[expert] Fw: Returned mail--navigator.appVersion.indexOf(
Not that people here would fall for this, but it looks like someone is farming this list for virus targets. There was a windows screensaver (.scr) attached to the message. Kinda funny to send a windows file to someone on a linux mailing list... - Begin forwarded message: From: postmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail--navigator.appVersion.indexOf( The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: navigator.appVersion.indexOf( The attachment is the original mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:46 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What kind of speed difference are you seeing between the xp-optimization and the stock kernel? LX, I think most agreed that the .16mm MDK multimedia kernel was a better performer than the stock MDK.13 kernel. The 16mmxp version I just compiled does seem a little snappier than the i586 mm I had used before, but I don't have any hard data benchmarks to support that subjective opinion. I think I'll recompile my ck patched 2.4.21 version with the xp flags, and see how that performs. Robert C. On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:36, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. First, I installed the MDK multimedia kernel kernel-source rpms in the usual manner. Then I copied the resulting source directory placed in /usr/src to my kernels directory in ~/home. Then copy the .config file to another location, go to a console, cd to linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk and do make mrproper. Then go into the above mentioned Makefile, and comment out the current MK7 flags, and add the new flags stanza, like shown below. --LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: Question: Why I don't get any of my reply posts to the list, only when someone else reply to one of my posts? it's very annoying, could be a problem of my mail account? I doubt it. There seem to be problems with some of the Mandrake mailservers, and not just with the listservers either ;-( - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/C7RWWOfRC7Rnmv8RAmCfAJ9haZfpYw1xK3Z+35C7N3QP/CPBoQCfe38u EBfjBp+ReLmzaUyXeMlS2F4= =pV6S -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ntp error
BTW for a dial-up system i take the ntpd link out of /etc/rc5.d/ and put it in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and /etc/ppp/ip-down.local files. No point in the server running and posting errors when you are off-line. On 08 Jul 2003 21:20:55 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:42, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: ntpd is not configured for general use 'out of the box'. Its default configuration assumes that you have a timeserver on your local network, whcih is on subnet 224.0.1.1. The documentation good - read it. You have to choose some time servers on the internet, and add entries for them in /etc/ntp.conf. Comment out the lines with multicastclient and broadcastdelay. Cheaters way to configure it. If you have the wizards installed. (urpmi wizards will get it.) It will give you a new icon on the left called Server Configuration. Chose Time Wizard from the list (it's at the bottom scroll down.) and it will give you a list of working time servers... and set things up to a working condition. James -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
Thanks for the reply, Seppo. I'm on very unfamiliar territory here. I don't play games, so I've never kept up with what is happening on the graphics card scene, and I sometimes get caught out with the fact that names/phrases used don't always mean what I thought they mean g Graphics acceleration is only important in so far as it is used in dvd playback - and my old Matrox G400 handles that satisfactorily. Since the 9200 is not mentioned in the 'families' on the ATi website, should I expect that it will function satisfactorily in basic graphics, though not necessarily giving much in the way of acceleration, rather like my current card? For 'video capture' they are recommending the TVWonder and TVWonder VE. When they talk about 'video capture' are they meaning capture from tv signals? Although nice, this is not important to me, but I do want to be able to capture video from my camcorder. I see that they say that video4linux2 is needed for video capture, and gatos for dvd playback. I would be grateful for any advice from you or anyone else with more experience of video card and video capture, as I am completely out of my depth here. Anne On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:18 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: I use Radeon All-In-Wonder with all functions available. you need to use Gatos project drivers to get everything working. http://gatos.sf.net/ On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:34, Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees had said that he had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site and there is no linux driver for this model. Is anyone using it? Anne _ _ 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] Fw: Returned mail--navigator.appVersion.indexOf(
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 23:02, Eric Huff wrote: Not that people here would fall for this, but it looks like someone is farming this list for virus targets. There was a windows screensaver (.scr) attached to the message. Kinda funny to send a windows file to someone on a linux mailing list... I'd be willing to bet that it is someone who has been on the list or lurks on the list... and picks up their mail via outhook excess. James - Begin forwarded message: From: postmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail--navigator.appVersion.indexOf( The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: navigator.appVersion.indexOf( The attachment is the original mail __ 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] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:35, Larry Sword wrote: **From:* Roger Ellison * *Subject:* [expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs * *Date:* 6 Jul 2003 21:03:58 - I just got a Compaq Presario 2500. The 9.1 install hangs in the graphical installer with the following on the screen: 'installing driver for bus/firewire card Texas Instruments|TSB43AB21 iEEE-1394 controller (PHY/Link) 1394a-2000' The 1394 is builtin and can't be disabled in BIOS. Is there a workaround; such, as a kernel parameter which'll disable loading of the driver? Thanks Roger Try the linux noauto to bypass the hardware detection. Thanks, that did the trick. It's installed and running fine thus far (at 5:32am :). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. Robert - would you put this onto the TWiki how-to pages, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
Sure, but could you please give me a brief rundown on how to do that? I've never used TWki before, and know nothing about it. Robert On Wednesday 09 July 2003 05:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. Robert - would you put this onto the TWiki how-to pages, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
On the WebHome page, top right, you will see links to info pages that will give you the general idea. Whilst browsing you will come across a page called TWiki Shorthand (or similar) - print that one out, it will help you. When you have got the general idea, you need to sign up as a TWiki user - just follow the link 'TWikiRegistration'. Once signed up you will find that you can edit any page - the existing entries will guide you re formatting. Whenever you make any changes you preview them before accepting, so it's easy to go back and correct any mistakes. It looks a little daunting, but once you try it you'll find that it's really very easy. Anne On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 11:12 am, Robert Crawford wrote: Sure, but could you please give me a brief rundown on how to do that? I've never used TWki before, and know nothing about it. Robert On Wednesday 09 July 2003 05:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. Robert - would you put this onto the TWiki how-to pages, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 06:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On the WebHome page, top right, you will see links to info pages that will give you the general idea. Whilst browsing you will come across a page called TWiki Shorthand (or similar) - print that one out, it will help you. When you have got the general idea, you need to sign up as a TWiki user - just follow the link 'TWikiRegistration'. Once signed up you will find that you can edit any page - the existing entries will guide you re formatting. Whenever you make any changes you preview them before accepting, so it's easy to go back and correct any mistakes. It looks a little daunting, but once you try it you'll find that it's really very easy. Anne OK- I registered, but I haven't got time to go through all the pages and learn how to post to it right now. I'm still not sure I see how it's better than a regular list where people post back and forth, like this one. If I understand correctly, you are able to edit other peoples pages, at will. That seems inherently problematic- what if you're wrong about some edit you make on a topic somebody else started- or vice-versa, somebody changes your How-to, and they're wrong? Am I missing the point somehow? Robert On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 11:12 am, Robert Crawford wrote: Sure, but could you please give me a brief rundown on how to do that? I've never used TWki before, and know nothing about it. Robert On Wednesday 09 July 2003 05:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. Robert - would you put this onto the TWiki how-to pages, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:58, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks for the reply, Seppo. I'm on very unfamiliar territory here. I don't play games, so I've never kept up with what is happening on the graphics card scene, and I sometimes get caught out with the fact that names/phrases used don't always mean what I thought they mean g Graphics acceleration is only important in so far as it is used in dvd playback - and my old Matrox G400 handles that satisfactorily. Since the 9200 is not mentioned in the 'families' on the ATi website, should I expect that it will function satisfactorily in basic graphics, though not necessarily giving much in the way of acceleration, rather like my current card? The basic Radeon driver in Mandrake does not include DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) , but it is not needed for DVD playback as the function is Hardware, not software in Radeons, so it's automatically used. Mind you, installing the Gatos drivers is easy, getting DRI to work is not. Basically you need to compile one driver + edit some files since Mandrake for some reason DOES NOT load AGPGART... For 'video capture' they are recommending the TVWonder and TVWonder VE. When they talk about 'video capture' are they meaning capture from tv signals? Although nice, this is not important to me, but I do want to be able to capture video from my camcorder. I see that they say that video4linux2 is needed for video capture, and gatos for dvd playback. You probably need the gatos project drivers to get videocapture working, make sure that the card you buy includes VIDEO-IN / VIDEO-OUT. I have only tested that these functions work in my All-In-Wonder, not used them that much. I would be grateful for any advice from you or anyone else with more experience of video card and video capture, as I am completely out of my depth here. I'm myself adept only with the basics too... Anne On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:18 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: I use Radeon All-In-Wonder with all functions available. you need to use Gatos project drivers to get everything working. http://gatos.sf.net/ On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:34, Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees had said that he had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site and there is no linux driver for this model. Is anyone using it? Anne _ _ 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 -- Seppo Jarvinen,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Never trust an operating system Kenttäkatu 9 A 2,76100 PIEKSÄMÄKI you don't have sources for. GSM +358 40 568 1756 You never know what you're facing Power the World, With Linux! unless you dare to LOOK AT IT. Technology lies on the leading edge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 11:37 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:58, Anne Wilson wrote: The basic Radeon driver in Mandrake does not include DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) , but it is not needed for DVD playback as the function is Hardware, not software in Radeons, so it's automatically used. That looks hopeful. Mind you, installing the Gatos drivers is easy, getting DRI to work is not. Basically you need to compile one driver + edit some files since Mandrake for some reason DOES NOT load AGPGART... Is DRI trying to do what DirectX does? That's what it sounds like to me. For 'video capture' they are recommending the TVWonder and TVWonder VE. When they talk about 'video capture' are they meaning capture from tv signals? Although nice, this is not important to me, but I do want to be able to capture video from my camcorder. I see that they say that video4linux2 is needed for video capture, and gatos for dvd playback. You probably need the gatos project drivers to get videocapture working, make sure that the card you buy includes VIDEO-IN / VIDEO-OUT. The 9200 is vivo. Thanks, Seppe Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 12:08 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 06:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK- I registered, but I haven't got time to go through all the pages and learn how to post to it right now. I'm still not sure I see how it's better than a regular list where people post back and forth, like this one. If I understand correctly, you are able to edit other peoples pages, at will. That seems inherently problematic- what if you're wrong about some edit you make on a topic somebody else started- or vice-versa, somebody changes your How-to, and they're wrong? Am I missing the point somehow? There has to be a degree of mutual trust, but all changes are archived. When changes have been made you can view the diffs, and see who changed anything. There is always the sanction of denying membership to anyone who is found to be abusing the rights. I don't think there's much to be afraid of. I think you said that you have the info on your website? The easiest way, if you have, is to simply post a very bried description of what you are doing, with a link to your website. That should only take you a few minutes, and you would probably be able to work out any formatting commands needed by simply looking at the current entries and copying them. Don't forget to copy and paste your signature when you've done. Good luck Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] directory/file size limits
Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible or not to specify a maximum size for a specific folder. I know you can setup a maximum HD space for each user but what I want to do is to limit just one folder. Is is possible? I also would like to know if there is any standard C function to know the size of a file. Thanks Asier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.
my gnupg version is 1.2.2-1.1mdk Anyway I usually rebuild my RPMs as root so I don't know if i have the same problem as normal user. Angelo --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 01:21, R N dev wrote: once, i had the same problem, i don't know if it is related but after having update the gpg (form mdk update) i haven't got it any more. (i deleted ~/.gnupg directory and re-generated the key) Angelo Hm I should be uptodate... what version do you have? (and the key has been regened about 5 times now*grin*) James --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Went to this page. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 following the instructions I created the .rpmmacros file edited it as it outlined. then I did gpg --gen-key filled in the blanks ... generated a key. now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the key-gen phase.. and I get Pass phrase check failed Anyone have a clue as to what I did wrong? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rsh and passwd:
Can't you use ssh instead? use ssh-keygen to generate your keys and follow the manual instructions to export/import keys. After that using ssh does not ask you password any more. --- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, With MDK 9.1 in two boxex, when using rsh I'm prompted to passwd:, i.e., it's not rlogin automatically (after set .rhosts etc.). During installation I set security HIGH, could it be the source of this issue? I need rsh to run lam-mpi. Any help here would be 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 15:06, Anne Wilson wrote: Mind you, installing the Gatos drivers is easy, getting DRI to work is not. Basically you need to compile one driver + edit some files since Mandrake for some reason DOES NOT load AGPGART... Is DRI trying to do what DirectX does? That's what it sounds like to me. Yes. It's the accelerated architechture for OpenGL. Anne __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Seppo Jarvinen,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Never trust an operating system Kenttäkatu 9 A 2,76100 PIEKSÄMÄKI you don't have sources for. GSM +358 40 568 1756 You never know what you're facing Power the World, With Linux! unless you dare to LOOK AT IT. Technology lies on the leading edge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
Question...I have built/tried the 2.4.21-0.17mm-mdk kernel and found it to be too slow for most activities. Perhaps it is great for multimedia but anything else... Is the previous version -0.16mdkmm somehow superior to -0.17mm-mdk? --- Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. akestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
On 09 Jul 2003 13:37:52 +0300 Seppo Jarvinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The basic Radeon driver in Mandrake does not include DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) , but it is not needed for DVD playback as the function is Hardware, not software in Radeons, so it's automatically used. DRI is provided and enabled for radeons = 8500 by Free86 = 4.3 and the kernel drm module which Is included in Mandrake 9.1 It the radeon series 8500 for which there is No dri support Unless one installs the fglrx driver from ATI I have a radeon 32MB DDR and a radeon 64MB DDR and both have have worked with DRI since Mandrake 7.2 and XFree-4.0.2 I also have a radeon 9600 Pro with DRI enabled and working by using the fglrx driver. Charles -- The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Erlich - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21.3mdk http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
Wow. You would like to pay for a top-end 3D acceleration card but only seek to use the 2D rendering? I would think that you would do quite well to simply stick with Matrox or lower end ATI or NVidia cards with decent memory (say 64 MB) and you would be set for all 2D and DVD viewing. It seems such a waste of money to buy something like a (weakly supported) ATI 9200 and only use the simple 2D acceleration it offers. praedor --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply, Seppo. I'm on very unfamiliar territory here. I don't play games, so I've never kept up with what is happening on the graphics card scene, and I sometimes get caught out with the fact that names/phrases used don't always mean what I thought they mean g Graphics acceleration is only important in so far as it is used in dvd playback - and my old Matrox G400 handles that satisfactorily. Since the 9200 is not mentioned in the 'families' on the ATi website, should I expect that it will function satisfactorily in basic graphics, though not necessarily giving much in the way of acceleration, rather like my current card? For 'video capture' they are recommending the TVWonder and TVWonder VE. When they talk about 'video capture' are they meaning capture from tv signals? Although nice, this is not important to me, but I do want to be able to capture video from my camcorder. I see that they say that video4linux2 is needed for video capture, and gatos for dvd playback. I would be grateful for any advice from you or anyone else with more experience of video card and video capture, as I am completely out of my depth here. Anne On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:18 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: I use Radeon All-In-Wonder with all functions available. you need to use Gatos project drivers to get everything working. http://gatos.sf.net/ On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:34, Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees had said that he had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site and there is no linux driver for this model. Is anyone using it? Anne _ _ 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1
It has been a while since I last played this game but now I have some family visiting and at least one of these visitors would like to pass some time playing it. I installed it last night, got it working with my NVidia Ti4200 just fine, but I have no sound and it looks to be a libSDL issue of some sort. Has anyone managed to get this game working with sound in Mandrake 9.1 (or 9.0 which is likely similar enough for me to copy)? I have all the libSDL rpms installed that came with 9.1 but perhaps one is missing that is needed by this game? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 'nix conf files in XML?
This is something of a philosophical question which goes like this: Would it make Unix systems easier to use if all the *.conf, Access Control Lists etc. were written in an established XML format? Basically what I am talking about is writing XML enabling patches for systems like Samba, DHCP, BIND etc. etc Wouldn't this facilitate the development of GUI configuration interfaces? Would it also facilitate things of which I am not aware or have not thought of? Note that a text mode editor could be developed for said format such that files could be viewed and edited from the command line. Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Mouse and KVM Was: [expert] HP printers on USB
Speaking of which, I am pretty sure that there is a way to fix this without logging out of X but what is it? Used to be that all I had to do was restart console mouse services and viola! Things have changed since then however and I no longer know how to do this. Jim C. Anne have similar fun with MDK and my optical mouse via kvm With MDK I have to directly connect the mouse during install. After that it only loses it sometimes... James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
I'm using a Radeon 9100 PowerColor and it has TV Out, CRT and DVI . Seems to work OK in Linux. Jim C. Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees had said that he had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site and there is no linux driver for this model. Is anyone using it? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Question about networking
I don't suppose there is an inexpensive hardware router/Firewall/switch out there that will do DHCP relaying? Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 09 Jul 2003 13:37:52 +0300 Seppo Jarvinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The basic Radeon driver in Mandrake does not include DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) , but it is not needed for DVD playback as the function is Hardware, not software in Radeons, so it's automatically used. DRI is provided and enabled for radeons = 8500 by Free86 = 4.3 and the kernel drm module which Is included in Mandrake 9.1 For some reason it has never worked for me (in mdk 9 / 9.1) out of the box. I've always needed the Gatos Project Radeon driver + drm kernel module. Charles -- Seppo Jarvinen , [EMAIL PROTECTED]Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. GSM+SMS +358 40 568 1756 You never know what you're facing Power the World, With Linux! unless you dare to LOOK AT IT. Technology lies on the leading edge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 3:53 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: Wow. You would like to pay for a top-end 3D acceleration card but only seek to use the 2D rendering? I would think that you would do quite well to simply stick with Matrox or lower end ATI or NVidia cards with decent memory (say 64 MB) and you would be set for all 2D and DVD viewing. It seems such a waste of money to buy something like a (weakly supported) ATI 9200 and only use the simple 2D acceleration it offers. praedor As far as video cards go, I'm quite happy with what I've got, but I do want to be able to attach my camcorder, and so far I still haven't found the best solution. What would you recommend? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radeon 9200
Now that's interesting, because that one isn't listed on their linux pages either. It's looking more hopeful. Anne On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 4:17 pm, Jim C wrote: I'm using a Radeon 9100 PowerColor and it has TV Out, CRT and DVI . Seems to work OK in Linux. Jim C. Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees had said that he had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site and there is no linux driver for this model. Is anyone using it? Anne -- -- 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] rsh and passwd:
Might want to check through msec's files to find out if it is doing anything in regards to this. Use locate to find them. Jim C. Hi List, With MDK 9.1 in two boxex, when using rsh I'm prompted to passwd:, i.e., it's not rlogin automatically (after set .rhosts etc.). During installation I set security HIGH, could it be the source of this issue? I need rsh to run lam-mpi. Any help here would be welcome. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] In-Wall home networking questions. -- Follow-Up
Ok, I wanted to post a follow-up regarding the home-networking plans I mentioned earlier. Just to recap, I have cat-5 routed through my home, going from each outlet (about 18) to the basement. I was looking for the best way to have them all accessible to the internet (via dsl/cable modem). Also I want to be able to just plug in my wireless access point to any plug and have it work, and do the same with a network printer. There is a company called Leviton that sells modular home networking equipment. For about $600, I can buy some supplies through them to hook up my system in one central location in the basement. It looks pretty sweet, and consists of: 2 White Steel boxes w/access panel (one for routers, etc. and a little one for excess cable) 1 24-port ethernet/phone panel 1 4-port Internet Gateway 3 8-port Ethernet Switches and 1 little shelf for my cable/dsl modem I can also add on a surge protector and UPS. Leviton has images of all their products online, here are pictures of all the parts in order: http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/smc420.asp http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/smc140.asp http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/24portsmp.asp http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/4PortInternetGateway.asp http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/structuredmedia/ethernetswitches.asp SO, my question is, is it worth it? $600 doesn't seem so bad for all this stuff. I might be able to route my telephone and cable/satellite through here, too. (Though the jury is still out on that due to old wiring.) It seems like an elegant solution. Am I better off just getting a really big switch and use a computer as a gateway? - Paul On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:02, Paul Rodriguez wrote: So just a normal switch (say 20-port) connected to the cable/dsl router? What role does the router play? Is it for use as a firewire? - paul On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 22:49, Michael Noble wrote: I assume you ment RJ-45. All you need is a switch that will handle all the network lines that go into the basement. If you have cable/DSL for internet then you should get a Linksys Cable/DSL router(you might want to get a wireless which also has RJ-45. The setup would look like this: Internet | Linksys cable/dsl router | | Fast switch | | Connections to the other rooms in the house Mike On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:20, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I recently did some renovation on my house. While all of the walls were open, I had the electrician wire cat5, rj-46, and voice cable to every room in the house, and routed directly to the basement. I need some help coming up with a strategy for setting up the home networking. Should I get a large router and connect it to a server in the basement, or should I go with a prefab integrated modular networking system? I see that Leviton (http://www.leviton.com) has a system to integrate home networks. It's a box that goes in the basement and routes all cable, phone, lan, and I think can be connected to a home surge protector, server, and cable/dsl modem. But I'm not sure if it's big enough to accomodate all 18 connectors I have. I would love to use a product like this if it was affordable, because it would be a much cleaner solution. Does anybody have any experience doing this sort of thing, or with any specific products? Do you have an recommendations for me? I appreciate your help, and I appologize for cross-posting to both newbie and expert, but I figured it might cross boundaries here. -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ethernet -cable modem
Hi all I found a way some while ago to see if the link between the cable modem and my NIC was running full or half duplex and at what speed. I cant remember where or how I found it. Can anyone help please TIA -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] help!!!
hello i have a ADSL USB MODEM ALE 130 and i don't now how install the modem maiby i need a driver if have this driver please send me help me please!!!
RE: [expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1
Did you try a killall artsd before you started running the game? -Original Message- From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1 It has been a while since I last played this game but now I have some family visiting and at least one of these visitors would like to pass some time playing it. I installed it last night, got it working with my NVidia Ti4200 just fine, but I have no sound and it looks to be a libSDL issue of some sort. Has anyone managed to get this game working with sound in Mandrake 9.1 (or 9.0 which is likely similar enough for me to copy)? I have all the libSDL rpms installed that came with 9.1 but perhaps one is missing that is needed by this game? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ethernet -cable modem
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I found a way some while ago to see if the link between the cable modem and my NIC was running full or half duplex and at what speed. I cant remember where or how I found it. Can anyone help please TIA miitool -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 03:22 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: There have been some Toshiba firmware updates addressing media support; you probably would be served best if you made sure the drive was flashed with the latest firmware. I've got a link I'll send you that also includes region free firmware updates. ;) --LX Thanks Lyvim! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:58, Praedor Tempus wrote: It has been a while since I last played this game but now I have some family visiting and at least one of these visitors would like to pass some time playing it. I installed it last night, got it working with my NVidia Ti4200 just fine, but I have no sound and it looks to be a libSDL issue of some sort. Has anyone managed to get this game working with sound in Mandrake 9.1 (or 9.0 which is likely similar enough for me to copy)? I have all the libSDL rpms installed that came with 9.1 but perhaps one is missing that is needed by this game? praedor It's been awhile since I've done this, but I remember having to do a symlink(s) to the *real* SDL .so files(lib dir somewhere) *from* the heretic2 directory. I think that's finally what got it going. I'm going to be reinstalling Heretic2 this weekend (my son's coming to spend a week) so then I can have some hard specific information for you then. Ahhhyou also need to have the dynamic linked patch in place instead of the static lined one. I've got that patch archived if you need it btw. The best one I could find was from somewhere in Germany, and after I applied that and made the symlink changes, stuff started working. This was under 8.2, but I believe we can get the same results under LM91. --LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ethernet -cable modem
Thanks Jack, but where do I find it, its not on my system at the moment, or on the club/ distro servers Thanks Richard On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:32, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I found a way some while ago to see if the link between the cable modem and my NIC was running full or half duplex and at what speed. I cant remember where or how I found it. Can anyone help please TIA miitool -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 03:12, Robert Crawford wrote: Sure, but could you please give me a brief rundown on how to do that? I've never used TWki before, and know nothing about it. Robert Robert as a cheat for those who don't know the Twiki syntax (and this is a designed for cheat not a hack.) Use HTML If you create it as an HTML page and then snip after body and before/body cut and paste it into the window... it works perfectly. html head title /title /head body !-- snip here -- Your data here !-- end snip -- /body /html James On Wednesday 09 July 2003 05:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. Robert - would you put this onto the TWiki how-to pages, please? Anne __ 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] Question about networking
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 09:25 am, Jim C wrote: I don't suppose there is an inexpensive hardware router/Firewall/switch out there that will do DHCP relaying? Jim C. If you have an old machine around (486 is OK) have a look at www.smoothwall.org -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
Thanks for the info Anne. I don't presently have a website up, and the one I had wasn't related to computers. You must be thinking of someone else. Robert On Wednesday 09 July 2003 08:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 12:08 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 06:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK- I registered, but I haven't got time to go through all the pages and learn how to post to it right now. I'm still not sure I see how it's better than a regular list where people post back and forth, like this one. If I understand correctly, you are able to edit other peoples pages, at will. That seems inherently problematic- what if you're wrong about some edit you make on a topic somebody else started- or vice-versa, somebody changes your How-to, and they're wrong? Am I missing the point somehow? There has to be a degree of mutual trust, but all changes are archived. When changes have been made you can view the diffs, and see who changed anything. There is always the sanction of denying membership to anyone who is found to be abusing the rights. I don't think there's much to be afraid of. I think you said that you have the info on your website? The easiest way, if you have, is to simply post a very bried description of what you are doing, with a link to your website. That should only take you a few minutes, and you would probably be able to work out any formatting commands needed by simply looking at the current entries and copying them. Don't forget to copy and paste your signature when you've done. Good luck Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 07:48, Praedor Tempus wrote: Question...I have built/tried the 2.4.21-0.17mm-mdk kernel and found it to be too slow for most activities. Perhaps it is great for multimedia but anything else... Is the previous version -0.16mdkmm somehow superior to -0.17mm-mdk? Not really I just think that the reason all of use mention/use 16mm is because 17mm wasn't out when we started this. Nothing more. James --- Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. akestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ 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] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 10:58 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: Has anyone managed to get this game working with sound in Mandrake 9.1 (or 9.0 which is likely similar enough for me to copy)? I have all the libSDL rpms installed that came with 9.1 but perhaps one is missing that is needed by this game? praedor Start if from a shell, and post the relevant portion for sound (any errors, etc). I can testify that it works just fine under 9.1 here, sound and all. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 04:08, Robert Crawford wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 06:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On the WebHome page, top right, you will see links to info pages that will give you the general idea. Whilst browsing you will come across a page called TWiki Shorthand (or similar) - print that one out, it will help you. When you have got the general idea, you need to sign up as a TWiki user - just follow the link 'TWikiRegistration'. Once signed up you will find that you can edit any page - the existing entries will guide you re formatting. Whenever you make any changes you preview them before accepting, so it's easy to go back and correct any mistakes. It looks a little daunting, but once you try it you'll find that it's really very easy. Anne OK- I registered, but I haven't got time to go through all the pages and learn how to post to it right now. I'm still not sure I see how it's better than a regular list where people post back and forth, like this one. If I understand correctly, you are able to edit other peoples pages, at will. That seems inherently problematic- what if you're wrong about some edit you make on a topic somebody else started- or vice-versa, somebody changes your How-to, and they're wrong? Am I missing the point somehow? Robert Robert, Check out Wikipedia... Thousands of pages and barely any hacking. Companies like Intel, WindRiver and others use this internally. James On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 11:12 am, Robert Crawford wrote: Sure, but could you please give me a brief rundown on how to do that? I've never used TWki before, and know nothing about it. Robert On Wednesday 09 July 2003 05:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. Robert - would you put this onto the TWiki how-to pages, please? Anne __ 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] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:01, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 10:58 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: Has anyone managed to get this game working with sound in Mandrake 9.1 (or 9.0 which is likely similar enough for me to copy)? I have all the libSDL rpms installed that came with 9.1 but perhaps one is missing that is needed by this game? praedor Start if from a shell, and post the relevant portion for sound (any errors, etc). I can testify that it works just fine under 9.1 here, sound and all. Question are you running from inside KDE and is it possible there is a conflict with arts sound wrapper? If you say started up in IceWM does it work right? james Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] directory/file size limits
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 05:00, Asier Goikoetxea Yanci wrote: Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible or not to specify a maximum size for a specific folder. I know you can setup a maximum HD space for each user but what I want to do is to limit just one folder. Is is possible? I also would like to know if there is any standard C function to know the size of a file. Thanks Asier Asier, The command you may want is ulimit. This will limit the size of a specific file and since in Linux everything is a file it has affect on directories as well. (Although not as fine tuned.) The man page for Ulimite bytes and I haven't found a good ref on how to use it here. Basically you enter a size in k so for a 2 meg limit you would do ulimit 2048 and now you can't create a file larger than 2 megs. Since I usually use things the way they are (unlimited) I do it that way. Downside. This affects all users on the box. All file systems etc. For something finer grained I'm not sure. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
Hmmm. I've generally found the mm more responsive for normal web surfing and office type stuff, with a little digital camera work ocassionally- I don't do any gaming. Didn't know there was a .17mm-mdk- do you mean .18? AFAIK, the .18 just added some driver support to the .16, so I never bothered with it. I also got into doing the ck patches on the vanilla 2.4.21. IIRC, you run an MSI board similar to one of mine- so I guess the perceived performance increase probably depends on what applications are involved, and how they are affected by the preemption/low-latency factor. Robert C. On Wednesday 09 July 2003 10:48 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: Question...I have built/tried the 2.4.21-0.17mm-mdk kernel and found it to be too slow for most activities. Perhaps it is great for multimedia but anything else... Is the previous version -0.16mdkmm somehow superior to -0.17mm-mdk? --- Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. akestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Mouse and KVM Was: [expert] HP printers on USB
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 08:21, Jim C wrote: Speaking of which, I am pretty sure that there is a way to fix this without logging out of X but what is it? Used to be that all I had to do was restart console mouse services and viola! Things have changed since then however and I no longer know how to do this. Jim C. Jim on mine... I pull the mouse out of the kvm and put it back in. If I use a good ol PS/2 with a ball it rarely happens. But put my ps/2 optical in.. and it happens on occasion. James Anne have similar fun with MDK and my optical mouse via kvm With MDK I have to directly connect the mouse during install. After that it only loses it sometimes... 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] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 02:33, Roger Ellison wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:35, Larry Sword wrote: **From:* Roger Ellison * *Subject:* [expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs * *Date:* 6 Jul 2003 21:03:58 - I just got a Compaq Presario 2500. The 9.1 install hangs in the graphical installer with the following on the screen: 'installing driver for bus/firewire card Texas Instruments|TSB43AB21 iEEE-1394 controller (PHY/Link) 1394a-2000' The 1394 is builtin and can't be disabled in BIOS. Is there a workaround; such, as a kernel parameter which'll disable loading of the driver? Thanks Roger Try the linux noauto to bypass the hardware detection. Thanks, that did the trick. It's installed and running fine thus far (at 5:32am :). DOH! (slaps forhead) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:19 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Ahhhyou also need to have the dynamic linked patch in place instead of the static lined one. I've got that patch archived if you need it btw. The best one I could find was from somewhere in Germany, and after I applied that and made the symlink changes, stuff started working. Yep, I had to use the patch as well. Lyvim is right - its the static versus dynamic issue again. It does work under 9.1 though, for sure. Lyvim, I think you and I have worked thru this under a couple of releases now, eh? grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: ntp error
Hi, ntpd is not configured for general use 'out of the box'. Its default configuration assumes that you have a timeserver on your local network, whcih is on subnet 224.0.1.1. The documentation good - read it. You have to choose some time servers on the internet, and add entries for them in /etc/ntp.conf. Comment out the lines with multicastclient and broadcastdelay. I commented out multicastclient and broadcastdelay. But ntp still can't find a server to sync to. I'm actually trying to sync to server within my network using ntp. This server is able to retrieve time from the internet. I see the following when I do a more /var/log/messages | grep ntp Jul 9 11:07:10 www ntpd[4218]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 7 02:44:50 EDT 2002 (1) Jul 9 11:07:10 www ntpd[4218]: precision = 28 usec Jul 9 11:07:10 www ntpd[4218]: kernel time discipline status 0040 Jul 9 11:07:10 www ntpd[4218]: frequency initialized -5.714 from /etc/ntp/drift Jul 9 11:07:10 www ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded Jul 9 11:07:45 www ntpd: logging to file p Jul 9 11:10:35 www ntpd[4218]: kernel time discipline status change 41 Am I missing something very trivial? Please help. Regards, Norman server 127.127.1.0 # local clock fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 server 207.34.136.1 # my subnet ntp server driftfile /etc/ntp/drift #multicastclient # listen on default 224.0.1.1 #broadcastdelay 0.008 authenticate no #keys /etc/ntp/keys #trustedkey 65535 #requestkey 65535 #controlkey 65535 #restrict default ignore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
Thanks James- Great tip! Robert On Wednesday 09 July 2003 02:22 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 03:12, Robert Crawford wrote: Sure, but could you please give me a brief rundown on how to do that? I've never used TWki before, and know nothing about it. Robert Robert as a cheat for those who don't know the Twiki syntax (and this is a designed for cheat not a hack.) Use HTML If you create it as an HTML page and then snip after body and before/body cut and paste it into the window... it works perfectly. html head title /title /head body !-- snip here -- Your data here !-- end snip -- /body /html James On Wednesday 09 July 2003 05:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the linux-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk/arch/i386/Makefile, in the following manner. Robert - would you put this onto the TWiki how-to pages, please? Anne __ 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] ethernet -cable modem
Found it Jack mii-tool tnx On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:32, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I found a way some while ago to see if the link between the cable modem and my NIC was running full or half duplex and at what speed. I cant remember where or how I found it. Can anyone help please TIA miitool -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:50, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 03:22 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: There have been some Toshiba firmware updates addressing media support; you probably would be served best if you made sure the drive was flashed with the latest firmware. I've got a link I'll send you that also includes region free firmware updates. ;) --LX Thanks Lyvim! No problem, my friend. :) --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 05:13, R N dev wrote: my gnupg version is 1.2.2-1.1mdk Anyway I usually rebuild my RPMs as root so I don't know if i have the same problem as normal user. Angelo Same here actually.. especially if I have to build on RH (it's easier than fixing all of the path problems it has.) But despite some valuable info... I still can't get MDK to sign rpms. James --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 01:21, R N dev wrote: once, i had the same problem, i don't know if it is related but after having update the gpg (form mdk update) i haven't got it any more. (i deleted ~/.gnupg directory and re-generated the key) Angelo Hm I should be uptodate... what version do you have? (and the key has been regened about 5 times now*grin*) James --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Went to this page. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 following the instructions I created the .rpmmacros file edited it as it outlined. then I did gpg --gen-key filled in the blanks ... generated a key. now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the key-gen phase.. and I get Pass phrase check failed Anyone have a clue as to what I did wrong? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ 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] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 14:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:19 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Ahhhyou also need to have the dynamic linked patch in place instead of the static lined one. I've got that patch archived if you need it btw. The best one I could find was from somewhere in Germany, and after I applied that and made the symlink changes, stuff started working. Yep, I had to use the patch as well. Lyvim is right - its the static versus dynamic issue again. It does work under 9.1 though, for sure. Lyvim, I think you and I have worked thru this under a couple of releases now, eh? grin It's a tradition. ;) The tradition continues this weekend as I get a gaming workstation ready for my son; we're probably going to do some Baldur's Gate 2, Diablo 2: Throne of Bhaal, and Battlefield 1942; all under Transgaming Winex3. Then we'll probably do Heretic 2, Quake 3, and Neverwinter Nights native. Woo hoo! :) --LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ethernet -cable modem
sorry -- I should clarify that I hardly ever type more than three letters of a given command before hitting tab :-) On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:13, Richard Bown wrote: Found it Jack mii-tool tnx On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:32, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I found a way some while ago to see if the link between the cable modem and my NIC was running full or half duplex and at what speed. I cant remember where or how I found it. Can anyone help please TIA miitool -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ethernet -cable modem
On 09 Jul 2003 19:37:05 +0100 Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jack, but where do I find it, its not on my system at the moment, or on the club/ distro servers mii-tool ^ Thanks Richard On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:32, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I found a way some while ago to see if the link between the cable modem and my NIC was running full or half duplex and at what speed. I cant remember where or how I found it. Can anyone help please TIA miitool Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.26 (Mandrake Linux/5mdk)
I need to upgrade my apache to probably 1.3.27 1. Where can i find ExtranetServer? Cannot locate it on apache.org at all..what branch of apache is extranetServer? 2. Is there a way to build a new apache with the current configuration? I build one from scratch, but it keeps complaining about lots of modules, even though i compiled with options --enable-module=most --enable-shared=max I need the newly built httpd to be able to use current httpd.conf without much in terms of changes. Any easy way out? _Thanks Richard = __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel Problems
Robert Crawford wrote: Sven, Here's an idea. Make sure you have this set in make xconfig when you compile: # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y and then under # SCSI low-level drivers check these lines: # CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR is not set I don't have a zip drive, so I didn't set mine when I did xconfig. You should at least set them for modules. I've never had a zip drive, so I don't know if they need to be in the kernel, or not. Also check the file systems section and see if anything looks amiss that would affect zip drives, or anything else. I can send you a copy of my .config file that works fine with 2.4.21 and the ck patces, if you like. You would need to load it into xconfig, and the edit it to suit your hardware, save, and then dep, clean, bzImage, modules, modules_install. I've found manually copying bzImage and System map to /boot works better than make install. In my case, I don't use an initrd on non-MDK kernels. Robert Crawford. On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:23 pm, Sven L. wrote: Hello, I have a problem building a 2.4.21 Kernel. I use the sources of kernel.org with the supermountng patch and the preempt patch but I have tried with and without the patches. The problem stayes the same : 1. the partition check of hdb fails. That is my ide zip-drive. 2. the read/write remount of the / filesystem fails. And that makes booting impossible. At the moment I use the 2.4.20 kernel build of the sources from kernel.org. I have tried the same configuration with the new kernel. The problem stayes the same even with the new pre-patches for 2.4.22. If anybody has build a working kernel of the vanilla sources I would ask for the configuration he has used. I hope somebody has experience with a working 2.4.21 kernel because I am running out of ideas. Greetings Sven Lösekann Robert, it would be great if you could send me your config file. Then I would have a known working configuration to start from. That would help me to find my problem. Sven Lösekann Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.26 (Mandrake Linux/5mdk)
On Wed Jul 09, 2003 at 02:46:56PM -0700, Tru64 User wrote:
I need to upgrade my apache to probably 1.3.27
1. Where can i find ExtranetServer? Cannot locate it
on apache.org at all..what branch of apache is
extranetServer?
2. Is there a way to build a new apache with the
current configuration?
I build one from scratch, but it keeps complaining
about lots of modules, even though i compiled with
options
--enable-module=most
--enable-shared=max
I need the newly built httpd to be able to use current
httpd.conf without much in terms of changes.
Any easy way out?
www.advx.org
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Re: [expert] Question about networking
I don't suppose there is an inexpensive hardware router/Firewall/switch out there that will do DHCP relaying? Jim C. If you have an old machine around (486 is OK) have a look at www.smoothwall.org I have an old K6 III but I can't get it to work with anything. Think there might be something wrong with it. Was going to try and use MNF but couldn't get it to recognize more than one card. Tried smoothwall. Couldn't figure it out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets
Ok solved. Replacing the tulip driver by the dmfe driver did the trick. No more RX errors, no more errors at all. in /etc/modules.conf replaced alias eth0 tulip with alias eth0 dmfe /Fred On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:36, Frederic Soulier wrote: (from lspci -v) 02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31) Subsystem: Unknown device 4554:434e Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at d400 [size=256] Memory at ff9fec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at ff98 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 It uses the tulip module. tulip 44032 1 (autoclean) I've seen a few posts mentioning using the module dmfe instead of tulip. I will give that a go. /Fred On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:47, Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Tiistai 8. Heinäkuuta 2003 22:50, Frederic Soulier kirjoitti: Hi Well I do not think it's a pbm with the network cards because I have 2 boxes with LM9.1 and 1 box with LM9.0 using the same type of card and they all show the same pbm. Also these Dell 4100 workstation come pre-installed with W2K and I don't have this pbm under Windows... What would be the best way to investigate this pbm? Thanks. /Frederic What card? Name? what module does it use? could you post the output of lspcidrake -v Regards Thomas __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- \|||/ ( / \ ) ( O O ) __oOOo-( )-oOOo__ Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED Linux Mandrake 9.1 / Current Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk-smp180403 __Oooo___ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ntp error
James Sparenberg wrote: Cheaters way to configure it. If you have the wizards installed. (urpmi wizards will get it.) It will give you a new icon on the left called Server Configuration. Chose Time Wizard from the list (it's at the bottom scroll down.) and it will give you a list of working time servers... and set things up to a working condition. James Noticed that the only wizards rpm available in Mandrake Club was for the old ML distributions. Will the rpm also work in 9.1 or should I just try it and see. I am only trying to find a time standard to sync my box. I use nistime via windows. Would like to find a Linux counterpart. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question about networking
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 04:48 pm, Jim C wrote: I don't suppose there is an inexpensive hardware router/Firewall/switch out there that will do DHCP relaying? Jim C. If you have an old machine around (486 is OK) have a look at www.smoothwall.org I have an old K6 III but I can't get it to work with anything. Think there might be something wrong with it. Was going to try and use MNF but couldn't get it to recognize more than one card. Tried smoothwall. Couldn't figure it out. The trick to smoothie is to put in the NIC that you want for the RED (outside/internet) interface first. Configure as RED - GREENusing modem and then add your other (GREEN /LAN) NIC and configure it through the setup user. I normally use the slower of the two, IE 3COM 3C905, as the RED interface. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.
On 08 Jul 2003 17:54:09 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I'm still wondering if anyone knows about showing asterisks for the password. My daughter keeps asking why we can't have asterisks to show how many characters have been typed. I quite like the asterisks too. in a text login or in kdm? Text. I'm not interested in messing around with KDM, much. I always boot to a text login. Once I up-arrow a couple of times, and get startx i tend to think abandon hope all ye who enter [here]in, etc :) Best wishes Janet Blankfield The ideal love affair is one conducted by post. JBS - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... life's a beach ... - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] directory/file size limits
Thanks James, although it was not exactly what I was looking for (I wanted to assign a limit to a single folder, not to the whole system), your suggestion drived me to find out the C function 'setrlimit', with which I can assign a maximum numbers of bytes that can take each file created by a program after calling this function. Thanks again, Asier On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 7:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Asier, The command you may want is ulimit. This will limit the size of a specific file and since in Linux everything is a file it has affect on directories as well. (Although not as fine tuned.) The man page for Ulimite bytes and I haven't found a good ref on how to use it here. Basically you enter a size in k so for a 2 meg limit you would do ulimit 2048 and now you can't create a file larger than 2 megs. Since I usually use things the way they are (unlimited) I do it that way. Downside. This affects all users on the box. All file systems etc. For something finer grained I'm not sure. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ntp error
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 07:55 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: Noticed that the only wizards rpm available in Mandrake Club was for the old ML distributions. Will the rpm also work in 9.1 or should I just try it and see. I am only trying to find a time standard to sync my box. I use nistime via windows. Would like to find a Linux counterpart. Gary Not that I've tried it with Mandrake, but I've found a little script that I use on my debian box at work. Do a search for nist.pl--or you might try this link: http://cantonlinux.org/pipermail/user/2003-May/001279.html You'll have to edit the script by hand, to set your timezone and server, but it's pretty straight forward and well commented. The only problem that I've had with it is, if the network is unavailable for some reason, it sets the system time to a semi-random value... Not much of a problem, when you run it by hand, but I like to have it in my crontab... Unfortunately, I don't have enough knowledge/experience/interest in perl, or I'd put in a few sanity checks... HTH, -Jason -- = Daggy stepped forward, but only comparatively; in fact, his mates had all, without discussion, taken one step backwards in the choreography of caution. (The Last Continent) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdrw
Somebody scribbled about re: [expert] cdrw ok i bit the bullet. Thanks to lyvim and other people's comments, i am going with a 1312 combo dvd/cdrw, from toshiba. i ordered it from micro pro and hope it arrives soon. i'll update folks when i get it. Update: boo hoo. I am running into a big catch-22 with respect to my debit card -- the bank can't add the shipping address and i live in an apt so i can't have the package sitting at my doorstep when I come home at 7pm, as it will probably be stolen. Micro pro flatly refused to ship to my work address. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] help!!!
El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 13:29, pro8613 escribió: hello i have a ADSL USB MODEM ALE 130 and i don't now how install the modem maiby i need a driver if have this driver please send me help me please!!! Sorry, but most of the times USB ADSL modems need special proprietary drivers which are available only for windows. If USB is it's only way to connect to the PC (i.e. no ethernet port) then it's quite possible that you don't get it to work in the near future. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdrw
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 23:48, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about re: [expert] cdrw ok i bit the bullet. Thanks to lyvim and other people's comments, i am going with a 1312 combo dvd/cdrw, from toshiba. i ordered it from micro pro and hope it arrives soon. i'll update folks when i get it. Update: boo hoo. I am running into a big catch-22 with respect to my debit card -- the bank can't add the shipping address and i live in an apt so i can't have the package sitting at my doorstep when I come home at 7pm, as it will probably be stolen. Micro pro flatly refused to ship to my work address. Hang on, I'm finding you something... --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdrw
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] cdrw To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 23:48, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about re: [expert] cdrw Lyvim - thanks. I looked at www.usssa.com and did an order - their price was 85.00 for retail box sd 1312 plust 15 $ for media, plus ground. They are in fremont which is pretty close to me. I still have to fax back a charge authorization from work in the morning... we will see. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdrw
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 11:48 pm, dfox wrote: Update: boo hoo. I am running into a big catch-22 with respect to my debit card -- the bank can't add the shipping address and i live in an apt so i can't have the package sitting at my doorstep when I come home at 7pm, as it will probably be stolen. Micro pro flatly refused to ship to my work address. Ok, this has nothing to do with MDK, but... I'd place the order, using the address on file at my bank. Then, when they try to deliver it, and you're not there, they'll leave a little note on the door. Call the number of the shipping co. (usually found on said note) and tell them that you'd like to pick it up at the nearest branch office--with any luck, it won't be too far away... Having said that, I have some words of wisdom: Get A Credit Card! 1) A real credit card company will let you file, at least one, secondary delivery address. 2) [more importantly] NEVER EVER, and I mean EVER give out debit card info on the internet, no matter how much you trust the recipient. If you do, you can find your bank account RAPED for all it's worth. With a credit card, you can say: I didn't authorize that transaction, at which point your account gets credited and the merchant has to _prove_ that it was _you_ that authorized the transaction, otherwise it'll get refused. Debit cards, on the other hand, offer NO protection of this sort (IME.) If an unauthorized charge is made against your debit card, you'll probably have to sue the merchant [during which time they'll be holding your money] to have ANY chance of getting it back. Even if you 'win', in such a lawsuit, your lawyer will probably charge you more than you lost in the first place... HTH, -J -- = Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, *then* is the time to buy a house on the next continent. (alt.fan.pratchett) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW I can't find any 800mb CDr's in the stores ;( Where do y'all get 'em? USEnet's got some 715 to 775 movies. I can use mencoder Well, if you do find siome lemme know :). I'm going to try some experiments with mencoder (by the way, what happened to that gui front end for mencoder - i think it was called gmencoder or some such, on plf, now i can't find it). mencoder is supposed to auto-quality based on size, iirc - so if you have a target cd size you can just plug that in. my brother does a lot of this although he uses winblows. i want to d/l sone stuff on usenet but i haven't yet tried this. aren't the files all in rAR? ie once you tag a 'movie' what do you have to do to make it watchable? to reduce their size to fit on 700mb CDr's, but at a loss of a little video quality. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html#rescaling -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ntp error
Open a terminal, su, then install ntp urpmi ntp if it's not already installed. After doing that put ntpdate time.sinectis.com.ar and so long as your time isn't wayyy off, it will sync with it. HTH, Jason PlugHead wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 07:55 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: Noticed that the only wizards rpm available in Mandrake Club was for the old ML distributions. Will the rpm also work in 9.1 or should I just try it and see. I am only trying to find a time standard to sync my box. I use nistime via windows. Would like to find a Linux counterpart. Gary Not that I've tried it with Mandrake, but I've found a little script that I use on my debian box at work. Do a search for nist.pl--or you might try this link: http://cantonlinux.org/pipermail/user/2003-May/001279.html You'll have to edit the script by hand, to set your timezone and server, but it's pretty straight forward and well commented. The only problem that I've had with it is, if the network is unavailable for some reason, it sets the system time to a semi-random value... Not much of a problem, when you run it by hand, but I like to have it in my crontab... Unfortunately, I don't have enough knowledge/experience/interest in perl, or I'd put in a few sanity checks... HTH, -Jason 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] ethernet -cable modem
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 14:03, Jack Coates wrote: sorry -- I should clarify that I hardly ever type more than three letters of a given command before hitting tab :-) Yeah... know that one... gets to be a real bear when you have to move to a cshell no tab. James On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:13, Richard Bown wrote: Found it Jack mii-tool tnx On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:32, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I found a way some while ago to see if the link between the cable modem and my NIC was running full or half duplex and at what speed. I cant remember where or how I found it. Can anyone help please TIA miitool Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CPU temperature question
Hello All, After playing with Ksensors tonight I'm now wondering what the threshold temperatures for the CPU and Mother board should be. I have an AMD XP2000+ CPU which is currently running at 60 degrees C while the Mother Board temperature is 24 degrees C. I remember that these temperatures were quite a bit higher during Summer. -- Regards, Phil. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
