[expert] Second X with different xf86config.
Hi. I'm trying to run a second X session ( :1 ) with a different configuration and resolution from the first one. As TFM says, in order to do it i have to use a second XF86Config file and call xinit like, assuming my second config file is called '/etc/X11/secondconfig' : xinit [command] -- -xf86config secondconfig :1 right? no. here's the problem: the second session (in vt8) starts up fine, but the xterm that is supposed to include gets launched in the FIRST display! So, the new X session only gives me a solid blue screen and the mouse cursor. No xterm, nothing to do. If i close the xterm that was started in display :0 then the display :1 quits as expected. I have noticed that this does not happen if i don't try to specify a different XF86Config file. But, well, i need to. And i don't want to go around changing XF86Config files back and forth as that would require me to type the root password over and over. has anyone tried to do this before? Thanks. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Second X with different xf86config.
And how hould i call that from the command line? Anyway, thanks, i've already found a solution: xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display :1 -- -xf86config XF86Config-4- :1 the problem was that i was missing the -display :1 for the xterm, which meant xterm was reading the $DISPLAY variable, and thus showing up in :0. Solved now. :oP Damian El mié, 12-11-2003 a las 10:43, Artemio escribió: Maybe you should try to describe a second screen and server layout in existing XF86Cingig-4? ... Section Screen Identifier screen2 Device device1#your video card stays like in screen1 Monitor monitor1 #and so does your monitor ... EndSection ... Section ServerLayout Identifier layout2 Screen screen2 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer EndSection ... __ 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] iptables and msn messenger
Don't know what port should be open, but you could find out by using some -j LOG rules and checking out what port is it that the other side tries to reach... El dom, 09-11-2003 a las 23:57, Leonardo Sá escribió: I'm currently running a server who shares a adsl connection (masquerade nat) without any problems. But users inside the network are complaining that they can't use msn messenger's voice chat feature. I've googled and found out some ports to be open. I opened them but voice still doesn't seems to work, although file transfers using messenger are now working fine (it wasn't working with ports closed). Any suggestions to enable my users to use voice chat? (iptables | mdk9.0) Cheers, Leonardo Sá --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.534 / Virus Database: 329 - Release Date: 31/10/2003 __ 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] Cant Delete File
El lun, 29-09-2003 a las 15:24, Ronald J. Hall escribió: On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. Jack Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your undeletable file but I sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a directory. I'm using reiserfs everywhere. I had Kmail crash once, and since then, I've not been able to use /home/darklord/Mail. I tried deleting it, it caused the system to reboot. I tried deleting it as root, it caused the system to reboot. Running updatedb caused the system to reboot. Anocron/cron running (and I'm assuming thus updating the DB) caused it to reboot. I tried using a rescue disk and mounting the partition then deleting it, caused the system to reboot. I tried deleting the inodes - operation not permitted. I tried dropping to and/or booting into single user mode and deleting it - caused the system to reboot. So here is what I finally did: I was able (go figure!!!) to mv Mail .Mail-old. Then, I set the slocate/updatedb conf file to ignore my /home/darklord stuff. I turned Anacron off, and run the updatedb command when ever it reminds me that more than 8 days have passed. I reran Kmail and it setup a new Mail directory in /home/darklord and its been fine since. Fortunately for me, I've got an 80 gig hard drive, so the space taken by .Mail-old doesn't hurt. I've been waiting to install v9.2 so I format/partition/frag everything on my hard drive, and send .Mail-old to Hell grin. I've already backed up everything pertinent. Good luck. WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will actually work, but what the hell.. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Password Question
El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 19:49, Frankie escribió: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damian Gatabria Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Password Question El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 18:24, Jack Coates escribió: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:44, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? James S. Lawson Network Administrator The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in Single User mode and reset root password from there. You should be able to do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode. If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the root password without some type of reinstall. How do you password protec Lilo? :o)) you put a password in /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Users must then enter the password in order to boot any kernels listed by lilo. It isn't used all that much to my knowledge -- laptop users generally use the BIOS password, desktops users generally don't use boot passwords, and servers need to be able to reboot without physical help. Yet, i hate the fact that cracking the admin password in Win2k is harder than in Linux... :o/ Using linux single to reset the password is not cracking it.. Since you can't find out what the old password was, you are just creating a new one. I know, sorry for not expressing myself correctly. The point is, in windoze, if i want to change the admin password, there's two ways: 1) cracking te sam file. This is a rather long process and requires third-party software. 2) Booting with a DOS diskette, load third-party NFTS-dos drivers, and move around a couple of files so i get a user manager instead of a login prompt. This is a tricky process and you risk fubaring the system. this means that the one aspect in which windows is far better from a security standpoint is protecting the admin password, since in Linux you only have to boot in single user mode.. it's sad, but true. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Password Question
El dom, 31-08-2003 a las 08:47, KevinO escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damian Gatabria wrote: El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 19:49, Frankie escribió: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damian Gatabria Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Password Question El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 18:24, Jack Coates escribió: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:44, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? James S. Lawson Network Administrator The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in Single User mode and reset root password from there. You should be able to do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode. If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the root password without some type of reinstall. How do you password protec Lilo? :o)) you put a password in /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Users must then enter the password in order to boot any kernels listed by lilo. It isn't used all that much to my knowledge -- laptop users generally use the BIOS password, desktops users generally don't use boot passwords, and servers need to be able to reboot without physical help. Yet, i hate the fact that cracking the admin password in Win2k is harder than in Linux... :o/ Using linux single to reset the password is not cracking it.. Since you can't find out what the old password was, you are just creating a new one. I know, sorry for not expressing myself correctly. The point is, in windoze, if i want to change the admin password, there's two ways: 1) cracking te sam file. This is a rather long process and requires third-party software. Breaking into the registry or a sam file is trivially easy using a Linux boot disk made for the purpose. I have done it for people several times. It doesn't take much longer or more effort than just waiting for it to boot. 2) Booting with a DOS diskette, load third-party NFTS-dos drivers, and move around a couple of files so i get a user manager instead of a login prompt. This is a tricky process and you risk fubaring the system. this means that the one aspect in which windows is far better from a security standpoint is protecting the admin password, since in Linux you only have to boot in single user mode.. it's sad, but true. It's neither sad nor true. A Linux system can only be booted into single user mode if you have it setup that way, although most are set that way by default for convenience. Having physical access to a machine means that there isn't much security, aside from encrypting the filesystem. This is why most consider the ability to boot into single user from the console to not be a security risk -- it requires console access. OK, so far, both James and you have said something about password protecting single user mode or setting it up somehow... so let's go back to my first question in this thread =) How can i do that? I just want the system to ask for a password ONLY when i tell it i want `linux single`. Breaking into a Linux box w/o single (or init=...) is much harder than cracking open an NT, 2000 or XP box. What i meant with my previous post is that it took me 30 seconds to learn how to change a root password in mandrake Linux, and for Windoze i had to surf the net for about 10 minutes to find boot diskettes that, from reading the manual they include, i can see it's at least a two or three steps longer process, warnings reading Beware! the ntfs driver is not perfect, you can break your system! and Warning! you may loose all of the system's user passwords with this! and stuff like that. But once you open a box or boot a different kernel or OS on a box, all bets are off. The only way to protect your system (data) is through decent encyption. agreed. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Password Question
El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? James S. Lawson Network Administrator The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in Single User mode and reset root password from there. You should be able to do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode. If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the root password without some type of reinstall. How do you password protec Lilo? :o)) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Password Question
El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 18:24, Jack Coates escribió: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:44, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? James S. Lawson Network Administrator The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in Single User mode and reset root password from there. You should be able to do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode. If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the root password without some type of reinstall. How do you password protec Lilo? :o)) you put a password in /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Users must then enter the password in order to boot any kernels listed by lilo. It isn't used all that much to my knowledge -- laptop users generally use the BIOS password, desktops users generally don't use boot passwords, and servers need to be able to reboot without physical help. Yet, i hate the fact that cracking the admin password in Win2k is harder than in Linux... :o/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IPTABLES
El mié, 13-08-2003 a las 05:07, Thomas Gamble escribió: I have been trying to get iptables set up on my gateway machine, but it isn't working like I think it should. I have the following entry in the rc.firewall script to block incoming SYN packets: EXT_IF=ppp0 IPTABLES=//sbin/iptables $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXT_IF -p tcp ! --syn -j ACCEPT yet ethereal shows these getting through: Source port: 1302 (1302) Destination port: 135 (135) Sequence number: 2684291305 Header length: 28 bytes Flags: 0x0002 (SYN) 0... = Congestion Window Reduced (CWR): Not set .0.. = ECN-Echo: Not set ..0. = Urgent: Not set ...0 = Acknowledgment: Not set 0... = Push: Not set .0.. = Reset: Not set ..1. = Syn: Set ...0 = Fin: Not set dunno about that one, and i don't have the time to study it.. i'll check it out later. I also have the following: $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXT_IF -p tcp --dport 135 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -j DROP why check source address when you are trying to block it completely? Remove the -s 0.0.0.0/0 and try again. And where exactly are you trying to block them? Wouldn't it be simpler if you just blocked them at INPUT? Also, check the order in which you add the rules. If prior to this rule you added a rule that sends these packets to ACCEPT, then iptables will think it already knows what it has to do and won't bother checking with the next one. which should block packets detined for port 135, but also seems ineffective. What might be the problem? The above is just a snippet from the rc.firewall script. I can post it in its entirety if that would help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] does Mdk's php support mysql?
El lun, 04-08-2003 a las 02:45, Vincent Danen escribió: On Mon Aug 04, 2003 at 01:52:16AM -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote: I'm trying to learn some php/mysql and i've came across this error message whenever i try to load a one-line php file that connects to a local mysql database: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /var/www/html/test2.php on line 3 I've googled a bit and it seems that my php module was not compiled with mysql support enabled? I'm using stock mdk packages libphp_common430-430-11mdk mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk, has anyone here got mysql working with these? could this be a config problem? You need to install php-mysql. urpmi php-mysql should do the trick. Hot damn! urpmi -a php skipped that one! could that be a glitch in urpmi? btw, thanks Vincent! Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] help!!!
El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 13:29, pro8613 escribió: hello i have a ADSL USB MODEM ALE 130 and i don't now how install the modem maiby i need a driver if have this driver please send me help me please!!! Sorry, but most of the times USB ADSL modems need special proprietary drivers which are available only for windows. If USB is it's only way to connect to the PC (i.e. no ethernet port) then it's quite possible that you don't get it to work in the near future. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Block MSN Messenger
El jue, 26 de 06 de 2003 a las 18:48, Carlos Delzo escribió: Anyone know block the MSN Messenger with Squid or Bastille? Thanks, Carlos Delzo Networking Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.doerun.com.pe why not block all connections going to messenger.microsoft.com? ..might work.. iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d messenger.microsoft.com -j DROP HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert]
On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do gain access to my CD-rom drive? PS .. look inside /mnt then, follow the lights. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!
On Saturday 14 June 2003 01:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 07:51 pm, Lorne wrote: I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are you running hdparm and doing anything to soup up to UDMA or anything? What about when you install. regular or expert install? Do you click the option on hard drives that activates LBA or UDMA or something. I'm sorry I can't remember what that option is. Er, forgot to say that hdparm is installed and gives this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 78167/64/32, sectors = 160086528, start = 0 I do install as expert, don't even remember that option under v9.1 download edition though - everything was pretty automagical. :-) OK, so i'm pretty much convinced it's not a bad drive.. you probably already tried, but did you fsck / ? (the one at boot doesn't count as AFAIK it's run with certain parameters not to check/fix some aspects of the file system) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!
On Saturday 14 June 2003 13:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:27 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: OK, so i'm pretty much convinced it's not a bad drive.. you probably already tried, but did you fsck / ? (the one at boot doesn't count as AFAIK it's run with certain parameters not to check/fix some aspects of the file system) Damian No, I've not done that. Can I do that with with reiserfs? well, i'm not using any reiserfs partitions at the moment... but i've just googled a bit and found this (spanish) forum in which this guy is stating that 'fsck for reiserfs is still somewhat unstable' (posted on may 2001).. so, at least fsck for reiser exists... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!
I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are you running hdparm and doing anything to soup up to UDMA or anything? What about when you install. regular or expert install? Do you click the option on hard drives that activates LBA or UDMA or something. I'm sorry I can't remember what that option is. Interesting point... I wonder. Dark, if you run say, makewhatis do you have the same problem? Since the two are similar in intensity and action it might help in finding the common thread. If it doesn't die... I'd go back to urpme urpmi James Sorry for butting in -- have you tried disabling DMA? hdparm -d0 /dev/hdX updatedb .. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.2 impressions?
On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:24, Robert Crawford wrote: I've been struggling with Texstar's 3.1.2 for a week, and have Umm.. i've been trying to get 3.1.2 for about four days now.. Is it just me/my connection/location or is ibiblio SEVERELY busy? i'm getting speeds ranging from 0.8 KB/s to an impressive and amazing 5 KB/s... :o? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Say Y to RTC..?
On Thursday 03 April 2003 20:52, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:09, Damian Gatabria wrote: Hi.. i'm trying to get to build kernel-multimedia-source from the contribs.. just thought i'd add the extra bit of machine-specific optimisation.. but i'm having problems with it. If i just go straight ahead and type make modules (yes, i've done mrproper first) i get a compilation error regarding the Realtime clock. I've gone into xconfig -- sound -- ALSA -- enable RTC but i can only load it as a module (M) or disable it. I want to see what happens if i try to build it right into the kernel. Does anyone know which other parameters must i say Y to before i can say Y to RTC? Any help appreciated. Is sound/alsa itself a module? If so then anything below it in the tree can only be a module. James Found it! It was under Character devices.. enable enhanced real time clock support .. Thanks for the help. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting video source
On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote: I want to set up GnomeMeeting, but have a problem with the video source. I have the choice of /dev/video0 and /dev/video1, with not possibility of entering another source so far as I can see. My camera is /dev/sdb, so I presume that I somehow have to create a /dev/video0 that is linked to /dev/sdb. Can anyone tell me how to do that, please? Anne Dis you try `ln -s /dev/sdb /dev/video0` ? or maybe a hard link? `ln /dev/sdb /dev/video0` .. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Say Y to RTC..?
Hi.. i'm trying to get to build kernel-multimedia-source from the contribs.. just thought i'd add the extra bit of machine-specific optimisation.. but i'm having problems with it. If i just go straight ahead and type make modules (yes, i've done mrproper first) i get a compilation error regarding the Realtime clock. I've gone into xconfig -- sound -- ALSA -- enable RTC but i can only load it as a module (M) or disable it. I want to see what happens if i try to build it right into the kernel. Does anyone know which other parameters must i say Y to before i can say Y to RTC? Any help appreciated. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:46, Frankie wrote: its not in xls format... its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls format data would be quiet hard.. Is saving as HTML not an option? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] floppies
On Monday 24 de March 2003 03:11, eric huff wrote: Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those little, flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen them listed up to 512MB... Seemed like a great way to transfer data amongst youselves, but too expensive to give away. The cheapest i saw with a 2 second google search was $22, probably 32meg. There are also USB adaptors for IDE drives. They are like a case inside of which you put and connect your IDE drive (a CD burner, any HD...) and it plugs to the PC thru USB ports. It's a little big, especially if you need to carry it around, but it's unbeatable in many aspects... hot swapping 120GB IDE drives is very useful sometimes.. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] floppies
There are also USB adaptors for IDE drives. They are like a case inside of which you put and connect your IDE drive (a CD burner, any HD...) and it plugs to the PC thru USB ports. It's a little big, especially if you need to carry it around, but it's unbeatable in many aspects... hot swapping 120GB IDE drives is very useful sometimes.. That sounds interesting. I presume it's not particularly fast? But probably reliability would outweight that. I used to have 'cradles' which would allow interchangeable drives (though not hot-swap), but found that I frequently had unexplained problems when trying to boot to a newly swapped one, so I do not recommend them at all. Anne It is somewhat slow, especially when it works in USB 1.4 compatibility mode (can work as both 1.4 and 2.0) but, now that you mention it, i forgot about the 'bootable' requirement we are also looking for.. Is it possible to boot an OS from USB? doesn't sound like it... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to install kylix3 in the MDK 9 ?
On Saturday 08 de March 2003 00:00, Emerson de Mello wrote: Hi All, A long time ago I asked if it was possible to install the Kylix3 in the MDK 9. Well, I tried but I had a problem. The following message of error was shown: Error Code: -10 And my RPM DB was corrupted. I saw that the problem involves rpmdb, because the version of my rpmdb is 4.0.4 and de kylix question abou 3.X Somebody knows as can correct my DB? delete the files : /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 and then execute: rpm --rebuilddb and What I must make to install the Kylix? Maybe you should try borland.com for any help regarding those error codes. Thank you, and forgives me for my English again. hugs Emerson BRAZIL Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question on KDE
On Saturday 01 de March 2003 01:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm ...everything but kde runs. So I removed all of kde... all of qt all the dot files ... and still the same thing. No errors just a core dump. Next I tried to start it from a command line (kcontrol) I get possible errors. Well they are errors just that it's possible they may indicate something. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-12856' to 'kcontrol' ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! Now the Xlib error should indicate that I don't have font aliasing working ok... it works elsewhere but for the moment ok and shouldn't stop it. The second one seems to indicate that DCOP doesn't work... When I carefully and completely removed kde all libs and qt that should have been gone. Then a new install of kdebase should have restored it The question is ... any ideas where else to look? I'm not good at core dumps so I don't get much out of it James Try wiping out all temp directories. A bad/old socket file may be confusing DCOP. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?
This is like saying that Linux is faster than Windows because Bluefish loads faster than DreamWeaver. Put OOo on windows and do that comparison. I am not saying windows is faster than Linux. I'm saying MS Office is faster then OpenOffice and, yes, the Windows version of OO behaves pretty much like the Linux version... maybe just a bit faster... -- Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?
One full minute? Are you sure you're not exaggerating a little bit? I don't use OO but use Staroffice now and again and it is slow but it certainly doesn't take a minute. I haven't timed it yet but I would be suprised if it actually took more than 20 to 30 seconds tops. My system: athlon 1.1Ghz, 128M ram, MDK 9.0. I timed it. Athlon 900, 512M ram, Mdk 9.0 OOo 31 sec. from cold to blank document Anne Well, you guys are probably a lot richer than me :o) my system: Pentium II 400 MHZ, 192 MB RAM. It's less than a whole minute only if i'm doing nothing else (i.e. there's nothing else fighting with OO over the CPU..) but it's still ~45 seconds. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?
That's strange, I have just the opposite experience. Agreeing with you that 7.2 was an exceptionally good release (and can hardly wait for 9.2 - it's the odd numbers I bet) I found that 8.2 and higher gave much better performance on low end P166's. AFAIK this was mostly due to Xfree4.2 on the gui side. Running KDE2.2 with Mandrake8.0 was already too much. KDE3.1 apps (not the whole desktop!) runs ever so slow.but runs on the same machine. Without gui it's just faster than 7.2 whilst 8.0 and 8.1 swapped themselves to a dreary death. Good luck, HarM I will have to agree with you, HarM. And it's going to be even better when kernel 2.6 is out.. That preempt no-longer-to-be-patch does wonders... Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?
ehhh, no mater what, or so I have heard, win 9x to win me will NOT boot with more than 512 megs ram. I can say that for sure with winME. it is really the way the ram is used, as far as I know, that makes the differences, that and the way it is tested by the kernal developers to decide what really is the best optimization for the ram use. AFAIK, this is not entirely correct. I've known people running about 768 (or something like that).. oh, no, wait. It was 1G of RAM. The problem with it is that Win9X cannot use all of it. And also, any more than 512MB will only make the machine slower, as Win9x kernels have a memory managment so crippled that it can choke by maintaining too many process tables and memory pages. And no matter how many programs this guy loaded, memory usage was never above ~400 MB, and it would even freeze due to lack of resources without going any further. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?
As I said, if you want to compare apples to apples, load OO ONCE on desktop 2 and switch to it--that is what Windows is doing with MSO, or the nearest achievable equivalent. Civileme, there are few to none occasions in which i can disagree with you or even judge your knowledge... you are simply above many of us, most of the time, but this is one of the subjects in which you sound a little ...wishful? In this machine of mine, i can load windows 98, and Office will take something like 2 seconds to start. True, most of the libs are already on memory. But then, i can also run Office thru wine on Linux (does Linux preload MS Office in memory?) and it takes about 5 to 10 seconds. (this includes the time needed to launch the wineserver, wine.bin processes, and then MS Office. OpenOffice.org 1.0 takes a full minute. Try it yourself. As you very correctly said, thare are some things for which Linux is faster, and some things for which Windows is faster. Now, MS Office is a VERY fast set of applications. Even if it's not pre-loaded (wine proves it). And OpenOffice.org is a VERY SLOW set of applications (regarding startup anyway. Normal operation does not differ almost) snip I amazed people at a local Computer Renaissance when loading a copy of Mandrake for a business customer. One of the CDs would not read on the target machine (media vs drive error on a brand-new drive) so I used a Mandrake Demonstrator there to burn a copy of the CD which would read. While burning, I was printing the user manual I had prepared and also showing someone how to connect to the internet using the machine and MCC And then I burned a copy of another CD (showing how backing up could be done). The store techs were floored. They had a hyped-up dual P4 running win2K server and when they were burning they could not do anything else, and they HAD to reset after burning or the next CD they burned would have only a directory and no retrievable data. Civileme I have tried this also. In this one you are quite right, Linux 0wnz CD-burning and proper multitasking. :o) Damian --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kylix 3 vs. MDK9
On Tuesday 25 de February 2003 23:43, Emerson de Mello wrote: Hello All, I have a little and simple question. I'd like to know if the Kylix 3 works with MDK 9. Thanks, Emerson BRAZIL Yup. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA
In any case, the harddrive is new, the system memory is sound, the CPU is sound, the video card is sound (NVidia Ti4200). And what about the sound card? Any sound in there? Sorry, i know, stupid joke, you will probably want to beat me up for this, but i could not resist. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] supermount
Sorry for coming in late. I seem to be able to mount /mnt/cdrom2 without a cd being in the drive... Yes. once you have enabled supermount in the fstab, you have to call mount /mnt/cdrom2 to actually activate it. And from the moment that's done, it all seems to work... if I insert a cd, its contents are correctly displayed, I can eject it without unmounting, and I can replace the cd and it will detect that and get its contents right again... Good. so it's working. so that would mean I should just remove the noauto from fstab, and I should be fine? noauto is a parameter that means that this drive is NOT included in the list when you tell the fstab to mount everything. for example, when you issue an mount -a (this means 'mount every drive listed in the fstab) drives with the noauto flag are skipped, and thus, say unmounted.. Is that how it works? seems so. Thanks Hans Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] supermount
That fits with my experience. Also, if you panic and umount it from c/l you tend to upset it. Closing all, as you say, usually does it. One variatioon on your experience is that it may open and immediately close before you could possibly remove the disk. It then automatically mounts the disk again, and you are back at square one until you've found what's bugging it. I just make sure everything's closed, now. This is a bug in konq, and apparently, it's being worked out for MDK9.1, since i read a longish thread about it. The problem is quite simple: Konq likes to update the directories it's showing. for example, use konqueror to navigate to a directory, and then delete one file from a terminal. the directory view in konqueror gets updated almost immediately. When konqueror is showing the contents of a CD (or was showing is and therefore it's in the 'history') and you remove the CD, konq tries to see what changed, and this triggers the remount of the CD instantly. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
it doesn't work for me :( i put those lines at the end of my already-existing ~/.Xdefaults, logged out and logged back into kde. but i don't get anything other than the usual dull black cursor with a white outline. using kde3.0.3, mdk9, xfree 4.2.1. what could be wrong? i desparately want a cool cursor! :-) - Will You need the latest release of X. Maybe you can get the SRPMS off Cooker and rebuild them for your machine. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
Only thing I'm left wondering is what happened to the cute little mouse arrow that previously had a shadow and was much softer in appearance. Now it appears as the regular old dull cursor arrow. Whats up with that? :) I may be wrong, but AFAIK the pretty cursor was reported as a bug because it's dropshadow was confusing.. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?(OFF LIST)
..OH! That guy is going to kill his neighbour! Quick! Let's nuke them both right off the face of the earth! Whew, what an accurate characterization of current events. Stop being a damn idiot. I'll stop being a damn idiot, sir, when you stop making arguable statements and insulting whoever dares to challenge you. Or, as you said in another post, your American leadership. heh. Doing nothing is no answer. Trying to impose peace by force is no answer either. Tell it to the Jews and the English people. Anybody rooted in reality is not going to buy the bullshit you are shoveling. You are damn right i can tell that to the English, pal. Ghandi freed his country from them without firing a single bullet. If i see two guys having a fist fight, i can try to stop them by getting in the middle, in which case i would probably get beat by both of them. Or you can get the cops to break them up (BY FORCE), at which point the problem will be solved for awhile (LIKE IT WAS WITH KUWAIT AND IRAQ). And who is the world police? The US? I can try to make them calm down by talking to them, which is of course, useless. I can also sit and watch until it's over. It's your choice. Nations on middle-east are all populated by the same kind of people. Same origins, same look, same race. For some reason (religious, territorial, you name it) they have been killing each other for generations. Nothing will ever stop them from thinking their enemy is the enemy of their gods. Nothing will make them stop killing each other. How in the FUCK DO YOU KNOW? This country was founded on new ideas and I read the news, buddy. I study history. And i'm not wasting any more time on this. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
Except when it comes to people that are not here, like the President of the United States. Better to talk in insults about people when they can't respond or see your emails directly, eh? ...Is Bush your uncle or something? -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
For the same reason however, I feel strongly that many people would die needlessly by the hands of dictators and terrorist regimes if the US did retract, similar to the deaths of those that have occurred already under ..OH! That guy is going to kill his neighbour! Quick! Let's nuke them both right off the face of the earth! the stewardship of the UN in the region around and in Iraq by virtue of the imaginary weapons of mass destruction that the liberals say don't exist. In a nutshell, I think the withdrawal of the US from the international scene would involve the deaths of entire populations of people, since the UN and the EU are going to do the heroic thing and stand by doing nothing, like they have for the last 12 years in response to the Iraqi UN violations, for example. Doing nothing is no answer. Trying to impose peace by force is no answer either. If i see two guys having a fist fight, i can try to stop them by getting in the middle, in which case i would probably get beat by both of them. I can try to make them calm down by talking to them, which is of course, useless. I can also sit and watch until it's over. It's your choice. Nations on middle-east are all populated by the same kind of people. Same origins, same look, same race. For some reason (religious, territorial, you name it) they have been killing each other for generations. Nothing will ever stop them from thinking their enemy is the enemy of their gods. Nothing will make them stop killing each other. It's their way of life (way of death?) And right then, there goes the US, messing with them, thinking they can impose peace by way of war. Suit yourselves, guys. That's all i'm gonna say for now. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 18:56, Robert Goshko wrote: New flick, coming to a theatre of war soon: The Bush Administration In Association With The Other Bush Administration Presents Gulf Wars__ E P I S O D E I I Clone Of The Attack See the full movie poster: http://www.goshko.ca/downloads/jokes/pictures/episodeII.jpg ..on a side note, this just in, Frodo has failed: http://www.goshko.ca/downloads/jokes/pictures/darklord.jpg GEEATT!!! :o) ROFL, nice pics! Right into my funny shit archive they go. Thanks! Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MandrakeSoft back to daily business
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 17:13, Jim C wrote: Uh... FUD? What's FUD? Support by contradicting any Red Hat FUD http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/9267/fuddef.html Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 03:49, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Sorry to bother you, but we were discussing whether there will be a future for MandrakeSoft. Hard to see.. the future is. Always in motion it is impossible to see. After tonight I wonder whether there will be a future for us all and the world as we know it. I listened to the US-Amercan president. Well, i'm already used to the way people reacts when i express my opinion on these matters... I usually shock or surprise more than one listener... but i have this belief that the world as we know it (meaning economic structure, country borders, tech, etc) will cease to exist (or at least mutate dramatically) somewhere in the next 200 to 300 years. My great-grandchildren are probably going to live to see it, unfortunately for them... The US-american president is just a symptom. If he were not to scare you, something else would. Personally, i don't give a rat's ass about him. But the world is scary these days anyway. It's the change. We weak, pathetic humans do not like change, and those of us who get troubled by these matters are starting to feel it in the water... to feel it in the earth... to smell it in the air. Much that now is, will be lost, for none will live who remember... I'm not religious, I wish I were. No, wobo, you do not wish to be religious. You just wish there were nice and easy answers, just like religions are thought out to give. It would probably be very comforting to be able to believe I don't care if tomorrow I get a nuke dropped right on my head. I know my soul will go to God. Well, I say i've got this one life, and i fscking wanna keep it because i don't know what comes next. As far as i know, there is no next and it would be illogical to assume there is. This madman and the options he has scare me to death. Personally, i hope he'll not be stupid enough to make the kind of decision we all fear. Let us hope. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 05:44, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:49, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Sorry to bother you, but we were discussing whether there will be a future for MandrakeSoft. After tonight I wonder whether there will be a future for us all and the world as we know it. I listened to the US-Amercan president. I'm not religious, I wish I were. This madman and the options he has scare me to death. wobo I don't take kindly to my president being called a madman. Especially when he is fighting a *real* madman that has slaughtered over 230,000 Ok, ok. Damaian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1b2 observation/opinioin
I think 9.1b2 is looking good :) I think the default looks of kde3.1 (that's pretty much what 9.1 is going to ship with, right? I've got KDE3.1 RC5 here and it looks really close to Mandrake9.1b2 screenshots i've seen) are a bit too bright for my taste, but hey, if it was my call, there would be a lot of people going back to the brighter color scheme. You can't keep everyone happy on this matter, and i think these looks are a huge improvement over 9.0 or 8.2. just MHO. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] friggin test message
Damian, some of us (ME) don't like to be accussed of thinking (my landlord forbids it as it makes the smoke alarms go off all over the neighborhood, and the smell is awefull) so just watch what you accuse me off... OK? grin OOps! Sorry et, Let's hope he doesn't find out. :o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] friggin test message
On Friday 17 January 2003 03:10, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Mark; That made it! But, the list has been really quiet! It's not you! shhh!!! Be quiet! We're thinking! :oP Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....
On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:43, James Sparenberg wrote: Damian, Took a look at mine... Yep you are right on a number of font types I've found that below 8 (or even at 8) I get nothing... Times was the only one that went smaller. I suspect but I'm not sure that is because these fonts don't go below 8. Not sure... James Actually James, this is a problem with XFT and OO not working together. It arises whenever you have an XFT package which is newer than the one shipped with 9.0. Is anybody at Cooker sure that OO is working fine for small fonts? Would you please check? thanks Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....
Is anybody at Cooker sure that OO is working fine for small fonts? Would you please check? please ignore this last part. I just made a post to cooker myself about it. bye Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making OpenOffice StarOffice (or other app) launch faster
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 19:03, Brent Hasty wrote: I have multiple useres on my MDK 9 Terminal Server, running on thin clients. I was wondering if there were a way to precash specific apps on say a ram disk or other suitable method to improve the launch time of common and often used apps like openoffice or staroffice. What are my options in linux to do somthing like this. http://ooqstart.sourceforge.net/ This applet provides a quick launcher for Open Office 641C+ or Star Office 6.0+. It attempts to mimic the functionality provided by the quickstarter tray icon on the other operating system supported by Open Office. The program attempts to keep a background process alive at all times, even if that process is terminated by the user. The four main applications: Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress can be launched directly from the context menu of the applet. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?
bankruptcy PROTECTION != bankrupt you mean bankrupcy protection! = bankrupt right? really, it is possible that not all of the readers on this list are C programmers.. when trying to state something meant to be obvious, please do not save yourself from the hassle to type is different from :o) Damian (always with the stupidest comment at his fingertips) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rebuilding OO....
Hi. Some time ago i had the problem with fonts dissapearing from OO. I applied the usual workaround, and i can use it now, however my OO installation is unable to render text of size smaller than 8. Does anybody know if rebuilding the src.rpm for OO from Cooker will get rid of this problem and give me a fully-functional office suite once again? thanks! Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?¡
Actually, just plain math will do...at least here in Mexico we get to learn that != moans is different from when in 9th or 10th grade. Vox Well, make it just plain mexican math will do then :o) Over here, we are taught that is different from is symbolized with a striked-out = sign. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LICQ not working
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 01:41, Ken Thompson wrote: The subject sez it all. Both 9.0 and 9.1b1 will not let LICQ or LICQ(kde) load and run.. Different systems entirely, funny thing is, it works on my buddy's system with no trouble. Also, it works on my Pentium II 400. It worked OK from 8.0 up untill 9.0 too. Hmm, VIA chipsets again If anyone knows how to make this durn thing work I'd be happy to know. It will be a lot of help if you can run licq from a console window and tell us what the error message is. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LICQ not working
== [ken@spooky ken]$ licq 20:43:59: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 5754) fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor bad file descriptor... :o? did you format your /home partition when reinstalling your system? If not, try rm -rf ~/.licq Also, if you go get the newest Licq, do not download a precompiled package, download the source and built it. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 beta screenshots please?
On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:30, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:23, Azrael wrote: You can send me 'big massive ultra fat yummy-licious oh my god that image won't even fit onto a DVD.. and I haven't even got a dvd-burner' sized pics ;) OK, gimme some time to take a few:o) Good Luck, HarM Can you cc me? :o) thanks! (hope it's not too late!) bye Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied. -SOLVED
I can't think of what else, except to look around at www.linuxprinting.org or www.groups.google.com. FWIW, here is what was, for me, the problematic tail of cupsd.conf, as is now working: Thanks for the example. i was adding the configuration lines in the wrong group ... That CUPS manual did a pretty good job confusing me. I've now solved my problem. Thanks again! Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied.
I had such a problem in 9.0, after no problems since 7.1. One thing that caused this is an initscripts security update, which was fixed by a subsequent update. Some people had problems that were fixed by a new foomatic. These are the current versions where CUPS works for me: initscripts-6.91-16.1mdk foomatic-2.0.2-20021030.1.2mdk Thanks Rolf, i have already updated my packages accordingly, as well as edited the relevant config files. Still no luck.. i have no way to get to configure CUPS via localhost:631 in Mandrake9. Perahps i need a reboot? i have already restarted printing services and all.. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL
El Dom 15 Dic 2002 21:25, James Sparenberg escribió: On the installs I've done. 7 boxes supermount works fine, on my laptop only am I having trouble. Seems that the supermount problems are related to hardware, not a generality (BTW the other boxes I've put it on don't have cdroms ) James James, several people have already said supermount's problems in 9.0 can be blamed on crappy hardware. I have seen this excuse several times already, but i just can't buy it. Mandrake 9.0 includes a kernel whose Supermount does not work in my box. This would be, according to the many people that say so, my crappy hardware's fault. But why does it work OK with 8.2, then? I would be more inclined to say Mandrake 9's stock kernel has bugs that arise only on certain kinds of hardware more than it's a hardware related problem, as the latter gives the idea that the hardware is to blame, which it is not. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CUPS permission denied.
Hi. Does anybody know which file permissions i need to change so CUPS let's me change my printer settings? Currently i cannot do it (permission denied even as root) Thanks much. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xfs_support.
Modify mkinitrd not to look for xfs_support (and keep the old one around i wasn't aware about mkinitrd being a bash script! i just commented out the lines about xfs_support and xfs_dmapi in case you want to switch to an older kernel that needs it). DISCLAIMER: I didn't try 2.5.x, but 2.4.20 doesn't need and xfs_support module. All newer implementations of XFS include all the code in xfs.o. This is supposed to reduce the overhead on the kernel. thanks for your help Luca. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....
El Vie 29 Nov 2002 14:33, Tommy Wareing escribió: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:02:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: IMHO it may be a lack of available space in /tmp which makes the tar-process stop at 2G. It's a kernel/file system limit. ?? current filesystems (and kernel) file size limit is 4TB (4096 gigs).. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....
El Sáb 30 Nov 2002 03:37, KevinO escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damian Gatabria wrote: current filesystems (and kernel) file size limit is 4TB (4096 gigs).. Not anymore, and not for some time. I have a 27 GB tar file on an ext3 filesystem on a Mandrake 8.0 system running a (stock) SMP kernel. I believe the actual filesystem limit for the reiserfs currently shipping is 16TB. I have a number of files (large mpegs) that are stored on a reiserfs partition of a Mandrake 8.2 box. Many of them are over 5GB. - -- KevinO That is exactly what i'm saying, Kevin. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi defeats me.
# cd directory where the samba server rpm is # urpmi samba-server* --jay better yet: # cd directory where the samba server rpm is # urpmi ./samba-server* -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /boot erased
El Lun 07 Oct 2002 00:21, skidley escribió: I have made a huge mistake here and deleted everything in /boot. It was the result of hitting enter too soon with the wrong syntax of a command. Unfortunately I didn't have a backup of /boot which i regret. I'm trying to avoid reinstalling the system. I have built kernels again uninstalled and reinstalled lilo and bootsplash but nothing works. Is there anyway I can get the basic files/dirs I need in /boot back? try installing Mandrake's default kernel from RPM. (--force it if necesary) -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD! (was Re: Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file)
Using the information I was given for how to mount the .iso file as /mnt/cdrom and then pull the information to a side directory, I removed the OpenOffice .rpm files. Since I haven't got a *clue* how to create an ISO file, I transferred the Bood and Mandrake directories (with their files) back to the Windows machine, and then used Easy CD Creator 5 Pro to burn those two directories to a CD labeled MandrakeLinux90 (which is what the other two disks are called). However, when I was prompted to put the second CD in, it rejected the disk, ejecting it and asking again for CD 2. :o( .. probably because of a difference in the CD label, or in the filenames ( as you moved it to a windows partition, it may have altered the case of the filenames... ) -- Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD! (was Re: Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file)
That is correct. You did *not* do what you were told. 1. The part about removing stuff is ok. 2. Now, what you did was, you *copied* the remains to the CD. You did not make a new ISO! 3. To make it short: If /foo is the directory where you have the remaining part which has to be put back onto the CD then do: mkisofs -o Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso /foo This will create the ISO image Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso which you want to burn your 2nd CD with. For further study do 'man mkisofs' i think it's vital to keep the CD's label the same... ( damn i didn't think of that the first time...) -- Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file
On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:19:01 -0700 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a good .iso download of all three disk (md5sum says that they're all fine, according to the md5sums.90 file that is provided). However, disk 2 appears to have a bit too much information on it. My CD burner is an older one that won't burn 700M disks - only the older 650M disks. And Easy CD Creator 5 Pro says that there's about 680M of data in that ISO file. That's the way it is. Needless to say, I end up with an unusable disk 2 as a result of this. Any chance that Mandrake can issue new versions of those ISO files, distributed a bit differently? Disk 3 only has about a bit more than 400M of data in it, so some of the files could be put there, perhaps? well, if you know how to extract files from an ISO image, then maybe you could make one for yourself.. try extracting all content from the second CD, delete 50 MB of files you are positive you will not need, and then burn that. ( of course your self-made second CD won't be bootable anymore. but at least you can use it for the install) HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] download ... soooo slow ?
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:01:21 +0200 hans privat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I only was interested, as anyone there has also downloadspeeds of about 0.2 to 0.7 KB/sec wand that with a DSL-line - where is the speed of 512 KB/sec ? is this on a another star or another sphere ? have downloaded a file of about a size of 2320952 and needed a time of 1 hour and 46 minutes - isn't it a phantastic speed ? any othewr experiences there right now ? bye hans i'm curretly getting an average of 9 kb/s .. i started my download of the first iso this afternoon and, if i'm lucky enough not to run into trouble, will be finished tomorrow morning... ... i guess i'm lucky. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0
well, the 3com/usr 5610 is a good one. I'm on my second one. this is the only review I've run into so far. http://laxton.net/blog/archive.php?blogid=1y=2002m=09d=28 -s did you read the one comment at the end? is anybosy having problems with USB and 9.0 ?? Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
..just wanted to butt in to say i'm sad i can't post any good ole times memories.. i'm really enjoying this thread.. reminds me of my first atari games when i was about 5 years old.. (and it's not stopid at all... but it did get looong :o)) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:07:28 -0500 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that surely by now the KDE people would have fixed the konsole-noxft problem. Nope. Still there. You try to start konsole from the panel and the panel freezes and become useless until you close konsole at which point you get an error message about not being able to start konsole-noxft. This has been a ridiculous problem since kde 3 beta. Does anyone have a _permanent_ fix for this? In the past, before I dumped kde 3.0.1 and went back to 2.2.2, I was able to fix this problem for a session but next time I logged in it would re-appear, rendering my changes temporary. I am terribly annoyed so forgive my tone but...C'MON! Fix it already. DUMP konsole-noxft forever! praedor I also found that the 'fix' doesn't even last ONE sessions, and i've seen it break more than once per session (i.e. once every hour, or right after a visit to the control center... ) wanna know how i fixed it? simple, i did the usual fix, and right after that, i removed my write permission for that file. worked ever since ( 30 hs and counting ;oP ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:32:37 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damian G wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:07:28 -0500 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that surely by now the KDE people would have fixed the konsole-noxft problem. Nope. Still there. You try to start konsole from the panel and the panel freezes and become useless until you close konsole at which point you get an error message about not being able to start konsole-noxft. This has been a ridiculous problem since kde 3 beta. Does anyone have a _permanent_ fix for this? In the past, before I dumped kde 3.0.1 and went back to 2.2.2, I was able to fix this problem for a session but next time I logged in it would re-appear, rendering my changes temporary. I am terribly annoyed so forgive my tone but...C'MON! Fix it already. DUMP konsole-noxft forever! praedor I also found that the 'fix' doesn't even last ONE sessions, and i've seen it break more than once per session (i.e. once every hour, or right after a visit to the control center... ) wanna know how i fixed it? simple, i did the usual fix, and right after that, i removed my write permission for that file. worked ever since ( 30 hs and counting ;oP ) Damian you're kidding, right? since installing kde3.x when the first packages came out and I discovered, as many others did, this strange unwanted behavior of the taskbar konsole shorcut hanging up upon execution, I've *Never* had to re-do the fix of this shortcut. that being the removal of nope, the fix i do is to add the blank space that is missing.. (changing konsole-noxft to konsole -noxft) but that blank space DISSAPEARS. it just goes away, and your kicker bar starts freezing up again. and it seems i'm not the first to find this behavior. ...this reminds me of an issue with MPlayer's current CVS relating to it's GUI frontend. on some systems with different keyboard/language codesets, some settings get fscked right after the first time you run it in GUI mode in such a way that it doesn't start anymore until you re-create all config files. this is temporarily fixed by adding compile-time parameters... this blank space dissapearing from a file may be a similar problem. Damian Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:50:28 + Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Es Dimarts 20 Agost 2002 15:00, en Joan Tur va escriure: Es Dimarts 20 Agost 2002 15:42, en Holger Schurig va escriure: Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc. That keeps mc loaded and eating 100% cpu cycles. Tryed under Mandrake 8.2 and Debian Woody... Strange, not on my system. I have a self-compiled KDE 3.0.2, so my console is konsole... It happened in my Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 boxes... but now I cannot reproduce it under 9 beta 3 (after having send my email!) O8-) I'll reboot to the 8.2 box to check for the packages' versions and will post them here... Ejem... I haven't been able to reproduce the above problem under 8.2 either... I promise I had that problem! I'll be watching for that problem and if it happens again I'll make you know... O8-) it does happen, also it's not reproducible 100% of the times. i can do it with mc, mcedit, and vi. but i have to try several ways to get it done. i think if you start the xterm as user, su to root, then open mc, then open a different xterm and run killall xterm ( as user ) it should happen... but i'm not sure. ( running recently reinstalled ( after several --force --nodeps fuckups ) 8.2 ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Flash Plugin for galeon
This was weird I got Oscar's thankyou 10 minutes before I got your answer to him. Twilight zone time. James happens all the time, James. messages not always arrive in the correct order, sometimes i can't read my own posts but i get replies from them... i just had to get used to it. ;oP Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Weird X crashes
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:32:59 -0400 HoytDuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am experiencing very weird X crashes. Here is my .xsessions-error file. Can anyone point me in the right directoion ofr more debugging? bGL.so.1.2 kio (KLauncher): ERROR: KLauncher: KDEInit communication error! Commiting suicide! Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy undecodable token: \001b(hex)[36l ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2986, errno = 17 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2983, errno = 2 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2979, errno = 0 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2982, errno = 2 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2978, errno = 0 uhm.. that looks more like a KDE creash, not X. try logging in with a different WM and see if it keeps happening. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help!
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:24:52 -0400 D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I do with this? ...i just love a good description. ;o) would you mind telling us what was that? looked like a scsi-hd failing, am i right? is that appearing at bootup? is it vital? ( i.e. does the machine ever get to boot? ) does the hd work under another OS? please try to be more specific so we can help you. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help!
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:24:52 -0400 D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 802 Info fid=0x4ddf0, Current sd08:02: sense key Hardware Error I/O error: dec 08:02, sector 61920 SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 802 ... look at this, host 0, channel 0.. my bets are it's the first drive in the scsi bus. is there any way you can try booting your machine without that one to see what happens? Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE:(re)starting artsd gracefully: How?
Do you mean artswrapper or soundwrapper? I use soundwrapper to run uhm.. i really dunno what's the difference.. xmms, but for things where sound sycnchronization is important (games, video applications, etc.) it introduces way too much lag, even though I have artsd running with (near)realtime priority (how can it have real realtime priority without a preemptible kernel?) and have artsd configured with pretty small delay (46 milliseconds) I think that artswrapper is for starting artsd, like so: /usr/bin/artswrapper -F 8 -S 1024 -d -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f -Chuck well, the only 'graceful way' to kill arts is from KDE control center, since this is what a newbie would call an advanced option.. maybe going into #KDE in irc.openprojects.net and ask the people in there if there's a commandline you can use in a shell to toggle it on or off... Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE:(re)starting artsd gracefully: How?
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:10:13 -0400 Chuck Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Experts, I have some important software that I use that is un-aware of the arts, (Okay, I admit, it's games, sue me... :^) )so to use it with KDE3, I have a script linked to a desktop Icon to stop the artsd if it is running, and start it if it is not running. Is there an official way to stop/start the sound server? Herewith is the script I use to do the work: (It is very stupid, but it seems to work) hey, instead of killing/reviving the poor arts all the time, have you tried to make your game work with artswrapper? as in [user@localhost user]$ artswrapper nameofmyveryimportantsoftware maybe it'll help. that wrapper stuff is supposed to make the app use arts without even noticing it is... or something like that. see ya. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.0's kernel?
does anybody know if the final 9.0 release will include a preemptible kernel? i've heard great things about the pre-emptible patch for linux ... and i'm still too stupid to compile my own ;oP Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0's kernel?
You do realize that using this patch pretty much prevents the machine from being used as a high capacity server. It allow the kernel to be pulled away from unimportant things to take care of really important things like your desktop. Hardly an acceptable compromise on a server. *drools* hmmm deeskto... *drools* Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] file size limit exceeded error part 2
On 08 Jul 2002 21:33:03 +1000 Darren King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I checked the temp directory for this app and the files are being truncated at exactly 100MB. So it seems that my file size limit is 100MB. Where do I change this for the system? are you absolutely sure that the limit resides in the filesystem and not in the program's libraries? try copying a big file into your temp directory with a regular filemanager and see what happens.. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Flashing 'D' on console! What the heck?!?
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:39:09 -0300 (BRT) Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! Once is a while I got a flashing D (green) on the console! Does anyone know about that? It's rather strange As I got a ADSL 24x7 (well, at least I try to...) I'm concerned about being compromised! Any hints? Ricardo Castanho no compromise that i'm aware of. seems to be a glitch when you switch from X to a text terminal back and forth several times, isn't it? i get it too,i run no services, i've got my iptables, and i run a rootkit-checker once in a while so i'm almost sure it has nothing to do with security.. if you find it annoying, log out of that console and back in, you will see it no more. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] poor swap activation with kernel 2.4.18-8.2
On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:39:05 -0600 Terry Tremaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I upgraded to kernel 2.4.18-8.2 recently and discovered that it does not manage swap properly. All kernel messages seem correct on boot up but it just doesn't work. Does anyone know a workaround for this or perhaps there is a script that gets malconfigured on rpm installation of the kernel. TT uhm you upgraded from which kernel? does your machine hang if you fill your RAM up? did you try to open a lot of programs to see what happens? if your previous kernel was old, you may notice that swap gets used less often, but this is not a bug. it's a better-working kernel ;o) i'm sorry if you already tried these, but your post wasn't very complete... HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory Leak?
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:17:15 -0700 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:36:23PM + : 98% of my CPU.. The program .. VI yep it had been up for about 2 hours and was slowly consuming all my cpu power. Has anyone else noticed this or better yet can anyone else duplicate it. I'd like to know if this is a bug or a one off. I can reproduce this since RedHat version 6.2, but only in an error scenario. 1) ssh to a box. Any box, it doesn't matter. 'vi file' 2) close the window that you ssh'd from (or let it time-out if you ssh'd to a remote box outside of your firewall, ie not on your local lan) 3) ssh back to that box and you'll see that it is consuming 99% CPU I don't have a technical reason why it happens, but it does. (seems to be related to vi losing its controlling terminal). You have to kill -9 it get rid of it. killall -9 vi works too. As for why it did this to you on a still running instance of vi, I'm not sure. A surefire way of finding this in the future is to do a ps ax or ps aux and look for a process with a very high CPU time number. Blue skies... Todd i was able to do this with mcedit as well. sometimes after working with mcedit in a konsole, if i simply close the window without exiting mcedit, it keeps running in the background taking up to 90% of my cpu.. however it doesn't happen every time and i have to try several times to reproduce it. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] compiling Licq CVS
after some trouble getting to compile licq's CVS with it's qt-plugin without getting any errors, i find i cannot launch it, and i'm clueless as to the error i'm getting. does anybody know what this means? 16:19:10: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 9465) 16:19:10: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt-gui): /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.soX : shared object not open. i tried linking libX11.so.X -- libX11.so but that didn't help... any ideas? thanks. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:19:23 -0400 Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. De-Fragment. When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the allocation bitmap for the disk gets to look like a swiss cheese -- lots of little holes. The little holes get used for the next file(s) you write, and those files become fragmented. The net effect is that reading and writing files from a fragmented disk takes longer than from an un-fragmented disk, where the files are mostly contiguous. Sometimes a _lot_ longer for a really badly fragged disk. People used to sell utilities for de-frag'ing windows disks, for lots of money. Nowadays, it's cheaper not to bother... when a disk becomes fragged, you just throw it away and get a newer, bigger, cheaper, one... (;-) Rick uhmm.. you forgot to explain external frag, that one is only the internal. ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
O! do tell!! Mark uhm.. [Foo_] let's say this is a harddrive, where: _ : blank space. F, oo : files 1 and 2. that drive would be in perfect state, right? all files stored neatly one after the other and the free space is all together at the end of the disk. now, this: [FFFooFoFooo_] this is called internal fragmentation. after a lot of changes in file sizes, chunks of files get mixed up, making a file read a slower process... file 1 and 2 are fragmented, but the free space is still kept together. a third situation is: [_F___ooo___] this is external fragmentation. here, the files are not fragmented ( no internal fragmentation) however, as a consequence of writing the files at random places on the disk, the free space gets scattered all over. this leads, most of the times to internal fragmentation, too. ( the next time you have to make a file you only have scattered bits of space to write it... ) and at last.. this: [_FoF__ooFoo_F_o__Fo] .this is a typical windows partition that has not beed defragged in a long time. both internal and external fragmentation occurs, both files and free space are a mess. i've also seen defrag tools for the RAM in windows.. ( fragmentation is not limited to harddrives. any modern operating system uses memory paging or segmentation and can suffer internal and external fragmentation in memory pages.. the same little sketches i made would apply, but change the file 1 and file 2 with process 1 and process 2 ) Damian PD: i like making useless explainations ;oP . sorry for a long post. anyhow i think this stuff is useful when you want to learn about and choose filesystems.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
Um...yeah. we knew what it was. guess I should have prefaced that last remark with a special comment that let anyone else know that it was a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek question. Mark too late! i already posted another one of my explainations! hehehe ;o) ...damn i can be irritating when i've got too much free time.. i'm goin for a cup of coffee and some fresh air before i make the honorable expert list hate me. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:56:39 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: fragmentation in memory pages.. the same little sketches i made would apply, but change the file 1 and file 2 with process 1 and process 2 ) I doubt that's a serious issue. It's kind of silly, really, since any portion of RAM is just as quickly issued as any other. But this is virtual memory (modern OSes) we're discussing. And virtual memory is viewed simplistically as having some memory on some other media (i.e., a swap partition). That is only one aspect of it. In reality, virtual memory means that a process residing at some address N need not really reside at address N on the RAM chips. Realisically, N is only an offset which is maintained by the processor, with the OSes help. One might be able to find out where a process resides physically in the RAM if it starts at address 1 and continues to address 2, but it would be kind of pointless. And, if the process is larger than a page of memory (4K) then one page might be located way away from the others. In fact, in a continually running system, it's practically guaranteed that this is the case. actually, external fragmentation of the memory CAN be a problem. yes, running a fragmented process takes the same time, but it bring other problems as well, to the memory management system. it's been a long time since i've studied the issue, and i can't remember exactly what was the overhead involved, but it had something to do with the operating system's process tables' management. in fact, now that you metion swap, fragmenting the memory space will probably mean fragmentation of the swap space in very short time. both external and internal fragmentation in the swap space can degrade performance seriously, by forcing the HD to change the head's position more often, it can result in slow swapping in and out of memory pages. there are many aspects involved in swap performance, one of them being that swap is an extension of the phisical memory but only as a storage space. no process code can be run from the swap. only blocked or waiting process pages will be swapped out, and when they need to change state to ready, running, they must be loaded into the RAM. and this is when fragmentation begins to be a problem... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:33:41 -0400 PlugHead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You can, however, look at Oracle 8i. There is a free version for Linux. I forget where I downloaded the bin from but a search on google should reveal something. drjung It's getting harder and harder to find. A couple of years ago I was able to download it and some assciated apps, like Tora, which is similar to Toad, but not as good. Oracle 8i is a difficult install and requires specific versions RH libraries that may (?) be available from the RH website. If he'll email me privately I'll send him my address, to which he can mail a self-addressed and appropriately stamped CD mailer. JLK Personally, I've found that PostgreSQL is _MUCH_ easier to deal with (install, maintain, you name it...) than Oracle 8i. (Of course, I don't want/need/give-a-rat's-a** about MS SQL compatibility, so YMMV...) (Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure that Oracle is free for _development_ _only_...) Just my .02... -Jason .. uhm i've begun to read a bit on MySQL since i feel i should learn about databases a bit.. i've had a little visual contact with MS-SQL server 7, and then when i finally got MySQL running with OOo as frontend i had little trouble getting started. however, i don't find anywhere ( not in the OpenOffice frontend nor in Webmin interface to databases ) any info about setting foreign keys? i'm beginning to wonder do these exist in MySQL? can anybody enlighten me, plz? TIA Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
um...whats defrag? Mark .. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:25:53 +0930 Moose Magin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mean to stick up for windows on a linux list, but this is the biggest load of bullshit i've ever seen. I mean hell, I'm not a windows fan myself, but you should get your facts straight before you start bashing an operating system. What version of XP were you using?? I'd say from your description Windows XP HOME. NOT Professional. If you're using professional, you'll find that you can do whatever the hell you want to the drivers. The dog can easily be taken off, by right-clicking and saying disable. The stupid little hints are explaining not to you, but to the person who has just gone out and bought a computer for the first time in their entire lives, and have no idea where to start. Thus, the HOME edition. You can't look at XP home and complain because it doesn't give you the functionality of Linux. That's just stupid. It's not what it was intended for. If you want a decent (yes decent), stable operating system, that people KNOW HOW TO USE, go Windows XP PRO, and you'll have no trouble. (I run Mandrake by the way, I'm not a windows fan, but that just shits me). Sorry if anyone was offended by the minimal swearing. Matt .. no problem, i'm not offended. FYI, i tried the professional version. and BTW you probably had a good hardware experience because you were lucky enough to get the hardware detected connectly. and why is it stupid to try to compare functionality? i mean sure, tey ARE different... but ML is also a Desktop OS ( trying to be? ) and so i think they are comparable. ...yes i know the 'dog' can be taken off, but that's not the point.. i was compaing it to the 'clippy' from office, which of course can be killed too, but was a PIA anyway.. i was only pointing out the need for MS developers to include tiny pets and animals that explain things for you... ( maybe a bit of a joke? ) maybe you with your ( more modern? ) successful hardware combination had no problems with XP pro, but my experience was so dissapointing as any other windows has. i got bluescreens just like in win98. the only difference is that they now added pitiful explainations of why you have to reboot. ( once i got one that said that the driver for my videocard was trapped in an infinite loop! what would YOU think of this decent OS? ) look, you had obviously a good experience with this version of windows, so i can understand you may be a little pissed by my trivial bashing.. but anyhow i think you overreacted a bit. you could simply have said it was not so much of a disaster to me and i would have got it. .and i STILL think that OS did treat me like i'm stupid or something. ( not that i'm trying to say i'm not, but i can only accept that from human beings or other ppl's computers, not mine. ;o) and if you plan to respond to this please let's make it off-list. this thread was off-topic from the beginning and i don't want to make it too long. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:25:33 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Just got this in a peice of spam I'll quote only the first two lines Windows XP has arrived... and you need to eliminate the learning curve quickly. So I did .. I only run Linux.*grin* James learning curve... the only learning curve in Windoze XP is 'learning how to stop using your brain'... the media player convers audio files to the format it wants ( wma. and if you try to make an mp3, you get a wma, and a nice notify message listing the great advantages of the wma format ).. the drivers get automatically chosen and installed, even if they are not working, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it.. you get stupid little hints that explain things a 5 year old can understand.. ah, yes, they removed the stupid clippy from office, but now in the allmighty XP you get a stupider dog in the search file dialog ;oP XP was one of the main reasons i hardly ever boot a win partition anymore simply beacuse the learning curve was a brainwashing curve. i've seen an ad on TV about hose electronic gadgets they sell to exercise and loose weight.. it's something like a big strap with which you wrap your arm or leg, and turn it on.. then your muscles in that area starts twitching grossly with electric impulses while te voice in the add says your muscles exercise just like the order was coming from your brain!!! i guess that means this 'device' is designed to replace my brain? finally we'll be freed from the inmensely difficult task of THINKING well, i won't be waiting in line to buy one of those devices anytime soon, and the same goes for eXPee... ;o) ( how's that for a machines taking over movie script. hehehe... ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Opening URL's in Sylpheed
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:41:38 -0400 Kirtis B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so i now have the latest version of sylpheed and i want to be able to open URL's in Mozilla 1.0 because manually copying is a PITA. =) Anway i did some research and looked up www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html which says that the command to open up a new URL in a currently open mozilla session is: mozilla -remote openurl(http://www.whatever.com) So that's what i put in under Configuration - Common Preferences.. - Other - Web Browser. I also tried entering the url part of openurl in lower and upper case. (I replaced the www.whatever.com with %s of course) Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. Is it possible that Sylpheed doesn't support Mozilla 1.0 or am i doing something wrong? KIRT it should work by then. hint: this option may be already functional, but the 'link' is still treated as simple text. no pointing finger in the mouse cursor. nothing. you simply get the url in green, right? well, double-click it right in the middle ( double click the word 'whatever' in www.whatever.com ) the word whatever should get selected in blue.. just wait a bit, it should launch the browser. at least that's how it reacts for me. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Openoffice-MySQL
hi..! i've been looking for the moment to start learing a bit of SQL and since i got that PDF explaining how to use OpenOffice as a gui for it, i decided that moment would be now.. however i'm having trouble making things work the way that howto says it should. i¡ve edited /etc/odbc.ini and /etc/odbcinst.ini so they both look just like the example this document, however the ODBC driver ( i guess that's where the problem is ) can't find the server ( or database? or data source? ) i've searched on google using the error i'm getting as the search query but i didn't find any useful data ( a lot of it was for MS-SQL or was simply referred to other problems, as it looks like it a very common 'newb' misconfiguration ) this is what i'm getting. [root@localhost user]# isql MySQL-test -v [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect my .ini files are: ( the howto refers to these two files only so it looks like it should work by tweaking only these? ) i've checked that all .so files exist and are in place, too. /etc/odbc.ini [SQL-test] Description = SQL database test Driver = MySQL Server = localhost Database= test Port= 3306 Socket = Option = Stmt= /etc/odbcinst.ini [MySQL] Description = ODBC Driver for MySQL Driver = /usr/lib/libmyodbc.so Setup = /usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so FileUsage = 1 CPTimeout = CPReuse = thanks for any ideas that you may have. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Openoffice-MySQL
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:24:21 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damian I am using the pdf protocol for link Openoffice-ODBC-MySQL and is runing fine under Mandrake 8.2! Did you remember to instal the libmysqlclient? And did you do: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib? Just a comment, I have the OpenOffice installed from the original OOo files, I have noticed that the mandrake rpm install some files in different location of the original ones; perhaps this could be another problem and the export command could be different. I hope this will help you Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) [user@localhost user]$ su Password: [root@localhost user]# urpmi libmysqlclient ya está todo instalado [root@localhost user]# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib [root@localhost user]# isql MySQL -v [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect .. thanks, but any other ideas? i think i installed everything that has 'sql' and 'odbc' by now... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IE wine
Anyway, codeweavers did a great job on Office, but there may well be no way at this time to run IE on a linux system. Opera can claim to be IE and often that is good enough. Civileme .. well, i did run IE in wine a couple of times, it was a nightmare as a browser, unstable and slower than Opera, but it did work. i even loaded java applets and flash trash in it.. i also got some of the Office suite to open up. it was, to say it in a single word, unusable. ( fonts, opening files, practically nothing worked ) all of this using codeweavers wine. so, the point is i think IE is possible, but office is a longer shot. oh, and by the way, opening MS Word thru wine ( which means opening up the wineserver and all that stuff wine does before the actual program begins to run ) is still WAY faster than OpenOffice. i mean i can open 4 instances of word thru wine while i watch the OpenOffice splash. :o( i think the OO guys have reached a somewhat mature point of usability and should focus on optimisation now.. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] unsu--- expert
u Did I miss something in the above message? James just a full-fledged Expert ready to say goodbye to this list, it seems ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A Linux Virus on the loose.
because is less popular line of thought is far too simplistic and WRONG. an operating system enforcing permissions-based security is tougher to crack. even more being open-source.. solutions to these problems can be issued at a speed that would render most viruses ineffective only hours after it's discovered. patch the source, recompile, and go. yeah and i know what you are thinking. if someone downloads an amail that contains an attachment that upon execution yes, that's true, but idiot-based traps are always going to exist, secure OS or no secure OS. /MHO Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
