Re: [expert] acpi and acpi on a Toshiba Satellite 4090 ¡Works!
James, Now is runing!!, thank you very much for your help!!! pmsuspend make the difference, I tought that putting down the pannel was the way to resume as it was until now. Now I must run pmsuspend from a console; I know. Unfortunately I haven't started to test wireless cards. At the University there is a whole wireless project but it still hasn't started and due to a close gnome lite distributions for the student in our university, there are several linux gurus in the informatic equipment making the project, so I am sure we will have first hand information about how to use this wireless net from our linux runing computers. As soon as I have some more information or test about wireless I will tell you. Thanks again and regards, No problem... Hope it works as well for you as it does me.. Now if you happen to have a magic wand for wireless cards let me know *sigh* James El Sábado, 29 de Marzo de 2003 14:14, James Sparenberg escribió: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:15, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Well, Mandrake 9.1 is broken any other linux distributions. My laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4090) is runing even vcd (xine) for the first time (previously nor linux neither windows could). Acpi is finally runing, but the resume function, I had enabled in the BIOS, doesn't run with acpi enabled :-( I have read that there is an acpi resume or hibernation function, but I can't find any documentation about it. Can anyone help me?, I like fan and other things controled in the laptop, but resume is usefull. Francisco, I /etc/sysconfig/ the file suspend have you tried to uncomment the last line SWSUSP_FORCE_SUSPEND_MODE=0 2 This uses your swap partition to suspend to hdd. I've tried it on my box and it worked like a charm... bit slow on the shutdown and resume but it works Oh yeah... you also need to add to the append line in your lilo.conf append=all the stuff you already have resume=/dev/hdaX where X is the partition number for your swap partition. Run lilo and then try the command pmsuspend. Just in case I'd recommend creating a second, duplicate lilo section with this so that, just in case, you can do a normal boot. James Thanks a lot in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!
On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 6:36 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:03 am, Ron Stodden wrote: This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine The problem may not exist with an install from CDs. I have the 9.1 tree but not the ISOs. I plan now to run 9.1 mkcd from the tree to produce 9.1 ISO files, burn them to CD-RW and try to install from CD and announce the result here. Note that my downloaded 9.1 tree (see sig below) is non-standard by not including any non-English locales or RPMs. This does not give the 9.1 hd.img installer any problem. Thanks for that Ron -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!
Ron Stodden wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:03 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Tom, Charles, Thankyou for your responses. My point is that mandrake 9.0 suppports all my IDE combinations, Mandrake 9.1 does not. I do not use any raid. Therefore, ipso facto, plainly, without doubt, as surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, we have Mandrake retrogression: The fix must come from Mandrake (a corrected hd.img?). And quickly! This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine The problem may not exist with an install from CDs. I have the 9.1 tree but not the ISOs. I plan now to run 9.1 mkcd from the tree to produce 9.1 ISO files, burn them to CD-RW and try to install from CD and announce the result here. Note that my downloaded 9.1 tree (see sig below) is non-standard by not including any non-English locales or RPMs. This does not give the 9.1 hd.img installer any problem. CDs made OK, but installer loops around the disk/scsi questions with no escape - inadequate GUI design. Surprisingly it seems that 9.1 has never been tested on a simple IDE2 3 on m/b config like mine. --- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] 20030119 Get Fastest Mandrake downloader, English-only, from: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Russian Iraq military intelligence: http://www.aeronautics.ru/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] acpi and acpi on a Toshiba Satellite 4090¡Works!
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 02:06, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: James, Now is runing!!, thank you very much for your help!!! pmsuspend make the difference, I tought that putting down the pannel was the way to resume as it was until now. Now I must run pmsuspend from a console; I know. Unfortunately I haven't started to test wireless cards. At the University there is a whole wireless project but it still hasn't started and due to a close gnome lite distributions for the student in our university, there are several linux gurus in the informatic equipment making the project, so I am sure we will have first hand information about how to use this wireless net from our linux runing computers. As soon as I have some more information or test about wireless I will tell you. Thanks again and regards, No problem... Glad to help. Oh and I did this. cd /usr/bin as root vi jsuspend (j for james) #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/pmsuspend close it ... chmod it 755 then I used DrakConf to add this to the the menu. Then I added it to the taskbar as well. Now I just click the icon and it goes to sleep. Just wish I could get the little blue botton on my box to work the way it does with APM (buggy bios.) James No problem... Hope it works as well for you as it does me.. Now if you happen to have a magic wand for wireless cards let me know *sigh* James El Sábado, 29 de Marzo de 2003 14:14, James Sparenberg escribió: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:15, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Well, Mandrake 9.1 is broken any other linux distributions. My laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4090) is runing even vcd (xine) for the first time (previously nor linux neither windows could). Acpi is finally runing, but the resume function, I had enabled in the BIOS, doesn't run with acpi enabled :-( I have read that there is an acpi resume or hibernation function, but I can't find any documentation about it. Can anyone help me?, I like fan and other things controled in the laptop, but resume is usefull. Francisco, I /etc/sysconfig/ the file suspend have you tried to uncomment the last line SWSUSP_FORCE_SUSPEND_MODE=0 2 This uses your swap partition to suspend to hdd. I've tried it on my box and it worked like a charm... bit slow on the shutdown and resume but it works Oh yeah... you also need to add to the append line in your lilo.conf append=all the stuff you already have resume=/dev/hdaX where X is the partition number for your swap partition. Run lilo and then try the command pmsuspend. Just in case I'd recommend creating a second, duplicate lilo section with this so that, just in case, you can do a normal boot. James Thanks a lot in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 6:36 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine The problem may not exist with an install from CDs. I have the 9.1 tree but not the ISOs. I plan now to run 9.1 mkcd from the tree to produce 9.1 ISO files, burn them to CD-RW and try to install from CD and announce the result here. Note that my downloaded 9.1 tree (see sig below) is non-standard by not including any non-English locales or RPMs. This does not give the 9.1 hd.img installer any problem. Thanks for that Ron CDs made OK, but CD installer baulks at the disk/scsi dialog and loop between dialogs with no exit. Message -'no device on which to create filesystems'. Seems to me it does not recognise any IDE disk channels. 9.0 recognises them all. Show stopper for me. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] 20030119 Get Fastest Mandrake downloader, English-only, from: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Russian Iraq military intelligence: http://www.aeronautics.ru/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz
Hi, surely that phenomenon should disappear in a few hours at maximum then, right? Fact is that it's been like that for at least 3 days now... Cheers, Hans On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 13:54, James Sparenberg wrote: Hans sounds like you caught contribs in the middle of the update. The mirror has the synth file but not the rpms yet. Give it a bit... try again and it should smooth out. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Is the essence that the light pulse lives longer? Hans Schippers 1LIC INF UIA 2002-2003 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[expert] ipv4 forwarding deprecated?
Hi, I noticed that the /etc/init.d/network script mentions ipv4 forwarding is deprecated. If that is so, then what's the correct method for setting it up? Thanks, Hans -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Is the essence that the light pulse lives longer? Hans Schippers 1LIC INF UIA 2002-2003 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] acpi and acpi on a Toshiba Satellite 4090 ¡Works!
Very interesting, James!, Nevertheless I have had several crash after resume and launching kde. I don't know if I am doing something badly or is a problem between my computer and acpi. I will do some more test Regards El Domingo, 30 de Marzo de 2003 01:53, James Sparenberg escribió: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 02:06, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: James, Now is runing!!, thank you very much for your help!!! pmsuspend make the difference, I tought that putting down the pannel was the way to resume as it was until now. Now I must run pmsuspend from a console; I know. Unfortunately I haven't started to test wireless cards. At the University there is a whole wireless project but it still hasn't started and due to a close gnome lite distributions for the student in our university, there are several linux gurus in the informatic equipment making the project, so I am sure we will have first hand information about how to use this wireless net from our linux runing computers. As soon as I have some more information or test about wireless I will tell you. Thanks again and regards, No problem... Glad to help. Oh and I did this. cd /usr/bin as root vi jsuspend (j for james) #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/pmsuspend close it ... chmod it 755 then I used DrakConf to add this to the the menu. Then I added it to the taskbar as well. Now I just click the icon and it goes to sleep. Just wish I could get the little blue botton on my box to work the way it does with APM (buggy bios.) James No problem... Hope it works as well for you as it does me.. Now if you happen to have a magic wand for wireless cards let me know *sigh* James El Sábado, 29 de Marzo de 2003 14:14, James Sparenberg escribió: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:15, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Well, Mandrake 9.1 is broken any other linux distributions. My laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4090) is runing even vcd (xine) for the first time (previously nor linux neither windows could). Acpi is finally runing, but the resume function, I had enabled in the BIOS, doesn't run with acpi enabled :-( I have read that there is an acpi resume or hibernation function, but I can't find any documentation about it. Can anyone help me?, I like fan and other things controled in the laptop, but resume is usefull. Francisco, I /etc/sysconfig/ the file suspend have you tried to uncomment the last line SWSUSP_FORCE_SUSPEND_MODE=0 2 This uses your swap partition to suspend to hdd. I've tried it on my box and it worked like a charm... bit slow on the shutdown and resume but it works Oh yeah... you also need to add to the append line in your lilo.conf append=all the stuff you already have resume=/dev/hdaX where X is the partition number for your swap partition. Run lilo and then try the command pmsuspend. Just in case I'd recommend creating a second, duplicate lilo section with this so that, just in case, you can do a normal boot. James Thanks a lot in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] a stupid question - Samba???
Hi List, I've been seeing the following in my logchecks for a little while now and I'm somewhat at a loss as to whats up. I've been all over Samba and it's settings, but can't make it stop. Any suggestions? by the way... everything appears to be working correctly. still these log entries persist. === samba log entry === Mar 28 14:36:37 mdw1982 nmbd[2936]: [2003/03/28 14:36:37, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(358) Mar 28 14:36:37 mdw1982 nmbd[2936]: find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Mar 28 14:36:37 mdw1982 nmbd[2936]: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name WORKGROUP1b for the workgroup WORKGROUP. Mar 28 14:36:37 mdw1982 nmbd[2936]: Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. === -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 01:19, SainTiss wrote: Hi, surely that phenomenon should disappear in a few hours at maximum then, right? Fact is that it's been like that for at least 3 days now... Cheers, Hans Apologies... didn't realize it had been that long. Submit a bug report through Bugzilla... This is a definite problem. James On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 13:54, James Sparenberg wrote: Hans sounds like you caught contribs in the middle of the update. The mirror has the synth file but not the rpms yet. Give it a bit... try again and it should smooth out. James __ 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] samba
Maybe the most important setting for me in smb.conf is the security setting Setting this to share use to solve the problem with problem with win2k machines not being able to mount network drives. try to add security = share Vennlig Hilsen Torstein Hernes Dybdahl --- Haldensgate 21 7014 Trondheim NORWAY Stud. Tech. ved Elektroteknikk og Telekommunikasjon, NTNU --- On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:26, richard bown wrote: # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP netbios name = FW-GB7TF server string = Samba Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes map to guest = Bad User log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups domain logons = Yes dns proxy = No printer admin = @adm printing = cups This looks fine though you might try deleting the 'map to guest' entry. You also don't have a publicly defined share. Try adding one with: [public] comment = Public Share path = /home/path_to_shared_dir writeable = Yes create mask = 0664 guest ok = Yes sync always = Yes oplocks = Yes Make sure that you chown and chgrp the directory to a user readable by the login user. Remember that for directories you'll also need to set the execute bit. Eg, chmod 775 /home/PublicShare chown sambauser:samba /home/PublicShare Also, check that you don't have any errant 'interfaces', 'hosts allow' or 'hosts deny' entries in smb.conf. If you do, verify that the masks and addressing is sane. What does the contents of your smbusers file show? [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm root guest ok = Yes [pdf-generator] comment = PDF Generator (only valid users) path = /var/tmp printable = Yes print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I %J Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel
On Saturday March 29 2003 10:33 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: In what way should one notice any enhancements with the multimedia kernel? What apps might I test/run to compare with the default kernel? praedor Audio recording, professional studio quality, multi channel. Search the recent cooker ML archive for the discussion. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Linux Active Directory
I'm looking for some detailed help on connecting a Mandrake 9.x client to an NT network at work. The network is a mix of NT volumes and Active Directory stuff (are these shares?). I have an account on the network and (obviously can connect from a W2K Pro client on the same machine). I have been led to believe that I need to use the Samba 3, which is still in alpha, but I don't need any server stuff, just the ability to read AD shares as a user. Can anyone provide some detailed instructions for configuring my client box to read AD, samba or not. Thanks, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel
On Saturday March 29 2003 04:05 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: It can be done in the manner Tom used but I have a strong aversion to doing a force install. I prefer editing XF86Config-4, rpm -e the current nvidia rpms, rebooting the new kernel to init 3, rebuild and then install the nvidia rpms, edit again XF86Config-4 and then switch to init 5 where I am greeted by the nvidia splash screen. Charles Generally I'd agree with the aversion to --force (and --nodeps). In cases where your just replacing old packages with the same version numbers, --force just prevents getting the already installed error. Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage. (man page). I use --force rarely, but sometimes it's very useful. I boot the new kernel and let X fail out of laziness ;) IE, removing the old nvidia rpms and booting to level 3. I took the time to disable that damn nvidia splash screen tho ;) Easily done with 'yanc', and if you also have 'nvclock' installed, you can overclock the card a little and get some even better glxgears FPS to brag about :) FWIW, my glxgears fps (1024x768x24) drop some when using the multimedia kernel, compared to Mdk's 'stock' kernel. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090
I tried what you mentioned in this thread (I've been following it b/c normal suspends don't work on my computer). However, when I uncomment the line in the suspend file, and add suspend=/dev/hda6, my laptop will suspend on its own 2 or 3 times just during startup (??), each time shutting down completely. I can turn the laptop back on, then the startup process will continue from where the suspend occured. This repeats a few times, then the MDKKdm finally comes up and things seem to run ok, but USB isn't working anymore at this point. It's kind of an odd problem :-) Does anyone have any ideas as to what I could check to see what is causing this, or has anyone had this happen to them? Thanks for your time, Hez On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:09, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:21, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Thanks so much James, I will test the things you comment. No problem... Hope it works as well for you as it does me.. Now if you happen to have a magic wand for wireless cards let me know *sigh* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] acpi and acpi on a Toshiba Satellite 4090
James, With acpi activated if I close kde and try to run it (or other windows manager again) the computer hang completely. Also after a resume if I try to run xine, I get a blue windows, sound but not image. As soon as I disable acpi xine start to run again. I will investigate more on acpi, but perhaps due that is still on development, those problems could be normal. Regards -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz
On Sunday March 30 2003 06:21 am, James Sparenberg wrote: surely that phenomenon should disappear in a few hours at maximum then, right? Fact is that it's been like that for at least 3 days now... Cheers, Hans Apologies... didn't realize it had been that long. Submit a bug report through Bugzilla... This is a definite problem. James An inconvience, not a bug or a problem. It happens from time to time. I expect it to resolve Monday when whoever's maintaining the primary mirror comes back to work after a weekend off ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090
Hezekiah, I don't know if you are a member of the Mandrake Club, but if so, I put a rpm request of the toshutils that I have used until 9.0 without problems for hibernation, fan and so on (if you don't know it, have a look at www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba). Unfortunately I haven't been able to compile it under 9.1 :-( So if you are a member of the club, please vote it!; if you have a Toshiba it will probably be useful for you. Thanks so much; best wishes -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kdeinit
These were fresh installs, and I am still having problems, I killed the process in top and the problem went away temporarily. But once I opened clicked on my Home icon, or opened any folder the problem starts up again. I'm going to re-install the absolute minimum for KDE and see it I can isolate the problem. James Sparenberg said: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 00:13, Jay wrote: Anyone having problems with kdeinit. I tried running several apps in KDE, installed twice and am still having problems. kdeinit takes up roughly 90% of my cpu and causes my harddrive to really chug the minute I do anything... so I am using Gnome. Ok I'll bite a bit on this one... One thing I found was that EVERYthing sped up a lot when I edited /etc/hosts and did 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost and then added my boxes hostname as well. Since I'm on DHCP I did 127.0.0.1 mylaptop.mydomain mylaptop. This could help.. As for the rest. When you try to start an app from the command line what if any error messages do you get... Where does it seem to be hanging. Is this box a fresh install or an upgrade. If so from what to 9.1. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 3dfx Voodoo4 Support in Mandrake 8.2PPC?
I've tried asking this on the newbie list with no response, so here goes! Well, I've fiddled with Linux before and my other machine is running OS X (which is a relative picnic), but this one problem has me climbing up the wall! I have a Power Mac 6500 (OldWorld) with 128 MB RAM, USB Card, Comm. Slot 10/100 Ethernet and in addition to the built-in video card, a 3dfx Voodoo4 with 32 MB RAM. It's running BootX 1.2.2 with a slew of different kernels that I've tried, all with the same results... My Mandrake 8.2 installation (9.1rc1 wouldn't install) decided to use the Voodoo4 for installation, but when it installed and restarted all the Linux goodness was only on my puny ATi 2MB RAM built-in card, and X will not start. I have tried using the autoconfig ability of XFree86, but it provides the same results. I relaxed and immediately looked at config and log files, the indicate that the Ati card and 3dfx card are both configured to be used with xinerama... The log files indicate errors from the TDFX driver as follows: (WW) INVALID IO ALLOCATION b:0x10 e: 0x100ff correcting (WW) INVALID IO ALLOCATION b:0x400 e:0x4ff correcting (EE) TDFX(0): No valid PIO address in PCI config space (EE) Mouse0: cannot determine the mouse protocol As you may be able to imagine...all I get is a dark blue screen with the XFree86 Black X cursor in the middle on the ATi screen, and the mouse won't move. The mouse isn't really a problem, I can fix that, but this PIO address problem seems pretty well documented, and no mailing archive seems to have a solution. I refuse to believe that there is no solution to this problem, and I have always loved my previous experiences with Mandrake, so any suggestions/solutions you guys suggest would be great appreciated. Thank you, Varun Mehta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mobo query
I have been offered a PCChips M787CLM mobo, 1GHz VIA C3 cpu, pretty well everything on board. I can't find anything on the web about this exact model, but have seen a thread describing a Debian install on a related model, and VIA C3 chips appear to be used in some of the new quiet small boards that I have seen mentioned. Does anyone know anything, good, bad or indifferent, that would influence me? They are asking £50, by the way. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mobo query
In my opinion, you can do much better for the same or just a little more money. I build all my own PC's, and for others, too. For example, in the U.S., you can get an Athlon 1700+ tbred B for $48 US, which is 3 times the cpu. Mobo/cpu combos run $80 and up- for instance a PC chips board/1700+ combo runs $81 US. It also depends on if you are planning on using the ram you have now. Do some research before buying something. Look on Pricewatch, and compare stuff to what you have now. For the price/performance, you can't beat the Athlon 1700+ Tbred B, and it can be matched with many low priced boards which all work fine. Robert Crawford On Sunday 30 March 2003 02:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been offered a PCChips M787CLM mobo, 1GHz VIA C3 cpu, pretty well everything on board. I can't find anything on the web about this exact model, but have seen a thread describing a Debian install on a related model, and VIA C3 chips appear to be used in some of the new quiet small boards that I have seen mentioned. Does anyone know anything, good, bad or indifferent, that would influence me? They are asking £50, by the way. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mobo query
This is to replace the mobo in a box with a Cyrix/IBM cpu. Everything in it is pretty old, and would have to be replaced if I rebuild from scratch. From experience I would say that I would be pushing £500 to get a full decent system together. If I buy this for £50 I can get away by putting in the current drives and spending nothing else. But will it run Mandrake? Anne On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 10:02 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: In my opinion, you can do much better for the same or just a little more money. I build all my own PC's, and for others, too. For example, in the U.S., you can get an Athlon 1700+ tbred B for $48 US, which is 3 times the cpu. Mobo/cpu combos run $80 and up- for instance a PC chips board/1700+ combo runs $81 US. It also depends on if you are planning on using the ram you have now. Do some research before buying something. Look on Pricewatch, and compare stuff to what you have now. For the price/performance, you can't beat the Athlon 1700+ Tbred B, and it can be matched with many low priced boards which all work fine. Robert Crawford On Sunday 30 March 2003 02:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been offered a PCChips M787CLM mobo, 1GHz VIA C3 cpu, pretty well everything on board. I can't find anything on the web about this exact model, but have seen a thread describing a Debian install on a related model, and VIA C3 chips appear to be used in some of the new quiet small boards that I have seen mentioned. Does anyone know anything, good, bad or indifferent, that would influence me? They are asking £50, by the way. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090
On 29 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: I /etc/sysconfig/ the file suspend have you tried to uncomment the last line SWSUSP_FORCE_SUSPEND_MODE=0 2 This uses your swap partition to suspend to hdd. I've tried it on my box and it worked like a charm... bit slow on the shutdown and resume but it works Oh yeah... you also need to add to the append line in your lilo.conf append=all the stuff you already have resume=/dev/hdaX where X is the partition number for your swap partition. Run lilo and then try the command pmsuspend. Hi List! My MDK 9.1 box works with acpi and I can suspend to HD. But what I realy like is to suspend to RAM (in disk it take too much time), like I can in Winblows XP. Is it possible? How? Many thanks in advance, Cheers, --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mobo query
On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: This is to replace the mobo in a box with a Cyrix/IBM cpu. Everything in it is pretty old, and would have to be replaced if I rebuild from scratch. From experience I would say that I would be pushing £500 to get a full decent system together. If I buy this for £50 I can get away by putting in the current drives and spending nothing else. But will it run Mandrake? Do you know what chipset is on it? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Enlarging Swap
Hi List! I got more Mem to my box and now my swap partition is not adequated. My main partition is ReiserFS. I could use DiskDrake to resize fat32 bits in the past (amazing tool!). Two question: - Is it true that Diskdrake at MDK 9.1 can resize NTFS partitions? - Is there any other way of resizing ReizerFS and Swap partitions without using another HD? TIA Cheers, --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Pctel HSP56 MR and MDK 9.1
Hi List! My mobo chipset is Via KM266. I got Pctel winmodem to work with MKD 9.0 (stock kernel). Now I upgraded to MDK 9.1 (a dream!). Rebuild the modules for pctel but modem does not work anymore. Does someone else have this issue? I'm thinking if it could be a drawback due to acpi which now is working well. Any suggestion, commentary or help would be very welcome! Cheers, --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090
Thanks for the pointer Francisco! I am a member, and I just added a vote for toshutils :-) I've used it before as well. I don't think I can suspend/hibernate with it b/c the model I have, 2805-s503, suspends to a file on the FAT32 partition under windows, and this apparently isn't supported yet in linux. But it's a very useful tool none the less. Hez On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:27, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Hezekiah, I don't know if you are a member of the Mandrake Club, but if so, I put a rpm [snipped to save space] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mobo query
That mobo might not even have SDRAM, much less DDR. You will probably need new ram, whatever you do- which isn't too bad, since it's dirt cheap these days. You should be able to use everything else, except probably you'll need a better power supply. You need to do more research as to the ram and power supply you have, and post it so we can advise properly. Maybe post the exact model of Cyrix/IBM you have now, and one of us can look it up and offer better advice- just don't be hasty, and make a mistake. You can put together a really good system, for very little money, if you know how. Any better mobo/cpu is going to require a better power supply, if your present system is what it sounds like. And, to get the best from any modern cpu, you really need DDR memory- SDRAM is on the way out. In any case, Mandrake will install and run on almost any halfway system. I would stay away from those via cpus, though. Robert Crawford On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: This is to replace the mobo in a box with a Cyrix/IBM cpu. Everything in it is pretty old, and would have to be replaced if I rebuild from scratch. From experience I would say that I would be pushing £500 to get a full decent system together. If I buy this for £50 I can get away by putting in the current drives and spending nothing else. But will it run Mandrake? Anne On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 10:02 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: In my opinion, you can do much better for the same or just a little more money. I build all my own PC's, and for others, too. For example, in the U.S., you can get an Athlon 1700+ tbred B for $48 US, which is 3 times the cpu. Mobo/cpu combos run $80 and up- for instance a PC chips board/1700+ combo runs $81 US. It also depends on if you are planning on using the ram you have now. Do some research before buying something. Look on Pricewatch, and compare stuff to what you have now. For the price/performance, you can't beat the Athlon 1700+ Tbred B, and it can be matched with many low priced boards which all work fine. Robert Crawford On Sunday 30 March 2003 02:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been offered a PCChips M787CLM mobo, 1GHz VIA C3 cpu, pretty well everything on board. I can't find anything on the web about this exact model, but have seen a thread describing a Debian install on a related model, and VIA C3 chips appear to be used in some of the new quiet small boards that I have seen mentioned. Does anyone know anything, good, bad or indifferent, that would influence me? They are asking £50, by the way. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate-Signature not correct
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 18:53, Robert W. wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:32, Tru64 User wrote: That was it. I was using sudo. keyring?? I gotta read about that. 'sudo -H urpmi ...' uses the proper keyring from root's home directory. ah -- much easier than attempting to get the correct key into two keyrings each on the four machines I administer regularly and umpteen I set up for one reason or another... thanks! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:30, dfox wrote: Hi. I'm posting this on behalf of our worksite which has been inundated with lots of spam. At home of course I can install Spam Assassin and get rid of most of this stuff. But at work we are at the mercy of POP mail and Outlook on Windows machines. Of course I am trying to suggest Linux but I don't think this is a realistic alternative that management would be happy with. And we get our mail from a foreign server (sbc=pacbell) and we are (I think) dependent on their whims -- i.e., installing filters on the mail server isn't an option. use fetchmail to pop the mail from SBC, then deliver to a local postfix. Use postfix's tools to bounce via RBL if that floats your boat, or just call spamassassin via /etc/procmailrc. Reconfigure your end users to pop/imap off of that box rather than SBC. For extra credit, set up SASL-authenticated SMTP relaying too :-) If you have so few users that you're still reliant on SBC's business services, you should be able to support everyone better than presently with any $300 white-box (http://www.pricewatch.com/menus/m43.htm, http://www.pricewatch.com/1/43/4072-1.htm). Or you could buy the commercial windows version of SpamAssassin for all of your desktops (http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/msk/) At $29 per desktop plus tax (ignoring the huge hassle of configuring desktop-by-desktop instead of on a single server), you'll break even at ten desktops. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 XFce Font Problem
I had a rough upgrade on my laptop (basically it failed, but got far enough that I was able to upgrade the rest of the way via urpmi). Everything now works except the fonts in XFce. Presumably they don't work in Gnome either, but it was busted before I upgraded :-) http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/screwy-shot.png note the title-bars icons -- they should have text in them, and you don't even want to see my desktop menus. XFce's tooltips are still okay though. Any pointers? Thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... use fetchmail to pop the mail from SBC, then deliver to a local postfix. Use postfix's tools to bounce via RBL if that floats your boat, or just I would figure that's the easier way to go -- at least for me, since I have already configured postfix/procmail/spamassassin for local delivery here at home. It wouldn't be too much extra work to do that at work - but I may get some pressure to stay within the Windows framework. you're still reliant on SBC's business services, you should be able to support everyone better than presently with any $300 white-box I think we have a couple of PC-100 class machines - some are used for internet searching at work - maybe one of them could do double duty as a mail server. I'll try and recommend it. Or you could buy the commercial windows version of SpamAssassin for all of your desktops (http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/msk/) At $29 per desktop Thanks. I did not make the connection between spamkiller and spam assassin. I'm also looking at Cloadmark (c4.net) and other addins for outlook or outlook express. Jack Coates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 upgrade experience
3612 and 3613 On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I had opened bugs for both of these on cooker after RC1 came out, but because I didn't know I was supposed to lobby for people to vote for my bugs, they've been closed out of bugzilla and are still unresolved. Re-open... Let me know ... I'll vote then it will be confirmed. This is one of several last step hurdles that I agree need to be overcome and overcome in a hurry. I wish I knew how to fix it I don't, but it's one of the things standing between me and one of those really sweet Sharp UM10M's . that and money *grin*. James __ 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] Enlarging Swap
- Is there any other way of resizing ReizerFS and Swap partitions without using another HD? AFAIK no with Reiserfs. I never tried it, but it's not really an issue if you can save off the orig data in the partition somewhere and then remake the partitions, and restore. I've done that a number of times. Swap partitions don't have to be resized. You can simply add a new one. (preferably on another disk, if possible) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:12:49 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 12:16 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:27:22 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine Ann, unless you install from your hd, as is Ron, you should have no problem. Comforting I have done the 9.1 install from cd on 2 systems, both with dual ide controllers. The only problem I had is that on 1 2nd stage ram disk errored if I used the cdrom drive but ran without problem from the dvd. Is this because the dvd is master? I installed from my dvd drive last time, and would do so again unless I know there's a problem. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Anne, You should be able to install from your dvd assuming it is bootable. The problem he is experiencing is with an install from a hard drive (ie. not using ISOs or CDs). Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Pctel HSP56 MR and MDK 9.1
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:04:25 -0300 (BRT) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List! My mobo chipset is Via KM266. I got Pctel winmodem to work with MKD 9.0 (stock kernel). Now I upgraded to MDK 9.1 (a dream!). Rebuild the modules for pctel but modem does not work anymore. Does someone else have this issue? I'm thinking if it could be a drawback due to acpi which now is working well. Any suggestion, commentary or help would be very welcome! Cheers, --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Your pctel modem will still work, but it won't be automatic. This is because when you insmod it (or it is done through modules.conf), the kernel thinks it was compiled with gcc 2.x and refuses to insert it (Mandrake definitely is using gcc 3.2.2). I've looked through the code for the modem, but haven't been able to determine where the problem is. It appears to not be in the .c code but in an assembler module. Anyway, to get it to work, you will manually need to open a terminal window and as root (su) type: insmod -f pctel followed by an insmod -f ptserial. That will insert both of them with some errors about a tainted kernel, but they will work after that. The only down side is that you will need to do this each time you reboot. Jan's pctel website has a section in one of the FAQs that talk about doing this (Redhat 8.0 and 9 have the same problem). Hopefully, there will be a new version of the driver that fixes the problem (anyone reading this know how to get insmod or the kernel to ignore the compiler check?). Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 upgrade experience
Done On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 20:42, Jack Coates wrote: 3612 and 3613 On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I had opened bugs for both of these on cooker after RC1 came out, but because I didn't know I was supposed to lobby for people to vote for my bugs, they've been closed out of bugzilla and are still unresolved. Re-open... Let me know ... I'll vote then it will be confirmed. This is one of several last step hurdles that I agree need to be overcome and overcome in a hurry. I wish I knew how to fix it I don't, but it's one of the things standing between me and one of those really sweet Sharp UM10M's . that and money *grin*. James __ 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
