Re: [expert] Re: urpmi..great tool...just need to finalize a few question
At 09:36 PM 11/19/2003 +0100, you wrote: This might help you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ cat /etc/cron.weekly/update_mdk #!/bin/bash #Keeps the system updated urpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ you might want to change that to just get the updates, this first get new list from all of the defined urpmi-sources (urpmi.update -a), then updates all the installed packages (--auto-select), with no confirmation (--auto), regardless of not signed rpms (--no-verify-rpm), both operations using wget instead of curl. Since it's in cron.weekly, well once a week... This is on my destop, a produktion server proberbly needs restart of updated programs. /Björn Thanks Bjorn. I appreciate it. I was testing a few commands. After adding my media, I tried to update all the media with this: $ urpmi.update -a retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "updates"... ...retrieving done examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.updates.cz] computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) examining MD5SUM file retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"... computing md5sum of retrieved source hdlist (or synthesis) ...retrieving failed: md5sum mismatch retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium "main" examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "contrib"... ...retrieving done examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] Ok..updates seemed to have worked as did contrib, but main failed. Any particular reason why this may have happened? It seems that when "main" fails, I cant get a full listing of regular packages, like samba (2.2.8a). Is the best way to fix this to remove the media, and add a different media? I appreciate it. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi..great tool...just need to finalize a few question
I had to admint, urpmi is a very very good tool. I have not used the GUI portion of it yet, but I would like to test it. Right now, im strictly doing everything through the command line in preparation of putting Mandrake 9.2 onto a production server which will not require a GUI. So i've been playing with urpmi a lot. :) Just a few final questions. Does urpmi have the ability to pull security patches down and automatically install? I was trying out a few things with urpmi and im not sure if its user error (me) or something is not working correctly. For instance, I tried to specify a medium with urpmi doing the following: urpmi --media updates Did not seem to work as I was trying to grab a patch for nss_ldap. Is this the correct syntax? I would think you can pull down security patches through urpmi and install them automatically. I realize I can grab the packages via ftp, but would prefer to automate this if possible. Thanks for the input. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi woes
At 06:20 PM 11/19/2003 +, you wrote: urpmq will search all available media unless you force it to use a specific media with --media or restrict it to update media with --update It may be your 'main' source is not configured properly or maybe you are just being misled by the way urpmq will return a limited list if there is a close match. Compare for example what is returned if you do :- urpmq samba urpmq samb urpmq --fuzzy samba derek Ok..not sure what the problem was, but I did the following and it appears to be working now. I removed all the urpmi media and then re-added it. I then updated all my media, but I got the following error. $ urpmi.update -a retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "updates"... ...retrieving done examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.updates.cz] computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) examining MD5SUM file examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) examining MD5SUM file retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "contrib"... computing md5sum of retrieved source hdlist (or synthesis) ...retrieving failed: md5sum mismatch retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium "contrib" examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] Now, I see "updates" and "contrib" but I dont see "main". It also appears that "contrib" failed as well. however, when I search for samba now, I get all the releases, 2.2.8a to 3.0.0. Any ideas on what happened with the update? Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi woes
At 02:41 AM 11/19/2003 +, you wrote: It is the tree on the mirror that is broken. We will have to wait until it is fixed. It is the file 'list' in the contrib folder that is out of date. The list includes the old kernel packages that were replaced. I do not know how urpmi uses the list file. It is clearly not essential since not all sources have one. When it is eventually fixed do a urpmi.update -a to bring your database in line with the mirror. You should also be updating the database for your updates source frequently. I automate my updates in a cron job with this :- urpmi.update updates && urpmi --update --auto --auto-select derek Thanks. I appreciate the input. One last question regarding sources for urpmi. I've been playing around with the commands to add media and remove media, just to get a feel for things. The only question I have now, is that when I do a search for samba, it only lists samba3. From what im gathering, it is searching the 'contrib' tree and not the 'main' tree. Is there a way to get urpmi to search both trees? Then, if I specifically want to look for samba3, I could type: urpmq -i samb3 or something similar? I appreciate it. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi woes
At 12:40 AM 11/19/2003 +, you wrote: For urpmq --fuzzy you need to supply a string parameter For example urpmq --fuzzy samba Doh! Whoops...makes sense now. :) That error with "medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method" is a temporary issue because the list file on the mirrors is currently out of date. It does not affect the operation of urpmi. It is just an annoyance. Anyway to fix this manually? Or can I just resync my sources to get the updated tree? To remove your CD media type urpmi.removemedia You will be given a list of all the urpmi sources, then urpmi.removemedia media_name will remove a specific media. Worked like a charm. On a side note, anyone know if urpmi.org is going to be updated soon? HTH derek -- Cheers, Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi woes
Ok...not sure if this should go here, but so far, i've had no luck in
trying to resolve my problems with urpmi.
Just did a fresh install of 9.2 on one of our IBM servers.
I used the easy urpmi site to setup my urpmi servers so I could install
software accordingly.
Also, I should mention that I did go to http://www.urpmi.org and tried to
read the how-to, but a lot of the pages are no longer active.
Here is the problem.
When I run urpmq --fuzzy, I get no response. Not sure why, but it does not
list anything.
Also, look at the following:
$ urpmq -i samba3-common
medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file:
mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method
Still gives the description, but that error is something i'd like to correct.
Quick look at my urpmi.cfg:
Installation\ CD\ 1\ (x86)\ (cdrom1) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS {
hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz
with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist1.cz
removable: /dev/hda
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
Installation\ CD\ 2\ (x86)\ (cdrom2) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2 {
hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz
with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
removable: /dev/hda
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
International\ CD\ (x86)\ (cdrom3) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3 {
hdlist: hdlist.International CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz
with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist3.cz
removable: /dev/hda
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
updates
ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS {
hdlist: hdlist.updates.cz
with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
update
}
main
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS {
hdlist: hdlist.main.cz
with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
contrib ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 {
hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz
with_hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
list: list.contrib
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
Granted, I really do not want to use the CD's for any type of installation,
but instead just use the ftp sites exclusively.
With that in mind, I feel like im a little lost in the water here.
What can I do to correct this problem?
I appreciate everyones help and input.
Cheers,
Jason
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Re: [expert] urpmi questions
At 12:17 PM 11/18/2003 -0800, you wrote: urpmi urpmc and then use it to find what's available. (Only in 9.2 att but the src rpm does build on 9.1) Ok...grabbed urpmc. I currently dont have any samba or LDAP installed. However, in playing with urpmi, I see there are quite a few packages available to download. That is why i was trying to find a description of the packages, before I start downloading them. I may grab a different one if I like what it may offer. Dang it...I dont recall now. :< Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi questions
Last question.
Is there a way to get a package description of the available packages
through urpmi?
I swear I was able to do so, but dont recall how to do it now. :/
On a side note, anyone have any thoughts on whether 9.1 or 9.2 is better
suited for production right now?
Jason
At 08:37 AM 11/14/2003 -0600, you wrote:
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:27 pm, Vox wrote:
> On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote:
> > Is there a way to list the packages that are available to
> > download?
>
> "urpmq --list" will give you a list of all available
> packages, without versions. "urpmq --fuzzy samba" will give you
> all packages that have samba in the name or description. I
> recommend reading the man pages for all the urpm* commands.
You can also install urpmc ('urpmi urpmc'). Then after you
update your sources, simply typing 'urpmc' will list all the
available updates (with version numbers) from all sources. EG,
tom # urpmc
club uses a synthesis file. Cannot output changelog.
Will list package names only. Reconfigure the medium to use
a hdlist file to get a changelog.
kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk -> kernel-source-2.4.22-25mdk
Even ones you may have in your /etc/urpmi/skip.list (I have
kernel-source in my skiplist). Suggestion, use
'synthesis.hdlist's for your sources, otherwise the list will
also include changelog, and could be very long. I get " Cannot
output changelog." because I only use synthesis.hdlist's.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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[expert] What version for production:
Just want to ask a really quick question. Im going to setup a PDC with Mandrake. It will have Samba 3 as OpenLDAP 2.1.22. What version of Mandrake is better suited for a production environment? 9.0? 9.1? or 9.2? Any recommendations and input is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi questions
Evening everyone. I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test out. We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I wanted to learn is some of the Mandrake specific tools, specifically urpmi and msec. I was working with urpmi trying to learn its functions and have a couple of questions. Is there a way to list the packages that are available to download? For instance, I was playing around and typed: urpmi samba It gave me a list of dependencies, which is nice, but then said it was going to install samba 2.2.8a. Is there a way to grab the 3.0 version? I'd like a way to see what I have available, through the command line. Secondly, is there a way with urpmi to see what versions of the software I have? I know I can with rpm -qa |grep . Can you do this with urpmi? That should be about it for now... Learning the ropes here. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
At 01:25 PM 11/12/2003 -0800, you wrote: > I dont see anything in your headers that would warrant them being malicious > or spam. > The only real thing I can see is that when you logged in remotely, its > showing the verizon connection that was initiated. Is this a bad thing? This is just saying where I logged in from, no? My router does NAT loopback, so I just log onto my webpage using my domain name and then hit the webmail page and log in. I assumed that this is what is being added here. Nope. It's just part of the normal email tracking process. Just adds it all into the headers, tracking the path it took. It should be no problem at all. > There are no other messages regarding why it was blocked? No bounce backs? connect to qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com[65.246.197.34]: server refused mail service Not sure what server this is, but this is a quick test I did running from one of my boxes: $ telnet 65.246.197.34 25 Trying 65.246.197.34... Connected to 65.246.197.34. Escape character is '^]'. 521 qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com access denied Connection closed by foreign host. It's not your setup. Its the remote mail server. Looks like SMTP is not running on this server at the moment. I didn't save any others. It's only been a few, but since I just tried using a different system, everything is suspect. No worries. This particular system is doing something on its end. > What version of postfix are you running? postfix-1.1.11-4mdk / Mandrake 9.0 You may want to consider upgrading to a new version of Postfix. There have been quite a few enhancements as well as security features that have changed since this release. A quick note: If you do upgrade, note that the way rules are applied (UCE specifically) into Postifx 2.x are slightly different than 1.x. Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
At 01:01 PM 11/12/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hey all, Sorry for the long post, but I'm confused here. I've been using squirrelmail for several months now, but I wanted to switch to a local mail client. Squirrelmail really is local because my postfix email server is behind the firewall along with my host machines. I want to use the webmail when I'm outside the firewall and Evolution/Pine/Outlook/whatever when I'm inside. Anyway, I've gotten a couple of returned emails since I've started using evolution saying that the destination server refused the email. I don't have any way of testing their systems to see why it's being rejected so I just tried sending a couple messages to an external test account on yahoo and then comparing the headers. The following are two sets of headers; the first is from squirrelmail where I was logged on remotely to webmail but from the same side of the firewall. The second is from evolution, also on the same side of the firewall. ** X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 66.218.93.72; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 X-YahooFilteredBulk:4.35.151.34 Return-Path:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta130.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Subject:another test From: "Michael Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Add to Address Book To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal *** X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 66.218.93.80; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:00:02 -0800 X-YahooFilteredBulk:4.35.151.34 Return-Path:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta156.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:00:02 -0800 Received: from machinename (unknown [host.internal.ip]) by servername (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0606E205CFC for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:02:11 -0500 (EST) Subject:test From: "Michael Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Add to Address Book To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-8mdk Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:01:59 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Both messages were written in ascii (html turned off) but I've noticed that they don't have the same type of tags at the bottom. The "received" lines for both also seem to be quite different. What I need to know is, are these differences enough to keep my email from getting through on some systems? Could someone be considering my email to be potentially dangerous or spam or something of that nature because of these headers? I dont see anything in your headers that would warrant them being malicious or spam. The only real thing I can see is that when you logged in remotely, its showing the verizon connection that was initiated. There are no other messages regarding why it was blocked? No bounce backs? What version of postfix are you running? Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Need some docs on administering Mandrake systems
Hello everyone. We are in the process of replacing all of our Red Hat servers with other systems. One system we are strongly contemplating is Mandrake. What im looking for is some good documents that show how to adminster Mandrake systems. For instance, any Mandrake specific tools, like urpmi. If anyone could point me in the right direction to learn about tools like urpmi, draksec (i think) and others, I would greatly appreciate it. I should note, i'm reading up on the docs on the page, but I have not found anything that has really helped me learn more about the system and specific tools. Cheers, Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Modem for Mandrake 9.1
Use an external, serial modem IMHO. They just work, work well and are easy to set up. Save yourself the headache, go hardware external. Cheers Jason Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 8:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:38, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 7:12 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I'm looking for recommendations of hard/soft modem for Mandrake Linux 9.1. A link would help a lot also. I had problems with Lucent and Pctel (softmodem). Pretty well any hardware modem - i.e. one that does all it's own work. If you can live with an external one they are easy to find and cheap. Any model will do. Internal hardware modems are much harder to find, though they do exist. A quick search for Linux modems on ebay turns up a few things ranging form 9-15 bucks that claim to be linux compatible. Isn't there a Liniux modem website? linmodems.?? something or other? You could always try http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MoDems Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake as a PDC, with Samba and OpenLDAP
Good morning everyone. I'll get right to it. Im looking for information about the stability, security and performance of using Mandrake as a Primary Domain controller, running Samba (would like to use 3.0) and OpenLDAP 2.1.22. I originally was going to use FreeBSD 4.9 as our platform of choice, but found out that FreeBSD 4.x does not have support for nsswitch, which as most of you know, is essential for using LDAP as the authentication mechanism on the PDC. FreeBSD is still a possibility, but I would like to explore Mandrake as well. I should Mention that Red Hat is not an option. Never liked Red Hat and never will. Gentoo is not an option either. Debian, although very solid, lacks updated packages. With that in mind, i've narrowed down my decision between Mandrake and FreeBSD. I was hoping to get some feedback from any other people here who are currently using Mandrake as a PDC with Samba and LDAP. I would be very grateful if anyone would care to share their thoughts, suggestions, disappointments etc. with me. Im trying to find out: Stability: Security: Performance. Our network is currently 40 users, but that will indeed grow to at least 80 by the end of next year. The machine: Xeon 2.8ghz (Room for second CPU) 2gig RAM (Upgradeable to 8gig) 3 36.6 320 SCSI Drives, in RAID 5 (thinking about changing it) also have room for 3 more drives, giving me a total of 6 SCSI drives. Server will not be running any X windows of course. :) I look forward to hearing peoples thoughts and suggestions. Cheers, Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] XWC - Undelete?
Anyone know how to undelete in XWC? I accidentally deleted some files I'd dearly like to have back =( Cheers All, Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] netatalk anyone?
Well, dunno bout anyone else but it was DEAD easy for me...WAY easier than Samba/Windows. I installed the RPM, rebooted and voila, I was visible on the Mac network. I craeted users for the Mac machines on my box and poof, they could login via their machines etc Easy Peasy. Cheers Jason Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I wonder whether someone out there could give some help with netatalk. I have no idea how to setup it an use it. I just need to copy some files from a IBook to my linux bok. After that I will say bye to Mac 9.1 and welcome to Mandrake 9.1 ppc. Many thanks Eduardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders
Hi Vincent, Like you, I only just picked up on this thread. However, playing devil's advocate here, I'd say that RH figures they have enough market penetration and recognition to drop the costly retail sector. However, 2 things spring to mind, RH built their repuation and branding on having those boxed sets available in retail for a LONG TIME. For a long time they were the ONLY boxed set available and furthermore, that also helped make their name synonymous with Linux in the U.S. - for right or for wrong. Second, RH is clearly targetting a a different market than RH - namely the enterprise. Look how they piss on desktop users with their mangled KDE etc. ML is going after a different market - the desktop, whose users reside mainly in the retail space right now. Just a few thoughts... Cheers Jason PS, I am American (Dual NZ citizen) but have been happily living in New Zealand for over 8 years now... Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 03:57:11PM -0700, John Wilson wrote: [...] Sadly, Rolf, having no visible distrubution channel, ie product on physical shelves in bricks and mortar physical stores, will reduce Mandrake to invisibilty in North Amercia. Like it or not, and that applies to MandrakeSoft not you, we North Americans like to hold something in our hands and look at it. Kick its tires as it were. To get people to migrate to Mandrake is a whole lot easier if I have a box in my hand than directl them to a web site to order a package. This may not apply elsewhere on the planet but it does here. And that's the point that those of us who live on this continent have been saying. If boxed sets don't start showing up here it amounts to writing off this market. And that's just the way it is. I do understand the need to cut costs at MandrakeSoft and I do empathize with them on this point. It's just that the wrong marketing decision was made with respect to this part of the world. And that, too, is just the way it is. Perhaps one day we'll be comfortable with the notion of doing most or all our purchasing on line. But given the overhype of the internet on this market and it's abject failure to deliver on that hype it's gonna take a long, long time. I really have nothing to add to this thread other than one thought (I'm taking a back seat in this one... it's not worth it for me to open my mouth since I'm not in marketing... I've also only begun to read the thread for "moderator" purposes). If most people in North America, or the US, feel this way, then let me pose this question. Why has Red Hat then, the most well-known Linux vendor in the US, decided that they are getting out of the retail box market, if this is in fact the case? Seems to me that if Mandrake has stupid marketing folks, then Red Hat must as well. However, considering Red Hat's revenues are also increasing, it would seem to me that they think this is viable and will not hurt the business. So which is right? I'm trying to find where I read this, but so far looking at the PR's on RH's website shows me nothing, so maybe I read it on /. or something (in other words, I'm quite sure I read this as accurate, but until I find the source, don't take it as 100%... this was just something that popped in my mind while reading this). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up
In a pinch, use Knoppix to autoconfigure X and then overwrite the XF86Config/Config-4 of Mandrake. If it's just a configuration problem than that might work. If not and X is toast, then a downgrade to an earlier version of X might be the only fix. This, of course, will have to be done from the CLI. Cheers Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just worked on my laptop last night, and, while doing other things, decided to check the updates and chose to allow the X update to go through. Of course everything worked fine (update and such), but once shutting it down and restarting it this morning, in the office - X is broken. What do I mean by this? When starting, the screen shows lots of colored lines in the upper portion, after which it brings up the login (what used to be) acreen, but with no dialog box for input, or possibility to do anything (actually I can pick the username, which is still visible, but I cannot "guess" where the password field may be ... let alone the fact that this would come up - probably - with more weird stuff, even if able to login. In the rest, another tty (CLI) works just fine, as does non-init 5 levels. Anybody having any idea what could have broken with the new X? I would appreciate any help, as I am stuck now with a Windows box, readin/writing email using a browser, and all my weekend work dependent on my laptop (unless deciding to install Openoffice in Windows). Thx, Stef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS service provider
http://www.dyndns.org/ Have several friends who use and swaer by their service. Cheers Jason Miark wrote: I need to choose one, but I'm not sure _how_ to go about it. All all the features pretty much the same from provider to provider? Any recommendations? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
Quick question. Why not use the prcompiled K3B Rpms instead?? Cheers Jason Rob Blomquist wrote: I am having a problem with the source code for K3B under Mandrake 9.1: during make, I am getting: "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -laudio". Has anyone attemped to compile this, and found a solution? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ntp error
Open a terminal, su, then install ntp "urpmi ntp" if it's not already installed. After doing that put "ntpdate time.sinectis.com.ar" and so long as your time isn't wayyy off, it will sync with it. HTH, Jason PlugHead wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 07:55 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: Noticed that the only wizards rpm available in Mandrake Club was for the old ML distributions. Will the rpm also work in 9.1 or should I just try it and see. I am only trying to find a time standard to sync my box. I use nistime via windows. Would like to find a Linux counterpart. Gary Not that I've tried it with Mandrake, but I've found a little script that I use on my debian box at work. Do a search for "nist.pl"--or you might try this link: http://cantonlinux.org/pipermail/user/2003-May/001279.html You'll have to edit the script by hand, to set your timezone and server, but it's pretty straight forward and well commented. The only problem that I've had with it is, if the network is unavailable for some reason, it sets the system time to a semi-random value... Not much of a problem, when you run it by hand, but I like to have it in my crontab... Unfortunately, I don't have enough knowledge/experience/interest in perl, or I'd put in a few sanity checks... HTH, -Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD Burener
I can't help with GT but I recommend K3B. Cheers J Joseph Loo wrote: I tried looking around for some information on burning CD's. I have a Plextor 12/10/32 scsi on a ultrawide scsi card. When ever I try to burn a cd on the burenr, I can only get reliable burns if the write speed is set as 3x on gnome toaster. If I try to do anything faster than that 4, 6, etc. the system loks like it it burning the CD correctly. If I try to read it, the system does not recognize it as a valid cd. I am using the standard defaults with gnome-toaster except for the speed. Also how do you make a copy of a cd with gnome toaster? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] atx power suply
Leonardo Sá wrote: in windows i was very used to just press the on/off button on my computer and have it automaticaly shutdown. There's anyway to do this with linux? (like, when i press the button, it issues the command "shutdown -h now") like CTRL-ALT-Delete? try it and see if that's what ya' need. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] snooper
ethereal/tcpdump should do what you require. Cheers Jason chris wrote: Hi all Does linux have same program snoop in Solaris? how do I get it and install? I would like to use it to analysis the network packet? Thank you Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ML and HP ZE4315 Laptop
Hi All, Anyone installed Mandrake on an HP ZE4315 Pavillion laptop?? The specs from HP are a bit thin on details and a friend is looking at buying one but he wants to run Linux on it. Any caveats or pitfalls I should watch out for?? I assume it's got a Winmodem bla bla. They are on special here now so we just want to pick one up on the cheap. Any help appreciated. Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB-Stick
We sell these pens on our website and ours (Memodisk Brand) work outta da box with Mandrake Linux too!! No drivers, no nuthin. Same with Win2k and above but Linux invalidates the "security passwrod protection" on the pens if you enable it in Win. Linux just mounts it and reads/writes to/from it merrily!! Ha!! I just use Kwikdisk to easily mount the things. Great app that. Regards, Jason Nisco wrote: Il dom, 2003-06-22 alle 07:16, Joeb ha scritto: I have two, a 128MB PNY Memory Key and a 32MB IBM one. Both work just by plugging them in (but not at the same time as there is only one /mnt/removable!) Joeb Well, I bought one today (128mb Hamlet "Exagerate") and it works perfectly... I went to the shop with my laptop and I asked to try it first. The owner was amazed by the fact a linux box recognized and installed it automatically in no time ... :D thanks Cesare Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine
Piero Piutti wrote: Do you know if the cvs works fine as well? I'm working on it, I'll report back on how it goes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?
Rob Blomquist wrote: # cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file X (cdrom.img in this case) onto the primary master, I'm gonna guess in his case it was his main hard drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk as Server OS ?
I apologize if this is not what you were asking about (my comprehension level is low this morning) but have you looked at mandrake update robot? http://www.cyest.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=5 I don't use it (I probably should) but for whatever reason, I know it exists. good luck. Joerg Mertin wrote: The reason I'm asking - is that I actually love the script based up2date package, and the 7.3rh version - however - every month filling out their questions etc. to get my demo-account active - is getting on my nervs. I would pay for it - but don't know if paying for that, they will make as M$ - stop support for the old versions etc. letting me hanging in the rain. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WMAs under Linux?
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You may not believe this but right now I'm listening to a Rush Limbaugh WMA audio stream over broadband with mplayer. The way I do it, you have to have the URL to the WMA stream. mplayer -cache 1024 http://tpr.org/audio/kstx.asx Ooooh, baby. This was one of the last two things that keeps me shackeled to windows, and now I'm listening to NPR (npr.org) on linux. I figured it would never happen...*sniff* Now, if someone could finale working with wine, I'd be free. jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
Kstart menu>Configuration>control center (NOT Mandrake Control Center). HTH, Jason elPunishar wrote: okay, and where do i find KDE control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 21:42, Robert Crawford wrote: No- he really did mean: KDE Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse That's where the settings you need are are- not in Mandrake Control Center. Robert C. On Wednesday 28 May 2003 17:16, elPunishar wrote: i have no -> pheripherals -> mouse in control center. i only have -> hardware -> MouseDrake and there are absolutely no options for the mouse... the only thing i can chose is WHAT mouse. concerning the harddisk, i don't know if i tried the harddisk alone.. think i did, but i'll try that again to be sure (but anyway, this can't be true.. this is a nightmare) On Wednesday 28 May 2003 20:26, Tru64 User wrote: Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is master, which is slave with the jumpers. Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to move installation from one drive to next), and i was not able to. It simply did not work...having it as either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination btwn the drive & cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not work. I could only get each working, but not together. So it might be something wrong somewhere there...please make sure u post ur resolution. _Thanks Richard Mollel --- elPunishar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. where would i find the KDE control center ? you don't mean the mandrake control center ? On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar wrote: can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse sensitivity? maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option in MouseDrake... tnx & greetings, le stu Have you checked the settings in: KDE Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse with tabs for General and Advanced? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Config settings for urpmi to use 9.1 CDROMs
Well, in this case it's pretty straightforward (and I still consider myself a newbie!!): urpmi.addmedia(8) Mandrake Linux urpmi.addmedia(8) NAME urpmi.addmedia - adds a new rpms media for use with urpmi SYNOPSIS urpmi.addmedia [options] DESCRIPTION urpmi.addmedia tells urpmi that he can find new rpms at the specified location. Currently supported medias are: local drives, removable drives (such as cd's), networked like http, ftp, ssh and rsync. One of the following modes must be choosen: http: urpmi.addmedia [options] http://:@/ [with ] Whereis your reference for the media (e.g. MandrakeUp- date). is optional if --distrib is given in options. / is the location of the rpm directory on the net. is the pathname where to find the hdlist of the rpms. The location is given relative to . and on from there with descriptions and samples Cheers Jason Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 10:35 am, Jason wrote: man urpmi.addmedia is your friend... Sigh How often I have hear this, and how rarely have I found it to be true. I have come to the conclusion that with man, if I need to ask the question, I won't understand the answer Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Config settings for urpmi to use 9.1 CDROMs
man urpmi.addmedia is your friend... Cheers Jason Bill Mullen wrote: On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 03:24, Rob Blomquist wrote: By mistake, I deleted my setup for urpmi/rpmDrake to use the CDROMs of 9.1. I am using the download edition. I think you just need to mount disc 1 and run something on the order of: urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable:///mnt/cdrom Or something very similar to that ... and they will (all) be added back. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Create own RPM repository to use with Mdk-Software installer ? How ?
Use urpmi.addmedia without generating a list. It will autogenerate one for you as it adds the medium. man urpmi.addmedia is your friend. Cheers Jason Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Samstag, 5. April 2003 14:34 schrieb Joerg Mertin: Hi Folks, as I'm a kind of an Old Unix guy, and having lots of Mirror Sites I'm getting RPMS, Sources etc. from onto my server-harddrives, I wanted to add the RPM's at least into the Software Repository to use with the Mdk-Software Installer. I do see in the normal directories, that the base directory holds the old well known hdlist.cz etc. files. Trying to create these using the genhdlist program generates me some files, but these are not accepted by the Software Source manager of the direct command line using the urpmi programm. The Error message is: Unable to update medium; It will be automatically disabled. I was up to now unable to find detailed documentation on how to really use it genhdlist, or to create a valid RPM Repository. It is fairly easy. I usually go in the directory and make a "genhdlist ." then I can add it with usual "urpmi.addmedia name file://path/to/repository with hdlist.cz" If you was in /path/to/ and made a 'genhdlist repository' you have to 'urpmi.addmedia name file://path/to/repository with ../hdlist.cz At least this is how I understood it and it worked here several times. So - here comes my request. Anyone has a Howto hanging around or a Link to decent Documentation ? If using genhdlist is the wrong way of doing it. Anyone has a Pointer into the right direction ? I seeked the Internet foir several hours for the correct hints, but so far without success... No hdlist is the right way Thx for your help :) Hope it helps ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard disk repartitioning
A had a perfect reply written to this then mozilla crashed =( Damn. Though my reply was a finely crafted piece of prose, it was basically like this. Leave Winders alone. Backup ALL data since you can lose data no matter how careful you are. Defrag d: (extended part.) to minimise chance of data loss. On Mandrake install, shrink d: to around 5.5GB (or whatever you think you'll need as this will be your shared Linux/Winders data drive). With the remaining space make 3 partitions, swap, / (Linux OS part.), /home (linux only data partition used by users home directories). Swap (rule of thumb) will be twice the size of your RAM. / needs to be about 2.5-3GB and the rest will be /home. You could make a small boot partition but you won't need it if you make sure and make boot disks. Hope this helps, Jason PS, that eliminated the verbosity of my original post anyway =) M X wrote: Dear all, I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want to install Mandrake Linux 9.1 on this box. i want to have a dual boot system and donot want to lose any existing data. can anyone please suggest how do i repartition my disk. ive read a few articles and HOWTOs on this and frm what i gather is that a dual boot system should look like this: 1)Windows partion (FAT32) 2)Linux partition 3)Swap partition 4)Partition for data accesible from Windows and Linux(FAT32) now these articles explained this repartitioning when their original disk had a single primary dos partition. so my problem is how do i repartition my disk which has a primary and a logical partition? also i have 128MB RAM. so what should be the size of my Swap partition? thanks for your help . ak. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/mailsig/*http://tax.yahoo.com> - File online, calculators, forms, and more Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba]
Thanks to a local LUG member, got Samba going. Samba does not by default create a new smb user when you run smbpasswd. You must create it manually. I'm sure many ways would have worked but smbpasswd -a worked here and then with a few tweaks she came up roses. Cheers for the help all, Jason Gary Hodder wrote: On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:25:26 +1200, you wrote: ok, got the winpcs changed to the MDKGROUP. Without stuffing about trying to get users to have access to their home directories, is there an EASY way to allow anyone on the LAN to have access to the /home/public directory for sharing files from there?? In the /etc/samba.conf file down near the bottom you will see a section like this, edit to you liking. # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in # the "staff" group [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home//public # open to everyone public = yes # writable no, if you want all to write to it change to yes writable = no #if writable no, a list of users that can write. a @ is for a group and no @ is for users only. place a comma between users. write list = @staff Make sure permissions are set correctly on /home/public and restart samba. Gary. Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?
AFAIK, yes, they can, it's a matter of piping the output of one through the other eg, like using a touchpad AND external mouse on a laptop at the same time (which I currently can do). It makes use of the send core events argument in the XF86 Config files. I will attch my config files for you to compare. Cheers Jason Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, My physiotherapist is suggesting a mouse for the left and the right hand, with one for half the day, and one for the other half. Can I have both plugged in at the same time? (I don't need to actually move them around simultaneously :-) I'd prefer not to have to crawl under the desk twice a day, and my current mouse is strictly right handed only. My right handed mouse is a USB model. Thanks and best wishes, Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" # Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF... FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" # True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig! FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" # FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" EndSection Section "Keyboard" Protocol"Standard" AutoRepeat 500 5 LeftAltMeta RightAltMeta ScrollLock Compose RightCtlControl # This is just the default keymap for X. # May be changed with the KDE international keyboard tool. XkbModel"pc104" XkbLayout "us" # XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps" # XkbKeycodes "xfree86" # XkbTypes"default" # XkbCompat "default" # XkbSymbols "us(pc101)" # XkbGeometry "pc" # XkbRules"xfree86" # XkbModel"pc101" # XkbLayout "us" EndSection Section "Pointer" Protocol"PS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout70 EndSection # Auto-generated by mkxf86config Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" # Wish we could use some probed settings here, too, but XFree4 cannot do this yet. # HorizSync28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors HorizSync28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 # Very conservative. May flicker. # These are some Modelines that happen to work on many systems # Especially the "1024x768" has been thoroughly tested, even on Laptops Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 #60Hz Modeline "800x600" 40.12 800 848 968 1056 600 601 605 628 #60Hz Modeline "1024x768"851024 1056 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Modeline "1152x864"921152 1208 1368 1474 864 865 875 895 Modeline "1152x864" 1101152 1240 1324 1552 864 864 876 908 Modeline "1152x864" 1351152 1464 1592 1776 864 864 876 908 Modeline "1152x864" 137.65 1152 1184 1312 1536 864 866 885 902 -HSync -VSync Modeline "1280x1024" 801280 1296 1512 1568 1024 1025 1037 1165 Interlace Modeline "1280x1024" 1101280 1328 1512 1712 1024 1025 1028 1054 Modeline "1280x1024" 126.5 1280 1312 1472 1696 1024 1032 1040 1068 -HSync -VSync Modeline "1280x1024" 1351280 1312 1456 1712 1024 1027 1030 1064 Modeline "1280x1024" 1351280 1312 1416 1664 1024 1027 1030 1064 Modeline "1280x1024" 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 +HSync +VSync
[expert] CD-ROM troubles
I've installed MDK 9.1 on two machines...one worked perfectly, the other has CD-ROM troubles. It is a dual 500 Mhz (kinda old) with a SCSI interface card (for scanner, and ZIP drive). One of the CD drives is a writer and is under SCSI emulation. The other is a standard DVD rom drive on the ide. The CD-RW drive (although used to install MDK just fine) will not mount any CDs...something about an input/output error. When I disable supermount and try to manually mount it, give the error message about "wrong fs type, bad superblock, too many mounts etc..." The DVD drive seems to work ok on the command line, nautilus takes for ever to do anything, and "pings" the drive even when there are no discs inside. I have seen grumblings about these problems in the past, but haven't found the solution yet. Anyone know the answer to make my day? Thanks, Jae Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba
This is the exact text:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] diggy10]$ smbpasswd
Old SMB password:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
specified password is invalid.
Failed to change password for diggy10
[EMAIL PROTECTED] diggy10]$
WHY ohhh WHY is samba so damn hard lol =)
Cheers
Jason
PS, shouldn't some of this shite be automatic?? I mean why not
autodetect this kinda stuff on the LAN like Winders does?? I mean we're
using a crappy MS protocol already, why does samba act this way?? Some
kinda network autodetection and authentication tool should be provided....
Jason Greenwood wrote:
Yup, I tried that too
This is what it says:
machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change : Error was RAP86 : the
specified password is invalid
WTF??
Cheers
Jason
David Rankin wrote:
Wait, Wait, Wait
You don't need to disable the samba password. The way it works is
to just
make sure the windows password ('95 OSR2 and beyond) is the same as
the samba
password. The windows login (user name) should be the same as the unix
and
samba username. Just make it simple. The unix, samba and windows
logins and
passwords should be the same.
Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:44, richard bown wrote:
Now I'm confused :(
The windows box only has 2 users, both have a null string as a
password,
ie I login as "richard" with a blank password.
When I login to this box as a user "richard" and the password is
"richard".
I dont think linux likes null strings as passwords.
On the Linux machine you'll need to create equivalent samba users with:
smbadduser richard:richard
It will prompt for a password. Just press Enter to disable the
passwords.
But surely the login is the icing on the cake, I would expect with both
smbd and nmbd running, for windows to at least show this box in its
network neighbourhood,, it only shows its self "WINBLOWS" in MDKGROUP.
There are 4 interfaces on this box as far as the firewall is concerned
1 the public interface,, heavily protected
2 a slip link internal to the machine ...trusted
3 local.. again trusted
4 lan pretty open
OK, to verify that it's not a firewall issue, do the following:
On the Linux machine, login as the 'richard' user. Then type:
smbclient //FW-GB7TF/public -U richard
You should be prompted for a password. Press Enter for a null password
or Enter the password if it's not null. When the SMB prompt appears,
type 'dir'. You should get a listing of the local Samba share on the
Linux machine.
If you can't do this it tells us that something is wrong with the Samba
configuration. BTW, the FW-GB7TF name is from the config file that you
posted. Normally you'd change this to something more friendly. Please
also verify that you are indeed exporting a /public share with:
smbclient -U richard -L localhost
Look for the appropriate entries in the Sharename column.
If you can browse the share, go over to the Windows machine. In the
START|RUN dialog, type //FW-GB7TF/public. If you don't get anything then
it's almost certainly a firewall issue.
the windows box is on the latter.
I'm not seeing either smb,nmb or cups broadcasts on the lan interface,
but the firewall log show cups broadcast being dropped on the public
interface...stops the world using my printer :))
route -en shows 44.131.90.0 netmask 255,255.254.0 to the lan interface,
and the routing to that subnet is working.
However, as per my earlier mail when smbd and nmbd are restarted I
see a
log message
"samba is now logon server for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet
44.131.90.129"
thats the address on the internal LAN for this machine, subnet
255.255.255.255
I've missed something fundamental, but I cant see it
TIA
Richard
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Re: [expert] samba
Yup, I tried that too
This is what it says:
machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change : Error was RAP86 : the
specified password is invalid
WTF??
Cheers
Jason
David Rankin wrote:
Wait, Wait, Wait
You don't need to disable the samba password. The way it works is to just
make sure the windows password ('95 OSR2 and beyond) is the same as the samba
password. The windows login (user name) should be the same as the unix and
samba username. Just make it simple. The unix, samba and windows logins and
passwords should be the same.
Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:44, richard bown wrote:
Now I'm confused :(
The windows box only has 2 users, both have a null string as a password,
ie I login as "richard" with a blank password.
When I login to this box as a user "richard" and the password is
"richard".
I dont think linux likes null strings as passwords.
On the Linux machine you'll need to create equivalent samba users with:
smbadduser richard:richard
It will prompt for a password. Just press Enter to disable the
passwords.
But surely the login is the icing on the cake, I would expect with both
smbd and nmbd running, for windows to at least show this box in its
network neighbourhood,, it only shows its self "WINBLOWS" in MDKGROUP.
There are 4 interfaces on this box as far as the firewall is concerned
1 the public interface,, heavily protected
2 a slip link internal to the machine ...trusted
3 local.. again trusted
4 lan pretty open
OK, to verify that it's not a firewall issue, do the following:
On the Linux machine, login as the 'richard' user. Then type:
smbclient //FW-GB7TF/public -U richard
You should be prompted for a password. Press Enter for a null password
or Enter the password if it's not null. When the SMB prompt appears,
type 'dir'. You should get a listing of the local Samba share on the
Linux machine.
If you can't do this it tells us that something is wrong with the Samba
configuration. BTW, the FW-GB7TF name is from the config file that you
posted. Normally you'd change this to something more friendly. Please
also verify that you are indeed exporting a /public share with:
smbclient -U richard -L localhost
Look for the appropriate entries in the Sharename column.
If you can browse the share, go over to the Windows machine. In the
START|RUN dialog, type //FW-GB7TF/public. If you don't get anything then
it's almost certainly a firewall issue.
the windows box is on the latter.
I'm not seeing either smb,nmb or cups broadcasts on the lan interface,
but the firewall log show cups broadcast being dropped on the public
interface...stops the world using my printer :))
route -en shows 44.131.90.0 netmask 255,255.254.0 to the lan interface,
and the routing to that subnet is working.
However, as per my earlier mail when smbd and nmbd are restarted I see a
log message
"samba is now logon server for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet
44.131.90.129"
thats the address on the internal LAN for this machine, subnet
255.255.255.255
I've missed something fundamental, but I cant see it
TIA
Richard
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Re: [expert] samba]
ok, got the winpcs changed to the MDKGROUP. Without stuffing about trying to get users to have access to their home directories, is there an EASY way to allow anyone on the LAN to have access to the /home/public directory for sharing files from there?? Cheers Jason richard bown wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:15, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi there, I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to get samba working properly here at work. How do you change the workgroup settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change them to MDKGROUP for it to work right but I see no way to change it on the offending win98 boxes. Cheers Jason If I remember right it can be set in the properties under network neighbourhood HTH Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba]
Also, what if their Windows usernames have spaces (or capitals) in them?? AFAIK, I cannot create usernames with spaces on my Lin box... Cheers Jason Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi there, I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to get samba working properly here at work. How do you change the workgroup settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change them to MDKGROUP for it to work right but I see no way to change it on the offending win98 boxes. Cheers Jason Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] samba Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:33:35 +0100 From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Monday 31 Mar 2003 8:32 pm, richard bown wrote: Hi All , thanks Kwan & Torstein for the advice , but so far the windows machine still cannot see this machine. I have opened ports 137 & 139 on the firewall , I've altered the smb.conf as suggested, included the chmod and chown foe the public dir, but still nothing. The modified smb.conf is as follows:- [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP netbios name = FW-GB7TF server string = Samba Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups domain logons = Yes dns proxy = No printer admin = @adm printing = cups security = share [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm root guest ok = Yes The smbusers file as follows:- # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ... root = administrator admin nobody = guest pcguest smbguest I'm still stumped, any more suggestions ?? It looks as though your windows users don't have accounts on your box? They need a user account, with password and username exactly matching their windows logon, and a samba user account, again with an exact match in username and password. I presume they also have MDKGROUP as their workgroup, remembering case sensitivity? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba]
Hi there, I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to get samba working properly here at work. How do you change the workgroup settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change them to MDKGROUP for it to work right but I see no way to change it on the offending win98 boxes. Cheers Jason Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] samba Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:33:35 +0100 From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Monday 31 Mar 2003 8:32 pm, richard bown wrote: Hi All , thanks Kwan & Torstein for the advice , but so far the windows machine still cannot see this machine. I have opened ports 137 & 139 on the firewall , I've altered the smb.conf as suggested, included the chmod and chown foe the public dir, but still nothing. The modified smb.conf is as follows:- [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP netbios name = FW-GB7TF server string = Samba Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups domain logons = Yes dns proxy = No printer admin = @adm printing = cups security = share [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm root guest ok = Yes The smbusers file as follows:- # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ... root = administrator admin nobody = guest pcguest smbguest I'm still stumped, any more suggestions ?? It looks as though your windows users don't have accounts on your box? They need a user account, with password and username exactly matching their windows logon, and a samba user account, again with an exact match in username and password. I presume they also have MDKGROUP as their workgroup, remembering case sensitivity? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
PLF - was Re: [expert] Product Question
Hi All, Todd Lyons wrote: Kwan Lowe wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:39:21PM -0500 : 1) Does 9.1 have an easy DVD playback solution? I.e., do either the installation CDs come with all appropriate RPMS (including libdvdcss, dvdread, etc) or are Mandrake specific packages availalble online? Both are illegal to distribute. Others will answer with other alternatives. In some coutries it is illegal, that is why PLF was formed. Go here: http://plf.zarb.org/ to learn more. PLF is a project of some individual developers (some work for Mandrake as well, s) to provide packages for things that have varying levels of legality depending on the country. There is also a PLF ISO (the 9.1 PLF ISO is in beta now) to ease installation of PLF packages. The ISO has the Mandrake installer built in and if you boot from it during the original install, it adds PLF as one of the package groups during install. If you want to install PLF after the fact then you can easily just install the individual RPMS as you need them. All the packages you need are found on PLF. PLF mirrors are listed on the site. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
I agree 100%. The other thing that MUST work well is USB and hotplugging. I will not go into my trials and experiences here but suffice it to say that as of 9.0 USB detection needed some help. I KNOW this is partially due to hardware vendors not always following standard USB protocols (eg USB Mass Storage Protocol) but if we can anticipate and compensate for this then Mandrake WILL become the distro of choice for desktop users. USB is becoming much more common, especially on laptops and this is one area where Linux can/must do better. I have gotten a USB external sony memory stick reader/writer to work great on mdk 9.0 but NOTHING else. (ok, a USB mouse but that doesn't count ;) The reader workd out of the box just by plugging it in and I was totally overjoyed but then was dismayed when NONE of my other USB peripherals worked the same way. My .0002c worth. Cheers Jason Greenwood James Sparenberg wrote: All, Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One exception noted here http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=3873&forum=2 ) The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue in the face and I keep coming up with people talking about not being able to get wireless working in MDK and switching to SuSe or RH. OK I'm a stubborn cuss. If it will work in SuSe or RH it's got to be able to work in MDK. To the men and women of MDK. If you want to stand head ans shoulders above the crowd this is a place where you are uniquely enabled to do just this. It shouldn't be this hard. If I can click on an Icon and create a self mounting samba share (and I can!) this should be doable. Maybe in in the connection Wizard some recognition of wireless? How about keeping a database of info to insert in /etc/pcmcia/config for cards you don't have (I've got some already to include here.) A place where one of the more knowledgeable members can create a HowTo for wireless. ( the current howto in the ldp is limited to RH 6.2) Not everyone is running a PIV 4ghz with 1 gig of ram and dual NVidia cards on a desktp system. Fall flat on face getting off soapbox. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs
I believe the "official" release date is sometime around AprilMandrake?? Cheers J Mark Weaver wrote: Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote: > So, when do you guys think MD9.1 will be out? I have tried compiling > qt3.1.1 and got errors on install, so I quit :( Im not much of a > GUI person anyways..although I saw a theme i really wanted for > KDE3.1 > don't know, but I'm hoping soon cause some things about 9.0 are driving me nuts. nothing serious...just some pet peeves I have with nfs on 9.0. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recognition of Todd Lyons
Todd Rocks, nuff said. Thanks for all you've done.. H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 16:49, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I want to make an official appeal to the Mandrake management to keep Todd Lyons securely in the company, in the recent light of current events regarding the Chapter 11. Todd Lyons has been an incredible asset to the Expert list, helping countless users with their problems and concerns. It would be a terrible loss to Mandrake and an even more terrible loss to all Mandrake users were anything to happen that would force him to seek other employment. We want him around and we want him to stay. Civileme was a huge asset to all of us here in North America, as well as the rest of the world. We don't want the same thing to happen to Todd Lyons. If this concerns you now is the time to make your support known. Thank you, Todd. LX I second that wholeheartedly. Where would we be without all those blues skies HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla Language packs??
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?? Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla Language packs??
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?? Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Abi Word Help
Thanks for the advice! Does anyone besides me think it should be easier to change than this?? ;) Cheers Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: In AbiWord how to I change the default font?? You need to edit the normal.awt file. From the help guide: When AbiWord opens a new document, a number of styles and other settings are automatically set. AbiWord comes with built-in values for these, but you can also change them if you would prefer a different look. You do this by editing a file called normal.awt -- the normal template. There are two kinds of normal template: user and system. A user normal template is found in your home directory, and only applies to documents you create. A system normal template is found in the directory where AbiWord is installed, and applies to all documents created by AbiWord on that system. AbiWord will follow a user normal template if one is installed. If not, it follows the system template, if one is installed. If no templates are installed, it uses built-in values. Finding the Normal Template The normal template must be in the correct place for AbiWord to make use of it. On Linux, the user template should be in the .AbiSuite/templates directory in your home directory. (.AbiSuite is a hidden directory, so it will not normally be displayed. However, if you are in your home directory, you can move to it by typing its name into the Save or Open dialog.) On single-user Windows systems, it is in the templates folder in the folder where you installed AbiWord. If the template or the directory does not exist, you can create it. Create the directory in the normal way for your operating system. To create the normal template, open a blank AbiWord document. Select Save As... and set the Save As Type... menu to Abiword Template (.awt). Name the document normal.awt, and save it in the appropriate place. Changing the Normal Template Open normal.awt. Make any changes you want. You can add and change styles from the Style dialog. You can also make any changes that you can make to a normal document. All of these changes will be reflected in any new documents you create. So, if you add a page number in the footer of normal.awt, all new documents will have page numbers in the footer. Save the changes. Make sure that you save as a template called normal.awt, in the correct place. Once the changes are saved, any new documents will follow the template. Other Templates You can create other templates in the same way as the normal template. These are available if you select New from the File menu. Pressing the new file button on the toolbar will create a new file based on the normal tempalte. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Abi Word Help
In AbiWord how to I change the default font?? Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mouse wheel and tv card problems
You have to modify the XF86Config-4 (in /etc/X11) file by hand as I found out on my laptop. There was a thread on this around 12-12-02. I got helped by several on the list but also had to do some searching of my own. I have a laptop and I wanted my touchpad AND USB optical scroll mouse to be functional on boot. Here are the relevant bits of mine (if I remember correctly): Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer" InputDevice "USB Mouse" "SendCoreEvents" *I believe send core events sends the usb mouse output through the standard mouse output. My mouse layout looks like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "USB Mouse" DSectionriver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" Even if you don't want to use 2 types of mice simultaneously, my mouse config details should help you since mine scrolls just fine. Ideas list?? Hope this helps. Jason David Savolainen wrote: Hello all, I performed a clean install of MDK9 and now the mouse wheel does not behave properly anymore. The wheel used to nicely scroll window contents. Now except for Galeon, it performs page up, page down operations. Also in programs like pan with multipane program windows, the pane with the mouse cursor is no longer automatically activated. How do I restore the original behavior? A second side effect is my stb tv card (bt878) stopped working, and the tv card configuration utility does not seem to work. What can be done? Thanks for any help! David Savolainen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question
K3B is your friend. So is eRoaster. Regards, Jason Phil wrote: Hello All, While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where my troubles started. Xcdroast apparently will only accept wave files, and Gnome Toaster would only burn the mp3 file as a data file no matter what setting I tried. I tried mpg123 to convert the mp3 file to a wave file but that failed also. mpg123 -w mp3file wavefile does nothing except display the help screen. mpg123 --wav mp3file wavefile at least does something if only to create an empty file named wavefile. This has been an exercise in frustration compounded by the fact that I was able the create an audio CD under MS Windows using Nero in a couple of minutes and I have never used Nero before! I use cdrecord to create back-ups but I have never had a need to create an audio CD. How do I do this? Past messages suggest the Gnome Toaster is the answer. Maybe the version supplied with Mandrake 9 is not working correctly? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.0 to Cooker upgrade problems
Hi all, I will try and keep this brief, I have been running cooker and updating it almost daily (unless it totally fuscked up my system) via either freshen or urpmi or whatever, since 8.x. No major problems except sometime after 9.0 my sound died (I have a SB16) and I couldn't get it to work no way no how (even using sndconfig etc.). Anyway, I recently bought a new harddrive and decided to do a fresh 9.0 install then update to the latest cooker. I won't go into what an abortion of an install 9.0 was and how hard I had to work to get it going because 9.0 installs have been pretty well covered here. Now, my problem. I have tried upgrading to the latest cooker from 9.0 several ways, all of them failing miserably. Maybe you all can help. First I tried a basic freshen but too manu deps to fill. So I tried rpmdrake. I have ALL of the latest RPMS and RPMS2 rpms downloaded and configured as urpmi sources. So, I tried to upgrade a few packages at a time starting with drakxtools etc. No matter how few or many packages I choose, it starts to install and then abruptly fails and says "installation failed, some files are missing, you may want to update your sources database". Bah, I've done that!! I also tried individual rpm upgrades (via kpackage) with no success (except for the kernel and makedev which upgraded fine). SOOO, I decided to do a mdkinstall. The process?? Download the current cooker mdkinstall directory, download the current cooker base directory and all current RPMS/2/Contribs, then make an install floppy from the cooker hd.img file via: dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 I thought, aha!! This will surely do it since it is like a normal install/upgrade based on cooker packages. No dice. I booted from the floppy, and I told it where the files were blah blah. Ok, fine so far, it got to the point of loading the program into memory which completed just fine. It then said "in second stage install", then "wait, probing serial ports", then it said "version file missing" (whatever that means, version of what??). It seemed to be ok and started the graphical install anyway. I got through the initial phases ok, then it got to the harddrive detection stage. It error'd out at this point saying "an error occured, undefined subroutine& modules::interactive::load_category called". Hmph, alllrighty then. I had to hard reboot as it was stuck in an undending loop because it would come up with the same error over and over when I hit ok. I would like to get back up to "cooker" speed but short of 2 things I can't see how. I can use makecd (which I have never done and I hear is pretty challenging) to mak a cooker iso or I can wait for an interim cooker iso release which may (hopefully) happen sometime soon. I hope someone has some ideas for me ;) Thanks all. BTW, my system is a pentium II 300 Mhz (Klamath) desktop with 512 MB SDRam and 3 harddrives, 2 seagate (one 3GB with Winblows 98se on it, one 40GB with Linux on it) and 1 western digital 15GB data drive formatted as FAT32. Basically, it's nothin' special or out of the ordinary. Thanks for any help, Regards, Jason Greenwood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
I'm a little past this point sorry. The device needs to be detected with a device entry made in /dev first, before I can do anything else. It doesn't always get detected and when it does the media in it does not. My usb storage module is loaded at boot so this is not a problem. The scsi emulation is a problem though, so I have to modprobe sd_mod for that to work after plugging in the device. Even then, I can't mount it since it can't tell the fs type (though I think that is related to the media not detected error in /var/logs/messages). Bugga. Nevermind, will keep playing. Thanks for the ideas though. Cheers Jason TwinkieStix wrote: To get my USB flash card reader to work (Kingston FCR-U2CF) : -Go to a command prompt -#su root -type password -#insmod usb-storage -#mkdir /mnt/flash -#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash Look in /mnt/flash and see if the files are there. If so, you can add a line to /etc/fstab to make the drive automount and a link in "removable devices" to make it seem just like a floppy drive. --TwinkieStix Jason wrote: Thanks much but yup, I read it too and it didn't help meunfortunately. I am getting closer to getting it going and if/when I do I will post the process to the list. Cheers Jason Greenwood James Sparenberg wrote: Don't know if this will help but ran across this article on LinuxToday.. Title: Using a Compact Flash Card Reader in Linux http://www.machineofthemonth.org/articles/2002/1216/index.html James On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 08:21, 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 PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
I will not mess with the fstab until I can mount the device manually, which I can't. I have tried mounting the device with the auto argument without successit can't detect the filesystem, which tells me it's a kernel problem. May have to wait for a newer one. Cheers Jason J. Grant wrote: 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 PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandr
[expert] mdk 9.0 installation impossible
Hi, Between me, my brother, and one of my friends who have tried to install mdk 9.0, we have all failed to get mdk 9.0 to install and function properly on at least one of our computers. One computer that I tried to install mdk 9.0 on is a Mini-ITX system using a 800 MHz VIA C3 processor. The motherboard does not have a floppy port (I think the chipset itself has a controller, but the board doesn't have the connectors for it), I didn't feel like buying an IDE based superdrive, I couldn't get USB Zip boot to work properly with mdk 9.0 (the motherboard BIOS supports USB Zip boot), mdk 9.0 does not have the alternate install image on CD #2 as mdk 8.2 does, so I was left with CD install. The problem I came across with this is that instead of prompting for another CD to install more packages, it just errored out complaining that it couldn't find the package it wanted. I tried going to the console and manually umounting the CD and mounting another CD, but I still couldn't get it to find packages. I eventually gave up and just installed mdk 8.2. The CD ejection problem persisted with all other computers, but the other computers could use 1.44 MB floppy drives, so we did either network or hard disk installs on them. My brother tried to install mdk 9.0 on an old Intel P-III 700 MHz system (dual capable Tyan 440BX m/b w/ one CPU). After my brother failed to get mdk 9.0 to do a CD install, he loaded the files onto his hard drive and did a hard drive install. He got it to install, but then it crashed when he tried to get updates over the Internet. (He has a cable modem at his house and a firewall that also acts as a DHCP server for all of his computers.) He then booted into mdk 9.0, but it kept crashing. He tried to get updates while running mdk 9.0, but Mandrake's updater program would crash before it got anywhere. The odd thing about this instability is that the system had been running Windows ME and mdk 8.1 without any stability problems. (Well at least nothing beyond what is normal with Windows ME.) Seeing that I managed to successfully do a network install of mdk 9.0 on my test box (not the Mini-ITX system), we brought the machine over to my place and I tried to do a network install. At first I couldn't get his Linksys NIC to talk to my 12 port SMC switch (a year and a half ago it was a 16 port switch, but one by one ports are going bad on it), so I dropped a 3Com 3c905C NIC that I had laying into his system and tried again. This time around the 3c905C was able to DHCP its address and see the server (HTTP), but it hung trying to load the second image over the network. I eventually gave up trying to install mdk 9.0 and just did a network install of mdk 8.2 on my brother's computer. mdk 8.2 did its network install without a hitch (w/ the 3c905C) and so far has run stable on the system. The only real problem so far is mdk 8.2's broken USB mouse support, but that is an easy workaround. One of my friends tried to do a CD install of mdk 9.0, but couldn't get it to work, so he switched to Debian and last I heard he was happy with Debian. (I thought that Debian was supposed to be more difficult to install, especially a few months back when he did his install, but it worked better for him than the mdk 9.0 install.) --Jason Snyder-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
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 PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
Thanks much but yup, I read it too and it didn't help meunfortunately. I am getting closer to getting it going and if/when I do I will post the process to the list. Cheers Jason Greenwood James Sparenberg wrote: Don't know if this will help but ran across this article on LinuxToday.. Title: Using a Compact Flash Card Reader in Linux http://www.machineofthemonth.org/articles/2002/1216/index.html James On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 08:21, 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 PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
Also this is from /var/log/messages: Dec 29 10:26:23 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1, assigned address 5 Dec 29 10:26:28 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product d7d/240/100 Dec 29 10:26:31 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:04.2-1 address 5 So I guess the kernel IS seeing it...weird... 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 PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0]
Thanks for the ideas. This is the output: [root@localhost jason]# /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused) floppy 49244 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 3384 0 (autoclean) zlib_inflate 18468 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] zlib_deflate 18392 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] bsd_comp4312 0 (autoclean) lp 6752 0 parport_pc 21736 1 parport23808 1 [lp parport_pc] ppp_async 7456 1 ppp_generic20092 3 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc5072 1 [ppp_generic] af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean) ip_vs 74424 0 (autoclean) supermount 14308 2 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2844 2 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3580 2 (autoclean) vfat9580 2 (autoclean) fat31864 0 (autoclean) [vfat] ide-cd 28680 0 cdrom 27008 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi8276 0 sb 7636 1 sb_lib 34830 0 [sb] uart401 6660 0 [sb_lib] sound 55636 1 [sb_lib uart401] soundcore 3684 0 [sb_lib sound] usb-storage66552 0 scsi_mod 91412 3 [sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage] usb-uhci 21804 0 (unused) usbcore58144 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci] rtc 6524 0 (autoclean) ext3 60076 6 jbd38908 6 [ext3] [root@localhost jason]# I am also running the latest libusb and kernel from cooker. I do not have a usb mouse (it's a ps2 so I cannot test the usb mouse =( **Jason banging head against wall** Ideas?? 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 PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
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 PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | Jason wrote: I see the device in usbview but I cannot figure out how to mount/use it. It is not autodetected on plugin and I don't know where the hotplug error logs are located. What other logs would show usb activities?? /dev/sd does not exist and I was under the impression that it would be generated autmatically if need be. What am I missing?? Cheers Jason PS, I even tried transitmount with no success: http://amphi-gouri.org/transitmount/ Narfi Stefansson wrote: On Wednesday 25 December 2002 18:51, Jason wrote: Hi All, I have a vanilla 9.0 install at work. I plugged an external USB Sony memory stick reader in and poof, mandrake found it and I could mount it with Kwikdisk and view the contents via a link ML made on my desktop (I was duly impressed). Now my problem. I just bought a 6 in 1 (reads memory stick, CF, SM etc.) external USB card reader for use at home. I run cooker at home but I have just done a vanilla 9.0 install on a new HDD. The reader is a Packard Bell and the literature says it is supported on Linux running 2.4 kernels. I tried plugging this reader in at home and on my work laptop and...nothing. ML didn't notice it was plugged in and I cannot get it to work for the life of me. Anyone have any ideas?? Did you look into the logs? Were there messages from hotplug? Did you look at /dev/sd* ? Was it possibly the case that no such device /dev/sd* existed before you plugged your new reader into the USB port and one or more did appear a couple of seconds after you plugged it in? Does "usbview" show you any device on the USB bus? I know that I can't solve your problem, but maybe these things lead you in the right direction. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?
Sweet, semantics asideglad it worked. Cheers Jason Ron Stodden wrote: Jason wrote: Ok, sorry, I haven't used Windows in about a year either but what do you call the menu that pops up when you click on the little KGearWheel Icon in the lower left hand corner of the KDE panel?? =) The K-menu. Anyway, did you find the entry which is what the point of my suggestion was Yes, thanks - all working now (after root supermount disable). Very convenient! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
Thanks for the helpI am getting s close, I can feel it!! Anyway, it was a bit of a mess at first since I forgot (oops!) to leave a free line at the end of the fstabouch. Had to modify it from linux -s mode since it kept crashing on boot. I added the line which you suggested which is great since when I plugged the reader in, a device called /mnt/disk popped up in Kwikdisk. I then tried to mount it but it says: Called: mount/dev/sda1 mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I thought this dev entry was dynamically created when a usb device such as this was plugged in??? Anyway the output from tail -f /var/log/messages when the device is plugged/unplugged looks like: [root@localhost jason]# tail -f /var/log/messages Dec 28 00:28:52 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 28 00:28:52 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 28 00:28:52 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:28:52 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:28:52 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Dec 28 00:28:52 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:28:52 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Dec 28 00:28:52 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:12 localhost su(pam_unix)[2217]: session opened for user root by jason(uid=501) Dec 28 00:33:20 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:04.2-1 address 2 Dec 28 00:33:43 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1, assigned address 3 Dec 28 00:33:48 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product d7d/240/100 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present Dec 28 00:33:57 localhost kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 28 00:33:58 localhost kernel
Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?
Ok, sorry, I haven't used Windows in about a year either but what do you call the menu that pops up when you click on the little KGearWheel Icon in the lower left hand corner of the KDE panel?? =) Anyway, did you find the entry which is what the point of my suggestion was Cheers Jason Ron Stodden wrote: Jason wrote: Ahhh but Kwikdisk DOES have a menu entryin 9.0: Start Menu>Configuration>Hardware>Kwikdisk,,, ;) Huh? I don't speak Windows here.Is that some kind of joke? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?
Ahhh but Kwikdisk DOES have a menu entryin 9.0: Start Menu>Configuration>Hardware>Kwikdisk,,, ;) Ron Stodden wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: Jason wrote: I find Kwikdisk better (it sits in the systray) and you can activate KDF from it as well. 9.0 kwikdisk (expert, everything install) doesn't run here. It loads then just hangs - no display, no diagnostics when run from terminal. ^C to recover. It is not in the list of panel appliets. Ah! supermount disable, then kwikdisk runs from an icon in the systray! Nice tool! But it is best set up in rc.local to run in the background. IMHO it should be set up as a ksysv service. There in no menu item, and no 'man kwikdisk' either. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
hi all, christmas has maxed out my cc but as soon as i make a payment i'll take out a silver membership long live mandrake!!! 9.0 has blown me away I used 8 for a long time up untill about a month ago and thought that was good but w 9.0 ROCKS can't wait for 10.0 jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Stable video card
I haven't but when I had trouble with my SIS card (in a laptop), I ran Knoppix (which configured it correctly) and then copied the XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files over to Mandrake and it worked perfect. Knoppix works great as a diagnostic tool I find. If it doesn't find and configure your hardware then you must have a pretty strange beast as I have yet to see it fail. Just an idea. Cheers Jason Brian Schroeder wrote: Does anyone have any experience with the Voodoo 2? I am trying to get one working with mdk9. Brian From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Stable video card Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:38:38 +1100 Jack Coates wrote: Voodoos are good, but I've had overheating problems with mine -- there's also a lot of outdated documentation out there that can really help you screw it up :-) I run my AGP Voodoo3 3000 with a little 5 volt fan (any computer shop) attached to the heat sink with cable ties, blowing on to the heat sink. Sink and fan are the same length and width and all the holes line up for the ties. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_addphotos_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?
I find Kwikdisk better (it sits in the systray) and you can activate KDF from it as well. Cheers Jason Ron Stodden wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: Jure, could you pls list the steps: 1. for disabling in MCC 2. for manually control mounting (do you mean that each time I insert a CD, I should issue [from root :-[ ] a "mount /dev/cdrom" ?) Nah! Just use kdf (Applications - Monitoring - KDiskFree) to do all your mounting and unmounting by just clicking on the right line.For KDE, leave the kdf window up all the time by giving it its own desktop called "Mount". Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
I see the device in usbview but I cannot figure out how to mount/use it. It is not autodetected on plugin and I don't know where the hotplug error logs are located. What other logs would show usb activities?? /dev/sd does not exist and I was under the impression that it would be generated autmatically if need be. What am I missing?? Cheers Jason PS, I even tried transitmount with no success: http://amphi-gouri.org/transitmount/ Narfi Stefansson wrote: On Wednesday 25 December 2002 18:51, Jason wrote: Hi All, I have a vanilla 9.0 install at work. I plugged an external USB Sony memory stick reader in and poof, mandrake found it and I could mount it with Kwikdisk and view the contents via a link ML made on my desktop (I was duly impressed). Now my problem. I just bought a 6 in 1 (reads memory stick, CF, SM etc.) external USB card reader for use at home. I run cooker at home but I have just done a vanilla 9.0 install on a new HDD. The reader is a Packard Bell and the literature says it is supported on Linux running 2.4 kernels. I tried plugging this reader in at home and on my work laptop and...nothing. ML didn't notice it was plugged in and I cannot get it to work for the life of me. Anyone have any ideas?? Did you look into the logs? Were there messages from hotplug? Did you look at /dev/sd* ? Was it possibly the case that no such device /dev/sd* existed before you plugged your new reader into the USB port and one or more did appear a couple of seconds after you plugged it in? Does "usbview" show you any device on the USB bus? I know that I can't solve your problem, but maybe these things lead you in the right direction. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?
AFAIK, Kwikdisk only shows non-SM controlled devices. Go to MCC>Mount Points>CD Burner/CD Rom>Options (click ok)> Then uncheck the box that says "supermount" and check the boxes that say "no auto" and "user". After saving the changes, reboot the system and supermount will be off. Then Kwikdisk should "see" the drive. Hope this helps. Cheers Jason Stefano Pogliani wrote: Jason, kwikdisk only shows Harddrives, no CDrom ! All my harddrive partitions, though Another question. How do I disable SuperMount ? TIA /stefano Jason wrote: I have had the same problem in the past myself. I too believe it is a problem with SM. I disable it and then start Kwikdisk. I make sure and save my sessions upon shutting down my system so Kwikdisk starts every time I Login. The mounting CD's (or whatever is as easy as clicking on it in Kwikdisk, poof, mounted. Click again...poof, unmounted. WAY quicker than the command line but even with the CLI, once a command is in bash history, just scrol to it with your up arrow key and re-use the command so you don't have to type it each time. The problem seems to be that with SM enabled and if you are working in the /mnt/cdrom dir., then press the HW eject, SM doesn't like it and immediately overrides the HW eject command, which causes the tray to fly back in. If you change out of that working dir than all should be well, even with SM activated. My .0002c worth. Cheers Jason Stefano Pogliani wrote: Mark, "eject" works. But, I was wondering why the HW button behaves differently in Linux and NT4 (dual boot machine). /stefano Mark Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:15, Stefano Pogliani wrote: I am experimenting a strange issue. No problem in inserting a CD into its bay for reading it. When I need to remove it (to insert another one) and I press the HW eject button, the CD tray gets out and IMMEDIATELY gets in again, making it a real adventure to extract the CD itself (fighting with the tray) Anybody knows "why" ? Thanks a lot indeed. Best regards /Stefano 1/ Just guessing here, make sure that you have changed out of your CD dir e.g. /mnt/cdrom to say / 2/ Have you ever tried the "eject" commande.g. "eject /dev/hdd" depending where your CD is. Plus I hate the eject button on the CD-roms I don't how many times I have pressed that button twice..I just about never use the umount command after I have discovered the eject command. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?
I have had the same problem in the past myself. I too believe it is a problem with SM. I disable it and then start Kwikdisk. I make sure and save my sessions upon shutting down my system so Kwikdisk starts every time I Login. The mounting CD's (or whatever is as easy as clicking on it in Kwikdisk, poof, mounted. Click again...poof, unmounted. WAY quicker than the command line but even with the CLI, once a command is in bash history, just scrol to it with your up arrow key and re-use the command so you don't have to type it each time. The problem seems to be that with SM enabled and if you are working in the /mnt/cdrom dir., then press the HW eject, SM doesn't like it and immediately overrides the HW eject command, which causes the tray to fly back in. If you change out of that working dir than all should be well, even with SM activated. My .0002c worth. Cheers Jason Stefano Pogliani wrote: Mark, "eject" works. But, I was wondering why the HW button behaves differently in Linux and NT4 (dual boot machine). /stefano Mark Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:15, Stefano Pogliani wrote: I am experimenting a strange issue. No problem in inserting a CD into its bay for reading it. When I need to remove it (to insert another one) and I press the HW eject button, the CD tray gets out and IMMEDIATELY gets in again, making it a real adventure to extract the CD itself (fighting with the tray) Anybody knows "why" ? Thanks a lot indeed. Best regards /Stefano 1/ Just guessing here, make sure that you have changed out of your CD dir e.g. /mnt/cdrom to say / 2/ Have you ever tried the "eject" commande.g. "eject /dev/hdd" depending where your CD is. Plus I hate the eject button on the CD-roms I don't how many times I have pressed that button twice..I just about never use the umount command after I have discovered the eject command. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
Hi All, I have a vanilla 9.0 install at work. I plugged an external USB Sony memory stick reader in and poof, mandrake found it and I could mount it with Kwikdisk and view the contents via a link ML made on my desktop (I was duly impressed). Now my problem. I just bought a 6 in 1 (reads memory stick, CF, SM etc.) external USB card reader for use at home. I run cooker at home but I have just done a vanilla 9.0 install on a new HDD. The reader is a Packard Bell and the literature says it is supported on Linux running 2.4 kernels. I tried plugging this reader in at home and on my work laptop and...nothing. ML didn't notice it was plugged in and I cannot get it to work for the life of me. Anyone have any ideas?? Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla problem - can't delete message
Hi All, I am running a vanilla 9.0 install with Mozilla on my work laptop. I got an email with some motorcycle pics attached to it yesterday. I had requested it from someone and now that I have it, I cannot delete it. Mozilla won't let me. I try right click>delete and the delete key, no matter what it stays lodged in the inbox. What do I do now?? It's a big bugger...like 3200k, so I would REALLY like to get rid of it. The message was strabge in that the photos just came through as text gibberish in the email. The header looked like this: --=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2A73F.775606E0 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Dscf0006.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Dscf0006.jpg" Which I thought was weird. It just didn't look anything like a normal email. I am sure it wasn't a virus because when the same email was sent to my other address (also in Mozilla), it viewed, and deleted just fine. Ideas?? Cheers Jason Greenwood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ntpdate use
Yes, I had the same problem. I use Mandrake so under Mandrake Control Center>System>Services, I just stopped the process (ntpd) and then ran ntpdate. Worked like a charm. Cheers J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:14:36AM +, Phil wrote: 20 Dec 08:10:16 ntpdate[3180]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting your ntp daemon is already running. try: /etc/init.d/(x)ntpd stop or: pkill *ntp but at all, why not use xntpd? its easy to configure, in /etc u'll find the file ntpd.conf and there u just have to put the line: server address.org where 'address.org' is the name of your server. than do: /etc/init.d/(x)ntpd restart and have phun;) miLosh
Re: [expert] mail client
I use Mozilla Mail happily every day. I find it perfect for my needs with excellent filter functionality. What exactly are you looking for in your perfect mail client? I used to use Eudora and find Mozilla beats it hands down for my needs. Cheers Jason Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, Other than Kmail and trash like that, is there FINALLY a good mail client anyone using? I am dying here guys :(. I hope eudora grabs this open and empty market. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux
Yes, I concur. It IS possible for the copyright holders but a royal pain in the a** to prosecute someone who downloads maybe 1-3 songs per week, that may or may not be copyrighted. Cheers J Ron Stodden wrote: Jason Greenwood wrote: Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an American) and if they want to prosecute me, they need to come here to do it and PROVE I did something wrong, which there are many ways of avoiding. I don't think that's true. Many licences are qualified as restricted to the courts of the owner's country. So you can be tried overseas in absentia and fined. However, collecting that fine is an international event and may or may not be possible. In any case the costs of collection may well exceed the penalty. Where the copyright owner has a local branch in New Zealand, you would probably be in trouble. Compare the recent case here in Melbourne where the Supreme Court deemed a defamation published in Barrons (USA) against Gutnik here in Melbourne to be actionable here in Melbourne. IOW, the deemed point of publication is where the download occurred, NOT the where the article was uploaded. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] video card recommendations
The only advice I can offer is not to use anyhting that contains an SIS Chipsetthey perform, um, erratically with XFree86. Regards J Narfi Stefansson wrote: Hi everybody. I know this is a frequently asked question on this list, but I have a list of candidates and I would like your recommendations for the best cards, using only free drivers. I have the following cards in mind: Leadtek WinFast A170 TH GeForce 4 MX 420 64MB AGP TV-Out Asus V7100 Pro Pure MX400 64MB AGP Gainward GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP ATI / Powercolor Radeon 9000 64MB DDR 250MHz TV/DVI ATI Radeon 7500 Dual Head 64MB AGP The radeon 9000 is a budget version, but still more expensive than the others, so that's a minus. My needs are simple, I'm only looking for a card that's good enough and supports AGP 4x, uses free drivers and ... Above all, it musn't ever freeze, including when switching between X and the virtual consoles. I don't do any gaming, so that's really not an issue. It's compatibility with my motherboard, smoothness in 2-D use and stability that count. Thanks, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux
Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an American) and if they want to prosecute me, they need to come here to do it and PROVE I did something wrong, which there are many ways of avoiding. Cheers Jason Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday December 16 2002 05:50 pm, J. Grant wrote: 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. Reply to the thread, not just Grant, Just curious, but aren't y'all the least bit concerned with RIAA, BSA, et al, recent prosecutions of P2P users ? They run the same P2P apps, then take and save a snapshot of your available files .. then sue ya. For what I've read, this is already happenin in Europe, at about $12 to 14,000 per case. Or, maybe, as I ust'a do with Napster, maybe y'all don't allow connections? If that's the case, file sharing is also doomed. Whether right or wrong, I don't think most of us can stand up to M$ and Hollywood size legal bills, even if all they collect is bogus file names to take to court. Lawyers are what we can't afford. For as long as it lasts, I use private ($$) UseNet binary groups, but _never_ post. Besides, the file selection, while it's take what you can get, is usually better and also current. All you need is pan ;> Yeah, I'm just a sponge ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL
Yes, you are right, 9.0 totally F***ed up Supermount, even for me (I disable it on all vanilla 9.0 installs). It was broken on every install I tried (probably 5 or so, including and especially laptops). In the current cooker kernel, Supermount seems to work flawlessly for me on my home box. It also works on my fathers box and he's running the latest cooker too. I can't vouch for it across the board but it seems to have been addressed by now and I haven't heard much about it on the Cooker List (in itself a good sign). As for USB support, I can't comment, perhaps the list can give more insight here... All the best J Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2002 05:15 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok, I'm with you now. I know plenty of people who have 9.0 and would burn it for you for free (if you replaced the CD's for them). I am sure you do as well. If not, I suggest giving your location (roughly) to the list to see if there is someone near you who is willing to burn you a copy of 9.0. From there, simply upgrade the kernel to the cooker one (it works, I know, I run Cooker at home) and you're all set. I see what you As I understood it (and experienced it) some people were having no problems with the 9.0 kernel but there were a large number who found supermount partially or totally borked and had to disable it. Were you among this contingent? If so, are you saying the Cooker kernel fixes the supermount problem? I also have a usb wireless device. Under the 9.0 kernel, it was unreliable and prone to lockups (the device, not the system). If I can be reasonably assured that 1) supermount is now fixed in the Cooker kernel and 2) usb is updated, then I would consider going with a full 9.0 and immediately update to the Cooker kernel. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL
Ok, I'm with you now. I know plenty of people who have 9.0 and would burn it for you for free (if you replaced the CD's for them). I am sure you do as well. If not, I suggest giving your location (roughly) to the list to see if there is someone near you who is willing to burn you a copy of 9.0. >From there, simply upgrade the kernel to the cooker one (it works, I know, I run Cooker at home) and you're all set. I see what you are trying to accomplish it is just that in my experience, trying to update *components* of a system, especially with such a big jump in Libs, GCC etc. is difficult and fails miserably. Wish you all the best anyway. Regards J Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2002 16:13, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok, I offer 2 possible solutions for you then. Download the 9.0 ISO's for free (or have them burned to CD by someone you know who already has them) and upgrade the lot (or just upgrade KDE by adding the 3 9.0 CD's as sources in URPMI). Download the (Cooker) KDE RPM's via RPMdrake, and then satisfy the dependencies the same way. I just don't understand why you can't do the downloads (for free) that you need instead of going through the hassle of compiling something that requires vastly different libs etc. than the system you are currently running. Just my .0002c worth. This all started when I noticed that kde 3.0.3 wasn't working properly on my desktop (the problems with konqueror and javascript and any and all netscape plugins). On my laptop kde 3.0.3 works perfectly fine. Both systems are running 8.2. I cannot do the iso download because I am stuck with a 56k dialup with a time limit per call (university rules). There is NO proper option for broadband that would make downloading ISOs and whatnot doable. If not for the kernel problems with 9.0 I would be quite happy buying the boxed set to make it easy but the kernel IS defective vs 8.2 (supermount is important and I had nothing but problems with usb devices with it as well when I tried the 2.4.19 kernel). While writing this, my latest attempt at kdemultimedia succeeded...but not the rpm. I installed the src rpm and tried several times to build the rpm. Nope. I then did my last option in such cases and went right to the /usr/src/RPM/BUILD directory and did an old-fashioned ./configure && make && make install in the kdemultimedia directory. More often than not, if an rpm fails to build due to some (usually) bogus error, building the source directly works. This would appear to indicate a defect in the spec (or other?) rpm-specific config. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL
Ok, I offer 2 possible solutions for you then. Download the 9.0 ISO's for free (or have them burned to CD by someone you know who already has them) and upgrade the lot (or just upgrade KDE by adding the 3 9.0 CD's as sources in URPMI). Download the (Cooker) KDE RPM's via RPMdrake, and then satisfy the dependencies the same way. I just don't understand why you can't do the downloads (for free) that you need instead of going through the hassle of compiling something that requires vastly different libs etc. than the system you are currently running. Just my .0002c worth. Regards J Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2002 15:37, Jason Greenwood wrote: Just wondering why you don't use the pre-built mdk RPM?? Wouldn't it be easier?? Cheers Hello, I cannot use the prebuilts because I am not running MDK 9.0. I am still using 8.2 so I must rebuild for my system. It seems rather ridiculous for me to shell out for 9.0 just so I can have a working KDE 3 but have to go back to the 8.2 kernel in order to retain functionality (usb, supermount). I tried the 9.0 kernel for a while (built like all my kernels for years) and it was too borked for me to tolerate it so I went back to the 2.4.18 kernel. It seems more reasonable to stick with 8.2 until 9.1 comes out with a, presumably, bug-fixed kernel. Thus, I must build kde 3 myself as the prebuilts are based on the wrong glibc. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL
Just wondering why you don't use the pre-built mdk RPM?? Wouldn't it be easier?? Cheers J Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have been trying and trying and trying to build a functional KDE 3 system for days now. I have tried with mandrake 3.0.3, 3.0.4, and 3.0.5 src rpms and have managed with varying success to get most of kde built. The latest problem is that though I have gotten ALL src rpms built except kdemultimedia, it is this last one that adamantly refuses to build. I have met ALL dependencies for it yet with 3.0.3-7mdk., 3.0.4-1mdk, and 3.0.5-1mdk it fails with the same messages: mixer_alsa.cpp:108: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:109: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp:110: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `kndDebug' with no type mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:110: redefinition of `int kndDebug ()' mixer_alsa.cpp:109: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:110: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp:111: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `kndDebug' with no type mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:111: redefinition of `int kndDebug ()' mixer_alsa.cpp:110: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:111: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp:112: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `kndDebug' with no type mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:112: redefinition of `int kndDebug ()' mixer_alsa.cpp:111: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:112: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp:113: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `kndDebug' with no type mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:113: redefinition of `int kndDebug ()' mixer_alsa.cpp:112: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:113: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp:114: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `kndDebug' with no type mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:114: redefinition of `int kndDebug ()' mixer_alsa.cpp:113: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:114: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp:115: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `kndDebug' with no type mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:115: redefinition of `int kndDebug ()' mixer_alsa.cpp:114: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:115: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp:116: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `kndDebug' with no type mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:116: redefinition of `int kndDebug ()' mixer_alsa.cpp:115: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:116: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp:117: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `kndDebug' with no type mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:117: redefinition of `int kndDebug ()' mixer_alsa.cpp:116: `int kndDebug ()' previously defined here mixer_alsa.cpp: In function `int kndDebug ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:117: parse error before `<' mixer_alsa.cpp: In method `int Mixer_ALSA::openMixer ()': mixer_alsa.cpp:132: `snd_defaults_mixer_card' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:133: `snd_defaults_mixer_device' undeclared (first use this function) /usr/include/alsa/mixer.h:84: too many arguments to function `int snd_mixer_open (snd_mixer_t **, int)' mixer_alsa.cpp:136: at this point in file mixer_alsa.cpp:141: `snd_mixer_groups' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:145: `snd_mixer_gid_t' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:145: parse error before `)' mixer_alsa.cpp:154: `gid' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:157: `snd_mixer_group_t' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:157: parse error before `;' mixer_alsa.cpp:158: `group' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:160: `snd_mixer_group_read' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:169: `SND_MIXER_GRPCAP_VOLUME' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:173: `SND_MIXER_GRPCAP_CAPTURE' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:198: `snd_mixer_info_t' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:198: parse error before `;' mixer_alsa.cpp:199: `info' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:199: `snd_mixer_info' undeclared (first use this function) mixer_alsa.cpp:205: confused by earlier errors, bailing out make[3]: *** [kmix_panelapplet_la.all_cpp.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/kdemultimedia-3.0.5/kmix' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/kdemult
Re: [expert] second mouse ?
Hi all, just wanted to say I got mine working by adding that line, with one change... My XF86Config-4 File now reads at the top: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer" InputDevice "USB Mouse" "SendCoreEvents" Since my second mouse is a USB type. The scroll function even works =) Under Input Devices it looks like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "USB Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection Hope this helps anyone who has the same trouble as I can now use my touchpad and usb mouse at the same time. Cheers Jason mycal62 wrote: I used the info below to get my usb mouse working in Mdk 8.2 : The following lines in my XF86Config-4 file allowed me to use both a USB mouse and the mousepad in my laptop with mandrake 8.2. However it doesn't work in mandrake 9, only the usb mouse works. I believe you > >need to add a line to your "Server Layout" section. You will already > >have a line for "Mouse1", just add a line for "Mouse2" and use the > >"SendCoreEvents" as below. > > > > > >Section "ServerLayout" > > Identifier "layout1" > > InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" > > InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" > > InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" > > Screen "screen1" > >EndSection > > > > This will have Mouse2 just send it's events to Mouse1, and let both of > >them work. > > > >Jim F > > > >On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 06:33, Bruno Maggi wrote: > >> Hi, > >> The following lines in my XF86Config-4 file allowed me > >> to use both a USB mouse and the mousepad in my laptop > >> with mandrake 8.2. > >> However it doesn't work in mandrake 9, only the usb > >> mouse works. Anybody has had the same problem? > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> > >> Identifier "Mouse1" > >> Driver "mouse" > >> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" > >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > >> > >> # Option "Emulate3Buttons" > >> # Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" > >> # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button > >> Logitech mice > >> # Option "ChordMiddle" > >> > >> EndSection > >> > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> > >> Identifier "Mouse2" > >> Driver "mouse" > >> Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" > >> Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" > >> > >> # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button > >> Logitech mice > >> # Option "ChordMiddle" > >> > >> EndSection > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Jason Greenwood wrote: I wrote to the list yesterday with a similar problem with no response... =( rodrigo wrote: Dear Experts... I have been trying to install a second mouse in my laptop It comes with a touch-pad-mouse, and I like a second one (usb-mouse...), but tools like "mousedrake", Harddrake2, ... found just one of them ... Can I have both mouses working at the same time ? Not sure if this will help, but you can try :) http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/mouse.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla Plugins
Thanks for all the advice from the list, this worked a treat and Flash is now viewable for me. Cheers Jason Dave Sherman wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:28, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi all, Mozilla used to list under help>about plugins where the plugins were located but it doesn't do that anymore. I am trying to put in the flash/active X plugins but can't for the life of me see where to put them as there is no plugins directory under .mozilla and putting them in the plugins dir's within .netscape and .netscape6 doesn't work either Where the heck to they go these days?? I think the plugins directory should be listed under help but who am I to say. I always just put them in /usr/lib/mozilla-x.x.x/plugins/, where x.x.x is the version number. Dave
[expert] Mozilla Plugins
Hi all, Mozilla used to list under help>about plugins where the plugins were located but it doesn't do that anymore. I am trying to put in the flash/active X plugins but can't for the life of me see where to put them as there is no plugins directory under .mozilla and putting them in the plugins dir's within .netscape and .netscape6 doesn't work either Where the heck to they go these days?? I think the plugins directory should be listed under help but who am I to say. Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] second mouse ?
I wrote to the list yesterday with a similar problem with no response... =( rodrigo wrote: Dear Experts... I have been trying to install a second mouse in my laptop It comes with a touch-pad-mouse, and I like a second one (usb-mouse...), but tools like "mousedrake", Harddrake2, ... found just one of them ... Can I have both mouses working at the same time ? Rodrigo DGF, U. de Chile Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.0 and hardware autodetection woes
I run cooker at home but 9.0 at work. On my work PC (an ASUS laptop) I have a touchpad mouse and an external USB mouse I like to use sometimes. On Install I used the touchpad and the first time I rebooted I plugged my USB mouse in and it was autodetected. The next time I rebooted, I used my touchpad alone without incident. Now, when I plug my external mouse in and reboot, MDK does not autodetect that it is plugged in and I cannot use it. I could re-run mousedrake to set it to a USB external everytime I want to use this mouse but what a pain to *manually* switch between mouse types each time. And since touchpad is not on the list of mice options in mousedrake, I would have to copy my current /etc dir out to save my touchpad driver configuration (which was outodetected on install). Ideas Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] pcmcia troubles mdk9 D-Link DE660+
Hi Experts I have just updated to mdk9 from mdk8.0 I must say I am very happy with the new OS fantastic effort . the only thing that it killed was my network card a D-Link DE660+ that has been working without fault until the upgrade. I have a compaq armada 7400 lappy. there are no lights at all on the dongle and when i type cardmgr at the command prompt i get [root@localhost **]# cardmgr cardmgr[21920]: no PCMCIA driver in /proc/devices I'm sure the drivers i used before were a kernal module?? and i had to edit the ect/pcmcia/netwokconfig file any help , a point in the right direction would be appreciated regards jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 + updates + dhcpcd + DLink 530TX+
I figured it out. What happened is that I usually manually configure Samba, but this time around I thought just for the fun of it I would mess around with the wizard. (This is my test box after all.) The problem is the wizard changes around your ethernet configuration and knowing me, I probably typed in something wrong. So then it reconfigured my system to a statically assigned IP address that was wrong. On Friday 29 November 2002 19:40, you wrote: > [into] > Here is something that seems to be broken. I took my mdk 8.2 Professional > CDs, copied them to the RAID 5 array on my main Linux box (running mdk > 8.2), and installed over the network (through http) to my test box earlier > today. The install itself went without a hitch and I was able to run the > automatic updater (over cable modem through my firewall). > > [problem] > The problem that I noticed is that once the machine came up after the > install the subnet it dhcpd was wrong. (Instead of grabbing a.b.c.s it got > a.b.0.s.) > > [hardware] > NIC: DLink 530TX+ > > [diagnostics] > This used to work on a previous install of mdk 8.2 on the same box. > (Different NIC do to two others recently going out on the box). I doubt > that the problem is the NIC this time (DLink 530TX+) because the NIC dhcped > its info and worked flawlessly on the install and continues to work > flawlessly under Windows XP on the same box. > > The dhcpd.leases file on the dhcpd server has an entry for test box that is > identical except that it shows a.b.c.s for the IP while the test box itself > has a.b.0.s (notice the 0 instead of c). The entry has a different IP > address than the machine did with the previous NICs, so it had to of worked > properly at least once. Also there are no entries with the a.b.0.s in the > dhcpd.leases file while at the same time the machine grabs its info without > reporting errors. > > Something else that I noticed is that Mandrake's RPM manager reports that I > have the original dhcpcd client on the machine. I am wondering if > something else got updated and messed things up or if there is something > else going on that I haven't thought about yet. > > I also thought that it is a little ironic that this very same NIC I am > having problems with now had been dishing out IP addresses to my network > until about 55 days ago when I decomissioned my AMD K5-75 (due to the > motherboard flaking out). > > Over the past year and a half I have had two ports on my switch go out from > under this card, but the card itself checked out fine. > > [footer] > Any help would be appreciated. > --Jason Snyder-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mdk 8.2 + updates + dhcpcd + DLink 530TX+
[into] Here is something that seems to be broken. I took my mdk 8.2 Professional CDs, copied them to the RAID 5 array on my main Linux box (running mdk 8.2), and installed over the network (through http) to my test box earlier today. The install itself went without a hitch and I was able to run the automatic updater (over cable modem through my firewall). [problem] The problem that I noticed is that once the machine came up after the install the subnet it dhcpd was wrong. (Instead of grabbing a.b.c.s it got a.b.0.s.) [hardware] NIC: DLink 530TX+ [diagnostics] This used to work on a previous install of mdk 8.2 on the same box. (Different NIC do to two others recently going out on the box). I doubt that the problem is the NIC this time (DLink 530TX+) because the NIC dhcped its info and worked flawlessly on the install and continues to work flawlessly under Windows XP on the same box. The dhcpd.leases file on the dhcpd server has an entry for test box that is identical except that it shows a.b.c.s for the IP while the test box itself has a.b.0.s (notice the 0 instead of c). The entry has a different IP address than the machine did with the previous NICs, so it had to of worked properly at least once. Also there are no entries with the a.b.0.s in the dhcpd.leases file while at the same time the machine grabs its info without reporting errors. Something else that I noticed is that Mandrake's RPM manager reports that I have the original dhcpcd client on the machine. I am wondering if something else got updated and messed things up or if there is something else going on that I haven't thought about yet. I also thought that it is a little ironic that this very same NIC I am having problems with now had been dishing out IP addresses to my network until about 55 days ago when I decomissioned my AMD K5-75 (due to the motherboard flaking out). Over the past year and a half I have had two ports on my switch go out from under this card, but the card itself checked out fine. [footer] Any help would be appreciated. --Jason Snyder-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla's performance
Hi All, I have made some observations that I thought that I would share. I have heard lots of complaints about Mozilla being slow and a lot of praises about Opera being fast. A little while back I noticed the same thing on my system. Loading up something like /. or CNN's homepage took something on the order of a couple of seconds to load with Opera while it took something on the order of 10 seconds or more to do the same thing on the same computer over the same cable modem with Mozilla. It seemed that whenever I looked at the status bar on Mozilla it always said something like looking up this host or that host as it loaded up one piece of the page at a time. In more recent times these problems went away. Through a series of hardware failures I had to reconstruct my firewall. When I reconstructed the firewall I used a combination of Mandrake's wizards along with some custom tweaks to get the box back online quickly. While I was doing this I allowed the Mandrake tools to configure a local caching DNS server and set up DHCP to point to the local caching DNS server and instead of going directly to my ISP's DNS servers. Now all of a sudden Mozilla seems to go almost as fast as Opera and on some things faster on my mdk 8.2 box. Also on my test box I recently installed mdk 9.0. (Pain in the rear from the messed up official ISO images that refuse to eject the CDs and the non ISO mirrors that are missing packages.) On that box Mozilla has a faster feel to it because when I type in a URL it is usually just bam there in a fraction of a second while with Opera I can see the individual parts of the page load. So the inferences that I make from this data is that with a cable modem at least, DNS lookups are often times the main bottleneck on page load times. It also seems that Mozilla is not as efficient at doing DNS lookups as Opera is or at least Opera is doing more DNS caching than Mozilla is. --Jason Snyder-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?
Or just use kwikdisk to mount/unmount removable media (I have it running in my systray at kde startup), I find it much quicker, though once in bash history (for you command line hero's), it's just a matter of navigating up to the proper mount command! ;) Cheers Jason Todd Lyons wrote: Alex Bennee wrote on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:02:25PM + : I've been finding problems with supermount'ed CDROMs where it seems to forget media is inserted - or at least cannot find *some* of the files on it. This usually manifests itself by XMMS skipping a load of tracks Yup. umount /mnt/cdrom mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom IOW, manually mount and unmount them. Blue skies... Todd
Re: [expert] Audacity on 9.0
many thanks. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:28, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On 28 Oct 2002 14:26:13 -0600 > Jason Guidry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Has anyone gotten any version of audacity to work under mdk9.0? It's > > complaining about deps I have installed, both in rpm and src form. > > > > It will not build so does not work in 9.0 > Use hackaudacity. > > > Charles > > --- > For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism > -- Murphy's Military Laws n°33 > -- > Charles A Edwards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Audacity on 9.0
Has anyone gotten any version of audacity to work under mdk9.0? It's complaining about deps I have installed, both in rpm and src form. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The GIMP problem
someone here may have an answer, but I would strongly suggest contacting a gimp-centric list instead. I just haven't heard anyone here mention a strong graphic art bent in the year or so I've been on the list. try starting here: http://www.gimp.org/mailing_list.html On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 12:03, andy wrote: > Well i'm sorta of a graphics artist, and I'm more into pixel art than > anti-aliasing (though I do use anti-aliasing at times). And it seems when I > try to draw something lets say using the pencil (at the smallest size you can > get) the pixels around what I draw get messed up for some reason. I'm working > in tiles (16x16), soo you can see that it gets quite annoying. I can fix it > some times, but it just comes back. Anybody got a solution? -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to get on 'network neighbourhood' in 9.0?
Try LinNeighborhood works for me jason On Tuesday 15 October 2002 22:14, you wrote: > Dear all, > > My University loves M$, to the highest degree! A problem I face with > using Linux is how to see and access all those computers on the 'Network > Neighbourhood'. It always seems like such a challenge to get files, etc. > off people - we usually resort to burning CD's. I WILL NOT swap my Linux > box for a Windows environment now. > > I now think it is now time to delve into network settings and figure out > how to set it all up (access to computers, global address books, etc). > > How easy is it to do? What info do I need? Can it all be done with > Mandrake Control Centre (9.0)? > > Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Andy Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow desktop
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:12, Jim Hubbard wrote: > I installed 9 on my desktop at home and it seemed pretty quick, but > I've installed it here at work and it is much much slower. My home > system is a PII 333 with 128m ram and the system here at work is a > P233 with 64m ram. Not a huge difference in hardware to me, but it's > very slow - even the login screen seems bogged down. Of course, I've > shut down services I don't need, but is there anything else I can try? 64MB RAM is a big difference on those processors, very big. Try IceWM or Blackbox at work to help with that, and consider installing more ram if possible. if those things combined don't help, it maybe time to look at that HDD or mobo. -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] New video card advice
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > but the modules are just binaries; ATI seems, at least until now, to be > more related with the Open Source world and also some of them have > tv-output utilities oh, yeah, probably no one has an opinion on this. if you browse the archives of this list or any other OSS-type list or site, you'll see plenty of debate on this issue. IIRC correctly, the main argument against ATI and for nVidia is that ATI's drivers are community developed because ATI is not supportive to the Community, and nVidia provides relatively high quality binaries, which is rare. And when you consider windows drivers are almost never released as source (excluding creative, of course)... There are good arguments for nVidia to open up their source, but it seems like there are ideological flaws with the way each company deals with drivers. I think in the end, any card post-GeForce2, ATI or nVidia is gonna really fly on just about whatever you throw at it for a while to some. Read some reviews and make a choice, I think either way you're gonna be pleased with a new vid card. anandtech and tomshardware both do reviews with way too much info for the common man (c), but they are well respected and thorough, and tend to show >=GeForce2 on top. But like I said, either is gonna give great performance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
