Re: [expert] Palp M500
modprobe visor That should install the Palm-USB driver (it used to be Handspring Visor-only, thus the name). You'll follow the following procedure: Hotsync port: /dev/usb/tts/1 (Enter that in settings whenever you need the hotsync serial port. Alternatively, you can go do /dev and make a symlink for it called, say, pilot by the following command: ln -s /dev/usb/tts/1 /dev/pilot If you do that, use /dev/pilot as your serial port setting.) Now, open JPilot (the one that comes with Mdk will work fine) and put your Visor in the cradle. Do: 1. Press HotSync on Visor 2. Press Sync in JPilot 3. Watch things move around. Pressing HotSync on the Visor is an important first step because it wakes up the driver and creates the /dev/usb/tts/1 device file. Until you press HotSync (and until the Sync finishes), that file is not present. Step 4: Experiment with other packages, like Evolution + gnome-pilot, or KDE's stuff + kpilot. (Consider reading some documentation regarding each online, or ask the list about them.) -- Asheesh. On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Has anyone had any luck getting a Palm Pilot to work? I have a M500 with a USB cradle. Ther USB is recognized on my machine because I have a printer working on one of the two ports. Any ideas would be appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound
Sounds like someone needs to take a trip to aumix, accessible by the command-line entry: aumix Have fun with it. Note well that the mute function is disabled/enabled by the M key on your keyboard. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Roy Barton wrote: Can anyone explain to me how to turn up the sound settings under linux? I have installed a compatible sound card and get no sound from it. thanks, roy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB mouse - only verticaal cursor movement
Do you have a USB-to-PS/2 adapter? I had that problem with the Logitech Cordless MouseMan+ that came with my Freedom Pro Cordless set, plugged it into PS/2, and it worked flawlessly, wheel and all. You could try fiddling with the protocol, but I just gave up instead. (This is actually on a Debian system, but the core subsystems involved should work the same.) -- Asheesh. On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: When I plugged the PowerScroll USB mouse into my box a driver was loaded saying that a mouse was found. I didn't find any complaints in the log. After some searching I linked /dev/usbmouse to /dev/mouse. After some more searching I concluded I do not know whot protocol should I use for my mouse so I runned mousedrake (or how that thing is called ) and selected USB Wheel mouse in menu. When my gpm was restarted by mousedrake it became unusable. When I restarted X I was only able to move the cursor up and down, not left/right, no clicks. When I tried USB generic mouse I got the same. I could possibly try to select some protocol manually and possibly exchange my kernel. But is there anybody who already solved this? I'm using Mandrake 8.1, no updates (no net). In win2k the mouse worked flawlessly w/o any special drivers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape Crash
Why on earth are you using *Netscape 4.x*? Can you throw Mozilla in there in its place? It is orders of magnitude more pretty and more stable. (Use the Classic theme so the [l]users believe it's NS 4.x.) -- Asheesh. udo rader said: hmm, that doesn't sound too good. if you say that the only thing you need is to display HTML and js, then try a very irrational thing: switch off java support (not javascript). I know of cases where the presence of the java-virtual machine alone made netscape crash over and over though java was really invoked. another thing you could try was to call netscape the direct way. normally, if you say netscape, then a shell-script is invoked (/usr/bin/netscape; check it). this calls for netscape-communicator in /usr/lib/netscape. if you call the binary directly, you will lose some comfort (IMHO less important) settings, but the essential communicator still works. hope, this helps ... udo Am Mon, 2002-03-11 um 13.17 schrieb Hari Yellina: HI Udo, I am not using Java Applets. It is jsp . So we get HTML and Javascript on the browser. after making a booking . or going to few pages. It crashes and whole application goes out. As I read in few places, every one says netscape is gonna crahs alwaya. But here the clients are gonna break my bones. If this netscape is not gonna be stable. Thanks for the help dude. Regards, Hari Yellina. On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:49, you wrote: could you provide us with more details about the crashing (try using strace to find out what's happening). netscape in general and netscape java especially don't have the best reputation in being too stable anyway ... another option might be to use a different java version - which one do you use? udo Am Mon, 2002-03-11 um 12.36 schrieb Hari Yellina: Hi All, We made a point of sale application using netscape as a front end and java server side. Touch screen based application. Problem is ::: Netscape craches every 1 min and I am afarid how to stop this crashing. Any help will be very helpful. Regard, Hari Yellina. 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.
On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the partition table corruption. No Anti-Virus software installed. Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under certain non-MS-tested circumstances. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Wenninger wrote: Is it possibly Anti-Virus software in windows repairing your boot sector? On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:13 pm, you wrote: Hi, My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help of this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install LM8.1. My main concern now is trying to figure out what I did that might have caused the corruption. The only unsual activities just prior to corruption were: - Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs partition to FAT32 windows partition. - I may have left a floppy drive mounted and failed to log out as root, before shutting down (but surely this wouldn't affect the partition table). - Booted windows. Just looked around with Explorer. I accidentally opened a BIOS flash utility, but exited immediately, without activating any controls. I dont' think the utility actually did anything other than show its GUI, but I can't be certain. Can flashing BIOS (if thats what happened) affect the partition table ? Upon leaving windows, Linux would not re-boot, because it couldn't find the filesystems to mount due to the partition table corruption. I use reiserfs for my linux partitions, if that is a factor. I'd love to hear any ideas about possible corruption causes. regards, Charles. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.
Win98 OEM, a legit copy from www.softman.com. Remember, Win98 is quirky; what works one day may not the following. It's possible the same code that corrupted my partition table didn't corrupt yours because it was of a different size, or in a different order; or, maybe it only kills partitions on certain days. And in response to another reply, I made the partition table myself under Linux fdisk (or maybe cfdisk), as I recall. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2001 03:06 pm, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the partition table corruption. No Anti-Virus software installed. Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under certain non-MS-tested circumstances. -- Asheesh. Could be, but you haft'a remember there's all kinds of different W9x versions out there. Biggest differences seem to be between the OEM and 'retail' full install versions. At least in my experience. I dual boot an OEM (less than kosher ;) ONLY W98 version without any service packs/updates, and it's never interfered with lilo/grub, doesn't even know that I have ReiserFS partitions, couldn't see ext2 partitons when I had them either. OTOH, I've seen retail versions of W9x that can't stand anything but fat partitions on any drive, and even worse, offer to 'fix' em ; Since I NEVER connect to the Net with Winblows, I don't bother with virus scanners, none installed. Windoze is good for flyin airplanes ;~ 'bout all it's good for ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.
I've suffered serious partition loss after booting back into Win98 from Linux. Repaired my partition table with gpart, but it was *really* frustrating. -- Asheesh. On 6 Dec 2001, Charles Darcy wrote: Hi, My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help of this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install LM8.1. My main concern now is trying to figure out what I did that might have caused the corruption. The only unsual activities just prior to corruption were: - Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs partition to FAT32 windows partition. - I may have left a floppy drive mounted and failed to log out as root, before shutting down (but surely this wouldn't affect the partition table). - Booted windows. Just looked around with Explorer. I accidentally opened a BIOS flash utility, but exited immediately, without activating any controls. I dont' think the utility actually did anything other than show its GUI, but I can't be certain. Can flashing BIOS (if thats what happened) affect the partition table ? Upon leaving windows, Linux would not re-boot, because it couldn't find the filesystems to mount due to the partition table corruption. I use reiserfs for my linux partitions, if that is a factor. I'd love to hear any ideas about possible corruption causes. regards, Charles. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: LM8.1 Boot fails due to mount error (bad partitiontable ?)
(-: Asheesh is the name :-). Anyway, gpart has an option to scan the entire HD. Thanks for trying this; I thought you disappeared. Give gpart the -f option to scan the full disk. If that doesn't work, grab a copy of testdisk (a program I found linked from the gpart homepage; I compiled it and posted it on my webserver at http://thecore.dyndns.org) and email me back. Best of luck. -- Asheesh. On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Charles Darcy wrote: Sorry for the indirect reply, but Ashaar's (I think this was the name) post somehow got trashed. Thanks for replying so soon, and making your advice so clear. 'gpart' initially reported ... *** Error: invalid extended ptbl found at sector (13092975) ... and then found the Windows partition (primary), and 2 linux swap partitions (one logical, one invalid). Clearly not my original partitions. The full 'gpart' output is below. So it appears 'gpart' cannot help me restore the old partition table. If I use 'gpart -W /dev/hda /dev/hda' to write the new partition table described in 'gpart's output (below), will I then be able to safely do a full install of LM8.1 ? Is there any danger of losing the Windows partition ? -- gpart output -- Begin scan... Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(6400mb), offset(0mb) Possible extended partition at offset(6887mb) Possible partition(Linux swap), size(243mb), offset(6887mb) Possible partition(Linux swap), size(243mb), offset(9891mb) End scan. Checking partitions... Partition(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA): primary Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): logical Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): invalid Number of inconsistencies found: 1. Guessed primary partition table: Primary partition(1) type: 012(0x0C)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA) size: 6400mb #s(13107200) s(63-13107262) chs: (0/1/1)-(815/226/50)d (0/1/1)-(815/226/50)r Primary partition(2) type: 015(0x0F)(Extended DOS, LBA) size: 7930mb #s(16241715) s(14105070-30346784) chs: (878/0/1)-(1023/254/63)d (878/0/1)-(1888/254/63)r Primary partition(3) type: 000(0x00)(unused) size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r Primary partition(4) type: 000(0x00)(unused) size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problems with NE2000 compatible Ethernet PCMCIA card
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start You *did* install the PCMCIA utilities, right? If you did, can you use other PCMCIA cards? If you've done both of these and tried a simple modprobe ne and modprobe ne-pci, reply back. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: Have you tried the vendor to see if they have Linux drivers? At 12:51 PM 12/3/2001 +0100, Juan Ignacio García García wrote: Hello, I have a NE2000 compatible ethernet pcmcia card. HardDrake does not recognize my card. With Suse 7.1 this card works OK (with IRQ=3 and IO=0x300-0x31f). My card is an Arowana Pcmcia Ethernet LAN Card 10M. Does anyone know what can I do to configure my card? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.1 Boot fails due to mount error (bad partitiontable ?)
Steps: 0. Read the web site I mention in step 1. 1. Download gpart.linux from http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ (Gpart is a partition table guesser. I've had much success with it.) 2. Put gpart.linux on a floppy 3. Boot into Rescue on the LM8.1 CD 4. Copy gpart.linux to /bin/ on the RAMdisk filesystem and chmod a+x it. Rename it if it pleases you. 5. Run gpart.linux with some options. Use gpart.linux --help for options. 6. Reboot. You may have to reinstall your bootloader, but I'm sure you can figure out how to do that. -- Asheesh. On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Charles Darcy wrote: Hello, I posted the message below on the Mandrake Newbie list, but I thought I might try here also, as the problem is severe and a little advanced (for me anyway). Please help, as I am currently without a working system (unless you count windoze :-). - Hi, When I try to boot LM8.1, I get these errors: mount: error 22 mounting reiserfs well, retrying read-only without any flags mount: error 22 mounting reiserfs pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 kernel panic: no init found. Trypassing init= option to kernel The kernel needn't panic, I'm doing a good enough job for the both of us (:-). Luckily, I was about to do a full re-install of LM8.1, and had just finished all the preliminary backups. I'd copied several very large (650MB) files from Linux to Windows, switched to Windows to make a LM8.1 Install disk, then tried to return to Linux to do some final checking before I attempted the re-install. This is when the boot failed. The only unusual thing I remember doing, was logging into the tty1 terminal (ctrl-alt-F1) as root, and manually mounting floppies for a few critical backups. Afterwards, I may have shutdown without unmounting the last floppy, and logging out as root. I decided to try the install anyway. DiskDrake complained that it couldn't read the partition table, continue at own risk and showed only a single 'hda' partition covering the whole 15GB disk. Not willing to risk losing the Windows partition, I aborted the install. So it seems my partition table has been damaged ? If so, can I repair whatever damage has been done ? I tried to boot with a LM8.1 boot floppy, but with no success. If I try a full install with the dodgy partition table, is there a chance I will lose my windoze files ? Is my '/home' partition gone (I was intending to keep it intact during the install) ? As you can imagine, any help will be *greatly* appreciated. thanks, Charlie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Server
open up /etc/xinetd.d/swat in your favorite editor, change disable = yes to disable = no, restart xinetd (service xinetd restart). Now open up http://localhost:901/ in your favorite browser and set the configuration as you like it. When you're done, service samba restart. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Robert Boggs wrote: Could someone tell me how to make MY files accessable to my network. I have samba working, in that I can mount any ot the other computers drives, however they still cannot see my drives. HILP, Please. I want to use 'Drake almost all of the time, however at this time, I cannot, due to my wife needing to access my 2 storeage drives. THANKS RB - Original Message - From: Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Server On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:22 pm, you wrote: Turns out the problem with her tcpip was a little program for windows called zone alarm. Got that snag fixed. On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:16 pm, you wrote: Well, my wife's machine will not instsll tcpip. I don't know why, but due to the very expensive Jaws for windows, i Really cannot replace it. Why NetBui? Why not change your winblows machines to tcp/ip? Seems a heck of alot easier. On Tuesday 27 November 2001 19:02, you wrote: I have a small network using netbui, and I would like to make it work in linux. My wife has to use windows, because she is blind, and so far, no program has been setup for talking in X KDE or Gnome. I would like to know how to set this up. You may reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] printing
Are you thinking of /dev/lp0? -- Asheesh. On 2 Dec 2001, richard wrote: Hiya, which modules need/must to be compiled to allow norml printing on 2.4.13-7mdk ? I have tried both building the kernel with modules and built in for par port etc, but cups is winging it cant find the device ie /dev/lpr its there and works fine with 2.4.8-26mdk. just checking if I've missed something, if not whats the safest known 2.4.15 or 2.4.14 kernel version ?, thats on the cooker at the moment ? cya Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel sources 2.4.13 mdk
The kernel-2.4.x package just installs the kernel itself. kernel-source-2.4.x-xmdk might be more what you are looking for. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have recently tried to install the kernel-2.4.13-12mdk rpm on my Linux Mandrake 8.1 system because I have had compile troubles(it seems that there is a missing aicxx.h file) with the kernwl-2.4.8-26mdk which comes with the distro. The problem is that the 2.4.13 mdk rpm does not install the sources in the /usr/src/linux-2.4.13 and I am not sure where it is putting them. How do I get them installed correctly so that I can compile them up? Cheers, Lonnie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!
Are you sure the ntp package has the NTP *server*, not just the client? -- Asheesh. On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Charlie Bebber wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1007244412-31033-738 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I had this working many moons ago, but with new upgrades/installs, it's all been lost and I can't remember what I did (but I know it's not that hard -- that's why it's driving me crazy). So here's what I've got going on: - ntp installed on all of my machines - ntp configured on fileserver to sync to external time server (doesn't stay synced, however). - ntp configured on remaining nodes to sync with fileserver who is supposed to allow that But what's happening is that the ntp on the fileserver will start up, sync with the external time server, but down the line, the time begins to drift and according to my syslog, there were never any more attempts to keep time synced (ntp-4.1.0-1mdk installed on every one of them). And on the local clients, in my /etc/ntp.conf, I've got 10.1.1.3 (the IP for the fileserver) set for the server. That never worked so I stuck it in my /etc/ntp/step-tickers and still, no love. Here's what I get: ntpdate[13387]: no server suitable for synchronization found I portscanned the fileserver and 123 isn't even open (shouldn't it be listening on that port?). When I do a 'ps auxw |grep ntp' on the fileserver, all I've got is 'ntp -A'. Should there be anything else in order to allow other nodes to sync? So what am I missing here? I'm all out of ideas. Thanks in advance, -Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!
I was thinking along the lines of telnet and telnet-server. If the ntp package (you can check in /usr/share/doc/ntp-whatever/) has the server stuff, oops. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Charlie Bebber wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1007249750-31033-754 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Asheesh Laroia said: Are you sure the ntp package has the NTP *server*, not just the client? Since when have there been two different packages? Thanks, -Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!
I recommend either SWAT or webmin for setting up your samba *server*. They're both web-based tools. Webmin may be slightly easier, while SWAT is feature-complete. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Robert Boggs wrote: I got my wife's machine set on tcp/ip, and it isworking fine, however, I can see her machine and ALL shared drives, but she cannot see mine. I need to get gnomba set up for her to see my hard drives, especially the MP3 drive. This drive is in windows. I have my XP on a raid, so there is no way she will ever be able to see that, however the mp2's are on another EIDE drive. HELP!!! RB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network problem
I think you can use that netgear card via the tulip driver. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 17:22 schrieben Sie: Richard Bown (QMW) wrote: [snip] I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to verify... Until a ping -br broadcast which bypasses the routing table actually makes it to the other machine (basic connectivity), routing tables changes are not going to help (unless the network code is buggy). That's the point. Unless I can get a connection from notebook to desktop I don't bother about routes. I ripped off the NIC which was configured as eth1 b/c it was a n old ISA card and I mistrust them. Also the MCC kept saying You only have one NIC although both showed up in the network section as up. So much to the gui tools. Right now I got a cheap NIC called Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card. Problem is, it comes with Linux drivers (!) but only for Red Hat 6.x and the given files will not compile b/c the makefile is counting on kgcc. Duh... So I cannot build the module. Harddrake doesn't know it, it says it's a NAtional Semiconductor Product and that it is unknown wobo (really getting in to it!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdrom woes
Change auto in the /dev/hdc entry to iso9660. Your computer is looking for a DOS (FAT) filesystem on the CD, while it should be looking for an CD-ROM (iso9660) filesystem. -- Asheesh. On 27 Nov 2001, Angus Beath wrote: OK, I've tried very hard to figure this out and I can't. Everytime I try to mount a cdrom, I get the following messages: Nov 27 13:47:04 gabriel kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 Nov 27 13:47:04 gabriel kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:00. My fstab looks like this: /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Can anyone offer any ideas as to why this is not working? The zip drive and the floppy drive are both working fine. Other relevent information: Linux gabriel.psyc.uow.edu.au 2.4.13-12mdk #1 Fri Nov 23 18:44:14 CET 2001 i686 unknown P3-800, intel motherboard, sony cdrom. Help! Thanks in advance! Angus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1
I felt boxed-in by Mandrake as well. Then I tried Debian, and loved it. You might try Slackware if you find Debian not hands-on enough. If you *really* need liberation, check out LinuxFromScratch, a document that describes how to make your own distro. Best of luck! -- Asheesh. On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Leif Madsen wrote: I am in the process of developing my own Linux distro to avoid the slowness of the recent Mandrake distro. 8.0 is too hard to upgrade (stable) and 8.1 is slow and unstable IMO. I do love the Mandrake distro though as it has taught me so much, but I think I'm out-growing it.. Leif Madsen - Project Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plannettechnologies.com - Original Message - From: Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1 Mandrake is the reason i'm still using linux, but 8.1 is way to slow, and 8.0 isn't enough up-to-date. It cause me to switch to jblinux.net which i'm still using. mark On Wednesday 21 November 2001 03:09, you wrote: I would have to agree with slower machines. I only use it in the console mode, so it's not bad. I've never used anything before 8.0 though. I find that there was a slow down between 8.1 and 8.0. I'm back to 8.0 because 8.1 isn't nearly as stable either (IMHO). Leif Madsen - Project Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plannettechnologies.com - Original Message - From: Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1 8.1 seems a lot slower than 7.2, beware on slower machines, it made my 400 go very slow On Wednesday 21 November 2001 02:42, you wrote: I've never looked to see if there is a roll-back option for Mandrake.. but I would assume that your hardware should be fine for 8.1 since I've run it on a P100 with 32MB of RAM :) Leif Madsen - Project Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plannettechnologies.com - Original Message - From: Ken Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:06 PM Subject: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1 I have the MDK 8.1 CD I got as a burned ISO... I know that it is usually best to perform clean installs, but- I have Mandrake 7.2 on my laptop, and it is running great. I have also customized and added programs that are useful to me (such as ConsoleOne, Netscape 4.78, VNCviewer etc etc). I would like to install as an upgrade so I don't have to redo all the installations, but I am concerned with breaking something. I guess my question would be: is there a roll-back option available if the upgrade breaks? A second question is what is the minimum hardware requirement for 8.1? Will an AMD 380mhz, with 160MB ram be enough? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problems with filsesystem in LM8.1
Run badblocks /dev/hdc5, or e2fsck with the -c option. These check for bad blocks. If this block repeatedly causes problems, it might be a bad sector on your hard disk. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: That's me again. Some days after I installed LM8.1 I started experiencing sme problems with my filesystem. Let me explain. Basically I cannot access some directories/files... it happens mostly with Eterm configuration files, and since I installed Eterm 0-9.1, it might have something to do with it... though I can't see how. I would use tune2fs to force a check in the next reboot, and I would get the following : Nov 13 11:44:46 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. Nov 13 11:44:48 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:44:48 pinguim fsck: Inode 7603, i_blocks is 2096, should be 2056. FIXED. Nov 13 11:44:51 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:44:51 pinguim fsck: Inode 39769, i_blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED. Nov 13 11:44:54 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:44:54 pinguim fsck: Deleted inode 71974 has zero dtime. FIXED. Nov 13 11:45:27 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Duplicate or bad block in use! Nov 13 11:45:27 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Duplicate blocks found... invoking duplicate block passes. Nov 13 11:45:27 pinguim fsck: Pass 1B: Rescan for duplicate/bad blocks Nov 13 11:45:27 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:45:27 pinguim fsck: Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 263738:/dev/hdc5: 545471/dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:45:27 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:45:27 pinguim fsck: Pass 1C: Scan directories for inodes with dup blocks. Nov 13 11:46:42 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:46:42 pinguim fsck: Pass 1D: Reconciling duplicate blocks Nov 13 11:46:42 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:46:43 pinguim fsck: (There are 1 inodes containing duplicate/bad blocks.) Nov 13 11:46:43 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: File /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/net/3c515.c (inode #263738, mod time Tue Jul 17 22:53:55 2001) Nov 13 11:46:43 pinguim fsck: has 1 duplicate block(s), shared with 0 file(s): Nov 13 11:46:43 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Duplicated blocks already reassigned or cloned. Nov 13 11:46:43 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 13 11:46:43 pinguim fsck: /lost+found not found. CREATED. Nov 13 11:46:43 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: 146454/305824 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 517775/610462 blocks Nov 13 14:27:06 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: clean, 147153/305824 files, 519491/610462 blocks ** Nov 14 17:38:32 pinguim fsck: was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. Nov 14 17:38:37 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 14 17:38:37 pinguim fsck: Inode 39769, i_blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED. Nov 14 17:39:11 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Duplicate or bad block in use! Nov 14 17:39:11 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Duplicate blocks found... invoking duplicate block passes. Nov 14 17:39:11 pinguim fsck: Pass 1B: Rescan for duplicate/bad blocks Nov 14 17:39:12 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 263738:/dev/hdc5: 545471/dev/hdc5: Nov 14 17:39:12 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Nov 14 17:39:12 pinguim fsck: Pass 1C: Scan directories for inodes with dup blocks. Nov 14 17:39:57 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Pass 1D: Reconciling duplicate blocks Nov 14 17:39:59 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: (There are 1 inodes containing duplicate/bad blocks.) Nov 14 17:39:59 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: File /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/net/3c515.c (inode #263738, mod time Tue Jul 17 22:53:55 2001) Nov 14 17:39:59 pinguim fsck: has 1 duplicate block(s), shared with 0 file(s): Nov 14 17:39:59 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: Duplicated blocks already reassigned or cloned. Nov 14 17:40:00 pinguim fsck: /dev/hdc5: 147873/305824 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 523176/610462 blocks Note that I got the same error twice, refering to inode 263738... in fact it happened more than two times. After the fsck, everything would ran fine. I suspect that my fs wasn't being unmounted the right way, since it looked like it would shutdown too quickly before these things ocurred. Well- I was already interested in switching to ext3, and I thought it would help me to solve that problem. I converted the fs to ext3, and added a ramdisk to load the ext3 module at boot... which brings in another oddity, I didnt manage to re-compile the modules of Mandrake kernel. But I guess I should write a third e-mail to deal with that... But the problem also happened with ext3. when I forced the check, everything would work fine, but the check gave me no error msgs. It might be some hardware problem; I have an A7V133 Asus board, so it might be a symptom of one the infamous VIA bugs. But these things never happened with LM8.0. I also expected fsck to correct the problem the first time it appeared... Any help on how to correct this will be greatly apprecciated... Please should someone reply to this also
Re: [expert] bind mount: Howto add to fstab?
Use bind in the options field, and nothing (or auto) as the type. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Since kernel 2.4.0 it is possible to mount local directories onto another local dir by entering: mount --bind /tmp /dest But, how would I add such a thing to the /etc/fstab? Using »bind« as the filesystem doesn't work: /tmp /dest binddefaults 0 0 Trying to mount /tmp gives such an error message: mount: fs type bind not supported by kernel So, how would I do this? Thanks, Alexander Skwar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Still Star office 6 install problems
You might try running the Star Office install under GDB (the GNU debugger) or under strace (a system call tracer). I find that running programs under these (1) lets one know what the program is doing when it hangs/crashes/doesn't start, and (2) sometimes gives the program an incentive to work. I think strace would be the easiest and most sensible to run here; instead of ./soffice, use strace ./soffice (strace _commandname_, basically). Tell the list what the last few function calls were. Best of luck! -- Asheesh. On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Tom Badran wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 9:08 pm, you wrote: $ ls -l so-6_0-beta-bin-linux-en.bin -rwxrwxr-x1 ronysronys124582824 Nov 7 09:06 so-6_0-beta-bin-linux-en.bin* $ md5sum so-6_0-beta-bin-linux-en.bin fd6ff8f5c8b828a285c023db3fa8c232 so-6_0-beta-bin-linux-en.bin Thank you. Mine are EXACTLY the same as those, and it doesnt bl**dy work. Might have to try a good ol fashioned reinstall then. I REALLY didnt want to resort to that. And it is odd that it fails on two copmletey different machines (only common factor is mandrake). Does anyone have ANY ideas at all?? - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE79DuyXCpWOla2mCcRAvc6AJ4oOQDAZRXMHOGDiskCKaktzuXT3QCePqVk zMY6f4rgd48tcxzl3T6WCI8= =wk1K -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setting user shell in ~/~.profile
You need to set the shell using the chsh command when logged in as that user, not in the .profile. -- Asheesh. On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: I need to set the user shell in ~/.profile how is that done (it should be a special version of the bash shell locatet in /usr/local/bin/) ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stu. Sci. Math/Computer science | TLF(home):39699914 - 116 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116. Url: www.math.ku.dk | Politics is for the moment, equations are forever - Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound card recommendations
Um, is there a better card than the SoundBlaster Live!? (And what are you planning on doing with that old SBL!...?) I've found their Linux support (in recent times) to be better than any other card, and as far as hardware goes, I know of no better consumer-price-level card. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, s wrote: Well, time has come to replace the old SBL! value (gameport bad), and am interested in recommendations from the list, particularly compatible with 8.1. Tho I have found a site where I can get an oem SBL! replacement for $37, I was thinking of going one better. So, please share your thoughts, experiences, and/or opinions. TIA, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Now I screwed up.. WooHoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know, there was an easier way At the LILO prompt, type 1 or init=/bin/sh at the end of your image name. That will get you to a root prompt. Then cd into /dev. The program mknod creates device files. /dev/null is no exception; it can be recreated. mknod --help reveals the syntax: mknod filename type major minor /dev/null is a character device. After looking at the file on my system (via ls -l), I find the major number of device /dev/null is 1; the minor is 3. So: mknod /dev/null c 1 3 Now change permissions as you like (I recommend chmod 666, chown root.mem), and you're back in business. Restart, and continue as normal. Again, it's nice to know that there are few problems that are unsolvable in this system. All it takes is knowledge, not a reinstall (Unlike that other OS...). You could have also just used cp -a to copy the /dev/null from the ramdisk into your filesystem's /dev. The -a (or archive) switch makes sure it saves file information, like devices, when copying. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Franki wrote: I did it... can't believe it,, I got the barstard working again.. (scuse language) Here is what I did, I booted rescue and deleted every directory in the ram diskthat I could.. /usr /etc /var /dev /usr and /tmp (think that was it...) it probably wasn't necessary to do all of them, but I figured what the hell,, I was being fastidious... :-) then I mounted all the partitions on the hard drive into those places respectively so that essentially, the hard disk partitions listed above had replaced those on the ramdisk.. Then I deleted /dev/null and reinstalled (forced and nodeps) the dev rpm, (had to do etc because the ramdisk /etc didn't have a user mem and wouldn't let me create one.. using my old passwd file in my old /etc worked...) Thanks for the URL below, I checked to make sure that the rpm installed /dev/null as owner root:mem then I rebooted.. and the damn thing worked.. I swear I thought this install was toast... I was so surprised when aurora came up,, (up till now, it got to the interactive boot prompt and errored out..) This just blows me away, I had no idea I could get this working, just trying because I am an obstinate mongrel... how cool is that?? I know it sounds daft to be excited over the prospect of fixing an install that I was going to wipe in a week or two when my 8.1 powerpack arrives ,, but still its cool to know that there are not too many screwups that can't be rectified if you know where to start... and I learned important lessons from this experiance too... even better, now that I got the /var partition corrected with reiserfsck postfix uninstalled without the system crashes and all the relivent files/dirs were removed... and I just reinstalled it without problem as well... (and its running again) This is soo cool, I feel like a hacker :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Baker Sent: Friday, 28 September 2001 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Now I screwed up.. Searching google.com/linux for /dev/null and mknod I found this sight. http://www.linux.com/develop/man/4/null/ which contains... NAME null, zero - data sink DESCRIPTION Data written on a null or zero special file is discarded. Reads from the null special file always return end of file, whereas reads from zero always return \0 characters. null and zero are typically created by: mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5 chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero NOTES If these devices are not writable and readable for all users, many programs will act strange. FILES /dev/null /dev/zero SEE ALSO mknod(1), chown(1) --- Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, as an update, I used the cd to boot rescue.. then I did reiserfsck to check all partitions,,, then I went in and deleted /dev/null off the drive.. (because of my copying it was now /bounce from the postfix dir (see earlier email) Then I tried booting again in the hope that linux would replace it.. it didn't then I booted again rescue and copied /dev/null from the rescue disk to the hard drive /dev folder... restared and tried again.. no good, same messages.. So now my question is this./... I though I might try to upgrade something on the hard disk in the hope that mdk would over write the problems and fix my little issue.. I can't fingure out how to get 7.2 to do an upgrade, if I boot it and press enter (as it says for install and upgrade) it doesn't give me any upgrade options at all... so I am alittle lost here... any suggestions at all?? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Friday, 28 September 2001 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:
Re: [expert] setting up new linux workstations
I'm currently using the EPOX 8KTA3 motherboard along with a 256MB PC133 stick of SDRAM and a 1Ghz Athlon with a 266 MHz bus. The board has six (!) PCI slots, an AGP slot, onboard ATA/100, an ISA slot (remember those?), four USB connectors, onboard AC97 sound (that I don't use; my SoundBlaster PCI128 does four-speaker support. It also has a set of diagnostic LEDs that give information if the machine does not start, cannot detect a video card, etc. It supports 1.5GB of RAM. (Yum) I like it. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Steve wrote: If you were asked by someone to build two linux workstations where one had to be pentium 4 based and the other athlon based, what two motherboards would you use? For the pentium 4, I was considering the Abit TH7II-Raid (i850 chipset). I am not for certain if there are any known issues with mandrake 8.1 and the i850 chipset. From what I have read I think it will run fine. For the Athlon, I am unsure which board to use. Which board does not have any known problems? I know some VIA chipsets have known problems. If these problems have been addressed with the newest Mandrake release then great, if not I would like to know which board to use and which to stay away from. I would like to be able to run the harddrives at the desired speeds of ATA/66 or ATA/100 without any data corruption resulting from VIA bugs. I would also like a board with more than two DIMM slots. Any input would be appreciated as I would like to order the hardware as soon as possible. Thanks. -- A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. -- Yogi Berra Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
First of all, what's with the backslash after message in his lilo.conf? If that's of no help, try removing the table= line in his. Also, is it just me or do you have duplicate Linux entries? Other than that, I can be of no help. Sorry. Best of luck -- Asheesh. On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Leif Madsen wrote: message\/boot/message What is this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux
I can confirm that many sources (via http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+8100+mac) agree that MkLinux will run on your Mac. However, OpenBSD and NetBSD also run. If I were you, I'd grab one of those instead, as they're not ancient (MkLinux's last web site update was 31 Jul 2000). Check www.openBSD.org and www.netBSD.org. These OSs, if you don't know, are derivatives of the Berkeley Systems Distribution, the Real UNIX (tm) from which all others are derived. I know that OpenBSD is known to be the most secure UNIX, and that NetBSD is considered the most ported UNIX. Other than that, the web sites will be much more informative -- Asheesh. On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, John Haywood wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 06:39, you wrote: RE: [expert] Mac-on-Linux From: Alan N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not all mac's. I aquired an 8100 from work.. Nice machine at the time (1995). This uses the nu-bus technology. I have found NO linux of anytype that will run on this machine. I would *love* to.. So if I'm missing something anyone let me know! Alan I think you'll find that the old mklinux will install run on your 8100 hth -- Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best. -- P.J. O'Rourke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IBM PC Camera
*Always* use modprobe instead of insmod. Modprobe first checks for dependencies, insmods those, and then insmods the module you asked for. Likely, there's some related module that needs to be installed. Just use: modprobe ibmcam Hope this helps! (Just a warning: if you *know* you want to insert *only* a specific module, then use insmod. I don't know how many years it's been since I've used insmod, though) -- Asheesh. On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, How do I set this up? I tried insmod ibmcam and got a bunch of unresolved symbols. This is the stock Mandrake 8.0 kernel 2.43-20. -- Q: How many supply-siders does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. The darkness will cause the light bulb to change by itself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] irq conflict
In the BIOS settings, find the advanced hardware properties. In there, there should be an option to disable IRQ for VGA (that is, take away the video card's IRQ). That's how all my systems are set up, and it works for me (tm). Then tell it to Reset ECSD Data (this clears the IRQ-device cache). That should free up that conflicting IRQs. In the BIOS, there should also be a Manual IRQ setup configuration option. Make sure it is either disabled, or enabled with *all IRQs* set to PCI / PnP. The only thing I'm worried about is 3D speed. None of the machines here are used for it, so I can't say disabling its IRQ doesn't slow it down. Does anyone else know? Hope this helps. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Tom Badran wrote: Ok, ive got a mean IRQ conflict on my flatmates machine. message trunca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] irq conflict
Another note: If you don't need serial ports, disable them. You might be able to enable USB and still disable its IRQ in the BIOS as well. Disable all unneeded parallel ports. If he doesn't have any devices on the floppy controller (e.g., I don't have a floppy drive in my system), disable it. Same goes for any BIOS-controlled devices. You might be able to get around the IRQ conflict by just disabling serial ports (how long has it been since I used of those, anyway?). -- Asheesh. On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Tom Badran wrote: Ok, ive got a mean IRQ conflict on my flatmates machine. We had the same problem under winblows that meant he could no longer use the scsi card for his zip-drive. Anyway, the network card loads fine, HW address and everything, we just cant ping any other local machine. Also we are trying to get his geforce 2 card to work with nvidias drivers, but x crashes completely after about 10 seconds use. The geforce card we think is the culprit as the network used to be on irq 12 (its a realtek 81930 or something). Here is the important otput from /proc/pci : //first bit removed Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU1 (rev 4). IRQ 7. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f]. Bus 0, device 9, function 1: Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 1). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007]. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940-UW (rev 0). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=6.Max Lat=13. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe43f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdb00 [0xdbff]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdb001000 [0xdb0010ff]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 (Geforce2 GTS) (rev 163). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xd8ff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd000 [0xd7ff]. This is without USB interface loaded which uses irq 10 also. How can i delibrately change the IRQs that the cards use? Or fix this. Thanks Guys, sorry for length but im completely stumped -- His life was formal; his actions seemed ruled with a ruler. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Broken Filesystem, but I fsck'ed it----
Do you know what file system you have? If it's ext2, use: e2fsck -f device The -f makes sure it runs the check. Sometimes the fsck program thinks the file system is clean on first check when it is not. For a ReiserFS partition, use: reiserfsck device Best of luck! -- Asheesh. On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Expert wrote: Require help with system not booting. The system drops me to a shell every time. It said repair file system, so I said yes, then it said it could not, and dropt me to a shell, coulndt do anything productive. Booted rescue, fsck all partitions, fsck reported all were clean. Rebooted. Still fscked up because it goes into same mode This result is un acceptable. How do I fix it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] installation problems in 8.0
For 1 and 2, were you in Newbie install mode? I know in Expert it prompts for these things. For 3, try alsamixer. If that doesn't work, try the program aumix. There are two different sound systems available under Mandrake. These are their different volume control programs. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote: I have had the following problems in installing 8.0 1. the mkbootdisk is skipped (I have no choice in the matter) 2. there is no choice to boot either of Win98 and linux. Lilo sets things up to only boot linux. I know how to fix the above things, but IMHO the installation should give the installer the choices. 3. I have a Creative Soundblaster 512 PCI soundcard. lsmod shows the correct sound module but there is no sound. I don't know how to fix this. Any ideas? TIA, -sen -- Fortune finishes the great quotations, #12 Those who can, do. Those who can't, write the instructions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Compile error: -lX11 not found
Um, this should be simply solved by installing the XFree86-devel package, no poking-and-tweaking should be required -- Asheesh. On 15 Sep 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 01:41, Gregor Maier wrote: It is looking for the X11 library. Try to find where this lib is (file something like libX11.so, ) I should be in /usr/lib or /usr/lib/X11 Do you have the -dev package for X11 installed? Also make sure that the compiler can find it. Try setting the LDFLAGS before compilation and look at /etc/ld.so.conf. The path to the lib must be in there when you try to run your program. After changing ld.so.conf you must run ldconfig! export LDFLAGS=-L /PATH/TO/X-LIBS If the compiler complains about missing .h files also set: export CFLAGS=-I /PATH/TO/X-HEADER export CXXFLAGS=-I /PATH/TO/X-HEADER export CPP FLAGS=-I /PATH/TO/X-HEADER Thanks, I will check those things out. Dave -- Overfiend partycle: I seriously do need a vacation from this package. I actually had a DREAM about introducing a stupid new bug into xbase-preinst last night. That's a Bad Sign. -- Seen on #Debian shortly before the release of Debian 2.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Compile error: -lX11 not found
Hmm. Look for libX11.a, since that's the file that gets compiled into programs. If it's in /usr/X11R6/lib/ as well, then I'd look at your GCC parameters. It just seems bizarre that it wouldn't work out of the box -- Asheesh. On 15 Sep 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 08:40, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Um, this should be simply solved by installing the XFree86-devel package, no poking-and-tweaking should be required The XFree86-devel package was/is installed, however I am still getting this error. I have also checked /etc/ld.so.conf, and /usr/X11R6/lib/ appears in it (and libX11.so is in the /usr/X11R6/lib/ directory). I haven't tried the export commands suggested to me, but I will when I get back to this project. Thanks for the help, Dave -- Knghtbrd Overfiend - BTW, after we've discovered X takes all of 1.4 GIGS to build, are you willing admit that X is bloatware? = Overfiend KB: there is a 16 1/2 minute gap in my answer acf knghtbrd: evidence exists that X is only the *2nd* worst windowing system ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lexmark Z12
Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html says the printer has currently paperweight status (on a range from Perfectly-working to Paperweight). Time to send a message to Lexmark about their half-hearted support. Sorry -- Asheesh. On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Brian Blater wrote: I'm running MDK 8 and have a Lexmark Z12 printer. Anyone know of a driver for this printer? I see that Lexmark has a driver for the Z13 and Z52, but not for the Z12. Anyone have a work around to get this printer working with Linux (and no I can't but a real printer at this moment)? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X11 on old-style iBook (Mandrake PPC 8.0)
My feeling is there aren't many Mandrake PPC users yet. I'd post a message on an X11-related or Mac-related mailing list instead. My feeling is there are lots of debian users who've used iMacs, and lots of LinuxPPC users who know this information. BTW, I just checked, and LinuxPPC has XFree 4 packages available, so the config information they provide should also apply. Best of luck. I hope that you can just get an answer on this list. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, William von Hagen wrote: I'm new to this list and am having a problem getting X11 working correctly on Mandrake 8.0 for the PPC platform. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a Lime 466MZ iBook. X comes up, but it's wrapped half-way around the screen, vertically, with a half-inch black line running 2/3 of the way across the screen (horizontally) in the middle that marks the virtual top of the screen. I've tried modifying /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (which the X server says it's using), to various resolutions, and modified it to use fbdev rather than the ATI 128 driver, but nothing changes except my level of frustration. Does anyone have a working XF86Config-4 for an equivalent old iBook that they could send me? Thanks! Bill von Hagen -- Art is either plagiarism or revolution. -- Paul Gauguin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X11 on old-style iBook (Mandrake PPC 8.0)
Hmm. Do you still have that LinuxPPC install? Would you happen to have your config files...? (Nah, it won't be that easy. But at least I tried.) -- Asheesh. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, William von Hagen wrote: Thanks for the reply. Ironically, I've already used been using LinuxPCC, YDL, and most recently SuSE on the PPC platform (the first two for over a year now). This really seems like a driver problem to me, but I hoped that someone might have gotten it working somehow. I'm fairly familiar with building, configuring, and using the X Window system in general as well as XFree86. I'll definitely forward any off-list responses or personal successes that I get to the list. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: Re: [newbie] filenames with spaces causing errorin script
Your script works fine; you just made one mistake: Don't use quotes around $file now. It comes pre-quoted. Everything should work fine if you use $file by itself, without quotes around it. A rudimentary echo test proved this true for me. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, bascule wrote: i have posted this on newbie but had no repsonse, after playing around i have found that the section in my little script that says `ls *.wav` is probably my problem, reading 'man ls' i changed it to `ls -Q *.wav` but this didn't work, then i discovered something wierd, if i do: $ls -Q *.wav i get the following: snip 11_move on.wav 26_i don't know why.wav 12_leon.wav 27_a man's job.wav 13_itch.wav 28_it's too bad.wav 14_wake up.wav 29_do you love me.wav 15_what generation are you.wav i.e. a list of filenames with the around them, job done i thought, but to test i did: $ for file in `ls -Q *.wav`;do echo $file;done and this gave me: snip 26_i don't know why.wav 27_a man's job.wav 28_it's too bad.wav 29_do you love me.wav as you can see, i get a list of each individual 'word' in the filenames, can someone help or explain this for me? bascule -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] filenames with spaces causing error in script Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:44:49 +0100 From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have also tried the following: $ for file in `ls *.wav`;do lame -b 256 -q 0 $file `basename $file .wav`.mp3;done i think this is fine apart from the first line, i think this is feeding each seperate word in a filename as a filename to the lame command, i think that it might actually be complicated to return a list of files that have spacenames and assign each whole filename to a variable am i wrong? bascule On Thursday 13 September 2001 10:18 pm, I wrote: hi, i have used the following to convert some homemade wavs into mp3s: $ for file in `ls *.wav`;do lame -b 256 -q 0 $file `basename $file .wav`.mp3;done it works fine except for file names with spaces, i can't work out how to rectify this, i have also tried: $ for file in `ls *.wav`;do lame -b 256 -q 0 $file `basename $file .wav`.mp3;done and $ for file in `ls *.wav`;do lame -b 256 -q 0 $file `basename $file .wav`.mp3;done as you can see i've tried using around references to file names but this hasn't helped, could someone please help me out tia bascule --- -- You can't fall off the floor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] installing progs
First, stop shouting. After doing that, we need to find out some information. Do you have your Mandrake install CD? Do you know how to use data CDs under Linux? Do you have Internet access from this computer where you want to install CDDA2WAV? -- Asheesh. On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, ben s wrote: HELLO I AM A LINUX NEWBIE, AND CAME SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO INSTALL A PROGRAM... I AM TRYING TO INSTALL CDDA2WAV IN ORDER TO MAKE MY OWN MIXED CD'S.. I RESENTLY ABANDONED WINDOWS, AND AM A BIT LOST.. WHAT MAKE?? OR INSTALL? DO I NEED TO PASS ANY PARAMETERS TO THEM?? HELP PLEASE THANKS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix
Use the mailq command to see the mail queue. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Brett wrote: I've sent some large emailand it's in my SMTP queue to be delivered outside my network. How do I view what's currently in queue yet to be delivered? Regards, Brett Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Firewall configuration for iConnectHere.com telephony client
Re: [expert] Adding a LinkSys ether card to LM 7.0?
Try using the kernel driver "tulip". You can make it available by "modprobe tulip", of course. -- Asheesh. -- Many of the convicted thieves Parker has met began their life of crime after taking college Computer Science courses. -- Roger Rapoport, "Programs for Plunder", Omni, March 1981
Re: [expert] sftp? and Mason
Check out PuTTY and Secure iXplorer. A google search will give you their URLs. If you need to tunnel through an http proxy, check out httptunnel. That's the solution I use. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Franki wrote: Hi all, Can't remember if I asked this or not.. I need app for win32 (2000 pro specifically) that supports file transfers over ssh,, in other words, I really don't want to enable ftp on my server, I have had security problems previously with FTP (resulting in one of my servers getting hacked., and I am now paranoid... So does anyone know of such an app? I use TerraTerm pro with the ssh patch,, but it doesn't support the new ssh standards... can anyone suggest anything? Also, is anyone using Mason firewall? and if so what are your thoughts/opinions...?? kindest regards/many thanx Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Gshop Network Payment Solutions. -- "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!
Make sure you have JavaScript turned on globally in the "Java/Javascript" settings of Konqueror. HTH. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.2.17, KDE 2.1 on both a laptop and a desktop machine. This problem occurs on both. I have an email account that I must access via an Outlook web interface, which uses javascript. I can access it and work with it fine with mozilla or netscape but konqueror goes retarded if I try to access it. I go to the web login page and enter my name, then a dialog box comes up asking for my login and password. Fine. When I enter the required information (in konqueror), it appears to try to download the page and then asks with what app I wish to open it up (?!?). I select "konqueror" and then I get an error message as follows: File:/home/praedor/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/1463.0.LogonFrm.asp does not exist Of COURSE it doesn't exist, it's a website not a file on my system. Why is konqueror doing this? Why can't it handle opening a simple URL or webpage that netscape and mozilla has no problems with? I have javascript enabled for konqueror and this web email interface is laden with javascript. -- I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart. -- The Best of Will Rogers
Re: [expert] CUPS exasperation
You might try "Print to File" in WP, then running, as root: lpr name_of_WordPerfect_output_file That used to work for me when CUPS broke. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, b5dave wrote: Hi I really need to be able to print from Wordperfect 8/Linux real soon now or I'm sunk. (essay deadlines etc) With LM 7.2 Cups 1.1.4-7.1 local HP Deskjet520 on /dev/lp0 stand-alone dial-up system, with loopback working. I just can't get cups working properly. The kups program says can't connect to server. I've managed to configure my deskjet via the web config tool and the test page printed okay. I was also able to print from nedit. But the setup just won't stick. The daemon just dies after a very short time and my printer config is gone. Running chkconfing --list shows cups on at the appropriate run-levels. If I run "service cups start" or "/etc/rc.d/init.d/ cups start" I get an OK but if I immediately run lpinfo -v I get "Unable to connect to server: connection refused. All this is being done su'd to root with printer always on. Running kupsdconf as root I get: # QObject::connect: No such slot CupsdServerSecurityPage::cleanupEventFilter() QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') I just spent the whole day reading all the docs, and trying everything possible. I had updated cups using drakupdate and thought that may have been screwy so I downloaded the three rpms, uninstalled cups (rpm-e --nodeps), cleaned up the leftover directories, re-installed, and SNAFU. I'm now completely out of ideas and out of steam. Used redhat for 4 years and I'm starting to miss the old lpd. :-( Thanks in advance for any help. Dave. - 18-Dec-2000 04:12:39 - -- If our behavior is strict, we do not need fun!
[expert] SSH port forwarding
I need to setup an SSH tunnel that listens on a port, that redirects all data to 192.168.0.2:5901 (decrypted at this point). localhost is a Linux-Mandrake server with SSH installed. 192.168.0.2 is a Win98 machine. I have tried to configure SSH to forward the port, but to no avail. What command-line options do I use? Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh. (PS: I plan on using TeraTerm Pro to do the SSH forwarding for Windows clients. I'll still need the equiavalent command line arguments for 'nix SSH, though.)
Re: [expert] Where to aquire Spice RPM - ?
Check http://rpmfind.net for them. It looks like it has what you need. -- Asheesh. On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: I 've been using Oregano (the circuit design tool for Gnome) for quiet some time now. I have a few personal designs that I want to test out but unfortunetly Mandrake 7.2 does not come SPICE to run the testing simulations.. Where could I aquire the SPICE source RPM for Mandrake or even the binaries for SPICE? Thanks Stef Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating
Try putting the new config file in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Best of luck. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Tim Faehnle wrote: Okay, Does Mandrake 7.2 come with 4.0.1 or not? I'm confused by Mandrake install. (it's buggy and ill-designed, but that's a different discussion) First of all, it detects my video card incorrectly. It detects it as a RIVA128 when it should be RIVATNT (It's a Diamond Viper 550). Then it tells me that 4.0.1 does not support your card in 3D (or something like that) and it asks me whether I want to install XFree86 3.3.x with 3D help or XFree86 3.3.x. It doesn't even give me the choice of 4.0.1. So, I figured maybe it was a typo or something and chose the regular XFree86 3.3.x. When the install is finished and booted, I type "XFree86 -version" and I get 4.0.1. WTF? Okay, fine, so now I have 4.0.1, but the wrong video driver installed. I want to fix that. XFree86 web page says I should type: "XFree86 -configure" Did that and it autodetected a bunch of stuff (correctly, seemingly). Now to test it I type: "XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new" and I get the cursor that I can move around with the black and white pattern background. Groovy, it works (successful test, right? I assume so. Nothing tells me if that's what I'm supposed to see.). Okay, then I just overwrite the old /etc/X11/XF86Config with this new one (making a backup of course and removing the .new extension). Then I type "startx" and it says that it can't even recognize the keyword "ServerLayout", which happens to be the first keyword in the new XF86Config, and it fails. What did I do wrong? Do I have some fundamentally wrong idea of how this should work? Did my test not work? What's the deal? Any ideas that anyone might have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Frustrated, Tim PS It seems weird that the new XFree86 Config format isn't recognized, but the old one is. use XFdrake instead of xf86config. -sarang That doesn't work, I'm in the same boat. If 3.x is installed XFdrake does not recognize the 4.0x installation. -JMS yeah, XFree86 website says neither does XF86Setup for 4.0.1. I've tried it too. It gives errors. -- This here's the wattle, The emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle; You can hold it in your hand. Amen! -- Monty Python Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97
Hey there. I have a fix for your problem. Once you have the mixer setting you want, run the following as root: touch /etc/asound.conf /usr/sbin/alsactl store Now, whenever you want your old settings back, type: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore And, to make this automated, add the following lines to your /etc/modules.conf: post-install snd-mixer /usr/sbin/alsactl restore post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore post-install snd-card-1 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore post-install snd-card-via686a /usr/sbin/alsactl restore Hope this helps! -- Asheesh. On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Bill Piety wrote: praedor wrote: A quick reply to myself... I did manage to get sound working about 5 minutes after posting about my problem. The sound quality is pretty good and, so far, there is none of the cricket-like static I was experiencing with my AudioPCI. I do still wonder why a Mandrake-specific tool (sounddrake) wont interface and work with the "preferred" Mandrake soundsystem (alsa), however. praedor On Sunday 03 December 2000 04:17 pm, you wrote: [...] I have removed my AudioPCI and enabled my ac97 builtin sound (AOpen AK72 motherboard with a via chipset for an Athlon) I have downloaded, built, and installed the latest alsa drivers, etc. I have loaded the proper modules for it - after running "modprobe snd-card-via686a" I now have these [...] I have unmuted everything in the alsamixer. Result: nothing. No sound. The mic doesn't work either. Sound system is DOA. [...] Here's one for the Mandrake developers: Why in the world is it that Mandrake appears to be going to alsa yet sounddrake doesn't work for alsa? You cannot setup your soundcard using sounddrake, a Mandrake-specific config tool, if you are using alsa, the standard base Mandrake sound system? It only works if you are using oss as your sound driver base. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Congrats, Praedor. However, noone's responded to my problem of losing sound settings and re-muting the mixers. The only workaround I've found so far is with KDE, opening kmix docking it in the panel. Sure hope some sound-guru is pondering this issue. -- By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
About your post on [expert]
What processor and motherboard do you run? I'm asking because I'm considering adding a 256MB DIMM to my AMD K6-2 300 (on the VIA MP3 chipset), and I was wondering if it was compatible. Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, EagleIce wrote: This sounds similar to the problems I had, look at the mails with these headers: [expert] serious boot problem with 7.2 [expert] I fixed it!- was: serious boot problem with 7.2 The problem for me (NB: I'm not the only one who's had this problem) was in the /etc/fstab file : instead of 'defaults' it read 'noauto,user,rw' which is totally absurd. Check it out. ei On Sunday 03 December 2000 11:22, Bill Thompson wrote: Hi, I get the following error while trying to bootup a new 7.2 installation. INIT: version 2.78 booting Welcome to Linux Mandrake Press 'I' to enter interactive startup Mounting proc filesystem dup2: Bad file descriptor[FAILED] Setting default font dup2: Bad file descriptor[FAILED] " " " More of the same " " /etc/rc.sysinit: /dev/null: Read-only file system Checking root filesystem dup2: Bad file descriptor *** An error occured during the file system check *** Dropping you to a shell: I found messages about this on the web but no suggestions for a fix. I re-installed a second time but the same thing happened after a coupla days of use. On the second installation, I opted for lilo instead of grub/aurora. Using a boot floppy, I ran /sbin/lilo but it didn't help. Anyone have any ideas about this, Bill New Quantum 20.3-GB HD - 500-MB MS-DOS6.22/4DOS 20-MB /boot 16-GB / 130-MB swap (the rest is not partitioned or formatted) 256-MB RAM Matrox G400 32-MB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- I HAVE to buy a new "DODGE MISER" and two dozen JORDACHE JEANS because my viewscreen is "USER-FRIENDLY"!! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] compiling gpilot for visor
In the gpilot src dir: make clean rm -f config.cache ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable usb-visor make make install That should fix this whole mess for you. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jerry Sternesky wrote: It seems the rpm that Mandrake ships for 7.2 doesn't have the visor flag compiled in. So I downloaded the tarball, unzipped and did ./configure --enable usb-visor. Then the make and make install. It seems that the install placed all the files in /usr/local/bin. The RPM had placed the files in /usr/bin, so I renamed the gpilod in /usr/bin to gpild.old and copied the gpilotd from /usr/local/bin (the one compiled with the enable visor flag). The connection is now made between the visor and Mandrake, but it errors on conduits and usr id and etc. So I need to know how to straighten this out. I am guessing, if I do a make clean? It would remove all the settings and file and I can compile and install again. What I hope someone can tell me is there another flag I should use during the compile to ensure it goes to the correct directories. And if anyone know how I can remove the files placed by the make install without deleting them all by hand I would appreciate it. Thanks, Jerry S. -- I wonder if I ought to tell them about my PREVIOUS LIFE as a COMPLETE STRANGER? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Another boot problem with Mandrake 7.2
Sounds like Windows (or whatever you're ctrl-alt-del'n' from) is leaving your hardware in an unstable state. That's why Linux always does a cold boot when it restarts (note the RAM checks after a Linux ctrl-alt-del). A touch of the reset button will do wonders in these cases. -- Asheesh. On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: My Mandrake 7.2 boots up just fine from a cold boot. But if I do a ctrl-Alt-Del, it gooes to the text "OK booting linux ." and stops there. Never happens with a cold boot (power off/on). What could be the problem? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 -- A Parable of Modern Research: Bob has lost his keys in a room which is dark except for one brightly lit corner. "Why are you looking under the light, you lost them in the dark!" "I can only see here." Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Telnet Delays
Make sure you have an entry in the server's /etc/hosts file for the machine you're telnetting in from. (i.e., if you're running telnet from "192.168.0.2" to log in to "192.168.0.1", put "192.168.0.2 SomeComputerNameHere" in /etc/hosts of "192.168.0.1".) -- Asheesh. On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, mail wrote: Hi, When trying to telnet into my gateway box, I get : Trying 192.168.0.1... Connected to lin1.mynet.hom. Escape character is '^]'. Where it hangs for a few mins before giving me a login prompt. Now I know this is a mandrake list, however the server is running Redhat, though the only reason I am posting this is that I am hoping someone out there knows a workaround. TIA Ali -- Q: What do you say to a New Yorker with a job? A: Big Mac, fries and a Coke, please! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Partition-in-a-file? ReiserFS?
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tom Eastman wrote:
This would be especially convenient for me to use in future since I have
FAR more fat32 hard drive space on my computer then ext2 hard drive space
(30GB and 6GB respectively). I want to be able to create a large file on
FAT32, then mount the FILE as a file-system and be able to do stuff with it.
Oh, I remember the days.
I used to have my HD set up like this. 2GB FAT, 1GB ext2 "/" partition,
1GB ext2-on-a-stick (i.e., in a file) partition with my downloads in it.
This failed miserably. I kept getting errors on the ext2-on-a-stick. I
think it's something about FAT that caused file corruption. Eventually, I
had to delete the file and make it again.
And then, a month later, again.
It was horrible. Don't do it.
Decrease your FAT partition instead, and get a program that lets you read
ext2 partitions from windows ("ext2explorer" or something).
-- Asheesh.
Can anyone talk me through the process? Or point me to a website/FAQ/HOWTO
that explains it?
Thanks alot
Tom
Sure thing.
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Re: [expert] Soundblaster PCI512
Just tell your OS it's a SoundBlaster Live! It'll never know the difference (-;. (The SB512 is a stripped SB Live, so it might not have all the features, but it's basically the same hardware.) -- Asheesh. On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_974224984-6208-1147 Does anyone have any experience with this particular SB card and LM 7.20? Checked the HCL and although not specifically identified it may fit into one on the appoved family categoies. Thought I'd ask...like old car commercial says..."Just ask the man who drives one..." Paul =_974224984-6208-1147 Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. =_974224984-6208-1147-- -- We Klingons believe as you do -- the sick should die. Only the strong should live. -- Kras, "Friday's Child", stardate 3497.2 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] dup/bad blocks-won't boot
Have you tried running "/sbin/e2fsck -c -f /dev/hdb6" at this prompt? That should fix your partition. -- Asheesh. On 12 Nov 2000, Drew Bartorillo wrote: When I boot-up I get the following: /dev/hdb6: Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 746326:/dev/hdb6: 64/dev/hdb6: /dev/hdb6: Pass 1C: Scan directories for inodes with dup blocks. /dev/hdb6: Pass iD: Ronciling duplicate blocks /dev/hdb6: (There are 1 inodes containing duplicate/bad blocks.) /dev/hdb6: File /root/.kde/share/config/kdehelprc.1 (inode #746326...) has 1 duplicate block(s), shared with 1 file(s): /dev/hdb6: filesystem metadata I get dumped into a shell. From there, fsck doesn't help and I can't erase or move the kde file. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. --Drew-- Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 -- Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] why does KDE change to user home for running apps ?
You could, alternatively:
Boot up into runlevel 3
("linux 3" at the lilo prompt)
log in to Linux on a text console
"xinit"
At the XTerm you now see, cd to the dir you want and "startkde"
Then minimize the XTerm.
-- Asheesh.
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote:
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 02:28:18 ronniewhipp wrote:
please could someone tell me how to stop kde running all apps
certainly xterm/xemacs for the users home dir and not from the
cwd ???
it's annoying, having to cd everything to where i'm working
KDE is NOT an app. It an environment, a group of apps. So there is
not the concept of a CWD for KDE. What dir is X running on ?
What dir is your telnet server running on ?
Start KDE, open a kterm, cd to your wd, and if you want more terms,
launch them by kterm , ot rxvt .
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Re: [expert] Anyone have a copy of 7.2 mandrake they would sell
Try http://www.cheapbytes.com. They have all the Linux GPL CDs available for around $2 each, plus cheap USPS shipping. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, HES wrote: I am stuck running on a slow internet connection I bought MDK 7.2 from Macmillan but it wont install freezes durring second stage install. Does anyone have a set of CD's they would sell? My system is much to slow to download the ISO's I need Thanks -- ...the increased productivity fostered by a friendly environment and quality tools is essential to meet ever increasing demands for software. -- M. D. McIlroy, E. N. Pinson and B. A. Tague Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Running X apps locally from remote host
Definitions: $server = External IP of your computer $AIX = External IP of AIX machine If you want, you can use bash's export command to make the following more literal. Lo and behold. Logged onto $server, type: xhost +$AIX That lets your machine accept X connections from $AIX. Log into $AIX and set the DISPLAY variable, then run your GUI program. For example, export DISPLAY=$server:0 gedit Have a blast. Add a "" to the end of the GUI program's name and see what happens. Good luck. -- Asheesh. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] logrotate
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I wrote a C program that would create a batch to do just that: rm mail.err.%d.gz.%d.gz.%d.gz.%d.gz* Can you email me the source to this? I'm starting to learn C++ and C, and I can't understand how to do system calls. Thanks a bundle! -- Asheesh. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh
I had the same problem when I upgraded my OpenSSH on my 7.0 server. Get the new pam-*.i586.rpm files from your local cooker, and install them. That fixed it for me. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jim Holthaus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: I have openssh-2.2.0p1-6mdk installed and the daemon running. If I try to ssh to my own box, "ssh -l praedor 10.0.0.5", it connects and asks for my password. I enter my entirely correct and valid password but then get the message: "Permission denied, please try again." Connecting from school results in the same thing. I can connect, no problem, with ftp. What am I missing here? right now, you're missing your logs. Try to connect to your server using ssh again, and then show us the results from this command: grep ssh /var/log/messages - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOe294X3IcJJ+eC/CEQJoGwCfVWW1lIMkt99DSgmdbcXPBxmwVccAoIUT Hwm4DWN+fnKGVNvVHqByjlQx =i5DU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Reality -- what a concept! -- Robin Williams Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet
Assuming you have no other ethernet cards installed in your computer, and the (cable modem?) (DSL thingy?) (Satellite dish?) connects to your network card, try the following: dhcpcd eth0 That runs "DHCP Client Daemon" and tells it to try connecting to a DHCP server (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol; what many ISPs use to assign semi-random, arbitrary IPs to arbitrary computers) through the 0th (1st) ethernet card. If you have other ethernet cards, pass the one connected to SprintHighSpeedSomething to dhcpcd; e.g., "dhcpcd eth1". This will work if (and only if) your ISP uses DHCP to set up its hosts. The basic question to find this out is, Did the Sprint people want to install any Windows software? If they did install some, then it might be PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol (what most phone-line ISPs use) over Ethernet). Anyway, try DHCP. It might work, and if not, no harm done. Best of luck. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Seems a computer engineer, a systems analyst, and a programmer were driving down a mountain when the brakes gave out. They screamed down the mountain, gaining speed, but finally managed to grind to a halt, more by luck than anything else, just inches from a thousand foot drop to jagged rocks. They all got out of the car: The computer engineer said, "I think I can fix it." The systems analyst said, "No, no, I think we should take it into town and have a specialist look at it." The programmer said, "OK, but first I think we should get back in and see if it does it again." Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Leopold Palomo wrote: error: failed dependencies: rpm = 3.0.5-22mdk is needed by menu-2.1.5-41mdk libbz2.so.1 is needed by menu-2.1.5-41mdk [root@hoth kde]# rpm -i rpm-3.0.5-26mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libbz2.so.1 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-26mdk menu 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-26mdk So. . . . . Get the newest bzip2-* packages from cooker. Get the newest menu* packages from cooker. Get the newest rpm-* packages from cooker. Gather up all your KDE rpms. Then. . . . rpm -Uvh bzip2-* rpm-* menu* (You might need to make a symbolic link to "libbz2.so.1" called "libbz2.so.0" in /usr/lib to satisfy other prgrams. If other packages complain about that, just use the "--nodeps" flag.) Then . . . . Install those KDE packages using "rpm -Uvh". Might take some time. Better solution, if you have a broadband net connection (or if you trust your current one for a night's downloading): Get the newest MandrakeUpdate from cooker. Install it, and all its dependencies. Then set it to make your machine run cooker. You'll have a blast. I'm doing so right now from 7.2 beta2. Best of luck. -- Asheesh. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Build kernel???
http://freshmeat.net Do a search there. First hit. Or, instead, http://www.google.com/linux would work probably. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: I"ve been asking for days now and frankly getting VERY frustrated from being seemingly ignored. Could someone please tell me where a person find this program called "buildkernel?" This is really getting ridiculous...really. -- "If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry." -- Chekhov Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Stupid MySQL question
I have a server (www.AsheeshEnterprises.com) set up, and I wanted to add a logging program to it. I downloaded "bitlog" which I found from freshmeat.net, and it requires MySQL. I have it installed, and running. So, the install instructions say: "First of all, you have to have PHP installed, and a working MySQL server. Create the necessary tables by running tables.sql through mysql." So, what do I do now? I have the file "tables.sql" in the directory, but have no idea how to "run it through mysql". I started MySQL via /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start, and it started fine. Help! I feel so inadequate. . . . ;-). Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] KDEGames-1.99-2mdk: Signed?
I was updating my Mandrake 7.2 beta system, and I noticed that kdegames-1.99-2mdk isn't signed by Mandrake. Frightened that the install script might have "rm -rf /" in it, I decided to not install it. Has anyone else installed it? Is it okay? And, more importantly, what's going on here? Every other package MdkUpd has downloaded has been signed and happy. What's with this one? Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- [American] Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, "Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Samba, autofs and fstab
Try the following: //servername/sharenameTABmountpointTABsmbfsTABoptions Example: //thecore/appz /appz smbfs uid=502,fmask=700,guest Best of luck. PS: Anyone know what those zeros and ones are at the end of the Mandrake-supplied lines are? -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] What's the magic file(s)?
Try "xinit" from the CLI (command-line Interface). This should bring up, simply, X and an XTerm. Type "gnome-session" into the XTerm, and watch GNOME load. Hope this helps. -- Asheesh. (make sure you're in runlevel 3; "init 3" will do that for you, of course) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] How to set MandrakeUpdate retries
I'm using 7.2 beta 2, and loving it. However, my preferred mirror, rpmfind.net, will spit random errors at me (and, therefore, MandrakeUpdate) from time to time. So, how do I set the number of times MandrakeUpdate tries to fetch a file? I want to raise it from '1' to '4' or so. Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] kde binary wont install - dead kde
There's a new version of KDEBase-1.99 (kdebase-1.99-2mdk.i586.rpm) available now on all Cooker mirrors. I'm downloading it now; I'll tell you how/if it works. -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Old laptop install.
Cool beans. Glad to hear it was the floppy. Just one question, though: Why Mdk 7.0? Wouldn't 7.1 be better? -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Also, the Scots are said to have invented golf. Then they had to invent Scotch whiskey to take away the pain and frustration. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] kde binary wont install - dead kde
Now I'm using the following KDE RPMS from cooker; it works fine, though KOffice seems a bit more crash-prone than it had been earlier: [root@Renaissance grpmi]# rpm -qa | grep kde kdebase-devel-1.99-4mdk kdemultimedia-1.99-1mdk kdegraphics-1.99-1mdk kdeaddutils-1.99-2mdk kdesupport-1.99-1mdk kdelibs-sound-1.99-1mdk kdesdk-1.99-1mdk kdeutils-1.99-1mdk kdepim-1.99-1mdk kdenetwork-1.99-1mdk kdetoys-1.99-1mdk kde1-compat-1.1.2-7mdk kdeadmin-1.99-1mdk kdegames-1.99-1mdk kdelibs-1.99-1mdk kdelibs-devel-1.99-1mdk kdebase-1.99-4mdk Best of luck. -- Ashesh Laroia. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: Asheesh Laroia wrote: There's a new version of KDEBase-1.99 (kdebase-1.99-2mdk.i586.rpm) available now on all Cooker mirrors. I'm downloading it now; I'll tell you how/if it works. I wait anxiously for your report. I would like to go home and be able to reconstruct my system to a functional state. praedor -- I love children. Especially when they cry -- for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Where is all my memory going?
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.1 and KDE and being a newbie am just starting to look at top. I know that both x and KDE are memory hogs, but I need them for now as I learn my way around. Even so, I cannot believe that with nothing on but these two and a kconsole, I am using up 73 MB of ram! First of all, open up top again. When it starts, press the 'M' key (caps necessary). This will sort the display by memory usage. That printout is more useful than the other one (because that was sorted by processor usage, not RAM usage). Anyway, what are you using this machine for? A server? A workstation? Do you need printing? Remote web-based administration? Sound? USB support? And how much RAM do you have? And how much swap space do you have? Answer the questions, and I'll give you help! -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] /var/log/news and /var/log/mail directory corruption?
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: On Thu Sep 28, 2000 at 03:20:30PM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: why isn't this change in MandrakeUpdate Isn't this serious? btw, I just got by 67% Inodes and 450Mb of free space after I deleted mail and news directories under /var/log!!! Any body from Mandrake reading this An update will be available tomorrow. Wow. I love it when software vendors truly care about their customers. "An update will be available tomorrow." Wow. I can't wait. If I were Sarang Lakare, the individual responsible for said patch, I'd be proud of myself. *This* is where open-source companies shine: open forums like this allow this kind of *immediate* feedback. I am truly impressed. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever. -- Samuel Beckett, "Endgame" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Anyone have a copy of the 7.2 beta **two** ext. disc?
I need to install some -devel RPMs on my 7.2b2 machine, and I don't feel like "upgrading" to 7.2b3. So, does anyone have a copy of 7.2beta2's extension disc? Or the ISO file? (preferably the iso) Thanks in advance. If you have a copy, I'd ask you to post it to a public FTP server; if you can't (or won't) do that, then I'll open up a publicly-writable FTP server for it. Thanks so much in advance. -- Asheesh. -- All true wisdom is found on T-shirts. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] can't locate binfmt error
First run "alsactl store". That should (hopefully) create that file. -- Asheesh. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] SBLive! sound quality
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: I use the em10k1 driver using a SB PCI512 sound card with a set of altec-lansing speakers and I do notice a difference in the sound between windows and linux. I'm just assuming it's the best the driver can do. I had that problem too. Then I installed the ALSA drivers, and it sounds **AMAZING** TM. Try it. You'll like it. You should eiter be able to find the ALSA drivers on your install CD, on a Mandrake mirror (there are some that still have 7.0 on them, if that's what you have), or (preferably, for newest/best drivers) at http://www.alsa-project.org. If you have the FourPointSurround speakers, use the ALSA mixer to increase back volume to 100%, leaving the rest of the system at 77%. Boost the hardware volume. It sounds gorgeous. My brother (who runs Windows) is jealous. :-). Go grab 'em. They're a pain to install, and you have to read all the READMEs and the info about setting up your /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/conf.modules) file, but once it's done, you'll be happy with it. -- Asheesh. -- Always think of something new; this helps you forget your last rotten idea. -- Seth Frankel Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] SBLive! sound quality
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: sorry for the dumb question, but does anyone think that these alsa things will ever be made easier to install? Sorry, man. I know how you feel. What I **can** tell you is how I installed my SB Live! via alsa. I'll give step-by-step directions for anyone who wants them. And feel free to repost these directions on the Internet; I'd like credit, but it's not **necessary**. Here goes: NOTE: If you see TAB, it means press the tab key 0) MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO SOUND DRIVERS CURRENTLY RUNNING. 0) "lsmod" will show the currently installed modules. 0) Use the program "rmmod" to remove all drivers with the word "snd" or "sound" in the name 1) Go to www.alsa-project.org in lynx (or a different browser) 2) Get the most recent versions of ALSA-driver, ALSA-lib, and ALSAUTILS 3) "mkdir /tmp/ALSA" 4) Move the downloads from the alsa-project web site to /tmp/ALSA (and cd there) 5) "tar yxvf alsa-driver*" 6) "tar yxvf alsa-lib*" 7) "tar yxvf alsa-utils*" 7.5) rm -f *tar.bz2 8) cd alsa-driverTAB 9) ./configure make make install ./snddevices 10) cd ../alsa-libTAB 11) ./configure make make install 12) cd ../alsa-utilTAB 13) ./configure make make install Now, just one more thing: Put the following at the **end** of your /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf file: (You will find your system has only one of the above files in it) begin part of modules configuration file # ALSA CONFIG # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # END ALSA SNIPPET end modules configuration file addition That will set your system up for ALSA and an SB Live! Now, the final step: From any console, run "alsamixer". Play with the mixer settings, as everything's muted by default. Then run "alsactl store" to save your settings. To get back to those at any moment, type "alsactl restore." I hope this made sense. From Linux with love, Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Ulysses beta 2
Does KLyX work in your KDE 1.94? I'm trying the version from cooker on my 7.0 install, and the fonts are HUGE! Please respond soon, as I need to work in KLyX today. If it works in 7.2 beta 2, then I'll just install that. I've been needing to rework my partition structure anyway. Please reply soon. -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Console equivalent of VNC?
That sounds like a cool thing to do, but I meant that I'd do the following: bootup my machine chvt 6 login; run pine Now, after having done that, is there a way I can remotely read tty6, or remotely display its contents? If possible, I'd like to be able to remotely control tty6, even if "remote" just means "in an xterm." Any more ideas? I'l check out screen, though, but it seems like little more than a fancy "konsole" from kde2. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Ellick Chan wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Hello everyone. I wanted to know if there was a way I could access a tty device (say, tty6, where I run PINE) from an xterm. Just as I can access different Xs through VNC, is there an equivalent? I've tried screen, but I have no idea how to use it. Either it's screen, or a text based window-manager, which you can find on freshmeat. BTW, screen is a text-based, full-screen window-manager. When you first start screen, it comes up with one terminal. To create a new one, you hit CTRL-a _SPACE_ c, to quit that window, type 'exit', or hit CTRL-d. To switch windows, either hit CTRL-a _SPACE_, or CTRL-a CTRL-a. To get help, hit CTRL-a ?. To detach from screen (like vnc to run stuff in the background) hit CTRL-a d. Here are the keybindings CTRL-a Action key all stuff below is after you hit the action key: CTRL-d exit window/screen a -switch windows c -create new window ? -get help d -detach screen _SPACE_ - switch windows Thanks in advance. I eagerly await a response. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron -- namely, that he is a blockhead. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] reiserfs info needed
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sat Sep 16, 2000 at 09:10:37AM -0500, Ellick Chan wrote: Just out of curiousity, what's the file size limit with ext2? I think it's 2GB but I need to know for sure. Does anyone know? Ext2 is a 32-bit file sys, which can address up to 2^31 kb, or 2gb, as well as reiserfs. A quick way to find out the file size limit is to type 'dd if=/dev/null of=testfile', then 'ls -l testfile'. This only works That'll give you a zero-byte file. I just tried it. An EOF sent to "dd" (which is the output of /dev/null; see its manpage) will result in "0+0 records in; 0+0 record out." You need to do: dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile instead. That will give you an infinite-size file. -- Asheesh. if you have more or equal than the file size limit in free space. So reiserfs can only have up to 2GB for file sizes as well? I thought it would be bigger? I'll try that test once I can free up enough space on a drive over here. Thanks! Hey! Try my test first! :-) -- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] installing special files?
Repeat the procedure I said, and if there's an error message, tell me it word-for-word. Verbatim. Exactly what was there? It's probably the lack of some package, but it could be something else. Try it again, if it's not too much. Tell me *exactly* what happens. Best of luck. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 15-Sep-00 21:50:35 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hope this helps: become root Do the following, character for character: assume pr0g.tar.gz is the file you downloaded cd /root cd tmp mkdir downloads cd downloads tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz ls cd into the only directory present ./configure make make install You're done! Tell me what happens. Best of luck -- Ashesh Laroia. PS: What program is it? well i just found out my fan works contrary to the toshiba linux article, but none the less i cant get make to work with other programs and i tried the suggested method but it tells me cannot find source file indir ? am i missing something -- She asked me, "What's your sign?" I blinked and answered "Neon," I thought I'd blow her mind... Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [Re: [expert] Invalid Partition Table - How To Fix?]
On 14 Sep 2000, Brent Hawkins wrote: I just went and wiped out the whole drive Ah! The Microsoft Way! TM. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred. -- The Mahabharata Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] installing special files?
Hope this helps: become root Do the following, character for character: assume pr0g.tar.gz is the file you downloaded cd /root cd tmp mkdir downloads cd downloads tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz ls cd into the only directory present ./configure make make install You're done! Tell me what happens. Best of luck -- Ashesh Laroia. PS: What program is it? -- God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Kumba, other 32MB users...
20mb RAM How do you get Mandrake to run on this computer? When I boot my 64MB machine, I have almost 31MB of "used", not including "shared," "buffer," or "cache" RAM. As for your glibc, I'd try the direct-from-source compile. Good luck! -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] telnet server not working...
One quick hint:
When I used Mandrake 6.1, I had to install a 15K RPM file called
"telnet-server" from the distribution CD in order to get telnet working.
Check to see if it's installed via "rpm -qa | grep telnet-server".
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Re: [expert] terminal
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Foris Gabor wrote: Dear Asheesh, I tried to make head or tail what you said and let me sum it up for checking. Eeep. Sorry about the vagueness 8-( I connect two computers together through the serial ports(com2). One of the computers is equipped with full linux mandrake with Gnome window manager. The other computer is just a motherboard, a 486-DX2 with 4Mb memory and 512k video memory + iocard, and a 5.25 floppy drive. Hmm. Uh, you don't have a hard drive. Or a network card. Is that intentional? If it is, then my little scheme wouldn't work Do you have a HD or NIC? If not, then ignore what I said. Otherwise, please reply. Sorry about the massive delay. -- Asheesh.
Re: [expert] Need help with rmdir
rm -rf dirname (or rm --recursive --force dirname) -- Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. -- Sue Murphy
Re: [expert] multiple logons
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: HOWEVER, in the commercial realm, when dozens of clerks are logged into a system, it is often useful (for tracking, auditing or consistency, etc.) to only let a clerk log into a system once. But if I wanted to wreak havoc on the tracking system, I'd just open about 11 bash shells, scores of rxvts, and a few instances of Netscape. That way, I'd have lots of possible input methods on a *single* login. Put simply, I don't think the concept of a single login really exists in Linux Mandrake. Best regards, though. Anyone with more constructive suggestions, feel free to prove me wrong! -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Olmstead's Law: After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
Re: [expert] terminal
You can remotely set up a graphical thingy using the following commands: (Assuming that "server" is the headless computer, and "workstation" is your machine that you can do stuff on, like us a monitor and email the Mandrake lists) telnet server do login stuff [user@server] $ Xvnc 2 /dev/null /dev/null That command runs Xvnc, diverting all output and error output to /dev/null The "" makes it so you can keep entering commands as Xvnc runs; "daemonizing" Xvnc [user@server] $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0 [user@server] $ startkde [user@server] $ exit logout of server Then, from workstation: While logged into a GUI terminal, like xterm, rxvt, konsole, gterm, Eterm, etc [user@workstation] $ vncviewer Then enter "server" as the VNC server and :0 as the port You now have a complete remote GUI access thingy. Try it: you'll like it! -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. -- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Jason Pierce wrote: Hello all, I'm thinking about building a new system. Does anyone know of a(n inexpensive?) mobo that can house 2 Athlon Thunderbirds that works with linux? I have heard that Tyan(www.tyan.com) is supposed to be shipping one sometime this month, but could find no refference to it on the Tyan site. Nope, sorry. There are no dual boards listed in the AMD recommended list. I'm thinking about using the system as a high traffic LAN server, and/or high-end gaming system. A LAN server hardly needs to be a dual athlon For the gaming part, what would be a good sund card and speaker system? Are there any sound cards compatable with linux that have multiple sound in ports? I would like to beable to attach a cd changer, record player, tape deck, etc. How about an SB Live! I have one, and it's great. I use the Cambridge SoundWorks FourPointSurround sound speakers, and they're great. Some of the Dolby speaker systems are pretty nice, anyone have any experience with them? Nope, sorry. I plan on using a Voodoo 5(or latest Voodoo at time of building) for video. What about the latest NVidia chip? Reviews I've read (www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster. I would also like to use multiple PCI UDMA/100 controller cards. Is it possible to use more than one PCI hard drive controller card? Yep! Thanks, Jason Pierce Sure thing. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- No user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel.
Re: [expert] How to install Grub?
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot floppy and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in Windows :-D Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up which OS to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root filesystem, its above the 1024th cylinder. Um, this is no longer true. A search of www.slashdot.org for "LILO" will show that LILO can now load kernels beyond the 1024th cylinder. So, you can use lilo. However, I'm not sure what version of LILO you have. It might be before the amazing slick kewl nifty wow-giving progress of LILO. (-: I try to be helpful, from time to time -- Asheesh Laroia. -- When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Re: [expert] How to install Grub?
/sbin/lilo -V Hey, it works for me. Check from the slashdot story what version you'd need to go past the magical BIOSBoundary TM. -- Asheesh. -- Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. (Craig E. Groeschel)
Re: [expert] How to install Grub?
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: I the latest version of LILO, version 21.4-3, and I still cant boot over the 1024th cylinder. Everytime that I try to install LILO using KLILO I always get the same error message: The latest version is 21.5. Might sound like no difference, but that's the version that can boot from 1024th cylinder. It's available in the Mandrake 7.2 beta (which means, go to http://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel and get all "lilo"-related binary RPMs). Go get it. Sorry about all the confusion! -- Asheesh.
Re: [expert] How to install Grub?
Oops. My mistake. The 1024+ patch has been in LILO since 21-3. Weird Well, get the new LILO and see what happens still. It might make the difference Now I'm **really** sorry about the confusion. -- Asheesh.
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 plugin
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Marc Handelman wrote: I am experiencing the same issue. I can't get about:plugins to show anything, but pages that use plugins work fine for me. This, again, is only post-installation of MandrakeUpdate's Netscape 4.75 RPM. -- Asheesh Laroia. Fabrice SERVANT wrote: Hi everyone, I've updated (with rpm) my netscape because of security hole when you enable java (brown orifice). The thing is that plugger seems to be installed but I can't install other plugins. When I copy the files into the pluggin directory and restart netscape, I can't see them installed and flash pluggin for example is not working. If someone has an idea ? thanks Fabricio _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Marc Handelman MSCS, OCDBA, MCSE, MCDBA, SCDBA -- The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money. -- Joey Adams, "Cindy and I"
Re: [expert] Pb de config de ma carte video sous linux , de l'aide SVP !!!!!!!!!
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, POURCELOT Sébastien wrote: J'ai un écran casper 14" il doit être svga Ma carte vidéo est une SIS 6215 C Excusez-moi, parce que je suis en train d'apprendre francais; aussi, je n'ai pas d'accents a mon ordinateur. Mais, est-ce qu'il y a une choix "SIS 6215" a la liste des cartes? Sinon, tu a choisi "VGA", non? Ou as-tu choisi "SVGA"? http://www.linux-nantes.fr.eu.org/docs/Vincent/XF86Setup_et_cartes_video.html est une site que j'ai trouvee en cherchant http://www.google.com/linux Alors, quelle version de Mandrake et d'X utilises-tu? Si tu utilises XFree86 3.*, je crois que je puisse t'aider en plus. J'ai entendu que les cartes les plus vielles ne functionnent pas avec XFree86 4 ou 4.01. Bonne chance. -- Asheesh Laroia. Comment dois-je configurer X ?? J'ai beau essayer, essayer, quelle galère !! J'ai essayé avec des ecrans standard, des cartes standard, des résolutions moyennes voir faibles et queudale !! Linux veut rien savoir ! Ca ne marche qu'en mode VGA 16 couleurs (ecrans et carte) ca permet de travailler du texte mais l'affichage est nulle à chier! Quelqu'un ayant un écran casper 14" (de la société TWC) est une sis 6215c pourrait -il m'aider ou je laisse tomber Linux (ca fait 15 jours que je suis dessus !!) En espérant avoir un coup de main
Re: [expert] HD performance and Athlon 800 w/ 256 MB RAM
I have no idea what's wrong, but ... (It takes too long to fill up 256 MB of RAM under Linux at the moment for me). Try opening a few X sessions (startx :1 ; startx :2 ; etc) and then starting netscape in each one! Good luck finding your problem, though. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Say "twenty-three-skiddoo" to logout.
Re: [expert] Network
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Anthony F. Littrel Sr. wrote: regarding the netscape issue "it won't let me" Using mandrake update the packages download fine,then when preparing to install comes up it just sets there. Try downloading the RPM files to a temp directory, and then run rpm --upgrade netscape*.rpm What happens then? It's possible that MandrakeUpdate is confused, or it's having problems connecting to the FTP server, or it's evil, or something ;-). Try it. Have fun! And good luck. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- "If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it." -- Karl Lehenbauer
