Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails
hi Toshiro, have tried out now a lot of possibilities like portmap:ALL in hosts.deny, hosts.allo and vice versa on two hosts of my LAN, the result is : entry in rh8-box -> hosts.deny : portmap:ALL -> restart with service nfs restart - the connected host does NOT have any succes on any exported filesystem - for shure. doing the same on mdk - the same - also for shure. now making that entry in hosts.allow - first in rh8 - all exported filesystems are available on mdk (for shure restart nfs, and I'm assuming thart this step I'll always do) doing the same on mdk : filesystems on hd's are available on rh8 but NOT CDROM now I was looking for the entries in /dev/hdc and /dev/hda, /dev/hdb and here I have : lr-xr-xr-x so as you can see, I have the same basics for all relevant drives like hd and CDROM. in the README's of hosts.allow and hosts.deny I found the hint, that an "empty" entry complies with an entry portmap:ALL and the results was exatly the same : there is no different on portmap:ALL in hosts.allow or an empty entry. In hosts.deny the effect is for shure : no portmaps are allowed. but why do I have a share on hd and NOT on CDROM from my mdk-box ? but an acces from rh8-box is available with exactly the same fundamentle basics on both hosts. So it seems, that any different assumptions or dependencies must be there. but where and which differents - which possibilities do I have now - except the steps I have described above ? any ideas ? thanks again and bye hans Am Die, 2002-10-29 um 01.29 schrieb Toshiro: > El lun, 28-10-2002 a las 04:59, hans privat escribió: > > hi Toshiro, > > are you shure, which services hosts.allow and hosts.deny are providing ? > > the "only" thing you can do with that entries are : > > allow or deny internetservices like ftp or analogical services ! > > > > Try to put the line below in hosts.deny and then tell me if you can > access any share on that server :) > > portmap:ALL > > > Toshiro. > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails
hi Todd, have tried out but am getting a new error : jojo.domain.at:/mnt/cdrom: Invalid argument mozart.domain.at:/mnt/cdrom: Invalid argument the line in my /etc/exports looks like this : /mnt/cdrom jojo(ro) mozart(ro) the same entry I have in mozart and am getting NO errormessages as well as I have successfully exported filesystems. in /etc/hosts I have the entries : 192.168.10.5 mozart.domain.at mozart 192.168.10.8 jojo.domain.at jojo 192.168.10.15 hanna.domain.at hanna 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost lo these entries I have in all my connected hosts. thanks and bye hans Am Die, 2002-10-29 um 08.05 schrieb Todd Lyons: > Toshiro wrote on Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:48:08PM -0300 : > > > > /mnt/cdrom failed reason given by server : no right > > exportfs -r > > Blue skies... Todd > -- >MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com >Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. > --Larry Wall >Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] importing X / watching TV via local net
On Monday 28 October 2002 13:49, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Yes, I know this option (net streaming?) despite of not trying yet because > I don't think that my PII 300 will be fast enough for the job :-). > > Anyway, if I'd try net streaming, from where should I start? > > Many thanks, > > Cheers, > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > I don't believe exporting raw video van be exported via lan. It is high > > to much traffice. Maybe capturing and send compressed video over lan will > > do the trick for you ? > > --- > Alan Wilter S. da Silva > --- > Laboratório de Física Biológica > Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho >Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ > Rio de Janeiro, Brasil I had not discoverd this topix since I use digital-tv there it is a lot easier. Try these: - ffmpeg /ffmpeg-server - mplayer/mencoder - VLC (Video Lan Client) And I think there are several other issues. With DVB a PII 300 would be far enough ( mpeg2 direct from Sattelite, Cable and hardware decoder on-card) Greets Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Send AOL IM from the console?
I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to compile yet. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0
Hi ! I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a computer of our Linux User Group. I have several issues there, but will post them one by one. Since there are some newbies there I tried to show them drakxconf. I was really upset on that tool: calling drakxconf on commandline I got the following menu: - Add new users -> working I think - Boot configuration -> working - Auto installation -> nothing happens - Connection sharing -> calls Auto installation - Display configuration -> calls Connection sharing . and so on and so on. Hope there will be a bugfix-update on that issue. since it is alsmost unusable in the way it is now. Thanks in Advance Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] adding mirrors for urpmi
I tried yesterday to add a source for urpmi over the mcc -> Software-installation panel. I tried several times but it seems the graphical tool : - do not accept alternative names of the hdlist-file - have no comprehensive output for discovering the errors at least i take the bash and did a urpmi.addmedia ftp://.. with synthesis.hdlist2.cz and all went fine. The next was, that I had the opnion 'urpmi -f ftp://...' should work and make an local hdlist for that source. Maybe I had a typo yesterday, but I tried today several times without success, so maybe someone can give me a hint on what I am doing wrong here Thanks Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mounting of smb-ressources , jints on reading
Hi There! A friend of mine has several win2k workstations and one Mdk 9.0 workstation. Discovering and mounting some directories of the win stations was a task of seconds. Later that evening we discovered , he was not able of writing to that dir's. So I thought this is an easy thing, take a look at the fstab , there will be somthing like : //pc1/d/ /mnt/pc1-d/ smbfs -user="xxx",passwd="xxx" 0 0 but after I saw it it was solved another way (something like .auth.Administrator.dhakhd ) Hope somebody on this list can shed some light on where to read about the smb-mounting in fstab the Mandrake way, so i am able to discover the error on his win-network Thanks in Advance Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 13:16, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Hi ! > > I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a computer of our Linux User Group. I have > several issues there, but will post them one by one. > > Since there are some newbies there I tried to show them drakxconf. I was > really upset on that tool: > > calling drakxconf on commandline I got the following menu: > > - Add new users -> working I think > - Boot configuration -> working > - Auto installation -> nothing happens > - Connection sharing -> calls Auto installation > - Display configuration -> calls Connection sharing > . > and so on and so on. > > Hope there will be a bugfix-update on that issue. since it is alsmost > unusable in the way it is now. > > Thanks in Advance > > Steffen drakconf and drakxconf work without a hitch over here. Methinks there's something awry in the install you did:o) Good Luck, Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] supermount unreliable
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 11:53 am, Milos Prudek wrote: > > Yes we have seen this as well. > > On Mandrake 8.2 as well. > > The manual mount clears the problem. > > Absolutely. > > Is there no way to make supermount work? Just another note on supermount. I am using 8.2 with a self-built kernel 2.4.19-9mdk. Supermount works fine on this system. Perhaps the 2.4.19 kernel in 9.0 is re-broken for supermount. It is generally not the fault of the distro when supermount goes south, but the kernel developers. The supermount problem is a recurring problem that shows up periodically with new kernels. You could get the 2.4.19-9mdk and either build it or install a binary. -- Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor...the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. --unknown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Send AOL IM from the console?
micq.org is using the same protocol as AOL but wthi icq, it is console based. Perhaps you could use this instead JG Barry Michels wrote: I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to compile yet. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Send AOL IM from the console?
micq.org is using the same protocol as AOL but wthi icq, it is console based. Perhaps you could use this instead JG Barry Michels wrote: > I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. > The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to > compile yet. > > Barry > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] serious problem in mandrake 9.0
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:21 am, faisal gillani wrote: > Well i this is the 2nd time it has happend to me i > just installed mandrake 9. last night i shutdown my pc > "home pc" & this morning when i opened the pc Xwindows > is not starting ... only command promt comes, > in the place of gui a blank dark gray screen come . > i try to configure it with drakconf but it gives out > strange error > i am dissapointed & worried as i really think that now > mandrake 9 was ready for desktops & i invited some > people over to view this but .. wat can i show them > now ? > please tell me wats the problem & solution? > the only salution i think of was a reinstall :-S it > worked the last time ;-) > Sounds like you're booting to runlevel 3. Are you sure you are set to boot into runlevel 5? What does startx from the commendline do? What errors does your /var/log/XFree86.0.log have in it? -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Possibe to use jigdo or emulate it on Mandrake CD's?
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:23 am, ddc_prueba wrote: > Can jigdo be used to download Mandrake CD's? > > If not possible, I guess mounting the iso and rsync'ing it would be ok, > but what have to do then to make the boot sector be there when burning > it again? If a better method can be used, please tell me. > Don't mount the iso and rsync the tree, rsync the existing iso's from the mirrors. You don't ahve to do anything, just burn them. -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0
I did about 6 different installations, and I can confirm this bug in drakxconf on every single one of the installations I performed. Moreover, drakconf simply doesn't work: Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to 'GtkObject' at /usr/sbin/drakconf line 857. Can't call method "set_active" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/drakconf line 423. I don't know, put the poster of the original message could be dutch-speaking from the email address. In all of my installs, I also use dutch-belgian locale. Maybe there's possibly an issue? Regards, Lieven On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:41, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Tuesday 29 October 2002 13:16, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a computer of our Linux User Group. I have > > several issues there, but will post them one by one. > > > > Since there are some newbies there I tried to show them drakxconf. I was > > really upset on that tool: > > > > calling drakxconf on commandline I got the following menu: > > > > - Add new users -> working I think > > - Boot configuration -> working > > - Auto installation -> nothing happens > > - Connection sharing -> calls Auto installation > > - Display configuration -> calls Connection sharing > > . > > and so on and so on. > > > > Hope there will be a bugfix-update on that issue. since it is alsmost > > unusable in the way it is now. > > > > Thanks in Advance > > > > Steffen > > drakconf and drakxconf work without a hitch over here. > Methinks there's something awry in the install you did:o) > > Good Luck, > Harm > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:00, Lieven Van Acker wrote:
> I did about 6 different installations, and I can confirm this bug in
> drakxconf on every single one of the installations I performed.
>
thanks. I had not seen this on my own install since I did not use it at all.
But after seeing it at the machine there, I tried it here with the same
result, so I dont think its just a fault of my installation. Maybe it depends
on a special modul that is not installed on some systems.
> Moreover, drakconf simply doesn't work:
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to 'GtkObject' at
> /usr/sbin/drakconf line 857.
> Can't call method "set_active" on an undefined value at
> /usr/bin/drakconf line 423.
>
Does not have this particular issue here .
> I don't know, put the poster of the original message could be
> dutch-speaking from the email address. In all of my installs, I also use
> dutch-belgian locale. Maybe there's possibly an issue?
>
> Regards,
>
> Lieven
>
No, I'm german, but maybe the locale thing could be the right direction on
discovering these errors. Maybe some other people do have the same problems?
An strace on drakxservice shows a lot of :
execve("/usr/local/sbin/tinyfirewall", ["tinyfirewall"], [/* 48 vars */]) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
on the event of choosing Auto Installation
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[expert] Help! X11 Memory Leak
I'm running MDK 9.0 and the stock nv driver. I have 256 MB RAM so it took several days before X brought my system to the breaking point. On my older system with a VESA driver 16-bit color, the X process clocks in at 24 MB (the "size" column in top). On the nv system with 24 bit color, X begins (!!!) 69 MB! Overnight, it popped up to 77MB, and climbed to 80 over the half-hour I was working with it. It was up over 200 when it brought my PC to its knees. I'm running KDE with a lot of toys (e.g., transparent menus, news ticker) but they shouldn't send X through the roof, should it? How would I go about fixing this? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Display messed up after install
Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got "first-time" (I think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because the display was all messed up. I had basically three vertical bands across the screen: red, green, and blue, I think. On top of that, there was the first-time screen, but it was all out of sync and mostly unreadable. Also, I couldn't find the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen, not that there was really anything to click on. I had to use the cpu reset button to quit the screen. Since then, when I boot I go right to desktop, but the screen is still messed up. The left-hand third of the display is repeated in the middle and right sides of the screen, and it's kind of wavy and unreadable in places. On that screen, I was able to find the mouse pointer and get to a menu item called "action->logoff" (I think that's what it was), but that's all. I picked all the defaults, except I took 1280x1024, instead of 1600x1200, for display res. Has anyone seen this? Where do I go from here? I uninstalled Mandrake, and will re-install soon, but what do I do different, or if I end up with the same thing, how do I troubleshoot? The installation guide doesn't seem to cover my case. Is there a better place to ask this question? My system is motherboard: GVC-VP1541 cpu: AMD-K6P2/350 video: SiS 5598/6326 PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 monitor: NEC MultiSync FP1370 Thanks, Tim - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Display messed up after install
Hi Tim, On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:15, Tim Werner wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected > Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got "first-time" (I > think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because > the display was all messed up. I had basically three vertical bands across > the screen: red, green, and blue, I think. On top of that, there was the > first-time screen, but it was all out of sync and mostly unreadable. Also, > I couldn't find the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen, not that there was > really anything to click on. I had to use the cpu reset button to quit the > screen. You probably got gdm/kdm login screen. Sounds like poorly supported video controller. From http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status30.html#30 --- [quote] --- 30. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) 3.3.6: Support (accelerated) for the SiS 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, 86C215, 86C225, 5597, 5598, 6326, 530, 620, 300, 630 and 540 is provided by the XF86_SVGA server with the sis driver. 4.2.1: Support (accelerated) for the SiS 530, 620, 6326 is provided by the "sis" driver. The 630, 300, and 540 are also supported, but this code is new and there are some problems with it in this version. Summary: Support for the 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, 86C215, 86C225, 5597 and 5598 is currently only available in 3.3.6. --- [end quote] --- You specify the display driver as 5598/6326. Seems to me that 5598 isn't supported by XFree86-4.2.1, which is the default (right?). However, 9.0 does provide XFree86-3.3.6, which supports them both. At least Mandrake 8.2 install asked which X version to install when installing in Expert mode. I haven't checked if this is still the case with 9.0 installer, but you should try it. -- Mikko Lipasti Polarcom Consulting Oy :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +358 (0)40 5590 988 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T > notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, > I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The > prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless > card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) > which seems to indicate that the config files are properly > set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using > ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such > device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig > wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping > the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address > for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's > and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to > work. Any suggestions? > > > I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and works with your MA401. Uninstall wlang Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia service pcmcia restart service network restart mcc & Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on one of the configurations panels but they get tossed whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set them in the ifcfg-ethX file. To manually set the options edit your network script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth number) Add the following entries if you need them: WIRELESS_ESSID="yourAP" WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="whatever your 128bit key may be" service network restart and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. Just run > cardctl ident from the command line to get your cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This is the only method that >I< have been able to get to work with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to know. Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] hermes.conf Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Display messed up after install
Mikko, Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give me many options -- it seemed to be making most decisions for me. I was surprised, in fact, that it installed boot manager with linux as default without even asking. I couldn't figure out how to change the default OS later, which is why I had to uninstall. I'll give it another try, and see if there's some way to pick the X version. It's a shame they would be dropping support for perfectly good hardware that isn't that old. :-( I was running Slackware in '93, on a 486 box, and I liked it a lot, but I started to get busy with the Windows side and when I got a new system in '98 I didn't want to go through all that pain again, and have been admiring Linux from afar since then. Mandrake has been getting a lot of good press about ease of use. I was hoping I wouldn't be spending a lot of time fiddling with X config files etc., especially since my video card was (I thought) kind of generic. It took me two weeks to download 9.0 over my dial-up connection. Don't think I want to go through that again to get 8.2. :-) Anyway, I'll give it another shot. Thanks again. Tim > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Mikko Lipasti > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Display messed up after install > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:15, Tim Werner wrote: > > Hi, > > the display was all messed up. > > You probably got gdm/kdm login screen. Sounds like poorly supported > video controller. > > From http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status30.html#30 > > --- [quote] --- > 30. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) > > 3.3.6: > > Support (accelerated) for the SiS 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, 86C215, > 86C225, 5597, 5598, 6326, 530, 620, 300, 630 and 540 is provided by the > XF86_SVGA server with the sis driver. > > 4.2.1: > > Support (accelerated) for the SiS 530, 620, 6326 is provided by the > "sis" driver. The 630, 300, and 540 are also supported, but this code is > new and there are some problems with it in this version. > > Summary: > > Support for the 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, 86C215, 86C225, 5597 and > 5598 is currently only available in 3.3.6. > --- [end quote] --- > > > You specify the display driver as 5598/6326. Seems to me that 5598 isn't > supported by XFree86-4.2.1, which is the default (right?). However, 9.0 > does provide XFree86-3.3.6, which supports them both. > > At least Mandrake 8.2 install asked which X version to install when > installing in Expert mode. I haven't checked if this is still the case > with 9.0 installer, but you should try it. > > -- > Mikko Lipasti > Polarcom Consulting Oy > :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > :: +358 (0)40 5590 988 > - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help! X and HP Pavilion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I didn't receive any replies one way ot the other about LM 9.0 and the HP Pavilion 523N, I purchased one yesterday. LM 9.0 sticks when trying to install X. The defaults it selects are "1024x768 @ 70Hz" and "vesa". But when the installation goes to test this configuration the result is: (EE) VESA(0): No matching modes (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration try to change some parameters Since the Pavilion came with absolutely zero useful documentation, and there are an awful lot of parameters one could try (so the "try to change some parameters" isn't very useful), does anyone have any clue what I do to get past this step? My monitor is a 1024x768 flat screen, but choosing that option didn't make any difference. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x362912B8 iQA/AwUBPb6ikGnXrLw2KRK4EQKPzwCgttpjEvyFI2sN/zGCya+S+VRcFsIAoKMy f5qt+OHSE4008Mbj2vlTLsbK =Qt4I -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Display messed up after install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 October 2002 09:56 am, Tim Werner wrote: > Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give me many options -- it > seemed to be making most decisions for me. I was surprised, in fact, that > it installed boot manager with linux as default without even asking. I > couldn't figure out how to change the default OS later, which is why I had > to uninstall. > > I'll give it another try, and see if there's some way to pick the X > version. It's a shame they would be dropping support for perfectly good > hardware that isn't that old. :-( If you select the XFree86 3.3.6 instead of 4.2.0 it should work out. In any case, don't uninstall the whole shebang if you run into a similar glitch in the future. As long as you can get to a CLI interface then you can at least try to fix things from there. I HIGHLY recommend that you install pine under the email clients next time around too. It installs pico as its default editor which is a MUCH friendlier editor than vi or emacs (text-based). If you have to fiddle with configs it is much easier to do it in pico than trying to work out the cryptic commands for vi or emacs. I always install pine specifically for the sake of pico because it is so easy to use that I can concentrate on fixing things I might screw up rather than trying to figure out/learn oddball key combinations for an editor. praedor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vqRf1i/6R1B/Yh0RAqSHAJ0Uf4OuS73HGsu9xDOyBFnJqDCDOgCdHJtE VW3K5nOrE16uN/RVitgwC0k= =7wNL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WindowMaker
Actually, I guess my last post was misleading. I usually do a re-install and not a by the book upgrade. The only things I didn't change from 8.2 to 9.0 was /home and /var. Then I had to install from scratch because I flubbed something in the partition table. In any case, WindowMaker has been my window manager of choice because it is not as bloated as other managers. I installed it and I have no trouble with anything being broken. Milos Prudek wrote: Alan Carbutt wrote: Not broken as far as I can tell. Happily using it since my upgrade a few weeks ago. Broken on a vanilla Mandrake 9.0. I agree it is not broken on an upgrade. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alan Carbutt Applications Programmer Adams State College 719-587-7741 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Display messed up after install
I find that the VESA driver usually works on XFree4.x on the unsupported cards. No acceleration though and not sure if you can go bigger than 1024x768. You can change your default boot OS by editing the /etc/lilo.conf file. Change the line with default=linux to default=windows or whatever the label is for that partition. See the man page for lilo.conf. Also, make sure you run lilo from the command prompt after you edit the file to update the boot sector. Hope this helps. --- Tim Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mikko, > > Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give me > many options -- it seemed > to be making most decisions for me. I was > surprised, in fact, that it > installed boot manager with linux as default without > even asking. I > couldn't figure out how to change the default OS > later, which is why I had > to uninstall. > > I'll give it another try, and see if there's some > way to pick the X version. > It's a shame they would be dropping support for > perfectly good hardware that > isn't that old. :-( > > I was running Slackware in '93, on a 486 box, and I > liked it a lot, but I > started to get busy with the Windows side and when I > got a new system in '98 > I didn't want to go through all that pain again, and > have been admiring > Linux from afar since then. Mandrake has been > getting a lot of good press > about ease of use. I was hoping I wouldn't be > spending a lot of time > fiddling with X config files etc., especially since > my video card was (I > thought) kind of generic. > > It took me two weeks to download 9.0 over my dial-up > connection. Don't > think I want to go through that again to get 8.2. > :-) > > Anyway, I'll give it another shot. Thanks again. > > Tim > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf > Of Mikko Lipasti > > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:23 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] Display messed up after > install > > > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:15, Tim Werner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > the display was all messed up. > > > > > You probably got gdm/kdm login screen. Sounds like > poorly supported > > video controller. > > > > From > http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status30.html#30 > > > > --- [quote] --- > > 30. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) > > > > 3.3.6: > > > > Support (accelerated) for the SiS 86C201, > 86C202, 86C205, 86C215, > > 86C225, 5597, 5598, 6326, 530, 620, 300, 630 and > 540 is provided by the > > XF86_SVGA server with the sis driver. > > > > 4.2.1: > > > > Support (accelerated) for the SiS 530, 620, > 6326 is provided by the > > "sis" driver. The 630, 300, and 540 are also > supported, but this code is > > new and there are some problems with it in this > version. > > > > Summary: > > > > Support for the 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, > 86C215, 86C225, 5597 and > > 5598 is currently only available in 3.3.6. > > --- [end quote] --- > > > > > > You specify the display driver as 5598/6326. Seems > to me that 5598 isn't > > supported by XFree86-4.2.1, which is the default > (right?). However, 9.0 > > does provide XFree86-3.3.6, which supports them > both. > > > > At least Mandrake 8.2 install asked which X > version to install when > > installing in Expert mode. I haven't checked if > this is still the case > > with 9.0 installer, but you should try it. > > > > -- > > Mikko Lipasti > > Polarcom Consulting Oy > > :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > :: +358 (0)40 5590 988 > > > > - > Introducing NetZero Long Distance > 1st month Free! > Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help! X and HP Pavilion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29 Oct 2002 at 9:08, John O'Shaughnessy wrote: > What type of graphics chip does the Pavilion use? If it is an Intel i830, > you may suffer from the Xfree problems described here: > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html > Ah! That wasn't the answer, but to find out what chip it uses (since it sure ain't obvious on the mobo) I went to the HP web site and there saw a reference to "ProSavageDDR KM266 graphics". So I switched from vesa to savage, and it now works. Thanks! Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x362912B8 iQA/AwUBPb6vN2nXrLw2KRK4EQK11ACfSteTWMlUFqVpryqrmMaOW1EbTJsAoLaw TAp85LGFX09yuw+Bhh8ya/Sh =Kpq7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] g++ executable not found?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 28 Octubre 2002 00:10, en Charles A Edwards va escriure: > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 23:48:22 +0100 > > Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > libqt3 is installed... should I install libqt3-devel ? 8-? > > Yes. > Also you need gcc-c++ Thanks (again). "urpmi libqt3-devel" does the trick ;) - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vrmWok8j9RhtetwRApMvAKCNa6gVabFZPgqztfVRNACX8VuO3QCfb7oU vP58NlS7mTdERfxsHRn8h1o= =G2JG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] floppy timeout and I/O error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: |I wanted to mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy and that was completely |unsuccessful. My /var/log/messages got filled with the messages listed |below. |This is with supermount disabled. |Does anybody know how I can get around this? | |Thanks, | |Narfi. With supermount enabled and a known good floppy formated vfat, as root: umount /mnt/floppy mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy This works fine here. If the floppy is not dos you must use use the correct switch with the mount command. Larry | | |Below are my /etc/fstab and a short segment of /var/log/messages | |/etc/fstab: |/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 |none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 |/dev/hda7 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 |/dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom auto |codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 |/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto |iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev |0 0 |/dev/hda10 /archive xfs defaults 1 2 |/dev/hda9 /opt xfs defaults 1 2 |none /proc proc defaults 0 0 |/dev/hda8 /projects reiserfs notail 1 2 |/dev/hda11 /tmp xfs defaults 1 2 |/dev/hda6 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 |/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 |/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto |user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 |/dev/sdb1 /mnt/memory_card auto |user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 | | |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: floppy driver state |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: --- |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: now=131363 last interrupt=131063 diff=300 |last called handler=e28231a0 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: timeout_message=floppy start |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: last output bytes: |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 13 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 1a 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 3 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: c1 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 10 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 7 80 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 8 81 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: e6 80 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost last message repeated 2 times |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 1 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 2 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 12 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 1b 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: ff 90 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: last result at 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: last redo_fd_request at 131063 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 20 0 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: status=50 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: fdc_busy=1 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: DEVICE_INTR=e2822060 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: fd_timer.function=e2821fb0 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: cont=e282bb50 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: CURRENT=d798e920 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: command_status=-1 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 |(floppy), sector 0 |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector |Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=iso8859-1 | | |- | |Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? |Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9vr0QGmoP0nUBNzsRAm1oAKDcFEkt4PGqTdxfgeCaBXI0oGZvvACfUNmn PrU9rUUdMIXKGj7vYTiZnRU= =iQDI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PATH for $QTDIR , etc.
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 00:55, Randall Jonasz wrote: > man bash for bash shell. If you want the path vars to be global, put > them in /etc/profile; if you want them visible only to one user, put > them in ~/.bash_profile. > > Cheers, > > Randy Thanks, Randy! Looks like I've got to brush up on my shell scripting...but at least I know where to add it now. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Display messed up after install
Mike, Thanks for the info and advice. I tried re-installing in expert mode, which allowed me to configure the boot manager, so that part I'm happy with. As far as X is concerned, right now it's pretty much a disaster. I tried all sorts of configurations, and I either get a test screen that doesn't work, or I get an error message about "no keyboard configured", or other confusing error, and a suggestion that I should try to change some parameters. Any attempt to select XFree3 resulted in suggestion to try some other parameters. Same thing with attempt to select XFree4 with VESA. Just about the only config that actually resulted in a test screen was the one with my actual SiS card (as auto-detected) [emotional outburst on] Apparently Xfree is still not ready for prime-time, which is a little discouraging to me. This really isn't any easier than it was 9 years ago. >From the mailing list and other linux-centric web sites that I've been reading, I can tell that a lot of other people are at least able to get the desktop up and running. I really expected to get past this point before I started running into trouble. :-( [emotional outburst off] Not sure where to turn at this point. I seem to have a combination of bad X support for my video card, and Mandrake X-configuration bugs. Probably I'll have to wait until broadband becomes available in my area and try redhat or else the next rev of mandrake. Maybe after a nap things will seem different and I'll try something else. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Mike Morrell > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [expert] Display messed up after install > > > I find that the VESA driver usually works on XFree4.x > on the unsupported cards. No acceleration though and > not sure if you can go bigger than 1024x768. You can > change your default boot OS by editing the > /etc/lilo.conf file. Change the line with > default=linux to default=windows or whatever the label > is for that partition. See the man page for lilo.conf. > Also, make sure you run lilo from the command prompt > after you edit the file to update the boot sector. > Hope this helps. > > > --- Tim Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mikko, > > > > Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give me > > many options -- it seemed > > to be making most decisions for me. I was > > surprised, in fact, that it > > installed boot manager with linux as default without > > even asking. I > > couldn't figure out how to change the default OS > > later, which is why I had > > to uninstall. > > > > I'll give it another try, and see if there's some > > way to pick the X version. > > It's a shame they would be dropping support for > > perfectly good hardware that > > isn't that old. :-( > > > > I was running Slackware in '93, on a 486 box, and I > > liked it a lot, but I > > started to get busy with the Windows side and when I > > got a new system in '98 > > I didn't want to go through all that pain again, and > > have been admiring > > Linux from afar since then. Mandrake has been > > getting a lot of good press > > about ease of use. I was hoping I wouldn't be > > spending a lot of time > > fiddling with X config files etc., especially since > > my video card was (I > > thought) kind of generic. > > > > It took me two weeks to download 9.0 over my dial-up > > connection. Don't > > think I want to go through that again to get 8.2. > > :-) > > > > Anyway, I'll give it another shot. Thanks again. > > > > Tim > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf > > Of Mikko Lipasti > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:23 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Display messed up after > > install > > > > > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:15, Tim Werner wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > the display was all messed up. > > > > > > > > You probably got gdm/kdm login screen. Sounds like > > poorly supported > > > video controller. > > > > > > From > > http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status30.html#30 > > > > > > --- [quote] --- > > > 30. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) > > > > > > 3.3.6: > > > > > > Support (accelerated) for the SiS 86C201, > > 86C202, 86C205, 86C215, > > > 86C225, 5597, 5598, 6326, 530, 620, 300, 630 and > > 540 is provided by the > > > XF86_SVGA server with the sis driver. > > > > > > 4.2.1: > > > > > > Support (accelerated) for the SiS 530, 620, > > 6326 is provided by the > > > "sis" driver. The 630, 300, and 540 are also > > supported, but this code is > > > new and there are some problems with it in this > > version. > > > > > > Summary: > > > > > > Support for the 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, > > 86C215, 86C225, 5597 and > > > 5598 is currently only available in 3.3.6. > > > --- [end quote] --- > > > > > > > > > You specify the display driver as 5598/6326. Seems > > to me that 5598 i
Re: [expert] user sshd does not exist
this is the line todd: /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-user openssh $1 sshd /var/empty /bin/true the add-user usage says that $1 is the 'num installed', can you explain that to me and expand on the /bin/true point that james raised? i figure that something is substituted for the $1 but i don't know what and thus the line doesn't do anything as it is cheers bascule On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 7:19 am, Todd Lyons wrote: > > Run 'rpm -q --scripts openssh-server' and you'll see the command that is > normally used to create that user. Run that command (type it in > manually) and then it will start properly. > > Blue skies... Todd -- I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? 'I too cannot be cheated,' snapped Fate. SO I HAVE HEARD. (Colour of Magic) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:53, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:00, Lieven Van Acker wrote:
> > I did about 6 different installations, and I can confirm this bug in
> > drakxconf on every single one of the installations I performed.
>
> thanks. I had not seen this on my own install since I did not use it at
> all. But after seeing it at the machine there, I tried it here with the
> same result, so I dont think its just a fault of my installation. Maybe it
> depends on a special modul that is not installed on some systems.
>
> > Moreover, drakconf simply doesn't work:
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to 'GtkObject' at
> > /usr/sbin/drakconf line 857.
> > Can't call method "set_active" on an undefined value at
> > /usr/bin/drakconf line 423.
>
> Does not have this particular issue here .
>
> > I don't know, put the poster of the original message could be
> > dutch-speaking from the email address. In all of my installs, I also use
> > dutch-belgian locale. Maybe there's possibly an issue?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Lieven
>
> No, I'm german, but maybe the locale thing could be the right direction on
> discovering these errors. Maybe some other people do have the same
> problems?
>
> An strace on drakxservice shows a lot of :
>
> execve("/usr/local/sbin/tinyfirewall", ["tinyfirewall"], [/* 48 vars */]) =
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> on the event of choosing Auto Installation
I've checked on 4 different machines, of which 2 laptops with fresh 9.0
installs and the 2 desktops were 8.2 upgrades..drak(x)conf works fine on
all of them.
Admittedly I am Dutch but don't have/use Dutch (or any other) locales so
indeed that might be the direction to search:o)
Good luck,
Harm
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RE: [expert] Display messed up after install
I agree that XFree is still not as bullet proof as it should be. This is probably mostly due to the lack of card/chipset data from the video card makers as well as just the pure difficulty in writing drivers. There are lots of cards that are working well and I would suggest to anyone that wants to try Linux that they check into hardware support and stick with the most popular mainstream hardware because that gets the most attention from developers and testers. I know this does not help you. Sorry. If you still need help and you can manage a command line, I suggest that you post your xfree log file here. Maybe we can give you some hints. --- Tim Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks for the info and advice. > > I tried re-installing in expert mode, which allowed > me to configure the boot > manager, so that part I'm happy with. > > As far as X is concerned, right now it's pretty much > a disaster. I tried > all sorts of configurations, and I either get a test > screen that doesn't > work, or I get an error message about "no keyboard > configured", or other > confusing error, and a suggestion that I should try > to change some > parameters. > > Any attempt to select XFree3 resulted in suggestion > to try some other > parameters. Same thing with attempt to select > XFree4 with VESA. Just about > the only config that actually resulted in a test > screen was the one with my > actual SiS card (as auto-detected) > > [emotional outburst on] > Apparently Xfree is still not ready for prime-time, > which is a little > discouraging to me. This really isn't any easier > than it was 9 years ago. > From the mailing list and other linux-centric web > sites that I've been > reading, I can tell that a lot of other people are > at least able to get the > desktop up and running. I really expected to get > past this point before I > started running into trouble. :-( > [emotional outburst off] > > Not sure where to turn at this point. I seem to > have a combination of bad X > support for my video card, and Mandrake > X-configuration bugs. Probably I'll > have to wait until broadband becomes available in my > area and try redhat or > else the next rev of mandrake. Maybe after a nap > things will seem different > and I'll try something else. > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf > Of Mike Morrell > > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:49 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [expert] Display messed up after > install > > > > > > I find that the VESA driver usually works on > XFree4.x > > on the unsupported cards. No acceleration though > and > > not sure if you can go bigger than 1024x768. You > can > > change your default boot OS by editing the > > /etc/lilo.conf file. Change the line with > > default=linux to default=windows or whatever the > label > > is for that partition. See the man page for > lilo.conf. > > Also, make sure you run lilo from the command > prompt > > after you edit the file to update the boot sector. > > Hope this helps. > > > > > > --- Tim Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mikko, > > > > > > Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give > me > > > many options -- it seemed > > > to be making most decisions for me. I was > > > surprised, in fact, that it > > > installed boot manager with linux as default > without > > > even asking. I > > > couldn't figure out how to change the default OS > > > later, which is why I had > > > to uninstall. > > > > > > I'll give it another try, and see if there's > some > > > way to pick the X version. > > > It's a shame they would be dropping support for > > > perfectly good hardware that > > > isn't that old. :-( > > > > > > I was running Slackware in '93, on a 486 box, > and I > > > liked it a lot, but I > > > started to get busy with the Windows side and > when I > > > got a new system in '98 > > > I didn't want to go through all that pain again, > and > > > have been admiring > > > Linux from afar since then. Mandrake has been > > > getting a lot of good press > > > about ease of use. I was hoping I wouldn't be > > > spending a lot of time > > > fiddling with X config files etc., especially > since > > > my video card was (I > > > thought) kind of generic. > > > > > > It took me two weeks to download 9.0 over my > dial-up > > > connection. Don't > > > think I want to go through that again to get > 8.2. > > > :-) > > > > > > Anyway, I'll give it another shot. Thanks > again. > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On > Behalf > > > Of Mikko Lipasti > > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:23 AM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Display messed up after > > > install > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:15, Tim Werner wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > the display was all messed up. > > > > > > > > > > > You probably
RE: [expert] Display messed up after install
Mike, Thanks for your encouragement. I would indeed like to spend more time on this if I can get some help with it. I had to return the video card on my first PC system (it was a Diamond Viper) for an ATI Mach32, for just the reason that Diamond considered their specs to be proprietary and thus no one could write a linux driver for it. At the time, I sent the Diamond people an email letting them know that I had to return their card because they couldn't be supported by linux. I'm sure they couldn't have cared less; I never heard back from them. It always irked me that the Mach32 card wasn't quite as snappy under Win3.1 as the Viper card, but at the time I felt the little sacrifice in Windows performance was worth it, because I was running Unix at home! I'd forgotten all that. Now you mention it, I have to admit the situation hasn't really changed. At any rate, if you could tell me how to generate it, I'd be happy to post the xfree log file here. I have been able to log in as root without starting X, and can do ls and cd commands, but that's all I remember, so far. Thanks, Tim > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Mike Morrell > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [expert] Display messed up after install > > > I agree that XFree is still not as bullet proof as it > should be. This is probably mostly due to the lack of > card/chipset data from the video card makers as well > as just the pure difficulty in writing drivers. There > are lots of cards that are working well and I would > suggest to anyone that wants to try Linux that they > check into hardware support and stick with the most > popular mainstream hardware because that gets the most > attention from developers and testers. I know this > does not help you. Sorry. If you still need help and > you can manage a command line, I suggest that you post > your xfree log file here. Maybe we can give you some > hints. > - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] supermount unreliable
Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:05:55AM -0500 : > > > > Is there no way to make supermount work? > Just another note on supermount. I am using 8.2 with a self-built kernel > 2.4.19-9mdk. Supermount works fine on this system. Perhaps the 2.4.19 > kernel in 9.0 is re-broken for supermount. It is generally not the fault of > the distro when supermount goes south, but the kernel developers. Supermount is not a part of the Linus released kernel. Mandrake is the only distro that adds the supermount patch to the kernel. And I agree that somewhere around -14mdk or -15mdk, supermount received some changes that resulted in more drives having problems. A good case in point is the fact that you have -9mdk and it's working well for you. Blue skies... Todd -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience.| | http://www.mandrakelinux.com |--unknown origin | Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg60282/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [expert] Display messed up after install
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:29, Tim Werner wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks for the info and advice. > > I tried re-installing in expert mode, which allowed me to configure the boot > manager, so that part I'm happy with. > > As far as X is concerned, right now it's pretty much a disaster. I tried > all sorts of configurations, and I either get a test screen that doesn't > work, or I get an error message about "no keyboard configured", or other > confusing error, and a suggestion that I should try to change some > parameters. > > Any attempt to select XFree3 resulted in suggestion to try some other > parameters. Same thing with attempt to select XFree4 with VESA. Just about > the only config that actually resulted in a test screen was the one with my > actual SiS card (as auto-detected) > > [emotional outburst on] > Apparently Xfree is still not ready for prime-time, which is a little > discouraging to me. This really isn't any easier than it was 9 years ago. > >From the mailing list and other linux-centric web sites that I've been > reading, I can tell that a lot of other people are at least able to get the > desktop up and running. I really expected to get past this point before I > started running into trouble. :-( > [emotional outburst off] > > Not sure where to turn at this point. I seem to have a combination of bad X > support for my video card, and Mandrake X-configuration bugs. Probably I'll > have to wait until broadband becomes available in my area and try redhat or > else the next rev of mandrake. you know about CheapBytes? http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart Gabriel > Maybe after a nap things will seem different > and I'll try something else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] user sshd does not exist
bascule wrote on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:43:39PM + : > this is the line todd: > /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-user openssh $1 sshd /var/empty /bin/true > the add-user usage says that $1 is the 'num installed', can you explain that > to me and expand on the /bin/true point that james raised? > i figure that something is substituted for the $1 but i don't know what and > thus the line doesn't do anything as it is I did the following: service sshd stop rpm -e openssh-server rpm -ivvh /path/to/openssh-server* In the resulting output I found: D: install: running %pre script(s) (if any) + /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-user openssh 1 sshd /var/empty /bin/true That gets run before any files get installed. %pre is a pre-install script). Then further down, I found: D: install: running %post script(s) (if any) + /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-service openssh 1 sshd This adds the ssh service to the init scripts locations (symlinks to control starting/stopping at runlevel changes). %post is a post-install script. In this case, it's probably easier for you to just delete the rpm then reinstall it. Blue skies... Todd -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Security is like an onion. It's made | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | made up of several layers and makes | | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | you cry. --Howard Chu| Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg60284/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] HP Pavilion and hibernation
Dear Experts I was able to build my own 2.4.19-16mdk kernel with ACPI and also got the 2.4.19-17mdk kernel to work, however the ACPI S3 option knocks out the system and I will have to restart (with lots of fsck happening, of course). So my question is if anybody has got hibernation to work on a HP Pavilion Z1000 series laptop. I am dying to not have to boot into XP anymore, so please throw me a bone here ... :>) Jan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Screen sleep not truly dark
Running MDK 9.0 on a Dell Latitude C400, I notice that when the screen goes blank, the display is still lit. Is there a configuration option somewhere to actually get it to not light the display? Thanks, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Screen sleep not truly dark
John, this is the Mandrake Cooker mailing list, not the Mandrake 9.0 support list. If you want support for 9.0, join the Mandrake Expert mailing list. This list is for development of the next version of Mandrake Linux. John O'Shaughnessy wrote on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:43:52PM -0600 : > Running MDK 9.0 on a Dell Latitude C400, I notice that when the screen goes > blank, the display is still lit. Is there a configuration option somewhere > to actually get it to not light the display? Wait another 30 minutes. There's a big difference between blanking and powering down. If you're using KDE, go into the KDE Control Center and look in PowerControl->DisplayPowerControl. Feel free to adjust them to your liking. Blue skies... Todd -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg60287/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [expert] Screen sleep not truly dark ???? <------- definately not cooker!!
Hi Todd, you sure your reading the right mail?? this is the expert mailing list, not the cooker devel.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:todd@;mandrakesoft.com]On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Screen sleep not truly dark John, this is the Mandrake Cooker mailing list, not the Mandrake 9.0 support list. If you want support for 9.0, join the Mandrake Expert mailing list. This list is for development of the next version of Mandrake Linux. John O'Shaughnessy wrote on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:43:52PM -0600 : > Running MDK 9.0 on a Dell Latitude C400, I notice that when the screen goes > blank, the display is still lit. Is there a configuration option somewhere > to actually get it to not light the display? Wait another 30 minutes. There's a big difference between blanking and powering down. If you're using KDE, go into the KDE Control Center and look in PowerControl->DisplayPowerControl. Feel free to adjust them to your liking. Blue skies... Todd -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Screen sleep not truly dark ???? <------- definately not cooker!!
Franki wrote on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:40:28AM +0800 : > Hi Todd, > > you sure your reading the right mail?? this is the expert mailing list, not > the cooker devel.. Sorry, I'm sick right now and my awareness is a little dim. Again, sorry. Blue skies... Todd -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg60289/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Yep! but ....Re: [expert] Scanner! Should be simple, but...
Em Ter 29 Out 2002 04:31, Alan Shoemaker escreveu: > Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi Alan, I was just trying to be sure I've done everything right, *before* contacting the author. Thanks anyway! Ricardo > > Hi! > > > > I've posted this msg on the newbie list as they were > > talking abou UMAX, but no one could help me wih my Scanner: > > > > It's a Microtek Slim Scan C3 (paralell), the problem is > > that I've use MCC and installed the necessary software but > > signal > > > > This scanner is supposed to be supported by sane and mdk! > > (I'm using mdk 9) > > > > Is there any kind soul to give some directions! > > Sane... I've read all the site and some links! > > So far. nothing! > > > > TIA > > > > Ricardo > > Ricardoin the below web document: > > http://www.mostang.com/sane/man/sane-microtek2.5.html > > it says, "If your scanner is not working properly you also > should create a logfile and send it to the author." > > the author's email address is (also in the above document): > > Karsten Festag [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > the above document also tells you how to create a logfile. -- == Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ & Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Snort not successfully raising eth0 to promisc, kernlog says it is.
I'm just noticing that when I run Snort the interface I have specified in the config file to listen on isn't actually entering promiscuous mode. The log says that it is, however ifconfig shows differently. I can manually bring it up with ifconfig eth0 promisc, and drop it the same way. I don't understand what's going on behind the scenes with this. If there kernlog is saying it changes state, it obviously thinks it did but why? And the obvious question is how to fix this so it works according to plan... Cheers, /eli ... UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 ... Oct 29 16:16:41 tardis snort: Initializing Output Plugins! Oct 29 16:16:41 tardis kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Oct 29 16:16:41 tardis snort: Initializing daemon mode ... -- CAUTION: Repeated use of finger can cause a system to become overloaded, which can cause it to stop responding. --Infinite wisdom from the font that is ISS 6.2.1 --=_tardis.ath.cx-24604-1035926564-0001-2-- -- CAUTION: Repeated use of finger can cause a system to become overloaded, which can cause it to stop responding. --Infinite wisdom from the font that is ISS 6.2.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help! X and HP Pavilion
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:54 am, D. R. Evans scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > Ah! That wasn't the answer, but to find out what chip it uses (since it > sure ain't obvious on the mobo) I went to the HP web site and there saw a > reference to "ProSavageDDR KM266 graphics". So I switched from vesa to > savage, and it now works. I have the same chip in my HP1210 laptop. Mandrake 9.0 autodetected the chip, but not the display; the generic 1024x768 LCD display works fine. No 3D support drom XFree86, however. There is a variant of the driver available at http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html that I have not yet tried. They provide a binary driver and other interesting stuff there. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A train stops at a train station. A bus stops at a bus station. This explains the problem with my workstation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP Pavilion and hibernation
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 05:03 pm, Jan Hendrik Mangold scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > I am dying to not have to boot into XP anymore, so please throw me a > bone here ... :>) Try the newest Cooker kernel. I hear that it features ACPI support. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A train stops at a train station. A bus stops at a bus station. This explains the problem with my workstation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FYI: WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC...
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:22:26 -0500 Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28 Oct 2002 12:04:02 -0800 Seth Zirin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:05, Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > This is a quick overview of what I ran into after my friends got > > > their WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC... > > > > > > [SNIP] > > > > > > the modem from the mobo and reseat it -- now works... but it has > > > never connected at a rate faster than 21kb -- will check into this > > > after installing 9.0. > > > > Phone lines provided by a DLC (Digital Loop Carrier) generally limit > > modem connections to 21 or 22 Kbit/s. These are frequently found in > > industrial parks, townhouse communities and other places where there > > is dense demand for phone lines. > > Thanks for the info... my friends' house is just up the road in the > sparsely populated SC mountains and in the same exchange; I get > 50,666bps here... The x-connect boxes for the lines are just across the > highway from me... I doubt the extra 3 miles (straight shot) is a > problem... > > Cheers, > Pierre Actually, 3 miles can make all the difference in the world, depending what is between you and the end of that three miles. You could also have noise on your line. Chances are the phone company would come out and test it and it would be fine as most only guarantee 9,600baud. Since your modem connects normally at your friend's house, sounds like the problem is in the wiring at your house. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X eating memory
What can one do when X eats up more memory the longer it runs? Please help. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] floppy timeout and I/O error
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:53, Larry Sword wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > |I wanted to mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy and that was completely > |unsuccessful. My /var/log/messages got filled with the messages listed > |below. > |This is with supermount disabled. > |Does anybody know how I can get around this? > | > |Thanks, > | > |Narfi. > Never mind, this turned out to be a hardware problem -- most likely the connectors were not seated properly. Sorry for that, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] need help to configure X
Hi, I'm still trying to get my PCI SiS 5598/6326 video card to work on ML9.0. Yesterday Mike suggested that I configure it as 'vesa', but from the X Configuration install step, that selection is only available under XFree-4. I tried it anyway, and got the following errors: (EE) no core pointer device specified (EE) Unable to determine the screen layout I also tried choosing XFree-3 server SVGA, and got the error Config error /etc/X11/F86COnfig.test:10 I also booted into console mode and ran xf86config. I think I entered the right numbers, but couldn't figure out how to get XFree-3 to run. Startx seems to run XFree-4, and I get the same errors (no core pointer, etc.) as when I tried to configure at install time. Can anyone 'splain to me how to configure X to let me use the card generically? This is frustrating, since I really only need the same kind of resolution that the install program has. Everything looks hunky-dory until I configure X. How do I get X to use the same video mode as the installation program? I found a framebuffer HOWTO that seems to list my card as VESA 2.0 compliant, but I don't understand how to use the info in the document to make a xconfig file, or to pick the right arguments for startx. Thanks, Tim - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Completely OT - to the sys admins, is there a "spammer's" blacklistfor child pornography?
There is quite a bit of expertise in this group and I would like to call upon it to help with this particular problem. Hey I like pOrn like the next guy but we are talking about kids (3-9). When you have spread eagle shots it is sexual exploitation, period. This is on the ngs and it was even off topic. Someone complained to original poster ISP so no doubt they were TOS. So what? I have sent out the complaints to some of pornography watchdog groups but I am wonder what does it take to get the job done? Yea, I know like pulling weeds, yank one and two more appear but I would like to know how to pull the weeds properly in the first place. Yea, I know international law and jurisdiction, not to mention enforcement. Yea, I know you cannot police the electronic wild west. What I want to know is how to get the complaints to the right person. There is the official way, the political way, but usually you go ask a sysop for the right way. :) The site in question is www.k-book.ws, which is a portal site. Who the hell administers the ws domain anyway? A few of the whois lookup sites came up blank. I came across it three weeks after the original post and it is still there. Right now I am interested in the second site, still active http://www.nifty-star.com/ We are talking kids. Versign gives a registrar in Andorra? Who knew there was a small country between France and Spain. That is not much help. One question I have is how do you track down the service provider of a site. That is, the actually place the files are being stored? This way I can try to contact the authorities in question. I know about the spammer's blacklist, so I was wondering is there an unofficial blacklist for things like child pornography? Any help would be appreciated. Gabriel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
