Re: [expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:14 am, John Haywood wrote: I've just added a DVD(ro)/CDR combo drive in to my system, and I thought I had configured correctly: /dev/cdrom is linked to cdroms/cdrom0, which is linked to ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd the scsi modules are loaded, but ... 1. cdrecord -scanbus errors 2. no dvd any ideas or url? The dvd howto is hopelessly out-of-date (no devfs..) ...oh dear! now the cdrom part is playing up too. -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 9.0 Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk Uptime: 2 days 1 hour 52 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 56K dialup problems
Hi everybody, I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem I've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote server. I get a connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but that's all. If I ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www and if I ping an IP address I just get timeouts. I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't have GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just to make sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a default route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like defaultroute and noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't that it has always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under Win98 (dual boot). Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :-) TIA, Marcio Cordero -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVD wierdness - An even wierder solution
On Friday 20 December 2002 04:03 pm, Robert Goshko wrote: Now it is working, and the solution doesn't make complete sense: I checked around on the web to see if there awas a Firmware upgrade for my DVD/CD-RW drive, I didn't find one, but I did find a firmware hack that disabled the region locking on my drive. After applying this, it can now read my home made DVD-R data disc!?!? Where did you find this hack? I would like to make use of it myself. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Digital camera as webcam, how?
Dear friends, I am very happy with my Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom and Mandrake 9; using usb-storage a can easily take the pictures to my camera and save them in the computer. But this camera can also run as a webcam, at least under windows, but I don't know what to do that neither what programes I can use to activate the webcam under linux. Could anyone help me? Thanks so much in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems
Marcio, Here's my /etc/ppp/options file for comparison. I have an external 56k modem on serial port 1- works fine. I'm using kppp as the dialer. Please give us more info to help diagnose, like modem, dialer used and settings, ISP, etc. Have you tried to reconfigure with Mandrake Control center? Robert Crawford lock noauth noipdefault usepeerdns -- On Saturday 21 December 2002 09:29 am, Marcio Cordero wrote: Hi everybody, I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem I've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote server. I get a connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but that's all. If I ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www and if I ping an IP address I just get timeouts. I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't have GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just to make sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a default route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like defaultroute and noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't that it has always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under Win98 (dual boot). Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :-) TIA, Marcio Cordero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems
You probably have shorewall installed -- Mandrake's default configuration can't handle multiple interfaces. It's easy enough to fix, but you better disable the DrakConf firewall tool as it will hose you back up again :-) On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 06:29, Marcio Cordero wrote: Hi everybody, I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem I've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote server. I get a connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but that's all. If I ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www and if I ping an IP address I just get timeouts. I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't have GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just to make sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a default route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like defaultroute and noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't that it has always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under Win98 (dual boot). Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :-) TIA, Marcio Cordero -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems
I think that the problem is shorewall, i had the same problem, set down firewall and now i'm writing to you. El dia Saturday 21 December 2002 12:43, Jack Coates puso esta escritura en el mundo: You probably have shorewall installed -- Mandrake's default configuration can't handle multiple interfaces. It's easy enough to fix, but you better disable the DrakConf firewall tool as it will hose you back up again :-) -- Gonzalo Avaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usuario Linux desde Chile Linux User From CHILE # Linux User #297343 # # Linux Box #182640 # (http://counter.li.org) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems
Jack, thanks for the advice. I am not at the machine right now but as far as I remember I did allow all services on shorewall, thus kind of disabling the firewall. It didn't work then. Should I uninstall shorewall or do you think just service shorewall stop would do? I'll try tomorrow morning and let you all know. Thanks a lot BTW, Marcio Cordero You probably have shorewall installed -- Mandrake's default configuration can't handle multiple interfaces. It's easy enough to fix, but you better disable the DrakConf firewall tool as it will hose you back up again :-) On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 06:29, Marcio Cordero wrote: Hi everybody, I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem I 've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote server. I get a connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but that's all . If I ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www and if I ping an IP addres s I just get timeouts. I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't h ave GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just to make sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a default route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like defaultrou te and noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't that it has always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under Win98 (dual boot). An y help would be GREATLY appreciated :-) TIA, Marcio Cordero -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVD wierdness - An even wierder solution
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 08:02, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Friday 20 December 2002 04:03 pm, Robert Goshko wrote: Now it is working, and the solution doesn't make complete sense: I checked around on the web to see if there awas a Firmware upgrade for my DVD/CD-RW drive, I didn't find one, but I did find a firmware hack that disabled the region locking on my drive. After applying this, it can now read my home made DVD-R data disc!?!? Where did you find this hack? I would like to make use of it myself. Check out http://www.firmware-flash.com, they have tonnes of firmware updates and new for CD and DVD ROM drives. -- ...Rob -- If we put on a unique index we might end up with referential integrity. -- unknown in-duh-vidual = Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World = Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.19-16mdk 10:11am up 16:53, 4 users, load average: 1.77, 1.49, 1.29 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[expert] Software Manager Sucks
I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, for the most part, they are. But Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm...slowly and it wanted to take over the whole machine..but it worked. It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. Now it's three or four peices none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. KPackage at least reports that properly about installed packages and installs them correctly. But...and it's a big but...the Install Packages keeps blithely insisting I installed everything from all the CDs, which I haven't. As David said one of the joys of Mandrake up to 9.0 was ease of use and ease of setup. This does seem to be gone..right out the window! What I could do on one screen before with software manager now takes 4 and if I'm lucky, which I haven't been so far, it will work. Anyway, I'm back to essentially manually installing packages either from KPackage or the command line. Software Manager is worse than uselsess. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
John Wilson wrote: I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, for the most part, they are. But Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm...slowly and it wanted to take over the whole machine..but it worked. It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. Now it's three or four peices none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. KPackage at least reports that properly about installed packages and installs them correctly. But...and it's a big but...the Install Packages keeps blithely insisting I installed everything from all the CDs, which I haven't. As David said one of the joys of Mandrake up to 9.0 was ease of use and ease of setup. This does seem to be gone..right out the window! What I could do on one screen before with software manager now takes 4 and if I'm lucky, which I haven't been so far, it will work. Anyway, I'm back to essentially manually installing packages either from KPackage or the command line. Software Manager is worse than uselsess. ttfn John I am totally agree with you. Does anyone know if it is possible to use rpmdrake from mandrake 8.2 ? I have tried to use rpmdrake package from it, but I can't get it working. Xavier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Digital camera as webcam, how?
Francisco, This is just a guess on my part but it is a slightly educated one. This months linuxjournal (www.linuxjournal.com) has an article at http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6376 on Gnome-Meeting... which might do what you want. The other option is to try and see if you can run the windows webcam software under wine. (small chance but what the heck.) James On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 07:24, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Dear friends, I am very happy with my Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom and Mandrake 9; using usb-storage a can easily take the pictures to my camera and save them in the computer. But this camera can also run as a webcam, at least under windows, but I don't know what to do that neither what programes I can use to activate the webcam under linux. Could anyone help me? Thanks so much in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems
Your changes only affect the interfaces that have been set up, and you probably haven't set up ppp0. Please don't disable the firewall, rather learn how to use it. You'll need to edit: /etc/shorewall/interfaces -- define the interfaces and basic characteristics like addressing, routing. /etc/shorewall/zones -- define the networks attached to interfaces. /etc/shorewall/policy -- define high-level policy (accept from here to there and deny from there to somewhere else) /etc/shorewall/rules -- define exceptions to policy (deny ftp from here to there and accept ssh from there to somewhere else) Linux's networking capability is an unheralded secret... with the 2.4 kernel it is unmatched in quality by anything in the commercial networking world. You can do things with a good PC and Linux that Cisco simply can't do or would charge $50K for. With this kind of power comes some learning curve, though. You might look into Gshield -- not sure if it's any better than drakfirewall at configuring multiple external interfaces, but a lot of people on the list seem to like it. Hope this helps, Jack On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 09:13, Marcio Cordero wrote: Jack, thanks for the advice. I am not at the machine right now but as far as I remember I did allow all services on shorewall, thus kind of disabling the firewall. It didn't work then. Should I uninstall shorewall or do you think just service shorewall stop would do? I'll try tomorrow morning and let you all know. Thanks a lot BTW, Marcio Cordero You probably have shorewall installed -- Mandrake's default configuration can't handle multiple interfaces. It's easy enough to fix, but you better disable the DrakConf firewall tool as it will hose you back up again :-) On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 06:29, Marcio Cordero wrote: Hi everybody, I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem I 've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote server. I get a connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but that's all . If I ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www and if I ping an IP addres s I just get timeouts. I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't h ave GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just to make sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a default route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like defaultrou te and noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't that it has always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under Win98 (dual boot). An y help would be GREATLY appreciated :-) TIA, Marcio Cordero -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] No sound using i810_audio
I'm about to give up, not without posting this message to the list, showing all what I've done trying to get the soung to work. Since I installed Mandrake 9, every time the machine is booted I get the following message: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. After following directions from many sites, I downloaded and installed the NVIDIA nvaudio driver, with: rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0233.src.rpm perl -pi -e 's/i810_audio/nvaudio/g' /etc/modules.conf Now I get the following message: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o will taint the kernel: no license See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o failed modprobe: insmod sound-slot-0 failed The output from lspcidrake reports 2 entries for i810: i810-tco: Intel Corporation|82820 815e (Camino 2) Chipset ISA Bridge (ICH2) i810_audio: Intel Corporation|ICH2 810 Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller From dmesg I get the following two lines: i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x1040 and 0x1400, IRQ 0 nvaudio: unable to allocate irq 0 From these two lines I guess the problem is an IRQ conflict, but I have no idea on how to solve it. No sound or soundcore is reported by lsmod. Am I missing something? Any help will be truly appreciated. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SOLVED(?): [expert] test command
wuha, i am sorry to say that, but what i wrote was mostly wrong :( it's just too simple. i didn't saw cause i assumed to deal with a strange situation. but this is just normal behaviour. you wrote: $echo $? returns 0 after these test commands. $test -z $test -z first of all. my biggest mistake ;) test isn't a shell builtin but a /usr/bin command. but doesn't really matter. so what do you know about test after this first to commands? that it works correctly, because is an empty string an '-z' tests for empty strings. than you also know, that the 'test' is programmed in that way, that it returns a '0' if an option but no argument is given. you see this in the manpages (man test): test EXPRESSION [ EXPRESSION ] test OPTION you see that EXPRESSION is in [ ] brackets. means it is optional - no error - therefor exit code '0' ;). i had to read thru the manpage many times carefully too until i saw it. just looked to far to see the obvious. after you understood this, the rest explains it self: But it returns different value after followings. $test -n -- echo$? returns 1 $test -n -- 0 is an empty string, but '-n' tests for a not empty string. i know it's a brain sucker, but think about mathematicly. what is an not empty string? a string with something inside. so... string is 'not empty', here would '-n' return with 0. but is empty, it is not an 'not empty' string. therefor '-n' returns 1. while i was writing this, i remembered that i did fallen already once into this. funny unix is, isnt it? luv it ;) have phun B) miLosh -- DONT ATTACK IRAQ !!! this message was sent by: +--+ |.::|[ The pleXus Network ]|::.| +--+ www:plexus.shacknet.nu | ftp:plexus.shacknet.nu +---+ irc:plexus.shacknet.nu:6667 channel: #plexus | +--+---+ pub 1024D/C944D699 miLosh (pleXus) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_ Key fingerprint = 18FB 24BA 77A8 813F 6A8C F67B C08C 5A76 C944 D699 \ +--+ msg63125/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] mail client
Steffen, I'm actually reading this mail with Eudora in winxp (my linux box doesn't have an internet connection) and it beautifully work. This mailbox is about 11000 mails big. Eudora has improved. However, I'm reading this thread very happily because is a sort of religion war :-) and I'll have to deal with it in the future. I WANT to have a connection to the net with my linux box! Olaf At 12.52 19/12/2002, you wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 12:00, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 02:31 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: That is very strange... Although I use Evolution, both my wife and my mother are running Kmail, my wife has to see a crash yet. My mother did have prolbems with the kmail package build by SuSE (it was the KDE 3.0.4 upgrade). The RPM's from the KDE site worked fine however. Yes. I have tried other mail clients and have always gone back to Kmail. It has never ever crashed on me or given me any problems. I have also used pine, evolution (yuck...and no way to order mail by date?), mozilla mail, and sylpheed (pretty good). Something is not right with your system or rpm build, not the software (Kmail) per se. Yes I have to second that ! I have in my opinion a really high load on Emails due to mailinglists, and I had never problems with kmail. I think I have a current Email archiv of over 20.000 messages (I don't want delete them, often some usefull informations are in old mail). I have used eudora und several other clients under win and all of them failed on such a big archive. So I am pretty surprised to hear kmail not to be stable. Greets Steffen olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail client
I have the same feelings for IMAP ;-))), but think about this solution (I plan to implement it by the end of 2003, when I'll have an ADSL connection): you set an imap4 server in you pc and you use a combination of fetchmail, procmail (question: should I use procmail to filter mails or sendmail? it seems both are able to do so) to move all the incoming mail to your local imap server. By doing so you'll be able to mix the benefits of imap4 (you can read mail whewrever you are) and traditional mail clients (you have mails all in your desktop). Olaf Think different; Innovate At 07.12 21/12/2002, you wrote: [1] The thing I dislike about IMAP is its fundamental design and reason for existence, which is the idea that my mail should stay on the server and get copied to my client. If I want the mail to stay on the server, I'll leave it there in an mbox or maildir and access it with a local client over an encrypted tunnel. If I want it on my desktop, I want it to get here as fast as possible and be deleted from the server because it's no longer necessary there. This design problem leads to all the implementation problems of IMAP: SLOWness, lack of integration with local folder structures, and muddling of GUIs for rule-creation, mass copy or delete, etc. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Which Wine?
The win2k partition has just been formatted as ext2. Now I need wine to execute some apps. Should I use the mdk9 stock wine (20020810: pretty old, considering the project activity), download the latest wine (but are all the releases equally stable? I heard not), look on cooker, take a prebuilt rpm for mdk8 or use the precompiled codeweavers-wine? or whatever else? Just another question: how much faster will be a i686 compiled app compared to an i586 one? I have a celeron 400. What about a p4 against an i586? Thank you very much. Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] problem with missing kernel
Sometime in November, i think, doing a mandrakeupdate, i remember it said that it had updated my kernel on LM8.1 to kernel-2.4.8-43.lmdk. I've had to reboot, first time since i turned the machine on way back last year. I got a lilo warning about bios memory being too big. looking in the /boot directory the vmlinuz-2.4.8-43.lmdk file, which lilo was pointing to had a file size of 0. I've managed to get the system up and running under kernel-2.4.8-23 that was on the lm8.1 install disks but i'm having can't load iptables, wrong versions. And it says it can't find files in /proc. I've looked for kernel-2.4.8-43.lmdk but can't find a download on the mandrake site. they have a link for kernel-2.4.8-34.lmdk, but that link seems to be dead. I've tried to update with LM9 but complains about insufficient disk space, which i don't really want to modify. The system has only to last another 3 or 4 weeks. Then i can wipe it and start again. Does anybody know what kernel i can install on this lm8.1 machine. Many thanks Ken ps does anybody know where or how to change the scsi card driver, it insists on booting up saying i have a different card than i actually have. And then it complains about not being able to mount the scsi drives which are there. I have to go into harddrake after boot to change the module but it doesn't remember on the next boot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail client
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 12:41, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I have the same feelings for IMAP ;-))), but think about this solution (I plan to implement it by the end of 2003, when I'll have an ADSL connection): you set an imap4 server in you pc and you use a combination of fetchmail, procmail (question: should I use procmail to filter mails or sendmail? depends on who's using the system -- for local use like this, it doesn't matter. If you have multiple users, you should keep the MTA to low-level stuff and do user-specific filtering in procmail. it seems both are able to do so) to move all the incoming mail to your local imap server. how is this better than putting the mail into a local file-system hierarchy? By doing so you'll be able to mix the benefits of imap4 (you can read mail whewrever you are) and traditional mail clients (you have mails all in your desktop). Olaf Think different; Innovate At 07.12 21/12/2002, you wrote: [1] The thing I dislike about IMAP is its fundamental design and reason for existence, which is the idea that my mail should stay on the server and get copied to my client. If I want the mail to stay on the server, I'll leave it there in an mbox or maildir and access it with a local client over an encrypted tunnel. If I want it on my desktop, I want it to get here as fast as possible and be deleted from the server because it's no longer necessary there. This design problem leads to all the implementation problems of IMAP: SLOWness, lack of integration with local folder structures, and muddling of GUIs for rule-creation, mass copy or delete, etc. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail client
021220 Jack Coates wrote: I gave up using mutt because the config file was a monolithic cruftpile on the order of sendmail.cf or procmailrc, a reason at which mutt aficionados will only sneer. i hope none of us sneer (tries not to). .muttrc is really very rational when read in conjunction with help dox: Mutt doesn't try to do everything for you then fail, but leaves you to do your part by reading the dox first editing .muttrc , then once you've taken the trouble to do that, it's very simple reliable. but as you say, to each his own ... (tries to make it a grin) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
021221 John Wilson wrote: Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? one of the Mandrake staff persons fixed it. Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm ... It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. you can still do that: R-click on the R-hand window. Now it's 3 - 4 pieces none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. you can have them all open at once to make comparisons. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. there has been a lot of discussion re these problems since last summer both here on Expert on the Cooker list: check the archive. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Software Manager Sucks
I too liked 8.2 rpmdrake better. It alsways worked perfectly. I could live with the new format, except that it now takes up to 5 minutes for each operation (same hardware as I had with 8.2), if I'm lucky enough to get through installing without it locking up. I also miss being able to see what's in each package. I vote for the previous version, unless the incredibly slow performance and lockups are fixed. Any advice out there about the performance? It seems like Mandrake is searching for something on my cd burner. This didn't happen with a regular cdrom drive. Robert Crawford Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail client
Well, I simply forgot it: I never used it. Olaf At 23.59 21/12/2002, you wrote: it seems both are able to do so) to move all the incoming mail to your local imap server. how is this better than putting the mail into a local file-system hierarchy? ** Configuration: Celeron 400 chipset sis620, 224 MB ram cas2, 40 GB HD IBM GXP 60, integrated audio CMI 8738, integrated ethernet davicom901A, PCI Vodoo Banshee 16MB (plus the sis 620 integrated in the chipset, actually disabled), LG 8080B CD-RW. hda1 NTFS 8 GB W2K, Reiser for /, Reiser for /home. Mandrake 9 download edition. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic
At 06.23 18/12/2002, you wrote: the default 9.0 kernel comes with a very old version of ACPI -- you should either go from vanilla (which broke USB in my case) or download a cooker kernel with newer ACPI. I've had ok luck with 2.4.19-19, currently on 2.4.20-2 and not happy with it. Is there a way to have the complete list of patches applied? I didn't find the SPEC file with the list. Could someone post it or send it to me? Thanks. Olaf olaf@ kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't find my D: and E:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:28:30 +0100 Emily Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was trying to install winXP in my computer this week. I had win98 then in C: and would want to keep it and install winXP in E:. After install files were copied, the computer was restarted but then an error occured, and I got to know I needed to disable my Goback (made by Roxio)to avoid this error. So I disabled my goback, but then I couldn't enter my win98 anymore. I booted it from the floppy and could only go to DOS. And what surprised me was that under DOS, I only found my C: (4G) and couldn't find D: (10G) and E: (6G), however, it could detect that my whole disk is 20G (which is correct). I had it in my other computer as the slave disk, I still couldn't find D: and E:. And Goback can't be enabled either. So anyone knows how to find out my D: and E:? Has anyone met such situation too? I would be so appreciate for any info provided. //Tinka DOS can only see 2G partitions (so it's strange that it sees your 4G one). Anyway, it could be that you've messed up your boot record. If so, try booting from a diskette with fdisk on it and at the command prompt type fdisk /MBR (you might have to pass it a drive letter, I don't remember and don't use Windows anymore). That should restore your boot record. If it works, great! If not, let me know and I'll see what else I can come up with. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problem with missing kernel
http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake-old/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ Will get you the Mandrake 8.1 rpms original http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake-old/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS.cooker/ Will get you the 8.1 cooker http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS/ Will get you into updates... All 3 have kernels take your pick James On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 13:59, Ken Walker wrote: Sometime in November, i think, doing a mandrakeupdate, i remember it said that it had updated my kernel on LM8.1 to kernel-2.4.8-43.lmdk. I've had to reboot, first time since i turned the machine on way back last year. I got a lilo warning about bios memory being too big. looking in the /boot directory the vmlinuz-2.4.8-43.lmdk file, which lilo was pointing to had a file size of 0. I've managed to get the system up and running under kernel-2.4.8-23 that was on the lm8.1 install disks but i'm having can't load iptables, wrong versions. And it says it can't find files in /proc. I've looked for kernel-2.4.8-43.lmdk but can't find a download on the mandrake site. they have a link for kernel-2.4.8-34.lmdk, but that link seems to be dead. I've tried to update with LM9 but complains about insufficient disk space, which i don't really want to modify. The system has only to last another 3 or 4 weeks. Then i can wipe it and start again. Does anybody know what kernel i can install on this lm8.1 machine. Many thanks Ken ps does anybody know where or how to change the scsi card driver, it insists on booting up saying i have a different card than i actually have. And then it complains about not being able to mount the scsi drives which are there. I have to go into harddrake after boot to change the module but it doesn't remember on the next boot. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ksirc changing ircname
not being a proficient irc user i've been having difficulty changing my ircname, i've got: IRCNAME=ircname export IRCNAME in my .bash_profile but whenever i connect to a server with ksirc it shows my ircname as bascule, if i try /set ircname ircname /whois still gives bascule i read something on goole about an ident daemon, is this my problem? bascule -- 'Life's like a beach. And then you die.' (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems
On Saturday 21 December 2002 09:29 am, you wrote: Hi everybody, I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem I've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote server. I get a connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but that's all. If I ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www and if I ping an IP address I just get timeouts. I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't have GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just to make sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a default route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like defaultroute and noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't that it has always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under Win98 (dual boot). Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :-) TIA, Marcio Cordero Marcio - I have a network card and an external modem - I always have to go into /etc/sysconfig/network and change a few things. Mine looks like this: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true HOSTNAME=darkforce.com DOMAINNAME=com GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 I hope this helps ya :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Display Manager has gone south
Hi List, This evening when I attempted to boot my Mandrake machine I was rudely greeted with the console login screen. This in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, except this machine is supposed to boot to runlevel 5. After some investigation I came to find out that the display manager is not working correctly. I can not start an X session on this Mandrake machine. It had been working this morning and didn't display any strange behavior. When I run the command *service dm status* it reports back to the screen that dm is dead, but there is a lock in place. If I run the command *service dm restart* it trys to bring up the login screen, but then fails. Since this is my first experience with any type of X or display problems with Linux I was wondering if any one had any ideas as to what this might be. While I'm at it what package does the display manager come from so I might try reinstalling that package in the event something happened to vital files on the disk that hosed dm? Vital machine stats are as follows: Dell Dimension 2100 Celeron 1.2Ghz CPU 256MB SDRAM Intel 810 video chipset (onboard) I've had Mandrake running on this machine since getting it new this past May and this is the very first time I've had trouble like this of any kind. It's really got me puzzled. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problem with missing kernel
Sometime in November, i think, doing a mandrakeupdate, i remember it said that it had updated my kernel on LM8.1 to kernel-2.4.8-43.lmdk. I've had to reboot, first time since i turned the machine on way back last year. I got a lilo warning about bios memory being too big. Hi Ken, Probably the easiest way to fix this problem would be to boot the install CD for 8.1, do the regular install as you did originally, deselect all packages except the kernel packages, unselect any partitions that it says it wants to format and then go through with the rest of the install. you will likely have to define the partitions, but this only amounts to naming them as you did the first time. remember, you're not going to format the partitions, only define them for the installer. this should clear up your problem. Only remember *never* update the kernel through the update utility. doing so will always result in a good hosing for your system. Its always better to update kernels by downloading the packages and then installing them the old fashioned way. running the rpm install from a terminal window. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Wine?
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: The win2k partition has just been formatted as ext2. Now I need wine to execute some apps. Should I use the mdk9 stock wine (20020810: pretty old, considering the project activity), download the latest wine (but are all the releases equally stable? I heard not), look on cooker, take a prebuilt rpm for mdk8 or use the precompiled codeweavers-wine? or whatever else? Just another question: how much faster will be a i686 compiled app compared to an i586 one? I have a celeron 400. What about a p4 against an i586? Thank you very much. Olaf Olaf, Get the CodeWeavers wine packages. They'll work quite well for you. http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/download.php Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Display Manager has gone south
Mark Getting this information might help you or us in troubleshooting the problem. 1. what dm do you use kdm or gdm (kde or gnome) or somthing completely different. 2. as root cd to /var/log/ then do tail -f XFree86.0.log (yours might be 1 or 2 but for most is 0.) Then put a bunch of ++ or some other symbol across the screen (to mark what's new vs old) and try to start an x session using startx . Enclose this output and about the last 20 lines of what startx spits out when it dies. Also look at the last few lines of /var/log/messages to see if it has any info. My guess to the problem is. 1. It forgot what kind of mouse you have. 2. xfs (X font server) isn't running, or is dieing immediately. 3. /tmp might have lost a couple of files and this really messes things up. 4. The linux gods have decided to keep you busy over the holidays *grin* James On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 20:38, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, This evening when I attempted to boot my Mandrake machine I was rudely greeted with the console login screen. This in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, except this machine is supposed to boot to runlevel 5. After some investigation I came to find out that the display manager is not working correctly. I can not start an X session on this Mandrake machine. It had been working this morning and didn't display any strange behavior. When I run the command *service dm status* it reports back to the screen that dm is dead, but there is a lock in place. If I run the command *service dm restart* it trys to bring up the login screen, but then fails. Since this is my first experience with any type of X or display problems with Linux I was wondering if any one had any ideas as to what this might be. While I'm at it what package does the display manager come from so I might try reinstalling that package in the event something happened to vital files on the disk that hosed dm? Vital machine stats are as follows: Dell Dimension 2100 Celeron 1.2Ghz CPU 256MB SDRAM Intel 810 video chipset (onboard) I've had Mandrake running on this machine since getting it new this past May and this is the very first time I've had trouble like this of any kind. It's really got me puzzled. Mark __ 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] Re: Software Manager Sucks
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 15:40, flacycads wrote: I too liked 8.2 rpmdrake better. It alsways worked perfectly. I could live with the new format, except that it now takes up to 5 minutes for each operation (same hardware as I had with 8.2), if I'm lucky enough to get through installing without it locking up. I also miss being able to see what's in each package. I vote for the previous version, unless the incredibly slow performance and lockups are fixed. Any advice out there about the performance? It seems like Mandrake is searching for something on my cd burner. This didn't happen with a regular cdrom drive. Robert Crawford Disk space is cheap compared to my time -- first thing I do with any OS (unless setting up a secured single-purpose system) is copy the install media to hard drive and reconfigure it to look locally for stuff it wants. That way I don't have to futz with CDs past the install phase. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ksirc changing ircname
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 17:35, bascule wrote: not being a proficient irc user i've been having difficulty changing my ircname, i've got: IRCNAME=ircname export IRCNAME in my .bash_profile but whenever i connect to a server with ksirc it shows my ircname as bascule, if i try /set ircname ircname /whois still gives bascule i read something on goole about an ident daemon, is this my problem? probably, but ident is still overridden by /nick. Try with another client -- I recommend X-Chat or the classic irssi. If it works with them, ksirc is fubar'd. I hesitate to ask, but the name intrigues me -- could this be a KDE frontend to the fabulously funky Perl IRC client Sirc? bascule -- 'Life's like a beach. And then you die.' (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
