manufacturer, looked solid, top
performer; real fast and stable

Cons:  New company, no history, unsure of overclocking virtues compared
to AT7

3)   Abit AT7  -- Pros:  I have extensive prior experience with this
brand and know the overclocking and stability virtues of this brand, the
quality has never let me down.

Cons:  Not a top performer (unless overclocked !) hehe

In which case it can theoretically exceed the default performance of any
of the 18.  Depending on CPU limitations.

Let me smash a few myths right off the bat. 1) An overclocking mobo is
typically superior stability (and quality) wise to a mobo that is
typified as a "server board", AKA Tyan mobos.  The overclockers HAVE to
be more stable in worse situations than the much overpriced and
underperforming "server boards". Anything marketed as a server board is
probably going to be a money pipeline waiting for you to give your
frogskins away to the manufacturer.  Synopsis:  The overclockers are
better server boards than the server boards.

2) Since they are marketed to hardware hacker types, they are more
loaded with features than other boards.  Also, just because you buy an
overclocker board doesn't mean that it's going to overclock the cpu. 
You have to TELL it to do that; otherwise it operates the CPU at the
design spec for the CPU.  In that case it theoretically is more rock
solid than the other types.

3).  The reason I cite directx and opengl benches is simply because
there is no better stress test for the entire mobo and it's subsystems
as a team than these tests.  They stress the graphics, memory, and all
other subsystems better than any business apps ever would in a million
years.  The business benches are more or less like tits on a boar hog. 
But, if you are still curious you can follow the other URL's on Dr Tom's
site to the business benches.

OK.  Darn this thing has gotten long...


HTH,

LX

P.S.  I probably would have bought the Enmic.  And..I was unsure of what
level of information to give, so I used the shotgun.

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[expert] I have been able to install 9.0 in my Toshiba satellite 4090XCDT; just

[falcaraz]

some problem with the screen solved using an special tdr driver. But
when I open a console as normal user the prompt appear:"bash-2.05b$" and
not the usual "[username@hostname francisco]$"
bash-2.05b$ prompt?
X-Accept-Language: es
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I have been able to install 9.0 in my Toshiba satellite 4090XCDT; just
some problem with the screen solved using an special tdr driver. But
when I open a console as normal user the prompt appear:"bash-2.05b$" and
not the usual "[username@hostname francisco]$"

How can I change it?

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[expert] 9.0 Supermount nightmare

[falcaraz]

Dear friends,
I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0:

1- With supermount enabled, when I try to copy several files sometimes,
after few minutes, some of the files in the cdrom are not recognized
("the file Toshiba... is not valid).

2. I have dissabled supermount in my dvd-drive; now I can mount and
umount as a user, the problem of files dissapearing is solved, but when
Mandrake start ther is an error message: Fault: mount device not found.
To eliminate the message is enought activating again supermount to that
drive.

There you have my fstab file; I have to harddisks (hda with two vfat
partitions and two xfs partitions; and hdb with the main linux paritions

/dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /disk xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb8 /home xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb13 /object xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /otros xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /pelis xfs defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb11 /tmp xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb6 /usr xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb9 /usr/share ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb10 /var xfs defaults 1 2
none mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb12 swap swap defaults 0 0


Ah!; in my laptop the problem also appears.

Any idea about where the problem arises and how can it bee solved?

Thanks so much in advance


Francisco Alcaraz
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Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

[newslett]

It is possible (I have done it) but there are a couple of dependencies 
that must be resolved as well (can't remember those off the top of my 
head) but other than that, no sweat.

Cheers,

Jason

hans schneidhofer wrote:
> hi list, 
> is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ?
> have now 2.4.18
> 
> thanks and bye
> hans
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [expert] ipv4 forwarding disabled again when bringing up eth1

[SainTiss]

Hi again,

After some more research, I'm quite sure this line in
/etc/init.d/network is what's causing the problem:

# Run this again to catch any interface-specific actions
sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf >/dev/null 2>&1

because in /etc/sysctl.conf, ip_forward is set to 0

Now the question remains: what's the point in "enabling ipv4 forwarding"
if the default sysctl.conf will reset it to 0 again? (I haven't modified
sysctl.conf since install)

Thanks

Hans



On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 12:01, SainTiss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having an odd problem here:
> 
> during /sbin/service network restart, ipv4 forwarding is being enabled
> as it should be...
> 
> just after the "Enabling ipv4 packet forwarding [ OK ]" has
> appeared, I did cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and the output was
> "1"...
> 
> Then after eth0 had been brought up, the output still was "1"...
> 
> But then after eth1 had been brought up as well (last action of the
> network restart), the output was "0" again...
> So something reset the forwarding...
> 
> Does anyone recognize this problem?
> 
> Does anyone know a solution to it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Hans
> 
> 




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[expert] ipv4 forwarding disabled again when bringing up eth1

[SainTiss]

Hi,

I'm having an odd problem here:

during /sbin/service network restart, ipv4 forwarding is being enabled
as it should be...

just after the "Enabling ipv4 packet forwarding [ OK ]" has
appeared, I did cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and the output was
"1"...

Then after eth0 had been brought up, the output still was "1"...

But then after eth1 had been brought up as well (last action of the
network restart), the output was "0" again...
So something reset the forwarding...

Does anyone recognize this problem?

Does anyone know a solution to it?

Thanks

Hans





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[expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

[hans schneidhofer]

hi list, 
is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ?
have now 2.4.18

thanks and bye
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Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:06 -0500, s wrote:
> On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:36 am, SpeedMan wrote:

> > Next time it happens you could use stat to at least pin point when
> > the file was created and/or modified.  This information may help
> > you identify the process that is creating the file.
> >
> > $ stat .xinitrc
 
> thanks speedman.  Learn something new everyday.  :)
> -s
> 

As we are at it:

$ stat dummy.foo
File: »dummy.foo«
Size: 77082 Blocks: 152IO Block: 4096   Regular File
Device: 30ah/778d  Inode: 3465 Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (501/ wobo)   Gid: (501/wobo)
Access: 2002-09-26 00:12:06.0 +0200
Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200
Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200

OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm not a
native english speaker so for me the meaning of the words is the same.

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[expert] mandrake-control-center ...

[hans schneidhofer]

hi,
got a strange behavior within mandrake-control-center :
thats what I found out :
notmally I call "mandrake-control-center", then "network-internet" and then 
"connect".
After finishing my surfing or sending the mail a hit the button "Connect to 
pptp-adsl" again cuts the connection, but now I always I get a 2nd ppp1 so I 
have now a running ppp0 and a ppp1 but it doesn't disconnect the interface.

can anyone explain this changed behavior ?

am having kde3-3.0.3, mdk 2.8 kernel with vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk
hope this helps.
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Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

[Wolfgang Bornath]

Sorry, I did not read the original message so I use this one to
answer:

> > I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of them seem to work but
> > at the end my CD is not burnt.
> > I do not have strange messages, I have logs as to which each MB is
> > written but at the end..
> > I wouldn't like to reboot to Windows just for burining the new MDK 9.0
> > CDs.
> >
> > Anyone has an idea of what is wrong?
> >
> > (BTW, the material is correctly detected by all of the tools)
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > /stefano

A dumb question: Did you check the "Only write dummy" or "Only
Simulate Writing" or any option similar to this?

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Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

[s]

On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:36 am, SpeedMan wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:59, s wrote:
> > Hi gang,
> > I have a little mystery going on here that isn't really distro or
> > version specific as I've had it happen to me for many many
> > mandrake releases and in Slackware.  But something somewhere
> > somehow for some reason is creating an empty .xinitrc file in my
> > home directory on occasion, and of course the startx command
> > won't work with it present.  
> Next time it happens you could use stat to at least pin point when
> the file was created and/or modified.  This information may help
> you identify the process that is creating the file.
>
> $ stat .xinitrc
>
> 
>

thanks speedman.  Learn something new everyday.  :)
-s



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[expert] problems starting kde

[hans schneidhofer]

hi list,
have now an updated kde3 and am having now discovered that after starting my 
mdk8.2 box - it is starting automated, I get always the old startsymbol of 
kde2 - then starts the kde3, but an old layout as well as in english, not in 
german. logout again and login a newone time I get the new kde3-outfit. So - 
now my question :
where I have to look for change this behavior and the settings ?
I really doesn't find any old kde2-related rpms.

One thing I have tried, was in mandrake-control-center, looking, which 
settings there are, but I also see KDE3, so now I really don't know, where I 
can find anymore.

my system uses kernel 2.4.18 and have installed kde 3.0.3 also as mdk-related 
rpms.

thanks for helping and bye
hans



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