Re: [expert] Joysticks
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: > No. :( > > > > Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? > > > > Spence I just spent a few minutes going over the Mandrake site and couldn't find any mention of a joystick under the "Features" section. A search of Mandrake Forum for the keyword "joystick" didn't turn up anything either. I think I've been coming from the wrong direction here: I'd thought that Mandrake supported joysticks but I was just having problems getting them working, but now I'm begining to wonder if they're officially supported hardware in the Mandrake distribution. Well, anyway, I'm experimenting with the 2.4 kernel to see if I can get joysticks (and some USB support I need) to work with it. Flightgear just doesn't feel right under mouse control... - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Setting up a mail cronjob
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, praedor wrote: > I am almost there with this command: > > mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This will produce a message with a subject of "ip update message" and add my > email to the "To:" field. It does leave an empty message body and doesn't > send a "ctrl-d" command to mail which is required to sending. How do I do > that? If you 'echo' something and pipe it into the mail command, when the echo finishes it will send an End Of File (the equivalent of a ctrl-d) to mail. So, you can use an incantation similar to this one: echo | mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] or, if you really want to get fancy: echo "mail from `hostname` at `hostname -i`" | mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note: should all be one line) Take a look at the "Command Substitution" section of "man bash" to see what the "`"'s are doing, and "man hostname" to see what hostname is doing. - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Logitech extreme digital 3D joystick and SBLive card
I've been having similar problems with joy-* modules, but haven't had time to dive into tracking down the source of the problem. Is anyone successfully using a joystick with LM 7.2? thanks, Jeff Stephen Boulet wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting my joystick to work. I have a Logitech wingman > extreme digital 3D and a soundblaster live card. > > When I try to load the logitech module, I get: > > [root@mozart /root]# insmod joy-logitech > Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-logitech.o > /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-logitech.o: init_module: Device or > resource busy > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including > invalid IO or IRQ parameters > > Anyone know how I should fix this? > > -- Stephen > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] joystick support/modprobe error
I'm trying to get joystick support to work on a Mandrake 7.2 installation. I'm able to load the "joystick" module without any problems, but I run into a "Device or resource busy" error when I try to load joy-analog (or joy-sidewinder: it's a Sidewinder 3D joystick). I've appended the actual output below. Sound seems to be working fine on the system (it's a C-Media CMI8738/C3DX chipset on the motherboard). Also, modprobe fails regardless of whether X is running or not, but I haven't tested any time except after the system's finished booting so I guess an order dependence could be biting me. Any suggestions on where to look for the source of the problem? Is a kernel recompilation in my future? Should I start diving into the joystick sources? thanks very much in advance, Jeff $ sudo /sbin/modprobe joystick $ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by joystick5792 0 (unused) vfat9408 0 (autoclean) (unused) fat30432 0 (autoclean) [vfat] isapnp 27616 0 (unused) i810 72112 2 agpgart19728 5 [i810] autofs 9456 2 (autoclean) usb-uhci 19184 0 (unused) usbcore43632 1 [usb-uhci] ppp20976 0 (autoclean) (unused) slhc4544 0 (autoclean) [ppp] dmfe9504 1 (autoclean) cmpci 20960 0 soundcore 2800 4 [cmpci] supermount 14224 2 (autoclean) $ sudo /sbin/modprobe joy-analog /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-analog.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-analog.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-analog.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-analog.o: insmod joy-analog failed Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] LM 7.2 on PCChips' Book PC
I just finished a successful fresh install of Mandrake 7.2 on a PCChips' Book PC (i810-based motherboard) over the weekend. I did a custom install, low security, development system, but wound up installing all packages. I used CD-R disks from www.cheapbytes.com. One quirk under the graphical installer, which was common to both 7.1 and 7.2, is that, in the lower left corner of the screen, you can see the tops of what look like 3 buttons that run off the bottom of the screen. I've no idea what they're supposed to do, since I can't read the labels, but fortunately they didn't seem to be necessary. Overall, the process went pretty smoothly. Because the board uses an i810, you have to manually tell the kernel how much RAM you have, and be sure to tell it one MB less than the actual installed amount (so for a 128MB machine, you'd tell it 127MB). X correctly identified the i810 and appears to be using video accelleration -- I can run tuxracer -- though there are some quirks that I have to resolve. In checking how well video was working, I found that the Lemmings clone (can't remember the name at the moment and the system is at home) wanted to use a larger resolution than what was available on the desktop, so I wound up having to pan. It also failed to reset the desktop size and resolution when it exited. But it did run, which is a good start. I'm also getting some artifacts in kterm. They appear when a drop-down menu covers the text area. Since they don't show up in xterm, I'm guessing that's a KDE2 problem, not a problem in X or the video drivers. Haven't figured out yet how to get the system monitor applet to load at startup under KDE2. There were no font problems under KDE2 at 1024x768 at 16 bits. (The chipset will go higher according to the FAQs at Intel, but I'm using an LCD monitor that's happiest at 1024x768, and Netscape much prefers 16 bit color.) I haven't tried Gnome yet. Sound seems to work just fine. I didn't even have to goose it with sndconfig. The on-board modem does not appear to be working. I could bring up a minicom connection to it under 7.1, but with 7.2 I'm not getting any response. Since it uses /dev/ttyS3 (COM4), which is one of the dustier corners of the hardware world, this problem may take some investigation. Also, the Book PC doesn't have serial ports -- it's strictly a USB machine -- and I haven't yet gotten the Palm Pilot to sync correctly through USB using Palm's USB adaptor. (I get a "no such device", or somesuch, error.) I'm guessing that'll take a kernel recompile or an upgrade to the 2.4 kernel, but I haven't had time to investigate thoroughly. The installer mis-detected the HP DeskJet 810C as an 812C, but a bit of manual reconfiguration fixed that problem. I was able to print from StarOffice but haven't really pushed it yet. I was most impressed when Quicken 2000 for Windows installed and ran under 7.2's default Wine package. It was a little slow, and tended to grumble a lot (mostly in the form of "fixme" error messages), but it didn't crash and worked well enough to balance the checkbook last night. - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] pop-3
rharvey wrote: > > so do I need to setup a mx record on my linux box or have my provider set > this up correctly on their dns ? Robert - It looks like you have an MX record already. Your MX record points to a machine called "server1.rdcomputersolutions.net". The problem is that there is no A (address) record for server1.rdcomputersolutions.net. So when someone tries to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], their mail system first does an MX record lookup and finds out "to send e-mail to someone at rdcomputersolutions.net, you must send it to the machine server1.rdcomputersolutions.net". Then, it does an A record lookup on server1.rdcomputersolutions.net to get its IP address, but since there is no A record, the mail software can't get the IP address, so it can't send the mail. At this point, the simplest route is probably to ask the person handling your DNS to add an A record for server1.rdcomputersolutions.net or, if that's not the machine where you want your mail going, to change the MX record to point to the proper machine. - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] root password
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 29-Oct-00 18:07:05 Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > how do you setup a second user to have the same access as root > > a user that will be able to change root password. > > In novell that is one of the first things we were taught was to have 2 admin > > accounts so you wont get locked out of your system. Here's an option I haven't seen anyone mention yet: if you haven't already, check out the excellent "sudo" package. RPMs should be available on www.rpmfind.net. It lets you set up a user to have full or partial root access without having to have the root password, and it logs everything the user does as root. For example, on my home machine, I have account "jeff". I've set up sudo so that "jeff" has root priviledges. If I want to do something that only "root" can do, like run "vipw", I would run it like this: $ sudo vipw Sudo would then ask me for my password (as opposed to the root password), would log the fact that I tried to run vipw, and would execute vipw for me as root. Advantages: 1. It saves lots of logging out and in, having to open a separate xterm just for root access, etc. 2. It provides a log of what I've done, in case I need to backtrack. 3. If I ever see that someone has actually logged in as root, I know there's something odd going on, because I do it so rarely. 4. If I need to recover root access, I can use sudo access to do it. "sudo passwd root" ought to work (I haven't tried it yet), and even if it doesn't I can get a root shell with "sudo su -" (which I've verified works). - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: > > I guess I'm going to have > > to download a data sheet and find out how this thing really works. > > How about giving us a little tutorial if you figure it out? I just downloaded the data sheets and found that they run a few hundred pages. It might take a while to get through this stuff, but if I do make it through and can make heads or tails of it, I'll post a summary. - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: > > I guess I'm going to have > > to download a data sheet and find out how this thing really works. > > How about giving us a little tutorial if you figure it out? I just downloaded the data sheets and found that they run a few hundred pages. It might take a while to get through this stuff, but if I do make it through and can make heads or tails of it, I'll post a summary. - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^
Makis Marmaridis wrote: > This behaviour (having to set the total memory to a meg less than the > actual) is specific to your motherboard chipset as it reserves 1 megabyte of > the system RAM for use by the video display. > > I have seen the mem parameter normally working by using the full amount of > physical memory (except of course in the case of i810 chipsets!). Thanks for the info. What confused me is that the chipset is rated for 4MB video memory, but it's only remapping 1MB. I guess I'm going to have to download a data sheet and find out how this thing really works. - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, andy b wrote: > ok... I bought 127 megs of ram to add to my 64 megs > my bios recognises 192 megs... but Linux only recognises 64 (even if I only put > in the 128 meg module) > it would be nice to triply my ram... any ideas? Have you tried using the "mem=" switch in the bootloader? On a 512MB system, I had to append "mem=511M" to the "linux" line under /boot/menu.lst, winding up with a line that looks like this: title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hd5 mem=511M Note that the number is one less than the total number of meg in the syste. I don't know if that's necessary in general, or just in the specific case of the i810-based motherboard I'm using, but if I set it to 512M I get a kernel panic during boot-up. - Jeff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
