from:"J. Grant"

Hi Rob

on the 22/03/03 06:25, Rob Blomquist wrote:
I was able to solve my PS2 mouse/CD burning problem by shifting the 
mouse to USB.

But here's the catch. I was unable to use mousedrake to configure it. 
It kept complaining that no usb bus found\n at /usr/sbin/mousedrake 
line 54. Bull, I type this with a USB mouse configured with 
modprobing input.o, mousedev.o and rebooting my system, which found 
it during hardware detection (hey I thought I didn't ever have to 
reboot!)

Now, I am trying to get this to be a proper wheel mouse which it was 
as a PS2 mouse, but as a USB mouse I can't get the wheel detected.

I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config in the Pointer section:
from:
Section Pointer
Protocol IMPS/2
Device /dev/psaux  
ZAxisMapping 4 5 
EndSection
to:
Section Pointer
Identifier USB Mice #added 03/21/03
Protocol IMPS/2
#   Device /dev/psaux  #commented out 03/21/03
Device dev/input/mice #added 03/21/03
ZAxisMapping 4 5 #quotes added 3/21/03
Buttons	  5 #added 03/21/03
EndSection

With this, I still don't get a wheel mouse. I have the wheel button 
functioning, but not the wheel motion.
I have:

Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse1
Driver mouse
Option Protocol IMPS/2
Option Device /dev/usbmouse
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
Mine is Logitech USB too, works fine with scroller


This XF86Config file differs from the ones I have previously seen. 
where are the quotes around the names of the fields? What about the 
quotes around 4 5 has Mandrake changed things? Or am I behind the 
times. what should my pointer section say to get this mouse to work 
right?


man XF86Config should include info on the quote issue, i think they are 
required, but there are many alias's that are valid here.

Cheers

JG





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Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

I installed with rpm -Uvh, it still wiped out my other kernel in
lilo.conf and /boot
eg

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-2.4.19mdk
root=/dev/hde2
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi
vga=788
read-only
but in /boot
vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
So its still not working mdksoft, is this an known issue? Is anyone
working on a fix for it?
Cheers

JG







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Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

Hi James,

Thanks for the reply.

on the 22/03/03 18:53, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 06:29, J. Grant wrote:
I installed with rpm -Uvh, it still wiped out my other kernel in
lilo.conf and /boot
the -U is why... don't upgrade kernels install them with -i  this will
put everything in parallel.   One thing you will need to do is change 


rpm -ivh is what I did first, this wiped out all my lilo.conf settings, 
and changed vmlinuz sym link.

I had to re-add my old kernel to the lilo.conf file.  shouldnt the 
install avoid removing the current kernel?
In my case it seems lilo.conf was all setup with vmlinuz, so perhaps it 
would be better for failsafe


image=/boot/vmlinuz to image/boot/vmlinuz.2-x.x.x.xmdk where this
matches the kernel for that lilo entry. Then do the same for initrd
changing it specifically to the one you need rather than the symlink.  
ok, i specified my initrd by full filename rather than sym link.

Cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] ISO image from 1.2Gb folder

dar can make split archives, so can zip

write a script to do that, then burn the 2 isos.

or buy a dvd-r and avoid the issue :)

JG

on the 22/03/03 21:25, Gonzalo Avaria wrote:
Hi experts, 
i would like to make a simple question, but i've been looking everywhere for 
the answer.

I would like to make 2 iso images, of 700Mb each, from a 1.2Gb data folder.

that is, i want to cop my 1.2 Gb folder into 2 Cd's, but with mkisofs making 
the automatically, not having to move the files into 2 folders and then 
making the iso files.
I know that there is a option to make the iso's images of a desired size, but 
couldn't find it anywhere.

That's all, thanks for your time.

PS: I would apreriate if you answer quikly, because i will be only this 
weekend with a CD-R/RW device on my hands.





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Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

Hi Vincent and others,

Thanks for the help so far.

After rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk I have found even though I am not 
booting it, my system is not stable.  in X/KDE the whole system has 
crashed twice today when loading ~30MB text files.  Which never happend 
before.  I can not ssh in to reboot, nothing is responsive except 
sysrq+alt+shift+ctrl etc, so i sync, unmount, reBoot again.

this is the line I use to boot.

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
label=linux2.4.19
root=/dev/hde2
read-only
optional
vga=normal
append= devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
Oddly USB is working slightly better than it used to with this kernel today!

Is there any reason my my computer could be crashing frequently in the 
old, working kernel?

I also have been trying to get kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk running ok, as an 
alternative, so I booted into kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk then:

Some things I can not install though

[EMAIL PROTECTED] now3d]# rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)   is needed by kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] now3d]# rpm -e kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
kernel-headers   is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk
kernel-headers = 2.2.1 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk
I did not want to break it, so I have not installed them.  I wanted to 
install them so I can rpm --rebuild the nvidia kernel driver so X will 
work..

Cheers

JG


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[expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

Hi,

I have been searching for a newer kernel on:

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS
rpmfind.net
However, I can not find a 2.4.20 rpm.  Are there rpms for mdk anywhere 
on the net?

I found the cooker ISO's:

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/i586

However I just wanted a newer kernel rpm. With that local root, and some 
RAID updates etc

Could someone direct me to an rpm for mdk9 please?

Cheers

JG



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Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

Hi Jack,

rpmfind.net has difficulty indexing Mandrake's RPMs -- try searching for
kernel-2.4 instead of kernel.
Thanks for tip. However, 2.4.19 is the newest i can find on rpmfind still.

Cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

Hi James,

   The 9.1 kernel may or may not run as is on your box... The odds are
better than 50 50 HOWEVER I've heard of a number of people who have
built the 9.1 kernel on 9.0 without a problem. I would recommend doing
just this.. get the source build the kernel.  
Ok, getting this now, thanks.

jack,

The kernel will run without the kernel source installed though won't it? 
But I guess that would stop me compiling other apps on the upgraded machine?

Cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

I've installed the rpm now.  What I am really surprised about is that it 
wipes out the old ones config.  So if there had been a problem my 
computer would not have booted.  Is there a reason for this mdksoft?

Cheers

JG

I had to add this at the end again just incase there was a problem.

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
label=linux2.4.19
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
optional
vga=normal
append= devfs=mount
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img

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Re: [expert] hard disk duplication and partition growth

2003-03-19 Thread J. Grant

Sounds like you want cp -dpr, info cp gives you more details.

cheers

JH

on the 19/03/03 12:28, Christopher Joseph wrote:
First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on 
the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been 
able to trawl for past questions regarding the same topic properly.

The problem:

I have bought a new 80 Gb ATA133 Hard disk for my desktop running 
mandrake linux. I would like to migrate some of the partions on the 
existing disk to the new disk and then 'grow' the remaining partitions 
to fill the original disk.

I tried moving /home, /usr and /var on to the new disk by simply using 
SU on konqueror and simply copying the files accross. I them altered 
/etc/fstab to mount the new partitions at reboot.

BUT - the copy process changed a lot of permissions and all kinds of 
things have errored


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[expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?

2003-03-17 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

I was tempted by the lure of a digital video recorder.

I found this http://www.geocities.com/slothmud/VCR-HOWTO-3.html
It seems great, my tv card is working fine with xawtv, so i checked vcr 
out.  However, there are so many deps, I cant even get the avifile src 
on this site to build, (seems automake files are corrupted).  main 
avifile.sf.net does not build either, until i install some other libs 
etc. Fianlly failed with

make[3]: *** No rule to make target `pci_db2c.awk', needed by 
`pci_dev_ids.c'.  Stop.

http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr/index.html?page=download

I downloaded the avifile rpms from plf, but they need even more
Has anyone used vcr with mdk9 ? Are there any rpms floating around?
Seems even the extra rpms I installed are now out of date too:

win32-codecs-1.0-1plf
xine-win32-0.9.13-8plf
Has anyone got it to build from scratch ?

Cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-08 Thread J. Grant

I have a computer with only 128MB ram, it chuggs along very slowly in X 
Windows. in fstab there is a /tmp tempfs ramdisk, I commented it out so 
that it now uses the root /tmp.  However, performace is still about the 
same, odd considering there should be about 64MB of ram extra available. 
 Any ideas on speeding up this computer with only 128MB ram (more ram 
is not an option unfortunatly as the mobo has a broken socket, and 256MB 
ram does not work in the remaining socket).

Cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] Any CVS wizards out there?

2003-03-07 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

I have a different problem, I'm just hijacking james's thread though :)

I have been unable to get cvs diff -uN to work, the -N flag should 
include new files in the patch.  I can not add files to the local 
repository with cvs add which I believe I should be able to. I do not 
have a cvs account on this project, so i just checkout as guest.  It is 
wierd that cvs add does not work, and the -N flag does not work 
either.  cvs server and client are both under a few weeks old.

Any tips welcome.

Cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-05 Thread J. Grant

Hi Keith,

Using HTTPS is much more secure than sending via post. I am also in the 
UK, I have never been the victim of online fraud.  However before the 
net revolution some one did charge my CC and it was refunded.  All 
online CC have a garentee against fraud just like anything else.

MDK could support paypal etc, but I am sure that would still leave some 
one out CC is still the best option.

Cheers

JG

p.s. can I pay in half used phone cards? If not, why not!?

on the 05/03/03 15:55, Keith Powell wrote:
I agree that the boxed sets should be made available before the download 
version. Possibly four weeks before would be a good timescale.

However, I can see problems with making a version available for club members 
to download at the same time as the boxed versions are available.

This assumes that all club members have broadband and are able to do the large 
download. Those members with only a slow dial-up connection would be 
penalised.

On a slightly separate issue, Mandrake Club really should get their act 
together and make it easier for prospective members to join. They will only 
accept payment by sending credit card details over the internet, or by FAX. 
This makes it a very difficult decision for people who either have no credit 
card, or who, like me will not send my credit card details either over the 
internet or by the equally open FAX. They will not even accept credit card 
details sent by a much more secure letter.

A small Canadian firm from whom I buy things, will accept payment by any of 
the above methods, and also by a cheque made out in GB Pounds for the current 
rate of exchange between Canadian Dollars and Pounds.

So come on, Mandrake, if they can do it to help customers, so can you!  

Just my thoughts.





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Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread J. Grant

I use netstat -ntl

JG

on the 05/03/03 23:46, Simon Prosser wrote:
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On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 11:34 pm, Jim C wrote:
I remember asking this question a couple of months ago but I can't
remember the answer, or find the email, to save my life.
What is a simple but sure way to find out if a specific port is open on
a specific interface?
Jim C.
yes there is...

netstat

hth


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Re: [expert] ML9.0 installation fails on step 'Hard drive detection'(WDC WD800AB-00CBA1)

2003-03-05 Thread J. Grant

Is it SCSI then? I thogught it was IDE

I have:
hde: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
Works ok, as long as I set it as udma2 in the bios, have you done this? 
have you checked its got the right jumper settings?

Cheers

JG

on the 05/03/03 22:07, Andreas Weiss wrote:
hi,

the installation of ML9.0 on a new PC hangs on the step
Hard drive detection -- starting step 'setupSCSI'
with no error messages.
The harddisk is a Western Digital WDC WD800AB-00CBA1.
I can install Suse Linux, but only with the kernel parameters:
ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off
With ML these parameters didn't help. noapic didn't help either.
Can anybody help? Thanks!

Andreas


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Re: [expert] UT2003 help?

2003-03-02 Thread J. Grant

Have you tried running it in gdb ? then doing what ever you do to make 
it SIGSEGV
I've found div-by-zero and other bugs this way.

Cheers

JG

on the 02/03/03 15:23, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote:

If you are the one with the different drivers, try and isolate that by
dropping back to theirs.  If it is not the drivers, it sounds like it could
also be a heat issue  ie, program segfaults when things get a little warm.
What's the cooling like on your machine?
Hi Greg. I've tried both 3123 and 4191 drivers. I also ran memtest for about 
12 hours/24 passes on my 512 megs of DDR Ram. No errors reported. System temp 
is 27 C. CPU temp is 50 C. After 12 hours of running memtest, it was 52 C.

I've had the game segfault right after booting up, like 2 mins into the game, 
and I've had it run for 2 hours, with the machine having been on all day. In 
single player or across the LAN. Seems to be totally random. Tribes 2 and 
Rune also crash, back to the desktop. Whats really odd is that not even one 
of my WineX games, including a hog like Warcraft 3, crash. They all run 
perfectly.

These 3 games run fine under 9.0 on my 2 sons comps (Geforce 2 cards). I even 
tried renaming /lib/i686 to i686.old and copying their i686 folders to mine, 
then running ldconfig. Made no difference, same error.

I'm really at a loss.



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Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Samba-Only Windows Clients can write toshares

2003-03-02 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

I am not a samba expert, but could it be as simlpe as smbmount mounts 
read-only by default.  My /etc/fstab entries for my samba shares have rw set 
in the options.  I recall having to explicitly set this after install.
something like this should work.

//ps2/now3d /home/now3d/ps2 smbfs users,username=now3d,noauto 0 0

Then just type mount ps2 in your home dir.  Or u could set it to auto 
if u know the other machine is gona be on when it boots.

Always have users with the s if you want anyone to be able to mount 
it. That bugged me for a while b4 I found it in the man pages.

Cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-27 Thread J. Grant

Hi Civilme,

Thanks for the reply.


well first of all, if you can split ide drives to one per channel, that would 
be more efficient.  ONly one device per channel on IDE may be active, and two 
disks on the same channel really slows down disk-to-disk operations
ok, I will give this a go soon.

Next a DTLA and a DTTA on the same channel is a wide difference in timing 
specs.  This leaves enough room for echo bounce on a signal gating line to 
cause mischief.

It is not that hard to move a drive if the installed systems have the 
/etc/fstab modified  (of course with any winsystems we have a little more 
work) to recognize the new location.
no more winbloat here :)

The WD should not be paired on any channel with any other hard drive,because 
its timing is very strange compared to the others and data can be eaten by 
timing chatter.  It is safely default configured as you can see, peaked at 
udma2
ok, so is this what the linux kernel does when it boots up? it gives all 
those errors DriveSeek etc, then says device reset DMA disabled i think 
it was.

I would definitely try limiting the DTLA to udma2 as well --it appears to be 
set initially for udma3

the DTTA can go to udma4 or perhaps more.
in the hpt bios I noticed some strange config. WD80GB can be set upto 
UDMA2 only. DTLA 60GB can be set upto UDMA5 max, DTLA 10GB can be set 
upto UDMA2 max.  So it seems strange that the WD can not go upto a 
faster speed as its ata100 hpt etc.


drakopt is in /contribs these days, but it does an alternative test and setup 
for tuning, and it runs in python.  It may be able to set the drives where 
they run reliably.  It requires some manual asistance yet because I never had 
time to finish the parser for error messages nor to make the settings within 
2% of each other in tested speed brothers and to choose the brother with 
the highest noise immunity.  Still you might find the program useful for 
performing all the tests of various hdparm settings--none of those are 
dangerous to existing data.
i downloaded drakopt.  Unfortunatly it does not support my drives:



OPTIONS:
 (A)--Abort
 (N)--New (or you changed disks around)
 (C)--Continue from a previous run
Your Choice (N/c/a)
n
Drive WDCWD800BB00CAA1 not found in database
Attempting to use capabilities line in hdparm -i
Please report driveid to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Capabilities line not available this drive model
No optimizations possible this program
Drive IBMDTLA307060 not found in database
Attempting to use capabilities line in hdparm -i
Please report driveid to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Capabilities line not available this drive model
No optimizations possible this program
Drive IBMDTTA351010 not found in database
Attempting to use capabilities line in hdparm -i
Please report driveid to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Capabilities line not available this drive model
No optimizations possible this program


I tried it on my laptop and the same problem existed.  I emailed 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  with my aditions from my laptop and it bounced back. 
 Is there no maintainer now?  Are you still working on it at all?

I added my laptop drive to the config but it still would not run...



I strongly suspect a timing problem between the two IBM drives and I would 
suggest splitting them to different channels as a first step.  The slow 
performance appears to be a fallback setting from probable timing crosstalk.

Civileme




Also, there were some interesting logs about my system for you.  Strange 
that:
/dev/hdh1 /mnt/backup ext3 defaults,user,auto 1 2
only works when uncomented after boot, it will not mount at all during 
bootup for some reason.



Feb 23 12:50:34 now1g kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide3(34,65)
Feb 23 12:50:34 now1g mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad 
superblock on /dev/hdh1,
Feb 23 12:50:34 now1g mount:or too many mounted file systems
Feb 23 12:50:34 now1g netfs: Mounting other filesystems:  failed
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hdc: DMA disabled

Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS 
settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS 
settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hda: LG DVD-ROM DRD-8120B, ATAPI 
CD/DVD-ROM drive
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hdc: CR-48X5TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hde: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hdg: IBM-DTLA-307060, ATA DISK drive
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hdh: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 11
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide3 at 0xe000-0xe007,0xe402 on irq 11
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) 
w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(100)
Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g

Re: [expert] 9.1 party

Hi,

Sounds good, is it going to be in France then? or the UK? or somewhere 
in Europe?

Cheers

JG

tarvid wrote:
it is time to plan 9.1 release parties

i propose part celebration part installfest

we are planning to have a local mirror and a half dozen KVM stations for 
installs and a cd (maybe dvd) burning station running full blast

timing should be as close to release as feasible as that is when interest is 
highest

we would like participation to be high enough to build enthusiasm and 
confidence but small enough to give everyone adequate attention

we'll keep one machine reserved for MandrakeClub signups

i'd like to get this right so positive suggestions are welcome

jim tarvid




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Re: [expert] 9.1 party



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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:32 am, J. Grant wrote:
Hi,

Sounds good, is it going to be in France then? or the UK? or somewhere
in Europe?
I vote for a place that all members can agree upon...Downtown Baghdad.
Heh, well if mdk9.1 gets delayed by a few months it should be a safe venue.

Out of interest are there many UK mandrake users on this list?

I've never heard of a UK specific gnu/linux distrib, has any one else?

(reply just to me if you feel its off topic)

cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] 9.1 party


I'm in UK.
As for a UK distro... I once heard of something called Eridani
Starsystems .. I think. Was more of a redistribution of Red Hat with
some of the latest software. And I never used it.
ah, checked their website, they are using RH6.2 as their base.  I think 
i'll give it a miss, supporting the French is more fun :)

JG


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OT Re: [expert] 9.1 party

hi

Jack Coates wrote:
A UK-specific distro is kinda scary, I'm imagining all this Austin
Powers theming going on :-) And of course it would have to use the
Slackware .tgz packaging system, just to be anachronistically different
than the EU...


heh, and we all still wear bowler hats and pin strip when we go to work 
in the city! not to forget the important umbrella, as its always raining!

Would be fun to try a Chinese distro, probably got anti capitalist msg 
in there somewhere.  What then would be a US theme?

Cheers

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Re: [expert] Playing DVDs, Part II

2003-02-23 Thread J. Grant

Hi Rob,

Basically installing these rpms from plf will work with your existing 
xine, with no extra config required!

xine_dmd_plugin-1.0.7-1plf
win32-codecs-1.0-1plf
libdvdcss2-1.2.3-1plf
libdvdcss-ogle0-0.0.3-9plf
xine-d5d-0.2.7-2plf
xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf
xine-win32-0.9.13-8plf
I also have the following installed from the mdk9 cds

libdvdread2-0.9.3-2mdk
libdvdread-utils-0.9.3-2md
Cheers

JG

ps click on d5d, d4d or NAV to select these plugins on the xine 
controls. Using the DVD button only works with region 0 disks



Rob Blomquist wrote:
I am all screwed up with ALSA, OSS, and aRts, so I put getting ogle 
running on the shelf.

It turns out that Xine is working pretty well, but I am getting an 
error message. I am using a test DVD of trailers that my wife got 
with a laptop containing a DVD-ROM.

I get an error message from Xine saying, There is no input plugin 
available to handle 'dvd://VIDEO_TS.VOB'.

What do I need to do to get an input plugin, or is this the end with 
xine, and I need to get back to my Ogle/Alsa configuration?




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Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant

Hi guys,

Thanks for the sugestions.

JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
Try this:

rpm2cpio rpm file  newfile.cpio
cpio -ivd  newfile.cpio
That should get you going...


Cool, thanks that worked.  compiled rpm does not seem to require a .spec 
file, the src had it though, so i know the ./configure line now :)

Rolf:  I checked in mc, it shows the .spec file but i can not extract it 
from there.  Unless i've missed something?

Cheers

JG


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Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

Thanks for the reply vox.

Vox wrote:
This time Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
becomes daring and writes:

On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:52 pm, J. Grant wrote:
Hi,

 If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show
 hidden files setting in windows explorer.
I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option.

I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it!

I had the same feeling, but couldn't find it.  Trust me - if you go into the 
folder properties and unselect 'show hidden file' all will be well.  I had to 
do that :)
  How about sticking:

  hide dot files = yes

  in your [general] section? That works better :)


I don't have [general] but i put it in [global] and the dirs/files still 
show up in windows as hiden dirs.  So maybe i still have to hide hidden 
folders, but thats not something I want to do really..

JG


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Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

Thanks for the reply David.

David Stevenson wrote:
hide dot files = yes
I added this to the [global] section of smb.conf.  However the dot 
files/dirs were still visible unless i configure hide dirs in windows.

veto files /^.*/
I added this too, but it gave a warning that it was unsupported on the 
console when ever I mounted one of my old machines on my LAN. does it 
only work with Version 2.2.6pre2 or later? (my other machine is Version 
2.0.10-ja-1.1)

Cheers

JG


Couple this with the Windows Explorer setting. Make sure you run the latest
version of Samba as there was an issue with the veto files token not working
correctly.
David.

-Original Message-
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Sent: 10 February 2003 15:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?
Hi,

If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show
hidden
files setting in windows explorer.
I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option.

I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it!

Cheers

JG







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Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm

2003-02-21 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

Does anyone know how to exract a .spec file from a compiled rpm?

I tried using cpio and some other stuff, but cant get it. rpm --rebuild 
sss.src.rpm is meant to put it in the SPECS dir, but it isnt there 
either.  Also there is one in the tgz of the soft, but thats generated 
for a different archiecture so I cant use that.

Cheers

JG

Jim C wrote:
Perhaps:

rpm -ba specfile

Ken Thompson wrote:


Can someone refresh my memory? I want to build an rpm from a src.prm 
and have forgotten the command.




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Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

Hi,

Todd Lyons wrote:

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Hash: SHA1

Praedor Atrebates wrote on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:48:15PM -0500 :


whatsoever, no beeps, no messages.  Logs are totally devoid of any 
information on the 2.4.19-24 kernel.  It is absolutely, totally, without 
doubt a dead, lifeless, useless, limp, cold kernel.  

Logs won't have anything until it boots up to a point where syslog
starts.


syslog does not seem to record everything sometimes...

I found creating a file /etc/rc.d/rc.log and modifiying the /etc/inittab 
to run this instead of rc.sysinit stored all those modprobe and hd dma 
timeout msg complete.

#!/bin/sh
/bin/mount /mnt/mc00
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 21 | tee /mnt/mc00/sysinit
/bin/umount /mnt/mc00


In my case mc00 was a memory card, using a 5MB ext3 partion should be 
ok, I would not wirte it to my root FS or home dir though (could corrupt 
it if the script went wrong), especially as mtab is not kept uptodate 
this low in the boot sequence.

Cheers


JG


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[expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

Hi,

I've got one Abit KT7 RAID MB system running stock mdk9 kernel.  Its running, however, the hd speed is slow because it only works with no dma etc. I am using the correct ata100 cables with only a single drive on each channel.

Has anyone else experienced this with this motherboard using the raid channels?

Cheers


JG


Journalled Block Device driver loaded
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide2: reset: success
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide2: reset: success



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Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

Hi,

Thanks for the info.

I did download the propreitary hpt370 kernel module, but it was only
binary and I could not get the root disk to work.  Perhaps I should try
a newer kernel than 2.4.19-16mdk, have you tried with the default mdk9
kernel on your board at all?

I have the latest bios for my board, I don't think much of highpoint's
support.

Cheers

JG



I see you have the hpt370 onboard controller.  Although not an exact 
match, I have hpt372 onboard Iwill XP-333R and it works well as an extra 
ide controller for me with the newer kernels in RC1 or in cooker.  Alan 
Cox's ide patches from 2.4.20-ac1 have been merged and it enables my 
controller to work this way w/o having to build Highpoint's driver for 
the first time.  Don't know if that carries over to your controller but 
someone said they use the same BIOS.  I am running the lates BIOS for my 
board, as well.




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Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

Hi,

Thanks for the quick replies drjung, civilme, rolf and sridhar.


 Jus wondering, have up updated ur bios.

Just wondering, are you using WD harddrives?

drjung



I was wondering the same thing.  I am aware that Andre Hedrick has campaigned 
for a while to keep WDs off of udma3 or higher because they don't exactly 
comply with the requirements for the CRC protocols for those speeds.

ANd My thoughts fall first to WD when I see {DriveReady SeekComplete} because 
that is the only brand on which I have seen it.

I'm using the latest hpt370 bios

This is my system spec atm.

Abit KT7-RAID (VIA chipset)
Award BIOS Ver 6.00PG (01/31/2002-8363-686A-6A6LMA19C-7N)
Highpoint RAID BIOS Ver 1.11.0402
Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 (rev 03)
Guilmott nVidia Corporation NV15 (Geforce2 GTS) (rev a4)
VT82C586B USB (rev 10)

I've noticed this problem for a while.. but not found the solution while 
looking.  It crashes twice a month or so, not sure if this is related. 
I've not lost any data.. yet...

Below I will paste dmesg and the hd spec. yes there is a WD one...

When booting bios if hardrive is on hda,hdb,hdc or hdd normal speed channe:

Primary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed.  It boots, and even 
with new cables I saw this error.  My fried also has this on another 
abit board, and his works ok too.  Not sure what it means though.


dmesg|less had lots of usb stuff and not much bootup, is this meant to 
be wiped out when the computer is running for a while?

usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 28, frame# 1427
usb-uhci.c: Host controller halted, trying to restart.

Also some hdh stuff

hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdg: DMA disabled
ide3: reset: success
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide3: reset: success
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
end_request: I/O error, dev 22:41 (hdh), sector 32
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide3: reset: success





here is the real  /var/log/dmesg file,
Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 
3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820:  - 000a (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0010 - 17ff (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 17ff - 17ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 17ff3000 - 1800 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820:  - 0001 (reserved)
383MB LOWMEM available.
Advanced speculative caching feature not present
On node 0 totalpages: 98288
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 94192 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.4.19mdk ro root=2102 devfs=mount 
hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1000.070 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1992.29 BogoMIPS
Memory: 386360k/393152k available (1176k kernel code, 6408k reserved, 
444k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff , vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff  
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check

Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?

2003-02-16 Thread J. Grant

If there is a jumper on the disk to reduce the size, try that (for 
testing), this might eliminate the possiblity that the drive is faulty. 
 Although it works in win2k, have you done a surface scan there?

It really does sound like its the kernel thats the problem though, you 
could search google and also upgrade your kernel, its over 5 months 
since mdk9 kernel came out now.

JG

Wolf N. Paul wrote:
I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk
working on my Mdk 9.0 system.

When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs
indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk
was virginal from the store, and now that I have created
a single large primary partition on it with Win2K.

If I append hdh=noprobe to the boot prompt, I can
boot the system, but the drive is not accessible.

If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the
drive just before the partition check, like so:

hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe

which corresponds to an example in the kernel source
Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing
happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec
sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web.

The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference
at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter
of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted.

Any hints? Any ideas?

Regards,

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Re: [expert] ML9.0: Fresh install, found one file 2 GB big, e2fsck-f -c /dev/hda2 returns errors:

2003-02-15 Thread J. Grant

Hi,


[root@mycom root]# e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2
e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
/dev/hda2 is mounted.
WARNING!!!  Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
SEVERE filesystem damage.

Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes


You did not remount your /dev/hda2 read-only, then you said yes when it 
warned you, this most likely caused the problem. Reboot into single user 
mode and do it them

mount  -o remount,ro /

this might not work if you have active processes runining, so kill off 
any that give problems.

Or you could put this code in your rc.sysinit before your system really 
starts I guess.

Cheers


JG


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Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could notfind mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-14 Thread J. Grant



e2fsck -f -c /dev/hdX can do it for you now, make sure you are in
single user mode though and your HD is mounted ro.


I already reinstalled ML9.0, but I tried on this new install 
e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2: and it returned a bunch of errors. And this 
is after a fresh install. I'll complain about this in another thread.

If they were badblock errors your HD has failed, replace it and your 
problems might go away.

JG


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Re: [expert] locales problem

2003-02-12 Thread J. Grant

I don't know why you have quotes, but anyway, is the output of locale 
any different?

you could edit your ~.i18n file, that :en seems uncessary too

check /etc/sysconfig/i18n too, might be something there.

Unless this is because you su instead of su - (using a real login as 
root)?

Cheers

JG

Steffen Barszus wrote:
I have a problem with the locales of my user. In root all is fine.Can someone 
give me a hint on what is wrong ?


]$ echo $LANG
de_DE

[steffen@ernie SPECS]$ urpmi
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = en_US:en,
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MONETARY = en_US,
LC_NUMERIC = en_US,
LC_MESSAGES = en_US,
LC_COLLATE = en_US,
LC_CTYPE = en_US,
LC_TIME = en_US,
LANG = de_DE
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C).

locales-de is installed, the $LANG value seems to be irrelevant, as I set 
de_DE per export LANG=...




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Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could notfind mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-12 Thread J. Grant

hi vatbier,


vatbier wrote:

civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


The X66 is safe to use as you have described it.  What is dangerous is
overdriving.

hdparm -k1 -d1 -X66 /dev/hda  (66:UDMA2)
I guess you mean if I change the hard drive setting with
DataLifeGuard and then do hdparm -d1 X69  (69:UDMA5) that
this is dangerous, or if I try to set it to UDMA6 (:133Mhz)?
Mandrake 9.0 uses UDMA5 automatically (without program hdparm),
is this configured on booting are is it written at installation of
ML9.0 in some configuration file?


mdk9 does not use UDMA5 by default.  Your HD/BIOS initalise themselves 
to what they consider to be the fastest stable speed and setttings etc

less /etc/sysconfig/harddisks

You can override what mdk9 has in that file to change stuff, default is 
often very slow.


What program in Mandrake 9.0 is responsible for this, or is it just
the kernel that figures out what the highest UDMA setting is?


man hdparm


Also, IIRC, DataLifeGuard phones home and gives you warning if your
drive is about to fail (and it works on non-WDs too).

DataLifeGuard is just an utility on a floppy disk, or does it
install a phone home program in Windows XP?


As for the variance of speed, consider this...

Ok, then I'll probably set it with hdparm to UDMA2.
Hm, where is the -k1 option for hdparm written to? man hdparm
doesn't talk about a configuration file.


it doesnt, you have to have it in /etc/sysconfg/hardisks or somewhere 
like /etc/rc.d/rc.local etc

a secondary cosmic ray is a significant noise source.  Not much charge
moves on those cables at the interface voltage in that time span.

secondary cosmic ray: didn't know it was that delicate, how are
IDE-cables protected on the Space Station and what speed would they
have?


They dont use WD drives for sure :)) i bet they use extra CRC checks on 
all their comms too.

You can download an ATA66 disable utility (windows compatible) for 
your WD.
I think this utility is also on the DataLifeGuard floppy disk
dlgudma.exe - Data Lifeguard Ultra ATA Management


I'm not sure why are considering this program as it will never work on 
GNU/Linux or GNU/Wine.

Something else I wonder:

A lot of system files (e.g. /usr/bin/play) disappeared, they were 
cleared
because of corruption (bad mode,deleted/unused inode,illegal character
device,...).
Did the corruption occur with these messages in syslog:
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in
system zone - block = 294914 ? What do these messages mean?

Did you install with a search for badblocks?

e2fsck -f -c /dev/hdX   can do it for you now, make sure you are in 
single user mode though and your HD is mounted ro.






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Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-10 Thread J. Grant

Hi,


If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden 
files setting in windows explorer.

I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option.

I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it!

Cheers

JG




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[expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-03 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

Its a trivial question, but i cant find the answer, could someone tell
me how to hide . prefixed dirs in samba please?

I remember seeing an option in smb.conf but I can see it in the mdk9 
version.

Regards

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Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-02-02 Thread J. Grant

Hi Gwenole,

Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, J. Grant wrote:


Could deps be created so that the dictionarys are installed and then 
configured automatically? This would save time for all users.

Deps already exist. Global configuration is already performed. i.e. 
updates to dictionary.lst.

Deps are broken for en_GB then, myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk is
not installed my my 2 mdk9 systems, I installed with en_GB as my locale.

So, I installed manually, but as there were still problems I tried to 
remove.

# rpm -e myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
myspell-dictionary is needed by OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk

The removal dep is there.

To be honest there should be no dep, but the dictionary it *should* be
selected for install automatically as this is user friendly.  The same
for rpm -e myspell* etc, if someone is trying to remove it it should be
allowed.

Also, myspell-en_CA-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk was installed on my system by
default! I did not select any en_CA locales during install or after.  I
just removed all OO and myspell-*, trying to install OO again required
the en_CA myspell dictionarys.  So another dep is broken.
myspell-en_JA-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk  was also required,  as I said above
I belive this should be selected for install, but not forced (i selected
JA as second locale during install).


OpenOffice.org-l10n-ca-1.0.1-9mdk  was not reqired to reinstall, this is 
atleast correct. Again myspell-en_CA-1.0.1-0.20020315.4mdk was installed 
though.

myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk was not selected for install by
rpmdrake, I installed it manually after.

I saw the rpm script that updated /usr/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst,
but if the rpm is not installed it won't matter that it is updated 
correctly.

Note that MySpell dictionaries are in /usr/share/dict/ooo/ so that 
our Mozilla can also see them.

Still the dictionary needs to be switched on internally in OO, I do not
know a work around for that one yet.


What do you mean by switched on internally in OOo? The user will enable 
dictionaries *he* wants and those that are actually available. I can't 
force a default for a user especially for a dictionary it wouldn't want 
and also because the dictionary wouldn't exist.

When OO is loaded it is neccessary to go to OO Tools- Options - Language
Settings -Writing Aids, select OO MySpell SpellChecker,  click edit
and enable for English(UK).

Also in OO the Tools- Options - Language Settings - Languages I have
to set Locale to English(UK) and Default language to English(UK).

The later is required to be set for each new document, for some reason
it is not saved; and the default is no western locale!

These are minor configuration problems compared to the other issues, but 
would
be very nice to have initalised with a sensible default, as MS-Word and
etc has.


If I install en_GB and I open en_GB OO documents, it is fair to assume I
would like to check them with an en_GB dictionary.  I think that is obvious.


Hopefully you can answer some of these queries and improve the next 
version of mdk.

Regards

JG


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Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-02-02 Thread J. Grant

Hi,


The Require is for AN myspell-dictionary not specifically en_CA.
That 1 happens to be the 1 installed by default because it is the 1st
listed en dictionary.

Had you installed a second myspell-dictionary you would have received no
error when you ran rpm -e myspell-en_GB


OK, I just tested.  So, the correct myspell should be selected for 
install, this seems simple to me, select from the locale of the 
installer.  What do you  think Gwenole?

Regards

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Re: [expert] Mozilla Language packs??

2003-01-10 Thread J. Grant

IE exported charsets have not been a problem for me.

make sure your fonts are installed in X etc.

Btw, sugest your translator uses mozilla/composer in ms-windows, then at 
least your html files you get from him will be clean.

I sugest you use UTF-8 for all your html files.


Regards

JG

Jason Greenwood wrote:
As a followup to my question, I have a question about translation done 
in MS word. We have a local translator who does website translation for 
us and they use MS Word with language support packs. The problem is, 
AFAIK this translation (once output to HTML by Word) is only viewable in 
IE with language support due to the proprietary nature of almost all MS 
shite. My question is, is there an OSS way of doing things?? Can I use 
OO or similar to create docs in other languages (then output them to 
html) that are cross browser compatible?? Is this possible or are my 
only options to use MS means and just expect people to use IE to view 
the docs in other languages?? The only other way I can see to do it is 
to take a screen shot from within Winblows and crop it and add the text 
as images to the docs. Then ALL browsers can see the images. I just 
wonder if there is not a better more oss friendly way to do things?? 
Besides, I don't want to have to use MS Word just to type text in other 
languages!!

Thanks for any advice.

Jason

Jason Greenwood wrote:

How do you install/download language packs for Mozilla?? I mean to 
DISPLAY pages created with different languages, not locals. If know 
there are language packs for Mozilla but these seem to change the 
language for all of Mozilla. I just want to be able to display text in 
other languages. For example, I remember way back when I used Winblows 
that if I visited a page I didn't have a language pack to display, IE 
would prompt to download the pack to display it. How does Moz handle 
it?? I went to a Korean site and it looks like gibberish (and not 
Korean gibberish either). Ideas??

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Re: [expert] Xawtv and UK tv channels

2003-01-10 Thread J. Grant

UK is PAL-M right?

JG

Lorne wrote:

Make sure you have the right frequency table set. I think it may default to 
us-cable. There are like 11 different choices. Long shot here. :)

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:11 am, Roger Munoz wrote:

Hi

I've have installed a hauppauge wintv card on my mandrake 9.0 system.

On install there were no problems encountered, but the problem is, when
i a channel scan nothing comes back!. The card works fine in windoze and
i can see all the UK channels in the London region. Is there any reason
why i cant pick up channels from the  London region (or any channel for
that matter !)  in mandrake?


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Re: [expert] X: 2 mouses with different speeds?

2003-01-10 Thread J. Grant

KDE has some configure options for this. However, i have the same 
problem as you. kde scale 0-10 i think it was anything more than 1 was 
too quick. and it goes up in steps of 1 ! i've emailed them, but no reply

JG

Robert Goshko wrote:
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:55, Joan Tur wrote:


-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I've modified XF86Config-4 in order for me to be able to use both integrated 
(it's a laptop) and usb mouses, and it now works.

The problem is that the usb mouse moves too fast.  How can I slow only the usb 
one?  8-?


I have a similar config, but I have listed my USB mouse first in the
XF86Config-4 file, I'm not sure if this would make a difference, but
both mice are usable and I do not have any speed problems.

Hope this helps.

Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse1
Driver mouse
Option Protocol IMPS/2
Option Device /dev/usbmouse
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse2
Driver mouse
Option Protocol PS/2
Option Device /dev/psaux
Option Emulate3Buttons
Option Emulate3Timeout 50
EndSection






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[expert] Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-01-06 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

The dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution. Is there a 
reason for this? They should be installed for all the locales selected 
during the install process I beleive.

Currently I have to setup OOodi to download and install english 
dictionarys, North american english is the only dictionary supplied with 
mdk.

Regards

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[expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-01-06 Thread J. Grant

Hello Gwenole,

Thanks for the reply.

Could deps be created so that the dictionarys are installed and then 
configured automatically? This would save time for all users.

Still the dictionary needs to be switched on internally in OO, I do not 
know a work around for that one yet.

Regards

JG

Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, J. Grant wrote:



The dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution. Is there a
reason for this? They should be installed for all the locales selected
during the install process I beleive.



Dictionaries for OOo are in the MDK distribution. Look at myspell-*
packages. Note packages are installed but not configured. This is up to
the user to enable which dictionary to use.






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Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0

2002-12-30 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

Sounds like you are nearly there.

How about adding a line to your fstab with auto as the fstype?

Also dd if=/dev/sda of=dump; then take a look at the FS, maybe its not 
formated? or corrupted? try inserting a card before switching on the 
machine...

Also try the adapter in another usb machine, and I assume you got other 
usb devices working on this machine? Also try another CF card incase 
thats the problem.

if all else fails get a pccard adapter and access that way on a laptop, 
thats what I do.

Regards

JG

Jason wrote:
Hi all,

Hope you can help. Now we're getting somewhere!! I unplugged the device 
AGAIN and rebooted. Went through the steps again and this time it 
created the devfs entry...but with errors in the log (/var/log/messages):

Dec 30 11:27:17 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1, 
assigned address 2
Dec 30 11:27:17 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 
0xd7d/0x240) is not claimed by any active driver.
Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for 
USB product d7d/240/100
Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel:   Vendor:   Model: USB Card 
Reader   Rev: 1.06
Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel:   Type:   
Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at 
scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 
0, driver = 08
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not 
present
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 
bytes, disk size 1GB.
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: 
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk 
read failed.
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2
Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel:  unable to read partition table

Weird is says medium not present since I had a SM card in the reader 
when I mounted it!! I had to do the sd_mod straight away or the usb 
would time out. Anyway, once I did this I tried to mount it:

[root@localhost jason]# modprobe sd_mod
[root@localhost jason]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/cf
/dev/sda: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

So I tried several ways:
[root@localhost jason]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/cf
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
  or too many mounted file systems
[root@localhost jason]# mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt/cf
/dev/sda: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@localhost jason]#

I used vfat cause I know these crap readers use fat by default.

Why can't I mount the bugger!!?!@#$%^ =)

Cheers

Jason

J. Grant wrote:

Well have you got the usb modules loaded? And i assume there are other 
working usb devicies? you do not mention if your mouse is listed.

If not get the lastest libusb recompile the latest kernel too.


JG

Jason wrote:

Ok, I am still having problems so I hope someone can help me out 
here. I had a look in:
|/proc/bus/usb/devices|
and there is nothing in there, even after plugging in the device. 
This tells me that the kernel is not recognizing the device right?? 
If so, how do I rectify this?? This device is SUPPOSED to be 
supported under Linux so I just need a nudge in the right direction.

Cheers

Jason

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Re: [expert] mldonkey, kazaa, emule

2002-12-29 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

2.0.3 kazaalite crashed like this for me, but 1.72 kazaalite works fine, 
i downloaded a default registry, ran the installer, got some windows 
shared libs and it worked.


http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747
http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html
http://www.christian-gerner.de/computer/linux/kazaa.htm
http://www.kazaalite.com/
http://doa2.host.sk/


copy dll's in to windows/system

/usr/bin/wine --dll shlwapi,shfolder,shdocvw=n ~/.wine/c/kazzalite/kazaa.exe

Regards

JG

SainTiss wrote:
Hi,

could you tell me how you managed to get kazaa working?

I installed it once, but it crashed after showing the kazaa window for
about 1 second...

Thanks

Hans

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Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0

2002-12-28 Thread J. Grant

Well have you got the usb modules loaded? And i assume there are other 
working usb devicies? you do not mention if your mouse is listed.

If not get the lastest libusb recompile the latest kernel too.


JG

Jason wrote:
Ok, I am still having problems so I hope someone can help me out here. I 
had a look in:
|/proc/bus/usb/devices|
and there is nothing in there, even after plugging in the device. This 
tells me that the kernel is not recognizing the device right?? If so, 
how do I rectify this?? This device is SUPPOSED to be supported under 
Linux so I just need a nudge in the right direction.

Cheers

Jason

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Re: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-27 Thread J. Grant

Hello Jack,

Thank you for the infomative reply. Clearly you have considered this
more than me, but surely this is what the special headers are for?

List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

It is the users client that is broken if it does not support list
replies correctly in this case.

Because this reply-to is changed reply all does not work, and I have
to manually add addresses. I agree that maybe mdk is making the best of
the current bad situation, but if mdk changed the list policy, this
would mean all the email clients got fixed to follow those darn RFC's!
Which is how it should be. We did not end up where we are here by
changing standards.

Best regards

Jack Coates wrote:
rant
This is a religion issue, really. I usually try to avoid those and live
quietly with my choices, but this one bugs me because it causes either
needlessly duplicated mail or replies to questions to be
unpublished/unarchived.

The RFCs for mailing lists and many MUA authors/contributors feel that
mailing lists should not munge REPLY-TO because the end-user and MUA set
it and no other authority should be able to override that desire.

The administrators of and frequent contributors to mailing lists love
reply-to munging because it prevents needless duplication of mail and
helps to keep discussion threads in the mailing list, where they can be
archived and publicly posted.

On the one hand: pedantically correct behavior; on the other:
rule-bending for the sake of practical usage. The pedantics will rightly
point out that workarounds exist. In order to avoid seeing the needless
duplication of email, simply have every user of the mailing list set up
their own Unix mail server where they can install procmail and configure
it to find and delete duplicated email. In order to make sure that
everything is archived simply instruct all list users to always use
reply-all, at which point another set of people is going to get upset
because they're getting duplicate messages, at which point everyone else
flames them for not have their own Unix mail server and procmail setup
:-)

The best solution? Removing reply-to functionality from MUAs is tempting
but impractical; even though it is almost an anachronism in today's
world of ubiquitous email services, those who rely on it do rely on it.
Removing reply-to munging from MLM software would represent a pretty
ugly choice for the reasons above. (Hmm, in light of the ongoing
discussion of Mandrake's money problems, would they be happy about a
two-fold increase in the amount of email traffic? I know I wouldn't be.)
Changing the standard so that MLMs are allowed to munge reply-to but
MTAs are still prohibited? Sounds reasonable to me, and no one has yet
given me a valid reason not to (which doesn't mean that it doesn't
exist).

So in my opinion, it is not mdk's config which is broken, but rather the
standard which they are rightly not adhering to; just as, in my original
example, anyone who fully adheres to the IP RFC's subnet mask guidelines
needs to have their head examined.
/rant

Jack

On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 17:51, J. Grant wrote:

is it really broken? The reply-to should not be changed/added by the
list. It is the mdk config problem I believe.

Jack Coates wrote:

Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know it's RFC-compliant to do
this... it's also RFC-compliant to have a non-contiguous IPv4 subnet
mask and you don't see people doing _that_ little bit of insanity do
you?)

On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 01:55, Colin Jenkins wrote:

Hi all ,
I have asked this question on the newbie list, but have had no luck so
far
The script below works ok from the command line but when I run it as a
cron job, it starts ok, but stops after backing up a few directories.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? is it a bug with cron?
btw, I'm using mdk9 and the files being backed up are on an nt server,
but have had the same problem backing up an xp box.
I had the same problem with drakebackup, tar and cp

#!/bin/sh
smbtar -s elendil -t /dev/st0 -x stuff1 -v -i -X System\ Volume\ Information
mt -f /dev/st0 offline

usually this sort of error is due to differing environment or
permissions. If it's a user's crontab ($crontab -e) then you need to su
to that user and debug from there. If it's root's crontab (#vi
/etc/crontab) then make sure root can run it from command line.

Another possibility is that the network is fine when you're debugging,
but congested by other traffic when your cron job runs. Try doing
something less sensitive to network issues, like rsync'ing to a temp
directory a couple of times, then tar'ing that temp directory to the
tape.

--
regards,
Colin

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Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

No one has mentioned the share option yet, I'm taking this up, its less
than market value and you might even get your money back.

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Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

Hi Vincent,


And I thank you for that, James.  The issue at this instant in time, if 
we could freeze on today, is not new users; it's existing users that 
aren't doing their part (freeloaders if you will).  Mandrake Linux is 
perhaps one of the most popular Linux distributions out there, but you'd 
never know it in terms of money.  One of out greatest strengths and, 
inevitably, our greatest weaknesses, is allowing the entire distro to be 
downloaded for nothing.  Don't tell me that people out there don't take 
advantage of this and continue to download ISOs and use Mandrake all 
over the place without contributing a dime.  These are the same people 
who will whine and complain if Mandrake ceases to exist, or who 
currently scream and yell if something doesn't work to their liking.

I don't know.  Maybe we need to go with SuSE's model and allow a one ISO 
demo a few months after release to prevent people from doing this.  
 Then again, who wants to see Mandrake become another SuSE?  I think the 
fact that Mandrake does this is, again, it's greatest strength and I'd 
hate to see that change as I think it would change the entire philosophy 
of the company.  So is that really an option?  I hope not.

I noticed this issue, it is confounded by the fact that mdkstore
releases are upto 1 month after the free (as in beer) downloads that I
often have to take (even though i have an order in the post).

Others might just not bother with the purchase of a box set if they
download it, i've downloaded ISO's for several releases.

If mdk can either speed up the release of cds in the shop or delay the 
ISO download release they can make 20% more cash I am sure.

Please pass on my ideas

Regards and happy new year


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Re: [expert] cron smbtar

is it really broken? The reply-to should not be changed/added by the
list. It is the mdk config problem I believe.

Jack Coates wrote:

On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 01:55, Colin Jenkins wrote:

#!/bin/sh
smbtar -s elendil -t /dev/st0 -x stuff1 -v -i -X System\ Volume\ Information
mt -f /dev/st0 offline

--
regards,
Colin

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Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2.27 €, but they are selling for 2.2 to us :)

anyway i emailed them, they replied asking for my name, that was the 
last I have heard. perhaps the amount I wanted was not enough, but then 
asking users for support is never going to generate 300K €.

JG

Mcleod, Ian wrote:
What are the Mandrake shares looking like right now?

And why is Mandrake so disinterested in raising revenue out of Europe and
North America.

I swear I have emailed Mandrake 15 times asking how I can pay for a club
membership - not ONE reply!!

I am beginning to suspect that Mandrake is not too fussed about their
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[expert] problem with sound on mkd9 install

2002-12-20 Thread J. Grant

Hi,

I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec
is as follows:

Laptop Adagio (38W2) Same as DELL Inspiron 7500 Purchased June 2001

ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x1400 IRQ 7
maestro:  subvendor id: 0x001114c0
maestro: not attempting power management.
maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf
maestro: 1 channels configured.
maestro: version 0.15 time 17:26:57 Sep 23 2001

 From the bootup

ALSA driver (version 0.9.0rc2) is already running.
Setting mixer settings aumix:  error opening mixer  [FAILED]

/etc/modules.conf
alias sound-slot-0 maestro


$ /sbin/lsmod |grep snd
snd-es1968 14316   0 (unused)
snd-pcm55808   0 [snd-es1968]
snd-timer   9964   0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 2752   0 [snd-es1968]
snd-rawmidi12864   0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device  3836   0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 25508   0 [snd-es1968]
snd24804   0 [snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore   3780   0 [snd]



$ ll /dev/sound
total 0
crw---1 now3droot  14,   3 Jan  1  1970 dsp
crw---1 now3droot  14,   0 Jan  1  1970 mixer

Other than the funky dates this looks normal, my desktop has same access
permissions.


I did the following before starting X/KDE

[root@np850 root]# service alsa restart
Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2): [  OK  ]
[root@np850 root]# service sound restart
Loading sound module (maestro)  [  OK  ]
Loading mixer settings  [  OK  ]

it is wierd that ALSA is just stoping and not restarting!! but anyway,
sound played, but it was aobut 20% faster than it should have been.
David Bowie suddenly sounded like the BeGees!

So I rebooted, started KDE, sound was not working, Xmms was not working
etc, i  ssh'd in from another machine and did the same commands as
before, and its now playing at normal speed again! There's a star man
waiting in the sky...

So I have a rarther strange situation, I'm not sure how to make this
perminant, I could put the commands in rc.local, but it seems to only
work when I issue the commands afer X/KDE has started. Any ideas?

My laptop sound was working fine in 8.1.


Best regards


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Re: [expert] problem with sound on mkd9 install

2002-12-20 Thread J. Grant

Hi,
It is working currently, after changing the module to es1968 
specifically in mdk control centre (which updated /etc/modules.conf)

David Bowie is playing a reasonable speed again :)

JG

J. Grant wrote:
Hi,

I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec
is as follows:

Laptop Adagio (38W2) Same as DELL Inspiron 7500 Purchased June 2001

ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x1400 IRQ 7
maestro:  subvendor id: 0x001114c0
maestro: not attempting power management.
maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf
maestro: 1 channels configured.
maestro: version 0.15 time 17:26:57 Sep 23 2001

 From the bootup

ALSA driver (version 0.9.0rc2) is already running.
Setting mixer settings aumix:  error opening mixer  [FAILED]

/etc/modules.conf
alias sound-slot-0 maestro


$ /sbin/lsmod |grep snd
snd-es1968 14316   0 (unused)
snd-pcm55808   0 [snd-es1968]
snd-timer   9964   0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 2752   0 [snd-es1968]
snd-rawmidi12864   0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device  3836   0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 25508   0 [snd-es1968]
snd24804   0 [snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore   3780   0 [snd]



$ ll /dev/sound
total 0
crw---1 now3droot  14,   3 Jan  1  1970 dsp
crw---1 now3droot  14,   0 Jan  1  1970 mixer

Other than the funky dates this looks normal, my desktop has same access
permissions.


I did the following before starting X/KDE

[root@np850 root]# service alsa restart
Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2): [  OK  ]
[root@np850 root]# service sound restart
Loading sound module (maestro)  [  OK  ]
Loading mixer settings  [  OK  ]

it is wierd that ALSA is just stoping and not restarting!! but anyway,
sound played, but it was aobut 20% faster than it should have been.
David Bowie suddenly sounded like the BeGees!

So I rebooted, started KDE, sound was not working, Xmms was not working
etc, i  ssh'd in from another machine and did the same commands as
before, and its now playing at normal speed again! There's a star man
waiting in the sky...

So I have a rarther strange situation, I'm not sure how to make this
perminant, I could put the commands in rc.local, but it seems to only
work when I issue the commands afer X/KDE has started. Any ideas?

My laptop sound was working fine in 8.1.


Best regards


JG








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Re: [expert] problem with sound on mkd9 install

2002-12-20 Thread J. Grant

Hi,
It is working currently, after changing the module to es1968
specifically in mdk control centre (which updated /etc/modules.conf)

David Bowie is playing a reasonable speed again :)

JG

J. Grant wrote:

Hi,

I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec
is as follows:

Laptop Adagio (38W2) Same as DELL Inspiron 7500 Purchased June 2001

ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x1400 IRQ 7
maestro:  subvendor id: 0x001114c0
maestro: not attempting power management.
maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf
maestro: 1 channels configured.
maestro: version 0.15 time 17:26:57 Sep 23 2001

 From the bootup

ALSA driver (version 0.9.0rc2) is already running.
Setting mixer settings aumix:  error opening mixer  [FAILED]

/etc/modules.conf
alias sound-slot-0 maestro


$ /sbin/lsmod |grep snd
snd-es1968 14316   0 (unused)
snd-pcm55808   0 [snd-es1968]
snd-timer   9964   0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 2752   0 [snd-es1968]
snd-rawmidi12864   0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device  3836   0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 25508   0 [snd-es1968]
snd24804   0 [snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore   3780   0 [snd]



$ ll /dev/sound
total 0
crw---1 now3droot  14,   3 Jan  1  1970 dsp
crw---1 now3droot  14,   0 Jan  1  1970 mixer

Other than the funky dates this looks normal, my desktop has same access
permissions.


I did the following before starting X/KDE

[root@np850 root]# service alsa restart
Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2): [  OK  ]
[root@np850 root]# service sound restart
Loading sound module (maestro)  [  OK  ]
Loading mixer settings  [  OK  ]

it is wierd that ALSA is just stoping and not restarting!! but anyway,
sound played, but it was aobut 20% faster than it should have been.
David Bowie suddenly sounded like the BeGees!

So I rebooted, started KDE, sound was not working, Xmms was not working
etc, i  ssh'd in from another machine and did the same commands as
before, and its now playing at normal speed again! There's a star man
waiting in the sky...

So I have a rarther strange situation, I'm not sure how to make this
perminant, I could put the commands in rc.local, but it seems to only
work when I issue the commands afer X/KDE has started. Any ideas?

My laptop sound was working fine in 8.1.


Best regards


JG








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Re: [expert] hosts.allow format question

2002-12-19 Thread J. Grant

there is a pdf on linuxsecurity.com that lists all this and more

Praedor Atrebates wrote:

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man /etc/hosts.allow should give you everything you need




Err...all that does is display my current hosts.allow file in man format.  A 
simple man hosts.allow produces the message that there is no such manpage.

praedor
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Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

after making it suid root it still said you need to be root to unmount 
perhaps there is something else stopping it working that we don't know. 
Strange how it works in redhat.

Regards

JG

Dave Sherman wrote:
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:35, J. Grant wrote:


Hi Dave,

I am surprised that works, here chmod +s only gives user and group +s
so my normal user can still not run it.

Any other ideas? I could use a script, but there must be something more 
elegant

Regards

JG


Here are the relevant permissions on /usr/bin/smb* (RedHat 8.0,
remember):
-rwsr-sr-x1 root root   548K Nov 20 11:18 /usr/bin/smbmnt
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root   558K Nov 20 11:18 /usr/bin/smbmount
-rwsr-sr-x1 root root   547K Nov 20 11:18 /usr/bin/smbumount

Notice that smbmount does not have the setuid (sticky) bit set,
because it really just calls smbmnt anyway. The only one I have to
change was smbumount, the others were already set.

Now, here are my /bin/mount and /bin/umount perms:
-rwsr-xr-x1 root root  80K Aug 30 15:00 /bin/mount
-rwsr-xr-x1 root root  40K Aug 30 15:00 /bin/umount

Neither of these have been changed from their defaults. Notice that root
is both owner/user and group, as I assume they are on your Mandrake
system. But with the sticky bit set (the 'chmod +s' trick), this causes
the program to run with the permissions of the owner and/or group,
whichever bit is set. So a user can run these programs, but the program
actually runs with root authority, not just the user's authority. That's
why I said this isn't a secure solution, but it works on my single-user
laptop.

If, after trying 'chmod +s umount', you still can't use umount -- well,
I guess I really don't know why. Do you get any specific error messages,
like maybe the command 'umount' is not found? Perhaps it simply isn't in
your $PATH, but it is in root's $PATH. The error I originally got
indicated that only root had permission to smbumount network
filesystems. Thus, I fixed it by making it setuid root.

Dave



Dave Sherman wrote:


On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:07, J. Grant wrote:



Hi,

I'm seeing some strange effects, this has been going on for a while, but 
i've not got around to asking if there is a solution, basically, even 
though I have user in my fstab I can only unmount my cdrom as root.

Any ideas or solutions?


I ran into a similar problem with RedHat 8.0 and Samba (couldn't unmount
a share as a user, even though I had mounted the share as the same
user), my solution was to (as root):
	# chmod +s /usr/bin/smbumount

I would think your solution would be to check /bin/mount and
/bin/umount, and try the same thing on umount.

This is not a secure solution, but it works on my (single-user) laptop.






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Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

Hi,

What is the WD email support address please? their site is terrible

Regqards

JG




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Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root


This is from my desktop, i disabled supermount

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 
user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 
user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0

from my other machine with supermount

none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,user 
0 0

Both can only be unmounted by root normlaly. Occasionally the fomer lets 
me unmount as a normal user i think.

I just changed to users so that any user can unmount, and it works! I 
guess its because the fs was mounted by root at startup

Regards

JG



Dave Sherman wrote:
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 07:44, J. Grant wrote:


Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

after making it suid root it still said you need to be root to unmount 
perhaps there is something else stopping it working that we don't know. 
Strange how it works in redhat.


How about you post the line in your /etc/fstab file? Then we can compare
it to mine or someone else's and see if there is a difference.

Here's mine:
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro   0 0





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Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity


The WD saga contintues, I have an 80GB drive that runs at far from 
optimium speeds.

WD are adament that their drives are great, shame my WD certainly is not.

JG


 Original Message 
 Subject: WD hard drive does not follow correct CRC checking procedure,
 thus is incompatible with GNU/Linux [Incident: 021217-46]
 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:56:53 -0800 (PST)
 From: Western Digital Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: Western Digital Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Dear J.,

 Below is a response to your recent question.  If the response provided
 does not answer your question, you can either reply to this message or
 go to the link below.

 We will assume your issue has been resolved if we do not hear from you
 within 96 hours.


 To reply to this message, first click your email �Reply� button.  You
 must INSERT YOUR TEXT BETWEEN the lines indicated below.
 [=== Please enter your reply below this line ===]

 [=== Please enter your reply above this line ===]


 
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/acct_login.php?[EMAIL PROTECTED]p_next_page=myq_upd.phpp_refno=021217-46p_created=1040134005


 You may also update your question by using the link below. The link
 will take you to MyStuff.MyStuff is a service where you can check and
 update the status of the
 questions you submitted to
 
us.http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/acct_login.php?[EMAIL PROTECTED]=myq_upd.phpp_refno=021217-46p_created=1040134005


 Jason
 Western Digital Customer Service and Support

 Summary - Brief Description (100 chars max)
 ---
 WD hard drive does not follow correct CRC checking procedure, thus is
 incompatible with GNU/Linux


 Discussion Thread
 ---
 Response (Jason) - 12/17/2002 11:56 AM
 Our ATA is fully in compliance with set standards.  Many users including
 corporations use our drives in their systems and servers.  Please
 understand that we cannot provide you with technical support for the
 install of Linux in any way.

 Customer (J. Grant) - 12/17/2002 11:52 AM
 Civilme: I have CC'd you as Jason is sure that WD drives work fine with
 GNU/Linux and do not in fact have CRC problems.  Could you offer some
 insight on the problem I am having with my WD800BB-00CAA1 80GB HD


 Thank you for the reply.

 However I do not think your reply is correct. Please see the message
 below from one of the linux lists. Also below is the output from hdparm,
 it clearly states that the WD drive does not follow the standars as it
 doe not even report it correctly!

 Please contact another member if your technical team and pose the
 question about the CRC


 Regards

 JG

 ---

 # hdparm -i /dev/hde

 /dev/hde:

Model=WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, FwRev=17.07W17, SerialNo=WD-WMA8E3405796
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR5Mbs
 FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: device does not report version:  1 2 3 4 5






 linux-elitists] Your mother uses Western Digital
 Don Marti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:44:58 -0800 rfc822
 mailmethis
 Not that anyone on this list would buy such crap, but who knows
 what people will drag to an installfest.

 This is from a recent linux-kernel discussion. Quoting Andre Hedrick,
 Linux ATA developer:

 WDC drives blow off the CRC check of UDMA.This is BAD and STUPID.
 Several of the OEM chipset makers have allowed this crap to exist.
 ATA-2 (style) can not handle ATA-3/4 transfer rates without the CRC
 checks, you end up continuing the DMA writing regardless if you lost data
 that would have been saved if the UDMA CRC was intact.

 This is a pure hardware issue...

 http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_0001_05/msg00211.html

 Response (Jason) - 12/17/2002 10:45 AM
 Many users use our drives with Linux and are able to install with no
 issues.  If you are having issues with installation then please contact
 your operating system manufacture for assistance with any bugs you may
 have.  Linux is still a freeware and there are many variations that
 require special set up in your BIOS and the OS to install properly with
 other devices in your system.  The drive will work if you install Linux
 properly.

 We do not offer refunds on drives.   Your best option if you want a
 refund is to contact your place of purchase regarding their return 
policy.

 Our drives fully comply with UDMA standards.

 Customer (J. Grant) - 12/17/2002 10:37 AM
 Hello Jason

[expert] Kazaa for linux

Hi,

I downloaded kazaa for linux a few weeks ago. needed to install an old 
ncurses to get it to run, but it is not ever connecting.  Support seems 
to be missing from the kazaa.com site as well now. Has anyone got this 
working? or found a better working p2p network client for GNU/linux?

Regards

JG


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Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

Hi,

I have not got it working yet, here are the URL's I'm reading, it seems 
posible.

JG

http://www.christian-gerner.de/computer/linux/kazaa.htm
http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747


SainTiss wrote:
Hi,

actually, I don't get that working either... installed it, replaced the
.exe, and put the HOSTS file in /mnt/win_c/windows as well as in /etc,
but kazaa crashes at startup... it shows the window for a few seconds,
but then I get uncaught exception...

Any ideas?

Thanks

Hans




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Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

Hi,

So these programs are good now? limeware was poor last time i tried, and 
the gnutella was nearly as bad.  I got Kazaa 1.72 working, 2.02 would 
not work. I start it like this wine --dll shlwapi,shfolder,shdocvw=n 
zazaa.exe if that is useful for anyone.

JG

Todd Franklin wrote:
Please take no offense, but why do you need kazaa for linux when you 
have gtk-gnutelk, qtella, limeware, etc. ?

SainTiss wrote:

Hi,

actually, I don't get that working either... installed it, replaced the
.exe, and put the HOSTS file in /mnt/win_c/windows as well as in /etc,
but kazaa crashes at startup... it shows the window for a few seconds,
but then I get uncaught exception...

Any ideas?

Thanks

Hans





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Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

Hi,

Here's a common joke, How do you bring a computer to its knees? Put a WD 
drive in it! as they don't follow the standards or support their drives 
under free software OS's.

This is why you dont want WD, email them and tell them this as well. 
I've got an 80GB drive running about twice as fast as a floppy disk.. 
(well nearly ;)))

JG

# hdparm -i /dev/hde

/dev/hde:

 Model=WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, FwRev=17.07W17, SerialNo=WD-WMA8E3405796
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR5Mbs FmtGapReq }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: device does not report version:  1 2 3 4 5


James Sparenberg wrote:
Civilme should be here on this one.  If you do a search through the
archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete
explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way
WD has chosen to not follow DMA standards.  Linux does rather strict
checking and WD doesn't so WD drives can be problematic.  

James

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 06:28, Lorne wrote:

Well it seems that this is more serious than I first thought. I just tried an 
install to this new WD 180GB drive. Seems there is some limitations to the 
size of the drive, or the drive is junk. ?? Maybe truly a kernel bug. ?

End_request: I/O error, Dev 03:47 (hdb), sector numerous sectors
Journal-601, buffer write failed
Kernel BUG at prints.c:334!
invalid operand: 
cpu 0

Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've done 
some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody have any 
light to shed?






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Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root