Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 compatible TV card and chipsets.
I have a BT878 based tv card made by stb that that mdk supposts and works just fine. My only problem with it is mandrake has never been able to configure it automatically. I still have to configure the modules.conf file manually as I found out when I did a clean install as I indicated in a thread a few days ago. Anyway, it works well, and no driver download is required. You might want to see http://bytesex.org/bttv/ and http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ for more info David Fabian Pena-Arellano wrote: Hello, I am interested to buy a pci TV card for my computer. Unfortunately I was unable to find any at the supported hardware list at the Mandrake web site. Can anyone in this list recommend me a good one completely compatible with Linux Mandrake? On the other hand, I have read the BTTV TV Card Linux Driver page (http://www.metzlerbros.org/bttv.html). The driver dowloable from that page is useful for TV cards with the Bt848/849/878/879 chipsets. I have found as well that some cards use the Conexant CN878 chipset. Is this chipset the same as the Brooktree Bt878 chipset? Thanks in advance for reading this e-mail. Fabian. 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] mouse wheel and tv card problems
It does not appear as if my XF86Config-4 file is the problem. There was no real difference between your snippets and my config. I even dug up a backup copy I made not long ago when the wheel was working properly, and there was no change in wheel behavior. What else governs mouse wheel behavior? How are wheel movements interpreted by the system? David Savolainen Jason Greenwood wrote: You have to modify the XF86Config-4 (in /etc/X11) file by hand as I found out on my laptop. There was a thread on this around 12-12-02. I got helped by several on the list but also had to do some searching of my own. I have a laptop and I wanted my touchpad AND USB optical scroll mouse to be functional on boot. Here are the relevant bits of mine (if I remember correctly): Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard InputDevicePS/2 Mouse CorePointer InputDevice USB Mouse SendCoreEvents *I believe send core events sends the usb mouse output through the standard mouse output. My mouse layout looks like this: Section InputDevice Identifier USB Mouse DSectionriver mouse Option Device/dev/input/mice OptionSendCoreEventstrue Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Buttons 5 Even if you don't want to use 2 types of mice simultaneously, my mouse config details should help you since mine scrolls just fine. Ideas list?? Hope this helps. Jason David Savolainen wrote: Hello all, I performed a clean install of MDK9 and now the mouse wheel does not behave properly anymore. The wheel used to nicely scroll window contents. Now except for Galeon, it performs page up, page down operations. Also in programs like pan with multipane program windows, the pane with the mouse cursor is no longer automatically activated. How do I restore the original behavior? A second side effect is my stb tv card (bt878) stopped working, and the tv card configuration utility does not seem to work. What can be done? Thanks for any help! David Savolainen -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mouse wheel and tv card problems
Hello all, I performed a clean install of MDK9 and now the mouse wheel does not behave properly anymore. The wheel used to nicely scroll window contents. Now except for Galeon, it performs page up, page down operations. Also in programs like pan with multipane program windows, the pane with the mouse cursor is no longer automatically activated. How do I restore the original behavior? A second side effect is my stb tv card (bt878) stopped working, and the tv card configuration utility does not seem to work. What can be done? Thanks for any help! David Savolainen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Digital camera cfreader setup
Greetings, I am having troubles getting my dimage 7 camera and compact flash card reader working. They appear to be connecting to the usb subsystem, but I can't mount them. Here is what happens when I try to mount the camera: # mount /dev/sda /mnt/camera /dev/sda: Input/output error mount: No medium found # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/camera mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems Here is what happens when I try to mount the transcend cf reader (cypress SL11R-IDE-B chipset): # mount /dev/sdf /mnt/camera mount: No medium found # mount -t vfat /dev/sdf /mnt/camera mount: No medium found just in case sdf wasn't the correct device, I tried all existing scsi devices. Every time I connected the cf reader, it would add another device. Here my loaded modules. The usb-storage module is loaded. Module Size Used byNot tainted sd_mod 11644 0 (autoclean) usb-storage52236 0 isofs 25792 0 (autoclean) inflate_fs 19328 0 (autoclean) [isofs] radeon 90648 1 agpgart31552 3 (autoclean) sr_mod 15160 0 (autoclean) autofs4 9252 2 (autoclean) emu10k157984 0 ac97_codec 9568 0 [emu10k1] sound 57292 0 [emu10k1] soundcore 4068 7 [emu10k1 sound] lp 6464 0 parport_pc 22088 1 parport23968 1 [lp parport_pc] af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean) scanner 8992 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21668 0 (unused) usbcore59072 1 [usb-storage scanner usb-uhci] 3c59x 25928 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2816 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4352 1 (autoclean) vfat9788 1 (autoclean) fat31384 0 (autoclean) [vfat] xfs 498944 6 (autoclean) xfs_dmapi 33904 0 (autoclean) [xfs] xfs_support 0 (autoclean) [xfs xfs_dmapi] supermount 62180 3 (autoclean) tuner 8612 1 (autoclean) tvaudio10080 2 (autoclean) tda7432 2848 1 (autoclean) bttv 59776 1 i2c-algo-bit7244 1 [bttv] i2c-core 13568 0 [tuner tvaudio tda7432 bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev4896 4 [bttv] ide-scsi8032 0 scsi_mod 92488 10 [sd_mod usb-storage sr_mod ide-scsi] rtc 5912 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 169312 3 What am I missing or doing wrong? Thanks for any help! David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] high load average
JOHN HEMMER wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, David Savolainen wrote: JOHN HEMMER wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, David Savolainen wrote: I checked to see if chkrootkit is installed, and it isn't. I just don't see what process could be hung up. Unless I don't know how to fully understand the output of ps. Here is a current ps -ef. Things have not changed much from the ps -aux I attached ealier. thanks! David UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD snip David, I always suspect the process with the highest cpu time. What is process PID # 2959, /etc/X11/X on the line above, suppose to be doing? 4 minutes and 6 seconds is a lot of processor time. What would happen if you kill it? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com John, The culprit is not X. I performed a reboot and let it sit over night having run no programs. The load average was nailed at 1.00 all night. Here are the process from a fresh reboot, although, it seems some of the command names have been cut off: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1412 504 ?SMar28 0:06 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [kapmd] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SWN Mar28 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [bdflush] root 7 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [kupdated] root 8 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [mdrecoveryd] root11 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [kreiserfsd] root65 0.0 0.2 1772 908 ?SMar28 0:00 devfsd /dev root 283 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [pagebuf_daemon] root 614 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [khubd] root 1031 0.0 0.1 1512 596 ?SMar28 0:01 syslogd -m 0 root 1040 0.0 0.2 2012 1108 ?SMar28 0:00 klogd -2 daemon1094 0.0 0.1 1436 496 ?SMar28 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 1217 0.0 0.4 4832 1868 ?SMar28 0:00 cupsd root 1352 0.0 0.4 4204 1580 ?DMar28 0:00 /usr/sbin/amd -F root 1392 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [rpciod] rpc 1408 0.0 0.1 1544 532 ?SMar28 0:00 portmap root 1483 0.0 0.1 1520 636 ?SMar28 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou root 1499 0.0 0.1 1520 632 ?SMar28 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou root 1610 0.0 0.1 1452 524 ?SMar28 0:00 gpm -t imps2 -m / root 1710 0.0 0.1 1620 664 ?SMar28 0:00 crond xfs 1751 0.0 0.9 4968 3556 ?SMar28 0:00 xfs -port -1 -dae root 1976 0.0 0.3 2404 1292 tty1 SMar28 0:00 login -- david root 1977 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty2 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 1978 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty3 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 1979 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty4 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 1980 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty5 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 1981 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty6 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt david 9257 0.5 0.4 2784 1592 vc/1 S06:17 0:00 -bash david 9291 0.0 0.2 2800 856 vc/1 R06:18 0:00 ps -aux Also, as Rob suggested, here is the output from vmstat: procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id 2 1 0884 19892 4324 138676 0 04130 11532 1 0 99 I am not exactly sure how to parse the results... regards, David David, The last 2 processes 'bash' and 'ps -aux' with times of 6.17 and 6.18, respectively look high. Are you running them in a loop or from cron? I am new to Linux, but not to Unix, but there are a lot of differences, so I am of learning as I go along. According to 'man vmstat' You have: I have: r = 2 processes waiting for run time, why? r = 0 b = 1 process in uninteruptable sleep, I b = 0 don't know what that mean. Maybe some expert on the list knows. I wonder. Does it mean you have a process in a coma? swpd = 884 kB of virtual memory used. swpd = 0 These are the most obvious differences between your system and mine. I don't know if this helps. Good luck! John
Re: [expert] high load average
David Savolainen wrote: hello all, Ever since I upgraded to 8.2, my load average will not drop below 1.00. From what I have been able to determine, the load average is a measure of jobs in the run queue. What job could be permanently stuck in the run queue? How do I clear it (whatever it is) and bring things back to normal? ps does not seem to indicate anything continuously running. In fact, kapm-idled seems to be awol. Any ideas about what could be happening? Many thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I think I may have solved my problem. It will take some more testing to verify it, but it appears that amd and automount do not play nice if you try to run them at the same time. In desperation to track this down I decided to start killing likely processes. My load average dropped to normal after amd was killed. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] high load average
JOHN HEMMER wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, David Savolainen wrote: I checked to see if chkrootkit is installed, and it isn't. I just don't see what process could be hung up. Unless I don't know how to fully understand the output of ps. Here is a current ps -ef. Things have not changed much from the ps -aux I attached ealier. thanks! David UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD snip David, I always suspect the process with the highest cpu time. What is process PID # 2959, /etc/X11/X on the line above, suppose to be doing? 4 minutes and 6 seconds is a lot of processor time. What would happen if you kill it? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com John, The culprit is not X. I performed a reboot and let it sit over night having run no programs. The load average was nailed at 1.00 all night. Here are the process from a fresh reboot, although, it seems some of the command names have been cut off: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1412 504 ?SMar28 0:06 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [kapmd] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SWN Mar28 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [bdflush] root 7 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [kupdated] root 8 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [mdrecoveryd] root11 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [kreiserfsd] root65 0.0 0.2 1772 908 ?SMar28 0:00 devfsd /dev root 283 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [pagebuf_daemon] root 614 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [khubd] root 1031 0.0 0.1 1512 596 ?SMar28 0:01 syslogd -m 0 root 1040 0.0 0.2 2012 1108 ?SMar28 0:00 klogd -2 daemon1094 0.0 0.1 1436 496 ?SMar28 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 1217 0.0 0.4 4832 1868 ?SMar28 0:00 cupsd root 1352 0.0 0.4 4204 1580 ?DMar28 0:00 /usr/sbin/amd -F root 1392 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar28 0:00 [rpciod] rpc 1408 0.0 0.1 1544 532 ?SMar28 0:00 portmap root 1483 0.0 0.1 1520 636 ?SMar28 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou root 1499 0.0 0.1 1520 632 ?SMar28 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou root 1610 0.0 0.1 1452 524 ?SMar28 0:00 gpm -t imps2 -m / root 1710 0.0 0.1 1620 664 ?SMar28 0:00 crond xfs 1751 0.0 0.9 4968 3556 ?SMar28 0:00 xfs -port -1 -dae root 1976 0.0 0.3 2404 1292 tty1 SMar28 0:00 login -- david root 1977 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty2 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 1978 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty3 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 1979 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty4 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 1980 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty5 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 1981 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty6 SMar28 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt david 9257 0.5 0.4 2784 1592 vc/1 S06:17 0:00 -bash david 9291 0.0 0.2 2800 856 vc/1 R06:18 0:00 ps -aux Also, as Rob suggested, here is the output from vmstat: procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id 2 1 0884 19892 4324 138676 0 04130 11532 1 0 99 I am not exactly sure how to parse the results... regards, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] high load average
machine for quite some time for no apparent reason. Other than that, send a ps -ef it shows everything. Maybe with a little analysis something will come up. Regards, Angus Beath On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 22:43, David Savolainen wrote: Damian wrote: El mié, 27-03-2002 a las 00:30, David Savolainen escribió: hello all, Ever since I upgraded to 8.2, my load average will not drop below 1.00. From what I have been able to determine, the load average is a measure of jobs in the run queue. What job could be permanently stuck in the run queue? How do I clear it (whatever it is) and bring things back to normal? ps does not seem to indicate anything continuously running. In fact, kapm-idled seems to be awol. Any ideas about what could be happening? Many thanks David it's probably a zombie/hung application. run kpm, top, gtop or whatever task manager you like, sort processes by CPU time the are taking, anything above 30% is high. so kill it and see what happens. anyway, note that prcesses that have the string idle in their names are not necesarily taking up processor cycles. for example, if you have a process taking 95% of CPU time called kernel-idle ( just making the name up ) it just means that CPU is idle 95% of it's time. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks for the response. When my system only has top and X running, the only processes using cpu cycles are top and X. The precent of cpu cycles usually stays below 1%. Although, Top always shows 1 process running. Shutting down X does not bring my load average below 1.00, so the culprit can't be X or an X app. Even when I have not apps of any kind running, my load aveage stays nailed at 1.00. Attached is the output of ps -aux. Maybe someone can see what I am missing. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1412 504 ?SMar26 0:06 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [kapmd] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SWN Mar26 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:02 [kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [bdflush] root 7 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [kupdated] root 8 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [mdrecoveryd] root11 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [kreiserfsd] root65 0.0 0.2 1772 804 ?SMar26 0:00 devfsd /dev root 278 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [pagebuf_daemon] root 603 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [khubd] root 1020 0.0 0.1 1512 548 ?SMar26 0:01 syslogd -m 0 root 1029 0.0 0.2 2012 1020 ?SMar26 0:00 klogd -2 daemon1083 0.0 0.0 1436 284 ?SMar26 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 1206 0.0 0.4 4848 1880 ?SMar26 0:00 cupsd root 1340 0.0 0.1 4204 708 ?DMar26 0:00 /usr/sbin/amd -F /etc/amd.conf -a /net root 1378 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [rpciod] rpc 1395 0.0 0.1 1544 460 ?SMar26 0:00 portmap root 1468 0.0 0.1 1520 584 ?SMar26 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /misc file /etc/auto.misc root 1485 0.0 0.1 1520 580 ?SMar26 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /net program /etc/auto.net root 1599 0.0 0.1 1452 420 ?SMar26 0:00 gpm -t imps2 -m /dev/psaux root 1700 0.0 0.1 1620 608 ?SMar26 0:00 crond xfs 1741 0.0 1.3 6460 5156 ?SMar26 0:00 xfs -port -1 -daemon -droppriv -user xfs root 2030 0.0 0.3 2396 1296 tty1 SMar26 0:00 login -- david root 2031 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty2 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 2032 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty3 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 2033 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty4 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 2038 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty5 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 2039 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty6 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 david 2855 0.0 0.4 2788 1592 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 -bash david 2940 0.0 0.3 2420 1200 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/openwin/bin/startx david 2957 0.0 0.1 2268 640 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 xinit /home/david/.xinitrc -- -deferglyphs 16 root 2959 0.1 3.0 56724 11728 ? RMar26 0:35 /etc/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs
Re: [expert] high load average
Damian wrote: El mié, 27-03-2002 a las 00:30, David Savolainen escribió: hello all, Ever since I upgraded to 8.2, my load average will not drop below 1.00. From what I have been able to determine, the load average is a measure of jobs in the run queue. What job could be permanently stuck in the run queue? How do I clear it (whatever it is) and bring things back to normal? ps does not seem to indicate anything continuously running. In fact, kapm-idled seems to be awol. Any ideas about what could be happening? Many thanks David it's probably a zombie/hung application. run kpm, top, gtop or whatever task manager you like, sort processes by CPU time the are taking, anything above 30% is high. so kill it and see what happens. anyway, note that prcesses that have the string idle in their names are not necesarily taking up processor cycles. for example, if you have a process taking 95% of CPU time called kernel-idle ( just making the name up ) it just means that CPU is idle 95% of it's time. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks for the response. When my system only has top and X running, the only processes using cpu cycles are top and X. The precent of cpu cycles usually stays below 1%. Although, Top always shows 1 process running. Shutting down X does not bring my load average below 1.00, so the culprit can't be X or an X app. Even when I have not apps of any kind running, my load aveage stays nailed at 1.00. Attached is the output of ps -aux. Maybe someone can see what I am missing. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1412 504 ?SMar26 0:06 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [kapmd] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SWN Mar26 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:02 [kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [bdflush] root 7 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [kupdated] root 8 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [mdrecoveryd] root11 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [kreiserfsd] root65 0.0 0.2 1772 804 ?SMar26 0:00 devfsd /dev root 278 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [pagebuf_daemon] root 603 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [khubd] root 1020 0.0 0.1 1512 548 ?SMar26 0:01 syslogd -m 0 root 1029 0.0 0.2 2012 1020 ?SMar26 0:00 klogd -2 daemon1083 0.0 0.0 1436 284 ?SMar26 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 1206 0.0 0.4 4848 1880 ?SMar26 0:00 cupsd root 1340 0.0 0.1 4204 708 ?DMar26 0:00 /usr/sbin/amd -F /etc/amd.conf -a /net root 1378 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Mar26 0:00 [rpciod] rpc 1395 0.0 0.1 1544 460 ?SMar26 0:00 portmap root 1468 0.0 0.1 1520 584 ?SMar26 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /misc file /etc/auto.misc root 1485 0.0 0.1 1520 580 ?SMar26 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /net program /etc/auto.net root 1599 0.0 0.1 1452 420 ?SMar26 0:00 gpm -t imps2 -m /dev/psaux root 1700 0.0 0.1 1620 608 ?SMar26 0:00 crond xfs 1741 0.0 1.3 6460 5156 ?SMar26 0:00 xfs -port -1 -daemon -droppriv -user xfs root 2030 0.0 0.3 2396 1296 tty1 SMar26 0:00 login -- david root 2031 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty2 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 2032 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty3 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 2033 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty4 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 2038 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty5 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 2039 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty6 SMar26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 david 2855 0.0 0.4 2788 1592 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 -bash david 2940 0.0 0.3 2420 1200 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/openwin/bin/startx david 2957 0.0 0.1 2268 640 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 xinit /home/david/.xinitrc -- -deferglyphs 16 root 2959 0.1 3.0 56724 11728 ? RMar26 0:35 /etc/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs 16 david 3053 0.0 0.0 24168 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 sh /home/david/.xinitrc david 3054 0.0 0.1 2976 652 vc/1 SMar26 0:01 /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 david 3159 0.0 0.2 2588 1140 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmButtons 7 4 /etc/X11/fvwm2/menu 0 8 david 3161 0.0 0.1 2604 732 vc/1 SMar26 0:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmAnimate 9 4 /etc/X11
[expert] high load average
hello all, Ever since I upgraded to 8.2, my load average will not drop below 1.00. From what I have been able to determine, the load average is a measure of jobs in the run queue. What job could be permanently stuck in the run queue? How do I clear it (whatever it is) and bring things back to normal? ps does not seem to indicate anything continuously running. In fact, kapm-idled seems to be awol. Any ideas about what could be happening? Many thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cups dies with status 32 in mdk 8.1
I recently upgraded to 8.1 from 8.0. My HP Deskjet 970Cse has always worked until I upgraded. When I try to send a test page to the printer, nothing happens! Here is the relevant part of my /var/log/cups/error_log is: I [18/Jan/2002:14:48:11 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 3613) for job 40. I [18/Jan/2002:14:48:11 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic (PID 3614) for job 40. I [18/Jan/2002:14:48:11 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 3615) for job 40. E [18/Jan/2002:14:48:12 -0500] PID 3614 stopped with status 32! I do know the printer does work because I can pipe text to /dev/lp0 and it will print. Anyone have any idea what is going on? Why would it stop working in 8.1? Neither DrakX installer printer configuration nor the HardDrake printer config would make it work. I tried LPRng and PDQ, but they do not seem to work either. I am not sure where to look for error files though.. Might this have something to do with my parallel port? Any help would be greatly appreciated! David Savolainen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dial and send all email
Hello Mulus Have you looked into using fetchmail to get mail off the server? I suggest reading the section on doing mail the unix way at www.mandrakeuser.org Very helpful! Best of Luck, David Mulus wrote: Hello expert, how to dial automatically to isp and send all queued email, and after all email processed, the modem hangup from isp...? i've created a bash script : #!/bin/bash wvdial #send all queued email killall -2 wvdial but I don't know how to let my mail server to send it's queued emails... Anyone have know how to do that .. ? -- Best regards, Mulus mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] bttv problems
I can't figure out how to get my tv tuner working. I have a STB pci tv/radio tuner with the bttv 878 chipset. This card was detected fine when mandrake was installed. (I have MDK 8.1) The first sign that something was amiss was when gnometv started and I got the error message thus: Overlay mode is not working, because bttv initialized with wrong base address. To load bttv use the following command: insmod bttv vidmem=0xf00 Unfortunately, this option does not appear to be valid. when I try to insert bttv (after unloading bttv first) I get this output: [root@localhost david]# modprobe bttv /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz: invalid parameter parm_vidmem /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz: insmod bttv failed vidmem=0xf00 is not included in the command here because I put in /etc/modules.conf. The first portion of my modules.conf is what MDK 8.1 installed. The contents are: alias net-pf-4 ipx pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 alias eth0 3c59x #alias char-major-81 bttv alias autofs autofs4 probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias tvcard0 bttv alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner #i2c options i2c verbose=1 scan=1 i2c_debug=0 #bttv options bttv card=3 radio=1 gbuffers=8 #vidmem=0xf00 options tuner type=2 I would think since this is an 878 card, bttv should be able to auto detect my card options just fine. Since it wasn't working, I tried telling it explicitly what I have (as indicated above) but to no avail. lsmod gives me this: [root@localhost david]# lsmod Module Size Used by bttv 57200 2 iptable_filter 2048 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_tables 11488 1 [iptable_filter] ip_vs 62000 0 (autoclean) (unused) radeon 90192 1 agpgart26752 3 sr_mod 14912 0 (autoclean) (unused) emu10k154320 0 ac97_codec 9312 0 [emu10k1] sound 58400 0 [emu10k1] soundcore 4208 7 [emu10k1 sound] lp 5808 0 parport_pc 20240 1 parport24768 1 [lp parport_pc] autofs4 9600 2 (autoclean) af_packet 12560 2 (autoclean) appletalk 21072 0 (autoclean) ipx16640 0 (autoclean) keybdev 1920 0 (unused) mousedev4192 0 (unused) hid18480 0 (unused) input 3648 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] scanner 7680 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21232 0 (unused) usbcore50752 1 [hid scanner usb-uhci] 3c59x 25952 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4400 1 (autoclean) vfat9968 1 (autoclean) fat32192 0 (autoclean) [vfat] isofs 18496 0 (autoclean) tuner 4784 1 (autoclean) tvaudio 8576 2 (autoclean) tda7432 2944 1 (autoclean) i2c-algo-bit7328 1 [bttv] i2c-core 13600 0 [bttv tuner tvaudio tda7432 i2c-algo-bit] videodev5056 5 [bttv] ide-scsi8096 0 scsi_mod 91072 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] rtc 5600 1 (autoclean) reiserfs 158304 3 Mandrake control panel indicates that the bttv driver is being used twice by my card. I am assuming that is once for the tv tuner and once for the radio tuner. Is this causing a problem? I have never been able to get any video or audio from my tv card. Any help would be greatly appreciated! David Savolainen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] more ati radeon ve dual display edition problems.
I everyone, I posted some more info a few days ago, but didn't hear from anyone so I thought I woud ask again. Does anyone know how to get an ati radeon ve dual display edition video card working? When I tried configuring it using XFree86 4.0.3, X would crash on startup. I upgraded to 4.1.0 and it still does not work. X will not crash on startup anymore though. In fact, there are no error messages in the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file. What happens now is when X starts, nothing appears on screen. It appears that no signal is being sent to the monitor at all which promptly goes into sleep mode. How do I get X to display on my monitor? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks David
Re: [expert] Create a link (shortcut) to my html dir
Hello Instead of creating a link to another directory, you could edit your httpd.conf file to point to your html directory of choice directly. Simply change the DocumentRoot variable to /home/ozzy/html Alternatively, if you want to have several users (ie a web address of your.domain.name/~yourname/) create the directory public_html in your home directory or whatever you set the UserDir variable to be. Hope this helps! David OOzy Pal wrote: Hello My html directory which was created by apache is /var/www/html/ How can I link this directory to a directory in my home dir such as /home/oozy/html so every time I go to home/oozy/html it takes me to /var/www/html/ = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] ati radeon ve problems
Hello everyone! I am a little closer to getting my radeon ve card working. I upgraded to XFree86 4.1.0. XFree86 no longer crashes on me, but nothing shows up on the screen. It is as if there is no signal of any kind being sent to the monitor. My XFree86.0.log log file does not indicate any errors. It appears as if XFree86 is working right. Why is nothing appearing on the screen? David David Savolainen wrote: Hello everyone, I have recently aquired an ati radeon ve video card and don't know how to get it working. I decided to reinstall lm 8.0 for various reasons so I used the DrakeX XFree setup routine to configure it. I was able to select Radeon from the video card list, and tried a couple different resolutions. Every time I tried to test it though, it would display the following error messages: /tmp/imm.o init_module: no such device /tmp/ppa.o init_module: no such device Then it would dump me badk to DrakeX and give a message saying there were errors. What should I do? I would grately appreciate any help! David
[expert] ati radeon ve problems
Hello everyone, I have recently aquired an ati radeon ve video card and don't know how to get it working. I decided to reinstall lm 8.0 for various reasons so I used the DrakeX XFree setup routine to configure it. I was able to select Radeon from the video card list, and tried a couple different resolutions. Every time I tried to test it though, it would display the following error messages: /tmp/imm.o init_module: no such device /tmp/ppa.o init_module: no such device Then it would dump me badk to DrakeX and give a message saying there were errors. What should I do? I would grately appreciate any help! David
Re: [expert] Re:Kernel panic 8.0
Dale, I am not sure why lilo isn't working for you. (Personally I prefer grub, but it doesn't work in 8.0 for me. Argh!) In any case, pico is still there. It didn't get installed for you? Check the CD for it. As far as supermount, I can only guess since I like it. Have you tried editing /etc/fstab and removing the lines for removabale media? You should be able to manually mount and umount like usual then. I hope this helps! David Dale Kosan wrote: Okay,got it to sort of work. I took the Western Digital of the promise ata 100 controller and conected it to the motherboard instead.Installed fine, but have to boot with rescue disk, error at boot is missing o/s. I looked for lilo.conf but it is not there, I ran rpm -q lilo and it says it is installed.I then ran lilo and it said it added all my entries,linux,floppy,dos ect.I rebooted, NOPE STILL HAVE TO USE A FLOPPY.Any help would be real cool considering I have been fighting this for over a week.Also, what happened to the editor Pico? Also, how the hell do I get rid of supermount? I never selected it and I hate it.
[expert] heavy idle system load
I finally got LM 8.0 running after a fashion. What I see so far is great! My current problem is a heavy system load. The load average is at 1 to 2 even with no apps running. Running top, I notice a program called kapm-idled is consuming 30% to 50% of my cpu cycles! Does this have something to do with power management? apmd is not running on my system. What is going on here? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks. David
[expert] LM 8.0 installer problems and kernel panic
As a whole, 8.0 installed without a hitch. It was only after I tried to reboot that the problems showed up. It has been my experience that the installer does not install all the options as I want them. First, the installer installs LILO even though I explicitly chose GRUB. On several install attempts, the installer never installed GRUB. Secondly, the partition part of the installer seems to format partitions as ext2 even though I selected RieserFS. I am wondering if this has anything to do with my kernel panic problems on startup as mentioned in the KERNEL PANIC:8.0 thread. Could the bootloader be looking for a ReiserFS boot partition when the bootloader is actually seeing ext2? This is my output: [] loading module /lib/reiserfs.o VFS: cannot open root device 2105 or 21:05 please append a correct root= boot option kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 21:05 It seems coincidental that I also have a Promise Ultra UDMA 66 card with 2 hard drives (Maxtor - master, Quantum Fireball - slave). Although, all these problems still occur with only the Maxtor attached. Could the support for Promise Ultra cards be broken? Why would the installer do one thing, when I tell it to do another? I checked the md5sums on the isos and they are correct. Any help would be appreciated! David
Re: [expert] LM 8.0 installer problems and kernel panic
Todd Lyons wrote: David Savolainen wrote: It seems coincidental that I also have a Promise Ultra UDMA 66 card with What is the chipset number of the Promise UDMA controller? -- tlyons at mandrakesoft dot com http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en The software version is Ultra 66 V 1.12 Chipset number is PDC20262 I have not had any problems ever since UDMA support was included in Mandarake (since 7.1?) until 8.0 Hope this helps! David
