Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel 2.2
On Monday 02 December 2002 07:48 pm, Paul Fotheringham scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: The solution is to disable MPS 1.4 Support in the BIOS. Not sure what that Would that be Multi Processor Specification? http://www.uruk.org/~erich/mps.html It seems like an APIC issue. I had severe IRQ and stability problems with a TYAN MP2466 dual Athlon board that seem to have been resolved with the recent cooker kernels. -- Hoyt http://www.MaximumHoyt.com/ Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions about urpmi and installing big apps...
On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:43 am, Franki scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: 1. I have two dozen mdk 9.0 boxes around town.. and I have set most of them up to use the same urpmi sources. But its a time consuming process to do so.. is there some config file or directory that I can copy to the new servers to give them the same sources? (texstar, contrib, plf, updates etc)??? that would be very handy if I could just copy across some files and issue urpmi an update.. Why can't you tar /etc/urpmi and /var/lib/urpmi and install that tarball on each new machine? You could even write a .spec file to create an .rpm with them and install and update all the sources easily -- Hoyt http://www.MaximumHoyt.com/ Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Freetype 2.1.13 for Mandrake 9.0
There has been a recent release of an improved freetype2. The announcement is at: http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/announce/2002-November/17.html The Cooker package seems to apply to Mandrake 9.0 without problems. I modified it to enable the bytecode interpreter and it looks very nice. Reference: http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~rbos36/mdkfreetype2.html -- Hoyt http://www.MaximumHoyt.com/ Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club
On Monday 18 November 2002 09:03 am, Jim Tarvid scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Of course, but it does explain why amounts charged vary slightly from amounts posted on the web site. Obviously this bothers some people. As it should. I don't know an easy fix other than to route US payments through a US bank for prices quoted in US dollars. The best solution, but it's likely not a viable option for Mandrake. The alternative is to quote the exact Euros and put the approximate US price in parentheses. An acceptable solution. Otherwise, the pricing on the website is . . . deceptive. -- Hoyt http://www.MaximumHoyt.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake update
- Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake update On Thursday 14 November 2002 10:53 am, Marek wrote: Hi I would like to know to which directory are the updates stored to. So i reuse them if need be. Hi Marek; They're hiding in file:/var/cache/urpmi/rpms after download; but it clears after they're installed, so you'd have to copy them somewhere else before that happens to save downloading them again. You have to get there as root (su) to achieve anything of course. Regards; -- Charlie Is it possible to change the default behavior to _keep_ the packages? That sure would save me bandwidth with multiple machines. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] want no KDE on start up
On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:39 am, J Herzfeld wrote: I am not sure if this is a newbie or an expert question, so apologies if I am wrong (anyway I am not subscribed to the newbie list) My system (8.2) brings up KDE on boot up. I'd rather it would stop at the console and not start up KDE or Gnome or anything. After I do my console thing, I'd bring up whatever WM I wanted by hand. I am anxious to try out some new less resource intensive WM's. You want to start in runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5. This is covered in the Linux FAQ with Answers. Edit /etc/inittab and change the runlevel to 3 from 5. It should be obvious what to change from looking at the file. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 8.2 and menudrake kill multi-head display and screw up menus and clock
I'm using 8.2 with the smp kernel (Tyan S2466 2xAthlon MP1600+) and a Matrox G450 for two heads and Voodoo3 PCI for the third head. If I use menudrake to add a program, not only do I immediately drop to the dumbed down menu, I lose displays :0.1 and :0.2 after logging back in and the system becomes unstable (especially kmail and konqueror). Deleting the ~/.kde/share/applink* directories restores everything. Almost. As an after-effect, the time display in :0.2 reads 4 hours ahead of the other two displays. Very, very strange. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde and xinerama question
On Friday 12 July 2002 03:00 pm, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: I have a Matrox G450. All I can say is I dl'ed the Matrox drivers, and powerdesk from their site. I use a G450 with the default XFree drivers and have no problems, but I think Dean is concerned about the windows re-sizing things ince KDE2 is _supposed to be xinerama aware. And it is to a point, but you do get some poor (read non-aware) window resizing behavior; KDE3 should be better. The Enlightenment wm is better than kwin at being xinerama aware, but I forget how to use KDE with Enlightenment. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Good Exchange replacement
On Monday 08 July 2002 12:47 pm, Tommy Eaton wrote: Hello, Can any of you recommend a good replacement for Microsoft Exchange? I have been eyeing Samsung Contact (OpenMail based), especially because it would support Outlook users (enterprise calendar, delegates, contacts, web access, etc) in our mainly MS environment. Obviously something free would be nice, but it's not a requirement... Thanks Not exactly what you want, but an excellent scheduling/calendar app: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/mzou/webCal/ A friend runs a Linux-only hospital network (formerly a SCO-only shop) and uses webCal in a Dillo browser; that provides low overhead and good speed over his network. Then he uses sylpheed-claws for email. All have had their source code highly customized for his use to eliminate security holes, un-needed options, etc. The whole place runs on Mandrake 8.2 on a single dual Athlon 1800+ server (SCO ran on a quad Xeon HP box). -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Konqueror 2.2.2 can no longer navigate to ftp sites
In Mandrake 8.2/Konqueror 2.2.2, I can no longer navigate to ftp sites in Konqueror as it attempts to open them as some sort of unknown file rather than a url. A search of the mail archives and Google have turned up nothing other than a cryptic message that this bug was fixed a year ago. I've looked at the MIME settings and have found nothing. So how do I restore this functionality? -- Thanks, Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Konqueror has forgottten how to handle ftp sites
All of a sudden, Konqueror (Mandrake 8.2) wants to treat ftp:// urls as files instead of urls and I get an Open dialog box instead fo seeing the remote dirctory. The Konqueror docs offer no help, nor does a search of the mail list archives. Maybe it's because I don't know what to call this problem. Any advice? -- Thanks, Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 11:21, Randy Kramer wrote: I've taken the liberty of starting a WikiLearn page URL? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 11:36, David Rankin wrote: The only downside is that in a year's time, I have forgotten most of the details on getting everything configured. So, when I move offices later this month, I will have to relearn my setup. This is the value of maintaining a daily log of changes you make to the system. It not only helps you, but it helps the next guy as well. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Alternative Mandrake RPM packages
There are a few sources for special Mandrake-ized RPM packages not included in the regular distribution (other than the Mandrake contribs section). I'm aware of: http://home.wanadoo.nl/cchq/conmen/rpms.html http://www.minlinux.org/projects/packages/ ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/RPMS ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/Contrib Are there others? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 04:23, Moose Magin wrote: No no no, I run Windows and Mandrake. Not just Mandrake. I don't know why, but i can't get Quake 3 running with sound in Mandrake, thus, I run Windows as well. Matt This might help. http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2110lang=en -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?
On Friday 21 June 2002 13:30, Tom Badran wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:23 am, Hoyt wrote: Will a newer version of XFree86 help? Is the version in cooker (4.2.0-20-mdk) useable in 8.2? Dont know if it would help, but cooker packages have been recompiled with gcc 3.1 so you will get lots of screw ups if you try to use them with 8.2 which was all compiled with 2.96. Alot of the core libraries are no longer binary compatible so will break a large amount of software if you try to upgrade. I updated the XFree rpms with those from cooker without any apparent problems -- it hasn't crashed yet Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the BIOS and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe I'll remove mem=nopentium. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?
On Sunday 23 June 2002 15:52, James wrote: Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the BIOS and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe I'll remove mem=nopentium. Maybe it will solve my troubles too h yep time to fix it till it breaks *grin* James AGP 4x works OK. I also noticed that the XFree86 upgrade replaced the official Matrox drivers with the XFree mga drivers. sigh One more thing to evaluate. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3
On Saturday 22 June 2002 02:18, Todd Lyons wrote: Hoyt wrote on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 01:23:05AM -0400 : BIOS version) with two Athlon XP1600+ cpu's and a Matrox G450 dual-head video Cooker had a recent thread where two people declared that G450 dual head was not working right. Both of them removed the Xinerama config and it became stable. (I thought you were on Cooker, so you probably already knew this though :) Thanks. I'm not using xinerama, just independent displays since 3D acceleration will not work in xinerama. If I can ever get registered for the Matrox Linux forum, I'll ask them and report back here. I skip through a lot on the cooker list, so I probably missed it. (It looks like there is a unpublicized list for hard-core developers since a lot of the bug-fix traffic doesn't seem to show up there any more -- I may be wrong and there are just fewer bugs). I suspect that it may eventually be a combination of mobo BIOS (some problems with TYAN shipping the mobo too quick) and the mga drivers and X11. I could always go back to dual PCI video cards and see how that does, but the re-configuration is such a nightmare. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3
I believe I am having instability problems with X (the system just hums along in runlevel 3 without X running). I have a Tyan S4266 MPX mobo (most recent BIOS version) with two Athlon XP1600+ cpu's and a Matrox G450 dual-head video card. I have updated the video BIOS to the most recent version and am using the current Matrox-supplied X11 drivers. My XFree86 is version 4.2.0-10mdk (what comes with Mandrake 8.2). I have an syslog message that tells me: kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel kernel: mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings kernel: mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs kernel: mtrr: base(0xea00) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary kernel: mtrr: base(0xea00) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary kernel: mtrr: base(0xea00) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary The X11 log tells me: (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0xffe0 - 0x (0x20) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B] [3] -1 0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B] [4] -1 0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B] [5] -1 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0xffe0 - 0x (0x20) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B] [3] -1 0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B] [4] -1 0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B] [5] -1 0xe8903000 - 0xe890307f (0x80) MX[B] [6] -1 0xe8902000 - 0xe8902fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0xe8901000 - 0xe8901fff (0x1000) MX[B] [8] -1 0xe8c0 - 0xe8c00fff (0x1000) MX[B] [9] -1 0xf000 - 0xf7ff (0x800) MX[B] [10] -1 0xe800 - 0xe87f (0x80) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0xe880 - 0xe8803fff (0x4000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0xea00 - 0xebff (0x200) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] [14] -1 0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B] [15] -1 0x2000 - 0x207f (0x80) IX[B] [16] -1 0x2080 - 0x20bf (0x40) IX[B] [17] -1 0x20c0 - 0x20cf (0x10) IX[B] [18] -1 0x20d0 - 0x20d3 (0x4) IX[B] [19] -1 0x20d8 - 0x20df (0x8) IX[B] [20] -1 0x20d4 - 0x20d7 (0x4) IX[B] [21] -1 0x20e0 - 0x20e7 (0x8) IX[B] [22] -1 0xf000 - 0xf00f (0x10) IX[B] [23] -1 0x1010 - 0x1013 (0x4) IX[B] And, # cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x2000 ( 512MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0xeb00 (3760MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 reg03: base=0xea80 (3752MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 reg04: base=0xea00 (3744MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 reg05: base=0xf000 (3840MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1 reg06: base=0xeb80 (3768MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 In XF86Config-4, AGP is set to 1. So after some mail list archive searching, I have inserted mem=nopentium in LILO and X is more stable, but it still crashes (although less frequently) and occasionally locks up the system completely (no ssh in, no vt; no Atl-Ctrl-Backspace, no Alt-Ctrl-Delete -- Alt- SysRq-B will reboot as will the hardware reset on the case -- thank goodness for reiserfs. Will a newer version of XFree86 help? Is the version in cooker (4.2.0-20-mdk) useable in 8.2? Any advice would be appreciated. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com [a] The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [b] On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [c] Conclusion: Eat what you like. It's speaking English that kills you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3
On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:46, KevinO wrote: You probably should have used Athlon MPs instead of XPs. They are made for SMP. Using the XPs is a gamble at best. That is why the MPs cost more. The XPs are supposedly MP's with a trace laser cut; some silver paint causes the IOS to recognize them as MP's. I suppose I could load WinNT to see if it's the mobo/cpu or X, but from what I have found in web searches, it's an X-related problem. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3
On Friday 21 June 2002 13:30, Tom Badran wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:23 am, Hoyt wrote: Will a newer version of XFree86 help? Is the version in cooker (4.2.0-20-mdk) useable in 8.2? Dont know if it would help, but cooker packages have been recompiled with gcc 3.1 so you will get lots of screw ups if you try to use them with 8.2 which was all compiled with 2.96. Alot of the core libraries are no longer binary compatible so will break a large amount of software if you try to upgrade. Hmmm, could I rebuild from the 4.2.0-20-mdk.src.rpm's? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mutli-head KDE desktop settings?
Can anyone point me to info on where these settings are documented? I use a Matrox G450 in a mutli-head configuration (not xinerama enabled). The KDE settings are not consistent between the two desktops, are not easy to set on the second head and the panel settings change with every re-boot. Thanks, Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] lm_sensors and TYAN Tiger MPX S2466
I'm having trouble setting up lm_sensors with a TYAN Tiger MPX S2466 mobo. Anyone have this working? Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mutli-head KDE desktop settings?
On Saturday 15 June 2002 02:44 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Check on the Matrox web page for drivers. They have drivers and the Powerdesk to setup the cards. http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm Hoyt wrote: Can anyone point me to info on where these settings are documented? I use a Matrox G450 in a mutli-head configuration (not xinerama enabled). The KDE settings are not consistent between the two desktops, are not easy to set on the second head and the panel settings change with every re-boot. Thanks. I need to be more specific. The X11 settings are fine. I'm looking for where the KDE settings are for the second head. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lm_sensors and TYAN Tiger MPX S2466
On Saturday 15 June 2002 12:59 pm, mike wrote: Hoyt wrote: I'm having trouble setting up lm_sensors with a TYAN Tiger MPX S2466 mobo. Anyone have this working? Hoyt I Have a epox 8kta3+pro mb and can't get it to work under 8.2 works great in 8.0 but latest seems to be broken. Maybe 9.0? I got an email back from the maintainer who sent me to look at a trouble ticket on the site. That ticket didn't work for me. For now, I'm getting results from adding to /etc/rc.d/rc.local ### For lm_sensors modprobe i2c-proc modprobe w83781d modprobe i2c-amd756 And it works, but I'm not quite happy with that. I'll post back when I find more. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mutli-head KDE desktop settings?
On Saturday 15 June 2002 04:50 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: sorry to ride on your thread but do either of you know of a site to show how-to enable dualhead with 2 separate vidcards? IE, ones an AGP, the other a PCI? Doesn't Linux Journal have an article this month, Linux Mag last month on that. the X11 docs also have some stuff in them about it. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: [Cooker] drakfont feature request
On Thursday 13 June 2002 10:45 am, Steve Fox wrote: Apparently SuSE has a shell script which will download the Microsoft Web Fonts and install them on your system. Codeweavers Crossover Office can do this as well. I'd like to request that the same feature be added to drakfont if possible. Thanks. This? http://gongolo.usr.dsi.unimi.it/~vigna/webFonts4Linux/ Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 09:40 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: damn shame it got lost in the EtHeR (MandrakeSympa) servers with the other mystery post not showing up. That is why they call it ethernet ain't it? I always thought they called it the ether cause they couldn't think of anything better to call it. ;) From the old days when radio was new, they believed that the RF waves propigated through ether, the word probably being drived from ethereal. Anyway, they saw it as magic, much the same way ethernet works. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com It's not paranoia if they're really after you. -- H. Ross The Boss Perot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions
On Thursday 06 June 2002 10:23 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: And the old adage is still true: Data not backed up is data lost Civileme Pilots say the two most useless things are the fuel they left on the ground and the altitude above them. For us, I suppose it's security updates we didn't install and the data we backed up and didn't verify. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions
On Thursday 06 June 2002 12:09 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 09:55, Jim Tarvid wrote: My guess is that the partition table got sprayed with bad data on power down. if one had a listing of partitions such as that provided by fdisk /dev/hda -l you should be able to rebuild the partition table. Of course having a copy of the MBR would make life easier dd if=/dev/hda of=backup-hda.mbr count=1 bs=512 Good idea. I'll do that for all my machines and spread copies around my LAN. I presume that to restore the MBR from one of these backups, it's just a matter of reversing the if and of, or is there something else required? That bit of code also restores the bootloader, which is OK if it hasn't changed. Just in case, it's always a good idea to keep a boot floppy as well. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter
On Thursday 30 May 2002 11:00 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: As to hdparm, I found that with 8.2 and the default 2.4.18-6 kernel, any hdparm settings were ignored. ata/100 drives still ran at ata/33. I found installing a newer kernel instantly fixes the situation. I'm usin 2.4.18-13 and no hdparm or lilo settings. My ata/100 drives run at udma5, ata/100, hdparm -t returns 40+mb/sec. Again, this is why I have had better success adding ide0=0x1f0 ide0=ata100 to LILO. the first command loads the faster IDE driver, the second tells the system to use ATA 100. This approach makes the boot process faster as a side benefit. I also have good expeience with floppy=daring as mtools run faster as well. YMMV, especially on older hardware. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com [a] The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [b] On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [c] Conclusion: Eat what you like. It's speaking English that kills you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] test of domain and mailserver - ignore
On Thursday 30 May 2002 04:39 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: testing Test failed. No message posted to the list. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - What do you think about United Linux?
On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:26 pm, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Both in a corporative sense, in how it will/could affect other linux distributions, and technically if it will be of any benefit to Linux codebase as a whole... Wooky My opinion of United Linux. Four sick dogs don't make one well dog. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter
On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:46 pm, Richie de Almeida wrote: ide0=0x1f0 ide0=ata100 I tried this and it didn't like the second parameter-- Try ide0=ata66 -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 06:01 am, Nicolas ROBAUX wrote: Hoyt wrote: Wasn't there a poll some time in the past that illustrated the user distribution world-wide? What did that tell us? Excellent point! Here are the last stats for the MandrakeClub members : http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2068?=en Most members came from USA ! N. Looking at those stats, one could say Mandrake is a US distribution, but again, it really isn't. It is truly a global Linux distribution that just happens to be based where Rin Tin Tin is buried. Look athttp://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/rintin.html . Perhaps a Mandrake version could be named in his honor. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X config
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 01:27 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: then, I remembered why I had stopped using it in the first place. I remembered there's an easier tool on a mandrake system that offers the user a better chance for first time success. setuptool. # drakconf does just fine for me from the console since setuptool is just a symbolic link to it. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com [a] The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [b] On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [c] Conclusion: Eat what you like. It's speaking English that kills you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:56 pm, Richie de Almeida wrote: I got a new mobo and cpu and loaded on Mandrake 8.2 and since the ide has UltraDMA 100 I set the boot parameter to idebus=100 but the kernel turns this down saying its a bad bus speed. I did a dmesg | grep 'ide' and got this: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 quiet devfs=mount idebus=100 ide_setup: idebus=100 -- BAD BUS SPEED! Expected value from 20 to 66 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA ...yadda yadda yadda. So how can I enable UltraDMA at 100MHz? Richie For ide0 try, ide0=0x1f0 ide0=ata100 -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com [a] The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [b] On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [c] Conclusion: Eat what you like. It's speaking English that kills you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:43 am, James wrote: Mandrake is a european distribution! That's a little narrow-minded. It's parent company is French, but it's distribution is world-wide. As a major Linux distro, I would not characterize it as European. Wasn't there a poll some time in the past that illustrated the user distribution world-wide? What did that tell us? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What happened to gftp? make it URPMI?
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 04:37 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: urpmi (and the software manager) is VERY strange in 8.2! Try deleting/uninstalling something and it will want to uninstall everything it is remotely connected to or used by. In 8.1 I used urpmi by preference, in 8.2 it's rpm -ivh and rpm -e ! I noticed that as well. Also some rpm database anomolies. Very scarey. Such is progress. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com [a] The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [b] On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [c] Conclusion: Eat what you like. It's speaking English that kills you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What happened to gftp?
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 03:13 pm, you wrote: Hoyt wrote: Why was gftp dropped from Mandrake 8.2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It wasn't unles you have the PowerPack. It is healthy on my download system, and it is there on Mandrake mirrors. Civileme I have the download edition. And it was there, but I could not install it with urpmi for some odd reason, but rpm -ivh did the trick. Odd. Thanks, Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What happened to gftp?
Why was gftp dropped from Mandrake 8.2? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com 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 Friday 17 May 2002 11:43 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: What I do not like are those list nazis (while, being a german, I don't really appreciate the term) you mentioned. I agree -- using that term for these people does a disservice to the real Nazis. Perhaps we should call them List Lawyers. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] /dev/usbmouse don't exist
Aside from the poor grammar, this error message appeared after a re-boot and my usb mouse did not work. It appears to be a problem with devfs as there exists no link named /dev/usbmouse -- it juts disappeared. I was able to fix his by changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount in /etc/lilo.conf, rebooting and then running mouseconfig. I was unsuccessful in searching for a solution to this problem on Google, the Mandrake mail list archives and the Mandrake Forum. This also happened to me in 8.1 and I never did solve it other than the fix I used. Why did this happen? How do I get devfs and /dev/usbmouse working again? Thanks, -- Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/usbmouse don't exist
On Monday 13 May 2002 03:50 am, Udo Rader wrote: Am Mon, 2002-05-13 um 09.33 schrieb Hoyt: Aside from the poor grammar, this error message appeared after a re-boot and my usb mouse did not work. It appears to be a problem with devfs as there exists no link named /dev/usbmouse -- it juts disappeared. I was able to fix his by changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount in /etc/lilo.conf, rebooting and then running mouseconfig. I was unsuccessful in searching for a solution to this problem on Google, the Mandrake mail list archives and the Mandrake Forum. This also happened to me in 8.1 and I never did solve it other than the fix I used. Why did this happen? How do I get devfs and /dev/usbmouse working again? hi hoyt, if you've got a VIA based motherboard, there might be a problem with usb keyboard and mouse detection/integration. for a solution on LM8.2 check http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=88#usb udo Thanks. I looked at that and, essentially, it says to modify /etc/X11/XF86Config from: Option Device /dev/mouse to Option Device /dev/input/mice But . . . /dev/input/mice doesn't exist anymore when using devfs=mount. It existed before and all the appropriate symlinks worked fine, but inexplicably they disappeared. What that is all about -- their sudden disappearance -- is my question. What broke and why? -- Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FIXED! [expert] access to CD-RW
On Sunday 12 May 2002 09:55 am, David wrote: Much thanks to nDiScReEt, Bascule, Steve Browne, Brian Parish, Larry Sword, and Pross(who got in at the last moment). We got it fixed. The problem was that I followed the howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html to upgrade my HD. Following directions, I used a _temporary_ lilo config for the initial booting of the new HD. In the config, the line _append=hdb=ide-scsi_ was omitted. Thus, I had not re-corrected my lilo config. nDiScReEt's post below opened my eyes. The second I seen it, I knew what it was. I'm now kicking myself (HARD). If you followed the HOWTO and it didn't warn you about correcting your lilo.conf file, you should email the HOWTO author, thank him for the help it provided you and suggest the addition to take care of the problem you encountered. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Old way of making linux boot floppy?
On Thursday 02 May 2002 08:17 pm, db wrote: Before there was the mkbootdisk command, it was done another way... does anyone know that command? ' Bootdisk HOWTO? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: [Cooker] Partitioning Advice
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 07:53 pm, Randy K. Wilson wrote: Didn't Richard Stallman have a Question-asking HOWTO? IIRC, the format was: Ummm, it is ESR. From a post someone made to a local list: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ESR, RMS, KDE, GNOME, LSB, AFAIK . . . It all runs together after a while. -- Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ext3 undelete tool?
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 11:46 am, Nelson Bartley wrote: Hi Guys, I REALLY desperately need to know how to undelete something under an ext3 file system. I just accidentally deleted my mail files (over 500MB of e-mail) off my network drive and I desperately need to get it back. As I have access to the server, I'm hoping there is a restore/undelete tool that can be used on that directory. If any such thing exists please let me know... I'm very desperate at this point. I suspect that all the undelete proceedures for ext2 should work. Just re-mount the filesystem as ext2. mc (Midnight Commander) has an ext2 undelete function that seems as easy to use as any. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com [a] The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [b] On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. [c] Conclusion: Eat what you like. It's speaking English that kills you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 and Wordperfect 8
On Saturday 27 April 2002 05:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: I did a quick search, didn't look at all the entries but heres most of the thread :) http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=andformat=shortconfig =newbie_linux-mandrake_comrestrict=exclude=words=Wordperfect+8 Here is the gist from a message from Giuseppe: To use libc5 based applications such as Word Perfect 8, you should install these packages: ld.so1-1.9.11-6mdk.i586.rpm libc-base-5.3.12-36mdk.i586.rpm and if needed: libc-extras-5.3.12-36mdk.i586.rpm This should also work for Mathematica 4.1.2, old Matlab 5.3, etc. Other stuff - The official Corel Linux web site is at http://linux.corel.com/ The download of WP8 PE was at CNET, but is there no longer. It's not found on Corel's site either (http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm does not work). I did find a link at ftp://ftp.matrix.com.br/pub/.3/linuxberg/files/x11/office/WordPerfect.tar.gz and http://hk.linuxberg.com/files/x11/office/WordPerfect.tar.gz and http://ftp.sci.univr.it/software/linux/Corel/WordPerfect.tar.gz but the servers timed out. Perhaps it's still on some ftp server somewhere? But, the WP8 registration site it is still working and is located at: http://venus.corel.com/nasapps/wp8linuxreg/register.html Oops -- there's a bug in WP8! There is a bug in the Filtix filters that Corel licensed to allow importation of MS-Word documents. On Sep 9, 2001, the bug kicked in and put filtrix into demo mode. Corel, of course, has never fixed this. Some nice people on the Net did, though, by creating a wrapper for filtrix that lies to it about the current date/time. Read about it here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5655 and at: http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/ The WordPerfect Mini-howto is at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/WordPerfect.html The focus is on WP7, but it may be helpful. Hope this helps. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, drinking too much and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That's my idea of a perfect day. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential
On Thursday 25 April 2002 01:18 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Hoyt wrote: Add this to the LILO/GRUB command line: ide0=0x1f0 ide0=dma ide0=autotune ide1=dma ide1=autotune floppy=daring and undo all the hdparm settings. The best way is to duplicate the LILO stanza and add the above info in case it locks up your computer. -- Hoyt Dumb Q but what does floppy=daring mean? That loads a faster floppy driver. and how does autotune worky? url? explicado pls? :) It attempts to autoset the correct parameters. IIRC, it is explained in the kernel docs. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, drinking too much and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That's my idea of a perfect day. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The original (was UDMA/ATA no running at full potential)
On Thursday 25 April 2002 04:50 pm, Jay wrote: I was the one that originally started the thread, and although it went of on a tanget, I, and I assume many others, learned a great deal, and that is what is important, that is why we are here... But did it solve your problem? I did some experimenting and found that adding ide0=0x1f0 ide0=ata66 resulted in the best results from hdparm -t. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, drinking too much and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That's my idea of a perfect day. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 07:46 am, Jay wrote: I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive and am using the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When I load Linux it ackowledges this, but sets the performance to UDMA33. Playing around with hdparm does nothing, the harddrive stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know how to fix this??? Add this to the LILO/GRUB command line: ide0=0x1f0 ide0=dma ide0=autotune ide1=dma ide1=autotune floppy=daring and undo all the hdparm settings. The best way is to duplicate the LILO stanza and add the above info in case it locks up your computer. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com All the Hoyt You'll Ever Need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Need help on Grub/Lilo reinstall
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 10:55 am, David Rankin wrote: I will ultimately have to reformat hda which will wipe out my grub boot loader. I need some advise on how to re-install grub after I re-format and re-load the M$ OS on hda. I think I understand grub enough to configure it after I get it installed, I'm just not sure about how to get the code into the boot record. Specifically, I don't know if its lilo first, then grub or vice versa. Yes, I can rtfm, and I have. Yes, I know /sbin/lilo installs the boot loader. I just haven't done it manually before and would like any brief bits of wisdom you may be willing to share. You may have RTFM, but you missed the fact that LILO and GRUB are two different apps that do essentially the same thing. Since you mentioned GRUB first, I assume that is what you want to use. Did you make a boot disk? If so, after your re-install Windows, boot with the boot disk and re-install GRUB as follows: # grub-install will do the trick. If you forgot to make a boot disk, shame on you. Make sure you have one next time. Write back if you need instructions to restrore GRUB without a boot floppy. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com All the Hoyt You'll Ever Need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kwintv -- no mute or volume control functions
I'm using Mandrake 8.2, Kwintv with an ATI TV Wonder VE. Now that I have the sound working by plugging in the ATI card to the sound card, I can't get it to function correctly. The mute and sound level functions of Kwintv do not work and it is necessary to mute the line-in (where the ATI card is connected) and adjust the volume using aumix. The mute button in Kwintv has a red X on it. I have found nothing in a Google search nor in the Kwintv docs that addresses this. Any advice? Thanks. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com All the Hoyt You'll Ever Need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kwintv -- no sound after install
I bought one of those cheap ATI TV Wonder VE cards at CompUSA today. It installed OK (I had to create /dev/video0 by hand, though) and it autodetected the channels and I get great video, but no sound. I'm at a loss as to what to do for sound. I'm using Mandrake 8.2 and an Ensoniq PCI soundcard. My /etc/modules.conf includes the following: alias sound-slot-0 es1371 An lsmod shows, in part: es1371 26656 0 soundcore 4068 4 [es1371] ac97_codec 9568 0 [es1371] gameport1756 0 [es1371] The KDE sounds play, xmms will play mp3's OK, just no sound for Kwintv (or xawtv for that matter). The mubte buton for kwintv is displayed with a red X through it. Can someone point me at a place to start fixing this? Thanks. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com All the Hoyt You'll Ever Need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kwintv -- no sound after install
On Sunday 21 April 2002 10:46 am, Kwan Lowe wrote: Hoyt wrote: I bought one of those cheap ATI TV Wonder VE cards at CompUSA today. It installed OK (I had to create /dev/video0 by hand, though) and it autodetected the channels and I get great video, but no sound. I have the same card. Have you checked the following: 1) The audio passthrough cable must be connected to the Line-IN on your sound card 2) The Line-IN volume must be audible (use Sound Mixer to raise it). That was it. The cable even came in the tuner box. I feel like such an idiot. 8) Thanks. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com All the Hoyt You'll Ever Need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kwintv -- no sound after install
On Sunday 21 April 2002 11:57 pm, lorne wrote: Yea, but isn't it cool to have TV working like a charm in Linux? :) Well, a relative charm, but much, much easier than just a year ago. I did have to create the /dev/entries manually -- not an easy task if a newbie were faced with it (they might think to plug in the friggin sound card, though), That should be part of the kwintv install script and I shouldn't be able to install kwintv without any dependencies, but I could. The mini-HOWTo was very helpful and well-written. I'm glad to see the general quality of the LDP docs improving. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com All the Hoyt You'll Ever Need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IDE Drive Optimisations
Is it useful to use ide0=0x1f0 as a LILO/GRUB parameter? Or is the better IDE driver used as the default since Mandrake is targeted to more modern hardware anyway? If not, should it not be the default? And what about floppy=daring? I see some improvements with that as well, especially with mtools. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Has anyone gotten 3Dwm working? Some bugs in 8.2
3Dwm was initially installed without omniName or expat (as depenedencies). I installed them, but still get an error message about Cannot get initial reference for NameService. How do I properly to launch 3Dwm? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com All the Hoyt You'll Ever Need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk corruption+A7V266-E+NFS+ext3
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 06:05 pm, you wrote: My A7V266 is now my daughters' Wndows computer because it was so unreliable for Linux. -- Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting
On Monday 08 April 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: Hi I have mistakenly formatted a partition with some important data in it while installing Mandrake 8.2. The partition is still there with same size, untouched, etc. Any chance I can recover the data? You need to tell us what filesystem you are using. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com What is usenet? Proof that people are much easier to take with their clothes on and their mouths shut. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
On Sunday 07 April 2002 01:12 am, you wrote: I'm starting to get a little peeved and suspicious of Newsforge with regard to who exactly are they serving and where their reporters are exactly getting paid from. (under the table or otherwise.) SNIP I can see where journalists could be bought off from within the open source world. Not like it hasn't already happened in the big three networks. Anyways, heads up. As someone who considers himself a journalist (several tutorials, reviews and opinion pieces published in MaximumLinux and LinuxFormat magazines; three chapters contributed to Red Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed and currently a technical reviewer for SAMS Publishing), I don't consider a lot of what I see published on-line as journalism. It's usually opinion, fluff and shallow writing because that's what is easy and cheap to offer; on-line publishers don't have a lot of loot to throw to writers, much less buy them off - neither do Open Source companies. Remember that controversy builds page hits and advertisers are happy with higher page hit counts. My editorial pieces are written that way (controversial), but I try to avoid that in my factual articles. It's up to the Editor to see that the two types of writing stay separate; some do a better job than others and in my opinion, the boundaries are a little less clear for on-line publishing. When I wrote for MaximumLinux, Editor in Chief Brian DelRizzo told me that if a product was bad, write why it was bad; if it was good, write why it was good; don't pull a punch because they advertise; help them make the product better. I was told I could write what ever I wanted as long as it was factual. I have written some unfavourable reviews and the only response I ever got from an advertiser was that I got the capitalisation of their name wrong. As an intelligent reader, you should be sceptical of everything you read. Don't let someone else do your thinking for you. Learn to separate opinion from fact. As to Mandrake, they have become a market leader and are a legitimate target for criticism. My personal criticism of them is not so much of their product (which I believe is very good), but of their management (I'm a former corporate Senior VP, so I understand that as well), which I believe is inconsistent and unfocused. Given that they have a good product, it makes sense to improve their management and they show every sign of making that attempt. With every release, they refine their process and they _seem_ to be learning from their marketing and management mistakes, albeit slowly. Hopefully they can get it together before the money runs out. I don't believe that the solution is to post positive because that is just a public relations ploy, simply putting a favourable spin on topics. I suggest that the best approach is to post truthfully and think critically about what you read in others' posts. If a problem arises with a Mandrake product or practise, they need to know about it. How they handle it is up to them. Simply putting a pleasant face on it is a certain invitation to disaster. If you want to positively influence the on-line press, write a factual review of some little-noticed Mandrake feature (like multiple network profiles, msec, and so on) and submit it to the on-line press for publication. Just remember that spelling and grammar count for things like that, aim for 300 to 600 words, keep it factual, avoid being superficial, give pros and cons and make it tell a story, i.e, have a beginning, middle and end. It's not that difficult. If you want some advice, let me know off the list. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apache website on a vfat partition ..urgent help please
On Sunday 07 April 2002 01:36 am, you wrote: If this is a production site, and you are running linux, I really would not suggest putting files on a fat32 partition anyways -- you are much better off with either ext2, ext3, reiserfs, or any of the large number of *nix filesystems. If you need access from a Windows box, put them on an ext2 partition and access them with a win32 driver in Windows(look on Freshmeat). -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com What is usenet? Proof that people are much easier to take with their clothes on and their mouths shut. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.2: Wine vs Codeweavers Wine vs Transgaming WineX
- Original Message - From: Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:47 PM Subject: [expert] LM8.2: Wine vs Codeweavers Wine vs Transgaming WineX Hi Is it better to use LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers Wine? Can Transgaming WineX be installed alongside LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers Wine? Or can it replace both altogether? Any good souls to enlighten me on this one ;) Thanks The CVS version of Transgaming's WineX will load and run many DirectX games -- other versions of WINE won't do that. Codeweaver's WINE has a cool GUI config tool, but it's a verson or two old. They all like to install in different places (or can be made to) and can be run simultaneously AFAIK. Just try them all and pick which one will run the app you want. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
- Original Message - From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups I was using the chips drive with XFree 4.x in mandrake 8.2. I was experiencing severe X lockups (screen and keyboard). After installing the FBDev rpm, I simply changed the driver from chips to fbdev. Now I no longer have any lockups. Does Mandrake require a front-end tool to change drivers these days or can you just change the symlink? The symlink for /etc/X11/X still points to XFree86. I modified the contents of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
- Original Message - From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups I'm using a Toshibs Satellite Pro 420CDS, CT 6, 2MB video RAM. Because the laptop only has 40MB of RAM, I must remove the drive and install Mandrake on the drive while mounted on another machine. This one is strange... Mine is a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, CT65550, 2MB video, *32MB* RAM, 6.4GB HD and LM8.2 installed *first time* in graphical mode... of course, this machine does not support CD boot, so I have to create a cdrom.img floppy; but it worked. Hmmm. My attempts at install (using cdrom.img on a floppy) would result in an exit from the installer at the beginning of the second stage. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
(BTW, the 6 on board uses FBDev faster and better than the SVGA, and with equal resolution.) I was using the chips drive with XFree 4.x in mandrake 8.2. I was experiencing severe X lockups (screen and keyboard). After installing the FBDev rpm, I simply changed the driver from chips to fbdev. Now I no longer have any lockups. I'm using a Toshibs Satellite Pro 420CDS, CT 6, 2MB video RAM. Because the laptop only has 40MB of RAM, I must remove the drive and install Mandrake on the drive while mounted on another machine. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Abiword MDK-8.2
- Original Message - From: Fedneg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: [expert] Abiword MDK-8.2 Hello: I can't find Abiword in MDK-8.2 download version. IIRC, it was moved to contribs. Someone official explained why a few weeks ago. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The little operating system that could
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [expert] The little operating system that could Is this LSB compatible, yet? (when in fact no distro can really claim to be because the official test software for compatibility isn't even official yet--still beta-- and the sniping of our incompatibility is in the gray areas of the Filesystem Hierarchical Standard where no clear direction is given and the interpretation of the other distros is probably as equally valid as ours and all different) How is that not a valid question? Perhaps the answer is not simple or easy or comfortable, but yours seems adequate. So why is asking this question a problem? Is it wrong to ask questions? How would a legitimate question, if properly answered, poison the release? Mandrake has been fortunate to have some oof the best engineers in the world, folks who make me look on in awe, folks who could be making triple what they are almost anywhere else. But they came to Mandrake to work on free software. And aren't they? You seem to impy (I may be wrong) that their time is wasted dealing with uncomfortable questions and incorrect and outrageous opinions. Somebody at Mandrake has to deal with that and IMHO the software engineers are probably the worst suited for that purpose as they usually lack the skills and temperment for that kind of work. However, that kind of work seems to come with the territory. Mandrake supplies one of the top Linux distros in the world. That's no accident; it comes from good development. But it seems to me that they are leaving management in the hands of people not well suited for it. That's where the problem lies. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The little operating system that could
- Original Message - From: Ric Tibbetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:48 AM Subject: [expert] The little operating system that could Don't believe me? Add it up. Average charge per new releass: $69.00 per release. x 2 realeases per year. $138.00 Shipping: $15.00 per boxed set 30.00 The Club $10 per month x 12 (Remember, you need to belong to the $10 per month club to get Staroffice 6.0) 120.00 - Cost of Mandrake, per year: $288.00 Congratulations. For the home user, the cost of ownership of Mandrake has exceeded the cost of Win2k. If you buy the boxed set, don't you get SO6.0? No need to join the club to get it, so that would be double-counting. The club seems to be targeted to those that used the download CD's. I don't fault them for making money, but their management of their own business has been inconsistent and, well, conterproductive at times; they may yet survive it. I hope they do. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VMWare 3.0 and mdk 8.2
help. Has anyone been able to make VMWare work on mdk 8.2 or have any idea of what is going on with VMWare's planned support for mdk 8.2? I haven't yet installed VMware, but it's nice to see that Netraverse already has Mandrake 8.2 kernels at their site. 8) Thanks, Mandrake and Netraverse. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IRQ Conflicts
On Thursday 14 March 2002 05:08 am, you wrote: I have a tyan too with no hardware problem. you can share interrupt remember if you want to use both, it depends on your needs if you want to share different lan, or you want act as a bridge, or one ADSL other local net Thanks. The server is replacing a quad Xeon SCO box used for a hospital. There are two networks and the hospital uses a thin-client topology, so network performance is important. The shared interrupts are compromising the networking performance. Or if those are working, the disk access is compromised. Neither is good. One solution may be to disable the onboard NIC and use a dual port NIC. If Tyan had not disabled the ability in the BIOS to allocate IRQ per slot, this would not be a problem. (Why would they do this on a server class mobo? They don't have a clue.) Tyan S2466 motherboard 4 GB ECC RAM 3COM 905 built-on-motherboard Radeon 7XXX AGP 3COM 905 PCI32 bit Adaptec 29160 SCSI 64 bit, 66Mhz Adaptec 3410S RAID 64 bit, 66Mhz The board has 4 32 bit 33Mhz PCI slots and 2 64 bit 66Mhz slots (those for the SCSI controllers). The built-in 3Com pretends to be on slot 8 BTW, as a warning to all, The current mobo BIOS has a bug that causes the selection of ECC RAM to crash the boot process. The OS is Mandrake 8.2-RC1 with the Enterprise kernel. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Curious Dmesg line.
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 02:35 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:11:24 +0100 Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: All, I'm getting the following line in dmesg EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Now the reason I'm curious is because all of my partitions (except swap) are reiserfs. Any thoughts? No sweat the box works... just curious. James It's possible its your initrd image. Ithik these are e2. Ok, no sweat wonder how you fsck an intrd? *grin* It should be turned off for the initrd filesystem. That should be done during the creation of the filesystem. If it's not been done that way, this would be a minor bug. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IRQ Conflicts
A friend is attempting to run Mandrake on a Tyan dual proc board with two NICs. He has an irq conflict with one NIC and the video card. Tyan has removed accesss in teh BIOS to set IRQs per slot. the cards can not be set manually. Tyan tech help suggests Windows XP - no help there. Any way to fix this in Linux? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IRQ Conflicts
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 11:35 pm, you wrote: Well, it could be a non-problem--set PnP ON and ACPI OFF and move the cards around to different slots. No option in the BIOS to do this on the Tyan board. Is there a LILO command for it? The two NICs should easily share an interrupt. By moving the cards around, we finally got the two nics to share IRQ 5, but neither coudl be initialized. When one NIC shared with video, we got about 8% packet loss. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IRQ Conflicts
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 11:44 pm, you wrote: Tyan's dual NICs are usually onboard 3c980's One on-board is a 3Com, so is PCI NIC, same chipset. -- Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] New Entries for MenuDrake?
Can MenuDrake accept new menu entries from the command line, as in fed from a script? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Updates
On Monday 11 March 2002 03:43 pm, you wrote: But you do not need to do it that way. If you are fairly sure that you will have no unsatisfied depends and/or conflicts then: mount /mnt/cdrom and: cd /mnt/cdrom or the directory if you created such on the cdrom. Then do: rpm -Uvh *rpm This will install all the rpms on the cdrom. Or better, install them with urpmi. That will handle any dependencies. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Nothing is impossible to the man that doesn't have to do it himself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB mouse - only verticaal cursor movement
On Monday 11 March 2002 09:48 pm, you wrote: Do you have a USB-to-PS/2 adapter? I had that problem with the Logitech Cordless MouseMan+ that came with my Freedom Pro Cordless set, plugged it into PS/2, and it worked flawlessly, wheel and all. You could try fiddling with the protocol, but I just gave up instead. (This is actually on a Debian system, but the core subsystems involved should work the same.) I have had trouble with mine (Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical) in 8.0 and 8.1 until I turned devfs off. Works fine now as long as the batteries are good (about 60 days). -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Nothing is impossible to the man that doesn't have to do it himself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux flavours
On Sunday 10 March 2002 05:33 am, you wrote: Hi. I am just wondering , why u guys are using mandrake over other linux flavour . Can u guys tell me the advantages, I started by installing RedHat 5.1 and the concurrent versions of Debian, Slackware and SuSE. I was most successful with Red Hat, but as I gained experience with it, I wound up having a number of patches and fixes and tweaks that I applied to it. Mandrake 5.2 solved most of these problems for me, espcially since I like KDE and Red Hat selected GNOME for their default desktop. Since then, I have enjoyed the feature set of Mandrake, including its ability to autodetect my hardware and set a number of features up automagically. There are, of course, still tweaks and fixes to apply. Recently, while writing three chapters for the current Red Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed, I had the opportunity to revisit Red Hat and frankly did not care for what I experienced. Mandrake offers a much more polished desktop user experience. I also gained a renewed appreciation for the Mandrake suite of configuration tools. For now, Mandrake continues to be a good choice because they continue to focus on the user interface and the automation of tasks with as much fervor as they focus on including the latest and greatest; the best of both worlds. If I had to give up Mandrake, though, it would probably be for SUSE. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com There are no dumb questions; only dumb bosses. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] doing package selection over and over again
On Sunday 10 March 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: Is there a feature that allows me to save my package selections? On the screen where you do the package selections is an icon of a floppy disk. Click on it. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com There are no dumb questions; only dumb bosses. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Privileges troubles
On Saturday 02 March 2002 08:52 am, you wrote: I want my girl-friend to be able to log in and play dvds, but I'd prefer not to give her the root password and ask her to type command lines Tried to give the script SUID flag, owned by root: it is still executed with the end-user privilege sudo -- Hoyt http://wwwmaximumhoytcom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal
On Thursday 28 February 2002 02:12 am, you wrote: but when you are in a 25 mph zone a Ferrari is as fast as a Kia How much cpu power does it take to write an e-mail! James True And in response to an earlier post, Mandrake 70-486 is two years old the best part of m,asndraske are the admin and config tools -- much improvement in two years And kernel improvements? How about using reiserfs? And later 486 boards has PCI slots, so one could use a USB card with them It seems for 486 boxes, Red Hat (or SuSE) is the way to go -- Hoyt http://wwwmaximumhoytcom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal
On Thursday 28 February 2002 08:10 am, you wrote: James wrote: True enough that a 486 isn't a speed deamon However my 486 amd running at 100mhz can run win98 and win2000 so why not kde? or Gnome (in fact it does it rather well I might add) Amen! My 50 Mhz 486 with 8 MB (Gateway Colorbook) runs Word 97 on Win95 acceptably! Randy Kramer OT - And if you install Windows on those boxes using www98litenet, the things just scream -- Hoyt http://wwwmaximumhoytcom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [expert] GUI tool for floppy diskettes
On Thursday 28 February 2002 08:28 am, you wrote: Is there GUI tool in Mandrake 81 that can be used to copy diskettes? Floppy Formatter, aka kfloppy Also drakfloppy This was probably addressed in the Mandrake User's Guide -- Hoyt http://wwwmaximumhoytcom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [expert] Flashing my Video Card
On Thursday 28 February 2002 06:32 pm, you wrote: Hi! i'm quite sure there is a possibility to flash my bios with linux perhaps with dd i have no fear damaging my video card so any suggestions are welcome There's always FreeDOS to run the manufacturers DOS flash program It's used in dosemu -- Hoyt http://wwwmaximumhoytcom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 08:52 pm, you wrote: /tmp10 GB Watch this because nasty things happen if /tmp is full, like the fonts server not running /home 10 GB (I am the only user) You _think_ it will be enough, but it never is -- Hoyt http://wwwmaximumhoytcom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[expert] Re: [Cooker] wine .....??
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 11:27 am, you wrote: If you have problems, then get rid of Mandrake's wine and use Codeweavers' instead. Or if you want to pay US$19.95 for Codweavers Crossover Plugin, you get the cery cool plugin support for Linux and a slightly newer WINE than is in Codweavers WINE 1.0 and it works just fine as your regular WINE. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Default Sound Card with two cards
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 07:51 am, you wrote: Hi, I have a machine with two soundcards I seem to get sound mainly though the motherboard soundcard and occasionally through the sound blaster. How do I force all sound to go through the sound blaster I tried changing the symlink /dev/dsp from /dev/sound/dsp to /dev/sound/dsp1 and that got most sound through the sound blaster but some still through the mother board. Disable sound on mobo? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Multihead KDE desktop issues
I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and KDE with a dual head Matrox G450 video card ; each head is an independen desktop (no xinerama). I am unable to change the font for the desktop icons, nor change the font size or color using kcontrol. I've looked at the config files in .kde, but I don't see an obvious place to make any changes. Any pointers? Thanks, Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 12:32 pm, you wrote: Um...guys? there is a version of Mandrake that came out for the 486. It was released as Mandrake 7.0 about a year or so ago. Sure. i have it, but it's -- 7.0 -- -- Hoyt wellyeah but if all you've got is a 486 at least it's Mandrake. I don't know if I could ever go back to anything earlier then 8.1 since I've been using it. My suggestion would be for Mandrake to compile it and offer it only through the Mandrake Store or Club for $10 and find some way (even voluntarily) to keep it off ftp servers. I'd pay the $$ to support Mandrake and get a distro of that quality that will work on a 486. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal
On Monday 25 February 2002 10:01 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:12:41 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:16:46 -0500 gnerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with you, Hoyt, re: the 486 version of Mandrake. There's still a lot of legacy hardware out there that could use the Mandrake ease of use touch with optimized performance. They'd probably have to ditch X and go with some kind of SVGA solution (or maybe port one of the PDA Xes), but IMO it would be worthwhile. There's always TinyX. I've used it on a 4MB 486 laptop and a 16MB 386 (see LinuxFormat Dec/Jan issues). Um...guys? there is a version of Mandrake that came out for the 486. It was released as Mandrake 7.0 about a year or so ago. Sure. i have it, but it's -- 7.0 -- -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 On Older Hardware
On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:33 am, you wrote: Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any tips on installing Mandrake 8.1 on older hardware. I acquire a lot of Pentium I boxen, that I like to attack with Linux, and have recently been having trouble installing Mandrake 8.1 on machines with less than 64Mb of RAM, and the like. If they are all similar, do an install on one machine (add ram temporarily) and configure it properly (or pull the drive, mount it in a machine that can do an install and move it back). Then you can boot the other machines from a floopy-based distro like tomsrtbt, set up partitions and whatnot, clone original install over the network. Or, use mkCDrec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/) to create a CD-based clone and install it on the other machines. This would be my choice for a lot of boxes conigured the same way, especially with CD burners in the US$100 range. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx
On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:16 pm, you wrote: You could also use Xtart. Which will show you a curses menu of the WM's installed and allow you to select which one to use. I've been using it for a couple months now, I like it. What package provides Xtart? Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian?
I'd rather see the effort put into a 486 version of Mandrake than into a Debian-Mandrake. I'd rather see APIC support fixed. I'd rather see the Auto Install Floppy option fixed. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] devfs, hdc=ide-scsi (Mdk 8.1) and the symbolic link /dev/cdrom
On Monday 25 February 2002 01:44 am, you wrote: pmi fi;e I have recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1 (better later than never). This has caused me problem with the handling of my CDROM drive and CD-writer on my computer; I have both, the CDROM is /dev/hdc and the CD-writer /dev/hdd. I prefer to have both drives being emulated SCSI using ide-scsi. I therefore have hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi among my load options to the kernel. This creates the SCSI devices just fine. However, the symbolic link /dev/cdrom gets wrong; it points to the non-existing /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 rather than /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 or /dev/cdroms/cdrom3. It appears that this link is maintained by devfsd. However, do I tell it to link it to the correct file? /Peter try turning off devfs by adding devfs=nomount to the append line in lilo.conf -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HELP HELP HELP REPOSTED AGAIN
On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:45 am, you wrote: Hi All I can see why people get so p*** off with lists, especially cooker which your mail gets blocked if the word help is used. I can undesrtand why they'd do something like that - cooker is not a help list, per se. It's there to assist with the distro development, not solve general problems for regular users. And posting in all caps is considered shouting, so that may get you ignored as well. And, as a general rule, posts with help' scattered liberally throughout the Subject line tend to be from people who haven't read the man page or the docs, haven't searched the list archives, haven't done a web search, and in general haven't expended any effort o their own behalf to solve their own problem. We're all guilt of that at times becase the effort to reserach a solution may be disproportionate to the problem itself and it is easier to tap a guru on the shoulder and get a quick answer. And all this is not to belittle your request for help. If your problem is really with a cooker kernel and a problem trying to recomplie the current cooker kernel because of some problem with it, re-state your request and ask the cooker list (without shouting HELP). But if the problem appears to be operator error and not a cooker problem, you'll likely not get an answer. I haven't complied a kernel in a few years, but from what you posted, it looks like you're having a dependency problem with the 3rd party apps, even if you deselect them all in the config file. Try moving the /usr/src/linux/3rdparty directory somewhere else and see what happens and use make distclean or make mrproper (I forget which one is appropriate it's been so long, so you'll have to look that one up). If you still have trouble and need to use a ptached kernel, try patching the official kernel sources and not the already heavily patched Mandrake sources. I never had much luck tryng to patch them. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HELP HELP HELP REPOSTED AGAIN
On Saturday 23 February 2002 07:56 am, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:27, Hoyt wrote: I haven't complied a kernel in a few years, but from what you posted, it looks like you're having a dependency problem with the 3rd party apps, even if you deselect them all in the config file. Try moving the /usr/src/linux/3rdparty directory somewhere else and see what happens and use make distclean or make mrproper (I forget which one is appropriate it's been so long, so you'll have to look that one up). I tried moving the 3rdparty directory, all that happens there is that make config, or make xconfig fail on startup as that directory is used. Then you'll have to try something else. As for posting to the cooker list I cant due to some obnoxios premadonna who dos'nt like the word help being used. Not using the word HELP in the subject line seems to be the way to go then. They've patched the mandrake kernel so much there is only a handfull of people now, that can successfully compile it...,thats not development . Can you compile the unaltered Mandrake sources? If so, then it's what you are doing or the incompatability of the patch (to mandrake sources) that is the problem. the process of development is to product a stable working product, and not to have a private little club. No, it's to have a working product the way the Mandrake developers want it. If you want something different, you're on your owm -- that choice is what Linux and free software are all about. My advice? Patch the generic kernel sources. If that fails, double-check your methodology and if your methodology is correct, contact the person who wrote the patch. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything
On Saturday 23 February 2002 08:14 am, you wrote: I am having a sale on bullets this week On Friday 22 February 2002 19:37, you wrote: On Friday 22 February 2002 18:04, you wrote: I GIVE UP ON COMPUTERS, LINUX AND EVERYTHING Waste of a good bullet. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HELP HELP HELP REPOSTED AGAIN
On Saturday 23 February 2002 10:39 am, you wrote: suggest then ? None. Can you compile the unaltered Mandrake sources? If so, then it's what you are doing or the incompatability of the patch (to mandrake sources) that is the problem. last kernel that compiled was 2.4.16 without problems 2.4.17-20mdk fails on make dep on the 3rdparty section, so its not the patch I added. the process of development is to product a stable working product, and not to have a private little club. No, it's to have a working product the way the Mandrake developers want it. If you want something different, you're on your owm -- that choice is what Linux and free software are all about. My advice? Patch the generic kernel sources. If that fails, double-check your methodology and if your methodology is correct, contact the person who wrote the patch. I'm downloading the generic kernel now, and compiled it. The 3rdparty section is a mandrake addon, screwup, whatever. Is it too much to ask who ever put patched that on to the generic kernel how to compile it . Well, the trick is to find out what was cjanged to make teh patch no longer work. I've had that problem with Win4Lin patches against the Mandrake kernel. If the mandrake kernel gurus add something, they should at least support it. They just don't seem to be supporting what _you_ want. Big difference. As I said this should have been posted to cooker, but they dont like to sort out the mess they make, and block mailing. Have they blocked all _your_ posts or just the ones with HELP in it? If so, then just repost, but use less confrontational language and: 1. Tell them what you are trying to do (give them a link to the patch). 2. Tell them how you've done it. 3. Tell them what happened 4. Tell them what steps you've taken to try to solve the problem. 5. Remember that they _owe_ you nothing. Good luck. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
