Re: [expert] 9.2 and xscreensaver
Have you really been able to get the xscreensaver modules to show up in the KDE Control Center Screensaver module? I'd love to know how it's done. The 9.2 download ISOs had an unfixed oversight that caused the KDE Screensaver modules to disappear. These have been fixed in the updates that have been on the mirrors for a few days. I tried, unsuccessfully to fix the KDE Screensaver problem using several of the methods reported on the lists, but solved it immediately with the update. Paul On Tuesday 28 October 2003 12:43 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Xscreensaver is installed on my machine: xscreensaver-4.12-1mdk, but the screen savers are not showing up in KDE Control Center/Appearance Themes/Screen Saver. And this is with a reboot of the machine (not related) and several reboots of X. Now, is there something that I am supposed to do to get it to work, or did Mandrake blow it? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know why it crashed, does it run stable for anyone ? b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. c) acpi/powersaving: after a while w/o working on that machine suspend of the machine kicked in. Moving the mouse or pressing some keys didn't get it back, trying to reset didn't work either, trying the powerswitch, didn't work, unplug the power cord didn't work. Only resetting the board completly brought it back till the next suspend. In lilo.conf is acpi=ht (what does this mean ?). Its a MSI kt266 board with Athlon TB 1333. d) k3b 0.9 crashed immediatly (maybe because of the lot drives ?) 0.10.99 aka cvs started but hung on burning and took the Xserver with it. e) sound: He has an soundblaster soundcard. The default OSS driver didn't work really good (crappy sound) , switching it to alsa did help a lot here Hmmm i would cover this experiment as failed :( 9.1 works flawless for him compared to this. The LG issue i haven't mentiones, we changed the drive for testing and later updating. Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Print Accounting
Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! Mauricy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl
Thanks to all who responded. I have signed up for Verizon dsl, if it works as advertized I will be dropping the wireless service. Thanks, Dan On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 19:52, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: NopesNo problem with verizon-dsl. I use the adsl package for connecting (it requires username password). Cool thing is that i have an internal network (home of about 4 nodes, windoze, gatewaty is Mandrake), when no one is using the network, it kind of goes to sleepand the moment someone fires up a browser, it will auto-connect. Its been running on this OLd Pentium 90Mhzwith 16Mb RAM, running 8.2 for over 2 yrs nowpower failures? I comes right up. I even moved, left it with the college kids in the same apartment, some don't even know whats running their network!! Recently tried to install 9.1, no go...i guess the hardware is t old. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Verizon DSL for over a year. Set it up under Windows 98/2k. When I installed MDK 9.1 on my new Dell it connected to the internet without a hitch! Rarely I have had problems, but very rarely. I have two machines with 9.1 and both can connect as reliably as the various flavors of Windows that share their respective harddisks. LeRoy Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless connection is not reliable. I had a Verizon dialup account once for about three years, with no problems, until one day I could no longer connect to the mail servers unless I used windows. Are any of you using Verizon dsl, and if so are there any problems with using Linux? Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ __ 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] Print Accounting
not sure I'm following, but it sounds like you want to log what windows users print? Use CUPS, then share the printers with Samba. Print jobs will be logged by both CUPS and Samba. On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 04:35, Mauricy Maiorino wrote: Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! Mauricy __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print Accounting
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 07:35, Mauricy Maiorino wrote: Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! CUPS, assuming you are printing from Win. machines to printers attached to your nix box via samba CUPS will log these print jobs just like everything else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print Accounting
Additional Notes: Here is my /etc/printcap file, using lpr lp:\ :[EMAIL PROTECTED]/port_9100:\ :if=/usr/local/ifhp/libexec/filters/ifhp -Z duplex:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/errorlog:\ :sh:mx#0:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/accounting.log:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp: Where xxx == Printer IPaddress if==Input Filter, for duplex printing purposes sh==Supress header af==accounting file sd==spool directory(there are many more options) THEN:: On windoze side, win2k, XP Configure printer -Remote--Host (Linux host name having the lpr configuration), queue name (in this case, ==lp) Thats itall printjobs go thru linux, and get logged into accouting file. --- Ricardo (Tru64 User) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesnt lpr do accounting, using ac or af: (dont remember exactly) to define accouting file? I think it does...or maybe something within samba for samba printing. My windoze boxes all print using remote printer which is actually a networked printer thru Unix. --- Mauricy Maiorino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! Mauricy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 03:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know why it crashed, does it run stable for anyone ? b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. c) acpi/powersaving: after a while w/o working on that machine suspend of the machine kicked in. Moving the mouse or pressing some keys didn't get it back, trying to reset didn't work either, trying the powerswitch, didn't work, unplug the power cord didn't work. Only resetting the board completly brought it back till the next suspend. In lilo.conf is acpi=ht (what does this mean ?). Its a MSI kt266 board with Athlon TB 1333. d) k3b 0.9 crashed immediatly (maybe because of the lot drives ?) 0.10.99 aka cvs started but hung on burning and took the Xserver with it. e) sound: He has an soundblaster soundcard. The default OSS driver didn't work really good (crappy sound) , switching it to alsa did help a lot here Hmmm i would cover this experiment as failed :( 9.1 works flawless for him compared to this. The LG issue i haven't mentiones, we changed the drive for testing and later updating. Steffen Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? The response so far on this has been great (all but one bug I've submitted have been fixed and that one is being worked on.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Fw: MDKA-2003:021 - Updated kernel packages problems with LG-based CD-ROM drives
For anyone not on the mailing list: Begin forwarded message: Date: 28 Oct 2003 05:41:13 - From: Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MDKA-2003:021 - Updated kernel packages problems with LG-based CD-ROM drives -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ___ Mandrake Linux Update Advisory ___ Package name: kernel Advisory ID:MDKA-2003:021 Date: October 27th, 2003 Affected versions: 9.2 ___ ___ Problem Description: A problem was discovered where the kernel would destroy certain LG- based CD-ROM devices. This problem has been fixed in the kernels provided and MandrakeSoft encourages everyone to upgrade. For more information on this particular problem, view the errata page on this topic available at: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For full information on updating your kernel, please view the instructions at: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php New commercial drivers for this kernel will be available at Mandrake Club shortly. ___ ___ Updated Packages: Mandrake Linux 9.2: 1c718660da91577a483433f92a3dffc7 9.2/RPMS/kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm db498188d51dc929516a6339baab50f0 9.2/RPMS/kernel-BOOT-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm cab4f8fd6eab503808bfdf62795700d3 9.2/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm 49d0a3f4a513c0703d1ad5c39e890b1d 9.2/RPMS/kernel-enterprise-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm b22d9ea8b34bd0bd395b92123909b965 9.2/RPMS/kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm f1a893db6a935bc16f855e41d16a68f0 9.2/RPMS/kernel-p3-smp-64GB-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm 1b0c75780c703929e13d8d9e572d72cf 9.2/RPMS/kernel-secure-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm 68e0339b3ac8098258683da7e5a503e5 9.2/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm ffcfa70f85b682bbb2f927a4f65b3041 9.2/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm 287669262ff8a0d4dc6497256d7cf9bd 9.2/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm ___ To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. A list of FTP mirrors can be obtained from: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php All packages are signed by MandrakeSoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrake Linux Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net 0x22458A98 Please be aware that sometimes it takes the mirrors a few hours to update. You can view other update advisories for Mandrake Linux at: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/ MandrakeSoft has several security-related mailing list services that anyone can subscribe to. Information on these lists can be obtained by visiting: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/mlist.php If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_linux-mandrake.com Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Linux Mandrake Security Team security linux-mandrake.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ngF5mqjQ0CJFipgRAmGuAJ9Z6nOvtGY4OoKHySs5D9yyu58qggCfR4sN UtEexrdcDJmmP9sVOyaKIHg= =0dxj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
Steffen Barszus wrote:
Hi !
I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive
problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth
to share experiences.
a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I
don't know why it crashed, does it run stable for anyone ?
Works fine for me. Although on second thought it's with the stuff from
PLF, not just the stock version from MDK.
I've watched several DVDs and numerous clips from the web with it
without problems.
Basically if Xine works, Totem should work as well. It's mostly just a
change of interface.
As for MP3 files, I use Zinf, so I haven't tried Totem.
e) sound: He has an soundblaster soundcard. The default OSS driver
didn't work really good (crappy sound) , switching it to alsa did help
a lot here
I have what I believe is a SoundBlaster 128 which works Ok with both OSS
and Alsa. It might depend on the model.
Can't help with the other issues..
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[expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?
Hello Family, In the earlier versions of Konqueror I could place a series of .jpg's in a directory, open Konqueror, open the directory and choose [tools] from the menu and there was an option to make a webpage full of thumbnail photos automatically. That is not the case with Mandrake-9.1, is it hidden somewhere else now in Konqueror? I searched and can't find it anywhere. :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Change screen color
Ok, this is a real nitpick, I know. Bear with me, sometimes I am very AR about these things. ;-) After X loads, and before the DM screen loads, there is a solid light blue (std Mdk color) screen with the cursor/wristwatch/watch. I would really like to change this screen to black. I load nVidia drivers w/o splash, so screen is black, then that $@# blue, then GDM with the enterprise spotlight that is black. I've installed Mdk on some friends computers and get the question about so many screen colors as it boots. Of course I am trying to personalize it for them from the default install. Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image? It is not in /usr/share/bootsplash or /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds Tim -- _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Change screen color
On 28. October 2003 at 09:07, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image? check /etc/X11/Xsession, espec. lines after comment Mandrake default background -- member of Advanced InternetWorks group - http://www.ainetworks.sk professional home page - http://tibor.pittich.sk personal home page - http://c0re.phuture.sk pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] Fatal server error strikes
Hi all,
I managed to royally mess up my MD 9.1 just before finishing my
BitTorrent download and while waiting for my PowerPack to be
shipped :-((
Somewhere I found an advice that all font names should have small
letters in their names. As not all my fonts were working, I launched
Krename and changed the caps to small letters, while waiting for BT,
this was probably the stupidest I could have done!
I noticed my fonts changing, but not improving. Yesterday I had to go
to Windows to do my bank payments (they don't have a Linux version,
alas). Afterwards I couldn't start X any longer.
I found an X error reading i.a.:
quote
Using vt 7. Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from
list.
Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'.
unquote
Restoring all fonts from tarballs I had put on cdrw in preparation
for upgrading to 9.2 didn't help anything.
I googled for the problem and found several answers, such as:
*directory / is full: not in my case ( 3 Gb spare);
*restart xfs server; I already tried that in runlevels 3 and 5; no
difference.
* reinstall all XF86 packages: did that; didn't help.
* I restored /etc/XF86Config from tarball on cd: didn't help.
* another answer said to delete reference to default font in
XF86Config, but there wasn't any, except for an other Mandrake font
server.
In each case I restarted the xfs server and tried to start X, but it
failed. In the last case I waited 10 to 15 minutes and saw an
occasional attempt by X to start up (a few coloured lines showing or
very fast flashing by of my last terminal screen), but nothing
helped. In these cases no login prompt could be reached, nor the
kernel messages.
I should very much appreciate it if somebody can advise me how to get
back in my Mandrake with X.
{ This message was previously posted to the newbie list, but
apparently nobody knew how to help me }
Personally I don't know any solution anymore, except reinstalling.
But I hope somebody has an easier solution.
Thanks very much in advance!
Best regards,
=Dick Gevers=
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Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:29:51 - Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hi all, BTW, please get rid of the reply-to...I'm assuming you got my suggestions, lemme know exactly how wrong I was ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Getting into trouble is easy. -- D. Winkel and F. Prosser Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:06:17PM +0100, Steffen Barszus wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. I have been told that this was a kernel bug,no explanation for the assigning of mount points the next time I rebooted in spite of hitting cancel to the config tools,Once I manually editted fstab and deleted excess mount points it has been ok. d) k3b 0.9 crashed immediatly (maybe because of the lot drives ?) 0.10.99 aka cvs started but hung on burning and took the Xserver with it. Once I got k3b to point to the first reader and the first burner it works ok for me with a toshiba reader and a Toshiba DVD/CDRW, even thogh it shows 6 of each and I can't seem to remove any of the nonexistant drives. FYI Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PS hanging due to NFS?, Cant KILL
Hi All, I run an openmosix cluster using Mandrake, and had problems with PS hanging or whole system for that matter. It is still an ongoing issue for a while now, i took it up to openmosix guys, and response is that 90% of the time its network related, the rest 10% hardware! Tracing down the problem today via /proc, trying to read every cmdline for a process, it hangs on PID=25583. Ran strace for `ps`, hanged same location (log below) open(/proc/25583/status, O_RDONLY)= 7 read(7, Name:\tchange_missing\nState:\tD (d..., 511) = 463 close(7) munmap(0x40013000, 4096)= 0 open(/proc/25583/cmdline, O_RDONLY) = 7 THEN: cd'ed into /proc/25583 `ls` (look at exe output) lrwxrwxrwx1 stuart stds 0 Oct 28 14:16 exe - /targus/linuxfiles/stuart/patches/ver006/exp03/.nfs000a839e0001 (deleted) Not sure what that deleted line means, and all other procs don't have it. However, BIGGER problem is that this process 25583 cant be killed!! Not kill-9 or kill -KILL that helps. Its currently owned by root. Is there any other way to kill this sucker, other than a reboot? Tired of rebooting every 2-3days like windoze! -Thanks All, Richard __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ML 9.2 + Audigy2 + 5.1 + xine
Hi all, I just installed ML 9.2 and was nicely surprised that a lot of the many usual "needfull things" :) worked right out of the box (including painless Radeon 9700 and nforce2 drivers). My main problem now is that though my card is recognised and the "audigy" module is loaded, it works only halfway right. That means that "stereo" sounds work ok (like xmms and such). On the other hand I tried to play a DVD with Xine and almost went nuts. Since the DVD is 5.1 and my recognized soundcard is 5.1 compatible, I expected surround sound on my 5.1 system. No go... I could hear only the front speakers and of course in a lot of scenes the voices were probably on some other speakers as the were very dim although the sound itself (background music and soundeffects) was pretty loud. I thought I have to adjust the sound,but surprisingly in kmix I found only the normal stereo settings to be available. I tried to install the emu10k1 driver from sourceforge, but it spits out a lot of "undefinded symbol" in a lot of other sound modules (weird why it should complain as I do not use those modules at all) when trying to load it and of course it doesn't load - no sound. :( In a last attempt I compiled and installed the latest alsa, but the result was even funnier. xmms and the system sounds work ok (I even hear them in all my speakers), but xine gives no sound output when playing a dvd. The only way to get xine to play some sound is to start it with "xine -A oss", but then am back to square 1 as I still can hear only 2 speakers and no voices no matter how I play with the settings in alsamixer with the 3D and surround settings. I tried to start xine from console to see the output and it complains that it cannot access surround51 device and to check if any other process uses PCM. :/ Have no clue how to find out what that means and how to fix the problem. :( Funny stuff is that in ML 9.1 I could compile and install emu10k1 with no problem and had 5.1 surround sound. :/ Unfortunatelly on 9.1 had lots of problems with motherboard and video drivers so cannot fall back. :( If anyone could help I would really appreciate it. That is the only thing which keeps me from booting ML as my main OS. :( Best regards, Adrian
Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes
Hi all
{ Sorry, my earlier message had a bad reply-to setting; won't happen
again }
On Tuesday, 28 October 2003 at 13:58 h, HaywireMac wrote about Re: [expert] Fatal
server error strikes:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:29:51 -
Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I found an X error reading i.a.:
quote
Using vt 7. Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from
list.
Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'.
unquote
Restoring all fonts from tarballs I had put on cdrw in preparation
for upgrading to 9.2 didn't help anything.
Could be the perms are wrong on the fonts that you restored, font
server cannot read them. Make sure dirs are searchable, ie. drx-rx-r (I
think).
That seems out of the question, because I had tarred them to local
drive and then burnt them to cdrw, copied the tarballs back to HD and
extracted the fonts. Tar is notorious for keeping permissions okay.
I googled for the problem and found several answers, such as:
*directory / is full: not in my case ( 3 Gb spare);
*restart xfs server; I already tried that in runlevels 3 and 5; no
difference.
* reinstall all XF86 packages: did that; didn't help.
* I restored /etc/XF86Config from tarball on cd: didn't help.
* another answer said to delete reference to default font in
XF86Config, but there wasn't any, except for an other Mandrake font
server.
Yeah, since it can't find the referenced path, it's automatically
deleting it from your config file.
Sorry, what do you imply by that. What should (could) I do with this
information? I am using Linux only since February, so I am not sure
where this can help me.
In each case I restarted the xfs server and tried to start X, but it
failed. In the last case I waited 10 to 15 minutes and saw an
occasional attempt by X to start up (a few coloured lines showing or
very fast flashing by of my last terminal screen), but nothing
helped. In these cases no login prompt could be reached, nor the
kernel messages.
Maybe post the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log and we can see if
there are any further clues as to what is causing the error.
See below.
I should very much appreciate it if somebody can advise me how to get
back in my Mandrake with X.
{ This message was previously posted to the newbie list, but
apparently nobody knew how to help me }
Personally I don't know any solution anymore, except reinstalling.
But I hope somebody has an easier solution.
In XF86Config-4, try commenting out the line:
Load type1
Yes, I did some more googling and found one other similar piece of
advice, so I commented out a line reading Load unix/:-1 and (as per
that advice) deleted all similar looking file from /tmp and
/home/dvg/tmp.
The result was the same as before, though.
which is, IIRC, where X tries to load the default XFS fonts. AFAIK,
XFS really isn't even necessary now with Freetype handling font
rendering.
These are wld guesses, but hey, you never know. Best of luck.
Thanks a bunch, Haywire. I hope somebody knows a solution.
Regards,
=Dick Gevers=
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Below is /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
++
XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.19-35mdkenterprise i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 05 September 2003
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Tue Oct 28 19:11:04
2003
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
(==) ServerLayout layout1
(**) |--Screen screen1 (0)
(**) | |--Monitor monitor1
(**) | |--Device device1
(**) |--Input Device Keyboard1
(WW) Option XkbCompat requires an string value
(**) Option XkbModel pc105
(**) XKB: model: pc105
(**) Option XkbLayout us_intl
(**) XKB: layout: us_intl
(WW) Option XkbOptions requires an string value
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) |--Input Device Mouse1
(**) FontPath set to unix/:-1
(==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
(**) Option DontZap
(**) Option AllowMouseOpenFail
Using vt 7
(--) using VT number 7
(II) Open APM successful
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: bitmap
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. bug #31 Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Change screen color
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:57:26 +0100 Tibor Pittich [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: On 28. October 2003 at 09:07, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image? check /etc/X11/Xsession, espec. lines after comment Mandrake default background Very close, but not quite there; this sets the background after a user logs in, bright red for root, and Mdk blue for others. I looked at everthing in /etc/X11 but no joy Thanks for the info, it is appreciated. Tim -- _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:47:44 -
Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Restoring all fonts from tarballs I had put on cdrw in preparation
for upgrading to 9.2 didn't help anything.
Could be the perms are wrong on the fonts that you restored, font
server cannot read them. Make sure dirs are searchable, ie. drx-rx-r
(I think).
That seems out of the question, because I had tarred them to local
drive and then burnt them to cdrw, copied the tarballs back to HD and
extracted the fonts. Tar is notorious for keeping permissions okay.
It's worth checking, no?
I googled for the problem and found several answers, such as:
*directory / is full: not in my case ( 3 Gb spare);
*restart xfs server; I already tried that in runlevels 3 and 5; no
difference.
* reinstall all XF86 packages: did that; didn't help.
* I restored /etc/XF86Config from tarball on cd: didn't help.
* another answer said to delete reference to default font in
XF86Config, but there wasn't any, except for an other Mandrake
font server.
Yeah, since it can't find the referenced path, it's automatically
deleting it from your config file.
Sorry, what do you imply by that. What should (could) I do with this
information? I am using Linux only since February, so I am not sure
where this can help me.
Just an observation.
In each case I restarted the xfs server and tried to start X, but
it failed. In the last case I waited 10 to 15 minutes and saw an
occasional attempt by X to start up (a few coloured lines showing
or very fast flashing by of my last terminal screen), but nothing
helped. In these cases no login prompt could be reached, nor the
kernel messages.
Maybe post the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log and we can see if
there are any further clues as to what is causing the error.
See below.
I should very much appreciate it if somebody can advise me how to
get back in my Mandrake with X.
{ This message was previously posted to the newbie list, but
apparently nobody knew how to help me }
Personally I don't know any solution anymore, except reinstalling.
But I hope somebody has an easier solution.
In XF86Config-4, try commenting out the line:
Load type1
Yes, I did some more googling and found one other similar piece of
advice, so I commented out a line reading Load unix/:-1 and (as per
that advice) deleted all similar looking file from /tmp and
/home/dvg/tmp.
The result was the same as before, though.
Yeah, if you see in the log, it's loading the type 1 fonts without error
anyway.
which is, IIRC, where X tries to load the default XFS fonts. AFAIK,
XFS really isn't even necessary now with Freetype handling font
rendering.
These are wld guesses, but hey, you never know. Best of luck.
Thanks a bunch, Haywire. I hope somebody knows a solution.
I'm betting on the fontpath not being searchable (ie. wrong perms), but
I'm no Xpert;-)
What are the fontpaths listed in your XF86Config-4 and what are the
perms on those directories?
Below is /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
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Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) Loading font CID
(II) LoadModule: freetype
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a
(II) Module freetype: vendor=The XFree86 Project
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 2.0.2
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType
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Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
Am Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2003 20:32 schrieb Ray Warren: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. bug #31 Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? Ray Warren Thanks Ray for pointing me to it :)) Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
Am Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2003 16:34 schrieb James Sparenberg: On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 03:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! Hmmm i would cover this experiment as failed :( 9.1 works flawless for him compared to this. The LG issue i haven't mentiones, we changed the drive for testing and later updating. Steffen Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? The response so far on this has been great (all but one bug I've submitted have been fixed and that one is being worked on.) I don't want to do so, just checked if others do have similar problems. I don't want, because of: I can't reproduce it, since it is not my machine I can't give more information (not my machine) I can't find the problem, that caused the issues. Maybe we can find the place to make a paralell installation and iron the bugs out together with that friend. I'll see. Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:02 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, In the earlier versions of Konqueror I could place a series of .jpg's in a directory, open Konqueror, open the directory and choose [tools] from the menu and there was an option to make a webpage full of thumbnail photos automatically. That is not the case with Mandrake-9.1, is it hidden somewhere else now in Konqueror? I searched and can't find it anywhere. :( I believe it was part of the kdeaddons package in 9.1. Also check for kdeaddons-konqimagegallery, but I don't think they'd started splitting KDE when 9.1 was released. Arn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KWeather
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:28:02 -0500, Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:28:57 -0500 Phil G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't figure out how to start kweather. I have kdetoys 3.1-5 installed. Does it work with this version? Just did it... right-click on TaskBar, Add-Applet-Kweather Wonderful! Thanks! -- Using Mandrake Linux 9.1 www.mandrakesoft.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Change screen color
On 28. October 2003 at 12:08, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:57:26 +0100 Tibor Pittich [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: On 28. October 2003 at 09:07, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image? check /etc/X11/Xsession, espec. lines after comment Mandrake default background Very close, but not quite there; this sets the background after a user logs in, bright red for root, and Mdk blue for others. I looked at everthing in /etc/X11 but no joy sorry, maybe i don't read perfect your mail. but if i understand clearly now, you want change default color of root window if you execute X server for example handy, right? hm, when we look precise into srpm file of XFree86, then we can find patch with this name: XFree86-4.2.99.3-mandrakelinux-blue.patch.bz2. after fast check, imho this is related to your question, and this patch sets default color of root window. if i remember right, i'v played with this setting and again if i remember right this can be override with system setting. but sorry, i don't know after some researching where exactly. my tip is somewhere in Xresources file, if it is possible to change color of root window without patching sources.. -- member of Advanced InternetWorks group - http://www.ainetworks.sk professional home page - http://tibor.pittich.sk personal home page - http://c0re.phuture.sk pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] Sofware for writing signs
Hi all, does anyone know of any sign writing software that runs under Linux? Maybe even a winblows one that runs under wine. Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Not all Mandrake 9.2 mirrors are the same
Hi Anton, I already know about the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ site, but my point was check out the mirror that you are using, as they are not all the same, e.g. http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ contains half the amount of files than the mirror at http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ both the mirrors are listed on http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ site, and can be selected in the source main section.. people could be confused thinking that those 2 mirrors are the same. I have noticed that some of the mirrors have a cut down main section. Cheers Mark On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:14, antonovich wrote: Mate, If you haven't yet then go to the plf.zarb.org site and follow the instructions for setting up urpmi. There are various different kinds of repository (or whatever its called). Some have what is on the disk, some updates, some illegal stuff (like stuff to allow watching dvds, which is illegal!, no worries about viruses though...its pretty much the mandrake people it seems to me...or people pretty close anyway), some other java stuff and the great contribs. There may be some variation in what you get on the different mirrors (eg planetmirror, club-internet, etc) but I'm not sure. It has been a bit of a nightmare finding the kernel-source files, that are definitely NOT everywhere. Hope this is fairly close to the mark...If you just want repositories (no urpmi)then this should at least make clearer what the options are. Cheers Anton Mark Williamson wrote: Hi Everyone, Just working out the mandrake mirror situation, especially i like the extras such as the contrib stuff, and other extras that are normally in the Mandrake mirror such as http-naat .. O.K. in the past I have been using http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/9.2 but the mirror there this time is very differnet, it's really just a mirror of the continence of the download edition of Mandrake 9.2, no contribs etc.. I have checked out http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/ it's a very different mirror, does anyone know what's happening with the mirroring of Mandrake 9.2, and what would be best mirror to use for someone in Australia, definitely public.planetmirror.com is not a good mirror for Mandrake 9.2. Is there 2 forms of mirroring out there? is any other mirrors like Planetmirror? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 8:02 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, In the earlier versions of Konqueror I could place a series of .jpg's in a directory, open Konqueror, open the directory and choose [tools] from the menu and there was an option to make a webpage full of thumbnail photos automatically. That is not the case with Mandrake-9.1, is it hidden somewhere else now in Konqueror? I searched and can't find it anywhere. :( In 9.2 you have to install a little applet from the CDROMs to make Konq do that. Maybe in 9.1 you have to do that, too. I didn't, and I wasn't too crazy about how it worked, so I did not install the applet. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print Accounting
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 23:35, Mauricy Maiorino wrote: Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! Mauricy Not quite sure what you are after, but for something a little more sophisticated check out Printbill http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~daniel/software/printbill/index.shtml Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:32, Ray Warren wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. bug #31 Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? Thanks Ray Warren __ 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] Update on the LG problem.
Dell HP/Compaq and others seem to be assisting MDK with solving the problem with LG CDROMS. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For the latest... James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:32 am, Ray Warren wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. bug #31 Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? Ok, I just attempted to join anthill, and start writing up some of my own bugs. Now that I have joined the system, I can't seem to get a password out of it. Any thoughts? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mounting a floppy
Is it possible to set up a floppy to be mounted as ext2 or DOS without the use of supermount? I see in the default installation, that /dev/fd0 is using the term auto instead of specifying which file system. It doesn't seem to be covered under the mount or fstab man pages, so I am assuming its a supermount term. And I prefer to not use supermount, I prefer the KDE mounting tools, as supermount messes with my USB Camera. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 'copy to' context option?
This is just about the only thing I miss from redhat (ok, there's freshrpms nice, easy to find reliable servers, but plf and texstar are a fair trade for that :) ). I could right click a file and there was a 'copy to' option that poped up a list of directories. Is this some funky redhat specific thing, or can I change a setting somewhere? Thanks yet again. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
