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=1&y=2002&m=09&d=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 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] 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] 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: > 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] 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] 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
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
[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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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
> 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
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] Replacing a MS SQL Server
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:33:41 -0400 PlugHead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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] 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
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] 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
[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] 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.
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 23:38:05 -0700 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been watching how this thread progressed. I've noticed two pieces > of FUD that keep appearing. > > 1. The assumption that a virus writer wouldn't know that he/she needs to > be root to do real damage and that he/she won't do just that. Don't > give yourself a sense of false security here. All they need to do is > have a line appended to Passwd and shadow (yes even MD5 is vulnerable > here, all it takes is some math.) and they have a new user that has UID > 0 and they don't even need to be root. Remember they are in your box. > Harden it all you want to the outside. Your vulnerability is when they > are inside. (Oh and we did this recently to a Linux box that the user > had forgotten the root password on. For reasons it couldn't be shut > down. If we had it would never boot again. Didn't have a spare to mount > the disk on. So I used a friends tool to append a new user to passwd > and poof root2 was now UID 0. ) > ok ok but to have a line appended to Passwd and shadow don't you need to be root in the first place? > 2. That backups cure all ills. > > True if I have a desktop. That never moves, and I have hard copy > backups disassociated from my LAN (Tape CD-Rom etc.) is guaranteed to be > free of the virus, and that the virus lives in user land where it can be > found. A backup is useful. What if the virus lives in the MBR? MBR's > are usually written to during an install, but not wiped and written > over. (Don't ask me how I know this is a great place to put a virus > just trust me.) What if the virus infected your box 2 months ago > and is just now activating? How far back do I go in backups? If it was well, if you are REAL paranoid about MBR you can set a job on bootup to clean it up with simple fdisk/lilo commands... > just the OS I wouldn't care. OS's can be recreated in a reasonable > amount of time. DATA is the key. If I just restore from a backup . > how much do I lose? When did I get the virus? Do I lose a week a month > a year of data? (get Chernobyl the day after the anniversary it will > wait a year to activate.) Backups although a great Idea are a false > sense of security. Not to mention that since my backup is currently > about 12gigs of data. It takes me about 8 hours to restore. (It has to > move over a LAN as the tape is on another box and yes 13 of them. > Let's see at 150 bucks an hour consulting rate I'm losing 1200 dollars > just in time spent restoring. (can't do work till I get the data back.) > > Then if I'm on the road with my laptop and a virus activates how > do I restore? The presentation before the customer is in 3 hours. My ...let's just call that a bad day. a REALLY bad day. almost a WINDOWS day. > box just went sideways because of a virus. (caught it when I connected > to the LAN at the last customers office. They run windows and this is a > dual affect virus.) I'm in Philly and my backup is in Memphis Move > several gigs of data over a hotel phone line? Yeah right > > The only answer is to realize that Linux is vulnerable. It's just not > as popular an OS for script kiddies and the script kiddie tool writer to > use. Remember folks the first worm was a Unix worm. The first Virus I > know of ran on HoneyWell Main Frames. And it wasn't networked. They > didn't read e-mail on it, and all someone did was load a data tape > received from our best customer. (actually it took 3 tapes. Loaded nobody is saying viruses are impossible on Linux/Unix. it's simply harder to do it. not seeing it is being blind. to make a virus/worm that is equally effective in windows as in Linux, it takes 50 times more skill, time, knowledge, luck, and most of all you have to rely on VERY stupid people more than you can think of.. setting permissions is so simple. you don't even have to split it into "to root or not to root" problem. you can define groups so you can protect data by denying access and still not using the root account to do so.. > weeks apart each one contained, unknown to the customer, a piece of the > virus stored in the leftover space in partically used data blocks so > that we couldn't see a size change from what was expected. When part 3 > came in it looked for 1 and 2 and re-assembled itself.) > > I apologize a little bit here. Didn't want to shake the tree and > start a war. But I do care enough about fscking the "blackhats" that > the occasional wake up call for those of us who respect each other, and > their data (which is a lot of why we use Linux/BSD et al), is needed. > My wife just got a virus sent to her that had already been through at > least 3 other anti-virus programs. (My MailScanner caught it so no harm > to me.) We don't need a patch gentlemen we need a plan. uhm what do you mean "we don't need a patch"? it's obvious, on every OS the threat of losing data exists. but then, let's not put
Re: [expert] What happened to gftp?
On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:18:44 -0400 Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why was gftp dropped from Mandrake 8.2? > > it wasn't. try urpmi gftp the actual file is in Download Edition's CD Nº 2. /Mandrake/RPMS2/gftp-2.0.11-3mdk.i586.rpm HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDM broken in KDE3
On Sun, 19 May 2002 17:54:40 -0600 Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Damian, > > Thank-you for your help. I'm embarassed that I missed the most obvious thing. > :) Everything is working great now. Thanks again! > > -Chris > no problem. i'm glad it worked. see ya. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDM broken in KDE3
> So my question is, what file do I need to edit so that the KDE3 KDM will point > to KDE3 when I select it from the list? > > -Chris use KDE Control Center to do that. Go to system --> login manager ( i'm sorry bu ti think you will have to look for something like that, my installation is not english language. ) once you get it, look for a tab in which you can see a small listbox containing all wm kinds available for you. click the button 'go to administrator mode' at the bottom of the window, enter the root password, remove the old 'kde' entry from kdm and add a new one, call it 'kde3' . the rest should be done automagically. note: just in case, you can open KDE control center by typing 'kcontrol' in a console. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)
On 18 May 2002 01:46:00 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 18:29, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > Randy, > > > > Your comments are most germane, and tastefully inserted as an addendum > > in your reply. Unfortunately, the distinction you delineated between > > newbie and expert list has, over the few years I have been here, pretty > > much been loss. There are a number of reasons for this to occur. One > > reason would simply be the subjective nature of differentiating between > > a "newbie" problem and what constitutes an "expert" problem. I have said > > it here before, and I'll say it again: I would humbly estimate that > > about 60 to 70 percent of the postings on this list are within the > > "newbie" range. > > > > If you or others have a subscription to other UNIX type lists, you will > > readily see how this situation is handled. There are usually a few "list > > nazis" who do not hesitate to make the newbie feel very uncomfortable > > about posting a problem that would have been easily solved by a RTFM or > > STFW. > > > > Because the Mandrake expert list is for Mandrake Linux solutions, I > > believe it will always be as it is: a "kinder, gentler" sort of list. > > And, as such, you might as well acclimate yourself to the reality that > > this list is really just an extension to the newbie list... > > > > I hope I have engendered some thoughts on this issues, and hopefully we > > might see some thoughtful responses... > > > > Dr John, > > The Night Tripper > > I note with interest the email struggles of others on this thread. > > The issue can be distilled down to some basics. First, the primary > purpose of delineating the lists into two categories is so that you can > have two categories. The categories are "newbie" and "expert". > > While some ambiguity can be assumed, Dr John's masked frustration is > justified; there are perhaps too many newbie questions on this list, and > part of the education of any user should be to learn the general > difference between a newbie and an expert question. I feel that most > experts here can make that distinction, even if it is something that > they have not RTFM'ed before themselves. > > If it is an interesting question, yet still newbie, it can still be > posted as an interesting newbie question on the newbie list, which we > all monitor here anyway. There's not really a need for an interesting > newbie question to be posted on the expert list. Perhaps the expert > list should be reserved for interesting expert questions. :) > > Please note that I blatantly and lasciviously avoid the issue of OT > posts. ;) > > > LX > hmm.. yeah i think the categories are OK. in fact i never posted a question to expert, simply because 1) my problems never were s hard to solve ( actually they are rather stupid, being the newbie that i still consider myself to be ) 2) in the newbie list you can get answers from experts, just like on expert list. but, after all, what's the amount of 'really expert' threads in here? i think this expert list would starve to death if it were only for 'expert' stuff... obviously it kinda makes me smile when a post to expert contains very simple questions, and it does make me kinda mad when i get my mails and notice that someone posted a not-too-hard-to-answer question on both newb and expert... but hey, this is not unbareable, at least to me, and i think it will stay this way until some list-nazi comes in here 'enforcing the rules', and that day i'll be signing off. just my $0,2 ( note this extremely low value due to some little problems here in my country, making my money worth sh** ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] "Commercial Apps CD1" <- is this the correct name?
On Thu, 16 May 2002 23:37:35 -0400 darklord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 May 2002 11:17 pm, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > I think this is more semantics than anything else. > > So do I, IMHO... > > > Perhaps, but its better to be correct when you are a market leader like > > mandrake. > > I'm sorry to butt in here, but I've been watching this thread and > well...personally I think you're flogging a dead horse, as the old saying > goes. I mean, you can d/l the basic Mandrake installation, its free. Not > commercial. You can also buy that same d/l version from some place like > CheapBytes, who charge you a nominal fee for S&H, packaging, etc. Its still > not commercial, is it? (or are you saying this is commercial as well?) Or you > can buy a slick Powerpack version from Mandrake, that includes (again) the > basic (free) core installation PLUS some CD's that have a few "commercial" or > proprietary apps on it, as well as some nice manuals... I think Mandrakes' > team does an exemplary job. I'm proud to be one of their customers. > > Just my 2 cents worth - thanks for listening. ;-) > > -- > /\ >Dark> \/ > ..i agree. i think the names are OK. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tar file size limit???
> our limiter is the size of 'offset', and if the system can't seek > past a certain point because the value can't exceed 4G, then that i've been reading up on some *newer* bookz ;o) looks like you were right. it wasn't a file system limitation but a kernel one, however it was fixed some time ago. kernels < 2.4.0 file sizes were limited to 2 Gigabytes. kernels >= 2.4.0 file sizes are limited to 4 Terabytes. indeed, linux has no such thing as a 2GB file size limit anymore. ( and it never was a filesystem limit...) see ya. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 82 - localhost:631 not possible to connect
On Wed, 15 May 2002 15:30:12 +0200 Pierfrancesco Tateo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > after installation of MDK 82, and configuration of the printer > > if I try to start the administration tool for printer : > > not possible to connect > > but the printer is installed correctly and do not print > > thanks > > Pierfrancesco Tateo > > are you sure your CUPS service is running? do this, as root: service cups start then try again. if it worked, then it means your printing service is not being started on bootup. so add it to the boot-time services like this: chkconfig --add cups HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] test message
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 18:49 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase > > all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill your neigbor's > > cat. > > 1. > Don't have a hard drive. Got a biological cube of 26 Zillion brain cells for > mass storage. > > 2. > Don't have a frig. Store my stuff in Greenland and it gets transferred > by HET (High Energy Transfer) into my mansion for each meal. > hmm i knew it! Bill Gatez uses Linux! and subscribed to Mandrake mailing lists!! ;oP Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tar file size limit???
On Mon, 13 May 2002 21:05:29 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: > > I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file > > system? Does ext3 have this same issue? Which file systems can handle > > I could be wrong, but I think you'd run up against a 2gb limit regardless > of filesystem, because the library calls for lseek() which are used to > position to a point in the file have capacity for only long values (4 > bytes) and 2gb is the biggest number you can put in a long (signed, > that is). Whether support exists for unsigned long (4gb) I don't know. > > Anything much greater than that and one needs support for 'long long' > (64 bit) types. I figure we won't be needing anything greater than > that anytime soon :). > > > Ashley > now THIS is the kind of info i like from an Open Source based community. ;o) by the way, my old Operating Systems book says something about Unix filesystems and inodes, i'm not sure at all if i recall correctly, but i think for a unix file system the maximum file size was about 4G and the cause of this limit is the amount of inodes you can possibly use to allocate space for a single file... i lent my book to my girlfriend ( yea she studies the same stuff as i do ;o) so i'm not able to check it out and say for sure.. :o/ Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.2: mkisofs pbm (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk) after Mandrake Update
On Fri, 3 May 2002 00:50:19 -0700 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002 03:19:29 -0300 > Damian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 May 2002 16:32:42 -0700 > > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So I checked my box. Guess what I found. when I do an rpm -qa | > > > grep mksiofs I get back. > > > > > > mkisofs-1.15-0.a20.1mdk > > > mkisofs-1.15-0.a20.1mdk > > > > > > Ran it twice and both times it replies that the rpm is installed > > > twice. Does anyone else get this? Could this be causing the > > > "mangle" > > > > > > James > > > > > > On Thu, 02 May 2002 10:28:52 -0500 > > > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 03:18 pm, Frederic Soulier wrote: > > > > > > > > > >>I believe the mkisofs available through Mandrake Update is > > > > >>not working properly (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk). > > > > >>I burnt several coasters because of that and had to > > > > >>downgrade back to the version in LM8.2 > > > > >>(mkisofs-1.15-0.a15-2mdk) to get everything working again. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >H Update got this one for me, haven't had any > > > > >problems mkisofs-1.15-0.a21.1mdk > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey Tom, > > > > > > > > I suspect that the original poster, on this issue, is right. > > > > mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk is dooshed. Why else would the newer > > > > version, the one you got Tom, be out so soon on the heels of > > > > the last update, which was less than a week ago. > > > > > > > > I updated with Mandrake Update, and did not get the version > > > > you got, Tom. Like the original poster, I got the mangled > > > > version. How did Update give you a different version? What ftp > > > > file directory source are you using for your Mandrake Update? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > craig > > > > dunno about mangle, but the only way i found how to remove > > duplicate entries in the RPM database was using " gnorpm " > > all other programs fail. commandline rpm doesn't get which > > package you are talking about and will allways reply > > "there is more than one package by that name" no matter > > what you try... Mandrake's software manager and Kpackage > > will simply segfault. > > > > if you want to remove one of those entries, open gnorpm. > > search for the package name, so the search will have > > those two results. remove one and you are done. > > > > HTH > > > > Damian > > > The real question for me is how in the heck did two copies get > installed in the first place. In theory this is impossible. Oh and > from the command line rpm -e "rpm name" --allmatches will remove > something along this line. So I did that, reinstalled the app > manually and voila. Only one copy installed. Seems to be a glitch > in kpackage that caused it but danged if I know why. > > James actually, i didn't know about that rpm switch. you learn something new every day ;o) and i'm sure it's not a Kpackage bug simply because i never use Kpackage for installing packages, and i've had as much as 4 of each package. ( it happened to me with kde3 packages, which i installed with urpmi.. ) maybe it's a bug in urpmi's database handling.. i dunno. but it's worth some severe testing... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Commercial apps.
On Fri, 3 May 2002 13:48:12 +0200 Krist van Besien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed Mandrake 8.2, from scratch on my system, from the prosuite DVD. > This DVD comes with many commercial apps. > I now have an icon on the desktop named "commercial CD", which gives me a > list off apps. If I click the "install" link next to one of the apps I get > the installation instructions which read something like: > > 1- use either the Software Manager to install this program > 2 - or as 'root' from the command line: > urpmi ac3d-mdk-cdcom-1-1mdk.i586.rpm > > Neither of these methods work. > > 1- the Software manager doesn't list any of the applications (that sit in the > applications subdir on the DVD) > 2- urpmi doesn't find the necessary rpms > > The software manager is basically a GUI on top of urpmi, so I guess urpmi > just hasn't been properly configured upon installation. > > How can this oversicht be repaired? I know that I can just go to the > application directories and do an rpm -U *.rpm there and get the apps, but > I'm having newbies in mind here. When the information coming with Mandrake > gives the impression that somthing ought to work in a particular way, than it > very well should. > > TIA, > > Krist uhm.. doen't look like an urpmi problem, but a little mistake the maker of that list made. if you want to install a package that comes in a package "packagename-version-arch.rpm" then the urpmi command should be simply " urpmi packagename " ( without all the rest ) example. urpmi ac3d-mdk-cdcom-1-1mdk.i586.rpm is a bad command. because there is no program called ac3d-mdk-cdcom-1-1mdk.i586.rpm the proper command for this example would be " urpmi ac3d " HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.2: mkisofs pbm (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk) after Mandrake Update
On Thu, 2 May 2002 16:32:42 -0700 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I checked my box. Guess what I found. when I do an rpm -qa | > grep mksiofs I get back. > > mkisofs-1.15-0.a20.1mdk > mkisofs-1.15-0.a20.1mdk > > Ran it twice and both times it replies that the rpm is installed > twice. Does anyone else get this? Could this be causing the > "mangle" > > James > > On Thu, 02 May 2002 10:28:52 -0500 > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 03:18 pm, Frederic Soulier wrote: > > > > > >>I believe the mkisofs available through Mandrake Update is not > > >>working properly (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk). > > >>I burnt several coasters because of that and had to downgrade > > >>back to the version in LM8.2 (mkisofs-1.15-0.a15-2mdk) to get > > >>everything working again. > > > > > > > > >H Update got this one for me, haven't had any > > >problems mkisofs-1.15-0.a21.1mdk > > > > > > > Hey Tom, > > > > I suspect that the original poster, on this issue, is right. > > mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk is dooshed. Why else would the newer > > version, the one you got Tom, be out so soon on the heels of the > > last update, which was less than a week ago. > > > > I updated with Mandrake Update, and did not get the version you > > got, Tom. Like the original poster, I got the mangled version. How > > did Update give you a different version? What ftp file directory > > source are you using for your Mandrake Update? > > > > Thanks, > > > > craig dunno about mangle, but the only way i found how to remove duplicate entries in the RPM database was using " gnorpm " all other programs fail. commandline rpm doesn't get which package you are talking about and will allways reply "there is more than one package by that name" no matter what you try... Mandrake's software manager and Kpackage will simply segfault. if you want to remove one of those entries, open gnorpm. search for the package name, so the search will have those two results. remove one and you are done. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Changing msec level via command line?
On Thu, 02 May 2002 13:55:56 -0500 David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I still can't get X going, but someone suggested that selecting > high security level during install may be preventing me from connecting > to the server somehow. (Doesn't make much sense since I'm setting up and > testing the X config as root. But after 2 reloads of the X system, its > worth a try. > > Can someone point me to the right doc to read so I can figure out how to > change msec? the syntax is quite simple. msec ( security level nº, ranging from 1 ( very low ) to ... i think the max is 6 (paranoid) ) the usual is level 3 or 4, so it would be msec 3 or msec 4 HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?, OT FileManager
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:47:27 -0600 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Damian G wrote: > > > i know that's not too much, but in windoze i couldn't get a third of that.. > > > > Anyway this Floppy issue is not a Linux problem but a KDE (Konqeuror) one. > > so i read a very interesting thread about filemanagers and ended up > > getting to know filerunner... Konq went straight to the trash can. ;oP > > > > Damian > > > > Fwiw, I have run Konq, & I hated it. I tried filerunner & Found it > overly complex. Civilme *Bless his little heart* Suggested Krusader. > Its on the cd's you get. Wonderful program, no bugs that I've found & I > only have one complaint. > > I can't get the "virtual term" at the bottom of it to display characters > properly sometimes. > > I'm using the Reiser FS *thinking of going to Ext3 but thats another > story*...and cant figure out why its characters are sometimes garbled if > i backspace over them in the little term window. > Try it, you may like it & If you find a solution, plese > post it? :) > > Ty > > Femme > > *this was not a paid advertisement by Krusader or any of its > affiliates. Hell I don't even know who they are much less am I getting > paid. Anyone with gobs of $ want to contribute to my slush fund contact > me pvtly* :) it sure is prettier than filerunner.. but slower.. and i can't get into a user's home directory while i'm root! weird! i think i'm staying away from K apps for a while... they need to clean up a bit. thx Femme, i'll probably end up using it. just not for now ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:36:57 +0200 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But Damian, > > 1) With other filemanager doesn't happen yep, i did some testing lately and it seems konqueror is the buggiest of them all. i even found ways to make it display wrong icons for directories. > 2) If were true, is linux an stable system > if a floppy with some errors can hung it? well, [user@localhost user]$ uptime 1:35pm up 6 days, 14:32, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.18, 0.11 i know that's not too much, but in windoze i couldn't get a third of that.. Anyway this Floppy issue is not a Linux problem but a KDE (Konqeuror) one. so i read a very interesting thread about filemanagers and ended up getting to know filerunner... Konq went straight to the trash can. ;oP Damian > > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] weird flashing 'D' on console
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:14:44 -0300 (BRT) "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There! > > Once in a while, I get this 'thing' on all consoles!! It's a green "D"! > It does not matter what prog I call on console it keeps flashing, i.e., > blinking! > > Does anybody know about this? > > Ricardo Castanho > is it blinking in the upper left of the screen? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] New kde3 packages, partial translation
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:07:52 +0200 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have several kde3 rpm packages. The last ones were downloaded today > in the ftp.kde.org following the mandrake web page recommendations. > > I have observed a problem with the Spanish language; I donwloaded the > Spanish package but now the translation is not complete. For instance, > if I open konqueror the help is in Spanish, but the menu bar shows the > text in English. > > If I try to logout, the message is also in English. And the kde start > messages also in English. Some of the kde control center messages are > in Spanish, but others in English. > > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) > > hm.. you did select language in KDE control center, didn't you? installing the lang package "adds" the language, but you have to set it... sorry for the dumb suggestion, but is all i can think of.. my spanish package works fairly well.. ;o) HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:03:04 +0200 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I > have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other > crashtesters have tryed with the same badly results. > > Try to copy files from the harddrive to a floppy using konqueror. You > can do it with just a konqueror windows open or two. You can use both: > kde2.2 or kde3. Every time the result is the same, you need reset the > computer that becames absolutely hunged. If you use other file > managers (krusader, nautilus...) you haven't any problem. > > Please test this. > > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) > true, it does happen.. and there i was thinking about bad floppies.. never knew that it was a Konq problem.. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Reading Email headers
On 23 Apr 2002 01:39:07 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 00:42, Damian G wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:30:18 -0500 > > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Damian G wrote: > > > > > > > > but my point is, probably you can't track it down to a single person, virtually > > > > everyone who has you on their adress book can be sending them.. > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > SHEESH! > > > > > > Why in hell would I worry about a virus written for a windoze machine > > > running outlook? I don't do windoze. You do, however, Damian, make the > > > point I was trying to get across. If you are getting one on these > > > infected emails sent to you, and the mail service is advising you that > > > you are the originator of the email but you are clearly not the > > > originator. Then it is my contention that the infected machine must have > > > your address. It is a no-brainer! How in hell would the code in the > > > virus "know" to use your email address as the sender: YOU ARE IN THE > > > ADDRESS BOOK ON THAT INFECTED MACHINE. > > > > uhm... i read a post about someone trying to track down this stuff. > > for the record, i do not use outlook. > > > > and, -also for the record, if you want- i think you need to calm down a bit. > > > > > Damian, > > My interpretation of what JC is saying above is that basically he's > agreeing with you, saying that you are making his point exactly; there's > no intimation that you are an Outlook user. You've been around the > lists for a while and are obviously an informed Linux user. Plus JC > seems to be expressing some ire at the care anyone would have over a > windoze machine with a virus, rather forcefully. ;) > > Which, I can understand his emotive state when it comes to windoze crap; > it is the biggest case of mea culpa that there has ever been. The sheer > stupidity of it all; if you dare to load the junk, you are just asking > to be infected with a virus; and all the while the Linux users stand > around grinning and shaking their heads, impervious to it all. > > Some of us feel that the more Winblows viruses, the better. > > > The Best, > > LX i guess the "all-caps" sentences make me a little defensive... i guess i didn't really grasp the meaning of his answer. if this is the case, i'm sorry. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Reading Email headers
> Damian G wrote: > > > > but my point is, probably you can't track it down to a single person, virtually > > everyone who has you on their adress book can be sending them.. > > > > HTH > > SHEESH! > > Why in hell would I worry about a virus written for a windoze machine > running outlook? I don't do windoze. You do, however, Damian, make the > point I was trying to get across. If you are getting one on these > infected emails sent to you, and the mail service is advising you that > you are the originator of the email but you are clearly not the > originator. Then it is my contention that the infected machine must have > your address. It is a no-brainer! How in hell would the code in the > virus "know" to use your email address as the sender: YOU ARE IN THE > ADDRESS BOOK ON THAT INFECTED MACHINE. uhm... i read a post about someone trying to track down this stuff. that was the reason for my post. for the record, guess again. i do not use outlook. and, -also for the record, if you want- i think you need to calm down a bit. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Reading Email headers
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:30:18 -0500 "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Damian G wrote: > > > > but my point is, probably you can't track it down to a single person, virtually > > everyone who has you on their adress book can be sending them.. > > > > HTH > > SHEESH! > > Why in hell would I worry about a virus written for a windoze machine > running outlook? I don't do windoze. You do, however, Damian, make the > point I was trying to get across. If you are getting one on these > infected emails sent to you, and the mail service is advising you that > you are the originator of the email but you are clearly not the > originator. Then it is my contention that the infected machine must have > your address. It is a no-brainer! How in hell would the code in the > virus "know" to use your email address as the sender: YOU ARE IN THE > ADDRESS BOOK ON THAT INFECTED MACHINE. uhm... i read a post about someone trying to track down this stuff. for the record, i do not use outlook. and, -also for the record, if you want- i think you need to calm down a bit. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now
On 22 Apr 2002 09:43:16 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 03:16, Damian G wrote: > > > i finally seem to get to the problem... it's not a compiler problem > > i'm having here. it's "make depend && make" not finding files > > > > it seems my /tools/wrc directory in the CVS tree in not complete, tho > > i've checked it and i've got it exactly the way it's on the server... > > > > i tried creating some bogus files to avoid the segfaults, but it obviously > > didn't get me much further.. > > > > probably i'm missing a dependency here? i need opinions please, i'm > > out of ideas.. > > > > thanks.. > > > > Damian > > One stupid question, here. Have you erased everything and done a brand > new CVS download of everything? > > Second question. Am I understanding here that you are segfaulting while > you are compiling? > > LX yes, i am always using new, empty directories for my downloads. and yeah.. it's segfaulting while "makde depend && make". lemme paste.. make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/home/user/wine/wine/tools/winedump' cd `dirname wmc/__depend__` && make depend make[2]: Cambiando a directorio `/home/user/wine/wine/tools/wmc' ../../tools/makedep -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -C. lang.c mcl.c utils.c wmc.c write.cmcy.y -C. make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/home/user/wine/wine/tools/wmc' cd `dirname wrc/__depend__` && make depend make[2]: Cambiando a directorio `/home/user/wine/wine/tools/wrc' bison -y -bppy -ppp -d -t ./ppy.y make[2]: *** [ppy.tab.c] Violación de segmento make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/home/user/wine/wine/tools/wrc' make[1]: *** [wrc/__depend__] Error 2 make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/home/user/wine/wine/tools' make: *** [tools/__depend__] Error 2 .. :o( Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 03:28:40 -0300 Damian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:31:37 +0900 > "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > check winex.sf.net > > u can use the CVS version before you go out and buy the full verison if > > u like it. > > > > jG > > i AM using the cvs version.. i'm going to try different compilers, ( now i'm on >3.0.1 or 3.0 i think...) > > i'll post back with the results. > > Damian > i finally seem to get to the problem... it's not a compiler problem i'm having here. it's "make depend && make" not finding files it seems my /tools/wrc directory in the CVS tree in not complete, tho i've checked it and i've got it exactly the way it's on the server... i tried creating some bogus files to avoid the segfaults, but it obviously didn't get me much further.. probably i'm missing a dependency here? i need opinions please, i'm out of ideas.. thanks.. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Reading Email headers
hmm. not to worry, it's not someone intentionally sending you a virus... it's the latest Outlook/Outlook Express ... ummm "undocumented feature". it's a new virus that's been breaking out recently. i've alreeady got 10 different kinds of it.. it changes a lot, but it's always the same method. if you look at the headers, you will see that it has an attachment. the MIME type declared for it is "audio/x-midi" however, a couple of lines below, you get the filename which has a ".pif" extension. Outlook/Outlook Express would just look at the header's MIME description and go like "h, a little sound file! how nice! how nice! :o)" execute the file without asking. that's how it works. so far, i've got them in form of .bat, .exe, and .scr... it changes a lot.. but my point is, probably you can't track it down to a single person, virtually everyone who has you on their adress book can be sending them.. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accents and other such characters
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:51:06 -0400 Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If, in addition to selecting a Spanish keyboard, you are using a REAL > > Spanish keyboard, you should not have any problems with accented > > characters. > > > > Regards. > > A real spanish keyboard? I did not realize that existed. I will try to > locate one. I did find out that the ñ, Ñ, is mapped to the ;/: key when I > have the es language selected. I will try to find the others. > LOL, yes, spanish keyboards do exist ;o) and the key mapping is better than in windoze. with a spanish keyboard and the "es" setting, you get exactly the chars printed on the keys. btw, talking about keyboards, is there a way in linux to do the "alt + XXX" sequence to get special chars? for example, how do you type an " alt + 251 " char in a console? see ya. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:31:37 +0900 "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > check winex.sf.net > u can use the CVS version before you go out and buy the full verison if > u like it. > > jG i AM using the cvs version.. i'm going to try different compilers, ( now i'm on 3.0.1 or 3.0 i think...) i'll post back with the results. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mkisofs
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:21:30 -0300 "skidley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:38:25AM -0700, KevinO wrote: > > The differnce is in the last / . If you say > > > > $ mkisofs ... /mp3s/artist/ > > > > you get all of the album files in the root of the disk. > > > > $ mkisofs /mp3s/artist > > > > should get you artist in the root, and the other files underneath > > > > YMMV > > > It doesn't have tried this(not much I haven't tried) just tried again to > make sure and I get only the album names as root. uhm... is using a GUI tool not an option here? i think it was xcdroast that lets you build the tree by drag-n-drop'ing directories before mkisofs... just a thought. (hey maybe doing it that way you can get what command xcdroast is sending to mkisofs... ) Damian- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now
On 18 Apr 2002 19:44:26 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, I just got a newsletter today announcing the new version of > Winex available for download! > > www.transgaming.com is hard to get to from my ISP, so they must be > slammed right now. i'm gettig segfault on "make depend" :o( Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
expert@linux-mandrake.com
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:17:46 -0700 Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed LM8.2... Now, I'm trying to regain the settings and > mail boxes from Mozilla from a previous Mandrake. I'm restored the > ".mozilla" folder but Mozilla can't see the mail boxes nor can it see > the account settings. How do you get Mozilla to see these things? > > Sevatio > > there's a high chance you have different user ID's on those files if they were created in a prior OS. it's not mozilla's fault. if you are in KDE, right click the .mozilla folder ( or any of it's contents) and check file owner and permissions. they should be set to the right username. but if you just see a number i.e. owner: 501 group: 501 then you have to reset them by doing a chown -r yourusername:yourusergroup ~/.mozilla yourusername and yourusergoup being yes, your user name, and group.. ( or just username:username will work too. ) HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Microsoft - The settlement that isn't
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:19:40 -0500 David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antitrust Division, U.S. D.O.J. > > We the people, in order to promote fair opportunity for competition > in the computer software and operating system markets, want to know why > Microsoft is allowed to continue is predatory practices within the > software market. > > Of greatest concern is Microsoft's continued ability to eliminate > competition and harm consumers who choose Linux as a competitior to > Microsoft. The following article by Bruce Perens exemplifies our > complaint that Microsoft is still able to harm competition and consumers > with its practices. > > The issues contained within the article deserve your departments > consideration and special attention. Mr. Perens article follow below the > signature. > very interesting article. i hope it gets to many eyes and ears. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
> >i've experienced power failures, hard freezes forcing > >me to push the reset button. you know.. the usual. > > > What distro version is this? You probably do not have anything from VIA > or posess a TV tuner card. > i've used 8.1, and then 8.2 since the day it came out. true on both aspects... > > > > > >and i'm still waiting for the day i get one single file corrupted. > > > Lucky bastard ;-) . am i not? ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
> Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > >Just to chime in on this subject... > > > >The AliMagic and VIA based motherboards have "broken" chipsets. > > > >I've spoken to both companies engineers about this issue. > > > >This discussion arose because both chipsets have problems with DMA > >overlays when using the BT8xx type TV tuner cards... > > > >The problem is with clock timing (the famous broken clock timer chip!!!) > >and DMA xfers. As you push the udma speed the spurious clock pulses > >wreak havoc with the memory writes. > > > >The Windows drivers try to make the OS work around the problem... > > > >This may be why people are seeing corruption. Couple this with Civilme's > >statement on WD drives and lack of CRC DMA data checking, and it's a > >wonder that Linux even runs on these systems. > > > >Turning OFF DMA or reducing UDMA to 33 seems to help with this > >problem... > > > >Your milage may vary though... > > > >-JMS > > Hi, > > Valuable input. I've got an Intel chipset but indeed a bttv tv tuner and > a Firewire card from VIA technologies and suffer the same problems. > > Guy. just for the record. i've read Civileme's opinion abou WD drives. he scared me a bit, since i installed linux on a 30 GB WD drive and i can't afford to buy another.. so i just said "i'll use linux in this one till it dies or something..." that was a year ago. i'm still on my WD drive. i have /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home xfs defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb8 swap swap defaults 0 0 hdb being the mentioned WD drive. as you see, i use several filesystems. i've experienced power failures, hard freezes forcing me to push the reset button. you know.. the usual. and i'm still waiting for the day i get one single file corrupted. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3 problems
El Dom 14 Abr 2002 20:20, synrat escribió: > boy do I regret installing the stupid thing. > I fixed 2 things so far. The menues ( update-menus) and arts server > ( using the latest rpms for arts ). Now Konqueror is completely out of > whack. It won't even start ( not in any mode ) and Kshell locks > everything up when I try to use it. Anyone with the same problems ??? for the kicker bar freezing when you open up a konsole, the fix is simple. delete the konsole icon from the bar, and make it again. as for konqueror, what's the error message? HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
El Dom 14 Abr 2002 06:10, Guy Zelck escribió: > Mark Williamson wrote: > >I have seen this problem so many times.. you will have to switch off > >DMA on the IDE devices.. this is done by editing the /etc/lilo.conf > >file and by adding "ide=nodma" to the append line.. > > > >e.g > > > >image=/boot/vmlinuz > > label=linux > root=/dev/hda2 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > > >#this is were the change is made > >append="quiet devfs=mount ide=nodma" > >vga=788 > >read-only > > i've a question here. i've got an old 500mb quentum maverick, and i just can't boot my machine when it's plugged in. i wanted to use it as a backup for a few personal files how would be the command to disable DMA in that single drive? would something like adding "/dev/hdd=nodma" ok? thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
El Dom 14 Abr 2002 06:11, Guy Zelck escribió: > Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > >Just to chime in on this subject... > > > >The AliMagic and VIA based motherboards have "broken" chipsets. > > > >I've spoken to both companies engineers about this issue. > > > >This discussion arose because both chipsets have problems with DMA > >overlays when using the BT8xx type TV tuner cards... > > > >The problem is with clock timing (the famous broken clock timer chip!!!) > >and DMA xfers. As you push the udma speed the spurious clock pulses > >wreak havoc with the memory writes. > > > >The Windows drivers try to make the OS work around the problem... > > > >This may be why people are seeing corruption. Couple this with Civilme's > >statement on WD drives and lack of CRC DMA data checking, and it's a > >wonder that Linux even runs on these systems. > > > >Turning OFF DMA or reducing UDMA to 33 seems to help with this > >problem... > > > >Your milage may vary though... > > > >-JMS > > Hi, > > Valuable input. I've got an Intel chipset but indeed a bttv tv tuner and > a Firewire card from VIA technologies and suffer the same problems. > > Guy. just for the record. i've read Civileme's opinion abou WD drives. he scared me a bit, since i installed linux on a 30 GB WD drive and i can't afford to buy another.. so i just said "tha heck with it, i'll use linux in this one till it dies or something..." that was a year ago. i'm still on my WD drive. i have /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home xfs defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb8 swap swap defaults 0 0 hdb being the mentioned WD drive. as you see, i use several filesystems. i've experienced power failures, hard freezes forcing me to push the reset button. you know.. the usual. and i'm still waiting for the day i get one single file corrupted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
