Re: [expert] setting up sound in 8.2
On 7 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: > If I am typing in the terminal and I hit backspace too many times, I do > get beeps out of the speakers so I think the hardware is fine. How the heck do you stop it from beeping when you backspace too far at a console? I know this has nothing to do with your problem, but it's been bugging me for ages. :) > Darren Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Ethernet binding?
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Bill wrote: > That makes sense. Thanks for the education. Now I know somethin new. > > One question though. If you have a 100mb nic and run it in full duplex mode > isnt that like running at 200mb? Bill, You are correct in the sense that your available bandwidth will be effectively doubled. It will be able to both transfer and receive data simultaneously at 100Mbps (theoretical bandwidth). Whereas, if you were running a half duplex Ethernet network, the 10Mbit of bandwidth is only ever used in one direction at a time. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCMCIA Headaches
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Ashley Reynolds wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get my Xircom CardBus RealPort 10/100 Ethernet Adapter working > with Mandrake 8.2 on my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS notebook computer. I am > trying to use pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-5mdk.i586.rpm, the default package for Mandrake > 8.2. > > However, after poking around in the BUGS file for the 3.1.34 release, I noticed > this listed bug: > > o Xircom CardBus ethernet cards lock up some Toshiba laptops > > I now have a bunch of reports of this problem. While the Toshiba > CardBus bridges are somewhat quirky, I haven't had a lot of reports > of problems with the latest PCMCIA drivers, except for this issue. > > Now this obviously doesn't help me much at all! I have the PC Card setting in > the BIOS set to CardBus/16bit, and have tried the other two settings, PCIC > Compatible and Auto Selection, to no avail. cardmgr detects when I insert > the PCMCIA card and begins to load the xirc2ps_cs then freezes. > > So, after playing with this for a while with no luck, I decided that I should > try an earlier version, which perhaps was not plagued with this problem. > > I downloaded pcmcia-cs-3.1.21.tar.gz and after running an 'urpme > pcmcia-cs' to get rid of the previous drivers, installed the new ones. > > Now, for starters, cardmgr is no longer loaded on boot, and I can't work out > how to run it as a daemon whilst the system is up. I can however perform > the following: > > modprobe yenta_socket > modprobe ds > modprobe xirc2ps_cs > > This seems to work, however, I don't know how to setup the eth0 interface > post install to see if the card is working or not. > > Also, I might add that it works fine with Mandrake 8.1, which uses the > kernel pcmcia-cs drivers. > > I would appreciate it if you could shed some light on the situation, and > perhaps help me get my laptop up and running with access to my local network. > > Thanks in advance. I got thinking again. Is there some way to updgrade 8.1 to 8.2 and still retain 8.1's method of handling PCMCIA devices? Or perhaps downgrade the 8.2 kernel to 8.1's, remove pcmcia-cs, and use the kernel drivers? Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PCMCIA Headaches
Hi All, I'm trying to get my Xircom CardBus RealPort 10/100 Ethernet Adapter working with Mandrake 8.2 on my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS notebook computer. I am trying to use pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-5mdk.i586.rpm, the default package for Mandrake 8.2. However, after poking around in the BUGS file for the 3.1.34 release, I noticed this listed bug: o Xircom CardBus ethernet cards lock up some Toshiba laptops I now have a bunch of reports of this problem. While the Toshiba CardBus bridges are somewhat quirky, I haven't had a lot of reports of problems with the latest PCMCIA drivers, except for this issue. Now this obviously doesn't help me much at all! I have the PC Card setting in the BIOS set to CardBus/16bit, and have tried the other two settings, PCIC Compatible and Auto Selection, to no avail. cardmgr detects when I insert the PCMCIA card and begins to load the xirc2ps_cs then freezes. So, after playing with this for a while with no luck, I decided that I should try an earlier version, which perhaps was not plagued with this problem. I downloaded pcmcia-cs-3.1.21.tar.gz and after running an 'urpme pcmcia-cs' to get rid of the previous drivers, installed the new ones. Now, for starters, cardmgr is no longer loaded on boot, and I can't work out how to run it as a daemon whilst the system is up. I can however perform the following: modprobe yenta_socket modprobe ds modprobe xirc2ps_cs This seems to work, however, I don't know how to setup the eth0 interface post install to see if the card is working or not. Also, I might add that it works fine with Mandrake 8.1, which uses the kernel pcmcia-cs drivers. I would appreciate it if you could shed some light on the situation, and perhaps help me get my laptop up and running with access to my local network. Thanks in advance. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Yes, Ashley, that kind of solitude would be nice but you must ask > yourself one very important question: can this person run a "uname -a" > on his machine, and get the current system time to be in the output? *grin* You'll never let that go, will you? :P > drjung > > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration > http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html > Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, James wrote: > Where my brother is people aren't in abundance. His nearest > neighbor is about 1-2 kilometers away from him. Heck He can even get > one channel on the TV (They should have cable in a few months but don't > hold your breath.) Yes in some places the world can be very far away. > The town where the ISP is located actually only has one number. He > says it's rarely busy. James, Personally, I would _love_ that degree of solitude. :) > James Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCMCIA Issues
On 30 May 2002, Dave Sherman wrote: > Does it truly freeze up, or is it waiting for a dhcp server response or > something, and just needs to time out? I had a similar problem with an > IBM ThinkPad once, and it would take about 10 minutes to time out. I > only discovered this by accident, as I walked away from the laptop > during troubleshooting, and was surprised to return and find that it had > actually booted all the way to a login prompt! > > Unfortunately, I don't remember what I did to fix the issue. I do > remember it wasn't just a dhcp timeout but something else, perhaps > related to the order in which pcmcia was started and then networking (my > pcmcia card was a NIC, so they need to load in the correct order) :-( Hi Dave, Yes, it was freezing up solid. I left it for around forty five minutes to no avail. The suggestion of changing the PC Card setting in the BIOS worked wonders. :) Thank you for your reply, nonetheless. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] PCMCIA Issues
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Scott, Rob wrote: > I had problems with my Toshiba 7200 doing this untill I changed the pc card > controller mode settings in the bios from auto-select to PCIC compatable. Thank you for your reply, this solved the problem. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PCMCIA Issues
Hi all, I'm in the process of installing and configuring Mandrake 8.2 on my newly acquired laptop - a Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS. I overcame an issue with "Detecting PCMCIA Devices.." in the installer, where it would freeze the machine up, by booting from a PCMCIA boot disk. I have now run into another problem. When booting Mandrake, the system freezes when it comes to "Starting pcmcia:". This occurs when there is a PCMCIA card in there, when there is not, when it is in Slot 0, when it is in Slot 1. I have determined that the PCMCIA ports are in working order by installing Windows 98 and testing them out. Can anyone offer any help on this matter? Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpcinfo - problems
On Tue, 28 May 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Hell, are you joking? This is the place for ANY question. I am still > waiting for the answer to why the system time is always wrong when I run > "uname -a". Craig, I believe your question has been answered multiple times. > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration > http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html > Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What happened to gftp?
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Hoyt wrote: > Why was gftp dropped from Mandrake 8.2? Hoyt, I was wondering the same thing. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Ashley Reynolds wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002, darklord wrote: > > > I'll send a couple of JPG's as attachments to your e-mail address. They > are > > not very big but you can see what it looked like. :-) I'm sorry, that previous message was supposed to read: "Darklord, could you send them to me too? [EMAIL PROTECTED]" I must have hit Ctrl+X instead of Ctrl+C. ;) Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
On Tue, 21 May 2002, darklord wrote: > I'll send a couple of JPG's as attachments to your e-mail address. They are > not very big but you can see what it looked like. :-) > > -- > /\ >Dark> \/ > > Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > I've been looking at the hard drive scene over the last few months in > preparation for purchasing a new system. I've got most of the hardware details > sorted out, but there is one area that I'm not quite settled on: hard drives. I > am basically looking for an affordable 80GB IDE drive that can deliver fast and > reliable (i.e. able to run 24x7) performance. I want to buy two of them so I can > make a RAID0 out of them. > > Of course, they need to play well with Linux, and with any other 'alternate' > OS/kernel I throw at it. From what I have read, that rules out Western Digital. > Since I prize reliability, that would rule out IBM (IBM is offloading their hard > drive business to Hitachi, so that's another minus for them). So the way I see > it, only Seagate and Maxtor are still in the race. I checked out > storagereview.com and the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X (AKA 'Viper') 80GB > appears to be neck-and-neck with the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80GB. > > Any thoughts, people? Thx. Hi Sridhar, I'm surprised that no-one has recommended Seagate drives yet! They are what I use in _all_ of my machines, and all of my customer's machines. I have never had any problems with them, at all. Aside from that fact, they're dirt cheap at the moment. Well, in Australia at least. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tar file size limit???
On 13 May 2002, Mark Belanger wrote: > 2 gig is a linux filesystem limitation - not a tar > limitation. > > You might compress that backup i.e. tar cvfZ > > -Mark > > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 18:44, David wrote: > > I am trying to backup /home with the following simple script: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > backup="home-$(date +%m-%d-%y)" > > tar -cvMf /mnt/TRASH-BOX/backups/$backup.tar home/ > > > > > > When the tar file reaches 2GB, I get the following output: > > > > /usr/sbin/backup: line 3: 29016 File size limit exceededtar -cvMf >/mnt/TRASH-BOX/backups/$backup.tar home/ > > > > > > I went through the man page for tar, but found nothing that sounded promising >except the -M argument. That, unless I misinterpreted, was supposed to create a >multi-volume archive. With and without -M, I get the same thing, a stoppage at 2GB. > > > > Does anyone know a way around this? Or maybe a better way to do my backup? The >mount point used is a Samba share. And /home is about 6.6GB. I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file system? Does ext3 have this same issue? Which file systems can handle file sizes upwards of 2Gb? Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installing LM 8.2 as 3rd OS w/Partition Magic
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, David Rankin wrote: > Does anyone have any pointers or gotchas that I should watch out > for? This is my first attempt with partition magic. Yeah, the Western Digital. ;) Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Write access to windows partition for users
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Ross wrote: > On Thursday 28 March 2002 06:46 pm, you wrote: > > > just add umask=0 in the 4th field (options) of /etc/fstab for each vfat > > partition. > > > > bye > > jipe > > Right answer. Thanks. > Why didn't they teach me that in school? > rm They don't teach much usefulness in school. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linuxflavours
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: > At this point, Mandrake is a "habit". Randy, I couldn't agree more. Mandrake just "feels" good, after using it and then trying to use another distribution, for instance, Red Hat or Debian, I just don't feel as comfortable. Whilst Debian is what I run on most of my servers, it still takes far longer to configure than a Mandrake box, as everything just doesn't "flow" as well. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.binarytide.net "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Strange Messages
Hi All, I spotted the following in /var/log/dmesg, and was wondering whether I should be concerned. 02:00: rw=0, want=5 x(=0x), limit=5 bread in fat_access failed attempt to access beyond end of device 02:00: rw=0, want=5 x(=0x), limit=5 bread in fat_access failed It doesn't look terribly comforting. Can anyone shed some light on these messages? It would be most appreciated. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.binarytide.net "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Randall Jonasz wrote: > Hi Ashley, > > Cool! Thanks for the info. > > Cheers, > > Randy Randy, You're most welcome! Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Randall Jonasz wrote: > I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely > except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find > anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know > where it is located? I've disabled ipvsadm with chkconfig as, after > reading the man pages, I don't think I need it. But I'm curious to know > what module it's looking for so I can compile it into the kernel? Hi Randy, The error that you're getting on boot is, as you probably guessed, caused by the fact that IPVS has not been compiled into the kernel. You won't find any option in menuconfig or the like, as it is an external patch that you must apply to the kernel source before you compile it. MandrakeSoft patch their kernels with the IPVS code before release. This is why you didn't get the error with the default 8.1 kernel, which is I assume what you are running. Chances are, you probably don't need it anyway. So, to save you some headaches you could do remove ipvsadm - this will fix the error you get when booting the kernel: urpme ipvsadm-1.19-1mdk If you really do need it, and want to patch the source accordingly, I suggest you investigate further. The following URLs should be useful: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Joseph.Mack/mini-HOWTO/LVS-mini-HOWTO-4.html I hope this is of some help to you. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 8.1 On Older Hardware
Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any tips on installing Mandrake 8.1 on older hardware. I acquire a lot of Pentium I boxen, that I like to attack with Linux, and have recently been having trouble installing Mandrake 8.1 on machines with less than 64Mb of RAM, and the like. Generally, my machines only run minimal window managers and aren't subject to a heavy workload. However, I have been having difficulties trying to setup a new Internet gateway for my local network, running into segmentation faults in the installer, and whatnot. So, if someone could offer any assistance, I would be *most* appreciative. Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Corrupt Filesystem
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: > > man that gotta hurt. i am still pretty much a newbie, but what i would > try to do is put in the mandrake cd and boot from it. when it comes to > the disk partitioning part check to see if it recognises the FAT32 > partition. if it does then maybe all is not lost yet. discontinue the > install and then connect the hdd to another windoz pc and see if that > will read the partition. if yes then recover your data from there. or > if you have a spare hdd, load windblows on that and then boot of that > with your orig hdd connected as slave, and try. > OR > since you said FAT32, maybe you can boot of a win 98 se floppy with > windblows fdisk on it and try 'fdisk /mbr' it is possible that only > your mbr is corrupt. you will lose lilo though, but this is easily > recovered IF you make a linux bootdisk first or simply "upgrade" your > linux with the same distro that you have. > > keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best, > mario > > > -- > "The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on > Linux" Mario, Thanks for your suggestions, but the partition is toast. I had a peek through my older backups and found a fair slew of the files I lost, so I'm not *that* destroyed. :) Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Corrupt Filesystem
Hi All, I've got a bit of a problem. Recently, I compiled a new kernel and booted it alongside my current one, 2.4.17-1mdk - after booting with the new kernel, /dev/hda1 (a FAT32 partition on my primary hard disk), didn't mount. I figured that I hadn't compiled VFAT support into the kernel, thought nothing of it, and went to boot the old kernel so that I could recompile the new kernel with the necessary filesystem support. However, I was faced with the same issue. So, I tried to boot Windows XP, which resides on that partition, with no avail. LILO just refreshes the display. After poking around the logs, I turned up the following: dmesg: MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1 MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850 FAT: bogus logical sector size 5376 VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01. FAT: freeing iocharset=iso8859-1 boot.log: Feb 19 21:39:01 gumby mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, Feb 19 21:39:01 gumby mount:or too many mounted file systems I don't believe this has been caused by the new kernel, as I have compiled and run countless kernels without such trouble. I do, however, have a feeling that the filesystem may have been corrupted when the machine was earlier rebooted unintentionally. My question is this: Is there any possible way to fix the corrupted partition/filesystem, as it has some crucical data on it, that I *really* don't want to lose. I look forward to any help that you guys can offer. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] fetchmail -- almost, i can smell it
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Skippi wrote: > Ok, yet another question -- oh and thanks for the more help from everyone. > Things are looking up. I think I'm getting my mail downloaded to my box > here, but, where does it go I mean as in what file? Skippi, Try, /var/spool/mail/user - where user is your username. :) I hope this helps. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS corruption due to usb mouse/eth0 crash
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, J. Grant wrote: > During the day 1 or 2 times the usb mouse stops working, and the usb > ethernet. I have to force exiting and reboot to fix the error. No lost > data.. yet.. > > When I shutdown at the end of the day when the usb mouse has been > working fine it gets stuck on items like > > "usb.c: unplug device" or so.. The only way i can get it to stop is to > ctrl+alt+SysRq with Sync, Umount and reBoot. (sorry the errors are not > exact, today I will write them down, as unfortunatly they are not in the > log) Hi JG, This problem is likely to be fixed by editing /etc/modules.conf and replacing the following line: 'alias usb-interface usb-uhci' with 'alias usb-interface uhci' I haven't had problems with the USB service when shutting down, however this alteration has calmed down my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (USB) from random freezing. You may also want to check out this thread on the MandrakeForum: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1321&lang=en I hope this helps. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] creating devices from scratch
Better yet, check it out at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, James wrote: > Kevin, >Although I haven't done this I do know of a project that might help. > It's called Linux from Scratch and it details how to create your own linux > installation. If you go to freshmeat and search fro LFS you should find > it. > > James > > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 00:28:33 -0500 > "Kevin Fonner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am currently creating my own boot disk from scratch, sort of a way to > learn all the nitty gritty details of linux. In the bootdisk how-to they > mention using mknod to create the files for the devices. I can't seem to > find any good information about how to create the actual device files. > Anybody know any good how-to that contains this information or other > sorces. > > > > Thanks, > > Kevin Fonner > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable
I am running Mandrake 8.1, the Download Edition, which I ordered from EverythingLInux (http://www.everythinglinux.com.au) on pressed CD's. It works outstandingly well. :) Kindest Regards, Ashley (aka ze0). |--| | Ashley Reynolds (aka ze0)[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.botepidemic.com Ph: +61 404 140 163 | | | | Registered Linux User: #254073 | |--| On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Mark D'voo wrote: > i think there was a problem with the download edition, I have downloaded it 3 > times for 3 different computers, on each computer is was slooow and very > unstable ( i was lucky to have a 1 day uptime ). I think we should take a > vote to figure out what is wrong, Tell me if 8.1 is giving you problems or > working great and was it the download edition, powerpack, gaming, etc? > > mark > > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 07:16 am, you wrote: > > We are going nowhere. People are addicted to Windblows, they will > > experiment with Linux on a "marginal" box, and then, because it is so much > > better, move it to a more powerful box. If the "marginal" box part craps > > out, no powerful box for you... Microsloth wins. > > > > mg > > > > On Monday 07 January 2002 23:18, Michael Leone wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:03, mike wrote: > > > > One of the virtues of Linux over Windblows was that the hardware > > > > requiremtns were less stringent, no? > > > > > > There's a difference between "less stringent" and "marginal". > > > > > > > mg > > > > > > > > On Monday 07 January 2002 22:37, Michael Leone wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 16:52, Davor Cengija wrote: > > > > > > So, concensus would be that I have some hardware related > > > > > > problems, which is quite unusual since Mdk 7.2 worked just > > > > > > fine without any problem. > > > > > > > > > > Not necessarily PROBLEMS; just that Mdk 8.1 is more STRICT, and won't > > > > > tolerate (perhaps) marginal hardware, and 7.2 will. > > > > > > > > > > > > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" > > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part > > > > > > > > > > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part > > > > -- > 7:43pm up 6:14, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.28, 0.20 > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What book would you recommend?
I recently purchased Teach Yourself C For Linux Programming In 21 Days. You would probably be interested in it's brother, Teach Yourself C++ For Linux Programming In 21 Days, they are both published by Sams. I hope this helps. Kindest Regards, Ashley (aka ze0). |--| | Ashley Reynolds (aka ze0)[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.botepidemic.com Ph: +61 404 140 163 | | | | Registered Linux User: #254073 | |--| On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Roberto Armenteros wrote: > Whats a good book available for linux that will help > me start writing programs "in c++" in the Linux API. I > am a junior in college and I am focusing my studies > into network security programming. I am having a hard > time finding the the right book. This is what i am > looking for in this book > - I am interested in learining the Linux API, using > make files, system calls, using/including the main > libraries, getting use to the available linux > compailers/debugging technics "I find gcc to be a > little uncomfortable to use after one is used to > Visual C++ which gives me clear messages upon any > error. I want to be very proficient using g++ since I > want to focus my future efforts towards the linux free > software development and NOT in windows platform." I > am very familirar with c++ programming "most of its > aspects" thats why I am afraid that the "Introduction > to Linux Programming" book by Neil Matthew, Richard > Stones would be too trivial. I dont need to learn > about scripting or web development as well as > Inheritance or object oriented programming. > > I would appreciate any suggestion > Thanks a lot... > Roberto Armenteros. > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable
Windows ME was truly Microsoft's *worst* operating system. Kindest Regards, Ashley (aka ze0). |--| | Ashley Reynolds (aka ze0)[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.botepidemic.com Ph: +61 404 140 163 | | | | Registered Linux User: #254073 | |--| On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Gary A. Garibaldi wrote: > I installed Mandrake 8.1 in about 45 minutes since it became available and if > I wouldn't have moved this pass week it would have been up for over 3 months > with out a hitch. I can't say the same about WinME. I spent 12 hours > yesterday with my son-inlaw getting his system reinstalled because of > multi-virui. I had multiple problems with sound and modem, and only after > searching the internet I found the drivers and was able to get the basic > system installed. Today he is installing all the other programs that he uses. > > Gary > > On Monday 07 January 2002 16:06 pm, you wrote: > > Marc wrote: > > > Unstable?? Are you kidding? > > > > > > My windows installation had all kinds of problem not recoqnicing > > > hardware, conflicting irq etc etc. MDK 8.1 runs very smooth without any > > > prblem at all. So MDK 8.1 is very stable. > > > > > > > > > marc > > > > > > On Monday 07 January 2002 06:59 pm, you wrote: > > >>On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor Cengija wrote: > > >>> I'm having a really hard time with this new 8.1 > > >>> distribution. It is very unstable and unpredictable (something > > >>> I wouldn't expect from Mandrake Linux). Anyone experienced > > >>> similar problems, say: > > >>> > > >>>- kicker dies without obvious reason > > >>>- konqueror segfaults with libstdc++ errors in debug stack trace > > >>>- the X server freezes while the rest of the system works fine (say, > > >>> internet connection). However, mouse and keyboard are dead (since > > >>> they're controlled by X, of course) > > >>>- xemacs segfaults with different errors, in different states > > >>> > > >>> There are some other problems as well. I'll skip pasting stack > > >>> traces, etc for now. > > >>> > > >>> The strange thing is that everything works just fine after > > >>> reboot (like in windows :-). So, I'd say that either kernel or > > >>> some standard lib (glibc, libstdc++ or whatever) is > > >>> broken. Sometimes one error in say konqueror is followed by > > >>> xemacs' segfault. > > >> > > >>Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case > > >>fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been > > >>solid. > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > Are you using standard KDE from mandrake or the souped-up version that > > does fast loads? It sounds suspiciously like you have one of the > > sensitive systems and you tried the second option. > > > > I have one 8.1 installation that would have four months uptime except > > that I had to move its location from room to room and shut it down for > > that purpose. The only things giving me trouble are mozilla and > > Aethera, which have to be killed periodically, Others with some > > interesting video cards or with video vs NIC IRQ conflicts have reported > > some problems, but rarely. One of the nice things about this distro is > > that you can set PnP BIOS to yes with most machines, but you had better > > set ACPI to "No" > > > > Civileme > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake
Well, for starters FreeBSD uses the BSD kernel, and Mandrake uses the Linux kernel. :) I haven't had much experience with FreeBSD, or any of the BSD's for that matter, and even so it was only ever very minor remote tasks. Thus, I can't tell you anything about running daemons nor the locate command. You may want to check out these two links: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/index2.html I hope this helps. Kindest Regards, Ashley (aka ze0). |------| | Ashley Reynolds (aka ze0)[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.botepidemic.com Ph: +61 404 140 163 | | | | Registered Linux User: #254073 | |--| On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Allen May wrote: > I am used to using Mandrake 8.x. I just installed FreeBSD on a test machine and find >it less intuitive to use. > Can someone explain the big difference between Mandrake and FreeBSD? > > In Mandrake, the current running DAEMON's are in the init.d directory.. were are >they in FreeBSD? I don't have an /etc/init.d directory. > > I use "locate" a lot.. I could find "locate" on my FreeBSD machine.. what's the >equivelent? > > Thanks for any info. > > -Allen May > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FTP clients
GFtp (http://www.gftp.org/) is fantastic, and it comes with Mandrake 8.1. I've also had IglooFTP (http://www.iglooftp.com/) recommended to me, it's available for Linux and Windows. Kindest Regards, Ashley (aka ze0). |--| | Ashley Reynolds (aka ze0)[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.botepidemic.com Ph: +61 404 140 163 | | | | Registered Linux User: #254073 | |--| On 7 Jan 2002, Darren King wrote: > what ftp clients are people using? I'm having trouble finding one. I > need one that can save queues as well as the normal ftp stuff. > > Darren > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Changing settings
Hello. To change the default boot partition in LILO (which is what I am assuming that you are using), simply edit the file /etc/lilo.conf under Linux, and you should see a line similar to: Default=linux Change this to: Default=windows I am assuming that you haven't modified the boot labels since the initial Mandrake 8.1 installation. Kindest Regards, Ashley (aka ze0). |--| | Ashley Reynolds (aka ze0)[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.botepidemic.com Ph: +61 404 140 163 | | | | Registered Linux User: #254073 | |--| On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am running a dual boot on my machine:Mandrake 8.1 & Widows 2 k. > Normaly when I boot if I do nothing I boot directly under Linux. > I would like to make NT my defaut boot. > Thanks a lot. > Carl > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
