[expert] Mandrake 9.1rc1 install on Dell C400 - mostly success
I installed ML 9.1rc1 on a Dell C400, with mixed success. The Good: - Network and graphics now work correctly. They did not under ML 9.0. The Bad: - When selecting individual packages to install, it was easy to crash the GUI. I did it twice. - On another system (a Dell SX260), I did not crash the GUI, but got it into a state where I could not scroll back through the list of software packages. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Fixing urpmi - correcting botched sources in 9.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have had much problems with urpmi on my desktop system. Virtually any package name or fragment I pass through urpmi fails. My latest failure was in trying to install tnef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] praedor]# urpmi tnef package perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-2mdk.noarch is not found. unable to get source packages, aborting I get this same result regardless of package. I do NOT want internet sources, I have a pathetic 56k modem connection. I want to install these packages from the distro 9.0 cd's. How do I update the software manager so that this will work properly? praedor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+X8i0wDUPEkSvRHERAkBlAKCBStZIuLLXpp2bHjvx9wsP0lFx9gCfQMf6 cO5cHVN7vz9fPDPETmTRgbE= =Cque -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Fixing urpmi - correcting botched sources in 9.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 February 2003 03:38 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had much problems with urpmi on my desktop system. Virtually any package name or fragment I pass through urpmi fails. My latest failure was in trying to install tnef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] praedor]# urpmi tnef package perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-2mdk.noarch is not found. unable to get source packages, aborting I get this same result regardless of package. I do NOT want internet sources, I have a pathetic 56k modem connection. I want to install these packages from the distro 9.0 cd's. How do I update the software manager so that this will work properly? By the way, I know of the website that autogenerates a urpmi command for updating but...I do NOT want any internet sources and it appears that the website for this only uses internet-based urpmi sources. Thanks for any aid, praedor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+X8uDwDUPEkSvRHERAoEKAJ9A5KpfhzJo4nCCFgaQBrDfVPlqtACeK+HI xlGHv+knFq6D6/FkexrZOFg= =Yd5W -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:32, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:26:55PM +1100 : Surely no-one these days is still using text-only browsers, or, worse, non-GUI operation. If so, long past time to update. my infantile angry retort deleted Yes, I used to use GUI mail clients and got rid of it, opting for mutt. It doesn't mean I'm behind the times, it means that I've identified the things that I don't like and choose power and flexibility over pretty and bloated. Evolution is making some tremendous inroads to that power and flexibility. The concept of a virtual Inbox is just freaking amazing. I like it a lot. But the ROI (bloat versus power) is not where I want it yet, so I won't switch. But the time may come... Interestingly, mozilla has tabbed browsing if you select the 'Modern' theme. from Edit Preferences Appearance Themes. One feature that I didn't like at first, yet strangely am starting to like it. If konsole did tabs instead of icons, I think it would be awesome too. Todd There is an answer for that one (the tabbed vs icons thing)... Multi-Gnome-Terminal... Except for the menu Icons(it doesn't go into the K-menu from the install) the generic RPM installs on 8.2 through 9.1 without a hitch Tabbed terminals. (if you set up the configs it also names the tabs) Tranparency, hidden scroll bars etc etc etc. http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/ Check it out... been using it for about a year and it's gotten very very solid. James Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ Favourite shell: bash, though I also like 'init=/usr/bin/emacs' --Andrew Tridgell Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21pre4-10mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+X6shlp7v05cW2woRAoHDAKCRNAi6zXGRkykKU31P1B/wnKKY2gCZAXU5 iI2tQzR8LUEt/aNwsYGABSc= =+Ail -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ 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] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive
I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is rather sluggish (could be subconscious). Also several times copying files has seemed to seize up, and trying an 'ls' on the directory hung the 'ls' command and couldn't break out of it even with ctrl-c. Could anyone help me out with some ideas? many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] change hostname
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:04, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lyvim Xaphir wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:52:04PM -0800 : Hmvery interesting indeed. Since dhcp was a concept in and of itself to ease configuration problems, and then zeroconf is using dhcp to ease configuration problems, which is what *zeroconf itself* is supposed to be contributing. In the case of no dhcp or dns, what the hell happens? Not everybody is connected to a Not quite. zeroconf is supposed to provide networking by using multicast dns (which tmdns provides). It uses negotiation with other zeroconf hosts to find an ip address in 169.254.0.0/16. It's more like a samba broadcast than anything else. To anybody who hasn't done it yet, go look at http://www.zeroconf.org and look through their technical documents. It really is quite nice. I think the problem that cooker people are seeing is that it's installing dh-client now instead of dhcpcd and so some of the options that were normally set in /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* are not quite working the same as they used to. Interesting that it says it works like NetBios that's the first thing I always turn off Or rather don't ever turn on in a mixed windows environment... because it doesn't work all that well... Unless you are using Novel James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification
On Friday 28 Feb 2003 8:02 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 11:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Correct. I have 'beep' set and automatic checking. Works well when I'm in the room, and I just look anyway if I've been out for some time. Anne Ditto here. My question is, can that beep sound be changed for something else (You've got mail - NOT) grin Well, it offers 'execute command line' so I would think you could play any sound file you chose. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mailman problem
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:45, Tibor Pittich wrote: Da 28. feb 2003, 10:17, Jack Coates napsal(a): more info, sorry I was in a hurry last time. MDK9.0, mailman-2.0.13-2mdk.i586.rpm, the cron jobs fail because they're trying to find lockfiles and such in /home/vdanen. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cookerm=103859833409064w=2 ach; got it. I just recompiled from src.rpm; the important thing to me was to get off of my tarball-compiled edition in /usr/local, which I eventually did manage to do. thanks for the pointer, glad to know that Vincent is aware of the issue. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Adams wrote on Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:42:58AM +1300 : Have we pretty well convinced you yet? If you've followed this list for a couple of years, you'll know the answer to that is no. And it won't happen. Ron is set in his ways, just as much as you are set in yours. Just agree to disagree and let it die with each of you thinking you're right. 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. Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21-0.11mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+YAMQlp7v05cW2woRAlblAJ98PPjTTO34HWqP1YgOnBS9vvbuBACeJ3zm Hc9O/ZbT5srUjhuDt3E6/uI= =NRd8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
On Friday 28 February 2003 02:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Feb 2003 6:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: yada, yada, yada snipped He's got two choices, Greg. If he doesn't turn it off a large proportion of the list won't read them, so he won't get as much help. It's up to him. Anne Thanks, Anne, you've stated the Number One reason for NOT posting HTML. I find it interesting that the same people that are objecting to HTML (yr. obed. servant excluded) are also the same ones who are most apt to have a useful answer, from which I conclude that posting to a Linux expert list in HTML is similar to trying to catch sharks by using broccoli for bait. Number Two reason for not using HTML: Not everyone on this list has flat rate, no-cap, broadband access. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Question on KDE
All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm ...everything but kde runs. So I removed all of kde... all of qt all the dot files ... and still the same thing. No errors just a core dump. Next I tried to start it from a command line (kcontrol) I get possible errors. Well they are errors just that it's possible they may indicate something. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-12856' to 'kcontrol' ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! Now the Xlib error should indicate that I don't have font aliasing working ok... it works elsewhere but for the moment ok and shouldn't stop it. The second one seems to indicate that DCOP doesn't work... When I carefully and completely removed kde all libs and qt that should have been gone. Then a new install of kdebase should have restored it The question is ... any ideas where else to look? I'm not good at core dumps so I don't get much out of it James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 07:00, Ron Stodden wrote: Simone Riccio wrote: Dear Ron, html is of course nice 2 see and maybe look professional but please consider that not everyone on this list has broadband, and goes on with 56Kbps modems. So, that's more than a cosmetic or geek or old fashion thing... It involves respect for those who can be eased by the lesser size of text messages! The greater size of html messages causes me, for one, no extra cost or problem, and all I have is an old age pension - nobody could be worse off for resources. html does not require broadband, since it makes no perceptible difference in message download time. UTTER TRIPE The overhead of HTML alone approximately doubles the size of an e-mail, and then HTML can be used to embed so many different objects IMG SRChttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/gemini/gemini11/hires/s65-58504.jpg; Ah - don't try this link folks. It is a 5.5 Meg pic. Dang i hope this doesn't start loading into everyones client. So, in what way 'eased'? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 12:48 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head html crap deleted . . . href=http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/;http://members.optusnet.com.au /ronst//a Empty warhead found in White House /pre /body /html Except none of us can see them. Ron, it is plain and simply really annoying and only seems to be useful for you. The list rules plainly ask for posts to be made in plain text only, yet you continue to selfishly insist that your way is better. Well no one else posts in html, so maybe you could give in a little and turn it off only when you post to this list. If the list rules plainly say no html, and one selfish doofus insists on doing it anyway, perhaps he should be removed. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VMWare /usr/src/linux/include for 9.1
linux-2.4.21pre4-Xmdk Where X is the version number of the kernel it's source for... IF I'm right VMware needs this to match the number of the running kernel on you box. Make sure it does. If not it's worth it to install the upgraded kernel (they have improved it a lot) also make sure that the symlink linux points to the src directory that matches your running kernel (you might have more than one and it could be pointing at the wrong one. I downloaded and installed what I thought was the right kernel file. It worked, but still 12 hours too late. Nevermind, I still got done what I had to be it in a more roundabout fashion. Thanks people. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 00:04:25 up 7:03, 3 users, load average: 1.24, 1.36, 1.18 -- A woman's place is in the house... and in the Senate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mailman problem
On Fri Feb 28, 2003 at 10:17:59AM -0800, Jack Coates wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ sudo grep -r vdanen /var/lib/mailman/ | grep -v logs
vincent.txt
produces the attached
needless to say this plays hell with the cron jobs.
more info, sorry I was in a hurry last time. MDK9.0,
mailman-2.0.13-2mdk.i586.rpm, the cron jobs fail because they're trying
to find lockfiles and such in /home/vdanen.
Can you grab mailman -3mdk from cooker and rebuild it and give it a try?
You might even be able to use the binary, although I'm not sure.
IIRC, I did some fixes to clean that up, but I don't really use mailman, or
even particularly like it, so I didn't do anything more than grep for my
name in the pyc files. They should be gone in -3mdk.
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Re: Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?
Todd, I figured it was good- and I'm not overclocking the ram or the KX7 FSB, and am running serial presence detect ram timings. That Crucial PC2700 is excellent, and is known to do much better than rated, and the Abit KX7 is known to reach a 180-190MHZ FSB. However, if I started doing that stuff, I would complicate my linux learning curve, which for me, is complicated enough. I need to know my hardware is stable, eliminating that as a source of any problems, so then I can center in on how I've messed up, or not understood some aspect of linux. I must admit though, I do like to tweak the hardware- must be left over from my gas-powered model airplane days back in the '50s, and my life-long obsession with never wasting any time. That, or I've entered my second childhood. It's ironic that I'm still using 56k dial-up- thus my desire to squeeze out every last nano second of performance. Perhaps those broadbanders have forgotten how frustrating dial-up can be? Oh yeah- I notice you're running 2.4.21pre4. I installed that too (the cooker rpm), on a fresh 9.0 install, and it seemed to work fine. I just noticed that there is a preemptive kernel patch for 2.4.21pre2- do you think that would work on a vanilla pre4 with a stock 9.0? And is Mandrake going to offer preemptive kernels before 2.6? I did do a 2.4.20 vanilla and preemptive- worked great on 9.0. Or- maybe just wait for the 9.1 release. Robert Crawford On Friday 28 February 2003 01:22 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 flacycads wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:09:13AM -0500 : Todd, I thought I mentioned I had tweaked the drive before, but perhaps I just You may have. Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.45 seconds =284.44 MB/sec HOLY CRAP. That's smoking fast. Almost double what I get. That's the advantage of PC2700 RAM. Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] missing file?
James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 02:20, g wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: As a result of reading an earlier mail from Greg I got curious about the config for dhclient According to the man pages there should be a curious about is that either the man page is wrong or something got missed. Of course the third option is If it ain't broke don't fix it possibly missed or possibly delayed. as versions progress, things get changed, some get moved. man pages do not always get updated to changes or moves. authors of man pages are not always authors of changes or moves and therefore, do not always get informed and man pages appear that are in error. then again, it is possible that author of man page is running a diff distrib from mandrake and in his distrib, it is where he shows in man page. if you are of desire to see updated man pages, email author, if there is no 'bug report address', of man page that you have noted a discrepancy. ever hear of cooks and broth? peace out. tc,hago. I understand... but sometimes what appears to be a bug isn't ... so I ask to understand. it never hurts to ask when you are not of knowledge of subject. Especially since it is working for me, as you said, If it ain't broke don't fix it, but, if you want to refine it, tweak it. I was hoping someone knew what was going on as of yet, i have not found need to delve into dhcp. i may be in error, but i would tend to believe that there is a list group dealing with dhcp that could give you help if you have need to tweak. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM help -- finding library in source package
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:27, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:07, James Sparenberg wrote: Took me a moment... Edit /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure it has the directory your libraries are in listed For example /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt3/lib are the defaults on my box then I added /usr/local/lib for some stuff I put there. then run ldconfig and it should be good to go. Thanks James. I'm familiar with the system ld.conf. I'm actually looking for an RPM specific file to override the individual package dependencies. This allows arbitrary files, not just the libraries, to be skipped during the dependency check. If I understand you then you are doing say for example instead of libfoo.rpm you have built libfoo from tarball... The only thing I've done that worked in this area is editing the spec file and changing the Requires line to reflect what I had. One place I'd look is to google for using rpm's on slackware... this might help. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change hostname
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:09, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David McGlone wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:04:28PM -0500 : I never had a problem setting my hostname with Red Hat, but since I switched to Mandrake, some things are just so different. With Red Hat, the hostname was set in /etc/hostname on mandrake as I've learned is in /etc/sysconfig/network. RedHat also uses /etc/sysconfig/network: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q redhat-release redhat-release-7.3-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep HOST /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=www.mrball.net And before anybody bitches, this is a virtual machine that I purchase for my colocation services. I didn't have a choice on the OS. I offered to assist with making Mandrake available as well, but was told no thank you. Blue skies... todd Todd, Won't get any complaints here. Frankly because if you kept your head down into MDK constantly you'd loose a lot of your effectiveness for Linux and Mandrake do to a very myopic view of the world. James PS wanna see something really dirty there is also /etc/sysconfig/networking/default/network ... yep RH hides multiple copies to protect you from yourself... it's a config nightmare at times. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Low latency kernel [was: Mandrake Out of Control?]
flacycads wrote: Oh yeah- I notice you're running 2.4.21pre4. I installed that too (the cooker rpm), on a fresh 9.0 install, and it seemed to work fine. I just noticed that there is a preemptive kernel patch for 2.4.21pre2- do you think that would work on a vanilla pre4 with a stock 9.0? And is Mandrake going to offer preemptive kernels before 2.6? I did do a 2.4.20 vanilla and preemptive- worked great on 9.0. Or- maybe just wait for the 9.1 release. If you mean low-latency kernel, they're working on it: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10463633141r=1w=2 Bye -- Luca Olivetti Note.- This message reached you today, it may not tomorrow if you are using MAPS or other RBL. They arbitrarily IP addresses not related in any way to spam, disrupting Internet connectivity. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/21/1944247 and http://theory.whirlycott.com/~phil/antispam/rbl-bad/rbl-bad.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] voice messaging
are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta3 with Kde 3.1; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 ~~ If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test, please don't open
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Re: [expert] Contribs
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:06 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: HTML e-mail is always more than likely to be spam than a real message. In fact, I typically have a filter set up to automatically send mails with html to the trash. After I saw civileme's post, I had to go retrieve this one to reply to it. You'll notice how hard it is to read your post. And yes many still use text-only browsers, for many reasons, not the least of which is a security one You used kmail. Does it not handle html messages? Ron, It's not a matter of whether or not the mail program will read html, it's that the folks on *this* list DON'T want to read html. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] voice messaging
On Friday 28 February 2003 05:28 am, mycal62 wrote: are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? Look under Networking, Instant Messaging in the menu. one of my guys had gnomeeting talking to MS NetMeeting. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'morning, everyone... On Friday 28 February 2003 02:34 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Feb 2003 8:02 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 11:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Correct. I have 'beep' set and automatic checking. Works well when I'm in the room, and I just look anyway if I've been out for some time. Anne Ditto here. My question is, can that beep sound be changed for something else (You've got mail - NOT) grin Well, it offers 'execute command line' so I would think you could play any sound file you chose. I have it play a 10 second opening from the Rites of Spring as a .WAV file using /usr/bin/play (it also works with esdplay) and it works fine. I wouldn't try this on a lightweight processor, though, as it will bog the system down. Granted a 500 mz processor or above and a minimum of 256 MEG of RAM you can have it play anything you prefer. I imagine it would even gleefully play a MIDI file if you wanted to work out the details. It's actually pretty handy if you poll a mail server once in awhile for new mail. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html An automatic random thought For the Minute: Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. -- Shakespeare -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+YM8naE1ENZP1A28RAiRxAJ93ttZEe1y1hzCeNKD7WJVVda85KgCfSngm r+eJ/bB91h75oLiDNoYkE7k= =AWGo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive
On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is rather sluggish (could be subconscious). that's not good perhaps limiting the udma level will help what is the mobo? jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM help -- finding library in source package
On Friday 28 February 2003 22:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:27, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:07, James Sparenberg wrote: Took me a moment... Edit /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure it has the directory your libraries are in listed For example /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt3/lib are the defaults on my box then I added /usr/local/lib for some stuff I put there. then run ldconfig and it should be good to go. Thanks James. I'm familiar with the system ld.conf. I'm actually looking for an RPM specific file to override the individual package dependencies. This allows arbitrary files, not just the libraries, to be skipped during the dependency check. If I understand you then you are doing say for example instead of libfoo.rpm you have built libfoo from tarball... The only thing I've done that worked in this area is editing the spec file and changing the Requires line to reflect what I had. One place I'd look is to google for using rpm's on slackware... this might help. James Hmm I'm not aware that such an app is available. Butit should be possible: a) write a perlscript that urpmf all librarys and checks if the rpm that contains it is installed = spit out the libraries, that are not installed by rpm and build a dummy rpm that provides all this libs, this could be done later by a cronjob. b) try to use no tar.gz and build an rpm with f.i. checkinstall, so your rpm-database is up to date every time -- Regards Steffen counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:41 am, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 12:48 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head html crap deleted . . . href=http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/;http://members.optusnet.com .au /ronst//a Empty warhead found in White House /pre /body /html Except none of us can see them. Ron, it is plain and simply really annoying and only seems to be useful for you. The list rules plainly ask for posts to be made in plain text only, yet you continue to selfishly insist that your way is better. Well no one else posts in html, so maybe you could give in a little and turn it off only when you post to this list. If the list rules plainly say no html, and one selfish doofus insists on doing it anyway, perhaps he should be removed. Dale Huckeby ahhh not to go so far as to remove him, best to just ignore him remove and he resubs and never learns what the real reason he joined the list to learn, what ever it was. ignore (local filter) him (or html) and he does not bother me any more Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] voice messaging
mycal62 wrote: are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? Voice messaging is in vocp but I have not used it. It requires mgetty-1.30, which has just been added to cooker and will be in 9.1 or you could compile it yourself. http://www.vocpsystem.com/ Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] sametime in lotus notes
I was able to observe sametime operating in Lotus notes. It looks like an instant messager clone. Is there a Linux equivalent which can correctly communicate with sametime? And what needs to be done to get it working? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Fixing urpmi - correcting botched sources in 9.0
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 February 2003 03:38 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had much problems with urpmi on my desktop system. Virtually any package name or fragment I pass through urpmi fails. My latest failure was in trying to install tnef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] praedor]# urpmi tnef package perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-2mdk.noarch is not found. unable to get source packages, aborting I get this same result regardless of package. I do NOT want internet sources, I have a pathetic 56k modem connection. I want to install these packages from the distro 9.0 cd's. How do I update the software manager so that this will work properly? By the way, I know of the website that autogenerates a urpmi command for updating but...I do NOT want any internet sources and it appears that the website for this only uses internet-based urpmi sources. Thanks for any aid, praedor If you are having problems with the rpm database, the first thing to try is delete any /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* files and rpm --rebuilddb. After that, the errata might be in order, http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#urpmi, or this is the same problem where you solved it before: I did it with urpmi.addmedia -h /mnt/cdrom with my 9.0 CD1 in the drive. It appears fixed now. If your CD sources are already defined in mcc Software Management Software Sources Manager, you could update them to see if the correct records get written. Make sure they are enabled with a check (this should be done at first to be sure this is not causing your problem). All the hdlists are on CD1, so put CD1 in the reader and select Update. Pascal has a bare-metal procedure here: http://hermes.afaa.asso.fr/users/pascal/linux/rpm-rebuilddb What I have done that is similar is to add the sources from an hd install that were not added by the installer. There might be sufficient parallelism that it works for you: If you can't get the defined sources to work any other way, remove and re-add them. You could retrieve the name of each source from Sources Manager or, what worked for me: # urpmi.update the entry to update is missing (one of Installation CD 1 (x86) (disk1), Installation CD 2 (x86) (disk2), International CD (x86) (disk3) So the name of the CD1 source would be Installation CD 1 (x86) (disk1), the path would be /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS, the hdlist path would be ../base/hdlist1.cz Add the source with CD1 in the reader. The other sources, I believe, will need to be added with CD1 read as the hdlists are on it. So, give name as Installation CD 2 (x86) (disk2, the path as /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2, hdlist as ../base/hdlist2.cz The last source would be International CD (x86) (disk3), path is /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3, hdlist is ../base/hdlist3.cz Your path to the reader might be different and, as I said, I have only added sources from hd as I did an hd install. The media name is probably arbitrary but there was something in my system that retained the official name, even though the source was not defined, so I used that. Considering all the trouble you are having with this, is it possible there is a fault in your CDs or hardware, cable, etc? Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is rather sluggish (could be subconscious). that's not good perhaps limiting the udma level will help what is the mobo? jim tarvid mobo KT7A-raid with highpoint controller. Turns out the DMA works fine on the normal IDE .. and so I moved it there. But apparently there is an incompatability on the highpoint controller... easy solution.. don't use it there.. thanks for the answer though __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[expert] Clean-up
I had a HD crash and the normal recovery at boot up fixed 99% of the mess. However, I have a directory which resist efforts to delete it. Have a look-see at this ls: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mine]$ ls -al BAD-DIR total 116 drwxrwxrwx4 tko tko 4096 Mar 1 12:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x7 tko tko 4096 Mar 1 12:30 ../ drwsrwx--x2 2182807566 4606451 49152 Jan 11 1970 sphere2.bmp/ drwsrwS--t2 ftp 20459 49152 Jan 11 1970 sphere3.bmp/ -wxr-t1 2182283334 4882979 49152 Feb 23 1970 sphere3.br5* I recovered all the necessary files and would like to blow away this directory. Any suggestions on how to get rid of the bad directory? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question on KDE
Sorry, no guru here so no idea too :-(( But... when I want to open a full kde2 environment through command I do: 1) kwin (window manager) 2) kdeinit (some basic kde stuff) 3) kicker (panel bar) 4) kdesktop (obvious) Might be this solves about missing render... El sáb, 01-03-2003 a las 05:34, James Sparenberg escribió: All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm ...everything but kde runs. So I removed all of kde... all of qt all the dot files ... and still the same thing. No errors just a core dump. Next I tried to start it from a command line (kcontrol) I get possible errors. Well they are errors just that it's possible they may indicate something. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-12856' to 'kcontrol' ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! Now the Xlib error should indicate that I don't have font aliasing working ok... it works elsewhere but for the moment ok and shouldn't stop it. The second one seems to indicate that DCOP doesn't work... When I carefully and completely removed kde all libs and qt that should have been gone. Then a new install of kdebase should have restored it The question is ... any ideas where else to look? I'm not good at core dumps so I don't get much out of it James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ ___ Yahoo! Móviles Personaliza tu móvil con tu logo y melodía favorito en http://moviles.yahoo.es Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive
If I'm right HighPoint HPT372 is only supported through a kernel patch you should download from their homepage. If it is a HPT370 one, then kernel 2.4.20 and above support dma in it (not sure about 2.4.19). Good Luck! El sáb, 01-03-2003 a las 18:27, Azrael escribió: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is rather sluggish (could be subconscious). that's not good perhaps limiting the udma level will help what is the mobo? jim tarvid mobo KT7A-raid with highpoint controller. Turns out the DMA works fine on the normal IDE .. and so I moved it there. But apparently there is an incompatability on the highpoint controller... easy solution.. don't use it there.. thanks for the answer though __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ ___ Yahoo! Móviles Personaliza tu móvil con tu logo y melodía favorito en http://moviles.yahoo.es Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] voice messaging
I had gnomeeting working against a netmeeting (no webcam on my side and a cheap one on the Windows side). It was real damn sluggish but I would swear it was connection (we were on different operators) because similar delays/jitters in TCP packets were similar with ftp. I got video and sound working, but no luck with typewriting chat, drawing or shared desktop, but didn't need it. The environment was: Mandrake 8.2 with gnomeeting 0.85-1 adsl 256Kbs Windows 2000 cable connection 128Kbs El sáb, 01-03-2003 a las 16:35, tarvid escribió: On Friday 28 February 2003 05:28 am, mycal62 wrote: are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? Look under Networking, Instant Messaging in the menu. one of my guys had gnomeeting talking to MS NetMeeting. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ ___ Yahoo! Móviles Personaliza tu móvil con tu logo y melodía favorito en http://moviles.yahoo.es Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive
DMA works on my other 2 hard drives on the highpoint controller, without patching or any fuss. Just the new maxtor drive played up. But I put it onto a normal IDE (non highpoint) channel, and works fine. So my problem is gone. On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 17:42, diego wrote: If I'm right HighPoint HPT372 is only supported through a kernel patch you should download from their homepage. If it is a HPT370 one, then kernel 2.4.20 and above support dma in it (not sure about 2.4.19). Good Luck! El sáb, 01-03-2003 a las 18:27, Azrael escribió: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is rather sluggish (could be subconscious). that's not good perhaps limiting the udma level will help what is the mobo? jim tarvid mobo KT7A-raid with highpoint controller. Turns out the DMA works fine on the normal IDE .. and so I moved it there. But apparently there is an incompatability on the highpoint controller... easy solution.. don't use it there.. thanks for the answer though __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] Question on KDE
On Saturday 01 de March 2003 01:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm ...everything but kde runs. So I removed all of kde... all of qt all the dot files ... and still the same thing. No errors just a core dump. Next I tried to start it from a command line (kcontrol) I get possible errors. Well they are errors just that it's possible they may indicate something. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-12856' to 'kcontrol' ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! Now the Xlib error should indicate that I don't have font aliasing working ok... it works elsewhere but for the moment ok and shouldn't stop it. The second one seems to indicate that DCOP doesn't work... When I carefully and completely removed kde all libs and qt that should have been gone. Then a new install of kdebase should have restored it The question is ... any ideas where else to look? I'm not good at core dumps so I don't get much out of it James Try wiping out all temp directories. A bad/old socket file may be confusing DCOP. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive
diego wrote: If I'm right HighPoint HPT372 is only supported through a kernel patch you should download from their homepage. If it is a HPT370 one, then kernel 2.4.20 and above support dma in it (not sure about 2.4.19). Good Luck! Alan Cox's ide patches from 2.4.20-ac1 were merged in the cooker kernel about 9.1 beta3. As a consequence, I am able to install to a disk on my hpt372 with the newer Mandrake kernels. I cannot speak about raid arrays. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Clean-up
030301 Tom wrote: Have a look-see at this ls: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mine]$ ls -al BAD-DIR total 116 drwxrwxrwx4 tkotko 4096 Mar 1 12:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x7 tkotko 4096 Mar 1 12:30 ../ drwsrwx--x2 2182807566 4606451 49152 Jan 11 1970 sphere2.bmp/ drwsrwS--t2 ftp20459 49152 Jan 11 1970 sphere3.bmp/ -wxr-t1 2182283334 4882979 49152 Feb 23 1970 sphere3.br5* I recovered all the files and would like to blow away this directory. faced with this, i would try: (1) as root (ie after 'su') after 'cd BAD-DIR' (not another directory), 'chown -R tko:tko *' 'chmod -R 777 *'; then (2) 'pwd' 'ls -l *' (ie check you are in directory BAD-DIR) 'rm -rf *'; (3) assuming 'sphere3.br5*' is still there, which it probably wb, 'rm sphere3.br5\*', which hopefully should delete it; (4) 'cd ..' 'rd BAD-DIR'. -- ,, 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: HTML (was Re: [expert] Contribs)
030228 Luca Olivetti wrote: Philip Webb wrote: my home-made c 99 % effective spam filter via .procmailrc contains: # Try to filter Kleze :0 * ^Content-Type:.*html kleze :0 * ^Content-Type: multipart kleze Except the second rule would catch: a) all messages on this list they have previously been diverted by # Filter Mandrake expert :0 * ^Subject:.*expert expert b) pgp/mime signed messages i've never received one, but will amend .procmailrc when i do. -- ,, 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] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive
On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 5:27 pm, Azrael wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is rather sluggish (could be subconscious). that's not good perhaps limiting the udma level will help what is the mobo? jim tarvid mobo KT7A-raid with highpoint controller. Turns out the DMA works fine on the normal IDE .. and so I moved it there. But apparently there is an incompatability on the highpoint controller... easy solution.. don't use it there.. thanks for the answer though Azreal I don't know if this is relevant, but I had a Soyo board with a Highpoint controller. There was a fault in the bios, and a patch was made available. I think you should google for Highpoint and see if there is a bios patch for your board. It cured my problems, anyway. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:06 am, Ron Stodden wrote: ... Ron, It's not a matter of whether or not the mail program will read html, it's that the folks on *this* list DON'T want to read html. I want mine to read html but I want it OFF by default. ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question on KDE
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:00, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 01 de March 2003 01:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm ...everything but kde runs. So I removed all of kde... all of qt all the dot files ... and still the same thing. No errors just a core dump. Next I tried to start it from a command line (kcontrol) I get possible errors. Well they are errors just that it's possible they may indicate something. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-12856' to 'kcontrol' ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! Now the Xlib error should indicate that I don't have font aliasing working ok... it works elsewhere but for the moment ok and shouldn't stop it. The second one seems to indicate that DCOP doesn't work... When I carefully and completely removed kde all libs and qt that should have been gone. Then a new install of kdebase should have restored it The question is ... any ideas where else to look? I'm not good at core dumps so I don't get much out of it James Try wiping out all temp directories. A bad/old socket file may be confusing DCOP. Let me try and see what happens. Damian __ 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] ATI Radeon drivers
I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or if it might be a feature of 9.1: I tried the ATI driver, which has its own XFreeConfig-4 generator, and generates a completely useless file. It looks like it tries to use a driver called fglrx for 3D acceleration, but then binds itself to 2 (in my case) PCI card addresses 1:0:0 and 1:0:1 I attempted to munge this with the Mandrake stock config file which I used for my previous video card, and after commenting out the ATI-generated stuff, inserting the Driver fglrx into the Device section and leaving the PCI, stuff out, instead using AGPMode true, I get X to boot, but it seems woefully slow, (about 200 - 220 in glxgears). I see also that there are gatos drivers which might cover this card, but yet again, I'm at a loss as to which way forward here Just thinking about this, I wonder if the libGL.so.1.2 is playing nice, and does anyone have a clue as to how I determine which/whose version I've got installed ... alternatively, of course, if anyone has upgraded to one of these cards (rather than a clean install), I'd really like to hear from you as to how you achieved all this TIA -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 02 Març 2003 01:43, en John Haywood va escriure: I tried the ATI driver, which has its own XFreeConfig-4 generator, and generates a completely useless file. You haven't told us what Radeon you have, but the Ati's drivers are for 8500 to 9700 cards. The other Radeons are supported by DRI (afaik). - -- 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) iD8DBQE+YVY7ok8j9RhtetwRAiZiAJ43lgQznBAWrDXaMqEumV+RhaFJPwCgh7y+ bBkk/WtX9/b/UbrjiChBsT4= =Jtw3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM help -- finding library in source package
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:51, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hmm I'm not aware that such an app is available. Butit should be possible: a) write a perlscript that urpmf all librarys and checks if the rpm that contains it is installed = spit out the libraries, that are not installed by rpm and build a dummy rpm that provides all this libs, this could be done later by a cronjob. b) try to use no tar.gz and build an rpm with f.i. checkinstall, so your rpm-database is up to date every time Thanks for the input. I finally located the file -- the system or user rpmrc file will allow overriding the package dependency. This is useful for some platforms, such as Solaris, that may not have all files under RPM control. Apparently it was available in some versions of RPM, removed in a later version, then re-added. The RPM Howto does not list this option in the couple versions that I checked, but RPM 4.0.1 seems to include it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers
John Haywood wrote: I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or if it might be a feature of 9.1: I tried the ATI driver, which has its own XFreeConfig-4 generator, and generates a completely useless file. It looks like it tries to use a driver called fglrx for 3D acceleration, but then binds itself to 2 (in my case) PCI card addresses 1:0:0 and 1:0:1 I attempted to munge this with the Mandrake stock config file which I used for my previous video card, and after commenting out the ATI-generated stuff, inserting the Driver fglrx into the Device section and leaving the PCI, stuff out, instead using AGPMode true, I get X to boot, but it seems woefully slow, (about 200 - 220 in glxgears). I see also that there are gatos drivers which might cover this card, but yet again, I'm at a loss as to which way forward here Just thinking about this, I wonder if the libGL.so.1.2 is playing nice, and does anyone have a clue as to how I determine which/whose version I've got installed ... alternatively, of course, if anyone has upgraded to one of these cards (rather than a clean install), I'd really like to hear from you as to how you achieved all this TIA I don't know what your card is but it sounds like newer than mine (7200). There is documentation about that AGPMode option that says the value should be 1, 2, or 4. Although I don't think it will make much difference, you can see that here: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html You can also find some driver enhancement and details at that site wrt your card in 4.3. What I thought I noticed is that there is only, so far, 2d support for the newest Radeon (9500?) http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 One more option might be a 3rd party commercial driver: http://www.xig.com/ Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT chatter
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:23, Greg Meyer wrote: I am seeing more and more OT chatter on threads that have long since strayed from their original subject. The content of these conversations is many time personal and it would be better if they were taken to a private e-mail conversation instead of continued indefinitely on this list. I am not trying to dissuade comradery or be a party-pooper, I just think the noise level in my inbox is getting too high and it is making it difficult to manage and I think a few others would agree. I simply politely ask you to think about whether the message you are about to send is worthy of being posted for the list, or really should be sent to the private e-mail of the person you are conversing with. Hear, hear. I've only subscribed to this group for 3 days already my mail box has quintupled from what it normally is. o==o==o==o==o==o==o==o==o===o==o Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask myself, Where did I go wrong? Then a voice says, This is going to take more than one night. Charles M. Schultz, Charlie Brown in Peanuts - Registered Linux User No. 306834 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables to block spam
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: Until I can migrate my clients over to Postfix I have been using the access lists in Sendmail to block certain repeat spammers. I am wondering if I could just use iptables to block them and take the load off Sendmail? My question would be 1)Is that practical 2)Is the proper way to block an entire network this: iptables -A INPUT -s 209.8.161.0/24 -j DROP I added this, however traffic from this network is still reaching my mail server. I want to block EVERYTHING from that network as they are sending porn mail to my clients. Thanks, -Scott I do this at the border gateway for bulk mailers that present a heavy load to my postfix mail server. I use spamcop and a local RBL to catch some more. I also use RAV ($) which does a pretty good job at viruses and spam at the back end. jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
Bottom line is tho, the Welcome to the [Mandrake} mailing list email that automatically is sent to each new subscriber specifically And then the mailing list admins add a bunch of MIME gibberish at the end of *every* message. It's not HTML, but it's about as bad. And as far as I know Mandrake is the only people who do it. What's wrong with adding just plain text footers to the end of the message, like many other mailing lists do? Encouraging people to post in plain text is a good thing, so why do we need to be reminded by MIME encapsulations telling us the message is in plain text? In elm, every message from Mandrake expert/newbie is flagged as MIME. It used to drive elm bonkers, but more recently that is not an issue. =_1046448746-10490-2486 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit That's four lines on every message that serve no purpose. Just add the footer lines with a '--' separator. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide
Hi Everyone, I am having problems with what looks like scsi emu probs, I am using mandrake 9 and a Duron 1.3g .. the problem is I have a LG 48x16x48 cdr drive no matter what i try I can not burn quicker than 8x with out having problem like ./cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x29 Qual 0x00 (power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 60.041s timeout 60s ./cdrecord: OPC failed. Writing time: 65.709s BURN-Free was never needed. ./cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets. ./cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. O.k. I have pulled down the latest cdrecord,compiled it, but does not look like the problem.. since it does work at 8x.. had a play with hdparm, switching off and on DMA, but it does not seem to make much difference...any ideas? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide
On Saturday 01 March 2003 11:43 pm, Mark wrote:
I am having problems with what looks like scsi emu probs, I am using
mandrake 9 and a Duron 1.3g .. the problem is I have a LG 48x16x48 cdr
drive no matter what i try I can not burn quicker than 8x with out
having problem like
Mandrake is turning dma off by default on optical drives. have a look at this
section of /etc/rc.sysinit
# Turn off DMA on CD-ROMs. It more often than not causes problems.
if [ -x /sbin/hdparm -a -e /proc/ide ]; then
for N in `grep -v ide-disk /proc/ide/*/*/driver 2/dev/null | awk -F / '{
print $5 }'`; do
hdparm -q -d0 /dev/$N /dev/null 21
done
fi
Now, the next section is really interesting because it tells you how to turn
it back on.
# Turn on harddisk optimization
# There is only one file /etc/sysconfig/harddisks for all disks
# after installing the hdparm-RPM. If you need different hdparm parameters
# for each of your disks, copy /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to
# /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda (hdb, hdc...) and modify it.
# Each disk which has no special parameters will use the defaults.
# Each non-disk which has no special parameters will be ignored.
Hope this helps.
--
Greg
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[expert] Screensaver woes
Okay, I tried this on the newbie list and got little help so: I have a stock install of Mandrake v9.0 Powerpack and I upgraded the Nvidia drivers to the 4191 release. I've got 3D acceleration in games and apps - with the exception of screensavers. None of the 3D screensavers work now. I'm sure that I've broken some link or the other, but after a 2 hour search on Google for different wordings covering the same subject, I thought I'd try here. Anyone else upgrade 9.0 to the the 4191 drivers and lose and *fix* their screensavers? Thanks in advance. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] UT2003 help?
Anyone else having problems with this game under v9.0? I can play it just -so- long then, always...it segfaults out. Whats puzzling is that this game, running under 9.0 on my 2 sons computers runs for hours flawlessly. We all use Nvidia Geforce cards. One is running the 4191 drivers, 2 are using the 3123 drivers. Here is the error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ ut2003 Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. Backtrace: [ 1] /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40d9ae55] Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault] Aborting. I've applied all 4 patches that I could find to update UT2003 (this is the full retail game but it does it with the demo as well). Thanks. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Remote Linux printer problems:
Okay, with the 9.0 Powerpack, I setup 2 comps on my 3 comp lan to use my one and only Epson C62 printer on my main comp. Using CUPS on the 2 comps worked just fine. I could print with no problems. I've not a clue as to what I've done but now, I get this message when I attempt to print from the remote comps: An error occured while retrieving the printer list: client-error-not-found I had changed nothing, AFAIK. The printer still works fine from my main computer. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables to block spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, On Saturday 01 March 2003 07:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: My question would be 1)Is that practical 2)Is the proper way to block an entire network this: iptables -A INPUT -s 209.8.161.0/24 -j DROP I added this, however traffic from this network is still reaching my mail server. I want to block EVERYTHING from that network as they are sending porn mail to my clients. iptables -A INPUT -s 209.82.110.17/16 -j DROP will work to drop *everything* from 209.82.110.x, regardless of the the fourth digits in the network address. Unless I've gotten it backwards again (it's past my bedtime) 24 only drops the 0 of your address, which might possibly be the gateway, depending upon how they have configured their system. I use the firewall to block undesirable IP's as needed, and it has proven, time and again, to substantially reduce my spam loads. Also, if you want more targets, go to http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space and look up the IP blocks assigned to the primary sources of most pornographic spam. Then block them by country. You'd be surprised at how spam levels will drop. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html An automatic random thought For the Minute: He asked me if I knew what time it was -- I said yes, but not right now. -- Steven Wright -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Yaa4aE1ENZP1A28RAgtLAKCzyc9kduGt7GT7Uqczdh64w3KcRACgvwCS zgXZN1S9BSQzRNCT/f9d2ns= =CGbQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables to block spam
209.8.161.0/24 will get 209.8.161.0 - 209.8.161.255. /16 will get 209.8.0.0 - 209.8.255.255 Is iptables running on your firewall, with the mail server behind it, or on your mail server? If the former, you might need to add this on the FORWARD chain, not INPUT. Keep in mind that you're blocking all services with that statement. add -p tcp --dport 25 to just block smtp. Dave Laird wrote: Good evening, On Saturday 01 March 2003 07:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: My question would be 1)Is that practical 2)Is the proper way to block an entire network this: iptables -A INPUT -s 209.8.161.0/24 -j DROP I added this, however traffic from this network is still reaching my mail server. I want to block EVERYTHING from that network as they are sending porn mail to my clients. iptables -A INPUT -s 209.82.110.17/16 -j DROP will work to drop *everything* from 209.82.110.x, regardless of the the fourth digits in the network address. Unless I've gotten it backwards again (it's past my bedtime) 24 only drops the 0 of your address, which might possibly be the gateway, depending upon how they have configured their system. I use the firewall to block undesirable IP's as needed, and it has proven, time and again, to substantially reduce my spam loads. Also, if you want more targets, go to http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space and look up the IP blocks assigned to the primary sources of most pornographic spam. Then block them by country. You'd be surprised at how spam levels will drop. Dave 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] iptables to block spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening... On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:48 pm, . wrote: 209.8.161.0/24 will get 209.8.161.0 - 209.8.161.255. /16 will get 209.8.0.0 - 209.8.255.255 Is iptables running on your firewall, with the mail server behind it, or on your mail server? If the former, you might need to add this on the FORWARD chain, not INPUT. It figures I would get it backwards by typing without double checking. chagrinned look The firewall is on the mail server, hence I didn't mention the FORWARD statement, however, that's a good point, too. Thanks. Now I'm going to bed. sigh Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html An automatic random thought For the Minute: When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. Q: What lies on the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A: A nervous wreck. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Yas4aE1ENZP1A28RAjvWAJ9t2NhzpdTvNZDP9Skg/Leazm6WXACgtQuW L0wXx6wBVB49LvsHowoixZ0= =Amjf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
