Re: [expert] re:samba
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet hosts allow = 192.168.100. #change this to the class c you are on os level = 34 #for samba to win election over nt/2000 workstations. Just be aware that sometimes it needs to be higher than 34 - mine is set to 99. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re:samba
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:03:21 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet hosts allow = 192.168.100. #change this to the class c you are on os level = 34 #for samba to win election over nt/2000 workstations. Just be aware that sometimes it needs to be higher than 34 - mine is set to 99. Anne Mine at home is set to 65 and is a domain controller, a bit of a overkill for the kids one and only winblows box, the rest are Linux. I think the browse setting for nt/2000 workstations is 33, unless i'me mistaken that setting for the server, its been a while since a played with that stuff. I used 65 as it was a max setting given in a samba doc so I don't know what the upper limit is and if passing that would effect anything. Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re:samba
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 18:39:44 +1000, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:03:21 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet hosts allow = 192.168.100. #change this to the class c you are on os level = 34 #for samba to win election over nt/2000 workstations. Just be aware that sometimes it needs to be higher than 34 - mine is set to 99. Anne Mine at home is set to 65 and is a domain controller, a bit of a overkill for the kids one and only winblows box, the rest are Linux. I think the browse setting for nt/2000 workstations is 33, unless i'me mistaken that setting for the server, its been a while since a played with that stuff. I used 65 as it was a max setting given in a samba doc so I don't know what the upper limit is and if passing that would effect anything. Gary. A bit more to add. If you don't have a domain controller or samba setup as one the winblows 9x machines will call a browse election every roughly 12 to 15 minutes to see who will be the browse master. This will cause a lot of netspewy noise on the network and in the logs. Winblows 9x browse default no. 1 I think samba defaults with everything off as 1 as well. On a side note I heard a couple of years back there was a nfs for winblows, anyone know of a gpl version of this getting around? This would be a good way to kill off netbios noise on the network. Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:46, Frankie wrote: its not in xls format... its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls format data would be quiet hard.. Is saving as HTML not an option? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Beyond Release notes
Having gotten my 9.1 pre-order taken care off, and my test upgrade with the 9.1 iso-s downloaded - done, and while waiting for the official package to show up in the mail, a question came to mind: does anybody know of a site similar to: http://www.gurulabs.com/RedHatLinux9-review.html where changes and explanation for them have been consolidated by a Mandrake guru? I would like to be able to read all in one place, vs. browsing this list's archive (which probably contains all such info, but spread all over) ... :) TIA, Stef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.
The data is in a mysql database.. The webapp pulls that data out depending on what data they wanted and lists it in html tables.. I have created some reusable code so that if someone clicks download on one of those data pages, it tells the webapp to run the query again and open a download header and send it all down. This way I can have any of the dozen areas of the webapp pass a query onto the downloader code and have it run the query and start the download of the relevant query.. and before anyone tells me that passing the query in a form parameter is insecure, I'm not.. using a session file. It works now.. and its reusable code..so it'll do. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David E. Fox Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format. I have to write a webapp with a downlaod option for the data.. at present the format is in .csv (comma seperated values) OK, most if not all spreadsheets can take CSV. (csv is nearly identical to Basic DATA statement format, without the DATA tokens, in case anyone's wondering). It seems you have two issues: one of presentation, and one of transmission. It is true that CSV is limited, although the header can be transmitted as the first row of the data. For instance: SEQ,FNAME,LNAME,ACT 1000345,David,Fox,34 1000346,Paul,Jones,37 etc. Then the sheet or app at the other end can just import that, and the user knows what the columns are for. Now as far as presentation is concerned, you could have a perl script or such that would sisplay the data the sheet is about to download before it gets downloaded -- however the real data is still preserved in CSV form. I used to work in an environment where I was getting new sheet data daily and incorporating it into spreadsheets and other things. I seem to recall the presentation of data was done with Java. Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.
sort of yes... I can make do assumptions about the systems of the end user... nor about their knowledge level. in 90% of office suites, .csv will open in the spreadsheet app.. html files will not.. Therein lies the problem.. CSV is working now.. and its readable in the download file.. so it'll have to do till someone comes up with rtf for spreadsheets. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damian Gatabria Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 6:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format. On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:46, Frankie wrote: its not in xls format... its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls format data would be quiet hard.. Is saving as HTML not an option? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Enlarging Swap
Ok, 2 swap partitions worked well. But I didn't try yet to give a 'pmsuspend'. To make it available I should set 'resume=/dev/hdxx' in my lilo.conf append. And so, that's why I'm afraid! 2 swaps can cover all 512 mem RAM, but not one alone. On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, David E. Fox wrote: Now that I have created (add) another swap partition to have memory enough to suspend to HD, my doubt is what should I have to put in lilo append? I don't think that's an issue. How much total RAM do you have? IMHO you can just add both swap partitions in /etc/fstab and have them autoattach on boot. Is one of the partitions not going to be always available or something like that? One doesn't necessarily have to have one partition that is big enough -- linux can easily use as many swap areas as you might need. 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] re:samba
This time Gary Hodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:03:21 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet hosts allow = 192.168.100. #change this to the class c you are on os level = 34 #for samba to win election over nt/2000 workstations. Just be aware that sometimes it needs to be higher than 34 - mine is set to 99. Anne Mine at home is set to 65 and is a domain controller, a bit of a overkill for the kids one and only winblows box, the rest are Linux. I think the browse setting for nt/2000 workstations is 33, unless i'me mistaken that setting for the server, its been a while since a played with that stuff. I used 65 as it was a max setting given in a samba doc so I don't know what the upper limit is and if passing that would effect anything. The last I saw (this was on the samba-tng list a year ago or so, but was said to apply to normal samba too) 100 is recommended for linux PDCs where XP is present...so, just to make sure, I always set it to 100 :) As for upper limit...I don't think there's one...never heard about one existing back when I was in the samba/samba-tng mailing lists. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] Problem with MDK 9.1, gv, ps2pdf...
Hi all MDk9.1 here. I have a problem: I can't generate PDF files, and I can't see PS files with gv. Examples: When I try gv test.ps: Error: /configurationerror in --setpagedevice-- Additional information: [/PageSize [612.0 792.0]] Operand stack: --dict:2/2(L)-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 - 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --dict:2/2(L)-- --nostringval-- 2 %dict_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1050/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local I get the same error when I try to convert it to pdf. Another example: When I try to convert another ps file to pdf with ps2pdf test2.ps I get: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: Times-Italic-iso1252 --nostringval-- Times-Italic Times-Italic Font Times-Italic 592530 Times-Italic --nostringval-- Courier (Courier) Courier Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 4 3 %oparray_pop 5 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 8 4 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1049/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:79/200(L)-- --dict:17/17(ro)(G)-- --dict:1049/1123(ro)(G)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 Current file position is 57223 ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 But If I try lpr test.ps, the file is printed OK. Any Idea? Thanks. -- Oscar Santacreu Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel
Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I have asked this question before, and was told that it optimizes the system to work more efficiently. However after reading: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html The writer states he has never seen kernel recompling produce a faster machine. Other posts on the web seem to hint that kernel recompiling is a thing of the past or a signal . Whats the deal here? I've tried recompling before on mandrake 8.2 and have had mixed results. However, I noticed that you have the option to specify the processor type (which makes me think that would make it perform faster?). TIA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel
well, the speed benefits might be negledgable on mandrake, because the kernel is already compiled for a i586 machine.. If however it was a distro that was compiled for i386,, and you had a PIII, athlon or P4, then recompiling could make a significant difference.. the memory footprint could be made smaller by only compiling support for your exact hardware, as opposed to the generic hardware support of the normal kernels.. in addition as you said is the patching and addition of new hardare, features etc... I used to do it all the time, I stopped about a year or 2 ago,, just wasn't worth the effort to me. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of T E Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:16 PM To: exp-mdk Subject: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I have asked this question before, and was told that it optimizes the system to work more efficiently. However after reading: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html The writer states he has never seen kernel recompling produce a faster machine. Other posts on the web seem to hint that kernel recompiling is a thing of the past or a signal . Whats the deal here? I've tried recompling before on mandrake 8.2 and have had mixed results. However, I noticed that you have the option to specify the processor type (which makes me think that would make it perform faster?). TIA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (FIXED) Problem with MDK 9.1, gv, ps2pdf...
Sorry, I solved the problem by reinstalling the ghostscript rpm. Best regards, Óscar Santacreu. El Miércoles, 2 de Abril de 2003 16:04, Oscar Santacreu escribió: Hi all MDk9.1 here. I have a problem: I can't generate PDF files, and I can't see PS files with gv. Examples: When I try gv test.ps: Error: /configurationerror in --setpagedevice-- Additional information: [/PageSize [612.0 792.0]] Operand stack: --dict:2/2(L)-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 - 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --dict:2/2(L)-- --nostringval-- 2 %dict_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1050/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local I get the same error when I try to convert it to pdf. Another example: When I try to convert another ps file to pdf with ps2pdf test2.ps I get: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: Times-Italic-iso1252 --nostringval-- Times-Italic Times-Italic Font Times-Italic 592530 Times-Italic --nostringval-- Courier (Courier) Courier Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 4 3 %oparray_pop 5 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 8 4 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1049/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:79/200(L)-- --dict:17/17(ro)(G)-- --dict:1049/1123(ro)(G)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 Current file position is 57223 ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 But If I try lpr test.ps, the file is printed OK. Any Idea? Thanks. -- Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:16:09 -0800 (PST), T E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I have asked this question before, and was told that it optimizes the system to work more efficiently. However after reading: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html The writer states he has never seen kernel recompling produce a faster machine. Other posts on the web seem to hint that kernel recompiling is a thing of the past or a signal . Whats the deal here? I've tried recompling before on mandrake 8.2 and have had mixed results. However, I noticed that you have the option to specify the processor type (which makes me think that would make it perform faster?). TIA It depends on what you compile into your kernel. That article at mandrakeuser.org is very old, I think it was originally written in the 2.2 kernel days. With the 2.4 kernel series, there are many patches that can be added to improve performance and responsiveness. Also, you can save some memory by choosing only the drivers for your particular hardware. I like to use the Gentoo patches on a vanilla kernel, compiled for my CPU architecture (Athlon XP). My system feels much better this way. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] We love Linux, and the most wonderful thing about Linux is that it's a problem for Microsoft. -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] class hash not available
Having a difficult time upgrading sendmail on Mandrake 9.0 (works like a charm on my other 8.2 machines) Sendmail just came up with 8.12.9 Ran the usual sendmail sh Build, and it works ok. But then, when I try service start sendmail i get an error:: Starting sendmail: makemap: Need to recompile with -DNEWDB for hash support make: *** [access.db] Error 73 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 152: readcf: map access: class hash not available 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 158: readcf: map authinfo: class hash not available So, OK, i create a site.config.m4 file, and added the following to it:: APPENDDEF(`confMAPDEF', `-NEWDB') NoGo!! Getting Error: cc -O2 -I. -I../../include -DNEWDB -DNDBM -DNIS -DMAP_REGEX -c -o macro.o macro.c cc -O2 -I. -I../../include -DNEWDB -DNDBM -DNIS -DMAP_REGEX -c -o map.o map.c map.c:23:19: ndbm.h: No such file or directory In file included from map.c:32: ../../include/sm/bdb.h:17:17: db.h: No such file or directory map.c:44: parse error before DBTYPE map.c: In function `ndbm_map_open': map.c:1351: syntax error before '*' token : : map.c:2526: `db' undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [map.o] Error 1 I even downloaded the Berkerly db library, and added the following to my site.config.m4 APPENDDEF(`confLIBDIRS', `-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1/lib') APPENDDEF(`confINCDIRS', `-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1/include') Still, NoGo I believe it might have something to do with cc compileri have 2.96 on 8.2machines, and 3.2 of the 9.0. Any ideas on how to overcome this? RPM are more of a nightmare..Too many dependecies, some of which are already installed, but it is missing an older version of it, so it aborts!! SO i prefer manual, using my own directory structure. Any help will be highly appreciated. (In the meantime, am trying to locate sendmail mailinglist) Richard = __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel
Where can I download such a patch ? Dne st 2. duben 2003 16:53 Sridhar Dhanapalan napsal(a): On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:16:09 -0800 (PST), T E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I have asked this question before, and was told that it optimizes the system to work more efficiently. However after reading: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html The writer states he has never seen kernel recompling produce a faster machine. Other posts on the web seem to hint that kernel recompiling is a thing of the past or a signal . Whats the deal here? I've tried recompling before on mandrake 8.2 and have had mixed results. However, I noticed that you have the option to specify the processor type (which makes me think that would make it perform faster?). TIA It depends on what you compile into your kernel. That article at mandrakeuser.org is very old, I think it was originally written in the 2.2 kernel days. With the 2.4 kernel series, there are many patches that can be added to improve performance and responsiveness. Also, you can save some memory by choosing only the drivers for your particular hardware. I like to use the Gentoo patches on a vanilla kernel, compiled for my CPU architecture (Athlon XP). My system feels much better this way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [newbie] Cannot install 9.1 on Vaio
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 23:29, Benedetto Gorini wrote: Hi Guys, could someone please help me to install mdk 9.1 on a Vaio PCG-Z600TEK? It has an external pcmcia cd-rom. When I installed mdk 8.1 and 8.2 I had to use a special boot disk called pcmcia-vaio-memorystick.img that I found in the errata page. With mdk 9.1 there is no equivalent img file. I tried to use the pcmcia.img or to specify ide2=0x180,0x386 on expert mode but both methods didn't work: the machine hangup after PCMCIA support configuration. do you get anything revealing on the other virtual terminals? CTRL-ALT-F[2-6]? In the HW database my Vaio is reported to be compatible with mdk 9.1. I use a Vaio VX88 and the Linux-sony list has a few Mandrake users (mostly Debian and SuSE). Z600TEK's do seem to work okay, but I haven't paid much attention. Please help me. Personally, I'd switch to a hard disk or network install. If you're feeling particularly brave or have network issues, you can just install a very minimal system and then urpmi your way into having everything there. One thing that I do to make urpmi more pleasant is copy all the .rpm's from the distribution CD's into a single directory, then remove the three CD sources and specify a new filesystem source pointing at the RPM directory. Thanks, Benedetto -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel
The Gentoo kernel patch? You can get it from any Gentoo mirror: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 17:15:49 +0200, Shamot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I download such a patch ? Dne st 2. duben 2003 16:53 Sridhar Dhanapalan napsal(a): On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:16:09 -0800 (PST), T E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I have asked this question before, and was told that it optimizes the system to work more efficiently. However after reading: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html The writer states he has never seen kernel recompling produce a faster machine. Other posts on the web seem to hint that kernel recompiling is a thing of the past or a signal . Whats the deal here? I've tried recompling before on mandrake 8.2 and have had mixed results. However, I noticed that you have the option to specify the processor type (which makes me think that would make it perform faster?). TIA It depends on what you compile into your kernel. That article at mandrakeuser.org is very old, I think it was originally written in the 2.2 kernel days. With the 2.4 kernel series, there are many patches that can be added to improve performance and responsiveness. Also, you can save some memory by choosing only the drivers for your particular hardware. I like to use the Gentoo patches on a vanilla kernel, compiled for my CPU architecture (Athlon XP). My system feels much better this way. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] Intel 815 Chipset and Xfree86
Hello, I have tried to get Xfree86 4.2 and 4.3 to work with my Intel 815 graphics controller. Using Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 the screen flickers excessively and makes it hard to even look at the desktop for more than a few minutes. Has anyone had any success with configuring this with X? (its a Dell Optiplex gx150) I've read a lot of articles on the subject and nothing seems to make a difference. One article mentioned agpgart was needed compiled in the kernel. Isn't this enabled on a default install? The screen looks like multiple waves run across the screen. Thanks in advance... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ispell installation
Why does ispell require that I install some foreign language version in addition to ispell itself ? Really weird. It gives me a choice of these packages when I try to urpmi ispell One of the following packages is needed: 1- ispell-it-0.03-14mdk.noarch 2- ispell-cs-3.1.20-8mdk.noarch 3- ispell-pt-3.00-5mdk.noarch 4- ispell-ro-1.0.1-4mdk.noarch 5- ispell-sl-0.5-6mdk.noarch 6- ispell-af-0.001-9mdk.noarch 7- ispell-da-1.4.22-6mdk.noarch 8- ispell-eo-3.4-7mdk.noarch 9- ispell-fi-1.0-8mdk.noarch 10- ispell-ga-1.1-4mdk.noarch 11- ispell-gd-0.3-10mdk.noarch 12- ispell-gv-0.3-10mdk.noarch 13- ispell-id-0.6-14mdk.noarch 14- ispell-pt_BR-2.4-10mdk.noarch What is your choice? (1-14) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re:samba
HI Gary Co. Made the changes as listed , but On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 06:18, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Add the user and passwd to samba/linux box cut below, save as etc/samba/smbpasswd # user :group change user to match windows user, change group to mach that user in /etc/group winuser:501:::[U ]:LCT-: winuser2:502:::[U ]:LCT-: cut- that was cut and pasted run smbpasswd winuser passwd winpass At this point the X's will change to a encrypted password. at this point it did'nt :(( [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# smbpasswd winuser New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: mod_smbfilepwd_entry: malformed password entry (no terminating :) Password changed for user winuser. Failed to modify entry for user winuser. Failed to modify password entry for user winuser Add windows hostname and ip to /etc/hosts...that was already done Edit /etc/nsswtched hosts line to hosts: files dns nisplus nis... did that Restart samba did that Still stuck at the point where the windows box can only find the linux box by its ip address , ie .44.131.90.129, not by either the netbios name or netbios alias. When the linux box is found a login is required and no matter what is entered no access is given. here are the logs log.nmbd [2003/04/02 19:08:19, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(291) become_domain_master_browser_bcast: Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 44.131.90.129 [2003/04/02 19:08:19, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bca st(305) become_domain_master_browser_bcast: querying subnet 44.131.90.129 for domain master browser on workgroup MDKGROUP [2003/04/02 19:08:23, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235) find_response_record: response packet id 9338 received with no matching record. [2003/04/02 19:08:23, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235) find_response_record: response packet id 9339 received with no matching record. [2003/04/02 19:08:27, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_stage2(114) * Samba server FIREWALL is now a domain master browser for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 44.131.90.129 * [2003/04/02 19:08:42, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(404) * Samba name server FIREWALL is now a local master browser for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 44.131.90.129 log.smbd [2003/04/02 19:08:12, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707) smbd version 2.2.7a started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002 [2003/04/02 19:12:30, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(348) Unable to open new log file /var/log/samba/log.winblows: No such file or directory [2003/04/02 19:12:30, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(348) Unable to open new log file /var/log/samba/log.winblows: No such file or directory [2003/04/02 19:12:30, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(348) Unable to open new log file /var/log/samba/log.winblows: No such file or director Futhermore linnieghbourhood no longer shows any shares on this box my smb.conf file is now looking like this # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP netbios name = FIREWALL netbios aliases = firewall server string = Samba Server %v interfaces = eth0 security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes root directory = /home/richard log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups os level = 99 dns proxy = No wins support = Yes printer admin = @adm hosts allow = 44.131.90.129 44.131.90.149 127.0.0.1 printing = cups domain master = yes prefered master = yes [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 clientside printer drivers. browseable = No This is why I did suggest to take this off line before someone got a bit sick of this, I expect to get flamed before long for not getting this sorted.. TIA Richard
Re: [expert] ispell installation
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:22:28 -0500 (EST) synrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does ispell require that I install some foreign language version in addition to ispell itself ispell requires An ispell-dict. ispell is outmoded and replaced by aspell and as such is now little used ao there is no longer an en dict pkg. Charles -- Windows found - Remove? (Y)es (S)ure (F)ine (O)K (M)ake it so - Mandrake Linux 9.1 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.13mdk - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Intel 815 Chipset and Xfree86
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 09:34, Brian Sands wrote: Hello, I have tried to get Xfree86 4.2 and 4.3 to work with my Intel 815 graphics controller. Using Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 the screen flickers excessively and makes it hard to even look at the desktop for more than a few minutes. Has anyone had any success with configuring this with X? (its a Dell Optiplex gx150) both work out of the box on my i815-based laptop, though 9.0 had some DRI issues. I would look for issues like ACPI? I've read a lot of articles on the subject and nothing seems to make a difference. One article mentioned agpgart was needed compiled in the kernel. Isn't this enabled on a default install? The screen looks like multiple waves run across the screen. Thanks in advance... __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] re:samba~ maybe progress ?
Hi all, after much hair pulling, and ploughing though the samba help file, I found on the later version of samba entering the a dummy password as in the samba smbpasswd dos'nt work. But using smbpasswd -a user password into a empty file does. Still in the position that thw winblows machine can only see this linux mavchine if the ip address is searched for , and then the workgroup is unknown, and login is blocked. according to SWAT smb and nmb are running, and the PID appears if I type ps -ax. smbclient on this box is now giving [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# smbclient //firewall/public -U richard added interface ip=44.131.90.129 bcast=44.131.91.255 nmask=255.255.254.0 Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE or -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# smbclient -U richard -L localhost added interface ip=44.131.90.129 bcast=44.131.91.255 nmask=255.255.254.0 Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE I still cant find out why the bcast address is in the wrong subnet, it should be 44.131.90.255 NOT 44.131.91.255 Ive attached the current smb.conf file TIA Richard richard bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2003/04/02 21:50:20 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP netbios name = FIREWALL netbios aliases = firewall server string = Samba Server %v interfaces = eth0 security = SHARE root directory = /home/richard log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups os level = 99 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No printer admin = @adm hosts allow = 44.131.90. 127.0.0.1 printing = cups [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 [/home/public] path = /tmp [/home/richard] path = /tmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 kudos
I've had a fairly rocky upgrade, but now that I'm finally solidly on 9.1 I can offer up three big kudos -- i810 sound is vastly improved, i810 video is vastly improved, and the fonts are extremely sweet. Now I can't wait for Evolution to shift to Gnome 2 and I'm starting to eyeball the XFce4 betas to get better fonts there too :-) At this point my greatest desktop wish is for better and better integration between Gnome, KDE, and other skinned apps (XFce, gkrellm, xmms) in terms of theme management -- in a perfect world, I'd choose a theme set in a DrakConf panel and it would apply across all environments. That and a better swsusp. so thanks MDK-guys! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1: Icons for Removable Devices
Using KDE with 9.1, I have some questions about the new approach for automatically creating desktop icons for removable devices. I don't care for how this shows up on my desktop--with each drive having 3 lines of text like: CD-ROM mounted on /mnt /cdrom2 This takes up a lot of space since I have a floppy, zip, cdrom, cd burner, and dvd burner. Furthermore, the cdrom, cd burner, and dvd burner all show up with identical icons, and can be distinguished only via the mount point. This is not how I want to remember which is which. So, what can I do about this? How can I change the names/text and icon for each of the drives? Also, how are these icons being generated? (I haven't tried tracking it down as of yet.) Thanks for any assistance! Norm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] updatedb
the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ircservices on mdk ircd.. (C/N???)
Hi guys.. I have the mandrake ircd rpm installed and running fine.. and now I am trying to add ircservices to the mix.. I have downloaded it, compiled and installed it and started it.. It is returning (in the logfile): FATAL: Remote server returned: ERROR closing link, (no C/N lines) Now this is my first attempt at our own irc server.. so go easy with me.. obviously I have to add something to ircd.conf so it will accept the connection from the services daemon... Anyone able to tell me what those lines are?? and what format?? my hunting around has led me to believe that it should look something like this: C:127.0.0.1:password:services.whatever.net::99 N:127.0.0.1:password:services.whatever.net::99 but I am not sure if thats correct and if so, how to edit it to suit... (in other works what the subsections of it mean..) Any help would be most appreciated. regards Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1
Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4 different java versions, and the closest I got to having it work was Sun's 1.3.1 and ALSA, but there was no mic volume going into the speakpad (even though it worked with 9.0, and it works with the audio setup wizard). Anything (Sun / IBM 1.3.1 / 1.4) with OSS is simply dieing on startup e.g. with Sun 1.4 jre: An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x401366FC Function=(null)+0x401366FC Library=/lib/i686/libc.so.6 Any suggestions? (BTW I'm currently running 9.1 RC2, until I get hold of 9.1 final). Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] wireless in ML 9.1
Well, I did a fresh install for ML 9.1 on my notebook since an upgrade from 9.0 broke stuff. (Reboot still doesn't work, though). Anyway, how do I change the configuration to use a shared key instead of an open system setting (for WEP, of course)? ML 9.1 configured the pcmcia wireless card as eth0. I believe that I need to modify /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 but I'm not sure of what variable to use. Is this info suppose to be part of WIRELESS_ENC_KEY? I tried to add the shared key parameter to that variable but it turned off WEP. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] updatedb
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 05:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Mine is working fine and I went from 9.0 to 9.1, via upgrade. ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 09:16, T E wrote: Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I have asked this question before, and was told that it optimizes the system to work more efficiently. However after reading: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html The writer states he has never seen kernel recompling produce a faster machine. Other posts on the web seem to hint that kernel recompiling is a thing of the past or a signal . Whats the deal here? I've tried recompling before on mandrake 8.2 and have had mixed results. However, I noticed that you have the option to specify the processor type (which makes me think that would make it perform faster?). A kernel recompile won't produce a faster machine (at least, not in the conventional sense). It can, however, make the perceived speed of the machine seem faster. For example, some of the low latency and pre-emptible kernel patches for the 2.4 series can improve the desktop response. More recently, some of the scheduler changes can make simple things like MP3 playback smoother. Keep in mind that these are patches to the default (i.e., Linus Torvalds) kernel. Mandrake may already have applied many of these patches so you might not gain a thing. Another reason may be for stability. The stable Linux kernel is just that, stable. However, distributions often apply other patches and features that may not have been thoroughly tested on diverse platforms. This is not necessarily a bad thing since it makes many of the more esoteric but useful kernel features available to the end user. In a server environment, however, removing experimental or not as thoroughly tested features can lead to improved stability and even better security. (NOTE: This is not to say that distribution kernels are unstable. Unless you're using features from a Cooker or experimental kernel, the default Mandrake kernels have been exceptionally stable for me). There are also other patches that don't make it to the distributions -- cutting edge or arcane features -- that requires a patch/rebuild. For example, there are certain security patches that can limit problems with user applications that can lead to breaches. Using this (as part of a layered security setup) can reduce your risk of getting rooted. -- Kwan Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kwan Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 3rd Day Recap
Onto my third day using the new 9.1 edition. In case anyone's interested, I thought I'd followup on a few items: 1) Sound works beautifully now. It's crisp, doesn't clip, and has not had any dropouts or pauses even while moving windows around. Did Mandrake patch anything that would cause this welcome improvement? I'm using the i810 drivers now. It was being picked up (correctly) as a VIA 82Cxxx but this wasn't working. Overriding draksound allowed sound to play. There were a couple remnants of the old driver left in modules.conf that I had to clear out to get it to load properly on boot. 2) USB is still not working. USB Keyboard/Mouse work fine but so far no cameras or scanners are detected. It's probably the fault of this crappy Biostar board. 3) CDROM is working perfectly now. Not sure what did it, but I had tried jumpering the drive as master and swapped it to different interfaces. It's back on the original master drive on secondary IDE controller but is now working where before it was not. The one glitch I noticed was when I put in a blank CDR into the drive and used Konqueror to browse to /mnt. The application froze for about two minutes trying to mount the unmountable disk. 4) urpmi is awesome. MandrakeUpdate rocks. I've been a big Debian fan for a long time because updates have always been so easy. Mandrake definitely wins this time, though. Also, not having to search through CDs for a package is a big time saver. I'm giving a presentation in a couple weeks on RPM usage and will use urpmi as a response to those who mention RPM dependency hell. 5) xine does not have all the proper codecs for some AVI files. Still looking for packages to fix this. DVD playback is somewhat important too since this will be a demo machine. MP3s worked out of the box, unlike the RedHat installation. Still no television... 6) Nitpicks: It would have been nice to have my scroll mouse automatically detected and configured for web scrolling. The green on blue bootup text is difficult to read on some monitors because of the contrast (or lack thereof). 7) Major stuff: Everything seems faster. I'm guessing this is because of the new GCC. KDE is certainly more responsive than before. Everything seems well integrated and yup, very professional. I've been using the common desktop apps (Evolution, Konqueror, XMMS, OpenOffice) for the past couple days and like what I see. I was going to suggest that the menu system adopt a more purpose friendly naming convention (Audio Player vs XMMS, Email vs Evolution) but the What to Do entry works a lot better. This may be my imagination, but the box also seems to run cooler. Is there anything in the kernel that could possibly have done this? -- Kwan Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Hard disk repartitioning
Dear all, I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want to install Mandrake Linux 9.1on this box. i want to have a dual boot system and donot want to lose any existing data. can anyone please suggest how do i repartition my disk. ive read a few articles and HOWTOs on this and frm what i gather is that a dual boot system should look like this: 1)Windows partion (FAT32) 2)Linux partition 3)Swap partition 4)Partition for data accesible from Windows and Linux(FAT32) now these articles explained this repartitioning when their original disk had a single primary dos partition. so my problem is how do i repartition my disk which has a primary and a logical partition? also i have 128MB RAM. so what should be the size of my Swap partition? thanks for your help . ak. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more
Re: [expert] 9.1 First Day recap
My All In Wonder 128 PCI was also incorrectly detected and now Gatos
fails with the message
relocation error: xatitv: undefined symbol: __7IWindowPcT1PUlii
[snip]
I would love to hear if you have success with either or both of these
problems.
OK, television is working now. I had to rebuild the package from source.
Check rpmfind.net for the src rpm. Install the src rpm but do not
rebuild. You'll need to either add this section to the spec file:
85 %{_mandir}/fr/man1/*
86 /usr/bin/*
87 /usr/lib/libgatos.*
88 /usr/include/gatos/*.h -- Add this line
Or set
%_unpackage_files_terminate_build 0
This will allow the package to build under rpm 4.0/Mandrake 9.1.
If you'd like to try my binary I can send it to you privately.
--
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Re: [expert] Hard disk repartitioning
A had a perfect reply written to this then mozilla crashed =( Damn. Though my reply was a finely crafted piece of prose, it was basically like this. Leave Winders alone. Backup ALL data since you can lose data no matter how careful you are. Defrag d: (extended part.) to minimise chance of data loss. On Mandrake install, shrink d: to around 5.5GB (or whatever you think you'll need as this will be your shared Linux/Winders data drive). With the remaining space make 3 partitions, swap, / (Linux OS part.), /home (linux only data partition used by users home directories). Swap (rule of thumb) will be twice the size of your RAM. / needs to be about 2.5-3GB and the rest will be /home. You could make a small boot partition but you won't need it if you make sure and make boot disks. Hope this helps, Jason PS, that eliminated the verbosity of my original post anyway =) M X wrote: Dear all, I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want to install Mandrake Linux 9.1 on this box. i want to have a dual boot system and donot want to lose any existing data. can anyone please suggest how do i repartition my disk. ive read a few articles and HOWTOs on this and frm what i gather is that a dual boot system should look like this: 1)Windows partion (FAT32) 2)Linux partition 3)Swap partition 4)Partition for data accesible from Windows and Linux(FAT32) now these articles explained this repartitioning when their original disk had a single primary dos partition. so my problem is how do i repartition my disk which has a primary and a logical partition? also i have 128MB RAM. so what should be the size of my Swap partition? thanks for your help . ak. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/mailsig/*http://tax.yahoo.com - File online, calculators, forms, and more Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Printing Problem in MDK 9.1
ok... Does anyone know what this means and how I could go about fixing it? This is a stock 9.1 Upgrade from 9.0 and whereas printing worked (after a fashion) in 9.0, it does not in 9.1 :( Thanks -- rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] rob]# printerdrake (printerdrake:14345): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines/libredmond95.so: undefined symbol: gtk_widget_get_direction Stopping lpd: [ OK ] Starting lpd: Warning - cannot stat 'if' filter '/usr/sbin/lpdomatic' - No such file or directory Warning - lp: CATASTOPHIC ERROR! queue 'lp' also has spool directory '/var/spool/lpd/lp' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wireless in ML 9.1
engage wrote: Well, I did a fresh install for ML 9.1 on my notebook since an upgrade from 9.0 broke stuff. (Reboot still doesn't work, though). Anyway, how do I change the configuration to use a shared key instead of an open system setting (for WEP, of course)? ML 9.1 configured the pcmcia wireless card as eth0. I believe that I need to modify /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 but I'm not sure of what variable to use. Is this info suppose to be part of WIRELESS_ENC_KEY? I tried to add the shared key parameter to that variable but it turned off WEP. Here's what my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file contains: TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR= BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=hostname NEEDHOSTNAME=no ESSID=foobar CHANNEL=6 MODE=Managed KEY=B21B-51E3-3A Works perfectly for me. I've got a Linksys WPC-11 wireless PC card. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 URPMI/RPMdrake
Some observations about 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade. I used to have a working ethereal. It no longer works. It now captures frames, but when you click stop, it must hangs. I can never analyze the data I have captured. I just opened rpm drake (which still has the one program borked into 4 pieces instead of one!!!) and removed ethereal. I then attempted to install it again via the borked rpmdrake and it asked for disk 2. No problem, I can't get the cdrom to open. Same as 9.0. that steenkeen magic supermount... without doing a umount /mnt/cdrom. Then I can do an eject /mnt/cdrom and it will open. I stick CDROM2 in the changer and it pops right back out saying it wants cdrom 2! I pop it back in and it does this again. Don't forget I just used this very cd to upgrade with no problems whatsoever. ?? I give up on rpmdrake, go to the cdrom after doing a mount /mnt/cdrom and do an rpm -ivh and it installs just fine. Same thing as before. Hangs. So something appears to be broken. IF it works for others out there, then it must be a combination of other things I have loaded, or the upgrade. I tried 0.9.9-1mdk. 0.9.602mdk wants to be downloaded and it is getting denied. My guess is the servers are all still getting hammered. I still hate the new interface where rpmdrake is now in three pieces. HUGE step backwards from the way it was back in the 8.x days. I hate supermount. The idea is good, but execution is lacking. For instance, from bash cd /mnt. Then wait a full 60+ seconds for it to get past the supermount crap. It may be that ethereal has a bad RPM package, but I doubt it. I'd like feedback on this from anybody that has it working. The new KDE looks very nice, but it appears that the double click close on the upper left icon doesn't work anymore. ? Dunno why. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 URPMI/RPMdrake
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 09:21 pm, Lorne wrote: Some observations about 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade. Hmmm... well I see why the default urpmi/rpmdrake doesn't work on the downloads. It is configured with: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/filename The ACTUAL path is: /pub/unix/linux/Mandrake/9.0/SRPMS or x86-64 but NO contrib! So either the ftp site needs to be fixed or an errata stating someone goofed. :) I will admit I've not gone and looked yet, it may already be there. So if anyone wants to use urpmi/RPMDRAKE, they will need to point it to something that actually exists. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1: Icons for Removable Devices
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 11:51 pm, Norman Carver wrote: Using KDE with 9.1, I have some questions about the new approach for automatically creating desktop icons for removable devices. I don't care for how this shows up on my desktop--with each drive having 3 lines of text like: CD-ROM mounted on /mnt /cdrom2 This takes up a lot of space since I have a floppy, zip, cdrom, cd burner, and dvd burner. Furthermore, the cdrom, cd burner, and dvd burner all show up with identical icons, and can be distinguished only via the mount point. This is not how I want to remember which is which. So, what can I do about this? How can I change the names/text and icon for each of the drives? Also, how are these icons being generated? (I haven't tried tracking it down as of yet.) Haven't got 9.1 yet, so answer is based on 9.0. First, I would not worry about how they are generated. You can decide later whether to experiment with putting them in a folder on the desktop if that's what you want. Have you tried right-click on one of the icons, properties? You should be able to change both the name and the icon there. To change the icon you click on the icon shown and a list of available ones should show up. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] updatedb
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually set it to run daily. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 3rd Day Recap
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:34, Kwan Lowe wrote: ... 3) CDROM is working perfectly now. Not sure what did it, but I had tried jumpering the drive as master and swapped it to different interfaces. It's back on the original master drive on secondary IDE controller but is now working where before it was not. The one glitch I noticed was when I put in a blank CDR into the drive and used Konqueror to browse to /mnt. The application froze for about two minutes trying to mount the unmountable disk. cool! Thanks to supermount, even the most annoying Windows features can be brought to your Linux desktop :-) This little behavior is one of the things that has bugged the heck out of me since Win98 introduced it. I'll stick with clicking the little mount button on gkrellm, thanks :-) ... 5) xine does not have all the proper codecs for some AVI files. Still looking for packages to fix this. DVD playback is somewhat important too since this will be a demo machine. MP3s worked out of the box, unlike the RedHat installation. Still no television... plf.zarb.org and add a PLF source, then urpmi the rest of the codecs and libdecss. I haven't had time to check DVD playback on 9.1, but that was the process with 9.0. ... lot better. This may be my imagination, but the box also seems to run cooler. Is there anything in the kernel that could possibly have done this? Better ACPI support, but you'd have to turn that on... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 URPMI/RPMdrake
Okay, one more time and I'm gone for the night. Okay, I jumped the gun, maybe. Since I did an upgrade, perhaps I have got bogus urpmi info in there, and not necassarily the fresh install. DOH! Secondly, ethereal 0.9.602mdk works just fine! Woohoo! No biggy, but it does appear that the newer version didn't get created properly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] fast mirror
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Walker wrote on Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:33:14AM -0500 : ns.sslug.dk/pub/mirror/mandrake/mandrake-9.1 ftp.unspeakable.org/pub/Mandrake-iso http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html Blue skies... Todd - -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience.| | http://www.mandrakelinux.com |--unknown origin | Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+i79Glp7v05cW2woRAjqOAKCqHEy9A69EqLBgkrKVDqqPSrn8rQCgzNeT tKDEbRILTBHH1KcwOhy44lk= =iEuG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +0100 : installed the docs, then the kernel. It ended with the message: look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same of the initrd which mean you have a mdk kernel and not a mdk initrd you may go in trouble [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk]# In /boot, vmlinuz, initrd.img, and System.map are symlinks to the current versions of the kernel and initrd and system map. If the symlink for the kernel points to a different version than the symlink for the initrd points to, then you get that error. Fix the symlinks, rerun lilo, and all is fixed. Blue skies... Todd - -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. --Larry Wall Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+i7/tlp7v05cW2woRAiiQAKCGDh+4fUnYcQcUgEv4WOrrsV8KVwCePSjH feGtsql4ZBBNsVCAPJnBXwI= =9Lw5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:50 am, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4 different java versions, and the closest I got to having it work was Sun's 1.3.1 and ALSA, but there was no mic volume going into the speakpad (even though it worked with 9.0, and it works with the audio setup wizard). Anything (Sun / IBM 1.3.1 / 1.4) with OSS is simply dieing on startup e.g. with Sun 1.4 jre: An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x401366FC Function=(null)+0x401366FC Library=/lib/i686/libc.so.6 Any suggestions? (BTW I'm currently running 9.1 RC2, until I get hold of 9.1 final). 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working. If you need something that was not on your download, try plf. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:50 am, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4 different java versions, and the closest I got to having it work was Sun's 1.3.1 and ALSA, but there was no mic volume going into the speakpad (even though it worked with 9.0, and it works with the audio setup wizard). Anything (Sun / IBM 1.3.1 / 1.4) with OSS is simply dieing on startup e.g. with Sun 1.4 jre: An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x401366FC Function=(null)+0x401366FC Library=/lib/i686/libc.so.6 Any suggestions? (BTW I'm currently running 9.1 RC2, until I get hold of 9.1 final). 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working. If you need something that was not on your download, try plf. Sorry I actually meant 7.2, not 8.2. The C coded engine seems fine, as far as I can tell. The main problem is with the java coded GUI. Thanks, Damon Anne -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] updatedb
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:54, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually set it to run daily. Anne huh, what do you know. I guess I'm just such a tweaker that I manually run updatedb a lot :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] updatedb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, all... On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually set it to run daily. I believe it defaults to once per week since 8.x, but I could be wrong. In either case, I altered the default to once each day manually, as well. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html An automatic random thought For the Minute: Armadillo: To provide weapons to a Spanish pickle. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+i8G/aE1ENZP1A28RAmkqAJ44ZKwUQzjoa5k2WjoEzA9ppBZa0wCfaEoC /kOQUJAo+aATQu2F08L1k14= =FGhO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 6:05 am, Damon Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:50 am, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4 different java versions, and the closest I got to having it work was Sun's 1.3.1 and ALSA, but there was no mic volume going into the speakpad (even though it worked with 9.0, and it works with the audio setup wizard). Anything (Sun / IBM 1.3.1 / 1.4) with OSS is simply dieing on startup e.g. with Sun 1.4 jre: An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x401366FC Function=(null)+0x401366FC Library=/lib/i686/libc.so.6 Any suggestions? (BTW I'm currently running 9.1 RC2, until I get hold of 9.1 final). 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working. If you need something that was not on your download, try plf. Sorry I actually meant 7.2, not 8.2. The C coded engine seems fine, as far as I can tell. The main problem is with the java coded GUI. Even more so, I would think Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 6:00 am, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +0100 : installed the docs, then the kernel. It ended with the message: look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same of the initrd which mean you have a mdk kernel and not a mdk initrd you may go in trouble [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk]# In /boot, vmlinuz, initrd.img, and System.map are symlinks to the current versions of the kernel and initrd and system map. If the symlink for the kernel points to a different version than the symlink for the initrd points to, then you get that error. Fix the symlinks, rerun lilo, and all is fixed. Thanks, Todd. I found it. Most of the entries were properly set up, but one (I think it was the win4lin one did not define properly. I just went in on one that worked and sorted it out. Everything's fine now. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.
I can make do assumptions about the systems of the end user... nor about their knowledge level. I can understand that. The end user will just get the data and import it into their favorite spreadsheet or what have you. And it's a given that html is not something that is going to come into a spreadsheet. Yet what I don't understand is a need for it to do so - why should there be an rtf for spreadsheets, as you put it? The formatting (as I see it) should remain in the spreadsheet. The data can be just brought in. Are your users spreadsheet neophytes in that you can't assume they will be able to (for instance) set column widths, decimals, and other cell attributes and that the spreadsheet should look a certain way? Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working. If you need something that was not on your download, try plf. Yeah, but the commercial apps should have everything they need statically compiled in. I got ViaVoice going on 9.0 with the IBM JRE included, I have not tried on 9.1, but might give it a go in the next week or so. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Argh! Turned off devfs, and where are the CDs?
Let's see. One drive is an EIDE DVD-ROM mounted normally, and the other is a CD-RW mounted ide-scsi. I did a ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom, to create a new link to the missing /dev/cdrom, and while it seems to mount properly, and conform to eject /dev/cdrom, it can seem to be detected in Grip, although I am pointing Grip at /dev/cdrom. The CDRW is going to be a scsi device, I think, but I am not sure what device it will show up as. And how about /dev/USBtty0 and USBtty1? where will I link them to? Argh. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 3rd Day Recap
6) Nitpicks: It would have been nice to have my scroll mouse automatically detected and configured for web scrolling. The green on Yeah, i though it kind of strange that logitech scroll mice were down in the other category instead of next to the logitech non-scroll mouse... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re:samba~ maybe progress ?
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:19:57PM +0100, richard bown wrote: Hi all, after much hair pulling, and ploughing though the samba help file, I found on the later version of samba entering the a dummy password as in the samba smbpasswd dos'nt work. But using smbpasswd -a user password into a empty file does. Still in the position that thw winblows machine can only see this linux mavchine if the ip address is searched for , and then the workgroup is unknown, and login is blocked. Have you tried the remote announce option in your smb.conf? Dave -- Dave Whiting Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] class hash not available
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 07:06:35 -0800 (PST) Tru64 User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a difficult time upgrading sendmail on Mandrake 9.0 (works like a charm on my other 8.2 machines) Sendmail just came up with 8.12.9 Ran the usual sendmail sh Build, and it works ok. But then, when I try service start sendmail i get an error:: Starting sendmail: makemap: Need to recompile with -DNEWDB for hash support make: *** [access.db] Error 73 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 152: readcf: map access: class hash not available 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 158: readcf: map authinfo: class hash not available Another way to solve this (depending on the size of your mailserver) is not use hash on these two lines but dbm. Do this by putting FEATURE(`access_db', `dbm -TTMPF /etc/mail/access')dnl in your sendmail.mc (and the same for the authinfo). Marc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 7:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working. If you need something that was not on your download, try plf. Yeah, but the commercial apps should have everything they need statically compiled in. I got ViaVoice going on 9.0 with the IBM JRE included, I have not tried on 9.1, but might give it a go in the next week or so. I guess I'm not understanding your question. I thought you were talking about something you had running under 8.2 and wanted to run the same rpm under 9.1. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
