[expert] TV Tuner kills system
Hi all. I've got a bt878 tuner (ATI TV wonder VE, also have an old STB TV PCI bt848 with the same issues), soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com cyclone ethernet card (eth0) on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a Geforce2mx. On board sound is disabled in the bios, on board ethernet is running as eth1. If the tv tuner is not in use (i.e. I haven't started xawtv or motv) everything's fine. A few seconds after I start up motv/xawtv either the tv tuner, sound card or ethernet will stop working. The tuner's image will freeze, the sound card will start playing static or the ethernet just won't connect (I'm on broadband). I'm running mandrake 9.1 with a kernel 2.4.21-0.25 with these parameters: hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi noapic acpi=off pci=noacpi Not sure if the pci=noapic does anything worthwhile, but my system is completely useless without the acpi=off line. Moving the card around seems to change which device goes dead, but no matter where I put it one card will go dead. I've managed to get it to the point where there are no IRQ conflicts but that didn't help. Right now the tv card is sharing an irq with usb-ohci. My /proc/interrupts: CPU0 0: 58151 XT-PIC timer 1: 3942 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 26 XT-PIC usb-ohci, bttv 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 12102 XT-PIC ehci-hcd, eth1 11: 37089 XT-PIC eth0, EMU10K1 12: 49692 XT-PIC usb-ohci, nvidia 14: 22889 XT-PIC ide0 15:149 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 58118 ERR: 20 MIS: 0 Reloading the driver doesn't help, only rebooting. I have no idea what the cause/solution might be. Can someone with more hardware experience give me some insight? Does anyone have this working on a simular set up? Thanks again :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 'copy to' context option?
This is just about the only thing I miss from redhat (ok, there's freshrpms nice, easy to find reliable servers, but plf and texstar are a fair trade for that :) ). I could right click a file and there was a 'copy to' option that poped up a list of directories. Is this some funky redhat specific thing, or can I change a setting somewhere? Thanks yet again. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can't post to newsgroups in Mandrake 9.1
It's weird. None of my posts show up no matter what reader I use (pan, mozilla, knode). The newsreaders seem to send fine, but the post never shows up. It works fine in redhat though. I've tried shutting down iptables with /etc/init.d/iptables stop, to no avail. Weird thing is, I can articles just fine, I just can't seem to post. I've got no clue what could be causing this, can anyone helpl TIA. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
found it: http://www.fiftysecondstreet.net/aquamoz/ss.html Worked like a charm, looks great. Thanks all for your help, I'm not sure how I kept missing this theme :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Mozilla theme install, Was Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Cool link. I did figure out how to install the pinstripe-linux theme (needed one more '/' after 'file:'), but for some reason neither that theme or the ones at http://texturizer.net/firebird/themes.html worked for the main browser. Oddly enough, the fonts and buttons in mozilla-mail where changed by one of the Pheonix themes I installed. I'm running mozilla 1.4 from texstar if I remeber right. Probably version conflicts. I'll probably just have to hunker down and learn to skin mozilla :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Mozilla theme install, Was Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Cool link. I did figure out how to install the pinstripe-linux theme (needed one more '/' after 'file:'), but for some reason neither that theme or the ones at http://texturizer.net/firebird/themes.html worked for the main browser. I'm running mozilla 1.4 from texstar if I remeber right. Probably version conflicts. I'll probably just have to hunker down and learn to skin mozilla :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Mozilla theme install, Was Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Welp, now I feel like a dumb ass :). I found this: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/aquaish/?topic_id=960%2C952 I thought it was another kde theme (didn't read the page too closely :)). Thanks Jack, I would have missed it, but took another look through the google results. Just tired I guess. I really need to stop doing stupid things. I'm having a little trouble installing it though. I was able to install themes from mozilla.org. I think I'm just formatting the file tag wrong. Here's the install.html: install pinstripe linux All I get is a page that says 'true' and nothing else. I'm running it as root. Still no luck though. Thanks again all. Sorry for sounding like a dumb ass earlier. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Yeah, the only thing I could find was the Pinstripe theme, and the author's made it mac only (see his site for why). Mozilla flat out rejects anything based on aqua out of fear of apple. I was hoping I missed something. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Anyone know if such a thing still exists? I know apple forced a cease and desist before, but there are several KDE Aqua theme projects (I'm running one now) that have gone untouched. Seems weird. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is hdparm -c3 /dev/hdX safe?
I've had some trouble with my cd writer lately, and I'm not sure if it's cause the drive is a little old or if it's because I've been using this option. I turned it on for all my drives, and got a nice speed boost for it (plus wineX games don't stutter when they hit the cd drive anymore :). I'm running mandrake 9.1 with kernel 2.4.21-0.13 on an Asus 87N8X, and burning with k3b .9 using a sony CRX195E1 at 40x with no buffer underruns. I've had no troubles with my harddisks, but my cd-burner is making drink coasters. The files show up when the drive is mounted, and can even be copied off the disk, but are useless. It's mostly video, and mplayer can't play them (or strangly in one case couldn't seek in one of the files it could play). On some disks the files are fine, on some they're trash. Can anyone advise me on how dangerous this setting is? The drive isn't that old and I'd hate to replace a perfectly good drive, but it's possible it's dying. Thanks again. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions
apt-get for rpm. Check out www.freshrpms.net. I've used it before, and it's actually better than urpmi (the servers are more reliable and it takes less time to update sources). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] tv tuner, sound card, ethernet won't work together
Hi all. I've got a bt848 tuner, soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com cyclone ethernet card on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a Geforce2mx. On board sound and ethernet are disabled in the bios. If the tv tuner is not in use (i.e. I haven't started xawtv or motv) everything's fine. A few seconds after I start up motv/xawtv either the tv tuner, sound card or ethernet will stop working. The tuner's image will freeze, the sound card will start playing static or the ethernet just won't connect (I'm on broadband). I'm running mandrake 9.1 with a stock kernel with these parameters: hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi pci=noapic noapic acpi=off Not sure if the pci=noapic does anything worthwhile, but my system is completely useless without the acpi=off line. Moving the card around seems to change which device goes dead, but no matter where I put it one card will go dead. There are no IRQ conflicts, and I don't think there are any I/O conflicts (but my Hex isn't good enough to be sure). I'm pretty sure the card is good (worked on my old board, and will work fine when another card goes dead). Reloading the driver doesn't help, only rebooting. I have no idea what the cause/solution might be. Can someone with more hardware experience give me some insight? Thanks again :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Aiptek VGA PenCam Trio
Just picked one of these up from my local walmart for $30. It doesn't seem to want to work. Kamera and gphoto2 can't detect/communicate with it (Kamera complains about bad perameters, gphoto2 just can't seem to find it). The camera is detected on the usb bus (Shows up with it's correct id and everything). I've got a bad feeling they changed the chipset along the way and so it won't work, but I thought I'd ask if anyone's had any luck with the newer iterations of the thing. I'd be neat if it worked (I wanna take pictures of my action figure collection for a rather pointless web site :). Failing that, can someone recomend a digital camera for under $50 (maybe for under $75)? Thanks again. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] RS/6000 & PPC
I am trying to install 9.1 PPC on an IBM RS/6000 44P Model 270 with a WYSE WY-60 hooked up to it. I have made the boot floppies and changed the prom: setenv boot-device boot floppy:\zimage setenv boot-file fake_initrd root=/dev/fd0 rw load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=36000 boot After it starts to boot itgoes to > boot chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x0040 gunzipping (0x00010 <- 0x004062b8:0x0040 49112 bytes of heap consumed, max in use 41064 start address = 0x1 instantinating rtas at 0060 ... done copying of device tree...done returning 0x0001 from prom_init The system is in a hung state. I have no X so I need to do a text install. Has anyone had these errors occur? I am not really sure where to go from here, so any help would be greatly appreciated. <>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Aiptek VGA PenCam Trio
Thanks for the tip, but I'm afraid it doesn't seem to work :(. I could be trying to mount the wrong device. I tried /dev/sda, /dev/sda1 and a few others and got "not a valid block device". Oh well, I didn't really expect much though, but I do wish venders would support standards more often, at least for the dirt cheap hardware I can afford :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] RS/6000 & 9.1PPC
I am trying to install 9.1 PPC on an IBM RS/6000 44P Model 270 with a WYSE WY-60 hooked up to it. I have made the boot floppies and changed the prom: * setenv boot-device boot floppy:\zimage setenv boot-file fake_initrd root=/dev/fd0 rw load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=36000 boot * After it starts to boot itgoes to > boot chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x0040 gunzipping (0x00010 <- 0x004062b8:0x0040 49112 bytes of heap consumed, max in use 41064 start address = 0x1 instantinating rtas at 0060 ... done copying of device tree...done returning 0x0001 from prom_init ** The system is in a hung state. I have no X so I need to do a text install. Has anyone had these errors occur? I am not really sure where to go from here, so any help would be greatly appreciated. <>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PPC & RS/6000
I am trying to install 9.1 PPC on an IBM RS/6000 44P Model 270 with a WYSE WY-60 hooked up to it. I have made the boot floppies and changed the prom: * setenv boot-device boot floppy:\zimage setenv boot-file fake_initrd root=/dev/fd0 rw load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=36000 boot * After it starts to boot itgoes to > boot chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x0040 gunzipping (0x00010 <- 0x004062b8:0x0040 49112 bytes of heap consumed, max in use 41064 start address = 0x1 instantinating rtas at 0060 ... done copying of device tree...done returning 0x0001 from prom_init ** The system is in a hung state. I have no X so I need to do a text install. Has anyone had these errors occur? I am not really sure where to go from here, so any help would be greatly appreciated. <>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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[expert] Squished fonts on some web pages
A few web pages I point mozilla at (notably theregister.co.uk) have weird font problems. The text will look as though it's squished or compressed a bit. Highlighting the text makes it display correctly. I don't seem to have this problem with konqueror. I've tried upgrading mozilla to 1.4 using the texstar rpms, also tried the texstar freetype rpm (haven't tried the one from the PLF yet to be fair) and the bitstream vera fonts. I don't have this problem in Redhat 9. Anyone else had this happen/have a solution. It's harmless but annoying as heck. Thanks (yet) again folks. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
It's weird. All the options for audiocd:/ disapeared from Konqueror and the control center. They just weren't there. I finally got brave and grabed the tex kde 3.1.2 rpms with rpmdrake, and it's working again. I'd like to know what caused it to stop, but at least it's working now :). Still, very weird behavior. I'll have to check mandrake.com and see if there's a bug report. Thanks again Larry for all your help. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
Thanks for the suggestion (I hadn't realized there was a way to pass options to it) but it's still trying to treat the 'audiocd:/?device=/dev/sdc' as an url, and heading off to google. What really bugs me is I know it's worked before, and I don't know what made it stop. Thanks again though. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
When I enter 'audiocd:/' in the location bar of konqueror, it treats it as a web url (or sometimes decides to search google with the pharse 'audiocd:'. Thing is, I've used it before on this install. Am I doing something wrong, or did something get foobared along the way? I've got write permissions to the sg* files in dev, but I haven't a clue what else could go wrong. TIA :) Jeremy Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] no USB mouse in 9.1
First off, thanks man. I'm using grub to boot (since I'm still on Redhat 9 as my main OS), but the options are simular. Here's the relevent part of my grub.conf: title Mandrake 9.1 root (hd0,7) kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk root=/dev/hda9 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi pci=noapic noapic initrd (hd0,7)/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img Sadly this didn't work. I've got an Nforce2 based board, the chipset's made by nvidia. Support for the board is relavively new, but the mouse does work during install. I'm at a loss here. The nodes seem to be in /dev and seem to be corrent. The driver selection seems fine in XF86Config-4. Heck, if I run 'XFree86 -configure' X claims to have found the mouse on /dev/mouse (a sym link to /dev/usbmouse which in turn links to /dev/input/mice, if I remember correctly). There's also nothing in my XFree86.0.log to indicate a problem. The mouse will light up briefly during boot (it's an optical) but then go dead and stay that way. I really don't know what to do. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] no USB mouse in 9.1
I've got an nforce2 board (Asus A7N8X) and a Microsoft optical usb mouse. My mouse config: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection The usbmouse modules wasn't loaded, but I loaded it and restarted X with no luck. Also tried it with /dev/input/mouse. The mouse worked fine during the install (and in Redhat 9.0). The kernel that comes with Mandrake is new enough it should have support for the usb chipset, but I could be wrong (redhat often back ports stuff from new kernels after all). Anyone know the fix? TIA :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.1 font hinting (?) problems...
Mandrake 9.1 doesn't always seems to display fonts correctly. Often times fonts will overlap vertically or horizontally. Highlighting the text in question will fix the problems though. I've tried playing with the font hinting settings in KDE to no avail. I don't have these problems in Redhat 8.0 though. Is this something I can fix? Thanks again folks :). Jeremy Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:15, Jeremy Mereness wrote: > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, ... archives. today. subject is "Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems" Reply-to: is annoying. My apologies if I created a duplicate thread. I wasn't so much interested why it happened, but how make the cd's available later. The Software Sources Manager in Mandrake's Software Management isn't clear what values to use for the other 2 installation cd's (what the heck to put for the path to synthesis/hdlist, anyway?). Regardless, Sources Manager was failing due to supermount. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?
I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I tried with a low-resource PC, this was skipped. In the end, Mandrake was only aware of the first cd. I tried to use the Configure Sources tool in Mandrake Update to add the two other download cd's, but couldn't get it to work. The tool would always fail with "could not update media", even when I copied the correct values from another, working installation. The package management tools are one of my favorite features of Mandrake. How can I get this to work if the system doesn't pick up my cd's at install? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: X eating memory
I'm running MDK 9.0 and had KDE with a few Galeon's open, and the workstation had been up for several days. One night, memory consumed by the X process reached over 200 MB and the system started to swap for everything. I had never seen this before. X is configured using the stock nv driver, 24-bit color. I understand how a process like Galeon might run away, but what causes X itself to bloat up? If it's an application, how do you figure out which one? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X eating memory
What can one do when X eats up more memory the longer it runs? Please help. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help! X11 Memory Leak
I'm running MDK 9.0 and the stock nv driver. I have 256 MB RAM so it took several days before X brought my system to the breaking point. On my older system with a VESA driver 16-bit color, the X process clocks in at 24 MB (the "size" column in top). On the nv system with 24 bit color, X begins (!!!) 69 MB! Overnight, it popped up to 77MB, and climbed to 80 over the half-hour I was working with it. It was up over 200 when it brought my PC to its knees. I'm running KDE with a lot of toys (e.g., transparent menus, news ticker) but they shouldn't send X through the roof, should it? How would I go about fixing this? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CUPS/foomatic printing problem
I've traced down my printing problems to a foomatic error in MDK 8.2. I am printing to a Samba-based printer on a remote host, but the Samba connection is ok. The bad foomatic line ends with 'sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2 and the error I get is... "Unable to open the initial device, quitting." /dev/fd/0 is a symlink to /dev/pts/1, and so is /dev/pts/0 and /dev/pts/2, but /dev/fd/3 does not exist! How should I fix this? Anyone know what are these links about and what creates them? I'm running with a high-security installation and the permissions for /dev/fd are r-x for root. Maybe Mandrake Control Center was supposed to create something here when I set up the printer, but was prevented somehow? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] what to do when "Socket in use"?
I'm trying to print to a Windows printer over SAMBA on Mandrake 8.2. When I add the device, the first notable error in the CUPS error_log is LoadDevices: Added device "smb"... StartListening: NumListeners=3 StartListening: address=7f01 port=631 Unable to bind to socket - Address already in use. Later on, while trying to print something, I get... foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' -dSAFER' etc. etc. etc. Unable to open initial device, quitting. Assuming these two events are related, what can I do about a socket "already in use"? What do I do to diagnose which socket and what's locking it up? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] printing problem - SAMBA socket in use?
I'm trying to print to a Windows printer over SAMBA on Mandrake 8.2. When I add the device, the first notable error in the CUPS error_log is LoadDevices: Added device "smb"... StartListening: NumListeners=3 StartListening: address=7f01 port=631 Unable to bind to socket - Address already in use. Later on, while trying to print something, I get... foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' -dSAFER' etc. etc. etc. Unable to open initial device, quitting. Assuming these two events are related, what can I do about a socket "already in use"? Why would it be in use, assuming I'm not running anything unusual? If SAMBA is messed up, why am I still able to mount a SAMBA drive (off the same Windows box) without a hitch? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Pinging Secure Mandrake
Thank you for all the replies. This is, indeed, the answer. I am going to dig a little deeper and find where the boot routines put /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all to 1. I know it's not simple. Mandrake's boot sequence covers a lot of ground. -- j "JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)" wrote: > If you would like to enable pingnig, try putting this into your firewall > script: > > echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all > echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts > > HTH > > David > > -Original Message- > From: Jeremy Mereness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:59 PM > To: Expert Mandrake List > Subject: [expert] Pinging Secure Mandrake > > The table on http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php shows that > Security Level 4 and higher causes ICMP Echo (ping) packets to get > dropped. > > How is this accomplished? Is it in the kernel itself? I thought it might > have been a pre-defined IPtables rule executed by an msec script, but my > IPtables are empty. Yet pings still get dropped. > > Thanks! > > -- j # # # # # # # # # Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Printing to Win2K fails
I'm having a terrible time printing from my Mandrake 8.2 system to an OfficeJet K60 spooled on Win2K. I use SMB to print. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't; the pattern has been completely random. When it doesn't work, the document will appear briefly in my Win2K queue but disappears with no printer activity before any page or size data comes in. As best I can tell from my packet sniffer, the connection is established but no actual data passes through. I expect Win2K to give me little or no diagnostics, and it doesn't. But neither does the Samba system on Linux. All I (sometimes) get is the Cupsomatic filter stopping with "status 32" just after the samba backend starts up. When printing DOES work, however, it performs brilliantly, and I do everything reasonable to maintain whatever settings and configurations I made to accomplish it. But a week and a restart later, nothing. SMB works fine for file sharing, however. Absolutely no problems reading-writing a shared directory on the Win2K pc. And I tried going the other direction: setting up Win2K to accept LPD connections from Unix. That didn't work either;. Win2K complains Linux sends it "illegal instructions" over the port and rejects the job. Any ideas? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Pinging Secure Mandrake
The table on http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php shows that Security Level 4 and higher causes ICMP Echo (ping) packets to get dropped. How is this accomplished? Is it in the kernel itself? I thought it might have been a pre-defined IPtables rule executed by an msec script, but my IPtables are empty. Yet pings still get dropped. Thanks! -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] file permissions in secure mandrake
When a secure mandrake boots up, it appears to check through the system and set permissions on files and directories throughout the system according to some pre-defined criteria. Where is this criteria set so I can customize it? -- jeremy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Change default Konqueror dimensions?
How can you change the default size of the Konqueror window? I'd like to rig it so it's full-length when it appears on the screen so I don't have to resize it manually. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X-apps under HIGHER security setting
What it is about building Mandrake 82 under the HIGHER security setting that would prevent ghostview from working properly? The ghostscript renderer fails inside ghostview and KDE's previewer with an X11 error. But it works if I telnet in from another host and xhost. It also works fine on my host built under the the MEDIUM security setting. So far, this is the only app I've found to behave this way. Any ideas what I should do to get it working? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ghostview help please!
I have two systems running MDK 82, built nearly identically except for
different security settings. The one running under normal ("high", I
think) security runs ghostview just fine. But the one with security set
to "higher" gets an X error when the renderer tries to start.
The message is
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 72 (X_PortImage)
Serial number of failed request: 27
Current Serial number in output stream: 34
What can I do to fix this? ghostscript -sDEVICE=x11 works fine. But
without gv working, print preview in KDE apps don't work.
-- j
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[expert] ghostscript broken in MDK 82?
I can't get anything to render thru the ghostscript engine. So, nothing of the sort works, even Print Previews in KDE. I can't even render the examples in /usr/share/ghostscript/6.53/examples. The error I always get is Error: /invalid fileaccess in --.outputpage-- Operand stack: ... etc. Anyone else seen this? I'm running under secure level 4, Mandrake 8.2. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wizard Documentation?
How can I find out what the various "wizards" in Mandrake 8.2 do? I can't find any documentation on 8.2 at Mandrake's web site. I'd like to know what files are modified by any given wizard. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can Frame Buffer be shut down?
I boot into Mandrake with the Frame Buffer option so I have a nice, huge console screen available. Is there some way to break out of the Frame Buffer to the VGA text screen as one of the last steps of a shutdown? It appears that my video adapter, an STB Velocity 128 AGP OEM (or maybe it's my Micronics motherboard) hangs the system from completely powering off while it's in a graphics mode. Thus, if I shut down linux w/o the frame buffer, the computer shuts off. If I have the frame buffer (or I'm using Win2K) a shutdown -h will spin down the drives but won't power off the motherboard. Anybody else ever see something like this? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] screen jiggles w/disk access (seriously!)
Do you know what makes this happen? Somewhere I find out more? I swear it's the most bizarre thing. And it's incredibly irritating. The mb is a Micronics based on the Intel 440-LX chipset with a Pentium-II 233, two IDE drives, and an STB Velocity 128 in the AGP. Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? -- j civileme wrote: > Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > >I have a system where the screen jiggles and shakes, apparently when the > >disk is being accessed. It occurs in frame-buffer and X but not in > >straight VGA text. > > > >The weird part: it does NOT occur if I boot the same PC into Windows. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > If it is an on-board ProSavage, it is a known kernel problem with that > particular chipset and the current 8.2 kernel. Look for an update shortly. > > Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 82 does not power system off
Do you know how the power-down thing works? I'd like to diagnose the problem, isolate just what tells the motherboard to cut power, but I can't find information about it anywhere. I don't THINK any processes or mounts are hanging and keeping it running. I can't find a shutdown log. The drives most certainly spin down once the Power Down message appears. It's strange because dual-booting into Win2K does the same thing (power down drives but leave mb running). But previous Mandrake releases shut the system off just fine. -- j civileme wrote: > Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > >How come Mandrake 8.2 doesn't switch off my computer after a shutdown? > >apmd is installed and executing, and I can hear the drives turn off, but > >the PC stays running. Previous versions of Mandrake shut the power off > >completely. The only thing different about this build from my older ones > >is I've raised the security level to "higher". > > > >Something I've missed? I've tried the explicit /sbin/poweroff command > >but get the same results. > > > >-- j > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > Most likely some resource is reading as busy and not unmounting. Check > the logs and check the powerdown messages. If you have Samba mounts > with a character set that uses 16 bit or higher encoding, this will happen. > > Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK 82 does not power system off
How come Mandrake 8.2 doesn't switch off my computer after a shutdown? apmd is installed and executing, and I can hear the drives turn off, but the PC stays running. Previous versions of Mandrake shut the power off completely. The only thing different about this build from my older ones is I've raised the security level to "higher". Something I've missed? I've tried the explicit /sbin/poweroff command but get the same results. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] screen jiggles w/disk access (seriously!)
I have a system where the screen jiggles and shakes, apparently when the disk is being accessed. It occurs in frame-buffer and X but not in straight VGA text. The weird part: it does NOT occur if I boot the same PC into Windows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 8.2 Install Bug
No question, actually. Just a bug report, or just wanted to know if anyone had ever encountered this but me. So, if you install MDK and set the / partition under 70 MBytes, the package install several steps down will barf. Even though you've made all the other partitions incredibly big and / will only contain 45 MB (or less) when it's all over. -- j Jason Guidry wrote: > Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > Just something I've seen in Mandrake Install (DrakInstall?) over the > > past several releases of Mandrake. > > > > There needs to be an intelligent check on the size of the partitions. If > > "/" is too small, say under 80 MBytes, you will get strange errors down > > the road when packages start loading. Packages just fail, no > > explanation, and you are forced to start all over again. > > > > Is there a question here? If you could be more specific, perhaps we > could provide a workaround, but I have not experienced this and I've > done more partitioning than I care to remember (since 7.0). Wouldn't > this be _less_ of a problem if you partition with a /usr partition? > > maybe i'm just confused. I am, after all, on vacation. > > -- > Jason Guidry > http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 82 lilo.conf
My system has WinNT on hda and MDK on hdb. Not until Mandrake 8.2 have I found these lines put into my lilo.conf: disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 ... other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda map-drive=0x80 to 0x81 map-drive=0x81 to 0x80 I understand what these bios/drive lines are up to, but why? My system works just fine without them. Furthermore, since I boot with ntldr in my MBR (ok, it's a little weird) and lilo in /dev/hdb, the above lines kill ntldr's ability to boot lilo. So, each time Mandrake's System Tools creates a new lilo.conf, I have to remove those lines. No Mandrake before 8.2 did this on this system. What gives? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK 8.2 Install Bug
Just something I've seen in Mandrake Install (DrakInstall?) over the past several releases of Mandrake. There needs to be an intelligent check on the size of the partitions. If "/" is too small, say under 80 MBytes, you will get strange errors down the road when packages start loading. Packages just fail, no explanation, and you are forced to start all over again. You'll only see this, of course, if you're like me and like to partition /usr and /var and /home separately, and / winds up being fairly empty (48MB, typical) when all is said and done. But the Installer apparently needs more space there to move around. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers & Install under 8.2
If you decide to go for the NVidia drivers from NVidia, do you I need to EXPECT to
recompile openGL stuff like xscreensaver ('cause they never work from the mdk RPM's
with
the 3rd party driver running)? Should you NOT install Mesa and Mesa-demos at all if
you intend to use NVidia drivers?
-- j
Charles A Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:24:41 -0800
> joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have experience with the NVIDIA drivers under 8.2.
> >
> > The latest drivers I used, v2313, worked fine under 8.1, but I had some
> > reviously pretty ugly experiences.
> >
> > This time, I'd rather not charge ahead too recklessly.
>
>
> I have used both the v23 and the v28, all built from source, and mostly without any
>problem, other than those occasioned by the 'idiot in front of the keyboard' syndrome.
>
> I do find that on my system using a GeForce3 Ti500 that it is beneficial to # out
>the v41 module in XF86Conf-4.
>
> Charles
>
>
> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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[expert] RPM bug MDK 8.1?
Has anyone else seen this problem n MDK 8.1? su'd as root, occasionally RPM will start locking up, I think reading its database. So, if I do "rpm -qa" for example, I'll get half the list and it stops. It's hung until I break it. As soon as it happens once, it keeps happening on subsequent tries. When it's acting up, other operations like "rpm -Uv" will also hang. The strange part? In another window, as regular user, do the same "rpm -qa", everything works fine. I think it's ok if I login as root from console. Only under an su, both "su" and "su -" have I seen this happen. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Font Appearance MDK 8.1
At the risk of bringing up a tired topic... Why do fonts behave so strangely in Mandrake 8.1, such as in KDE apps? Simply put, the font pull-down menu is full of typefaces, but I highlight some text and select something new, nothing happens to the text. Except once in a while; a few fonts will display on the KWord work area (they appear fine in the menu or KDE Character Map) but mostly it just sits as helvetica or times. It gets weirder if I choose to turn on anti-aliasing. Then my font selection list reduces dramatically, and the appearance goes way wrong. Is there an FAQ on getting fonts to look good in MDK? It seems I'm always fighting with it soon after a build to get Konqueror, Netscape, or whatever to look good. Netscape drove me crazy until I removed the Mozilla font family and it (magically) started looking right. Another time I gave up and rebuilt Mandrake from scratch because the X Font Server suddenly decided it wouldn't start anymore. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Conflicts when Upgrading Apps
I would like to upgrade the applications on my Mandrake 8.1, like Galeon for example. But usually, grabbing an RPM from the net somewhere only leads to a mess of dependency problems. I always try to chase down the dependencies at least once or twice, but they often lead to more problems until I might as well wait for Mandrake 8.2! I know RPM has its limitations, but it would seem that MDK builds posted to rpmfind and other sources are so dependent on the Cooker/beta Mandrake there's no chance to get it installed on a release version. Am I doing something wrong? Packages like Nautilus, Evolution, Mozilla, Galeon, and a lot of KDE stuff have come a long way since 8.1 was frozen. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Active ethernet on BNC
Hi, I've got a 8029 (microtek version), I just plug in either bnc or twisted pair wires, I don't think you need to do anything to switch over. Check the network card can be seen by linux first with /proc or harddrake. Jeb - Original Message - From: "Pierfrancesco Tateo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: [expert] Active ethernet on BNC > Using MDK80 Realtek 8029 > > How to activate the BNC connection instead of RJ ? > > Best Regards > > Pierfrancesco Tateo > > > > 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] Mounting vfat partitions without exec permission
> > After mounting my FAT32 partitions, all the files are marked executable. > > How can I mount them so that normal (non-directory) files are > > non-executable? > > In addition, I only want root to have write permission. All other users > > should only have read permission. > > > > Currently, I mounted with noexec option. But the files still appear to > > with permission -rwxrwxrwx. > > > > TIA. > > > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > > i have no win$ partition on my box, so i'm not sure of the answer. but as i > can remember, you can set permissions on your FAT32 partitions by specifying > umask in /etc/fstab for each of them. > if you want all files with 644 (or -rw-r--r--) then umask=133 > some can correct me if it's wrong... > The moment I set umask with the execute bit turned on, all users cannot even cd into those vfat directories. However, root still can and the permissions are what I wanted -rw-r--r-- for regular files. What options will set the mounted partitions to have the following permissions: -rw-r--r-- root root for regular files drwxr-xr-x root root for directories I remembered I could do this in Mandrake 8.0 with the options noexec,mode=644 in /etc/fstab. However, in 8.1, this option doesn't seem to work for vfat patitions. However, it works for iso9660 for /dev/cdrom though. Cheers, J Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mounting vfat partitions without exec permission
Hi everybody, After mounting my FAT32 partitions, all the files are marked executable. How can I mount them so that normal (non-directory) files are non-executable? In addition, I only want root to have write permission. All other users should only have read permission. Currently, I mounted with noexec option. But the files still appear to with permission -rwxrwxrwx. TIA. Cheers, Jeremy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I find glu.h
If I recall correctly, you need to install Mesa-common-devel-3.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm. This is found in the second installation CD. Cheers! (: J :) Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > I need to compile a program it needs the header glu.h > > Well nothing in /usr/include/GL/glu.h. I installed the > devel packages for XFree86 (build from source > XFree86-4.1.0-7mdk.src.rpm > > Do I need to install it separately (the Open GL > package? ). Thought it should be in XFree-devel > package. > > Interestingly, I have libGLU.so.1 in /usr/X11R6/lib/ > > = > S.KIEU > > _ > http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger > - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
Re: [expert] Mandrake SRPM's?
Tarragon Allen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I would like access to the SRPM's for Mandrake. There are references to them > being available on your ftp site, however I am unable to find them, and the > only one's I can find on the mirror sites are for the updates. for 8.0, ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.0/SRPMS/ ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/stable/8.0/SRPMS/ for cooker, ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/SRPMS/ ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/SRPMS/ -- Jeremy Blosser
Re: [expert] Linux PDAs?
Al Baker [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I've been wondering if anyone uses a Linux PDA with > their Mandrake desktop and what kind of impression > they have with that? > > Specifically, I've been looking at 3: > Compaq's iPaq (which you can reload with linux) > Agenda's V3R (monochrome :( ) > Yoppy (can only get in developer version) : > http://www.gmate.co.kr/english/products/overview.htm > > Anyone have any experiences with these? I've been using an agenda for a few months, and I like it a lot. It's not really an end-user PDA at this point, but if you are a developer who likes: - real linux and real x windows in a pda, with all the benefits that has of portability of applications and exporting of displays between your desktop and pda (using a standard light x toolkit and window manager (fltk/flwm) - real shell access to your pda (ssh and telnet) - building on common unix tools instead of reinventing the wheel (eg using rsync for synchronization) - being able to hack hack hack, with a very supportive community and company - not spending a ton of money - having vi and sed in your pocket Then you should love the agenda. Performance on the software that ships with it is rather poor; development is fierce and you should upgrade to the latest rootdisk and kernel, which are very much improved. If you want a pda like a palm pilot, and aren't a hardcore unix type, you probably won't see the point of the agenda's features. If you are a hardcore unix/free software type, who would rather keep a todo list in vim than any silly gui*, this thing is the greatest. *(their pim suite has actually gotten favorable reviews, and being open source has already been ported to other linux pda projects... I'm just making a point about the general type who will like this pda) -- Jeremy Blosser
Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 ..
B.V.L.S.Prasad [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hello Jeremy, > Please do the favour of how you corrected by yourself.. > so that I can also do that I just edited the XF86Config file to have the correct listing. Really what it calls the card doesn't matter; what matters is what mode lines it uses for it, etc. My XF86Config file is attached in case you find it useful. Note that my X is build from a SRPM with a modified spec file to include Matrox's mga & hal drivers, which are necessary to get the most out of this card. It also includes all the stuff to get DRI working, which you may or may not find useful; to get the full shebang working as optimally as possible requires both a kernel configure & compile and getting the Matrox mga driver working. -- Jeremy Blosser # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section "ServerFlags" # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the / mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom # This allows the server to start up even if the # mouse device can't be opened/initialised. AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection # ** # Input devices # ** # ** # Keyboard section # ** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection # ** # Pointer section # ** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" 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 Section "Module" # This loads the DBE extension module. Load "dbe" # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection "extmod" #Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "GLcore" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "record" Load "xie" EndSection Section "DRI" EndSection # ** # Monitor section # ** # Any number of monitor sections may be present Section "Monitor" Identifier "NECFE950" VendorName "NEC" ModelName "FE950" # HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified. # HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a # comma separated list of ranges of values. # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS. HorizSync 31.0-96.0 # VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified. # VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of di
Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 ..
Dean S. Messing [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Hello Prasad. > > I have (I hope) a G450 in my system running Mdk 8.0, which I thought > had 32 MB of RAM as well. > > I just started Harddrake. Like you, I have seeing it return G400 with > 16MB of memory. I'm now concerned. It is a new machine and I have > not tried any highspeed graphics, but I've been told that the Matrox > boards don't have the fastest graphics. For that you need Nvidia or > voodoo. But I'm not "into" graphics yet so I really don't know what > I'm talking about. > > Let me know what you find out please. I will also let you what the > manufacterer of my system (Advanced System Labs) says. I'm popping in on this conversation late, but if you're just worried about what card you really have, it still is probably a G450 like you expect. I know I have a G450/32 (installed it myself), but it was still detected as a G400 w/16 MB. I just corrected it all myself. -- Jeremy Blosser
[expert] MouseWheel Weirdness
I've gotten really hooked on using the wheel to scroll. In KDE 2.0/Mandrake 7.2, wheel-scrolling works in Netscape Navigator until the first time I try the same thing in Konqueror. Then it dies. Still works in Konqueror, but no longer in Netscape. Also, I know I set the system up for a Microsoft Intellipoint Wheel when I installed Mandrake, but HardDrake reports my mouse as "unknown" and it stays "unknown" no matter how I tell it otherwise. Known bug? Fixed in KDE 2.1? jeremym at erols.com
[expert] ISA ethernet card Tx timeout
After moving one of my computers from redhat 5.2 to Mandrake 7.1 I am having problems with the ethernet card. As the subject says, it's an ISA card, using the ne2k module. io and irq are correct, as it detects the card and gives the correct MAC address. pings to the machine's ip (192.168.1.2) work, pings to and from another (192.168.1.1) do not work. Before the upgrade it was fully functional. I've seen some literature saying an older PCI card may have this problem, and to use the ne.c instead of the ne2k-pci module. So what should I do if I'm already using the ne.c? Thanks for any help -- "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world." -- Drakmere Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Cannot Mount / (root) via NFS
Hi! I cannot seen to find anyone that can answer why I cannot mount / (root) via NFS on Mandrake 7.0/7.1. I have three 7.0 Machines, one with a 2.2.16 kernel , one with a recompiled kernel with CONFIG_ROOT_NFS turned on, one with the stock kernel and a 7.1 with the stock kernel. None of them let me mount / , I get (logged in as root) mount -t nfs musha:/ /mnt/misc mount: musha:/ failed, reason given by server: Permission denied I can mount any other dir, for example: (on machine hoffen ) mount -t nfs musha:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/misc or mount -t nfs musha:/usr/local /mnt/misc works fine, exports (on musha) looks like: / hoffen(rw,no_root_squash) hope(rw,no_root_squash) kitty(rw,no_root_squash) /mnt/cdrom hoffen(ro,no_root_squash) hope(ro,no_root_squash) kitty(ro,no_root_squash) /usr/local hoffen(rw,no_root_squash) hope(rw,no_root_squash) kitty(rw,no_root_squash) hoffen, hope, musha, and kitty are my machine names I did everything in the NFS Howto and looked over the NFS man pages and nowhere do I find a solution. I get the same results on every machine. I can mount any mount point other than / (root). Thanks!! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Netscape bashing
Vic wrote: > > I'm running a AMDK6-3 400 with 64M sysram and > 90Mb swap, I noticed that unless I stick with > netscape version 4.08, all the ones later > will start eating up my swap until X crashes. > > Is this a memory leak? yup, another thing to love about NutScrape. I try to keep an eye on memory usage, dont think I ever let it take that much. Here's something to try: startup x without much else running, then load up netscape, note you memory usage and leave it on overnight. See what you have the next day (provided its still running). Then wonder why 1 navigator window requires 30 mb - something I could never understand. > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Jeremy mewed: > > Suprising thing is that I have not had any problems with stock mandrake > > 7.0's netscape 4.7 YET. *looks for some wood to knock on* Previous > > versions, and I've tried a few, were another story. I've had to delete > > the .netscape directories many times. My 7.0 install has been up less > > than a week, but has had heavy netscape usage so I pray this lasts! And I guess the fake wood I knocked on didn't work, 'cause it crashed twice since.
Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)
Hoyt wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:47 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair) > > > Civileme wrote: > > > > > RAM and a 2G or larger HDD. And the Price tag was an astounding $199. > > > > There is this saying, "You get what you pay for" > > > > This is a prime example of it. > > > > My video card alone was 3/4 of this price. > > > > I think I would be wary of any computer at this price, unless it was > > pre-owned. > > > > Well, then look at http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/ > for a $99 computer. > ] = quoted from http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/ ] What's inside of the I-Opener: ] CPU--WINChip C6 180MHz not too powerful, but I didn't expect a PIII! This is basically a pentium. ] MEM--32MB Dram (SODIMM) upgradable to 64mb max, if you replace the memory stick ] Storage--16MB Sandisk Flash On Board At least it has an onboard IDE controller so you can add that 2.5" laptop drive, and the custom bracket you'll create. To add this you have to cut the heatsink so you can access the controller. And you must MAKE YOUR OWN IDE CABLE (in faq) thats not something I'd look forward to. Oh I guess you can have some guy make one for you for $20 I don't know if the IDE controller supports a second drive so you can add a CD. You could get a parallel port CD-ROM. There is NO floppy, and apparently no controller for one. They the best way to install the OS onto the hard drive is on another machine. ] Display--10" color lcd 800x600 16bpp / Cyberblade i7 Video Chip UMA XF86Config This is the most impressive thing here. Bit small though. I was expecting a RF modulator to be honest. ] SoundYamaha YMF715 Stereo Speakers I Used The OSS Drivers $20.00 ] Modem56k internal modem on Com1 not a softmodem 8) ` I was suprised its not a softmodem ]Keyboard-Net KB with built in mouse PS/2 Comp. No ESC KEY 8( ]See below hot to make a cable to use a standard PS/2 kb and mouse Yeah, that keyboard looks like it leaves alot to be desired. And no escape key? I think you'll need the PS/2 keyboard, mouse and the time to fabricate a cable. ]Printer Port--Standard LPT Port ]USB--1 Usb Port ]To get in setup use control+alt+esc I bet thats fun to do since it DOESNT COME WITH AN ESCAPE KEY. Ok, so to use one of these as a desktop you're gonna need to pimp it out a bit. This will require additional costs, here are some approximations: I-Opener $99 1st month internet $22 required, then you can cancel 8-10 gig 2.5" HD$200 lp port cd $100 can this be used w/ linux yet? cable (premade) $20 64mb memory replacement $80 guess, not familiar w/ this kind real keyboard$15 real mouse $15 Mandrake 7.0 Powerpack $50 of course! Total $600 and it still has a weak processor, no floppy, and no expansion. I'll admit this is impressive for $99, especially when compared to a WebTV. It comes with a unix-like OS too, maybe this could be turned into a cheap X terminal running that or a stripped down linux with the 16mb flash only. But 16mb isn't much space! It's obvious that this company is expecting to make their profits with the internet service @ $22/month. This is similar to how game consoles are so cheap because they make money off the games. ~Jeremy
Re: [expert] Netscape bashing
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: > Go figure. Crappy product. Can't wait for KDE2's Konquorer or > maybe Mozilla under Linux will shape up. Yes, we are all at the edge of seats for these and the edge of our patience with Netscape. Suprising thing is that I have not had any problems with stock mandrake 7.0's netscape 4.7 YET. *looks for some wood to knock on* Previous versions, and I've tried a few, were another story. I've had to delete the .netscape directories many times. My 7.0 install has been up less than a week, but has had heavy netscape usage so I pray this lasts! If Opera ever gets out of that pre-pre-pre-alpha usability stage they've been in forever they might be another contendor. One thing they have that deserves a mondo cool award is little widgets at the bottom of the window that can do things like zoom and toggle pictures for that window only. (why do somee web designers think everyone runs at 640x480 and specify tiny font sizes? That sucks at 1600x1200)
Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)
Civileme wrote: > RAM and a 2G or larger HDD. And the Price tag was an astounding $199. There is this saying, "You get what you pay for" This is a prime example of it. My video card alone was 3/4 of this price. I think I would be wary of any computer at this price, unless it was pre-owned.
Re: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work
What does USB have to do with this? I understand how diabling USB would free up an IRQ, but this Intel nic will always take IRQ11 unless I find a way to get the DOS setup program to run. It doesn't even run when I shutdown and reboot in MS-DOS Mode. (Intel is no help, BTW. I've had a message posted on their support forum for 2 weeks without a reply.) Before I installed my problem eepro100, I installed another one in a machine withough AGP, and it worked fine. I started with several free IRQ's (7, 10, and 11 if I remember correctly), and it took 11. I cannot change the IRQ's in my BIOS. My only BIOS options are to select "Legacy ISA" or "PCI/ISA PnP" for each IRQ. Needless to say, changing IRQ11 from "PCI/ISA PnP" to "Legacy ISA" will only result in the nic (and likely my AGP card also) not working at all. Lastly, someone suggested that I might have an el-cheapo motherboard that isn't handling PCI right. Possible, but shouldn't be. I have a Soyo 5EHM v1.1 with Award BIOS v4.51PG on a VIA MVP3 chipset. It is supposedly PCI2.1 compliant. But it does do some weird stuff with it's drivers. One of the Windows drivers that come on the installation disk with the mobo is a "IRQ Remapping utility", so maybe it's IRQ's are all messed up. Finally, before I go buy a 3com nic. Can I set the IRQ on a 3com PCI nic? Preferably from Linux or Windows (I am rarely not disappointed by DOS.) It will have to be able to use an IRQ other than the traditional IRQ10, because it's already taken (by some serial motherboard resource, I don't recall which one). If not, I'll buy a 10BaseT ISA nic and sacrifice 10/100 compatibility for one that I can set the IRQ on and actually use. Thanks for all the info. Jeremy On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, you wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > Rich Clark wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > Re-read the thread *carefully*. He's already told us that it's not > > > jumpered and there's no software config available. > > > > Please read again yourself: what about this "DOS setup program" > > he talks about ??? > > > > > > > > > > From my own re-read, Jeremy says the dos setup program won't run on his > computer, "... stupid DOS." Maybe I misspoke... it's there but won't > function for him. Without it being able to function, there's no way he > can set the io and irq manually. Again, there should be a way to setup in > BIOS which irq the bloody thing will grab at the very least or he could > disable the USB. I would think that will at least get the damned thing > up without too much problem, at least until 2.4 is released with the final > USB support. > > -- > Rich Clark > > Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html > Help bring us more Linux Drivers -- Jeremy Kersenbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work
I found out why my eepro100 won't work, but I can't seem to fix it. Even though my nic is not in the slot next to AGP, my AGP card and nic both have IRQ11. I have no idea why it still works in windows. It doesn't even show up as a conflict in the device manager list. But if I click on resources for both cards, they both have IRQ11. I have my BIOS set for "NO PnP OS". The nic is jumerless (of course), and I can't change the IRQ in windows. The DOS setup program that came with the nic won't run on my machine (it proclaims that the card has not been installed in the machine. I hate DOS.) Any ideas on changing the IRQ? Also, I found another problem. I don't know if it is related to the IRQ problem or not. When I try to manually load my eepro100 module, I get the message "eepro100.o: eepro100.o: No such file or device". The eepro100.o module is in the appropriate subdirectory of /lib/modules. What's this all about? I'm trying to learn something, so I appreciate any suggestions, but I think I'll be looking for a different nic (a 3com 3c905-TX; I've heard that they're the best). 3+ weeks of trying to get this piece of junk to work is more than enough. Jeremy
[expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work
Hello, I've been trying to get an Intel Etherexpress PRO/100 pci nic to work in linux for 3 weeks, and I'm almost ready to give up. Linux is renowned for being a superior network OS, but I can't prove it. My distro is Linux-Mandrake 6.0, but I'm running a custom kernel compiled from the kernel.org 2.2.14 source. When I installed Linux, I didn't have a nic, so I'm trying to add this one to my running system. I have compiled support for the eepro100 as a module. When I configured my eth0 interface with netcfg, I specified that it not be activated at boot. Since it is a PCI card, I have not specified an IRQ or i/o. When I boot, I get the message that interface eth0 was started OK anyway. When I manually activate the eth0 interface with netcfg, I get the message: "Delaying eth0 initilization". Then I deactivate it and get the message "unknown interface." When I manually launch the eth0 interface with the appropriate ifconfig command I get these errors: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: Unknown interface: No such device SIOSCIFNETMASK: No such device eth0: Unknown interface: No such device How can this be an unknown interface and still be launching at boot? Why is it launching at boot when netcfg still shows is as not activated at boot? I have a dual-boot maching, and the nic works beautifully in Windows98. What the heck do I have to do to make this thing work? -- Jeremy Kersenbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] IP Masquerading
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, you wrote: > diald woks nicely and I understand that the current incarnation of ppp has a >dial-on-demand feature. Anyone heard of masqdailer? I think it's website is at http://cpwright.villagenet.com/mserver/ I couldn't get it working... but I'd rather use that if I can get it to work!! -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] IP Masquerading
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, you wrote: > This sets my net-connected Linux box (10.0.0.x) up to do forwarding to > LAN-connected windows clients. On the Windows box you should edit the > network settings so that your Linux box is the default gateway. > Configure the Windows DNS servers straight out of /etc/resolv.conf and > you're in business. Who said he was using a Windows Box himself? =) -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] remote login as root
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, you wrote: > The easy way is mv /etc/securetty /etc/securetty.orig Thanks, that works... but why won't it work with pts/2 etc in /etc/securetty? thanks -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
[expert] remote login as root
Hi, I am on a LAN and security isn't an issue... so how can I enable root logins through telnet? >From what I know... you put the terminal in /etc/securetty... and I've noticed that Mandrake seems to use pts/1 and stuff for the remote terminal names. But it didn't work if I just put them in there What are all the remote login names that Manrake uses? Can I use it like pts/*? And how do I enable root logins? thanks -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] problems with ethernet card
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Stefan Dozier wrote: > At 09:18 PM 6/27/99 +1000, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I just set up a network here, and am having problems with the ethernet > card on > >this system running Mandrake. > > > >I get this error: > >eth: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs d9. > > > >and I can't make any connections over the network. Does anyway know what > that > >error means or how to fix it? > > > Jeremy...it would help everyone here if you provided a tad bit more > info...i.e. > > Type of Ethernet card, manufacturer, the chipset the card is using, the > driver you're using in Mandrake. All I know is that it is using the ne2k-pci driver. > > Is this one machine on a segment of multiple network nodes, or is it cross > connected to another machine ? It's on a hub that has 3 other computers connected to it. > > > Stefan Dozier > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
[expert] problems with ethernet card
Hi, I just set up a network here, and am having problems with the ethernet card on this system running Mandrake. I get this error: eth: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs d9. and I can't make any connections over the network. Does anyway know what that error means or how to fix it? thanks -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] sound
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Hi, > > I found out why esound wasn't working it was because there was nothing in > the file that I wanted to play the play command seems to be removing > everything from the files!! > > Also, I have an old sound card, so how can I get esound to start at 22.05khz, 8 > bit and stereo? by default that is... -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
[expert] sound
Hi, I found out why esound wasn't working it was because there was nothing in the file that I wanted to play the play command seems to be removing everything from the files!! Also, I have an old sound card, so how can I get esound to start at 22.05khz, 8 bit and stereo? thanks -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] esound and the play command
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Try checking the permissions on /dev/dsp . I was having problems with > esd and decided to verify the files in the dev package, and found that > most of them were wrong, with some being owned by users that hardly use > the system, for some reason. I am the only user of this machine... it has changed the owner to my user name... but I am using that user name, so that can't be my problem. -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
[expert] deleting icons on Desktop
hi, I have noticed that when I delete icons that are on the Desktop... next time I start KDE they are there again... How can I get rid of them perminatly? thanks -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] qt problems
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, you wrote: > I have tried to compile klicq and it goes untill it looks for qt and > then errors out. Has anyone else been having troubble with qt and know > of a fix? > -- > Robert Sheskin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ 5788323 > AIM RobertLS Is the development RPM for QT installed? -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] esound and the play command
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jeremy Lunn wrote: > > > When I installed Mandrake the other day, I was using esdplay from KDE > > with no problems... no when I try to use it, it doesn't work... it > > doesn't give any errors... it just doesn't do anything... how can it be > > fixed? > > Did you load the sound module? Yeah, well I ran sndconfig and sound works in some apps. > > > sox: Effect '/dev/dsp' is not known! > > Known bug. > Fix: > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake/updates/test/RPMS/sox-12.15-7mdk.i586.rpm > > LLaP > bero -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
[expert] esound and the play command
Hi, When I installed Mandrake the other day, I was using esdplay from KDE with no problems... no when I try to use it, it doesn't work... it doesn't give any errors... it just doesn't do anything... how can it be fixed? I tried to run 'esd &' and it still doesn't work. And when I use the play command I get this: sox: Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echo echos flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample reverb reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect '/dev/dsp' is not known! anyone know how to fix these things? thanks -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] wu-ftpd/Bero
whopps I meant the daemon works fine... On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, you wrote: > I think he means the ftp server, not the client. > > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jeremy Lunn wrote: > > > The wu-ftp client that came with Mandrake works fine for me... > > > > I used it the first time I started Mandrake. > > > > Jeremy > > > > On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, you wrote: > > > Ok, after many attempts to get either wu-ftdp or BeroFTPD to work (as > > > shipped with Mandrake 6) I've given up. I've read the howto's, read the -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
Re: [expert] wu-ftpd/Bero
The wu-ftp client that came with Mandrake works fine for me... I used it the first time I started Mandrake. Jeremy On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Ok, after many attempts to get either wu-ftdp or BeroFTPD to work (as > shipped with Mandrake 6) I've given up. I've read the howto's, read the > posts here and searched dozens of web sites to no avail. I think there's > some fundamental item left out of the docs that is really the problem > with both daemons. Shadow passwords maybe? I don't know. All I know is: > after following the installation instructions verbatim, setting up the > various /etc/ftp* files and restarting inetd (even rebooting) both wu > and Bero give errors, and do not function properly. > > This is a complete, fresh install of Mandrake 6 - not an upgrade from > another version. > > Here's the problem - you can connect to the ftp server ok, but uploads > bomb out with error 553 (Permission Denied). Before you ask any > questions - read on. > > Since I need a working ftp daemon to do upgrades on my lan, I had no > choice but to uninstall wu and Bero, and install the version shipped > with Redhat 5.2 - this version worked perfectly after installing it. > (wu-ftpd-2.4.2b18-2) Mind you, I changed NOTHING, configuration-wise or > else. Only uninstalled and downgraded. > > What are the differences between this version of wu and the one shipped > with Mandrake 6? > > Also - during the RPM install process I've noticed this error quite > frequently (only on the systems I have running M6) > > error: failed dependencies: > /bin/sh is needed by xxx > > Easily worked around, but annoying nonetheless. > > Regards, > -Mike -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia ICQ: 19255837
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I am looking to get a 12 or 16 meg video card. Does anyone know where there is a got unix/linux hardware compatibility site. I am looking for a 12 or 16 meg 2d/3d card, also if you can anyone recommend me one that would be great.Thanks in Advance
